Chapter 870: Chapter 35: Arrangements_2
Before awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan, I was just a Chunin with average strength. Even with the Sharingan, it was difficult to compete with a Jonin head-on, and victory could only be achieved by relying on surprise attacks.
However, after activating the Mangekyo Sharingan, the mysterious and unfathomable Space-Time Donjutsu could toy with most Jonin at will. Even for her, if Obito was determined to escape, it would be challenging to track his movements.
"Simply watching isn’t very interesting; it’s better to experiment with someone."
Originally, the Yang Clone was also a good experimental subject, but Hakushi’s Yang Clone was still in an incomplete form and required a longer cultivation time compared to the other clones.
Therefore, another person had to be found to test the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan.
And who that person was, Ruri had already chosen a target.
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The succession ceremony of the witch actually didn’t require Hakushi to do much. The branch witch of the Land of Demons would naturally preside over everything. When the time came, they would invite emissaries from each country to witness the event.
Mire was no longer in the Shrine, but the Sealed Stone Gate left in the side hall remained there to prevent anyone from accidentally opening the seal.
After all, the current Shion had not fully grown and was still familiarizing herself with the use of the witch’s power. If the monstrous spirit re-emerged, it would undoubtedly worsen the situation.
Thus, to avoid any unexpected incidents with the Sealed Stone Gate of the spirit, keeping it with the witch was the safest option.
The countries also valued the witch highly and would not send ninjas to act recklessly and attempt to open the Sealed Stone Gate here.
Otherwise, for the countries, it would also be a massive disaster.
Arriving in the side hall, the center of the altar shone with a sacred, pure white light, forming a massive transparent white sphere barrier. The lingering aura of this power was left by Mire.
Until the very last moment, she implemented the mission of the witch and set up this barrier.
Humans with evil intentions absolutely could not enter the barrier and touch the Sealed Stone Gate of the monstrous spirit.
Hakushi stood before the barrier, pondered for a moment, took out a talisman from his bosom, pasted it onto his body, and then calmly walked into the barrier.
The ancient stone gate gave no sense of the Dark Power, nothing emitted from the seams.
Mire had shattered too much darkness, leaving the monstrous spirit very weak at that moment. To recover to the point where it could autonomously open the barrier, who knew how many years of darkness would need to accumulate for the spirit to regenerate.
Under normal circumstances, it would be unnecessary to worry about the resurgence of the spirit in the next couple of decades.
"How interesting, humans,"
the voice of the monstrous spirit came from behind the stone gate, seemingly addressing Hakushi.
"Are you unwilling?"
Hakushi arrived before the stone gate, not at all worried the spirit would strike at him.
The witch’s power could predict the future, involving the power of time.
The Different Space-Time behind the stone gate was also constructed with the witch’s power involving time.
According to the witch’s secret records, the Different Space-Time on the other side of the gate had completely halted time and space.
Humans entering would cease to grow, achieving immortality in another sense.
But this immortality also came with eternal solitude and death.
Because there was not only limited space in that Different Space-Time, but no life existed.
It was an eternal prison.
The most suitable sealing container for the monstrous spirit.
"Hmph, I just want to say, next time, I won’t let go easily again."
The monstrous spirit’s will had not been erased.
"Is that so? It seems that the Mire Witch dealt a heavy blow to you in the end."
Even though separated by the stone gate, Hakushi could hear the spirit’s exhaustion.
The monstrous spirit fell silent, its mood complex.
"Looking at your state, those two women should have withstood my darkness. Otherwise, they would have thought of a way to release me from here."
"You underestimate humans,"
Hakushi shook his head.
"Yes, I underestimated humans. I seem to understand a bit why each generation of the witch confronts me with blade and stands by humanity."
The tone of the monstrous spirit behind the door was filled with admiration, seemingly acknowledging Hakushi’s words.
At that moment, it had calmed down, continually reflecting on its own problems.
Was it that it truly understood this world?
Was its understanding of humans too one-sided?
Being a conglomerate of darkness, it naturally saw humans as symbols of filth.
If so, there shouldn’t be humans that overcome darkness in this world.
Yet such humans appeared before it.
Breaking its perception of humans.
Recalling the witches assisting humans, it questioned its own beliefs, whether they were suitable and correct.
Once or twice might be coincidental, but the witch has persevered for a millennium, unchanged in intention.
Is it because they saw more than it did?
Even though it had lived for a thousand years, most of it remained within the Sealing Space, never having seen what the world was like.
With this understanding, its malice towards humans was but an instinctual disgust and disdain.
As people often say, a frog in a well cannot see the wider sky, representing shortsightedness.
In its current state, it seemed no different from that frog at the bottom of the well.
At some point, Hakushi’s presence on the altar in the side hall had disappeared.
The monstrous spirit did not care.
It was long accustomed to solitary solitude.
