"???" Turles was intimidated by Ino's domineering and cool tone. He checked his battle power detector repeatedly, but the opponent still registered at one thousand battle power—completely commonplace. For a moment, he didn't know where her confidence lay.
He didn't bother thinking about it in detail and launched a strong attack.
"You must be crazy! You've started talking nonsense. Die!"
Turles enjoyed this situation of bullying the weak. It seemed that in this moment, he, a low-class warrior with no talent, aptitude, or willpower to speak of, could become a superior being.
With a roar, he harnessed the manic energy within his body and charged forward violently.
Raising his arm, his eyes seemed to already see the scene of himself blowing the opponent apart with a single punch.
"Die!... Hmm?" He looked up in astonishment, only to see Ino's strange eyes, which were pale purple and distributed in a water-ripple pattern.
The purple ripples in Ino's eyes were slowly receding, soon reverting to two ordinary eyes. Immediately after, an even stronger pupil power erupted. Her entire person seemed bathed in white light, and the 'eye that reflects the heart' radiated its true power upon her.
Countless tides of pupil power concentrated continuously at the center of her eyebrows. The tea tree in her spiritual world reflected the brilliance of her heart. From spiritual ripples to material interference, turning from the void to the real, a golden Rinnegan slowly opened at the center of Ino's forehead.
She had absorbed Otsutsuki Urashiki's golden Rinnegan years ago. Compared to Urashiki, who dug out his own eyes and devoured them in a crazy manner to forcibly birth the golden Rinnegan on his forehead, the Rinnegan Ino had just opened was undoubtedly purer and held greater potential.
This was a crystallization of spiritual power that had grown naturally and was bred automatically.
In fact, the eyes and the brain were all wrong; the center of the eyebrows was the place where pupil power should truly exert its effect. This was an extremely critical chakra acupoint.
The evolutionary path of the Otsutsuki clan from human to celestial being, and then to god, had obviously gone astray. By the time it reached their descendants, it became increasingly crooked, resorting to blood sacrifices of kin and the entire clan at the drop of a hat. Even Piccolo's Demon Clan wasn't this extreme. In the final analysis, their genetic talents had been misallocated at the source.
For Ino, she had set things right and completed the step from human to celestial being. She had opened all 364 acupoints, the limit of the Otsutsuki clan's bloodline.
The golden Rinnegan stared at Turles. A glimmer flashed in the eye, and the world instantly fell silent.
This was the Kekkei Mora ability of Ino's golden Rinnegan: Time Loop.
Turles felt the clamorous sound of the wind around him cease. The fresh blood in the severed necks of his subordinates congealed, unable to flow out. The smoke and dust in the distance no longer rose but were frozen in mid-air. Trees, sand, stones, and the energy within his own body—everything seemed to come to a standstill at this moment.
Turles could feel his arms and his feet. Normally, his senses would constantly feed information to his brain, which would process it and transmit various commands to his nerves, bones, and muscles. Now, this process was interrupted.
His brain felt as if it were covered by a layer of semi-solidified glue, wrapped into a ball. His consciousness was extracted from his body's organs. Although his body possessed 180,000 battle power, he couldn't throw a punch, couldn't kick, and couldn't even move his eyeballs. How could he fight like this?
He wanted to angrily rebuke the opponent. Wasn't it just a super power? What haven't I seen?
But only a few meaningless syllables spilled from his lips; he couldn't even speak a complete sentence.
Ino was the only object within his line of sight that could move. In Turles's eyes, she was getting closer and closer. When the two were face-to-face, Ino stabbed the Hero's Sword through Turles's chest as if slaughtering a pig.
His body resisted violently, but his brain refused to respond. Turles only felt his heart being pierced, yet the blood did not flow out as it normally would.
Ino smiled faintly. "Don't struggle. Haven't you realized? It is actually your own spiritual energy that has imprisoned you."
As she spoke, she stabbed out again. The heart was pierced once more, yet it remained in a state where blood could not flow.
"It is only an instant in the outside world, but in this gap in time, you will fully experience 72 hours. Saiyan, I guess you definitely won't tell me where the tree seeds came from, right? It doesn't matter. Gather your courage. You have 72 hours to think. Persevere. Persisting to the end is victory."
The Time Loop initiated by Ino using the golden Rinnegan was much stronger than Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyo Tsukuyomi. One required a golden Rinnegan, while the other was just a Mangekyo Sharingan. The former incorporated both the matter and spirit within the area into an infinite loop; unless she voluntarily stopped it, Turles could not escape. The latter could only influence the spirit and, to some extent, was more like a trick of the eye.
Itachi's Tsukuyomi was not a time loop. Strictly speaking, the Izanagi used by the Uchiha clan had quite a flavor of a time loop: set a starting point, then off you go! Five minutes, ten minutes later, reboot, and let your time return to the starting point to complete a cycle.
However, the material interference of Izanagi required the permanent blindness of one eye as a cost—one eye for one cycle. As long as Ino wished, she could loop countless times, and without any cost to pay.
Nothing was absolute. The ceiling of this world was too high. Majin Buu didn't understand the mysteries of time and space operation at all, but inside the Room of Spirit and Time, he could break open space just by shouting at the air.
Power could breed miracles. The reason no miracle occurred was simply that the power wasn't great enough.
Ino's Time Loop was not invincible; if she encountered those fierce individuals, she likely wouldn't be able to initiate the loop.
Her Time Loop leveraged the skyrocketing spiritual power Turles gained after swallowing the spirit fruit. This guy didn't know how to use this portion of energy at all, and since he wasn't using it, Ino didn't stand on ceremony.
When she felt that the opponent's body was thoroughly dead and completely devoid of aura, she retracted the Time Loop.
One second!
Using only one second of time in the outside world, she resolved the battle against Turles, whose battle power appeared to exceed 180,000.
The opponent had been stabbed by her over five hundred times in the loop. His heart, brain, and several fatal areas were all stabbed to mush. Afterward, his form and spirit were extinguished, his body died thoroughly, and his soul dissipated because it couldn't bear the heavy burden.
Ino questioned the news of the Tree of Might seeds out of Turles's mouth. She asked three times. This gang of space pirates reportedly found some mysterious tree seeds on a fringe planet. Planting them failed several times, and only after improvement by some scientists did they become the current Tree of Might.
She was still a bit puzzled. No matter how she looked at the tree seeds these space pirates obtained from the mysterious planet, they looked like the seeds of the Chakra God Tree.
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