"It's you!" Beside the Giant Artificial Tenseigan, Kenichi Otsutsuki pushed his Byakugan's power to its absolute limit. A potent suction force began to emanate continuously from the colossal eye. It was relentlessly absorbing Kenichi Otsutsuki's life force.
The Giant Tenseigan's power was simply too immense. For an Otsutsuki clan member without a Tenseigan of their own to wield it, the only way was to pay with their life. This was the primary reason the Otsutsuki clan on the Moon so rarely utilized this terrifying weapon. If not for this dire limitation, the Otsutsuki faction on the Moon, those who advocated for the utter destruction of the ninja world, would likely have initiated their catastrophic plan long ago, relying solely on the Tenseigan's might.
Drawing upon the Giant Tenseigan's power, Kenichi Otsutsuki quickly sensed the approaching Tatsuya. A savage expression contorted his features as he began to manipulate the Tenseigan, intending to launch an attack. Yellow light rapidly converged upon the surface of the giant eye. Then, a searing beam of yellow light burst through the palace doors, shooting straight towards the distant Tatsuya.
Not good! Tatsuya, still en route, saw the attack coming and his expression changed drastically. He had no time for deliberation; his body flickered and vanished from his spot. It was the Flying Thunder God Technique!
BOOM!
The pillar of yellow light, carrying an irresistible, crushing pressure, directly obliterated a corner of one of the floating palaces, reducing it to nothingness. From the edge of the shattered palace section, Tatsuya watched this, his expression darkening. Turning his head, he saw another yellow beam already gathering in the palace where Kenichi lurked.
Seeing this, Tatsuya instantly produced dozens of kunai, hurling them out in all directions. After all the kunai had been dispersed, he once again shot towards the palace housing the Giant Tenseigan at extreme speed.
"Is this a space-time ninjutsu?" With the enhancement of the Giant Tenseigan's ocular power, Kenichi Otsutsuki's sensory abilities had also been pushed to their peak. He instantly discerned the nature of Tatsuya's Flying Thunder God Technique. Kenichi's face was grim. His opponent possessed such elusive ninjutsu; no matter how powerful the Giant Tenseigan's attacks were, actually harming him would be incredibly difficult.
After glancing towards the depths of the palace where Toneri Otsutsuki was located, a look of desperate resolve settled on Kenichi's face. Over there, he had already sensed Jizo's presence. He couldn't drag this out any longer! With this grim thought, Kenichi Otsutsuki once again pushed the Giant Tenseigan's ocular power to its absolute, life-draining limit.
In an instant, the Giant Tenseigan erupted with an even more dazzling, blinding yellow light.
At that exact moment, Tatsuya, who was rapidly advancing using the Body Flicker Technique, suddenly felt his body seize up. An overwhelmingly powerful suction force instantly immobilized him, then began dragging his body at an alarming speed towards the Giant Tenseigan. Tatsuya strained in mid-air, trying to move. He couldn't break free!
This suction force, unleashed by Kenichi Otsutsuki through the Giant Tenseigan, was far stronger than the Bansho Ten'in Tendo Pain had employed in their past encounter. Of course, part of that difference was because Pain hadn't been using his full power at the time. Against this immense attractive force, even with Tatsuya's current peak physical condition, augmented by Sage Mode, he couldn't wrench himself free directly. Moreover, the Flying Thunder God Technique had also become ineffective, its activation nullified by the intense gravitational energies.
"Die!" Beside the Giant Tenseigan, Kenichi Otsutsuki's body was visibly shriveling, his form rapidly withering as if he'd aged to his seventies or eighties in mere moments, teetering on the verge of death. He parted his cracked, dry lips and roared in a hoarse, desperate voice.
While the Giant Tenseigan emitted the gravitational force to lock Tatsuya in place, an even more potent, concentrated yellow beam began to gather once more.
BOOM!
Then, the beam of concentrated destruction erupted again, blasting towards the helpless Tatsuya at incredible speed. This time, it seemed Tatsuya had no way to avoid it.
