What kind of hellish skill was this?
Isshiki was caught completely off guard. He had never imagined that such a seemingly brute-force physical attack concealed such a sinister mechanism for absorbing and reflecting chakra.
And this seemed to be nothing more than a weapon formed from chakra, not the original Uchiha Gunbai made from a branch of the God Tree!
That was precisely why Isshiki had not guarded against this move.
This had to be the Sage of Six Paths' doing!
That old bachelor Madara Uchiha's parents were dead, as were he and his younger brother. Even if Isshiki wanted to curse his family, there was no one left alive to curse.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became.
In his haste, he only had time to cross his arms in front of himself and muster all his chakra into a defense.
Bam!!
The raging Wind Release storm slammed squarely into Isshiki.
It was as though a battering ram had struck him head-on. His protective chakra shook violently, and he grunted as his feet left the ground. The tremendous force hurled him backward, sending him tumbling dozens of times through the air before he crashed into the distant ground and slid some distance farther before stopping, looking thoroughly disheveled.
"Cough..."
Isshiki braced one hand against the ground. A trickle of dark blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and shock and fury flashed in his eyes.
He had never expected to suffer a setback at the hands of an "ant's" trickery.
He slowly rose and brushed nonexistent dust from his white robe, trying to maintain his Otsutsuki dignity, but the chill in his eyes was almost palpable.
"An ant's petty tricks merely reveal your impotence."
Isshiki's voice was bone-chilling, laced with undisguised scorn.
"If all you