Chapter 243: Truth-Seeking Orbs
As the chakra threads connected to the terracotta soldiers, a surge of ocular power was released, causing the affected soldiers to halt their movements.
"It actually works."
Hyuga Miyuki's eyes lit up as she began to claim the soldiers as her own puppets on a large scale.
From now on, these terracotta soldiers would belong to her!
Noticing this, the leader of dark medic's previously calm expression changed, and he quickly turned to the observing Moryo. "My lord, hurry and kill her."
Uzumaki Kana's heart tightened, and she glanced at Moryo while her companions held off the leader of dark medics.
Initially, she and her comrades had planned to attack this demon.
But the moment they got close and looked into Moryo's darkness, their consciousness was nearly stripped away.
As the lord had said, this was not an opponent they could defeat.
Moryo glanced briefly at the pleading the leader of dark medics before shifting its gaze to Hyuga Miyuki, who was collecting the puppets, and to the troops soaring in the sky.
"Compared to these useless dark medical members, your abilities are far superior. From now on, you shall become my puppets!"
Dark ripples emanated from Moryo, spreading out and touching the enemy forces under the leader of dark medics anxious gaze.
He was pleased that Moryo had acted. Being a manifestation of human malice, as long as humans harbored desires and darkness, they couldn't resist this power. Only those with strong wills could escape it.
For those with weak chakra or insufficient willpower, contact with this dark energy could instantly consume them, turning them into Moryo's puppets, helpless against him.
However, he was also concerned that Moryo had not directly killed these enemies but intended to make them his own, potentially threatening his status.
He tried to reassure himself that this unit was Hyuga Fuji's main force, and Moryo wouldn't care about the other ninjas they would encounter later, which would still secure his position.
Thinking this, He sneered at the stunned Uzumaki Kana and her subordinates, who had briefly halted after being touched by the dark ripples.
"From now on, Lord Moryo is your master, and I am your leader!"
Uzumaki Kana, dazed for a moment, snapped back at his arrogant words, her eyes flashing with cold light. Her lightning sword flipped upward and instantly severed one of Yellow Spring's arms.
Blood spurted as the severed arm flew far away.
Caught off guard, he retreated several meters, glaring in disbelief at Redko and the others, who were not controlled despite Moryo's influence.
"Why are you unaffected?"
If it were just Uzumaki Kana, it would have been understandable, but most of the ninjas had only faltered for a moment before recovering. How was this possible?
Uzumaki Kana didn't answer, pressing her advantage.
Mental attacks had no effect on them!
"Lord Moryo, save me!"
Moryo's figure seemed to frown, equally surprised that they had broken free from his power.
However, the surprise lasted only a moment before Moryo withdrew his gaze, ignoring the leader of dark medics plea for help. He knew his host's dark medical ninjutsu was quite proficient, and he wouldn't die so easily.
At this moment, Moryo had other enemies to deal with.
Looking at the spatial portal that suddenly appeared and the figure emerging from it, Moryo praised, "To remain so calm in my presence, besides the priestess, you're the first. Not bad. You must be Hyuga Fuji? The priestess found a good protector."
"But as long as the priestess doesn't show up, no one in this world can stop me! Like my soldiers, I am immortal. You can't even kill my soldiers—how will you kill me?!"
The humanoid figure began to blur, losing its human outline.
Amidst the protecting army, a massive, twisted monster shadow appeared terrifyingly, hundreds of pitch-black tentacles extending outward.
Suddenly, a snake-like dark tentacle slashed down from the sky.
Hyuga Fuji calmly raised his palm, a black sphere forming in his hand. It shot out like a spear, obliterating everything in its path, including Moryo's tentacle and the soldiers behind it, until it finally struck the ground.
Boom!
The explosion arrived as expected.
With a deafening roar, the earth split open into a massive chasm, dust and debris surged skyward in a wild storm of destruction, as though the world itself was ending.
The terracotta soldiers within the range were utterly annihilated, unable to regenerate.
From the swirling dust, a black sphere slowly emerged, spinning before quietly hovering beside Hyuga Fuji's shoulder, its presence belying the devastation it had just caused.
"..."
Moryo stared at the gaping hole in his "chest," a bottomless pit of darkness that seemed to devour even light itself.
His "body" didn't bleed; instead, thick dark energy wriggled around the wound, like a living thing trying to repair the damage.
But after trying for some time with no success, a flicker of fear arose in Moryo's heart.
What was that thing? His body was composed purely of chakra. Why couldn't it heal after being pierced? And why was it so painful…
Before Moryo could comprehend it, another black sphere formed on Hyuga Fuji's other shoulder.
Hyuga Fuji tested it briefly before shaking his head in resignation. "It seems that two is my limit for now."
With a faintly regretful tone, and under Moryo's terrified gaze, the two Truth-Seeking Orbs rushed toward him, erasing everything they touched.
Moryo, enraged and powerless, could only dissolve into black mist, dodging frantically.
What on earth is that?!
"What's that thing?" Those on the battlefield who witnessed the scene were equally puzzled.
Meanwhile, the researchers monitoring through the armor system analyzed the composition of the Truth-Seeking Orbs and gulped.
"Yin, Yang, Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, and Lightning chakra attributes… Is that a Kekkei Mōra formed by seven chakra natures?"
Two attributes form a Kekkei Genkai, three form a Kekkei Tōta, but what would seven chakra attributes form? The researchers exchanged glances, their minds shaken.
It wasn't a lack of composure—it was that this scene exceeded their understanding.
After all, the ninja world had only ever seen Dust Release, formed by three chakra natures. A Kekkei Mōra with seven was unprecedented!
In a corner, an inconspicuous figure recalled the previous experiments with Hyuga Fuji and shook his head.
The objects Hyuga Fuji called Truth-Seeking Orbs involved more than seven chakra natures; they also incorporated Yin-Yang Release.
Even an Edo Tensei body couldn't withstand the Truth-Seeking Orbs, let alone Moryo.
Immortal?
Immortality was relative. In the face of higher-tier power, Moryo's so-called immortality was a joke!
(End of chapter)