Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 597 Repeatedly Using This Research Mechanism

The erosion was slow and steady, like ants gnawing at wood, gradually eroding his soul.

"Actually, I'm still a little worried. What if you've already figured out they'll betray you, so you've prepared other contracts in advance?"

"So what exactly are you doing?" Otsutsuki Isshiki was terrified. He was smaller than a thumb and was being poked around by Aburame Shisei, just like a pet he kept on a table.

"So I'm trying to understand the resurrection mechanism of your Otsutsuki clan!" Aburame Shisei sat down again, resting his chin on his hand, like a curious child observing an insect in a cage: "The Otsutsuki's resurrection mechanism is very interesting. As long as someone leaves a contract for you somewhere, you will never truly die. So simply killing you is meaningless. I need to find your contract first, and then..."

He smiled slightly, "I'll seal off all your escape routes, one by one."

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki looked up at the man in front of him and felt a chill run from the base of his spine to the top of his head.

The insect controller, whom he had never taken seriously from the beginning, was now like an unshakeable Grim Reaper, slowly and methodically dismantling everything about him.

In fact, he had already discovered his potential, but he didn't take him seriously, thinking that his ultimate achievement would only be at the Kage level. Later, he saw the other party grow little by little to the point of destroying the ninja world.

He still didn't take it to heart, because he was an Otsutsuki, and he was capable of solving everything. As long as he found another Otsutsuki who would be sacrificed to him by the Divine Tree, he would awaken his Rinnegan.

Thus, they can advance to a higher level, constantly approaching the Otsutsuki God, and even become the ruler of the Otsutsuki clan, transcending the world!

But then he suddenly thought of Black Zetsu. He realized that the other party was the one with foresight. He saw through Aburame Shisei's true nature at a glance, so he kept targeting him, even though it was like a clown jumping around and had no effect.

And that Black Zetsu, whom he had despised countless times, that self-righteous and arrogant clown, was actually more insightful and smarter than him.

He was merely the consciousness of that foolish woman, Kaguya Otsutsuki, and that did not prove that Kaguya Otsutsuki was smarter than him.

But thinking about it, it makes sense that even knowing he was to be sacrificed, he still managed to launch a sneak attack, sacrifice him, and turn the tables.

He's clearly an incredibly stupid person, someone who should be suppressed and submitted to him, yet he still harbors rebellious thoughts.

Otsutsuki Isshiki's mind began to fog up, feeling as if something was slowly being pulled away, causing him to have particularly wild thoughts.

"Are you scared, Isshiki?" Aburame Shisei's voice rang out again. "I can feel it; your heart is beating faster. Oh wait, the Otsutsuki clan shouldn't have any concept of emotional fluctuations."

He extended his index finger and gently tapped his forehead.

"Don't be afraid, it hasn't started yet."

A faint light shone from his fingertip and fell on Yi Shi. He felt as if his consciousness was being pulled by some force, as if it were being peeled away from his body.

"This is a little trick I learned from the Time Worm." Aburame Shisei's voice became somewhat distant, as if it came from another dimension. "It can slow down your perception of time. Simply put, the next second might feel like a hundred years to you."

"Do you know what this means?" Aburame Shisei stood up, looking down at him. "It means I can spend a long time, slowly, bit by bit, completely erasing you from this world. And you will feel the pain every second of this long process."

Isshiki Otsutsuki's pupils suddenly contracted. "This can't be! You're not from the Otsutsuki clan. You'll never understand the contract. You can't kill me, but one day I'll appear before you and torture you in the same way. Why not cooperate? We have plenty of ways to reconcile. State your needs. What do you want?"

"What else do you have besides this body?"

Isshiki Otsutsuki was speechless. "I can help you capture other Otsutsuki. I can sense that your attributes are incomplete, lacking Yin and Yang power. This is why you couldn't kill me in one fell swoop. Similarly, because of this lack of power, you can't truly eliminate other Otsutsuki. I can..."

"I don't need it." Aburame Zhicheng smiled and stretched out his hand. Five different colored lights flowed at his fingertips. The five elements of wind, thunder, earth, water, and fire were perfectly integrated in his hand, turning into a gray-white chaos.

"That was just an appetizer. Now, let's talk about the main course."

Grayish-white energy poured out from Aburame Shisei's palm, transforming into countless fine rays of light that wrapped around the little figure in his hand.

The rays of light seemed to have a life of their own, penetrating his skin and spreading along his chakra pathways.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki felt his body being disintegrated from the inside out. Even more terrifying was his perception of time; the technique took effect in that one second.

The brief shock stretched into endless torment in his mind.

Only then did I realize that my body was constantly breaking apart, every single second.

"ah--!!!"

The screams, no longer suppressed, exploded in the gray space.

He wasn't inexperienced in facing life and death. Throughout the long history of the Otsutsuki clan, he had experienced countless battles and faced countless powerful enemies, but never before had he felt so insignificant and powerless.

"I think I understand a little now. It's a bit like information overlay. Your Otsutsuki clan really has a body that can be transformed into an information body. It seems that the chakra split off by the Sage of Six Paths is also a manifestation of a low-level contract."

Aburame Shisei carefully analyzed his body, and in his view, the so-called contract was to copy one's own high-concentration information into a backup and imprint it on another person's body.

After one dies, information reassembles, and the resurrected memories are synchronized, somewhat like quantum entanglement. By observing one particle, one can see the state of another particle because their trajectories are synchronized.

"How amazing. Just as you said, the only way to stop your resurrection is to find all your contracts."

Undeniably, the Otsutsuki clan's bond is indeed unsolvable. It seems that their initial purpose was to revive the Otsutsuki clan members who were sacrificed.

If you can be completely resurrected even after your body and soul have been sacrificed, then what incredible power do you possess?

Aburame Shisei was somewhat interested in learning it, but unfortunately he wasn't an Otsutsuki, and this system might have its drawbacks. He discovered that the Otsutsuki clan had authority, with superiors completely controlling subordinates.

"I sense that your bond is only at the embryonic stage."