Chapter 319: The Dust Settles
The aura exuded by Uchiha Douhuan's Yin Sage Mode, that terrifying pressure from the origin of the world, brought the entire battlefield to a standstill. Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's cold Byakugan for the first time showed extreme gravity, while Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's pure white eyes were filled with a mixture of shock, anger, and a trace of indescribable fear—she sensed something from that power that was enough to truly threaten or even surpass her essence.
"There's no time to play this boring tug-of-war with you," Uchiha Douhuan's voice sounded unhurriedly. "Naruto, Sasuke, Neji."
"Here!" The three of them immediately braced up, looking at the figure in the sky who was like a god or a demon.
At this moment, their teacher gave them an unprecedented sense of confidence.
"Kaguya is yours," Uchiha Douhuan gave the order directly, as if he were a Jonin instructor commanding newly graduated genin. "You have already seen her abilities. The core of the Infinite Tsukuyomi is her. Seal her, and this jutsu can be undone. The three of you, cooperate, find an opportunity, and use Planetary Devastation! Seal her."
"Understood!" the three replied in unison, their eyes instantly becoming incomparably firm.
"As for you, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki," Uchiha Douhuan's gaze turned to Isshiki, and a cold killing intent flashed in those dark, star-like Rinnegan. "Your Karma can no longer be used, right? Then leave your life here."
"Arrogant!" Ōtsutsuki Isshiki laughed in extreme anger. "Even if you have mastered a little bit of Yin-Yang Release, you dare to speak so wildly in front of me? Sukunahikona!" He instantly activated his dōjutsu. Countless giant black cubes appeared out of thin air, pressing down on Uchiha Douhuan from all directions. At the same time, he himself also turned into particles, preparing for an ultra-high-speed surprise attack!
"Your battlefield is not here," facing this attack that was powerful enough to crush mountain ranges, Uchiha Douhuan just indifferently raised one hand.
"Yin Sage Art: Realm Severance!"
Weng—!
In front of his palm, natural energy, in an unprecedented way, rapidly gathered and wove, directly creating an invisible, yet real, spatial fault barrier between the space he and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki were in, and the space where Naruto's trio and Ōtsutsuki Kaguya were!
Uchiha Douhuan had directly modified the local spatial rules, "splitting" them apart!
RUMBLE—!!!
All the black cubes released by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, as well as his own surprise attack, all slammed hard into this invisible barrier, erupting in a deafening roar, yet they were unable to shake it in the slightest! On this side of the barrier, energy raged and space distorted. But on the other side of the barrier, the battlefield of Naruto's trio and Kaguya instantly became "quiet," as if they had been isolated in another world!
"What?!" Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was forced to reveal his form, his face showing a look of horror for the first time! This method of directly modifying the rules of space had already surpassed his understanding of "jutsu"!
"Now, it's quiet," Uchiha Douhuan took a step forward, instantly passing through the barrier he had set up, and appeared in front of Isshiki. The long sword created from nothingness in his hand stabbed straight at Isshiki's face! "Your opponent is only me."
The battle instantly entered a white-hot stage!
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki completely put away all his contempt. With no way to revive using Karma, and no way out, he regarded Uchiha Douhuan as a life-and-death enemy that he had to fight with all his strength!
"Daikokuten!" he roared. A huge interdimensional gate opened behind him, and countless pre-sealed giant rocks, weapons, and even shrunken mountain ranges poured out like a destructive flood, smashing towards Douhuan!
"A futile attack," Douhuan's eyes did not change. The long sword in his hand swung casually. One after another, fine black threads cut through space. All objects that came into contact with the black threads, regardless of size or material, instantly turned into the most primitive particles and dissipated, without even being able to produce an explosion. "Is your power only to this extent?"
Isshiki's face was ashen. His figure flickered continuously, using "Sukunahikona" to shrink and enlarge himself and objects, carrying out ultra-high-speed, ghostly surprise attacks. Sometimes he would appear above Douhuan's head, stomping down; sometimes he would appear at his side, a black rod thrusting out; sometimes he would instantly shrink a giant cube and then enlarge it in front of him, trying to crush him with the spatial difference.