Down on the ground of the Moon's inner world, Kagutsuchi and Suijin, who were still locked in battle with countless puppets, simultaneously looked up at the sky, a profound worry etched in their eyes.
In the sky above, a flash of yellow light streaked past, too fast to follow.
RUMBLE! CRACK-BOOM!
Following that, a series of deafening explosions thundered across the heavens. The sound shook the very firmament, as if the sky itself were collapsing. The blinding light of the explosion slowly dissipated, and Tatsuya's figure reappeared, completely unharmed.
In front of Tatsuya, four of his clones, each enlarged several times their normal size, were disintegrating into countless motes of dust, vanishing into the air. Each clone was positioned dozens of meters apart from the others. At the critical moment, they had directly interposed themselves in front of Tatsuya, shielding him from the fatal blow. These clones had been summoned by Tatsuya when he first discovered the Giant Tenseigan, but they had remained hidden, on standby, ready to attack Kenichi Otsutsuki at any given moment.
Watching the four clones turn to dust and annihilate, Tatsuya's expression became exceedingly grim. He no longer concealed his strength. The seal on the Dragon Vein within him instantly shattered, and a vast, overwhelming torrent of Dragon Vein energy began to pour out of him endlessly.
WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH!
The immense Dragon Vein energy rapidly solidified outside Tatsuya's body, emitting a sound like a mighty, rushing river. This energy gradually coalesced, and a colossal, blue-purple figure—a titanic energy avatar—began to take shape in the skies of the Moon's inner world.
"What is that?! Such terrifying chakra levels!" Down on the ground, Guren froze, her hands falling to her sides. She stared, dumbfounded, at the energy giant stretching its colossal form in the sky, her face a mask of utter disbelief. She had never heard of, let alone witnessed, such a terrifying manifestation of power.
"To think he's been pushed this far..." Kagutsuchi and Suijin's faces were also filled with grave concern.
"Impossible! This is impossible!" Beside the Giant Tenseigan, sensing Tatsuya's undiminished presence and the cataclysmic energy fluctuations erupting from him, Kenichi Otsutsuki's aged face twisted in utter disbelief. His voice, laced with bitter unwillingness, rose in a crazed, despairing roar. While roaring, he continued to forcefully push the Giant Tenseigan, channeling every last spark of his fading life.
This time, Kenichi Otsutsuki no longer possessed the strength to first use the Giant Tenseigan's gravitational pull to restrain Tatsuya; he could only muster his final, desperate dregs of energy for one last, defiant attack. The yellow beam gathered once more. BOOM! It shot towards Tatsuya with all the force Kenichi could impart.
Opposite him, the blue-purple Dragon Vein Avatar had also fully formed. Meeting the oncoming yellow beam, the colossal energy giant pushed out with both hands.
RUMBLE! SCREEEEEECH!
The sound of space itself tearing apart instantly rang out as violent spatial fluctuations and an immeasurable wave of force violently collided with the Tenseigan's final blast. In the sky, a gaping spatial fissure, dozens of meters in length, abruptly appeared. The roar of cataclysmic explosions and the shriek of tearing space sounded simultaneously, a symphony of destruction.
Under the effect of this terrifying spatial tremor, dozens of nearby floating palace clusters began to sway violently like fragile boats tossed in a raging storm; several even smashed into each other with devastating force. The very surface of the Moon above the dome was also directly torn open by the spatial rift, creating a huge, jagged gash. As if the heavens themselves had cracked open, those within the inner world could now directly see the cold, indifferent starry cosmos beyond the Moon through this terrifying opening.
This horrifying, apocalyptic scene left both Kenichi Otsutsuki and Guren utterly stupefied.
Kenichi Otsutsuki, his face etched with profound, unyielding unwillingness, slowly collapsed. The previous attacks had utterly drained him of all his life force.
The Otsutsuki clan... was finished.