Rumble...
A huge roar resounded through the heavens and earth. Along with the sound wave was the sky-filling smoke and dust, and the dazzling golden light that even the smoke and dust could hardly obscure!
The great war breaking out again pushed the Six Rings World to the brink of collapse once more.
This battle was more intense than before. If the first invasion was partly a probe by the Plague Hegemon, then this second invasion undoubtedly utilized all the power the Plague Hegemon could currently use.
The reason Shinji was so certain was that if the Plague Hegemon hadn't expended much power, the Reproductive Hegemon, who had suffered losses at the hands of the Plague Hegemon before, wouldn't have actively come to challenge.
So the current situation was that part of the Plague Hegemon's power confronted Shinji within the spatial barrier, while the main body confronted the Reproductive Hegemon in the universe.
This was also the perfect realization of Shinji's plan!
The smoke and dust dissipated, revealing the Balrog's severed body.
Under 'Divine Sovereign Mode', the power of 'Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion' had long surpassed the ordinary physical level and touched upon the conceptual level. So while the Balrog might resurrect continuously, every time it was severed by 'Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion', a part of its body would permanently disappear. Thus, after several rounds of great battles, although the Balrog was still resurrecting, it had become a whole circle smaller due to body loss.
Roar...
The Balrog roared again, the grayish-white mist lingering on its body churning endlessly, revealing the Plague Hegemon's anger.
"Heh!"
Shinji chuckled lightly.
Just drag it out. Anyway, he was going all out. With 'Divine Sovereign Mode' superimposed with 'Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion', as long as it was within the spatial barrier, he could almost annihilate anything that refused to submit.
Even the Balrog, possessed by countless grayish-white mists with its aura risen to the limit, couldn't block Shinji's single sword strike.
Rumbling sounds still faintly came from the firmament.
Shinji looked up and glanced, thinking to himself: "Fight, fight! Best if both suffer heavy losses, no, best if both perish together!"
Although he knew it was very unrealistic for two Hegemons to perish together, he couldn't help but think so.
The Balrog possessed by the Plague Hegemon also made a looking-up gesture at this time, seeming to pay attention to the fierce battle in the universe outside the spatial barrier just like Shinji.
Subsequently, it stared at Shinji, then kicked violently. Its huge body shot up like a rocket, straight into the clouds.
"This is..." Pausing, Shinji's expression changed drastically: "Not good, it's going to flee!"
The Balrog possessed by the Plague Hegemon suddenly made such a move, indicating both that it couldn't do anything to Shinji and that the battle in the universe had fallen into a stalemate. The Plague Hegemon might even have fallen into a disadvantage, so it wanted to return to the universe to support the main body.
The more so, naturally, the more Shinji couldn't let it succeed.
Thus, while Shinji flashed and turned into a rainbow light to chase, he said to Hikari via 'Naobi': "Quick, block the space!"
Hearing this, Hikari didn't ask for the reason and directly turned to Shion beside her: "Shion, I need to use your magic barrier to release dojutsu!"
"Ah!? Oh oh!"
Shion reacted hurriedly and included Hikari in the magic barrier.
Because Shion cultivated both magic power and chakra, she was equivalent to a universal interface; both magic power and chakra could connect.
After connecting to the magic barrier, Hikari dared not delay and immediately activated her dojutsu 'Ama-no-Iwato' (Heavenly Rock Cave) which could imprison space.
Instantly, the imprisoning power of 'Ama-no-Iwato' spread throughout the entire Six Rings World along the magic barrier built by the six Supreme Mages.
On Shinji's side.
The Balrog possessed by the Plague Hegemon darted into the clouds in the blink of an eye. However, just as it prepared to break the spatial barrier and escape back to the universe, Shinji, chasing closely, immediately activated 'Goshingu', stopping the flow of time around the possessed Balrog.
However, firstly, Shinji's chakra reserve was too small. Secondly, the Balrog possessed by the Plague Hegemon had a status comparable to a Hegemon, so the consumption to imprison it was immense.
Therefore, the 'Goshingu' that Shinji used with ease only imprisoned the possessed Balrog for seven or eight seconds.
Seven or eight seconds passed in a flash. The Balrog, having broken free from imprisonment, glared at Shinji with hatred, turned around, and prepared to tear the spatial barrier to escape the Six Rings World.
But at this time, Hikari had successfully activated 'Ama-no-Iwato' and spread it to the entire Six Rings World with the help of the magic barrier. So under one strike of the Balrog possessed by the Plague Hegemon, it actually failed to tear open the spatial barrier.
Swish...
While the Plague Hegemon was astonished, Shinji arrived. The 'Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion' in his hand slashed down, cutting the Balrog possessed by the Plague Hegemon into two again!
Seeing that it was about to fall to the ground with the severed Balrog, the grayish-white mist possessing the Balrog surged out, abandoning the 'Six Paths Level' host Balrog, and slammed into the spatial barrier again, attempting to escape back to the universe.
However, the grayish-white mist hit the wall again.
The spatial barrier reinforced by Hikari's 'Ama-no-Iwato' was incredibly sturdy, bouncing back the grayish-white mist attempting to escape back to the universe.
Shinji chased up, and the golden sword slashed down again!
Only this time, without the protection of the 'Six Paths Level' shell Balrog, although the grayish-white mist was incomparably huge, it couldn't block Shinji's 'Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion' and was instantly annihilated by one-third.
The remaining grayish-white mist let out bursts of surging roars. The Plague Hegemon's anger was no longer concealed.
"Yelling?! Yelling also counts time!"
While chuckling lightly, Shinji activated 'Bansho Ten'in', bundling the remaining grayish-white mist into a ball.
From the Plague Hegemon's flustered and exasperated attitude, he was certain the great battle in the universe must be extremely tragic.
In terms of scale and magnitude, the great battle erupting within the Six Rings World obviously couldn't compare with the battle of two true Hegemons in the universe. But because Shinji's tactic was perfectly realized, the battle within the Six Rings World instead became the key determining who won and who lost between the two Hegemons in the universe!
Precisely because of this, Shinji didn't continue swinging his sword to annihilate all the grayish-white mist.
Because even if he annihilated all the power invaded by the Plague Hegemon, he couldn't truly eliminate the Plague Hegemon, but would only benefit the Reproductive Hegemon. But the Reproductive Hegemon wasn't a true ally; it was also a target Shinji needed to strike.
So after binding the grayish-white mist preparing to continue fleeing with 'Bansho Ten'in', Shinji clasped his hands together and activated 'Chibaku Tensei', sealing all the remaining two-thirds of the grayish-white mist with 'Chibaku Tensei'.
And just as Shinji was sealing the grayish-white mist, the giant black snake, also wanting to escape the Six Rings World, fiercely pounced towards the Mage Tower where Hikari and Shion were located after realizing it was Hikari imprisoning the spatial barrier...