"Cough, cough..." A trace of concern flashed through Ōnoki's eyes as he looked at the purple mist spreading around him.
"This is!" After briefly sensing its effects, his entire body suddenly went limp, and the flow of chakra inside him gradually began to weaken.
"Damn it..." he cursed under his breath, then fell toward the jungle below.
"You treacherous bastard! You even used poison..."
"Cough, cough!" Ōnoki came to rest on a treetop, glaring viciously at the figure growing ever more distant.
"Don't let me catch you..." Ōnoki shouted in a low, furious voice.
He could no longer use any of his chakra, and even moving his hands left him feeling weak.
Clearly, his body had completely lost its ability to move.
"What kind of poison is this?!"
He sat down where he was and began trying to purge the poison.
Up in the sky...
"Yui, that old man fell..." Xiao You said excitedly.
Only after Ōnoki, who had been chasing her relentlessly, vanished from sight did Yui slowly breathe a sigh of relief.
"We're finally out of danger..."
She then flew through the sky for a long time. Once she confirmed that Ōnoki was no longer pursuing her, she slowly descended into a cave.
She set Dan Katō down on the ground, then dusted off her hands.
"Now I just have to wait for him to wake up..."
Not long afterward...
Dan Katō suddenly convulsed on the ground, then snapped his eyes open.
"What is this?" He looked around in confusion, but a sudden burst of intense pain shot through his head.
He remembered. He had been using the Spirit Transformation Technique to pursue Ōnoki, and at the very last moment, his attack had been about to connect.
But the Spirit Transformation Technique had suddenly been interrupted...
He scanned