"Ah..."
With all four limbs broken, Hidan was like a puddle of mud. He could only lie on the grass, continuously cursing and wailing.
"Submit to me, and I might mercifully spare your life." Ryun stood near his shoulder, looking down at him.
Hidan's face was ferocious. He opened his mouth wide and tried to bite Ryun's ankle.
Unfortunately, Ryun had long been guarding against this bite. He lifted his foot and then stepped down, easily pinning Hidan's head firmly under his foot.
"Bastard! How dare you step on my head! I will kill you! Wuwu..." Hidan's face was full of grief and indignation. He swore in his heart that he must kill the beast above him. The other party was simply too bullying!
"Boss, this guy is useless to keep... His strength isn't much, he just has an immortal body." Sasori of the Red Sand fanned the flames from the side, smiling as he watched Ryun freely trample the foul mouthed Hidan.
"The immortal body isn't important. His curse technique is what I need..." Ryun looked at the struggling figure under his foot and spoke calmly.
"I curse your grandfather! Quickly remove your foot from my head, you bastard, you damned pretty boy!" Hidan continued to stubbornly curse.
"Hmph, you really have no regard for your own life..."
Ryun snorted coldly and retracted his foot. Just as Hidan was about to triumphantly shout again, Ryun suddenly bent down and grabbed Hidan by the throat.
"Let me see what exactly is so mysterious about this so called Jashin Cult!"
As Ryun spoke, his eyes instantly transformed into the Three Tomoe Sharingan. His mental power forcefully invaded Hidan's brain through his eyes in the next moment.
"Hmm???"
Just as Ryun began searching Hidan's soul and reading his memories, a strange black shadow suddenly emerged from the depths of his memories and fiercely pounced on Ryun's mental avatar.
Ryun threw a punch at the black shadow's head. But to his surprise, although his fist directly hit and shattered the shadow's head, the remaining headless torso tightly wrapped around his body in the next moment.
The lower body of the black shadow was like a snake's tail, the midsection had robust muscles and a chest, and its hands had exceptionally sharp claws.
Even without its head, this monster still possessed great strength, momentarily causing Ryun's mental avatar to frown from the constriction.
However, with its ability, it was far from being Ryun's match. Ryun used his only free left hand to grab the monster's sharp claw and tore it off with a fierce pull, ripping the monster's arm off completely.
But before Ryun could fully break free, more black shadows suddenly emerged from the depths of Hidan's memories. Each shadow was identical, with blue faces and fangs, demon heads and snake bodies!
Over a dozen monsters, accompanied by billowing black energy, pounced on him again.
Ryun's mental avatar suddenly closed his eyes. When he opened them again, his right eye had abruptly transformed into a vortex pattern.
"Eternal Daylight!"
A majestic, dazzling sun suddenly rose within Hidan's mental space. Before the group of monsters could reach Ryun, they dissipated into nothingness under the illumination of the brilliant white light. Even the billowing black energy evaporated completely under the radiance of the majestic sun!
"Ah..."
Hidan suddenly let out a piercing scream that did not sound human. In the next moment, a trail of crimson bloody tears flowed from Ryun's Mangekyo Sharingan right eye.
"Hmm? Those monsters just now, were they not the source..."
After Ryun's ocular jutsu ended, the black energy that had been severely suppressed began to revive again. It was clear there was some great terror deep within Hidan's memories.
"The power of the Jashin... Forget it..."
Seeing the monsters with demon heads and snake bodies reappear, Ryun sighed helplessly and then decisively withdrew from Hidan's mental space.
In reality, Hidan was already unconscious, bleeding from all seven orifices. Ryun chose to retreat not because he feared those Jashin, but because Hidan's consciousness could not withstand his any further...
If he had used his ocular jutsu just one more time, Hidan in reality would definitely have died. Even with an immortal body, if his consciousness was completely destroyed, he would be equivalent to dead.
He truly could not access Hidan's memories, but he had the ability to destroy that mental space. However, doing so held no benefit for Ryun.
That Jashin with the demon head and snake body had planted a restriction in Hidan's mind. No one could read the secrets of the Jashin Cult. At most, one could forcibly erase Hidan's consciousness, resulting in the death of a loyal follower of the Jashin Cult.
"Is he dead?" Kakuzu asked in surprise.
"He won't die. His consciousness is just injured... He'll be unconscious for a while." Ryun replied calmly, then waved his hand, signaling Kakuzu to come over.
"Use your Jiongu to reattach his arms..."
'How does he know my Jiongu has the ability to stitch flesh together...' Kakuzu was inwardly shocked, but his expression remained unchanged as he nodded.
"Boss, what do we do next? Wait for him to wake up?" Sasori of the Red Sand asked while proactively controlling a cleaning puppet to clear the crimson bloodstains from the grass.
"You are free to act for now. Leave this guy in Otogakure for the time being... After I have completely subdued him, you can take him to the Akatsuki organization."
Ryun thought for a moment before making this decision.
"Alright, we'll stay in Amegakure for a few days then. After you deal with Hidan, we'll return to the Akatsuki organization..."
Kakuzu finished speaking and wanted to take Hidan and leave the Shadow Mansion, but the next moment Ryun suddenly stopped them.
"Wait a moment. First, go hide behind the house. Later, I want you to meet someone." A peculiar smile suddenly appeared on Ryun's face.
"Meet someone? Who?" Sasori of the Red Sand asked instinctively.
"A spy from the Akatsuki organization. Code name Souten. He has been embedded in our Otogakure for a long time now..."
"Akatsuki's Kisame!"
Sasori of the Red Sand and Kakuzu both showed a flash of surprise on their faces.
"Don't panic. He cannot access important information here, and he doesn't know your true identities." Ryun said with a smile.
"Hehe... I see. I'd like to see who has the gall to come to Otogakure as a spy." The two of them smiled somewhat sinisterly for a moment.
"He's here. Hide your presence well..."
"Yes!"
One minute later, exactly as Ryun predicted, Kisame Hoshigaki knocked on the door of the Shadow Mansion.
"Come in..."
"Lord Shadow..." Kisame Hoshigaki knelt on one knee, his head lowered.
"Kisame... What brings you here?"
Ryun lay on a rocking chair in the garden, rocking gently up and down with a look of contentment. He did not even open his eyes to look at Kisame Hoshigaki.
"Lord Shadow, I wish to go to the Land of Rain to participate in the war. Please give me a chance to prove my loyalty unto death..."
Because his identity as a spy had been exposed, staying in Otogakure meant he couldn't access any important intelligence. Obito Uchiha over there was already starting to express some dissatisfaction with him...
Rather than staying in the village doing only dirty and hard work, it would be better to go to the battlefield. Perhaps he could better utilize his role as a spy there.
He had performed many life risking S rank missions for Otogakure, but damn it, Ryun Uchiha hadn't even given him a single ninja sword. The key issue was that this damned Otogakure even withheld his mission payments. This made Kisame Hoshigaki feel very aggrieved and found it utterly ridiculous...
Isn't this just bullying an honest man?
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