Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 178 The Evil God Appears in a High-Level Soul Body

Hideyoshi shook him and shouted, "You madman! You've gone completely mad! What do you take this child for?"

The woman turned her head, a gentle smile on her face: "A gift for the gods."

Hideyoshi knew that this man was beyond saving.

But to save his child, he threw down his sickle and knelt before the woman with a thud, shaking her desperately: "Wake up! That's your child! Think about what you used to be like, think about how happy you were when you got married, how... how could you become like this?"

"Please tell me how to break the barrier! My child doesn't need God's blessing, he doesn't!"

"Hideyoshi, a Jonin, this is a gift from the gods."

As soon as she finished speaking, she grabbed a short blade and plunged it into her abdomen. Her body went limp, and she fell straight into the blood pool beside her.

Hideyoshi instinctively reached out to grab it, but was firmly stopped by Aburame Shisei.

Just now, Shisei Aburame had already surveyed the surroundings; the ritual had actually begun long ago.

The reason it hasn't been fully activated yet is simply because of a lack of offerings. Of course, it's not that there's a real shortage, but that deity seems to want more.

Right now, there's nothing left to kill here.

He is about to appear.

"Shiraki... is there really no way at all?"

Gazing at the increasingly dense crimson sky above the barrier, Hideyoshi turned around and, clinging to his last glimmer of hope, asked in a trembling voice.

Aburame Shisei really wanted to say that Hidan would most likely survive the ritual, since in the original work, Hidan did indeed gain immortality.

But that was after Hidan came of age; right now, he's only one year old, and the ceremony has been brought forward by a full ten years.

At that moment, space suddenly distorted!

A huge phantom with two horns on its head suddenly appeared above the blood-red barrier.

This shadow resembles the Grim Reaper, but unlike the Grim Reaper, it has a strange pattern printed on its back—the blood of the Death Possession; and it holds a scythe in its hand, rather than a dagger in its mouth.

This phantom is invisible to ordinary people, and even Jonin do not have enough soul power to detect it.

Hideyoshi felt the temperature around him plummet, the cold biting to the bone. Even Shisei Aburame could only vaguely sense that presence.

He hurriedly looked at Aburame Shichen, about to speak, but saw that the other's gaze was fixed on the air.

"Shiraki-kun...did you discover something?"

Aburame Shisei pointed to the top of the barrier: "He's here!"

Hideyoshi suddenly looked up, straining his senses to focus his consciousness, wanting only to see what was in the sky. But after catching only a glimpse, he immediately felt dizzy and his mind reeled.

Immediately afterwards, streams of dark red energy surged wildly from the ground and were forcibly sucked into the sky—mixed with the resentment of the dead, boiling blood, the depleted life force, souls, and faith of believers, as well as bone-chilling madness.

All of this was not something that Aburame Shisei actively perceived, but rather something that the gods in the heavens deliberately displayed before him.

He seemed to be deliberately flaunting his power, enticing more people to believe, and even directly conveying his thoughts to Aburame Zhicheng:

"Believe in me, and you will have eternal life!"

Aburame Shisei simply stared warily at the sky, without uttering a word.

Meanwhile, the swarm of insects he had hidden around the wormhole had become completely agitated, rushing madly towards the blood pool and devouring its violent energy.

The gods in the sky saw someone daring to steal food right under their noses, and their eyes instantly turned cold.

"The gods... will not allow... blasphemy!"

A silent thought exploded forth, seemingly audible only to Aburame Shisei.

Hideyoshi, who was standing to the side, had already reached his limit. He looked at Aburame Shisei and read the intention to retreat in the other's eyes.

At this moment, he shed his identity as a Jonin, leaving only the despair and helplessness of an ordinary father, making such a humble request to someone for the first time:

"Shiraki-kun, can you please save Hidan?!"

Aburame Shisei looked at the devastated Hideyoshi, then at the children whose bodies were rapidly turning black from the energy and who were dying instantly.

The three older children had already been devoured by this strange energy, and the remaining two were also suffering excruciating pain.

"Okay, I'll do my best."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Aburame Shisei raised his hand and delivered a chop to Hideyoshi, knocking him unconscious.

An invisible scorpion emerged from behind him, carrying Hideyoshi's body, and rushed madly towards the cave entrance.

"Then next—let me see what gods really are!"

Aburame Shisei's wind-attribute energy erupted, his chakra fully manifested, and with a swift movement, he crashed straight into the blood-red barrier!

At the same time, a massive number of insects of various colors suddenly surged out of the previously bottomless pool of blood.

Not only the blood pool, but also the area around the wormhole, inside the stone walls, and throughout the cave, everywhere you look, is a swarm of worms frantically feeding!

The black and red sealing spells resisted fiercely, releasing violent energy to kill any insects that approached.

But the insects, undeterred by death, surged forward relentlessly, densely packed and endless. In an instant, the energy required for the ritual was frantically consumed.

Even if they are bursting or killed, they will still eat without hesitation.

The energy that had been supporting the ritual rapidly diminished, and the phantom of the evil god in the sky began to gradually become illusory.

A cold smile finally appeared on Aburame Shisei's face.

It seems that these so-called evil gods can only exist stably through special rituals, just like the death god worshipped by the Uzumaki clan.

They are souls that transcend the ninja world; without specific instructions or techniques, they cannot cause any real harm to the people of the ninja world.

As Aburame Shisei hovered in mid-air, having just made his judgment, the evil god suddenly flew into a rage!

He gripped the scythe in his hand tightly, and with a devastating force, he slashed down heavily towards him!

Strangely, the blade did not harm the real world in the slightest, but it pierced the soul like the Grim Reaper!

"You guessed wrong!"

Aburame Zhicheng was slightly taken aback. He hadn't expected that this evil god would still retain some of the ability to act autonomously.

Unfortunately, his opponent was a beat slower than him. The evil god slashed several times, but couldn't even touch the hem of his clothes.

The evil god began to roar and howl, releasing its soul pressure, but Aburame Shisei's soul seemed to have become as solid as a rock after being baptized by natural energy, and apart from giving him a slight tremor, it did nothing else.

As natural wind blades were released, the evil god's body began to twist and contort. As expected, natural energy could indeed damage the soul, though the damage was not too great.

At this moment, neither side can gain the upper hand, and the final battle for energy is drawing to a close.

The surrounding caves have been completely transformed; their original blackish-red color has turned into earthy brown, and all the sealing techniques engraved inside the mountains have been devoured.

"Evil God, you have been defeated!"