chsdbacks Chapter 456 Those who manipulate cause and effect will inevitably be manipulated by cause and effect
Chapter 456 Those who manipulate cause and effect will inevitably be manipulated by cause and effect
Uchiha Mitsunori raised his hand and grabbed at the void, copying the core divine technique of Otsutsuki Tokien, "Time Control," and also extracting a transparent ball of memory light.
He lightly touched his brow with his fingertip, absorbing the memory orb into his sea of consciousness. Instantly, he acquired a large amount of time-related rule information, and his understanding of the flow of time and the manipulation of spacetime rapidly sublimated.
At this moment, his understanding of the rules of time has deepened once again, and his eyes now hold a profound depth born from the sedimentation of time and space.
Immediately afterwards, he used the divine technique "Ten Directions" to re-deduced the future timeline, instantly gaining several more ways to deal with the Otsutsuki high-ranking officials.
Looking at the newly added futuristic scenarios, Uchiha Mitsumine laughed, "Interesting! They can even use this method to trick people!"
After saying that, he reached into the void and grabbed a few wisps of the aura of the high-ranking members of the Otsutsuki clan.
Then, he activated his divine magic, evenly covering himself and Kaguya Otsutsuki with the extracted high-level aura.
"Kaguya, I extracted the aura of the Otsutsuki high-ranking members and covered us with it. Now, the barrier inside the shrine will identify us as high-ranking Otsutsuki members and automatically ignore our existence, which will avoid a lot of trouble."
"Sanmine, is this still possible? What should we do now? Deal with Otsutsuki Insaku?"
Uchiha Mitsunori nodded and casually opened a spatial gate to teleport.
A moment later, the two arrived at a misty area deep within the shrine.
The mist here is an eerie dark gray, rolling and swirling like flowing silk, completely enveloping the entire area, obscuring even the outline of the shrine.
In the mist, countless silver threads of cause and effect could be vaguely seen intertwining and entwining, growing and wriggling like living vines. Occasionally, the faint sounds of energy collisions could be heard, the sounds of creatures that had strayed into this place being entangled by the threads of cause and effect, forcibly rewriting their trajectories, and then self-destructing.
Kaguya Otsutsuki frowned slightly. She could clearly feel that these threads of cause and effect contained a powerful corrosive force. If she touched them even slightly, her own causal trajectory would be forcibly distorted, and she would eventually be destroyed in endless confusion.
"This is the causal domain of Ōtsutsuki Insaku."
The fragment of cause and effect in Uchiha Mitsunaga's palm lit up again, and a soft white light spread out, carving out a half-meter-wide path in the dark gray mist.
Wherever the light reached, the wildly twisting threads of cause and effect retreated as if they had encountered their nemesis, and the originally viscous mist parted to both sides like flowing water, revealing the dark blue-green floor tiles below.
This fragment is not only a guide, but also a personification of the weak point in the causal chain of Otsutsuki Insaku, which can temporarily disintegrate the causal domain he has set up.
The two moved quickly along the path of light. The mist beneath their feet vanished the moment it touched the white light. As soon as they landed, the causal threads around them surged like a tide, but were dissolved by the white light within half a foot of the two, turning into specks of starlight and dissipating.
Uchiha Mitsunori kept a close eye on the fragment in his palm the whole time, continuously injecting chakra to ensure that the light would not go out.
Kaguya Otsutsuki vigilantly observed her surroundings, pale pink chakra flowing between her fingertips, ready to deal with any possible changes.
Passing through the mist, an ancient and simple palace came into view.
The temple is built of dark blue-black stones, and above the temple door are four powerful seal characters: "Temple of Cause and Effect".
The characters were surrounded by dense gray causal threads, each thread shimmering with tiny runes that recorded the rise and fall of countless civilizations.
The two exchanged a glance, then simultaneously pushed open the palace door, which creaked open, breaking the deathly silence.
The hall was sparsely furnished, except for a chair woven from countless silver threads of cause and effect that floated in mid-air. Beneath the chair was a rotating circular causal array, the runes on which changed constantly like a carousel, reflecting countless blurry visions of the future: the devastation of planetary destruction, the prosperity of flourishing civilizations, and the struggling figures of countless beings.
Otsutsuki Insaku sat upright in his chair, wearing a gray robe, his long gray-white hair falling over his shoulders, covering most of his face.
His face was covered with fine wrinkles, each one seemingly etched with a different cause and effect. His eyes were indifferent, as if he had already seen through everything in the world.
What is most striking about him are his eyes, a pair of deep blue nine-tomoe Rinnegan, with causal threads of light flowing in his pupils.
He was surrounded by countless invisible threads of cause and effect. With a gentle flick of his fingertips, the light in the hall would alternate between bright and dim, and the suspended future scenes would also change accordingly. He was deducing countless possibilities for the future.
As a high-ranking member of the Otsutsuki clan, Otsutsuki Insaku's core reliance is this divine technique of cause and effect.
He can forcibly bind the cause and effect of a target. As long as he is injured, the bound person will suffer the same injury. What is even more terrifying is that his vitality is extremely strong. Even if his head is cut off, he will not die. It is this almost unsolvable divine art that allows him to sit firmly in a high position.
