Seeming to sense Ino's thoughts, the Supreme Kai's remnant soul said, "You've met Shin, right? I wasn't lying before; Shin is indeed the weakest among us. Perhaps you can tell that I currently only have about one ten-thousandth of my energy from my prime left, but even so, I can easily defeat you. I am a Supreme Kai; I prefer to handle conflicts peacefully. As long as you give up the rights to use your body for one hundred years, you can obtain unimaginable power and my friendship."
Ino thought for a moment. "What do you want to use my body for?"
The West Supreme Kai's remnant soul said, "The battle with the Majin made me understand one thing."
"What thing?"
"Power. Power is everything. Before absolute power, the so-called Supreme Gods of the Universe are just a joke. Don't refuse; even without physical contact, I can see through some of your thoughts. This is my ability. You agree with this statement, right?"
"...Let's say I agree for now."
The West Supreme Kai's remnant soul smiled. "Possessing absolute power, controlling this universe—only then can one truly be considered a Supreme God of the Universe. Are you willing to become my assistant?"
She extended a hand, her beautiful face full of appreciation, care, and encouragement. It seemed as if the moment Ino nodded and shook her hand, she would become the king of the world.
Ino twitched her lips. "Actually, I really don't want to work hard anymore. Finding an old auntie and then 'lying flat' seems pretty nice too. Training every day, I'm annoyed by it myself. I compete with them, and aren't they competing with me too? I don't have that high of an aptitude myself, nor do I have that much ambition..."
The West Supreme Kai's remnant soul felt these words were a bit grating, but she still maintained a basic smile.
Ino sighed. "It's a pity, a big shot doesn't allow it."
Facing the increasingly sharp gaze of the West Supreme Kai's remnant soul, she twirled the Hero's Sword in her hand with a flourish, signaling for the other party to look at the sword she held.
"This sword?" At first glance, she didn't see anything mysterious, but when the West Supreme Kai's remnant soul looked carefully, her face instantly turned deathly pale from fright.
"This is?! Could this be... is...?"
She stuttered "is" for a long time without saying the name. Ino, afraid this bluff would be punctured, could only say half-truthfully, "The Uncle Priest gave it to me. How about it? Are you scared?"
Her tone could be described as extremely rude, but the West Supreme Kai's remnant soul didn't feel it was impolite at all. Before that existence, Supreme Kais were just dregs, let alone her being just a wisp of a remnant soul of the original body. Strictly speaking, she couldn't even be counted as a Supreme Kai. A big shot of that high level could destroy her with a mere breath.
Her first feeling was that the water here was too deep; it might involve extremely high-level gaming, and she couldn't grasp it at all!
"...No, you are lying to me!" The ability belonging to the West Supreme Kai activated, and she saw a portion of Ino's thoughts.
She didn't see the specifics, but she could see that the opponent wasn't as confident as she appeared on the surface.
"This is the second time you have deceived a Supreme Kai!" The West Supreme Kai's remnant soul's tone suddenly became extremely gloomy. She transformed into a black light and instantly appeared in front of Ino. Her sleeve was like a sharp blade, slashing directly at her neck.
Too fast! Ino's battle power of 60,000 gave her almost no reaction time. She only managed to tilt her head slightly before her left arm and half her shoulder were cleanly sliced off by that seemingly soft sleeve.
"Fuck!" She screamed in pain.
She gritted her teeth and slashed out a sword strike with a backhand motion.
The West Supreme Kai's remnant soul was still quite wary of this Hero's Sword. Spreading her long robe, she floated out of attack range as if blown by a gust of wind.
"I told you, that little bit of strength of yours is worse than an ant before a Supreme Kai," the opponent said coldly.
Ino didn't make a sound, but inwardly she admitted this point.
Comparing with her 60,000 battle power, this West Supreme Kai's remnant soul likely still had a battle power of 400,000 or 500,000. And to think this was only one ten-thousandth of the opponent's strength in her prime... Supreme Kais were indeed terrifying.
Ino's eyes flashed. The severed arm floated in mid-air automatically and, with the healing of the chakra within her body, reconnected with her body.
"Recovery ability is not bad, but how many more heavy blows like that can you withstand?" the West Supreme Kai's remnant soul asked coldly.
The reattached left arm felt slightly uncomfortable. Ino placed the sword in her left hand and formed seals with her right hand. "Enough to deal with you."
The trump card originally prepared for the upcoming great battle was activated directly.
"Yang Seal, Release!"
As Tsunade's unique technique, Ino used this move very rarely, but every time she used it, it was when the situation was critical to the extreme.
From the battle with Kaguya Otsutsuki until now, she had accumulated energy for three whole years. Her chakra quality was much higher than Tsunade and the others, making the accumulation more arduous, but now that it was released in one go, the benefits obtained were also greater.
"I can do this all day. Conversely, as water without a source, your energy is the kind that decreases with every bit used, isn't it?"
"Arrogant!"
Ino clashed with the West Supreme Kai's remnant soul once again. The West Supreme Kai's remnant soul held the upper hand completely. Ino had to continuously use the energy from the Yang Seal to repair her body's injuries to keep the battle going.
The body could be repaired, but the spiritual drain was also immense. Getting her hands or feet cut off, or being bisected at the waist at the drop of a hat—her spiritual power was continuously consumed with every heavy injury.
A person's tolerance for pain has a limit; she was currently just toughing it out.
The West Supreme Kai's remnant soul's energy was also dropping rapidly. Now it just depended on who couldn't hold on first.
Relying on the energy accumulated by the Yang Seal, Ino briefly obtained an "infinite health cheat" ability. Maintaining Kaio-ken x4 for a long time, she risked trading injury for injury: You chop off my arm, I have to hack you with a sword too.
The West Supreme Kai's remnant soul's energy continued to drop. Originally at a battle power of 500,000, it quickly fell to 400,000. She attempted to flee, but Ino entangled the opponent endlessly. They even rushed out of the atmosphere twice, but in space, the West Supreme Kai's remnant soul's energy consumption was even faster, forcing her to return to the planet's interior.
Afterward, it was a vicious cycle. Ino "locked" her HP bar, not playing with any technique, just grinding it out!
The speed of energy decline within the West Supreme Kai's remnant soul accelerated—300,000, 200,000, 100,000—until finally, she was inferior to Ino.
"Die!" After the opponent's battle power dropped to 30,000, Ino stabbed through the Supreme Kai robe with one sword strike. Then, exerting force with both hands, she forcibly tore the garment in half down the middle. Feeling not reassured, she slashed out another sword strike horizontally.
Huff, huff, huff. Supporting her body with the sword, she checked twice. Only after confirming that there wasn't a trace of energy left inside the tattered clothes did she cancel the Kaio-ken and the Yang Seal, sitting on the ground with a thump, completely lacking any ladylike grace.
Afterward, feeling dizzy and seeing black before her eyes, she pitched forward and fainted.
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