Douluo Dalu: The Legend of Heavenly Ruler

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--- Chapter 481 ---

"Kaguya..." Isshiki gritted his teeth. 

To think, he got tricked by this damned woman twice! TWICE!

And this time, Isshiki was sure Kaguya would finish her business with him forever. There is no such thing as negotiation in this situation.

Isshiki glimpsed at Bibi Dong and eventually stopped on Umeshiki. His eyes became increasingly solemn because he recognized this Otsutsuki Clan member.

"Umeshiki, I didn't expect you to become Kaguya's little dog." 

Umeshiki frowned, "Watch your mouth, Isshiki! My loyalty is only for my Mistress and Yunlong-sama." 

Umeshiki, whom Isshiki knew, is one of the most prideful Otsutsuki Clan members, and not even elders could make her bow easily. She's not a woman you can tame with mere words. 

Yet this woman called someone mistress and lord? Impossible!

Kaguya knew Umeshiki had no respect for her, and she didn't care much as long as Bibi Dong kept the Otsutsuki on a leash.

She stared at Isshiki's current vessel and commented, "That body is incompatible with your Kama." 

"Not only that, but you also have modified it grotesquely, possibly torturing the original owner of it." 

"So what?" Isshiki groaned. "If you don't sneak-attack me that day, I wouldn't have been so miserable!" 

"Hahaha~!" 

"Stop being a hypocrite, Kaguya! I, you, and everyone know you're just a greedy woman!" 

"Truly an Otsutsuki!"

'Oh, no!' Umeshiki suddenly shuddered. Since she stood beside Kaguya, she could feel the latter's wave-like emotion. 

Kaguya looks calm outside, but the wave is raging inside. Just how much does she hate the Otsutsuki Clan? Even Umeshiki didn't dare to estimate the Moon Goddess's hatred. 

Sure enough, Kaguya's blue eyes darkened slightly. No one noticed it besides Bibi Dong. 

Tremble!

The air trembled slightly, but soon it turned into something terrifying. The clear sky, earth, and temple they were in twisted as if reality was fading on itself. 

Bibi Dong narrowed her eyes, "Kaguya, you..." 

Even though Bibi Dong could only see Kaguya's side profile, she knew this state was abnormal. Any ascended God is a higher-dimensional being, but the feeling Bibi Dong gets from Kaguya is unfathomable.

It's not something God should have. 

Weirdly, the feeling is also not demonic. 

In fact, Bibi Dong couldn't grasp Kaguya's divine origin. In her perception, Kaguya looks like a goddess but feels like a mortal. 

Bibi Dong has never asked Yunlong about Kaguya's matter, but she must have a great secret.

Bibi Dong shielded Umeshiki and thought, 'Well... Since Kaguya is one of us, I shouldn't overthink and enjoy the show.' 

As the reality twisted, everyone felt a bright light fill their vision and found themselves in an unknown place. They are currently on a desolate plain with a gigantic tree stump nearby. 

"Dimensional Rift..." Isshiki's face darkened further. 

"KAGUYA, ARE YOU MOCKING ME!" 

Dimensional Rift is none other than the place where Kaguya decisively betrayed Isshiki and left him dying near the Shinobi World. The gigantic tree stump is the remaining Chakra Fruit Tree after one harvested it.

"Yes. I'm mocking you, Isshiki." Kaguya replied indifferently. 

"This is the place where your despair starts and ends. You must have felt resentment that you got defeated by a mere me, so I will give you a chance to fight me again today."

"Let's settle our unfinished business here for once and all." 

Kaguya threw the condensation of Life Vein to Isshiki, "Here, you can take this. I'm giving you a slight chance of winning."

Isshiki caught the green gem with an incredulous look. "You..." 

"You will regret this, Kaguya!" 

"Go on and recover from your injury, Isshiki. Or else, this fight will be boring." Kaguya didn't care. To her, no matter how much power Isshiki gained from the Life Vein's energy, he was nothing but a cockroach. 

Isshiki swallowed the green gem immediately and roared painfully, feeling this unworthy vessel become stronger each second. Extremely pure vitality rampaged in his body and synergized with his Kama. 

"Yes, this is the power." He laughed madly inside and transformed before everyone's eyes. His skin became paler, and a crown-like horn grew from his right eyebrow, circling now his white hair.

Yes, this transformation showed his nature as an Otsutsuki Clan member.

Even though Isshiki felt this green gem was 'actually' wasted on this unworthy vessel, he didn't have a choice. His new vessel has yet to be ready.

At the same time, Isshiki's attire also changed. It became an elegant, slim-cut, white long-sleeved tailcoat with maroon lining and cuffs and an oversized collar that folded back upon itself over his bare muscular torso, over a pair of baggy black pants that often covered his bare feet. 

The last change is Isshiki's eyes. His right eye's iris and pupil were yellow with a black wheel-like pattern with eight spokes coming out of the center. His left eye turned into Byakugan.

