"So, you know quite a lot. You even know about senjutsu."
Zou Hyuga glanced at Moryo. Its words piqued his curiosity, and he tried to draw more information out of it.
An ancient being like Moryo might know many of the shinobi world's secrets, even after being sealed away. More importantly, although the energy within Moryo was called chakra, it was actually closer to natural energy.
But Moryo's unstable mental state left it unable to hear anything Zou Hyuga said.
With no other choice, Zou Hyuga stopped probing for information. Without wasting any time, he continued extracting vast amounts of Moryo's chakra, drawing the purple-black energy into his body like a tide.
Even Zou Hyuga was alarmed by the speed of this devouring process. He focused all the harder, afraid it might backfire.
Meanwhile, Moryo's body shrank at a rate visible to the naked eye.
After half a minute, Moryo had lost more than half its size, and Zou Hyuga stopped absorbing its chakra.
Looking at the black markings on his arm, now quiet again, and sensing Moryo's chakra surging within them, Zou Hyuga suddenly thought of Orochimaru's cursed seal.
The cursed seal Orochimaru had developed possessed similar abilities, increasing a ninja's combat strength to a certain extent.
But Orochimaru had developed his cursed seal as a substitute because he could not master Sage Mode, whereas Zou Hyuga's black markings helped him become more attuned to natural energy.
The two were worlds apart.
Reining in his wandering thoughts, Zou Hyuga looked toward the two figures by the sealing array.
As time passed, the aftermath of the Tailed Beast Bomb's explosion dissipated, revealing the battlefield.
Soon, Oto Uchiha and the miko spotted Moryo lying listlessly on the ground.
Moryo's body was only a dozen or so meters in size now, and