After Uchiha Hikari rushed to the battlefield at the research institute, Karin did not stay idle on her side. She immediately summoned Neji and Kimimaro, instructing them to guard Momoshiki in the temporary prison carefully.
Currently, Sasuke had been sent by Shinji to the 'Sage of Six Paths', and Yakumo and Haku were permanently stationed at the research institute, so only Karin, Hikari, Neji, Kimimaro, Ryuzetsu, and Chino were left in the flying fortress.
When fighting enemies of the Otsutsuki level, Neji, Kimimaro, Ryuzetsu, and Chino couldn't help much, so they did not easily sortie but remained guarding the flying fortress.
After instructing Neji and Kimimaro to be extra careful when guarding Momoshiki, Karin activated the space portal and rushed to the moon.
With Shinji absent, apart from Hikari, only Toneri on the moon was left in the team who could confront the Otsutsuki head-on. So she wanted to find out what exactly happened to Toneri and why there was no reaction from the moon when the shinobi world was already in a chaotic fight.
Arriving at the moon's core, Karin searched around but found no trace of Toneri.
"Could he be on the moon's surface?"
With a thought, she hurriedly rushed to the moon's surface, and there she finally found Toneri who was frozen in time and imprisoned.
"How could it be like this!"
Karin was greatly shocked and immediately tried to rescue Toneri.
However, she tried several methods in succession, but none could release the time freeze on Toneri.
She stopped, thinking to herself: "This should be some jutsu involving space-time, looking more like it focuses on the time domain. I don't have related dojutsu, I'm afraid it will be difficult to rescue Toneri for a while!"
After worrying secretly for a while, she suddenly remembered something, her expression changing drastically.
The Otsutsuki she dealt with did not display related abilities, so she suspected that the Otsutsuki who imprisoned Toneri should be at the research institute battlefield.
Thinking of this, she felt she must go back to warn Hikari, lest Hikari be plotted against by the opponent like Toneri.
Shinobi World.
Because the weakest strength of both sides in the battle was also at the Super Kage level, as time went on, the battlefield area continuously expanded, extending from a few mountain peaks to an entire mountain range.
The core battlefields were still two, one surrounding Urashiki Otsutsuki, and one surrounding Kinshiki Otsutsuki.
Fighting with Urashiki were Orochimaru and Yakumo.
Orochimaru, who activated the 'Shinjutsu Chakra Mode', was responsible for confronting Urashiki head-on, while Yakumo assisted from the side.
On paper, Orochimaru's strength might not be as good as Urashiki Otsutsuki who had achieved 'Kekkei Mora'. But in terms of tactics, experience, and even mentality, Orochimaru far surpassed this Otsutsuki who had a cynical personality and lacked experience in confronting strong opponents of the same level. So in the head-on confrontation, Orochimaru did not fall into a disadvantage at all, making Urashiki quite miserable.
Yakumo, responsible for assisting, looked solemn.
Possessing the 'Koryugan', her insight needed no further words. So from some details of the battle, she discovered that Orochimaru could actually gain an advantage.
In other words, Orochimaru, who was weaker on paper, was actually holding back a bit.
But Yakumo had no way to criticize anything. After all, when facing a strange Otsutsuki, using relatively conservative tactics wasn't wrong. Moreover, the main pressure of the battle was now on Orochimaru, so she couldn't criticize much.
Compared to the stalemate here, the situation on the other battlefield was much clearer.
Kinshiki Otsutsuki faced the siege of Daemon, Eida, and Haku. Although Eida was watching from the sidelines most of the time, just Daemon alone was enough for Kinshiki to handle, let alone Haku who held the Kusanagi Sword and mastered 'Sage Mode'.
Clang clang clang...
Amidst a burst of high-frequency metal clashing sounds, the speeding Kinshiki and Haku dragged out two afterimages, intertwining constantly among the mountains!
"Damn it!"
Kinshiki was very annoyed.
He didn't expect that in the mere shinobi world, there were natives who dared to cross swords with the Otsutsuki, and he didn't expect the natives here to be so strong!
Clang...
With another crisp sound, the giant chakra axe created by Kinshiki through 'weapons creation' was actually severed by the Kusanagi Sword in Haku's hand.
"This!?"
Kinshiki was stunned for a moment, his reaction half a beat slow.
Whoosh!
Haku naturally wouldn't waste such a good attack opportunity. Using the advantage that the Kusanagi Sword in his hand could extend and retract, he feinted, then turned and stabbed, hitting the scapula of Kinshiki's right hand holding the axe!
"Damn it..."
Kinshiki, hit by Haku's sword, was about to rage when he was hit by Daemon's flying kick. Before the roar in his throat could even come out, he was kicked flying.
"So true Otsutsuki are only at this level?"
Daemon grinned.
After exchanging a few rounds with Kinshiki, he relaxed because he found that Kinshiki was far less strong than he imagined.
Kicked into the mountain wall by Daemon, Kinshiki shattered the wall with a boom and flew out.
But just as he prepared to counterattack, he suddenly turned his head to look in the direction where Momoshiki was, seemingly sensing that Momoshiki's chakra in the distance suddenly weakened inexplicably.
"Lord Momoshiki!"
Kinshiki exclaimed, disregarding Daemon and Haku in front of him, turned around, and prepared to rush to Momoshiki's location.
Haku and Daemon obviously wouldn't let Kinshiki leave just like that. So seeing Kinshiki trying to escape, Haku was the first to rush up and intercept Kinshiki.
"Get out of my way!"
Enraged, Kinshiki directly activated 'God Speed', increasing his speed to the extreme in an instant, knocking back Haku with just one impact.
At this time, Daemon also arrived. Kinshiki created a giant axe again with 'weapons creation' and slashed backhanded at Daemon.
Whoosh!
The giant axe fell, but the one hit was not Daemon, but Kinshiki himself.
If not for activating the 'God Speed' state, where his defense also increased to the extreme with speed, just this axe would be enough to make his skin tear and flesh gape.
"Hahaha!"
Daemon did not pursue the advantage but laughed holding his belly.
Since being slapped in the face by Shinji, he had doubts about his 'Shinjutsu'. When facing Kinshiki, he was still somewhat apprehensive, after all, the opponent was a true Otsutsuki. Now seeing his 'Shinjutsu' effective on Kinshiki, he immediately became smug.
Taking an axe from himself, Kinshiki was stunned at first, then reacted, his expression changing drastically: "How is this possible!"
For the Otsutsuki clan, 'Shinjutsu' was not a secret, but something tangible, visible, and pursuable. So Kinshiki quickly realized that the move Daemon used just now was exactly the 'Shinjutsu' Momoshiki pursued.
Kinshiki asked in confusion: "What exactly did Isshiki do? Why would a lowly lowly creature like you master my clan's 'Shinjutsu'?"
Whoosh...
Just then, Haku attacked again, piercing Kinshiki's chest with a sword from behind.
After succeeding, Haku retreated sharply. Meanwhile, the ninja ambushing around swarmed forward upon seeing this, activating various ninjutsu and sealing techniques, engulfing Kinshiki.