Isshiki wanted to use this ability to evade the iron ball Hatake Ziyan had hurled with all his strength!
As for why Isshiki did not use Sukunahikona to shrink the incoming iron ball and send it into an alternate dimension, it was because Hatake Ziyan had thrown it too fast for him to lock onto it!
But as Hatake Ziyan watched Isshiki shrink, the corner of his mouth curled upward. This time, he had released his soul ability as soon as Isshiki appeared, precisely to guard against him suddenly shrinking.
Hatake Ziyan summoned his soul power and gave the iron ball he had just thrown a slight tug, making it strike the shrunken Isshiki head-on!
The iron ball carried the shrunken Isshiki straight into the rock behind him, then shot clean through the mountain and hurtled toward another mountain in the distance!
"Kaguya! Go after him!" Hatake Ziyan shouted to Kaguya.
Kaguya wasted no words. She immediately opened a spatial passage, setting its destination in the direction the iron ball had flown!
Hatake Ziyan stepped into the spatial passage, pursuing Isshiki, who had smashed through several mountains in succession before coming to a stop inside the fifth!
Hatake Ziyan hovered above the mountain Isshiki had crashed into, looking down at it as he waited for Isshiki to emerge!
After Hatake Ziyan waited for a dozen or so seconds, the mountain trembled. A section suddenly burst open, and a man with a single horn on his head floated out!
This was Isshiki after his transformation. His outfit had changed, and his aura had grown dozens of times stronger!
Isshiki now wore an elegant, fitted white long-sleeved tailcoat and loose black trousers that covered his bare feet. He had pale skin and grayish-white hair, with a long, curved horn growing from his