Bó Yáng could never have imagined that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who had just been seeking his cooperation, would inexplicably attack him the next moment. His spiritual body, projected into the mental world, instantly appeared before Bó Yáng, and an iron-vice-like right hand directly gripped Bó Yáng's neck, slowly lifting him into the air.
At this moment, Bó Yáng realized that even a 'spiritual body' could feel suffocated...
He desperately tried to pry Isshiki's right hand off his neck with both hands, while his feet weakly kicked at Isshiki's body...
"Ant!"
Isshiki's heterochromatic eyes cautiously scrutinized Bó Yáng, observing his entire spiritual body, fearing he might have some kind of suicidal counterattack. But after waiting for a moment, he understood that the foreign spiritual body before him was truly just an ant that could be killed at will!
Upon realizing this fact, Isshiki instinctively believed that Bó Yáng was an ant with no threat to him, even though he was in his weakest state in life at that moment.
Although Isshiki didn't know why Bó Yáng, this foreign spiritual body, would suddenly appear within his body, he only needed to know that Bó Yáng posed no threat to him and was a weak existence that could be easily crushed.
Just an ant-like foreign spiritual body; annihilating him was merely a flick of a finger!
Thinking this, Isshiki increased the force in his hand, making Bó Yáng suffer even more, his limbs flailing wildly and kicking erratically...
"Die! Ant!"
Isshiki had no time to waste on Bó Yáng. He needed to deal with Bó Yáng immediately and then slowly recuperate within his host's body...
"No—!"
Bó Yáng felt Isshiki's killing intent, and he let out a hoarse, unwilling cry. He had just arrived in the world of Naruto; how could he die so easily!
An infinite desire for survival instantly surged within his heart, and his obsession grew wildly in his mind...
"Just the impotent barks of a weakling!"
Isshiki was clearly surprised that Bó Yáng's spiritual body could still persist and that his will to live was so strong, but this was as far as he would get!
Isshiki didn't want to waste too much time on Bó Yáng...
Thinking this, Isshiki applied more force with his right hand!
Crack!
A sound of a neck breaking echoed, and Bó Yáng's neck was snapped by Isshiki.
A spiritual body, even if its neck is twisted, or its heart pierced, or other methods of destroying the body are used, will still not die; it will only damage the spiritual body. Isshiki naturally knew this, so his right hand did not loosen its grip on Bó Yáng's neck...
"...Become fertilizer for my spiritual body!"
Isshiki spoke to Bó Yáng with a sinister grin, then his heterochromatic eyes stared intently at Bó Yáng. The ocular power targeting spiritual bodies instantly injected into Bó Yáng's spiritual body, causing his spiritual body to immediately begin to become ethereal, looking like colorful foam.
The next moment, Isshiki gently squeezed his right hand again, and Bó Yáng's spiritual body, like fragile foam, instantly shattered, turning into scattered spiritual fragments swirling around Isshiki.
Then, guided by Isshiki's spiritual body, these spiritual fragments swirling around him all poured into his spiritual body.
Just as Isshiki had said, he wanted to devour Bó Yáng's entire spiritual body to strengthen his own spiritual body...
In fact, in Isshiki's perception, Bó Yáng's spiritual body was very solid, and its strength was not inferior to his own. With such an excellent spiritual body as a supplement, Isshiki's spiritual body would certainly advance further, and he could then more easily ascend to a higher level...
"W-what's going on?"
Bó Yáng's spiritual fragments should have been systematically devoured and integrated by Isshiki's spiritual body, but an unexpected event occurred: those spiritual fragments that entered Isshiki's spiritual body were not absorbed immediately. Instead, they began to strangely converge and merge, and incredibly, they started to counter-devour him within his spiritual body!
"Even if I die, I'll drag you down with me!"
Bó Yáng's will was transmitted through the spiritual connection to Isshiki's mind, startling and enraging Isshiki!
He was startled that Bó Yáng, even with his spiritual body shattered, still had conscious remnants of his obsession!
He was enraged that an ant like Bó Yáng dared to challenge the dignity of his Ōtsutsuki clan!!!
"How can an ant devour an elephant?"
Isshiki, enraged, laughed instead. The ocular power from his eyes poured into his body without restraint, completely annihilating most of Bó Yáng's soul fragments, turning them into pure soul power that converged into Isshiki's spiritual body.
"Then I'll devour... and show you!"
Bó Yáng's will once again entered Isshiki's mind. His remaining soul fragments began to accelerate their fusion, and while fusing, they also devoured parts of Isshiki's spiritual body, like fighting to sustain oneself!
Isshiki believed that Bó Yáng could not possibly survive under his ocular power, so he was not afraid to engage in a tug-of-war of mutual spiritual body devouring with Bó Yáng. Initially, Isshiki indeed had the upper hand; eighty to ninety percent of Bó Yáng's spiritual fragments were basically annihilated, with only one or two tenths desperately resisting!
But as time went on, Bó Yáng, in his desperate situation, surprisingly managed to resist Isshiki's fatal ocular power with his astonishing will and obsession to survive, and began to counterattack.
Suddenly, the tables turned!
"Impossible!"
"This... No, impossible!"
After a long while, fear and dread arose within Isshiki's heart, because he discovered that Bó Yáng's spiritual body, which was fusing within him, seemed to have become immune to his ocular power. His ocular power landing on Bó Yáng felt like tickling, which made Isshiki even more unable to stop Bó Yáng from devouring his own spiritual body!
"Ōtsutsuki Isshiki... do you also fear death?"
Bó Yáng seemed to sense Isshiki's fear and dread, and he accelerated the fusion of his spiritual body and the devouring of Isshiki's spiritual body even more.
This scene made Isshiki feel even more despair, because if this continued, he would truly die!
"Wait! Wait..."
Isshiki was truly scared. He had not yet completed his ultimate evolution in the universe, had not yet become the 'God' of his dreams, and he... did not want to die yet!
Bó Yáng's spiritual body at this moment was not complete, and his consciousness was only supported by his will to survive. Therefore, facing Isshiki's plea for mercy, he completely ignored it, continuing to fuse and devour on his own.
In fact, even if Bó Yáng's spiritual body were complete and possessed normal thoughts and consciousness, he would certainly not spare Isshiki, as the surname Ōtsutsuki itself represented his true nature...
The farmer and the snake is not just a story!
The more Bó Yáng devoured, the faster his devouring speed became, which also meant that Isshiki's death countdown was getting shorter and shorter!
"No—!"
Finally, Isshiki let out an unwilling cry before his death, just like the words he had previously used to mock Bó Yáng. This sound was truly like 'the impotent barks of a weakling'.
How ridiculous.
How pathetic.
Who can truly define the relationship between the hunter and the hunted?
At the moment of Isshiki's death, it also signified that Bó Yáng had successfully devoured Isshiki's spiritual body and established a connection with the body outside in this mental world.
In other words, Bó Yáng had now officially replaced Isshiki, becoming the spiritual body of this Ōtsutsuki body, completing a 'feat' of 'a cuckoo occupying a magpie's nest'!