Uchiha Yuzuru dared to give Hidan his blood not because he was arrogant or reckless, but because he had absolute confidence that nothing would go wrong.
After all, the vitality of a Six Paths-level being had long since surpassed the limits of what ordinary people could understand.
In the original story, Six Paths Madara had half his body kicked away by Might Guy after he opened the Eight Gates, yet he could still move around perfectly fine.
To say nothing of an attack like Hidan's.
Even if Hidan slit open his own stomach and pulled out his entire heart, Yuzuru would not be in any mortal danger.
Moreover, the instant Hidan made his move, Yuzuru had already activated the power of "Sarutahiko no Mikoto" in his Rinnegan.
By constantly rewinding his own time, he kept his body maintained in the state it had been in before Hidan launched his attack.
With this double guarantee in place, Yuzuru had taken the initiative to hand his blood over to Hidan.
And the facts proved that his judgment had been correct.
Not only had Hidan failed to cause him any harm, Yuzuru had even taken the opportunity to control the so-called "Evil God."
"N-No way. That absolutely isn't Lord Evil God!"
After seeing the Evil God's true form with his own eyes, Hidan seemed to go mad. He swung his scythe and charged at Yuzuru once again.
Only, now that Yuzuru had already achieved his goal, he had no interest in continuing to play with Hidan.
He directly clapped his hands together. "Sage Art: Scorch Fire Release: Great Flame Annihilation!"
With the enhancement of senjutsu chakra, a Scorch Release fire dragon swallowed Hidan in one gulp.
Hidan did not even manage to let out a scream before he was reduced to dust by the terrifying heat and vanished without a trace.
After dealing with Hidan, Yuzuru turned his gaze toward the Evil God trapped inside the sealing barrier.
"Evil God, was it?"
"Next... it's time for us to have a proper chat."
After hearing Yuzuru's voice, the mass of black shadow let out a strange laugh. "Kekekekekeke... A mere human actually thinks he can negotiate with me. Do you even qualify?"
Only after the shadow finished laughing did it see the mocking look on Yuzuru's face.
"In that case..."
"I hope you can keep that mouth of yours just as hard in a little while."
After Yuzuru finished speaking, a Truth-Seeking Ball transformed into countless tiny spikes.
Immediately afterward, the spikes stabbed straight into the shadow.
"Ahhh!!!"
The Evil God instantly let out a roar and bellowed, "How dare you?!"
Yuzuru turned a deaf ear to it. He simply continued stabbing the shadow formed by the Evil God with the spikes at a steady rhythm.
The moment he saw the Evil God, he had already realized that the other party had no body at all. It was merely something similar to a soul.
An ordinary shinobi might have had no way to deal with it, but Truth-Seeking Balls could damage souls as well.
Moreover...
The pain of a damaged soul was countless times more intense than physical pain.
"I was wrong. I was wrong."
"Please, stop stabbing me."
Finally, after nearly two hours, the Evil God could no longer endure it and began begging for mercy.
Yuzuru snorted lightly. "That's all you can take? I was prepared to play with you for several days and nights."
"Don't... I really can't take it anymore."
"Hmph! Then hurry up and talk!"
After hearing Yuzuru's words, the Evil God froze for a moment, then roared, "What do you want me to say? Ask me something first!"
"Uh..." Only then did Yuzuru realize that he had only been focused on torturing the Evil God just now and had indeed not asked anything.
However, he naturally would not admit his mistake. He simply acted as though he had not heard it.
Yuzuru cleared his throat and said in a calm tone, "Tell me about your origins."
Seeing Yuzuru's indifferent attitude, the Evil God was furious but did not dare say anything. It could only swallow its anger and say, "I was once a cultivator."
Yuzuru's eyes lit up after hearing that.
Sure enough, just as he had thought, the people of the shinobi world had once possessed methods of cultivation!
He immediately asked impatiently, "If the shinobi world once had cultivators like you, why did all of you later vanish without a trace?"
The Evil God did not dare hide anything and could only tell the truth. "In truth, in the past, there were countless cultivators in the shinobi world."
"And not just humans. Other races also had their own cultivation inheritances."
"But later, two uninvited guests came to the shinobi world and planted a seed called the God Tree here."
"The nourishment that God Tree needed to grow was the natural energy of the shinobi world!"
"Seeing the natural energy drying up day by day, everyone wanted to destroy the God Tree. Unfortunately, the two guardians of the God Tree were far too powerful."
"Not only did we fail to destroy the God Tree, but the two of them set their sights on us instead."
"Under their assault, the cultivators of the shinobi world suffered disastrous casualties."
"Later, for some unknown reason, one of the guardians disappeared, leaving only a woman who ate the God Tree's fruit."
"That woman was the one later known as the Rabbit Goddess!"
At this point, the Evil God's voice was filled with hatred. "After eating the God Tree's fruit, that woman's power underwent another qualitative leap. She easily slaughtered every top cultivator of that era."
"My body was also destroyed by that woman."
"Only a small number of people managed to cling to life, but even they could only hide from place to place, no longer daring to openly appear in the shinobi world."
"After that, the natural energy in the shinobi world grew less and less, until it finally reached a state close to exhaustion."
"Combined with the powerful rise of Ninshū and the widespread use of chakra refinement methods, the inheritance of cultivators like us was severed."
"If not for the special nature of my cultivation method, which allowed me to maintain my soul by absorbing the life force of others, I probably would have died long ago."
After hearing the Evil God's account, Yuzuru suddenly understood.
So something like that had actually happened in the shinobi world before.
No wonder cultivation methods had been lost. The current density of natural energy in the shinobi world truly was insufficient to support cultivation.
"Then is the Death God the same as you?"
"What Death God?"
It had always operated within the Land of Hot Water and had never heard of any Death God in the shinobi world.
Seeing that the Evil God did not understand, Yuzuru briefly described the Death God's characteristics.
After hearing Yuzuru's description, the Evil God finally understood and directly shook its head. "No, we are different."
"I cultivated the physical body, using the vitality of the flesh to nourish and strengthen the soul. The one you are talking about should belong to a school that abandoned the body from the very beginning and specialized in cultivating the soul. It has survived until now by relying on soul power."
"Then why can you use the power of Yin Release?"
"Yin Release?" The Evil God thought for a moment, then said, "You mean spiritual power, right?"