The instant Hyuga Hiashi's fingers touched his forehead, Hyuga Xiao's lips curled into an almost crazed smile.
"You thought..." Xiao's voice was hoarse, yet filled with the resolve to perish together, "that I would just wait passively for death?"
Bzzz—
The piercing hum did not erupt from Xiao's forehead, but from Hiashi's right eye!
The savage grin on Hiashi's face froze instantly, replaced by unbearable pain—his right eye, engraved with the Caged Bird Seal's control runes, felt as though a red-hot iron had been driven viciously into it!
"AAAAARGH—!"
A bloodcurdling scream exploded through the stone chamber.
The Self-Destruct Seal Xiao had set was never meant to kill himself.
Three days ago, the seal had already undergone its true modification—it had been transformed by Xiao using the power of the Tenseigan Prototype's laws into an "Energy Reverse-Transmission Circuit." Once activated, it would not detonate Xiao himself. Instead, it would inject every bit of chakra stored within the seal, in the most violent manner possible, directly into the triggerer's right eye!
Hiashi staggered backward, clutching his eye as dark red blood seeped through his fingers.
Vision in his right eye had gone completely black, while dense cracks spread across the surface of the eyeball—the damage caused by the control runes being forcibly struck.
"You... how dare you..." Hiashi's voice twisted with pain.
Now!
The Caged Bird Seal on Xiao's forehead trembled violently. The Second-Level Curse Mark's control runes briefly loosened because Hiashi's right eye had been damaged. Though the opening lasted only a thousandth of a second, it was enough for Xiao.
The Tenseigan Prototype erupted with deep blue radiance from within his eye sockets.
"Gentle Fist Method: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms—Break!"
Xiao did not attack Hiashi. Instead, he slammed both palms fiercely against the ground.
BOOM!
Spiderweb-like cracks burst across