northernbook Chapter 527 Mortal bodies have their limits, but flesh and blood ascend to immortality!
Chapter 527 Mortal bodies have their limits, but flesh and blood ascend to immortality!
As his last syllable fell, the entire snowfield—no, the entire abandoned village—began to tremble violently.
Rumbling--
The earth groaned, the snow collapsed, and an indescribable aura, originating from the depths of the earth, burst forth from the ground.
On the ground in front of Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru, in the open space illuminated by the campfire, huge cracks began to spread.
Immediately afterwards, a stone statue carved from an unknown black rock slowly rose from the ground amidst a violent tremor.
The face of that stone statue...
Tsunade and Jiraiya had never seen it before, but they felt that its shape was strange, its features were indistinct, yet it exuded a chilling majesty and evil aura.
But Orochimaru's breath caught in his throat the moment he saw the face of the stone statue.
very similar!
The outline of the stone statue, the facial features that seemed to devour all light... was nine-tenths similar to a shadowy figure mentioned only briefly and described as a product of Kaguya Otsutsuki's will in one of the top-secret scrolls about the origin of the world that he had seen in his teacher's study.
On the base of the stone statue, two large characters are engraved in ancient script: "Evil God!"
"With your blood, call upon the name of God!"
The cloaked figure at the head of the group shouted fervently, extending his withered fingers to cut his palm, letting the black, viscous liquid spill onto the stone statue.
Suddenly, the stone statue's single eye shone with an eerie red light, and a chakra surge, far larger and colder than the previous five cloaked figures combined, shot into the sky.
……
at the same time.
Far, far away, in the Land of Wind, in the Hidden Sand Village.
Inside the Kazekage's office, the third Kazekage, Retsumon, who symbolizes supreme power and responsibility, is reviewing a report on the maintenance of the Oasis Canal.
Suddenly, his hand holding the pen stopped.
He slowly raised his head, and a flash of pitch-black color appeared in his deep, yellow pupils that belonged to Feng Ying.
The atmosphere in the entire office instantly became oppressive and stagnant.
"Um?"
An ancient and hoarse consciousness, not belonging to Fengying, awakened in his mind.
"This fluctuation of chakra... it's one of those hidden agents buried in the Land of Frost... how come one of them has been triggered?"
Black Zetsu's consciousness temporarily replaced Retsumon's.
Through the body of the wind shadow, he sensed the faint, fleeting echo that came from the far north.
"How...stupid."
A trace of obvious irritation was revealed in Black Zetsu's mind.
Those so-called evil cults were nothing more than experimental subjects planted in the past for future plans.
He used countless experiments and secret techniques to modify their life forms and gave them a "fictional" god, wanting to see what interesting weapons faith and modification could give rise to in an extreme, isolated environment.
That statue was nothing more than a remote controller he left behind.
I thought these experimental subjects had long since perished in the annals of history.
Surprisingly, some remained, and some were even foolish enough to activate the signal on their own.
"Now is far from the time for you sacrifices to be exposed to the sunlight."
"What a disobedient tool."
Black Zetsu muttered to himself.
His gaze seemed to pierce through the walls of the Kazekage's office, landing in the northeast, on that rich land that was now prospering at an unprecedented pace—the Land of Fire.
Hiruzen Sarutobi...
The peace that man created is eroding the world's original rules in a way that makes even it uneasy.
The chain of hatred was forcibly broken, and the power of bonds was channeled towards construction and protection.
This seriously undermines the foundation of its plans.
These seeds in the North were one of its backup plans, intended to create chaos and panic from within at crucial moments.
Now, however, they have been alerted prematurely because of a few ninjas who appeared out of nowhere.
"We must cut off all contact."
Black Zetsu's consciousness made the decision.
This minor trouble is not enough to warrant his personal intervention.
Before completely eliminating Hiruzen Sarutobi, that anomaly, any action that might expose oneself is not permitted.
With his will, that faint connection that spanned the entire continent was unilaterally and ruthlessly severed by him.
The Land of Frost, village ruins.
The malevolent aura that had been soaring into the sky above the evil god statue abruptly ceased without warning.
It was as if the source had been forcibly cut off by an invisible hand.
The red light in the statue's eyes flickered a few times, and then... went out completely.
The violent shaking stopped.
The world fell silent in an instant.
"..."
"..."
"How...could this be?"
The cloaked figure at the head stared in disbelief at the now lifeless stone statue, his voice filled with confusion and panic.
"The evil god... has rejected our response?"
Why?
Another cloaked figure muttered to himself, his faith seemingly wavering at that moment.
"It was our... recklessness that led us to disturb the divine presence before the divine revelation..."
"Since that's the case..."
The leader, Dou Ling, swept his murky gaze across the three Konoha Sannin with their various expressions, finally fixing it on Jiraiya, whom he regarded as a heretic.
His expression shifted from bewilderment to a resolute madness.
"We want to gain the forgiveness of the evil god, we want to wash away our sins..."
He paused, exchanged glances with his three companions, and saw the same answer in each other's equally frantic reactions.
"The only thing we can do is... offer up everything!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the four cloaked figures suddenly threw off their large cloaks!
Beneath the cloaks, their bodies were not made of flesh and blood, but rather of tightly fitted sheets of white paper covered with runes.
Explosive tags!
Their bodies were covered with a dense array of explosive tags.
"The mortal body is finite, but flesh and blood ascend to the heavens!!"