My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 171

This is a rule of death!

You were greatly shocked that the Shinigami voluntarily extracted a rule power and quite casually bestowed it upon you.

Upon asking, you learned that while rule power is considered rare even for gods, it is not a unique entity:

Under the right environment and timing, profound understanding of a certain skill, or even the consumption of a large amount of related materials, can all lead to the birth of rule power…

The Shinigami once controlled the Pure Land, which contained an astronomical number of undead. Aside from reinforcing his own authority and refining divine artifacts, it was normal to have some surplus rule power accumulated over many years.

Moreover, even authorities are not unique.

If by sufficient coincidence, two True Gods happen to collect identical rule powers and both use the same divine power to condense their authorities, two identical authorities will be born.

Only upon reaching the level of a Heavenly God does an authority become unique. Therefore, the birth of a Heavenly God will cause the True Gods beneath them to lose their path to promotion!

So you accepted the rule of death, pondering how to make it your own, or if it was too difficult to comprehend, you might have to store it in your Sharingan first, slowly integrating it like the rule of void.

However, the bones in your body, which were transforming into metal, sent a signal. The Shikotsumyaku seemed quite eager for the arrival of this rule!

Recalling Ōtsutsuki Kaguya’s All-Killing Ash Bones,

You immediately decided to integrate this power into your bones!

A bony long spear, gleaming with metallic luster, extended from your body and touched that trace of rule power.

Unexpectedly, with just a tentative touch, the power of the death rule, like a fish happily swimming into the sea, joyfully plunged deep into your bone marrow.

And it transmitted along the bone marrow, from bottom to top, straight to your crown, while simultaneously dissipating throughout your body from the surrounding blood vessels and meridians.

Strangely, even though the rule power was surging wildly within your body, you felt no pain whatsoever. Instead, you experienced a refreshing coolness and a sense of relaxation that permeated your being.

Seeing you in such a state, the Shinigami nodded approvingly.

Although he hadn’t yet imprinted this rule of death, and it was merely surplus stock, it was ultimately not something you had condensed yourself.

However, you were able to integrate this external rule power into your physical body with just your first contact, and even integrate it so perfectly!

This was quite rare!

It should be known that mastering a rule to the extent of being able to condense an authority requires multiple processes:

First, it involves capturing the rule from its point of origin, or achieving it through one’s own long-term contemplation of a certain skill. Both of these require either luck or unimaginable training.

And merely capturing it does not mean truly possessing the rule!

One must also learn to apply the rule with one’s own power, constantly integrating it with oneself, thereby borrowing its strength. Then, through long-term accumulation, when one’s comprehension reaches a certain realm,

Only then can one reach the next step of integrating it into the physical body!

As the name suggests, integrating into the physical body means combining the rule power with one’s own body. This process is fraught with countless difficulties and dangers. If it’s a relatively gentle rule, it might be better, but the rule of death is clearly not gentle.

A slight mistake could lead to the collapse of the physical body and death, or being异化 (mutated) into a divine servant.

Finally, there is the integration into the soul, a process similar to integrating into the physical body, but even more perilous and with slimmer hopes.

Only after reaching this step can one be considered a demigod who won’t easily fall from the divine ranks!

And there is still a considerable gap from reaching the “complete mastery” realm, where one can condense an authority. That is to make the soul and body operate at the same frequency in the application of the rule.

Such an opportunity is incredibly rare, which is why there is a large number of demigods but only a few True Gods!

For ordinary demigods, even reaching the stage of being able to barely apply a rule after acquiring it is difficult.

Even a rule condensed through one’s own mastery in a certain field can at most directly reach the application stage.

Yet, you directly integrated the newly acquired rule of death into your physical body. What’s more, you condensed the rule of fire in the completely unrelated environment of the ocean, and achieved complete mastery in one fell swoop!

This fully demonstrates that

In the past, you who found even practicing ninjutsu and awakening your eyes extremely difficult, have now grown into a supremely talented powerhouse!

The bloodline of the Ōtsutsuki clan is truly terrifying!

As the rule integration concluded,

The bones within your body transformed from their original metallic-lustered grayish-white to an inky black dotted with flecks of golden light.

And the Shikotsumyaku, too, grew during this process, gaining its own ultimate technique!

Although the physical improvement was not as significant as that of the Shikotsumyaku, the power of this rule also directly boosted your body’s adaptability to the Eight Gates Released Formation to the Seventh Gate, saving you a considerable amount of training time.

As your consciousness gradually awakened, you suddenly felt a premonition.

Your eyes involuntarily opened. It wasn’t the Byakugan stirring again, but rather the nascent divine artifact “Darkfang Yellow Springs,” which had long resided within them, experiencing an anomaly.

This power, once born from Yin Release, was now spontaneously combining with the power of the rule of death.

Following your instincts, you also infused the power of Shikotsumyaku into it. Before long, a short-handled scythe, made of the same material as the bones in your body but even harder, appeared in your hand.

Having gained the rule imprint and forged from your own bones, the divine artifact was officially formed at this moment!

With a thought, you activated Susanoo again. As you manipulated it, the weapon in your hand gradually grew, stopping only when it reached the same size as the kusarigama wrapped around Susanoo’s waist.

Then, the two astonishingly merged into one!

At the same time, a bloodline ninjutsu named “Soul Eater” appeared in your mind.

By merely throwing the kusarigama, you could utterly destroy the enemy’s soul, transforming it into power to strengthen this divine artifact, Susanoo, or even to reinforce your own soul!

And while possessing this power, the scythe also possessed the abilities of your Shikotsumyaku within your body. This means that once struck by this item, whether it be the physical body or the soul, even if one possessed Six Paths power, there would be no hope of recovery!

Even the qualification for Edo Tensei would be lost…

When you retracted Susanoo again, you could feel that “Darkfang Yellow Springs,” now a complete divine artifact, was no longer residing in your Sharingan. Instead, like Susanoo, it had transformed into a bloodline power, permeating your entire body…

At this point, you had achieved your goal of reviving the Shinigami and forming an alliance with him. The Shinigami returned to a secluded corner of the Pure Land, secretly recovering his former strength and awaiting your further breakthroughs.

As for you, you took the Yin Nine-Tails that the Shinigami had extracted from his body, activated the Flying Thunder God again, and returned to the Floating Island!