"Found you!"
Not long after Neji left Kaguya, the evil god caught up, waves of bloody energy rolling in.
Neji glanced towards the cave in the distance, let out a soft breath, and then looked coldly at the evil god.
"What? Hahahaha... Still thinking of resisting this god? You're just a mere ant."
Neji's murderous glare startled the evil god for a moment, then he burst out laughing. In his eyes, Neji was just an insignificant ant with a little bit of strength. Not only did he not run away and surrender after witnessing his power, but he also dared to show such an expression.
"Ant! Ant! No matter which era it is, you're just as annoying," Neji said, full of anger.
Before the evil god could recover from Neji's words, Neji had already appeared beside him, his palm radiating brilliant blue Chakra. His hands danced like butterflies, striking towards the evil god.
"Gentle Fist Technique: Eight Trigrams, One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Palms!"
Neji's sudden burst of speed startled the evil god, but when he saw Neji using pressure points to attack him, his already disdainful face became even more contemptuous.
He was a being of intelligence born from thought, different from ordinary life forms.
Strictly speaking, he had a form, but no internal organs, acupoints, or bones.
Soon, Neji also discovered the abnormality. Just as he was about to leave, the evil god raised his arm and smashed it onto him.
*Bang!*
A layer of white Chakra surrounded Neji, and his black second-generation Chakra armor had already attached itself.
The palms that emerged from his body blocked the evil god's attack, sparing him from significant damage. However, the evil god's powerful force sent numbness through his entire body, pressing him down towards the ground.
The evil god acted swiftly, his wings like blades slashing horizontally towards Neji. But the moment he touched the ground, Neji suddenly vanished into it, disappearing from his sight.
"What?!"
Although Neji couldn't match the evil god, he possessed Ninjutsu techniques created by countless ancestors from a thousand years later. Based on this, even someone like the evil god, who was firmly Sixth Path level, couldn't do anything to him for a while.
"Wood Release: Wood Golem Technique!"
*Rumble~~*
At this moment, the ground cracked and sunken. A pair of giant hands supporting the ground on both sides suddenly leaped out from beneath the earth.
Neji stood atop the wood golem, his hands clenched, controlling the golem to raise its giant fist and smash it down at the evil god.
"I didn't expect you to master such a skill. It seems your blood essence will be very delicious," the evil god laughed wildly. The moment the golem's giant fist descended, he suddenly disappeared. With a whoosh, the golem's wrist was severed.
However, before he could burst into laughter and mock Neji, the golem's severed wrist reconnected, and with a *bang*, it slammed him into the ground.
"Acidic Tongue!"
Almost at the same time, Neji opened his mouth and sprayed lake-sized acid, drenching the evil god along with the golem's palm.
But this situation didn't last long. The golem's ankle was suddenly severed by a sharp weapon. The instability caused by the shaking almost made Neji fall from the golem's head. Only after the golem knelt down to stabilize did Neji see the evil god standing at the golem's feet, sneering at him.
"How can this be?"
"I admit I underestimated you, but it's impossible to harm a god with just this," the evil god sneered, five types of Chakra-elemental energy appearing at the tips of his fingers: fire, lightning, earth, wind, and water.
These five energies swirled around his palms. As his fingers danced, they transformed into whip-like forms, lashing out at the wood golem, quickly reducing it to pieces.
Neji leaped down from the golem's head and was met by a sphere of combined Chakra light. The evil god squeezed his hands together, and a terrifying energy fluctuation swept across a large part of the region.
There was no particularly earth-shattering sound, but after the smoke and dust cleared, everything had been annihilated.
"Oh, it actually left half a body? It seems this guy's physique is quite good," the evil god exclaimed as he looked at Neji's remaining upper half at the edge of the large pit.
"Yes, even though it's only half, the blood essence should be better than those ants. I can't waste it," the evil god said excitedly and walked towards Neji.
Such delicious blood essence should be consumed bit by bit.
But just as he approached Neji, a white shadow suddenly emerged from Neji's mouth. The evil god was stunned for a moment, then his face suddenly changed drastically. The intense pain from being split into upper and lower halves left him no room to resist as he fell to the ground, crying out in agony.
When had he, who had always been high and mighty, ever experienced such pain? Frankly, in terms of enduring pain, he wasn't even as good as a Chunin.
"How is this possible..."
Neji wouldn't give him a chance to recover. While he was down, he went for the kill. A large number of Ninjutsu techniques appeared from his hands, colorful and all pressing down on the evil god whose body was broken.
*Boom! Boom! Boom!*
Deafening explosions echoed, fierce energy raged, and clouds of smoke burst forth. A mushroom cloud slowly rose from the ground.
When it was all over, Neji, breathing heavily, looked at the devastated deep pit. After confirming that there was no sign of the evil god, he got up and walked away.
But the moment he turned around, a silver light slashed down at him.
...
"Idiot."
Beneath a towering tree that reached the clouds, Kaguya gently touched its trunk. Thinking of Neji deliberately putting on a stern face and leaving so as not to implicate her, a sweet feeling bloomed in her heart.
After all, she was a princess of the Otsutsuki clan, and by lifespan alone, she was much older than Neji. How could she not see through Neji's little thoughts?
This Divine Tree had arrived on this planet even before her, and the Chakra fruit had finally ripened not long ago.
After eating this fruit, she would gain infinite power, but with it would come some abnormal changes and great trouble.
But she didn't want to think about these things now. With a slight movement of her finger, she seemed to achieve some resonance with the Divine Tree. The branches and leaves above the Divine Tree parted, and a glowing fruit slowly fell from above.
Kaguya cupped the fruit and immediately ate it.
Afterward, her body began to glow and slowly floated into mid-air. Two sharp horns sprouted from her head, a crack appeared in the center of her forehead and spread outwards, and finally, a red Rinnegan with nine tomoe appeared between her brows.
She closed her eyes, briefly sensing Neji's Chakra, and then a spatial rift suddenly appeared in front of her. She then stepped into it.