Chapter 169

The several slashes struck by Kuchiki Senya instantly turned Sato Kaede's mist sphere into powder.

Seeing this, Sato Kaede's face changed slightly; he knew this battle was one he was afraid there is no way to win, because the power Kuchiki Senya displayed completely crushed him, and the gap was even greater than he had anticipated.

131, Not in vain to have laid out this scheme for so long

"Swish~~"

Just then, a long sword emerged from behind Kuchiki Senya; immediately after, another long sword flew out from Kuchiki Senya's sleeve, then fiercely slashed before Sato Kaede, and a crescent-shaped sword qi instantly surged forth.

Seeing this, Sato Kaede hurriedly sidestepped to dodge, but because the momentum of the sword qi was too strong, he was still grazed by Yu Bo, suffering heavy injuries to his chest.

"It should end now."

Kuchiki Senya's face remained indifferent; then he lifted the long blade in his hand and suddenly slashed toward Sato Kaede.

"Crack~"

With one slash falling down, the wooden sword in Sato Kaede's hand instantly turned to powder and vanished.

Sato Kaede's face changed slightly; he hurriedly activated the chakra at his waist and abdomen.

Kuchiki Senya slapped Sato Kaede with one palm; Sato Kaede, not expecting him to dare to sneak attack while in danger, was caught off guard and was struck by Kuchiki Senya's palm on his chest.

"Wah~~~"

The next second, Sato Kaede opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood; his body flew far away like a cannonball, smashing and breaking many shrub branches.

"How is this possible..." Sato Kaede struggled to stand up; he looked down at the injury on his chest, his face full of disbelief; he never expected Kuchiki Senya's strength to be so strong, actually defeating him with a single palm strike.

517 "Surrender! You have seen it; with your strength, you cannot defeat me. I do not wish to kill today; I will spare your life, get out!" Kuchiki Senya pointed his long sword at Sato Kaede's chest.

Sato Kaede's face shifted between gloom and agitation; finally, he sighed, suppressing his aura and his essence, qi, and spirit.

Afterwards, Sato Kaede left the forest with a bitter expression, running toward the forest entrance.

"Whoosh!" "Shoo!" "Shoo!" "Shoo!" "Shoo!"

At the very moment Sato Kaede fled, three sounds of breaking the air suddenly rang out from behind Sato Kaede; a hand grenade directly exploded, completely engulfing Sato Kaede.

"Boom~" A huge roar erupted; flames instantly lit up; Sato Kaede was also buried within, his life or death unknown.

"Hmph! Foolish fellow."

Seeing this scene, Kuchiki Senya snorted coldly, then picked up a crystal ball.

"Ah ha~ ha ha~ hah hah hah~"

Suddenly, Kuchiki Senya threw his head back and laughed wildly; as he laughed, tears could not stop flowing out.

He never expected that Sato Kaede would die at his hands.

However, although he hated Sato Kaede to the extreme, he had not forgotten that he still had matters to attend to; he needed to find the treasures hidden on Sato Kaede's body, as those treasures were of great value to him.

"Swish swish swish~" Kuchiki Senya quickly arrived at the place where Sato Kaede had been blown up, then squatted down and began to examine carefully.

"This is...?" Kuchiki Senya stared in shock at the corpse lying by his feet.

"Good, good, not in vain to have laid out this scheme for so long; finally, I have gotten him." Kuchiki Senya looked at the corpse beneath his feet, muttering to himself; he felt an inexplicable excitement in his heart.

"This corpse will be left to me to handle; hehe, this is a fresh corpse indeed; after I absorb the life force from your body, then I will definitely be able to return to my peak state." Kuchiki Senya touched the wounds on the corpse and said while licking his tongue.

"Hah!" Kuchiki Senya took a deep breath; after repairing the injuries on Sato Kaede's body, he carried Sato Kaede's corpse away from this forest; he prepared to take Sato Kaede's corpse back for further study.

After a period of time, inside a luxurious house, Kuchiki Senya was sitting on a sofa.

"Does such a thing really exist?" Kuchiki Senya, holding a pitch-black crystal bead in his right hand, said with a serious expression.

Inside the crystal bead was a blurry shadow; it was Sato Kaede's soul imprint, but he was no longer in human form now; at this moment, he had become a monster with a short stature, an ugly face, and covered entirely in black mud.

"Good, this strange fruit is a precious fruit I cultivated over hundreds of years; it possesses powerful healing power; one only needs to swallow a single one of it to allow bodily functions to rapidly recover; it can not only grant humans an eternal, indestructible life but also grant immense strength."

"However, it can only extend the lifespan of ordinary humans by fifteen years, and this fruit bears only one fruit each time it fruits. But even so, it is enough to make ordinary people envious."

"Additionally, this fruit has an even stronger effect on us ninja; a single one is enough to allow someone to break through a bottleneck."

Opposite Kuchiki Senya, a man wearing a gray long robe, with a hood on and his face hidden in shadow, opened his mouth to explain.

"Can this fruit really make humans immortal and grant immense strength?" Kuchiki Senya, upon hearing this, his eyes instantly lit up.

"Of course it can; this is a genuine fruit of immortality; it is just that the user must pay a price." The gray-robed man continued to speak, his voice somewhat sharp.

"What price?" Kuchiki Senya frowned and asked.

"First, it must be a woman, after all, this fruit requires a woman's heart. Additionally, it must be guaranteed that the user reaches a limit state immediately after swallowing the fruit of immortality." The gray-robed man continued to speak.

