The Hell Scroll held by the Soul Reaper could record a target's location in real time.
The scroll in her hand showed that the target of this mission, Ōtsutsuki Shiki, was in Divine Burial Country, and his spatial coordinates had not shifted in the slightest...
With some doubts in mind, Xiaoxue used Yomotsu Hirasaka to reach Divine Burial Country.
Divine Burial Country was an ancient nation in the Ashihara Territories that had perished a thousand years ago. Its civilization had once flourished, but after the Ōtsutsuki descended and planted a Divine Tree Sapling symbolizing extinction, its life force was ultimately drained dry.
"..." Upon arriving here, Xue's doubts were immediately resolved.
At the center of the vast, empty land stood a Divine Tree covered in wounds!
"Ninety-seven thousand, eight hundred and fifty-one strikes!"
"Ninety-seven thousand, eight hundred and fifty-two strikes!"
"..."
A swordsman resembling Ubiji was swinging his blade against the great tree, coldly and mechanically announcing the number of strikes.
The swordsman was the Shikigami incarnation of Wood Blossom: Knowing Flow, and the blade was the Death-Cursing Blade condensed from Shakara's power!
As for that battered Divine Tree, it was the Divine Tree's Jinchūriki, the target of this Netherworld soul-reaping mission: Ōtsutsuki Shiki!
"So this is how you're clinging to life..."
Xue'er murmured coldly. When Ryushiki and Shiki had attacked, she had been in Double-Moon Space, but the process here had been much the same in the future of another timeline.
After merging with her future self, she knew everything!
The Shiki before her was the very culprit behind her father's tragic fate!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Sensing the intruder, a flower bloomed atop the Divine Tree. Its blood-red eye stared fixedly at the uninvited guest above as a deep voice echoed, "Lowly human, why do you possess the power