The dark-red mutated flesh tumor was warm in his hand, like holding the heart of a living creature. Every beat transmitted vast, chaotic energy.
However, the instant Hyuga Xiao prepared to refine it completely, an indescribable chill from the deepest depths of his soul erupted with a crash!
It was not physical cold, but a pure mental invasion!
That icy will was like an invisible venomous snake formed from pure malice. It ignored the Tenseigan's chakra barrier, bypassed his surging meridians, even pierced through his sturdy skull, and burrowed directly into his spiritual world!
Boom—!!!
It was as though a mental bomb had detonated in Hyuga Xiao's mind.
The world before him instantly lost all color. The collapsing lava cave, the foul-smelling poisonous blood, Orochimaru barely clinging to life in the distance... everything became a faded backdrop. His consciousness was forcibly dragged by an irresistible force into a pure mental storm composed of icy streams of data!
[Same-origin aura detected...]
[A lowly descendant... who stole the bloodline of gods...]
An indifferent, ancient voice devoid of any emotional fluctuation rang directly in the depths of his soul. Neither male nor female, it carried no emotion, yet contained an innate arrogance that regarded all things as mere dogs.
[Your body is quite good.]
[From this moment onward, it belongs to me.]
"Mine?"
Hyuga Xiao's spiritual body condensed within the storm, and towering fury at having his forbidden boundary violated instantly ignited in his azure eyes.
"A mere remnant of consciousness dares covet my body?!"
He roared, his mental power transforming into tangible blades that slashed viciously toward the source of that voice!
Yet his resistance was like a child swinging a wooden stick at an indestructible star.
The instant the mental blades touched the data storm, they were effortlessly shredded and assimilated,