bioinnovel Chapter 457 Chaos and Past Hatred
Chapter 457 Chaos and Past Hatred
Otsutsuki Insaku finally realized what was happening and let out a mournful roar, but it was too late to turn the tide.
His decaying body finally gave way, collapsing to the ground with a thud, ultimately turning into a pile of black ash and vanishing completely.
Even more fatally, the backlash from the causal divine magic took effect again.
The attacks launched by Otsutsuki Jugen and Otsutsuki Konche, through the causal bond, reflected the damage back onto themselves.
Black curse energy erupted within their bodies, instantly corroding their flesh. Pale purple soul energy exploded in Hun Che's sea of consciousness, shattering their souls into nothingness.
The two didn't even have time to let out their final screams before they became burial objects for Otsutsuki Insaku.
Uchiha Mitsumine reached into the unknown void, where three pairs of Rinnegan with nine tomoe floated in his palm: a pair of blue Insaku eyes, a pair of black Curse eyes, and a pair of pale purple Soul-Clearing eyes. These were spoils of war secretly intercepted from the past timeline.
He raised his hand and put the three pairs of Rinnegan into his storage space, then looked at Kaguya Otsutsuki beside him.
"Everything went smoothly. Look, we've already taken care of four people."
A strange look of amazement flashed in Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's silvery-white eyes.
She was well aware of the strength of the Otsutsuki's higher-ups, and the fact that the Uchiha Sanfeng could so easily defeat three of them at once showed that their strategy far exceeded her expectations.
She strode forward, raised her hand and touched the array of runes on the inside of the palace door, following the lines of the runes.
The palace door, which had been half-open, slowly closed with a soft creak, and the rune array was fully activated. Pale golden light patterns rapidly moved and intertwined on the door, forming a fine net of light that temporarily sealed off the fluctuations within the palace.
Her gaze swept warily across the palace gate, her silvery-white eyes filled with solemnity: "We first eliminated Otsutsuki Tokiyo, and now we've lost three high-ranking members. The remaining core members can't possibly be unaware of this. We must prepare to deal with it as soon as possible."
Before long, a series of rapid, thunderous footsteps could be heard outside the hall.
"Thump...thump...thump," countless feet pounded on the ground, creating a deafening sound, as if a thousand troops were approaching.
Immediately afterwards, the piercing alarm sounded through the layers of palaces, echoing wildly throughout the entire Ōtsutsuki Shrine.
The alarm blared as sharply as a death knell, making people's eardrums ache, and the interplay of light and shadow added to the tension.
Uchiha Sanfeng's expression remained unchanged; he had already foreseen everything that was happening through the Divine Technique Ten Directions.
The golden nine-tomoe wheel in his pupils spun at full speed, and the pale golden halo suddenly surged.
The light and shadow flowing in his pupils instantly pierced through the runic netting of the palace gate, clearly reflecting the outside world into his eyes.
Outside the Hall of Cause and Effect, the causal mist that had originally enveloped the area had long been dispersed by the backlash energy. Countless Otsutsuki clan members swarmed in like a tide, blocking the hall's entrance completely, with no end in sight.
The weapons in the hands of these tribesmen gleamed with a cold light: some held long swords crackling with lightning, their blades flowing with violent lightning-attribute chakra.
Some held short blades engraved with strange runes, the runes flashing with a chilling killing intent.
There were also many Otsutsuki clan members controlling chakra cannons with their muzzles pointed at the palace gates. The energy condensing at the cannon muzzles flickered constantly, ready to launch an attack at any moment.
Every weapon exuded a deadly killing intent, and in every pair of eyes, besides anger towards the intruders, there was an overwhelming fear that was hard to conceal.
The news of the consecutive deaths of four core high-ranking members has spread throughout the entire Shinigami Temple via the Otsutsuki network. For the first time, the once arrogant Otsutsuki clan members, who regarded other races as ants, truly felt the threat of death.
"Buzz...buzz...buzz..."
Suddenly, terrifying pressure surged from all directions.
The air inside the hall instantly became thick and sticky, making it difficult to even breathe.
The Otsutsuki clan members outside the hall retreated to both sides like a tide, bowing their noble heads.
Six imposing figures slowly emerged from the crowd; they were the six remaining high-ranking members of the Otsutsuki clan.
Their chakra surged, with red, blue, green, and gold colors intertwining to form a suffocating energy canopy in mid-air, obscuring the sky.
"Kaguya Otsutsuki, you traitor!"
Otsutsuki Furin, who was at the head of the group, stepped forward, his voice booming like thunder, causing the surrounding air to tremble violently.
Countless golden sealing runes appeared around him, flowing rapidly across his body as if they had come alive, before converging in front of him to form a huge golden magic circle several meters in diameter.
As the magic array rotated, it emitted a terrifying aura that suppressed all things, slowly enveloping the palace gate.
Otsutsuki Furin's eyes were icy cold, like ice that had never melted, filled with contempt and anger.
