Chapter 289: The Ugly Monster

Chapter 289: Chapter 289: The Ugly Monster

The enormous amount of chakra that Hyuga Kagami unleashed in an instant surged outward like a raging tidal wave, sweeping through the room and sending the furnishings tumbling in every direction.

The Priestess’s spirit instinctively raised both arms to shield herself.

She had always believed that Hyuga Kagami’s greatest trump card was the Dragon Vein chakra contained within the gourd artifact. Never could she have imagined that such terrifying power was actually hidden within Kagami’s own body. The sheer force of it battered her spirit so fiercely that she could barely keep her eyes open.

Fortunately, Kagami’s Tenseigan chakra was gentle and warm. Had it been some other, more violent form of chakra, the Priestess’s weakened spirit might truly have been unable to withstand such a powerful impact at such close range.

"You...!?"

After retreating some distance, the Priestess stared at him in shock.

Already enveloped in Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Hyuga Kagami said calmly, "I’ve always kept my word. Since I promised you long ago that I would get rid of Yomi, then he must die!"

With that, Kagami turned a cold gaze toward Yomi, who stood outside the doorway.

Yomi clearly had not expected Hyuga Kagami to possess such power either. He stared at Kagami, whose entire body was enveloped in sky-blue Tenseigan chakra, his expression shifting uncertainly.

Hyuga Kagami said, "Last time, you were lucky enough to escape with your miserable life. This time, you won’t be so fortunate."

Enraged by Kagami’s words, Yomi suddenly burst into wild laughter. "Fool! Did you really think I wouldn’t be prepared? I laid a trap here long ago, and I’ve been waiting for you to come throw your life away!"

Kagami curled his lips. "Oh, really? Where are Hiruko and Shinno? Call them out."

Yomi’s expression changed abruptly. "Y-You... How do you know about those two lords?"

"What, they’re not here?" Kagami chuckled before saying disdainfully, "If you’re the only piece of trash here, wouldn’t this be far too boring?"

Yomi roared, "There’s no need for those two lords to personally deal with a nobody like you! They have far more important matters to attend to!"

Kagami immediately connected this with what the Priestess had told him earlier. Shinno had already devoured Mōryō, the demon that represented evil. His next target was Shion, who possessed the Priestess’s power and represented light.

And Shion just happened to be in Konoha.

At the same time, now that matters in the Land of Demons had been settled, Hiruko was also highly likely to head to Konoha to take his revenge.

With that, it wasn’t difficult for Kagami to guess where Hiruko and Shinno had gone. But to confirm his suspicion, he deliberately baited Yomi into revealing more.

"They went to Konoha?"

Yomi gave a vicious grin. "Even if you figured it out, it’s already too late to warn Konoha! Judging by the time, those two lords have probably already arrived there by now. And you—you’ll die miserably right here, reduced to a mass of flesh and blood before becoming a part of me!"

As Yomi spoke, he spread his arms wide. In the blink of an eye, his body began to swell, completely losing its human shape and transforming into a gigantic monster formed from a grotesque mass of flesh!

"Chimera Technique!?"

With just a single glance, Hyuga Kagami determined that Yomi had used the Chimera Technique to fuse the flesh and blood of others into his own body.

However, compared to Hiruko, Yomi’s method was far cruder and more primitive. So much so that he was already teetering on the verge of losing control, having transformed into a monster that could scarcely even be called human!

But the more grotesque Yomi became, the less Kagami dared to underestimate him.

At this moment, Yomi—or rather, the mass of flesh before him—was overflowing with an incomparably violent chakra.

In terms of sheer chakra reserves alone, he had actually reached the level of a tailed beast!

"Just how many people did this bastard devour with the Chimera Technique? Has he gone insane?!"

Kagami couldn’t understand Yomi’s practically suicidal behavior, but he knew that in his current state, Yomi needed only a single blow to easily destroy the Priestess’s weakened spirit.

He therefore turned to the Priestess and said, "Leave the rest to me. For now, please stay inside my artifact. I’ll make sure you get to see Shion one last time."

The Priestess also understood that there was nothing she could do to help in the battle ahead, so she nodded and sent her spirit into the gourd artifact hanging from Kagami’s waist.

Kagami’s gourd artifact was already an extraordinary treasure in its own right. Moreover, it bore both the Uzumaki clan’s sealing formulas and the Priestess lineage’s sealing formulas. When it came purely to isolation and sealing capabilities, it was exceptional even by the standards of the shinobi world.

Thus, although it couldn’t allow the Priestess’s spirit to remain permanently in the shinobi world, it could at least preserve her spirit for a considerably longer period of time, preventing it from dissipating too quickly.

Shhh...

Just then, a sound resembling the surface of water suddenly freezing over came from outside.

The mass of flesh that was Yomi let out a wild laugh in a hoarse, distorted voice. "Hahaha! I’ve already activated the barrier surrounding the entire palace! This place has been completely sealed off. You can’t escape!"

"Is that so..." After a brief pause, Hyuga Kagami said calmly, "That works too. I can wipe out your entire Yomi Cult in one go and save myself the trouble of hunting you down one by one."

Yomi roared in a voice that sounded less and less human, "Die!"

In an instant, masses of flesh surged toward Kagami from every direction like the gelatinous substance produced by the Chimera Technique.

Not only were they astonishingly fast, but they also carried tremendous force. Even the stone walls of the Priestess’s residence, several feet thick, were smashed apart as effortlessly as blocks of tofu.

Faced with the flesh-like masses rushing toward him, Kagami’s expression remained unchanged.

He softly uttered,

"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"

A dazzling golden light instantly illuminated the entire Priestess’s residence.

Amid the brilliant radiance, a magnificent golden sword, so dazzling that it was almost impossible to look directly at, came slashing down from above toward Yomi’s disgusting mass of fused flesh!

As the sword descended, the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion encountered not the slightest resistance.

It was as though it had struck nothing but empty air.

With effortless ease, it sliced straight through Yomi!

Splurt...

In an instant, streams of foul-smelling blood erupted from Yomi’s grotesquely swollen body!

Kagami’s sword had not only torn Yomi’s body apart—it had directly thrown the chakra circulation within his body into complete chaos.

At that moment, Yomi’s body resembled a punctured balloon. The enormous amount of chakra stored within him began rapidly pouring outward like air escaping through a tear.

In the span of just a few breaths, the chakra within Yomi had already plummeted by ten to twenty percent.

And it was still continuing to weaken.

Hyuga Kagami said calmly, "Other people’s chakra will always belong to other people. No matter how forcibly you drag it into yourself, it will never truly become yours!"

By now, Yomi could no longer produce a normal, continuous voice. All he could do was howl in agony while forcing out broken words between his cries.

"Th-This... is impossible..."

Yomi had never imagined that he would be defeated so quickly—or so completely.

It was seemingly no different from the last time he had encountered Hyuga Kagami.

It was as though all the time he had spent enduring humiliation, biding his time, and painstakingly preparing himself had ultimately meant...

Absolutely nothing.