'Kokugan.' Kaguya observed Isshiki's right eye calmly. She's coming for that eye, specifically the eye's abilities.

With Kokugan, Isshiki can view the lifeforce of living things, including his own, in a fire-like shadow state and perform a Shinjutsu, Sukunahikona.

This Shinjutsu technique allowed Isshiki to shrink himself or any non-living target he saw instantly and quickly restore its original size. 

After shrinking a target, he could use Daikokuten, which let him store any of his shrunken targets in a pocket timeless dimension, which he could summon at full size at any given time. 

He used this ability regularly to manifest these objects anywhere among his surroundings, freely manipulating them once brought forth. He could use these abilities in combat by shrinking weapons and objects and then summoning them to full size onto his opponents, causing severe damage by surprise, or by reducing the size of elemental attacks and projectile weapons to prevent them from harming him. He could even reduce the size of buildings to cause severe collateral damage and remove stable footing from his enemies.

As Isshiki's partner in collecting Chakra Fruit, Kaguya is familiar with his abilities. Even though Isshiki hasn't stayed idle for the last thousand years, she believed he didn't make much progress. 

So, Kokugan is wasted on Isshiki. Yes, Kaguya found the way he used his abilities was wasteful. He can do more on his shrinking ability.

Isshiki retreated to the sky and activated his Kokugan when he recovered his peak strength, allowing him to see Kaguya and two others in shadow-like flame. 

However, all he could see was blurry flames.

Umeshiki is bright blue, the woman beside Kaguya is pink, and Kaguya is all black. 

Kaguya's life force looks like a void, which shocked Isshiki because it was abnormal. Still, Isshiki calmed himself down and threw several dust-like projectiles at Kaguya.

The dust immediately grew into gigantic black cubes with red outlines.

Isshiki's ability makes the cubes' speed doesn't change, resulting in 'greater' momentum and force.

Umeshiki wanted to use her eyes, but Bibi Dong stopped her.

"Don't make a move." Bibi Dong calmly said.

"Just watch." 

"Understood." Umeshiki nodded solemnly. 

She glanced at Kaguya and flicked her fingers, causing the cubes to get deflected away.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

The cubes deflected and crashed to the ground, creating several craters around Kaguya. 

Kaguya emotionlessly stared at the floating Isshiki, "Is that it?" 

"If you have more techniques, then do it now." 

Isshiki snorted and waved his hand, causing the sky above them to become dark.

SWOOSH! 

A million dark specks of dust fell from the sky, giving off an oppressive feeling. 

Kaguya waved her hand, and thick silver tree roots came from the ground, lashing toward Isshiki. The silver roots are as fast as lightning, reaching him instantly. 

Isshiki activated his right eye's ability and turned some dust into cubes, protecting him from the silver roots. Yet they pierced through them like a hot knife through butter.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Isshiki's Byakugan twitched slightly. After reading the roots' moment, he dodged swiftly between the silver roots and rushed toward Kaguya. 

Kaguya tapped her foot and soared to the sky as well.

"KAGUYAAAA!!!" Isshiki roared in a thousand years of anger.

As they met in the air, Isshiki waved his hand and sent several sharp black rods to attack. As the small rods returned to their original sizes, they were seemingly able to pierce through Kaguya's body.

Kaguya flicked her sleeves and deflected the black rods back.

Clank!

Isshiki summoned another cube before kicking it, causing the black rods to create sparks.

Kaguya appeared beside Isshiki like a ghost and slapped his face.

Swoosh!

'Teleportation?'

'No, she's just too fast.' 

Kaguya sent Isshiki crashing to the ground, causing him to feel a searing pain on his cheek.

BOOOM!

Of course, Isshiki wasn't an easy person to attack.

Kaguya looked at her palm and saw some black rod fragments prickling her fair skin. She clenched her hand slightly and opened it again, and the fragments disappeared like they were never there.

'Amazing, all that happened in a second?' Meanwhile, Umeshiki couldn't help but open her mouth in disbelief. Yes, Kaguya and Isshiki moved beyond the speed of sound when they clashed in the air. 

Yet, Isshiki lost in long-range and close-range combat in this one-second exchange.

"Hmm, decent, I guess." Bibi Dong commented casually. 

'What do you mean by decent?' Umeshiki was speechless. 'Are you talking about Kaguya or Isshiki?' 

KABOOM!

Isshiki destroyed the rubbles around him and spat some blood on the ground. 'Kaguya's palm attack is strong.' 

'It breaks the outer layer of my hidden armor.' 

'But it's still manageable.' 

Isshiki rubbed his swollen cheek and recovered immediately. The effect of Life Vein's energy is still abundant in his body. 

With that in mind, Isshiki still didn't dare to be reckless. He was testing Kaguya earlier. 

Unknown to Isshiki, Kaguya actually held herself back. After all, she didn't want to kill Isshiki in one smack.

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