Chapter 394: A Brand-New Realm
Àoshiki's words made Uchiha Dali's movements pause for a brief moment.
That slight hesitation gave Àoshiki a false sense of hope. Thinking he had a chance to live, he looked at Uchiha Dali with desperate anticipation and continued to beg, "How about this? If you're willing to let me go, I can work with you. I'll help you eliminate the rest of the Ōtsutsuki clan!"
"I can even help you wipe out both factions—the Celestial God and the Àoshiki camps!"
"As long as you spare me!"
He still hadn't realized that Uchiha Dali had already decided to kill him.
Even now, he was foolishly hoping to negotiate.
Uchiha Dali let out a cold chuckle. "One of the things I hate most is when people try to bargain with me."
"What qualifications do you think you have?"
"Uchiha Dali!!"
Àoshiki cried out in terror.
He could feel the energy in his body rapidly draining away.
Uchiha Dali's face remained expressionless. He didn't hold back at all.
In just moments, Àoshiki's body began to shrivel at a visible rate. Before long, a strangely shaped chakra fruit began forming in front of him—its warped shape resembled a deformed pumpkin.
Endless energy streamed into the fruit as Àoshiki's life force and chakra steadily declined.
Moments later, all of his energy was gone.
Barely clinging to life, Àoshiki looked weakly at Uchiha Dali and murmured, "Uchiha… Dali…"
"Kill me… and you'll… regret it…"
"Mm."
Uchiha Dali gave a slight squeeze, and the last trace of Àoshiki's energy was drained away. The once-proud Àoshiki was completely obliterated—vanishing into cosmic dust.
Uchiha Dali reached out and touched the chakra fruit floating before him.
The immense power within it instantly poured into his body.
Within moments, he had fully absorbed and claimed it as his own.
At that instant, a system prompt sounded in his mind:
[Ding! Your chakra energy has exceeded safe limits—body entering overload state!]
[Your body is undergoing spontaneous evolution under overload! Your cells are transcending! Your flesh is transcending!]
[Your chakra capacity has increased ten thousandfold! Your cells have evolved into divine-grade cells! Your physique has advanced to divine-grade!]
[Your chakra recovery rate has increased ten thousandfold!]
[...]
A series of notifications echoed in his mind, even making Uchiha Dali himself a little surprised.
And this was only the beginning.
As he fully absorbed and refined Àoshiki's power, more and more prompts continued to appear.
Not only had his physique, chakra reserves, and recovery rate grown dramatically—every single one of his abilities was strengthened individually.
For example, his Observation Haki had evolved to such an extreme that his perception range became terrifyingly vast.
At this point, he could clearly sense even the faintest movement in galaxies far, far away.
Amidst this surge of perception, Uchiha Dali suddenly realized that his clone at Marineford had completed its training.
It had become a fully independent, permanent duplicate.
That meant his true body no longer needed to remain in this world.
He could now move on to higher dimensions—
—or explore the entire universe freely.
"This vast and boundless dimension… I can finally explore it without restraint."
A cold smile appeared on Uchiha Dali's face. In an instant, he split off ten more clones.
The ten clones surrounded him, awaiting orders.
Uchiha Dali said to them, "There are still other Ōtsutsuki nearby. Go deal with them."
"In adversity and desperation, you'll grow rapidly. In time, you'll become permanent existences. So make the most of this opportunity—temper yourselves well."
"Understood."
Without another word, the ten clones dispersed in all directions, quickly vanishing into the void.
Uchiha Dali then turned his gaze toward Kyōshiki, who was still bound and unable to move.
Kyōshiki had witnessed his own brother's death with his own eyes.
When he saw Uchiha Dali look his way, his pupils contracted sharply.
Still, he said nothing.
Uchiha Dali floated over to him.
When he finally stopped before him, Kyōshiki said quietly, "I have nothing more to say. Just make it quick."
"Oh, fine."
Uchiha Dali certainly wouldn't refuse such a request.
He raised his hand and directly activated the Devour and Refine Technique.
The energy within Kyōshiki's body rapidly condensed into a chakra fruit.
His energy level was about the same as Àoshiki's—
—and the resulting chakra fruit was equally terrifying.
As Kyōshiki's body slowly withered, about to turn to dust, Uchiha Dali asked curiously, "Do you have any last wishes?"
Kyōshiki thought for a moment and answered, "Our Kāma marks will enter your body along with our energy, though they've lost our consciousness."
"One day… I hope you'll reach that realm we never could…"
"The realm of a true god…"
When he finished speaking, Kyōshiki's body turned to ashes, scattering into the void with a faint breeze.
"Alright."
Watching the dust fade into the endless expanse of space, Uchiha Dali nodded.
That realm—he would reach it.
Pulling himself together, he began absorbing the energy within Kyōshiki's chakra fruit.
In moments, all of it had been refined into his own strength.
At the same time, a new series of notifications echoed in his mind—signaling yet another round of enhancements to his chakra, abilities, and physique.
He was used to it by now.
At this point, Uchiha Dali no longer knew how strong he had become.
He only knew that countless new abilities had appeared in his mind.
With a single thought, he could now open a super-spatial surveillance field, observing everything across hundreds of thousands of light-years.
With another thought, he could teleport across tens or even hundreds of light-years—consuming only a fraction, perhaps one-thousandth or even one-ten-thousandth, of his energy.
As for perception—his sensory abilities had long since surpassed imagination.
With a single scan, Uchiha Dali could perceive everything within a five-hundred-light-year radius.
He knew exactly which star systems held life and which planets had Ōtsutsuki activity.
And now, Uchiha Dali had gained another terrifying ability—
he no longer needed to move his body at all. With just a single thought, his divine consciousness could leave his physical form and roam freely across the boundless realms.