Chapter 213: The Terrified Ōtsutsuki Isshiki
The colossal machine shark submarine rose from the dark deep sea to the photic zone, quickly surfacing and opening its maw filled with sharp teeth at the coastline.
Looking at the gigantic shark, the wild rabbit froze for a few seconds, then suddenly a look of terror appeared on its face, and it quickly turned and hopped back towards the forest.
The giant shark, meanwhile, swiftly closed its mouth and submerged back into the sea.
Witnessing this, Izayoi couldn't help but exclaim, "As expected of a Divine Ability! If it weren't for the space-time fluctuations still being detectable, even if he infiltrated Konoha, I wouldn't have been able to find him at all."
As the machine shark submerged, a figure suddenly appeared in the brightly lit interior.
Moreover, this figure didn't appear out of nowhere like a space-time ninjutsu; instead, it inflated like a balloon, though the speed of its enlargement was somewhat astonishing. In the eyes of ordinary people and some dōjutsu users, it was no different from the instantaneous movement of a space-time ninjutsu.
However, in front of Izayoi's Rinne Tenseigan, this enlargement process was very slow.
With just one glance, Izayoi saw through Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's Sukunahikona ability.
It had to be admitted, a Divine Ability truly lived up to its name as an advanced ability only pure-blooded Ōtsutsuki could master. Just like Izayoi now possessed an innate perception-blocking ability, when Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was in his shrunken state, his chakra also shrunk, making it impossible for Izayoi to find him.
If it weren't for the future he saw with Amenominaka, Izayoi wouldn't have been able to pinpoint his location.
This Divine Ability, combined with another Divine Ability, Daikokuten, explained why Ōtsutsuki Isshiki could survive the Truth-Seeking Orb and instantly escape into an alternate dimension back then.
But now, Izayoi wouldn't give him another chance to escape.
"Lord Jigen!"
Inside the machine shark, the scientists, excluding Amado, respectfully greeted Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki ignored them, his brow furrowed as he stared at Amado, displeased, "To make me appear in such a manner, I hope your emergency notification is good news worth such a risk."
"Don't worry, Lord Jigen, it is good news."
Amado smiled elegantly, unhurriedly saying, "Please follow me, I have something I want to show you."
After speaking, Amado turned and walked towards a high-tech metal door. Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, giving him face, followed closely, his eyes filled with anticipation.
As for the other scientists, they stayed put, not daring to follow.
They were all scientists, but they were merely outer members.
Amado, on the other hand, was an inner member, and the one "Lord Jigen" valued the most.
After all, apart from Amado, the scientists had never seen another inner member dare to be so casual in front of Lord Jigen.
Opening the metal door, there was another metal door that required a fingerprint unlock.
Moreover, this metal door, while appearing silver-white on the outside, actually contained special materials internally, giving it an innate perception-blocking ability. Even Izayoi and Uchiha Madara, before the final battle, couldn't sense it with their Six Paths Sage Mode.
But now, Izayoi saw through the essence of this door with a single glance.
This door, or more accurately, this room, contained black material internally, material on the same level as the sealing cauldron Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used to seal the Ten-Tails.
More precisely, it was a product similar to Yin-Yang Release and chakra beads, also an advanced ability system of the Ōtsutsuki clan.
Izayoi could also create such material now.
Furthermore, this stuff was even more advanced than a Susano'o; staying inside it would also allow one to ignore the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Otherwise, Izayoi would have found them long ago through his Rinne Sharingan.
The space beyond the metal door was a small laboratory. Besides some instruments, there was only a single cultivation tank.
Standing before this cultivation tank, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eyes were filled with immense joy, his voice even carrying a trace of excitement, "You... you succeeded?"
Inside the cultivation tank stood a young girl with blonde curly hair, dressed in blue-green clothing, her eyes tightly closed.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was no stranger to this girl.
She was Amado's deceased daughter... Akebi Amado.
"No, she is still Delta," Amado said, a hint of gloom in his eyes.
Although the girl in the cultivation tank looked exactly like his daughter, her personality was completely opposite to his daughter's.
This was not his daughter at all!
Hearing that it was not Akebi Amado, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's expression immediately turned grim, and he said unhappily, "If she's still Delta, then why did you contact me so urgently?"
Out of his high regard for Amado, and because the original of this girl before him was Amado's daughter, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki didn't speak too harshly.
Had it been any other scientist, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki would have already reprimanded them or even punished them.
Since the cloning technology was not yet completely perfected, contacting him urgently like this was simply putting him in harm's way.
What if Kaguya's descendants discovered him?
As if sensing Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's dissatisfaction, Amado calmly explained, "Although this is still Delta, it is Delta's second body."
"What do you mean?" Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was a bit confused but patiently waited for Amado's next words.
"This is Delta's backup clone. As long as her consciousness is transplanted into this body, she will immediately revive, and both her body and consciousness will be identical to before," Amado said. "In other words, as long as Delta's consciousness doesn't die, she can revive at any time."
Upon hearing this, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eyes immediately lit up, "So, this is a clone without consciousness?"
"Yes, apart from lacking consciousness, she is even exactly like Akebi," Amado said, his eyes filled with regret as he spoke.
It was a pity that his abilities and conditions were insufficient at the time, making him unable to preserve his daughter's consciousness.
Otherwise, he could truly revive his daughter by transplanting her consciousness.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, of course, didn't know Amado's feelings. He looked at the clone in the cultivation tank and praised without reservation, "No need for soul attachment, simply transplanting the will allows for revival. You are truly a scientist beyond this era, Amado!"
At the same time, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki also felt incredibly excited.
Amado being able to create such a clone meant that he could also create clones of Jigen.
