Sara obeyed Senju Yukika's command and evacuated the Lost Tower, moving everyone several hundred meters away.
Of course, it was just a small comfort—if the Dragon Vein really went out of control, there would be no escaping the disaster.
Sara looked anxiously toward the Lost Tower, her long, thick eyelashes trembling slightly. A young girl nearby tugged on Sara's sleeve and asked curiously, "Big sister, why hasn't the big brother who saved my dad come out yet?"
Sara squeezed the little girl's hand and forced a smile. "It's okay, he'll be out soon."
But her eyes were full of worry and guilt. Inside the Lost Tower, when she had tried to communicate with the Dragon Vein using the secret art her mother had taught her, something had suddenly gone wrong.
Sara's power had seemed to awaken a sleeping dragon vein, which had erupted with terrifying force. If Yukika hadn't intervened in time, she would have been swallowed by its energy.
Why did this happen? She had followed her mother's instructions perfectly. Even when An Lushan had studied the Dragon Vein, nothing like this had occurred.
Inside the Lost Tower, Senju Yukika's black demonic wings had already spread wide, shielding against the rampaging chakra. Multiple layers of barriers shimmered around him, each radiating a terrifying aura—barriers so strong that even forces beyond Kage-level would struggle to break them.
But Yukika knew these were just temporary measures. If even he couldn't control the Dragon Vein's outburst, the barriers would be useless.
Sara didn't know why the Dragon Vein had suddenly gone wild, but Yukika had his suspicions. If sealing the Dragon Vein was like locking a sturdy door, Sara's technique had acted as the key. Once the key turned, the chakra inside naturally began to leak out.
More importantly, the Dragon Vein wasn't just a source of power—it was a seal. The chakra it contained was originally transformed from the Byakugan, and that chakra seemed to possess its own will.
Now that the seal was loosening, the Byakugan chakra naturally wanted to break free.
The Dragon Vein's seal flickered with golden light, shifting constantly—one moment like mountains and rivers, the next moment like ten thousand Buddhas seated on clouds. Yukika could even faintly hear the roar of a beast from beneath the Dragon Vein.
Senju Yukika had fully unleashed the second stage of his Bladewing form. Black liquid clung to his eyes, the whites of his eyes turned green, and his pupils resembled those of a Hollow. His entire body was covered in black feathers like armor, and his demonic wings had expanded to many times their normal size.
His fierce spiritual pressure shot up like a pillar of black light, colliding with the Byakugan chakra of the Dragon Vein.
If the chakra beneath the Dragon Vein was like an enraged ancient beast, Yukika's spiritual pressure was like a shard of the sun.
Hovering above the Dragon Vein, Yukika smiled and said, "You've been suppressed for a thousand years. Feeling angry? Do you really want to break free and take revenge?"
"You want to overturn this world to vent your rage?"
"If I said I could release you, would you believe me?"
The chakra seemed to quiet down slightly, like a suspicious ancient beast eyeing an ant, curious to hear what the ant had to say.
Sensing the contempt from the chakra, Yukika chuckled. "I can set you free—but only if you swear loyalty to me and let your power be mine."
There was a brief silence before the ground for hundreds of miles shook violently, and the Byakugan chakra erupted in a frenzy of anger.
You ants want me to submit?!
My master was once an invincible member of the Otsutsuki clan. You're just a speck of dust. Once my uncle breaks this cursed seal, everyone on your planet will die!
Yukika tugged at his ear, suppressing the leaking chakra with his spiritual pressure. He had expected the Byakugan chakra to be defiant.
Still, its chakra was fascinating—after thousands of years of evolution, it had developed intelligence. If it were fully released, it might even form a Tailed Beast-like entity.
After all, Tailed Beasts were just condensed chakra.
"Look at this."
Yukika's eyes shifted, and his Byakugan transformed into two shining gemstones.
The chakra hesitated, then a voice echoed in Yukika's mind. "Are you from the Hyuga clan?"
Yukika sighed. Even though the Byakugan chakra was sealed, it could still sense external information—though clearly delayed, or it would have known who Yukika was already.
"I'm not Hyuga," Yukika said calmly. "I'm from the Otsutsuki clan, here to retrieve you."
"So if you swear loyalty to me, I'll take you back to the Otsutsuki."
But the voice sneered. "I don't know where you got those Byakugan, but you're definitely not Otsutsuki. Your Byakugan carries the scent of a branch family. If the Otsutsuki knew of my existence, they wouldn't have sent a branch family reject like you."
"Do you know who I really belonged to? I was the possession of the supreme Otsutsuki—"
The voice cut off abruptly, as if realizing it had said too much.
Yukika's eyes narrowed. He guessed the unspoken name was that of the original owner of this Byakugan—a figure who had fought and killed Buddhas across the universe.
Trying to pretend to be Otsutsuki and steal the Dragon Vein so easily? Impossible.
"Since you won't surrender willingly," Yukika said coldly, "then according to the plan, I'll just have to force you."
A wild laugh echoed—not in Yukika's mind this time, but throughout the entire Roran Kingdom. Everyone in Roran felt the terrifying pressure of the Byakugan chakra.
"True, your power on this planet is impressive," the voice taunted, "but even the Sage of Six Paths here wouldn't be my match—at best, only on par with Kaguya Otsutsuki."
"And Kaguya was just a branch family member of the Otsutsuki. Crushing you would be nothing to me."
"But still—thank you. Without you, that bald monk's seal wouldn't have loosened, and I would never have seen the sun again!"
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