"Tch!"
Seeing the pale young man appearing at the bottom of the abyss, Hidan spat heavily.
Clearly, the collapse of the mountain path just now was no accident, but a carefully laid trap by the other party, with the purpose of making them fall into this sunless abyss bottom.
And the other party's identity was also on the verge of being revealed.
People who dared to ambush the Akatsuki organization were already few and far between in the current Ninja World. So even though the other party's face was hidden in shadows and couldn't be seen clearly, he guessed that the other party was their target this time, Muku of the Hidden Grass Village!
After dusting off the dirt on his body, Kakuzu looked up and scanned the surroundings: "Is this the battlefield you chose? Looks like the rumors are true, you've been corroded by the power of the 'Upper Rank' and can't stand sunlight!"
Hidan muttered: "Why waste words with him? Finish him off quickly so we can go back and report!"
As soon as Hidan's voice fell, Muku, with a pale face opposite, slowly raised his hands.
Instantly.
Kakuzu and Hidan's attention was fully focused over there.
They saw Muku raise his hands and quickly start forming seals, then slam them fiercely onto the ground: "Summoning Jutsu: Box of Ultimate Bliss!"
Poof...
Accompanied by a burst of churning white smoke, the war weapon of the Land of Grass, the 'Box of Ultimate Bliss' carved with twisted faces representing 'Joy', 'Anger', 'Sorrow', and 'Pleasure' on its four sides, appeared in Kakuzu and Hidan's field of vision.
Then, a huge claw protruded from the box!
Looking at that sharp long claw, Kakuzu's expression tightened: "Satori!?"
Hidan asked: "Is that the monster the Leader wants?"
"Mhm!"
Kakuzu nodded.
Just as the two were talking, the huge claw extending from the box fiercely pierced Muku's body, then merged with Muku. In the blink of an eye, Muku turned into a huge monster with a ferocious face.
Kakuzu suddenly realized: "So he is Satori!"
'Satori' was not a monster inside the 'Box of Ultimate Bliss', but a monster formed by the combination of the power of the 'Box of Ultimate Bliss' and Muku. In other words, Muku was the monster the Leader needed.
Hidan also reacted and asked: "Then what do we do?"
Kakuzu said in a deep voice: "Seems we can only find a way to subdue him first!"
Hidan brandished the Triple-Bladed Scythe in his hand: "If we accidentally kill him, the Leader shouldn't blame us, right?"
"If he gets killed by us so easily..." Pausing, Kakuzu raised the corner of his mouth: "Then he has no value!"
"Ha..."
Hidan understood, laughed strangely, and brandished the Triple-Bladed Scythe, pouncing towards Satori opposite...
A long time later, the bottom of the abyss finally regained its calm.
Compared to before the outbreak of the great battle, the bottom of the abyss was now in a mess. Not to mention the potholes on the ground, even the rock walls on both sides had collapsed a lot.
In the rubble pile, Hidan cursed: "Damn it! Damn it! Kakuzu, where is my lower body? Find it for me quickly!"
Not far away.
Kakuzu lay crooked on the ground, seemingly unable to move.
Black threads of 'Earth Grudge Fear' protruded from the gaps in his body, beginning to stitch up his broken body.
After a good while, he propped himself up from the ground.
Hidan was still yelling in the rubble pile, his cursing getting dirtier.
Kakuzu said: "Stop yelling!"
Hearing this, Hidan grinned: "Haha, I knew you were still alive!"
Kakuzu walked unsteadily to the side of Hidan's lower body, lifted one of Hidan's legs, dragged Hidan's lower body to the stone pile, and began to stitch Hidan's upper and lower body parts together.
Hidan complained: "That monster was really weird. If you hadn't played dirty, we might have really fallen here!"
Kakuzu turned his head to glance at Muku lying in the distance, also having lingering fears.
This opponent was different from the past. Muku transformed into 'Satori' could sense evil intentions and killing intent. So no matter what kind of offensive Kakuzu and Hidan launched, they couldn't hurt, no, couldn't touch 'Satori' in the slightest.
Realizing that continuing like this would undoubtedly lead to death, Kakuzu used Hidan's body as bait, cut a large opening in Hidan's chest, let Hidan's blood spray out, and lured Muku to take the bait.
Sure enough, the desire for blood made Muku temporarily lose his reason and pounce on Hidan.
Kakuzu seized this opportunity, finally attacking Muku who turned into 'Satori', and made Muku injured and bleed.
For the Akatsuki organization's 'Undead' duo, the enemy being injured and bleeding meant a chance of victory!
So Hidan immediately collected the blood spilled by Muku, activated the curse technique 'Curse Technique: Death Controlling Possessed Blood', and began to attack Muku with the curse technique.
The strength of 'Satori' lay mainly in its powerful perception of evil intentions and killing intent, even achieving the effect of foresight. But once this advantage was lost and attacked by unavoidable curse techniques, it was just a slightly larger monster and would be defeated all the same.
Of course.
A monster was a monster after all. Hidan launched dozens of attacks consecutively with 'Curse Technique: Death Controlling Possessed Blood', almost poking all over his own body, before barely defeating Muku transformed into 'Satori'.
Even so, Muku's last blow before fainting still severed his body, splitting him in two.
After stitching Hidan's body, Kakuzu gasped heavily.
His situation was not much better than Hidan's. Muku, hit by the curse technique, launched indiscriminate attacks at the bottom of the abyss in the final stage, destroying three of his hearts in a row and cutting his body into several pieces. If 'Earth Grudge Fear' didn't possess multiple hearts and could stitch the body, he would have been dead long ago.
From this point, it also illustrated the necessity for Nagato to have them capture Muku, because this monster could indeed cause great casualties to the ninja army.
After resting for a while, the two came to Muku's side.
At this time, Muku had reverted to his young man appearance. No wounds could be seen on his body, only his skin appeared even paler than before.
Clearly.
Because of being infected and becoming a demon, Muku's recovery ability far exceeded ordinary ninjas. The injuries from Hidan's curse technique attacks just now had recovered, only severe blood loss caused him to temporarily lose consciousness and fall into a coma.
While taking out a sealing scroll from the ninja tool pouch at his waist, Kakuzu said: "This guy can't see sunlight, can't take him out directly."
Hidan was surprised: "You want to seal him in the scroll?"
Kakuzu said: "Don't worry, he hasn't been a normal person for a long time, he won't die!"
Soon, Kakuzu performed the sealing jutsu, sealing the comatose Muku into the scroll, then carefully put away the scroll.
Poof...
As Muku was sealed, the 'Box of Ultimate Bliss' he summoned earlier instantly disappeared into white smoke.
Kakuzu and Hidan didn't care either. Anyway, as long as Muku was caught, the 'Box of Ultimate Bliss' was in their grasp!