Chapter 157

"Oh? Spatial power? It can partially evade the time domain?"

Yè Jìn’s ethereal voice carried a hint of surprise, but its movements did not stop—it lifted a foot formed of temporal sand and lightly pointed at Jiang Xia.

"Time Seizure—Momentary Splendor."

Jiang Xia had just exited his intangible state and was preparing to counterattack when he suddenly realized—the brief instant between completing Shinra Tensei and exiting the intangible state… had been infinitely stretched!

He felt trapped within an isolated fragment of time; everything outside had frozen, yet his own consciousness raced at full speed, unable to perform any action!

He could see Yè Jìn slowly raising its other forelimb, gathering terrifying temporal power aimed directly at his brow—but he couldn’t even move a single finger!

"Damn! Is this a time loop? No—it’s time retention!" Jiang Xia’s mind screamed in alarm; his Rinnegan spun furiously, trying to analyze the nodes of this temporal prison!

"Break!"

At the very moment Yè Jìn’s forelimb, charged with temporal power, was about to strike, Jiang Xia’s right Rinnegan erupted in blinding light! Vast ocular power forcibly shattered the seized fragment of time!

"Crack!"

A sound like shattering glass echoed in his consciousness—the infinitely stretched "moment" finally ended!

Jiang Xia regained mobility, but Yè Jìn’s attack was already upon him!

The forelimb did not concentrate destructive energy—it concentrated acceleration!

A terrifying law capable of instantly accelerating a thousand years of time’s passage!

"Shinra Tensei!"

Jiang Xia had no time to dodge—he activated his Rinnegan ability, unleashing a powerful gravitational force centered on himself, not to attack Yè Jìn, but to violently pull over a massive metal fragment left from earlier combat and slam it before himself as a shield!

"Hum—!"

Yè Jìn’s forelimb struck the metal fragment.

No sound.

Before the stunned eyes of all, the massive, hardened metal fragment instantly completed its entire lifespan—what should have taken millions of years—before their eyes!

Rusting, weathering, decaying… until it became a handful of unremarkable dust, drifting into the air!

As if it had endured billions of years of time’s Xili !

If that finger had struck Jiang Xia directly… the consequences were unthinkable!

"Hss—!"

The human camp gasped in unison. This was the terror of temporal law—ignoring defense entirely, acting directly upon the very span of existence!

"Temporal power is truly the strongest law in this world."

Seizing the opportunity, Jiang Xia retreated violently, putting distance between them; sweat already beaded on his forehead.

Too close! Had it not been for his Rinnegan’s power and the clever use of Shinra Tensei, that strike would have turned him into a withered skeleton!

"Quick reaction."

Yè Jìn retracted its forelimb, its ethereal voice still calm, "But how many times can Itachi escape time’s pursuit?"

Its four temporal wings flapped again—this time, at a faster frequency!

"Time Labyrinth—Turbulence!"

Instantly, Jiang Xia felt time around him descend into utter chaos!

One moment, time flowed normally; the next, it slowed to a crawl; the next, it accelerated to its extreme!

His perception was utterly twisted, his balance lost, his spiritual energy flow disrupted by the chaotic time—stuttering, halting, erratic!

In this state, he could not attack—could barely stand steady, staggering drunkenly across the arena, leaving himself wide open!

"Now."

Yè Jìn’s figure moved like a ghost, weaving through the chaotic time stream as if unaffected, appearing instantly beside Jiang Xia, raising its forelimb once more, its fingertip Ningju ing a gray-white light capable of stripping away all color from all things!

That was highly condensed temporal stripping power—aimed directly at Jiang Xia’s heart!

Just as Jiang Xia was about to be struck by this lethal blow within the time turbulence…

Jiang Xia’s pupils, dulled by the time chaos, suddenly sharpened! The Eternal Mangekyō pattern in his left eye twisted violently, emitting an eerie glow!

"Itachi think… only Itachi can manipulate time and mind?"

"Cí Kū Yǒu Mǐ!"

BOOM!!!

An invisible, intangible force—far more tyrannical, far more supreme than the time turbulence—surged like a dam breaking, traveling backward along Yè Jìn’s attack trajectory and crashing into its consciousness core!

Yè Jìn’s forelimb froze mid-strike! Its eyes, formed of temporal crystals, revealed shock and confusion for the first time!

The next instant, it found itself not on the Fallen God Arena, but in a bizarre world where a blood-red moon hung overhead and countless blades were plunged into the earth!

The sky was dark red; the air reeked of despair and agony.

And it itself was pinned immovably to a massive cross.

Jiang Xia’s figure, like the sovereign of this world, floated before it, idly playing with a blade dripping blood.

"Here, time, space, everything… is mine to command."

Jiang Xia’s voice was cold, devoid of any emotion, "Seventy-two hours of flesh torment… begins now."

Outside, upon the arena…

To all eyes, Yè Jìn’s killing strike had halted mere inches from Jiang Xia’s chest; its body froze, trembling slightly, its ethereal temporal fluctuations now chaotic, as if engulfed in extreme agony and struggle.

Jiang Xia, seizing the moment, forcibly stabilized his staggering form amid the time turbulence, his right Rinnegan locked onto the frozen Yè Jìn, coldly uttering two words:

"Amaterasu."

Black, ominous flames spontaneously erupted across Yè Jìn’s semi-transparent body, formed of temporal sand!

"Ssshh—!"

The legendary never-extinguishing Amaterasu flames reacted violently with Yè Jìn’s ephemeral body, existing between time’s seams!

Temporal sand grains, scorched by the black flames, emitted faint sounds like shattering glass, peeling away and vanishing in tiny, glittering fragments!

"Ughhh—!!!"

Yè Jìn, enduring the endless torment of Tsukuyomi within its consciousness, now compounded by the physical and rule-based burning of Amaterasu, let out a piercing, guttural scream—completely devoid of its former ethereal tone!

Tsukuyomi’s mental torment Diejia ed with Amaterasu’s physical and rule-based incineration!

Jiang Xia struck without mercy—a combined ocular technique kill!

The human camp erupted in thunderous cheers! They saw hope! Jiang Xia’s ocular techniques could indeed inflict real damage on the Fuyou !

Yet Jiang Xia’s face showed no relief. The Sharingan’s feedback told him: though Amaterasu was harming Yè Jìn, its core remained in a "time-layered" state—the black flames’ burn efficiency was far lower than expected.