"A woman? Hehe! Are you sure my disciple would be willing to sacrifice herself for someone else to consume?" A hint of sarcasm flashed across Kuchiki Senya's face.

"Of course she will; she has now become an ordinary person, and she is obsessed with you; she should agree to your request, but in the early stage you must provide her with certain resources." The gray-robed man said indifferently.

"Then how do you know this fruit is ineffective for me? After all, there is nothing in this world that can guarantee a hundred percent survival." Kuchiki Senya, upon hearing this, said with a calm expression.

"If you have not even heard of the fruit of immortality, then you have truly lived in vain." After the gray-robed man mocked him once, he continued to speak: "Whether you believe it or not, this fruit can absolutely transform you, turning a good-for-nothing into a genius, and the weak into the strong."

"Hehe, then this makes me, the great one, look forward to it."

Kuchiki Senya sneered, then reached out his hand to touch the mark on the gray-robed man's forehead that emitted a green glow.

"Click!"

A crisp sound came; the mark on the gray-robed man's forehead that originally emitted a green glow gradually extinguished, and the gray-robed man's eyes also closed.

After a long while, Kuchiki Senya slowly opened his eyes.

"Huh?! It's gone? What's going on?" Kuchiki Senya looked in surprise at the mark that had disappeared from the gray-robed man's body.

Just when Kuchiki Senya touched the gray-robed man's mark, the mark on the gray-robed man's body disappeared.

"Hmph, you are nothing but a pawn; you are not worthy to negotiate terms with me." Kuchiki Senya looked at the place where the gray-robed man had disappeared, sneered coldly, then turned and walked toward the door.

"Crack!"

Kuchiki Senya closed the main door, then executed Shunshin no Jutsu and vanished.

132, Since you are here, do not be sneaky

Not long after, Kuchiki Senya appeared again in a desolate, remote suburb.

This was Kuchiki Senya's private property; he had purchased a small manor nearby.

At this moment, Kuchiki Senya arrived at a lavishly decorated bedroom inside this manor.

"Bang bang bang!"

Kuchiki Senya knocked on the tightly-locked bedroom door.

"Who is it!" A panting voice rang out from inside.

"It's me, Kuchiki Senya!" Kuchiki Senya said with an expressionless face.

A "creak~" sound rang out as the door was opened.

On the bed lay a beauty, completely naked, with snow-white skin, delicate features, and a head of brownish-red long hair draped over her shoulders.

"Senya, why did you suddenly come find me?" Upon seeing Kuchiki Senya, two intoxicating blushes instantly appeared on the beauty's pretty face, and she said shyly.

The beauty was Qian Ying, who had previously arranged a meeting with Kuchiki Senya. She was also Kuchiki Senya's beloved concubine, as well as an experimental subject—she had been modified from an artificial human.

"Tonight, I'm going to kill someone." Kuchiki Senya looked at Qian Ying and revealed an evil, charming smile.

"Ki…ki…kill?! Why? Don't you love me anymore?!" Upon hearing this, Qian Ying's entire face instantly turned deathly pale. She looked at Kuchiki Senya with a panicked expression as she spoke, her eyes brimming with hot tears.

"Hehe, not loving is simply not loving—no excuse needed." Kuchiki Senya chuckled once and said without the slightest hesitation.

"Then I'll go with you. I'm not afraid of death. I only ask that you don't leave me in this filthy place." Qian Ying said through gritted teeth.

"Good. Tonight, let us go completely mad." Kuchiki Senya said, his expression shifting slightly.

A few minutes later, Kuchiki Senya brought Qian Ying to an underground cage, inside which sat an old man with a withered, skin-and-bones body.

Beside the cage, a youth in tattered clothes was hugging his knees and crouching in a corner, shivering, like a startled little rabbit.

Suddenly, this youth huddled in the corner looked up. Discovering it was Kuchiki Senya and Qian Ying, he hurriedly stood up, rushed over, and knelt in greeting.

This youth was none other than Kuchiki Senya's adopted son, Sasaki Kotaro—one of the only two survivors of the Kuchiki family, and also the person most loyal to Kuchiki Senya.

"Adoptive Father, my lord, please save my mother. As long as you are willing to help me rescue my mother, I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life even if I have to work like an ox or a horse!" Sasaki Kotaro knelt before Kuchiki Senya and pleaded.

"Hehe, don't worry. In a moment, you'll be able to see your mother." Kuchiki Senya chuckled once, then extended his right hand to pat Sasaki Kotaro's head, saying with a kindly expression.

"Re…really? Th…thank you, Adoptive Father, my lord. Kotaro will always repay your kindness. If you tell me to go east, I would never dare go west!" Sasaki Kotaro was stunned upon hearing this, then said with a delighted expression.

"Alright, go down and rest." Kuchiki Senya patted Sasaki Kotaro's shoulder, then said.

"Yes, sir, Adoptive Father, my lord." Sasaki Kotaro said respectfully, then retreated to the side and waited silently.

"Hehe!"

Seeing Sasaki Kotaro walk far away, a smile appeared at the corner of Kuchiki Senya's mouth, his eyes filled with excitement.

Kuchiki Senya picked up a black pill from the table and swallowed it into his stomach, then he sat cross-legged on the sofa.

"Boom!"

After the pill entered his belly, a stream of pure energy surged out from within the pill, quickly merging into Kuchiki Senya's body.

"What dense energy!" Kuchiki Senya exclaimed in admiration, then began to circulate his energy and cultivate.

A while later.