Keeping one's word was a ninja way too, and Xia Yan wholeheartedly agreed with it.
Even if he knew that, in his case, that saying might very well turn into "if I say I'll kill your whole family, I'll kill your whole family."
But that was no big deal to him. After all, he was an Anbu. Although they rarely wiped out entire families-that was Root's job, after all.
That did not mean they could not do it. If they wanted to, they could even make it look more like an accident than Root could!
Xia Yan quietly watched Uchiha Tatsumi before him, blue chakra enveloping his body and making him look like a god.
The Jōgan's chakra mode was different from Xia Yan's other chakra modes. In Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, it was perfectly possible to recognize who someone was.
With those clear features and that face, there was absolutely no mistaking a person's identity.
But this Jōgan chakra mode was different. Interestingly enough, once he entered this state, he could still see himself even while looking straight ahead.
He looked so ethereal now. The dense power belonging to the Jōgan enveloped him completely, making his features difficult to distinguish.
His overall appearance was much like that of Otsutsuki Toneri in his memories.
Moreover, enveloped in this power, Xia Yan found that he seemed to have unexpectedly come into contact with something he had long dreamed of.
Yin Release!
Even though he had not mastered Yin Release himself, he immediately detected this power, which was the exact opposite of Yang Release and acted almost entirely on spiritual energy.
What he did not quite understand, however, was that he could clearly sense this power and knew he could control it.
Yet this power felt as though it obeyed him without belonging