Chapter 160: Outer Path: Rinnegan Reincarnation of Life

BOOM—！！！！！！！！！

The entire Fallen God Platform—no, the entire region where the battlefield lay—shook violently!

Behind Jiang Xia, a colossal wooden Buddha with hands too vast to be described slowly rose from the earth!

That wooden Buddha towered like a mountain, a thousand meters tall; behind it, a dense mass of exactly one thousand enormous wooden arms stretched out!

Each arm carried the terrifying power to shatter stars!

The Buddha’s countenance was solemn and majestic, yet radiated an supreme authority that suppressed all demonic evils of the heavens!

This was true, ultimate power capable of reshaping terrain!

“What… what is this?!”

“Has a god or Buddha descended?!”

From both sides, whether human or beast, all were struck with horror, their souls trembling beneath the overwhelming presence of this towering, thousand-armed wooden Buddha!

Shi Jin gazed up at the wooden Buddha that nearly obscured the sky; for the first time, a feeling named “despair” surged within its ethereal consciousness!

From the wooden Buddha, it sensed an absolute power capable of utterly annihilating it—even time reversal could not undo it!

“No—!!!”

It let out a desperate shriek, igniting and exploding every last scrap of its temporal origin, along with the forbidden power implanted by Kage Long meant for mutual destruction!

“With my eternal body, I burn my fleeting soul! Temporal… Seclusion Domain… OPEN!!!”

It no longer fought for victory—but to drag Jiang Xia down with it! To fulfill Kage Long’s mission!

BOOM!!!

A gray-white absolute domain, as if devouring all color, all sound, and all the breath of life, erupted outward from Shi Jin’s core!

Within the domain, the concept of time was utterly stripped away; all things instantly collapsed into their most primal dust!

The tier of this power… had shattered the limit of the Wang Hou realm, truly touching upon… the Saint realm!

Though its range was small, confined only to the core of the arena, the Saintly aura was undeniably real!

The countless giant hands of the wooden Buddha, as they entered the gray-white domain, began rapidly decaying, crumbling, turning to ash!

“Jiang Xia! Beware!” The human Saint figures like Ye Ting and Lu Wujiu turned pale, desperate to intervene—but the arena’s rules bound them tightly!

“Hahaha! Die together, Jiang Xia!” Qin Lie screamed inwardly, his face twisted with cruel delight.

Facing this sudden, Saint-tier Temporal Seclusion Domain—and at its core, Shi Jin, whose body was dissolving yet grinning madly—Jiang Xia stood atop the wooden Buddha’s head, his expression beneath the immortal mask chillingly calm.

He had long anticipated that his opponent would have one final, mutually destructive trump card.

“The time power of a Saint… is indeed terrifying,” he murmured, as if stating a simple fact, “but it is not unbreakable.”

He slowly raised his hands, assuming a posture both deeply familiar and heartbreakingly final.

The vast torrent of Senjutsu chakra within him, combined with the cataclysmic blood force locked within the final seal of the Eight Gates, began violently compressing and condensing toward his heart!

A crimson steam, as if rising from the deepest abyss, replaced the blue steam of the Eighth Gate, gushing from every pore of his body!

His hair stood on end like burning flames; his skin cracked under the unbearable pressure, blood never even flowing before being vaporized!

“Eight Gates Formation…”

“The Eighth Gate…”

“Death Gate…”

“OPEN!!!”

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crimson blood-steam surged skyward, as if staining the heavens red!

A terrifying power, purer and more absolute in its purpose of annihilation than any state before, swept across heaven and earth!

At this moment, Jiang Xia’s aura became a death god that devoured life!

“Ye Kai!!!!!!”

At the final moment of his life, he unleashed a soul-rending roar, transforming into a monstrous, roaring crimson dragon made entirely of blood-steam, hurtling toward the gray-white Temporal Seclusion Domain with a speed beyond time, beyond thought, beyond all laws—straight at Shi Jin at the domain’s core!

Time itself lost meaning in that instant!

Where the crimson dragon passed, the gray-white domain—claimed to strip away all time—was violently shattered, cracking like fragile glass into fragments!

“No—!!! Impossible!!!” Shi Jin let out its final, desperate, hopeless shriek; its body, before the relentless crimson dragon, melted like snow beneath sunlight, vanishing instantly without a trace!

The “Temporal Seclusion Domain,” forged from its entire origin and life, even drawing upon a sliver of Saintly power, was shattered head-on by “Ye Kai” in the most brutal, direct, and gruesome manner possible!

The ephemeral, Shi Jin, dead!

After smashing Shi Jin, the crimson dragon did not halt; it slammed violently into the rear defense barrier, shattering the already crumbling barrier into countless specks of light before finally dissipating from exhaustion.

On the arena, only Jiang Xia’s ruined, life-drained body remained, falling helplessly from midair.

He had won—by opening the Death Gate and unleashing “Ye Kai,” he forcibly killed Shi Jin, who had activated a Saint-tier trump card!

A crystal-clear, luminous core, within which a river of temporal flow seemed to swirl, radiating immense life and temporal fluctuations, emerged from Shi Jin’s annihilation and drifted slowly downward.

That was… the Shi Jin Spirit Core!

“Jiang Xia!!!”

“Old Jiang—!!!”

The human faction erupted in heart-wrenching cries; Wang Teng’s eyes bulged with rage as he struggled to rise from his stretcher.

Everyone could feel Jiang Xia’s aura fading like a candle in the wind—opening the Death Gate and unleashing Ye Kai was a fatal forbidden technique!

Yet, just as Jiang Xia’s body was about to lose all vitality, and the Shi Jin Spirit Core was about to fall into the arena’s ruins—

A sudden transformation occurred!

Jiang Xia’s right Rinnegan, which should have dimmed forever, blazed forth one final, blindingly brilliant light—as if burning up the very essence of the Rinnegan!

With his last shred of consciousness, he locked onto the fallen human warriors on the arena—Li Jiuyuan, Cui Jue, Su Zhantian… and the lingering soul traces still clinging to the battlefield!

“Outer Path: Rinnegan Reincarnation of Life Technique!”

A grand power, transcending the boundaries of life and death, originating from the Rinnegan’s essence, descended with thunderous force centered on Jiang Xia’s broken body!

A gentle, life-giving green light surged across the arena like a tide, precisely enveloping the remaining soul fragments of the seven fallen prodigies and their scattered remains (if any remained)!