Douluo Dalu: The Legend of Heavenly Ruler
chapter-189

--- Chapter 188 ---

"You're Tenji..!"

"I won't mistake his soul with someone else." Kaguya coldly responded.

Yunlong shook his head slightly and gently spoke, "The only message Tenji wants me to say to you is... I'm sorry."

Kaguya glanced at Yunlong, and her Rinne Sharingan shone dimly with red light.

"Then, I'll take his chakra, his soul away... Everything shall become one with me again." Kaguya pointed her palm at Yunlong.

Kaguya swiftly gathered chakras in her palms and launched a sequence of countless fists in the air, which moved at incredible speed at Yunlong.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

Yunlong didn't move and casually received the incoming attack with enlarged white flowers. It absorbed not only shockwaves but also chakra from Kaguya's attacks.

Kaguya frowned and launched a hardened bone at Yunlong's flower, penetrating and disintegrating the white flower into a literal pile of ash.

Crack!

"Pierce." Yunlong naturally commanded.

A gigantic white sword fell at Kaguya, and she looked up with a slightly surprised expression. 'What's this power...?" She muttered silently.

"Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack."

Kaguya casually raised her other hand and launched consecutive energy fists at the incoming sword.

"Accelerate," Yunlong suddenly added, which caused the gigantic sword to gain a sudden acceleration.

The sword passed through Kaguya's defense and precisely cut through her left sleeve.

BOOM!

Kaguya slowly gazed at her sleeve and quietly commented, "...All that just for a cut of my sleeve?"

Yunlong appeared right in front of Kaguya and quickly thrust his finger at her heart. "Self Sword: Finger." He quickly imbued his finger with sword intent.

Bam!

Yunlong suddenly felt his body got swept over, and he immediately was launched away.

"Burst." Yunlong chanted and naturally landed on his foot.

BOOM!

Kaguya quickly leaped into the skies and saw the gigantic sword explode into a storm of white flower petals.

They stared at each other for a moment and continued to bombard each other with earth-devastating attacks.

Kaguya had observed Yunlong for quite a while, and each second, her eyes grew with more and more curiosity because this person wasn't Tenji she knew.

'There is not a slight of fear in his eyes. He's different. No, He's Tenji!' Kaguya shook her head lightly.

Kaguya briefly was convinced that Yunlong wasn't her husband's reincarnation.

Even if it was true, Kaguya didn't want to believe it because when she ate chakra fruit, the only thing she wanted was peace, and everything shall become one with her again, including her husband's soul.

Kaguya's eyes become cold, and she abruptly becomes more aggressive in attacking Yunlong, which surprisingly didn't even flinch him in the slightest.

"Freeze." Yunlong's calm voice echoed in Kaguya's ears.

Kaguya's entire body suddenly became slower, and she could felt an invisible yet unruly force bound her.

"This is time manipulation..?" Kaguya tried to force herself out, but Yunlong once again teleported himself in front of her.

"Cage," Yunlong commented.

White threads suddenly wrapped around Kaguya's body and bound her like a white cocoon, which only left her head out.

Kaguya furrowed her brow because Yunlong kept exceeding her expectation more and more, and not only that, but his power was also far more abnormal than a mere mortal.

Even Tenji wasn't as good as Yunlong because he had no extraordinary power, except for mastery over bow and sword.

"Don't tell me you also reached the power of God." Kaguya solemnly looked at Yunlong.

"No, I'm not there yet." Yunlong lightly answered, "I'm still a normal human."

Yunlong looked down at Kaguya, and she suddenly felt her soul being gazed at by a hungry predator.

'What's this feeling?' Kaguya thought and gradually noticed Yunlong's eyes shone with crimson light.

[Mortal Sin: Gluttony activated]

[It abruptly was aroused because of prey in front of you]

[An overwhelm hunger has awakened within you]

Yunlong grasped his head in confusion because Gluttony was suddenly excited for some reason.

He had never experienced this before, but it seemed Kaguya triggered Gluttony's excitement.

Yunlong felt a great hunger within his soul and looked at Kaguya like she was a piece of delicious meat.

Crack!

The ground under his foot suddenly cracked as spiritual pressure came out of his body. "What an annoying skill..." Yunlong coldly said.

