The Izanagi That Was Broken

As the Sealing Cauldron took shape, delight flashed in Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eyes, and excitement seized him.

"So the Ōtsutsuki Clan knows a little Sealing Jutsu after all!"

"But I don't understand. Does sealing a log really make you that happy?"

Uchiha Ensei hadn't expected Isshiki's battle instincts to be worse than his own. It was only a simple Substitution Technique, yet Isshiki hadn't noticed a thing.

"What?!"

Isshiki's face darkened. He grew frantic.

Ensei had yet to show any power that could guarantee a kill, but what he had displayed was enough to make Isshiki feel the threat of death.

Worse, Ensei's understanding of Karma meant Isshiki didn't dare send his chakra into Ensei's body.

When a high-ranking member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan fell in battle, he would usually implant a Karma containing everything he was into his enemy at the brink of death.

Given enough time, he could then be reborn within that enemy, gradually take over the body, and use Karma to overwrite the enemy's life, achieving a true resurrection.

In Boruto, Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki had tried this method, though he seemed to have failed in the end.

After all, it was a last resort at the brink of death. The odds of failure were naturally high, especially against someone with similar powers.

Isshiki's situation was even worse than Momoshiki's. He couldn't use the method at all.

Sending his Karma into someone who also wielded Karma would be like serving him the finest meal.

Isshiki even suspected Ensei had kept him alive all this time to make him hand over his Karma willingly.

Losing one's body wasn't especially difficult for a member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan to overcome. But if someone absorbed his Karma, no method could bring him back. That would be death for eternity.

Ensei had no