Although Jigen was also not suitable to be his own clone, even if Karma was successfully imprinted, he would still collapse in a very short time after reincarnation.
But Jigen's body could at least be branded with Karma.
Before finding a vessel suitable for his complete reincarnation, it would be a reassuring matter to create a few more Jigen clones.
This way, he wouldn't fear Jigen's body suddenly collapsing.
After all, this body had lived for over two thousand years.
Even with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki controlling it, it could only exert the combat power of a Kage-level strongman.
To exert Super Kage-level combat power, he would still need to absorb the Ten-Tails' chakra.
Therefore, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was about to speak, preparing to have Amado begin the next stage of the experiment.
But when he turned his head, he happened to meet Amado's terrified eyes and his open mouth, too late to utter a sound.
Behind Amado, a black teleportation gate had appeared out of nowhere.
A hand reached out from within, grabbing Amado's collar and pulling his body into the black teleportation gate.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eyes widened. Instinctively, he was about to reclaim Amado.
But in the next second, several grey bone arrows shot out from within.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki recognized what this ability was at a glance and instantly reacted, his expression changing drastically as he used Sukunahikona to shrink the incoming bone arrows, then shunshined away.
By the time he reappeared a meter away, the black teleportation gate had closed.
Amado had also vanished.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's face was extremely grim, and his mood was terrible.
However, he didn't even have time to utter a single curse word. He quickly created a black and red circular teleportation gate in the air and plunged into it.
Although Amado's capture was a huge loss for him, and seriously affected his reincarnation plan.
But compared to those, his life was more important.
The world was vast; there should still be a few half-vessels like Jigen who could barely be branded with Karma, and perhaps even vessels suitable for his complete reincarnation existed.
But if he were to reincarnate now, he would have less than half a day of life left.
If he didn't reincarnate, Jigen's body was simply no match for that descendant of Kaguya.
Besides escaping, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had no other choice.
Only by choosing to escape would he have a glimmer of hope for survival.
Moving at high speed through the space-time tunnel, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used Sukunahikona to shrink his body, and quickly passed through a curved space-time gate, appearing in a dimly lit space, like a cave, as if merging with the darkness.
With his body as tiny as an ant and hidden in the pitch-black darkness, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki finally felt a sense of security. Only then did he have time to curse, "It's been so long, yet this guy has been constantly watching the shinobi world, not even sparing the islands. Does he have to be so ruthless?"
At the same time, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eyes trembled slightly, and he even felt a trace of fear in his heart.
Even when Kaguya Ōtsutsuki consumed the Chakra Fruit and awakened the Rinne Sharingan, or when Kaguya's son became the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki hadn't felt fear, at most just a bit of trouble.
But now, Izayoi's instantaneous appearance, and his action of capturing Amado first instead of ambushing him, made Ōtsutsuki Isshiki terrified.
He had only opened the teleportation gate for a few seconds, and in his Divine Ability state, he certainly hadn't exposed his chakra.
Even Kaguya and her sons couldn't decipher his Divine Ability; her descendants were even less likely to.
Yet, in just these few seconds, Izayoi could instantly detect him and immediately come looking.
This meant that Izayoi had been constantly monitoring the entire shinobi world, and even all the islands outside the ninja continent.
His primary target wasn't even him, indicating that he could not only see him but also hear his and Amado's conversation.
Such power, such intellect... were completely on a different level from Kaguya and her sons.
Moreover, if he wanted to return to the real world, he had to open a space-time teleportation gate, which was the only ability that could not be shrunk by a Divine Ability.
The fact that the opponent could discover him once meant they could discover him a second time.
Didn't that mean that as long as the opponent was alive, his path back to the real world was completely sealed off?
If it were a thousand years ago, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki wouldn't care if Izayoi sealed him off.
But now, he feared he wouldn't last through Izayoi.
More precisely, Jigen's body wouldn't last through Izayoi.
However, soon, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki no longer had such concerns.
A black fissure, also merging with the darkness, appeared out of thin air.
Immediately, a pure white light illuminated the entire cave-like alternate dimension.
Boom—
A deafening, earth-shattering explosion resounded.
When the white light dissipated, the darkness remained.
However, if one possessed night vision, they would discover that the original cave space had transformed into a vast stone wall space.
Apart from the stone walls sealing this space, there was no other object here.
Oh no, there was still one person.
It was Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who had automatically dispelled his Sukunahikona state because he had moved to block the Truth-Seeking Orb's explosion.
"How is this possible?!"
Floating behind the sealing cauldron's lid, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eyes were filled with disbelief.
He had clearly escaped so decisively; how did that guy find him?
The combination of Sukunahikona and the space-time teleportation gate had kept him hidden for two millennia, even from Kaguya and her two sons.
How did that descendant of Kaguya find him?
Could it be that he had been marked?
Perhaps in his state of extreme shock, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki forgot to escape decisively as he had just done.
The next second, the darkness turned into day, and terrifying gravity descended, pinning Ōtsutsuki Isshiki to the ground.
"It wasn't easy, but I finally caught you, you old rat!"
Izayoi, also enduring the crushing gravity, raised his hand and created sharp black rods, piercing them into Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's body, disrupting his chakra flow and preventing him from using his Divine Abilities.
These Yin-Yang Release black rods were also effective against pure-blooded Ōtsutsuki.
Immediately after, Izayoi raised his hand and used Mizukazuchi, absorbing Jigen's body and the chakra of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who was parasitic within him, using an upgraded Preta Path ability, also preventing him from choosing complete reincarnation.
After doing all this, Izayoi once again used Amenominaka, transferring himself and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki to another alternate dimension.
A super treasure, not inferior to Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and in some respects even more precious than her, was finally obtained!
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