"Ah, what a shame. He's actually grown into his strength!"
Isshiki quickly calmed down and forcibly suppressed his impulse. The greed vanished from his eyes. He was a rational man.
Regret showed on Isshiki's face. He knew that his current body, Jigen's, could at most wield near-Six Paths-level combat power.
Even if he unleashed Kāma, defeated Feng Yao with his formidable strength, and successfully implanted Kāma in Feng Yao's body...
Kāma took a long time to decompress, however, and Feng Yao's strength had already fully developed. His consciousness was entirely capable of resisting Kāma's erosion.
Even if Feng Yao was weaker than him, if Feng Yao wanted to escape, Isshiki had no way to capture and imprison him while waiting for Kāma to decompress.
As for himself, unleashing Kāma would drastically shorten the lifespan of Jigen's body.
It would also completely expose the arrangements he had spent years making in the Shinobi World.
Isshiki was not certain whether his remaining lifespan could last until Kāma fully decompressed within Feng Yao...
This was actually also one of the reasons Isshiki had not targeted Sasuke and Naruto in the original story.
By the time he discovered Naruto's and Sasuke's potential, both had already grown into their strength.
And several of Kaguya's descendants were watching from the shadows, so Isshiki had chosen to keep concealing his whereabouts.
At the thought of Kaguya, a cold gleam blazed in Isshiki's eyes. "That damned wretch!"
In the end, conflict crossed Isshiki's face. He still felt reluctant to let Feng Yao go.
Although being Kaguya's descendant made Feng Yao somewhat distasteful to Isshiki...
There was no getting around how perfect Feng Yao truly was. Once he completed his resurrection through Feng Yao, he would perfectly regain all the strength he had possessed before!
He made up his