In his view, Kaguya, as a member of the Otsutsuki clan, had joined forces with outsiders to slaughter her own people and murder the core members, which was a great disgrace to the entire Otsutsuki clan and more unforgivable than that of her mortal enemies.
"How dare you collude with outsiders to slaughter your own kind! Today, I will grind you to dust, seal your soul, and condemn you to eternal damnation!"
"traitor?"
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's voice was clear and crisp, without the slightest hesitation.
Her chakra suddenly surged, spreading out like a burning flame, slightly dispelling the oppressive feeling around her.
His long hair moved without wind as his chakra stirred, his white robe fluttered, and his aura grew increasingly cold.
"I have never condoned your acts of plundering the universe and disregarding human life, so how can you call it betrayal?"
Her voice suddenly rose, filled with years of suppressed grief and hatred, her gaze fixed on that familiar yet loathsome figure among the crowd outside the hall.
"Back then, you conspired to frame my parents. They were the core of the dove faction in the clan, believing in peaceful development throughout their lives and resolutely opposing the expansion of the clan by planting divine trees and consuming planetary energy. Yet you, a bunch of fanatics obsessed with ultimate evolution, were the first to eliminate them in the internal strife!"
Her voice trembled as she spoke, and bloodshot veins surged in her silvery-white eyes: "Especially you, Otsutsuki Kugen! You were once my teacher, yet you personally turned your murderous blade against my parents. This blood debt, I will repay a hundredfold today!"
She stood sideways beside Sanfeng, her silver-gray eyes fixed on the six high-ranking officials outside the hall, her muscles tense, ready to fight at any moment.
"If you want to touch her, you'll have to get past me first."
Uchiha Mitsuaki took half a step forward, slightly blocking Kaguya's path.
His golden chakra suddenly erupted, even more violently than before, like a dazzling golden sun that instantly illuminated the entire Karma Palace, even penetrating the rune netting of the palace doors and casting a huge golden shadow on the ground outside.
The golden nine-tomoe Rinnegan in his eyes shone brightly, and the golden pupils and the surrounding tomoe exuded an aura of dominance over the world. The halo flowing in his eyes seemed to be able to pierce through all the illusions of the world.
The attack trajectories of the six high-ranking officers, their weaknesses, and even their subsequent attack movements were all clearly visible in his eyes and accurately predicted.
"Arrogant!"
The Otsutsuki Kugen, who was called out, suddenly turned grim, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes before being replaced by intense ruthlessness.
He was Kaguya's mentor, watching her grow from an innocent child into a powerful member of her clan. However, when faced with ideological conflicts within the clan, he did not hesitate to stand on the side of the pro-war faction and personally participated in the purge of Kaguya's parents.
Now that Kaguya Otsutsuki has exposed his past in public, he feels only humiliation.
Otsutsuki Kugen roared angrily, losing his patience first. The ruthlessness in his eyes completely erupted, and he launched a fierce attack.
He raised his hand and waved it, causing the space around him to suddenly distort. Countless dark spatial fragments surged out from the distorted space, like sharp blades, accompanied by a piercing "sizzling" sound, and shot densely towards the palace gate.
This attack was even more ferocious and venting than before, clearly because Kaguya's words had stung him.
These spatial fragments contain terrifying power capable of tearing space apart. Even the body of an Otsutsuki would be instantly shredded if struck, with even the soul barely surviving.
Following closely behind is Otsutsuki Migaki.
He was clad in a thick, golden, indestructible shield, with a pale golden aura flowing across it, like a solid suit of armor.
He stomped his feet hard on the ground, creating a deep crater with a loud "boom," and his body shot straight toward the palace gate like a cannonball, carrying the force to shatter stars and split the moon.
The other four high-ranking officials also did not hesitate any longer, and they all activated their divine arts, unleashing a destructive force as they blasted towards the palace gate.
Various energy attacks intertwined, forming an impenetrable net of death that enveloped the entire Hall of Cause and Effect, leaving no escape.
"A trivial skill."
Uchiha Mitsumine snorted coldly, his tone full of disdain.
He raised his hand and waved it gently, and the violent golden chakra around him instantly gathered in front of the palace gate, condensing into a huge semi-circular spacetime barrier.
The barrier's surface shimmered with a pale golden halo, its clear patterns resembling countless golden runes, exuding an aura of indestructibility.
"Boom... Boom boom... Boom boom boom...!"
A deafening roar suddenly erupted at the palace gate, as spatial fragments, golden fists, poisonous mist, ice spikes, flames, and thunderstorms simultaneously crashed into the golden spacetime barrier.
The dazzling light instantly engulfed the scene inside and outside the palace gates, even obscuring the sunlight.
The terrifying shockwave spread wildly in all directions, causing the Ōtsutsuki clansmen who were already kneeling on the ground to retreat repeatedly.
Many people were even thrown back, crashing heavily to the ground, spitting blood and making a chaotic noise.
However, the golden spacetime barrier remained completely still, and the aura flowing on its surface did not even ripple, as if it had just been subjected to a gentle breeze rather than a combined attack from six high-ranking Otsutsuki members.