Chapter 393: So, You Get Afraid Too
After withstanding Àoshiki's strike, Uchiha Dali suddenly grew excited.
Because it was obvious the other side had been unable to restrain himself and had used the same technique again.
Uchiha Dali grinned and chuckled, "Weren't you supposed to stop using ninjutsu? Looks like you couldn't help yourself…"
Before he finished speaking, a system prompt sounded in his ear.
[Ding! You have witnessed and studied Heavenly Might · Reincarnation Laser multiple times. You have thoroughly researched this ability and assimilated it. By combining that technique with your own Dust Release bloodline culling power, you have comprehended Heavenly Might · Dust Release Reincarnation!]
[Heavenly Might · Dust Release Reincarnation: One of the new bloodline-gathering abilities developed after the Heavenly Might Reincarnation Eye fused multiple powers. When used, it can perform a saturated attack on targets within a fixed area or in an unspecified area, achieving an absolutely flawless attacking posture to strike with no blind spots, reducing all targets to ashes in the dust-release reincarnation!]
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Hearing the voice in his ear, Uchiha Dali's expression sharpened slightly.
"That's pretty badass…"
He couldn't help admiring.
New information kept appearing in his mind.
All of it concerned the just-comprehended Heavenly Might · Dust Release Reincarnation.
That information made Uchiha Dali feel as if he had practiced the move for over a thousand years — every detail perfectly imprinted in his brain.
Àoshiki had no idea what had happened.
He only saw Uchiha Dali's expression become a little perverse; seeing that vicious grin made him sense something was wrong.
"Damn bastard!"
Àoshiki spat viciously and then actually turned and ran.
Clearly he'd realized things had gone south.
But how could Uchiha Dali possibly let him escape right under his nose?
"Last time I was unprepared and slipped up, so I let you get away until now."
"But this time, you—don't even think about it!"
As he spoke, a sudden enormous burst of light bloomed.
It took a spherical form, centered on Uchiha Dali, and rapidly expanded in all directions.
The white-outlined sphere grew far faster than Àoshiki could run.
In the blink of an eye, Àoshiki was completely caught up and sealed inside it.
"What the—"
Àoshiki's pupils snapped tight.
Now he clearly saw that the boundlessly expanding, huge white-outlined sphere had begun to contract.
Within a blink, he was confined inside a sphere about five meters in diameter.
The transparent white-outlined sphere looked harmless enough.
But no matter how Àoshiki struggled or tried to attack it, he could not break free.
He launched attacks like a madman.
"Boom boom boom boom boom—"
Explosions rang out inside the barrier.
Shockwaves rippled the void, creating clear folds in the fabric of space.
It looked as if the void might be shattered by Àoshiki's assaults at any moment, which might let him escape the barrier's constraints and reach another dimension.
However, that was only how it appeared.
In reality, Àoshiki could not break Uchiha Dali's sealing barrier.
At that moment he finally panicked.
Gathering the full force of his life, he prepared for a desperate last stand and continued assaulting the barrier.
At the same time, his space–time power was ready to open a spatial channel and flee.
Watching the enemy's frantic, beast-like movements, Uchiha Dali clicked his tongue twice and shook his head.
"It's useless. I told you."
"You can't escape."
After saying that he raised his hand and directly applied the Law of Attraction and the Law of Repulsion to his opponent.
The two laws worked on the opponent simultaneously, producing a more immediate and effective result than using the Heavenly Rinnegan's power alone.
Instantly, the struggling Àoshiki was frozen as if immobilized.
He looked at Uchiha Dali with confused suspicion.
The latter was already walking toward him step by step; the way he lifted his foot through the void, calm and unhurried, made it clear the outcome was decided.
Àoshiki began to show fear.
He stared at Uchiha Dali approaching one step at a time, hesitated repeatedly, and finally forced himself to ask, lowering his pride: "What exactly would you have to do to let me go?"
"Oh? That tone is full of resignation…" Uchiha Dali mocked.
"Pretty friendly, but I still prefer the arrogant, unruly you from before."
At that remark, Àoshiki's face went pale then flushed.
He gritted his teeth and continued, "I've barely survived all these years and was about to become a god—if you kill me now, I won't accept it!"
"So why don't we talk terms? What must you do to let me go, Uchiha Dali?"
This guy was already meat on the chopping block, yet still acted haughty.
Uchiha Dali felt no trace of mercy.
He stopped in front of the immobilized Àoshiki and placed his hand on Àoshiki's motionless forehead.
Then his cold, merciless, blade-sharp eyes shot into the other's: "Killing you and absorbing all your energy — that is the greatest favor I can do for you."
"You bastard—"
"Mm, that look — that tone."
"Keep it up."
With that, Uchiha Dali cast the Devour-and-Refine Technique on Àoshiki.
In an instant, the vast energy inside Àoshiki began to continuously convert into chakra fruits.
This guy had absorbed so much energy in the past that his energy level was extremely high now.
But chakra fruits are not capable of storing infinite energy.
They have an upper limit.
So Uchiha Dali's Devour-and-Refine Technique produced more and more chakra fruits.
One, two, three…
The power in Àoshiki's body drained bit by bit. He could neither believe nor accept what was happening.
His face twisted and his voice finally trembled.
"Uchiha Dali!!"
"You can't kill me! Don't kill me!!"
"Keeping me alive will benefit you far more than killing me! You'll get more!!"
He shouted and begged desperately, pleading only to be allowed to live.
Indeed, on hearing that, Uchiha Dali stopped and looked at him curiously: "What benefits?"
Narrowing escaping from death, Àoshiki had no time to collect himself and hurriedly replied, "Don't you want to take on the whole Ōtsutsuki clan?"
"If you let me go, I can take you to them!"
"Also, I can help you find every Ōtsutsuki in this universe! Wouldn't stealing their energy be far more profitable than stealing energy from just one me?"
"If you don't have me as a guide, it would take you a lot of time and effort to deal with so many of them on your own, right?"