The two figures collided almost the instant the words left their mouths!
But the evenly matched clash between masters never materialized. Fighting with taijutsu alone, Isshiki smashed his opponent into powder with overwhelming force and destructive power!
"A mere insect."
Isshiki sneered. This human with the Rinnegan was truly a fool, actually thinking he could face him head-on.
Even though his current body was merely the frail flesh of a monk from a thousand years ago, the long years of assimilation had already given it some of the Ōtsutsuki Clan's resilience.
And within the Ōtsutsuki Clan, he was among the best at close-quarters combat.
Knowing full well how troublesome the Rinnegan could be, Isshiki had initially been relieved to dispatch his enemy so easily. Yet a moment later, he sensed something was wrong.
He felt no real sense of having defeated his enemy. Even his opponent's chakra had not changed.
He could still sense a powerful, stagnant mass of chakra.
Isshiki used his Byakugan again and looked over. His opponent's body had indeed turned to powder.
Then he immediately noticed the anomaly. Though the powder floating in the air looked like dust, it did not move at all, as though fixed in place.
"Something's wrong..."
Isshiki frowned, but before he could act, the dust suddenly shot toward him!
He instinctively raised an arm to block, but the very next millisecond after the powder touched his arm, a chain of deafening explosions erupted!
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
Huge, violent explosions burst around Isshiki, one after another. Those particles floating in the air were not dust at all, but explosive tags shrunk to more than ten times smaller than their original size!
And the particles kept multiplying, the force of the explosions stacking upon itself and growing ever stronger.
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