A gale swept up shards of ice, ravaging the snow forest of the Land of Iron like countless bone-carving blades.
Hyuga Xiao held Kurenai Yuhi steadily across both arms and stomped heavily on a thick, frost-covered tree trunk with his military boots. With a muffled crack as the trunk split, he became a streak of azure lightning, brutally tearing through the wind and snow as he raced toward the heart of the mountains.
The woman in his arms was as light as an ice feather on the verge of shattering.
An overwhelmingly domineering chakra fluctuation was spilling from Hong's heart. The silver "Seed" belonging to Ōtsutsuki Urashiki had been completely driven berserk after being stimulated by the Ōtsutsuki corpse brought by Hidden Cloud. The silver star patterns, like living parasites, had already crossed her jaw and were tightening around her neck like a vicious spiderweb.
Wherever he touched, Hong's skin showed a lifeless grayish pallor, while her body temperature plunged below freezing at an alarming rate.
"Cold..." Hong unconsciously curled closer into Xiao's scorching chest. Frost coated her long lashes, and her red lips had turned a deathly bluish purple.
"Hold on. Without my permission, you won't die." Xiao's voice was colder than the blizzard around them.
The palm pressed against Hong's back continuously poured searing Tenseigan Chakra into her. Two forces of extraordinary purity clashed brutally within her fragile chakra pathways, each collision making her body tremble uncontrollably.
He could not delay any longer. He had to find an absolutely sealed place and forcibly suppress this Seed.
The Tenseigan's vision instantly pierced through the layers of wind, snow, and thick rock. Three hundred meters below, deep within the mountain, a massive man-made cavern appeared in his azure field of view.
Xiao suddenly twisted his body in midair. His right