Just as Neji Hyuga was about to kill Kinshiki Otsutsuki, Qingyun suddenly appeared between them and placed his slender, fair-skinned palm on the golden light sword in Neji's hand.
At Qingyun's touch, Neji Hyuga's light sword instantly dissipated. Even the terrifying sword energy within Kinshiki Otsutsuki's body was completely absorbed by Qingyun.
"Teacher? Why?"
Seeing Qingyun save Kinshiki Otsutsuki, Neji Hyuga immediately gave him a puzzled look.
"Heh, Neji, letting him die just like that would be far too easy on him!"
Qingyun chuckled softly. Under Kinshiki Otsutsuki's terrified gaze, the Vertical Third Eye on his forehead slowly opened, casting a gray beam onto Kinshiki's body.
"Wh-what is that eye? Aaaah!!!"
As Kinshiki Otsutsuki stared at Qingyun's Vertical Third Eye, boundless terror rose within him. Before he could finish his question, however, he felt the blood and vitality within his body surge, continuously condensing into drops of pure bloodline essence.
Kinshiki Otsutsuki immediately let out an agonized scream.
Soon, however, Kinshiki Otsutsuki's screams vanished from that space, and he became a mass of blood-red, pure bloodline essence and a mass of transparent soul origin.
"All right, Neji, absorb this bloodline essence and soul origin. Since we're preparing to travel through interstellar space, we should naturally strengthen ourselves first!"
Qingyun looked at the two masses of pure bloodline essence and soul origin before him, then smiled faintly and spoke to Neji Hyuga.
"Yes, Teacher!"
Upon hearing this, Neji Hyuga swallowed Kinshiki Otsutsuki's blood-red bloodline essence and soul origin without hesitation, then began circulating his cultivation technique to refine them.
Seeing Neji Hyuga sit cross-legged to refine the origin, Qingyun nodded in satisfaction. After giving Hinata Hyuga a few instructions, he silently transferred the two of them to the Flying Fortress's lounge.
Once everything was done, Qingyun smiled faintly at the wisp