"Gluttony? Did you think you could influence me?" He added while feeling his soul shaken a little. "Then you're wrong."

[Mortal Sin: Gluttony was displeased with your reaction]

[Gluttony didn't feel excited anymore...]

Yunlong released a sigh and looked at Kaguya again with a calm expression. "Follow me." He confidently said.

"Follow you...?" Kaguya was confused for a second.

"I know you cherished this world, but are you sure people in this world would appreciate you back?" Yunlong naturally stated.

"Just reflected what happened to you in the past. You probably would be sealed again." He casually continued, which caused both Kaguya and Black Zetsu to frown.

Yunlong gave his right hand and gently offered, "I'll give you freedom and peace."

"What do you mean by 'Peace and Freedom?' Tenji?" Kaguya bluntly asked while calling Yunlong 'Tenji', which is kinda weird for him.

"This world... You protected it from the other, but how long would it last?" Yunlong asked, which left Kaguya mute because she knew what he meant by the other.

Kaguya was not only a member of the Otsutsuki clan. In fact, she was only a low-level clansman who sadly intended to be a sacrifice for harvesting chakra fruit.

"I know you're worried, but if you follow me. In a few years. No, maybe a few months. I'll be able to grant you eternal peace." Yunlong confidently smiled because he had already planned to reach godhood in douluo's world.

"I... I don't want to. Because if you're Tenji, then your peace was flawed." Kaguya softly responded, which caused Yunlong's smile to become somewhat wry.

"Haa... How many times should I tell you that I wasn't him?" Yunlong slightly kneeled in front of her.

"I'm Yunlong." He continued while gazing into Kaguya's eyes.

Kaguya's mouth raised slightly and answered, "You're Tenji. No matter who you are in your next life, You're always Tenji."

Yunlong shook his head in defeat because Kaguya won't listen to him at all. "I'll show you something, do not resist." He said.

Yunlong's eyes became eternal mangekyou sharingan in a flash, and Kaguya looked at them peacefully.

"What are you doing with Mother!" Black Zetsu suddenly questioned.

Yunlong smirked and glanced at Black Zetsu. "Don't worry... I won't harm her. I only subtly changed her way of thinking."

Kaguya quickly was drawn into a realistic illusion world, which was literally a carbon copy of Douluo Dalu's continent.

"How peaceful..." Kaguya muttered while looking around.

Yunlong silently appeared behind her and commented, "I only showed you the peaceful side, but no matter the world you are in, there is always trash."

He suddenly showed Kaguya a fight between two groups, arguing about a rare spirit beast.

"They are fighting against each other with an intent to kill, just because of a rare beast," Yunlong said, to which Kaguya silently responded with a nod.

As they fought against each other, one group ended victoriously but at what price? Other people's lives?

"They are lawless because no one is guiding them. There is no absolute power in this world yet." Yunlong whispered into Kaguya's ears.

"They needed a ruler." He subtly mumbled into Kaguya's ears.

"Ruler..." Kaguya muttered.

Kaguya gradually moved her gaze to Yunlong and asked, "You want to become an absolute ruler of this world?"

"Yes. This world still has hope." Yunlong confidently smiled.

"Hope..." Kaguya mumbled with a soft tone.

Kaguya is slowly yet inevitably drawn into Yunlong's eternal mangekyou sharingan's abilities.

Kotoamatsukami literally means Distinguished Heavenly Gods, and with this technique, Yunlong slowly changed Kaguya's will without her realizing it, but he also added a powerful Hypnotism.

Kaguya, who wasn't even aware, had already listened to Yunlong's suggestion from the beginning to the end.

Fortunately, Yunlong didn't mean any harm to Kaguya because Tenji's soul seemed to influence him a little.

He only wanted her to change for her own good, and it is literally futile if she does what she already did in the past because such peace won't last long.

Kaguya knew that already, but her mind is persistent, which is why Yunlong desired her to view peace in a different way.

As they came back to reality, where Black Zetsu was baffled by the current situation, Kaguya slowly opened her eyes and closed her RinneSharingan.

"This world has lost its hope... I need a place with unspoiled hope. Can you bring me there?" Kaguya silently asked.

Yunlong smiled and answered, "Yes."