Upon seeing the two intrude, Otsutsuki Insaku showed no surprise whatsoever. Instead, he slowly raised his head, his blue nine-tomoe eye sweeping over the two, his fingertips still plucking at the threads of cause and effect.
His voice seemed to come from a distant time and space: "You will come here, kill Shi Yan, and find me with the causal fragments that restrain me... But all of this is within my causal deduction. I have long disliked that guy."
Before he finished speaking, his fingertips suddenly sank, and the causal threads around his body tightened abruptly, like a fully drawn bowstring, aimed at the two of them: "Causal Binding, Activate!"
Invisible threads shot out instantly, precisely wrapping around Uchiha Mitsurugi and Otsutsuki Kaguya. In his perception, these two auras were those of the intruders, unaware that they had already been replaced by Otsutsuki Jugen and Otsutsuki Konche.
"Those who manipulate cause and effect will be manipulated by cause and effect. Otsutsuki Insaku, make your move! Let's see whose methods are stronger!"
Uchiha Sanfeng's golden nine-tomoe Rinne Sharingan suddenly burst forth with intense light, and his figure flashed, leaving several afterimages in the hall like a ghost.
Golden chakra condensed at his fingertips into a slender blade, its blade not only wrapped with causal power from the future, but also incorporating some rules of time.
This is precisely his killer move specifically designed to counter Otsutsuki Insaku's "future prediction." The time rule allows the attack trajectory to undergo a "space-time shift" at the last moment, breaking the established cause-and-effect prediction and preventing the original "cause" from corresponding to the predicted "effect."
His attacks appeared chaotic, but each afterimage corresponded to a causal node around Otsutsuki Insaku, and each swing of his blade carried the power to tear apart cause and effect.
The golden blade sliced through the air, leaving behind dazzling trails, causing the causal threads within the hall to fluctuate violently, and the suspended visions of the future to become distorted and blurred.
Otsutsuki Insaku's eyes narrowed, his blue nine-tomoe eye flashing. His fingertips rapidly manipulated the causal threads before him, attempting to use the bound causal power to retaliate: "Now that the bond is complete, your attack is suicidal!"
Just as Uchiha Sanfeng's sharp blade was about to touch Yin Shuo's body, he and Otsutsuki Kaguya beside him suddenly groaned at the same time, staggered back two steps, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of their mouths.
This was a pre-arranged disguise by the two, pretending to be harmed by the causal divine magic.
"So I'm really bound to it after all?"
Uchiha Mitsunori deliberately feigned a serious expression, but in reality, his peripheral vision was fixed on Insaku's blue nine-tomoe Rinnegan.
Upon seeing this, Otsutsuki Insaku curled up a calm, cold smile: "Trying to defy cause and effect will only lead to your own downfall."
He relaxed his guard, and the causal threads around his body loosened a bit, creating a momentary opening!
Uchiha Mitsumine suddenly sprang up, his golden nine-tomoe Sharingan blazing brightly. The instant he locked onto Yin Shuo's eyes, the golden chakra gathered at his fingertips transformed into two sharp energy spikes, like two streaks of light, precisely piercing Yin Shuo's blue nine-tomoe Sharingan.
"You dare!"
Otsutsuki Insaku was shocked and furious. He tried to activate the causal threads to retaliate, but it was too late.
With two soft "plop" sounds, the energy spikes precisely gouged out his pair of blue nine-tomoe Rinnegan eyes, which then floated in the palm of Uchiha Mikado.
Almost at the same time, in another area of the shrine, Otsutsuki Jugen and Otsutsuki Konche suddenly screamed and covered their eyes with their hands.
Their Rinnegan with nine tomoe suddenly shattered without warning, blood gushing from between their fingers. It was the backlash of the causal bond that took effect; the injury of Otsutsuki Insaku losing his eyes was precisely transferred to the two whose auras had been replaced.
"What happened? My eyes!"
"It's karma backfiring! Who's targeting us?"
Otsutsuki Jugen and Otsutsuki Konche were both shocked and furious. They instantly realized that the source of the backlash came from the direction of the Hall of Karma.
As high-ranking members of the Otsutsuki clan, although the injuries from losing the Rinnegan could be healed quickly, they required a large amount of chakra. This sudden injury enraged them.
The two simultaneously activated their divine arts, following the connection of the causal threads, and launched a counterattack against Otsutsuki Insaku.
"Otsutsuki Insaku! How dare you scheme against us!"
Otsutsuki Jugen's voice was filled with overwhelming rage, and black curse energy surged along the threads of cause and effect.
Otsutsuki Komatsu activated his soul technique, and pale purple soul energy, like a venomous snake, coiled around the threads of cause and effect, rushing straight towards Otsutsuki Insaku's soul.
Having lost his eyes, Otsutsuki Insaku was already in a panic, and he had no time to deal with the sudden counterattack from his two clan leaders.
The black curse energy arrived first, instantly covering his entire body. His flesh began to decay at a visible speed; beneath his gray robe, his skin quickly dried up, ulcerated, and emitted a foul stench.
Immediately afterwards, pale purple soul energy invaded his sea of consciousness. His soul felt as if it were being burned by raging fire, his consciousness began to blur, and the essence of his soul began to wither away.
"No...it's an attack from Otsutsuki Jugen and Otsutsuki Komatsu...could this be a trap?"