However, in front of Douhuan, who had activated Yin Sage Mode, all this seemed futile.
His Rinne Sharingan seemed to be able to see through all changes. His long sword could always block or cut off Isshiki's attacks at the most exquisite angles. He didn't even need to deliberately defend. With a thought, the natural energy around his body would automatically gather, forming an invisible barrier that would neutralize Isshiki's sneak attacks.
"Do you only know how to hide like a rat? Just like you did in the ninja world all these years?" Douhuan's voice carried a trace of mockery. He seemed to be adapting to the power of his new mode and did not immediately go for the kill.
"Bastard!" Isshiki was completely enraged. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?
The enraged Ōtsutsuki Isshiki condensed a huge black energy rod in his hand. His body spun at high speed, bringing up a terrifying chakra tornado, and pierced towards Douhuan like a drill! This blow condensed his vast chakra and dōjutsu, its power extremely terrifying!
"Now this is a little more interesting," Douhuan finally got a little more serious. He did not dodge, but held the long sword vertically in front of him.
"Yin Sage Art: Annihilation Ring."
With the tip of the Ame no Numahoko as the center, a rapidly rotating, gray-black energy ring instantly expanded! This ring did not have any powerful energy fluctuations, but instead exuded an aura of absolute "nothingness" and "stillness."
Isshiki's violent tornado drill, the moment it came into contact with the annihilation ring, was as if it had hit the end of the universe! The chakra, energy, and even the will that Isshiki had poured into it, were all silently swallowed, annihilated, and turned into nothingness by that gray-black ring!
"What?!" Isshiki was horrified. He wanted to retreat but it was already too late! The annihilation ring expanded rapidly, on the verge of swallowing him!
"Sukunahikona!" He desperately pushed his dōjutsu, trying to shrink himself to the extreme to escape!
"It's useless," Douhuan's cold voice sounded. "In my domain, the rules of time and space are defined by me."
Weng! The space around Isshiki was instantly and completely locked. Not even a particle could pass through! His body, which had shrunk by half, was forcefully stuck, frozen in mid-air!
"It's over," Uchiha Douhuan's figure appeared in front of Isshiki like a ghost, the tip of his sword aimed at the unique horn on Isshiki's forehead—there, he had sensed, was Isshiki's true core!
"No—!!!" Isshiki let out a desperate and unwilling roar, trying to make a final struggle.
But the long sword did not pause in the slightest. It easily pierced through the defense he had hastily condensed and accurately sank into his core!
"Ugh...!" Isshiki's body suddenly stiffened, his eyes wide and round, filled with disbelief. He could feel an extremely terrifying Yin-Yang Release power, containing the two extreme forces of creation and annihilation, frantically pouring into his core through the long sword in the other's hand!
"Your core, your knowledge, your understanding of space... I'll take them," Uchiha Douhuan said indifferently. The gray-white light on the Ame no Numahoko flared up.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's body began to turn transparent and dissipate at a speed visible to the naked eye. All his power, all his memories, all his existence, were being forcibly extracted and decomposed by Uchiha Douhuan, turning into the purest nourishment, merging into Uchiha Douhuan's Yin Sage Mode, and becoming another cornerstone for him to understand the origin of the world and perfect his own power.
In just a few short breaths, the invincible Ōtsutsuki Isshiki completely dissipated between heaven and earth, without even leaving a trace behind.
Uchiha Douhuan slowly withdrew his sword, feeling the power in his body that had grown a bit stronger and had a deeper understanding of the rules of space. His gaze turned to the barrier that separated the battlefield.
"Then, the other side should also be over."
While Douhuan and Isshiki were in a fierce battle, the battle on the other side was equally intense.
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, who had been split off alone, first felt a flash of relief upon seeing Isshiki being taken away, and then was replaced by an even greater anger and humiliation—she was actually left behind as "prey" for these juniors!
"You... all deserve to die!" Kaguya shrieked, and her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack smashed down on the three like a violent storm!
"Sasuke!" Naruto roared. His whole body's golden chakra boiled, and his nine Truth-Seeking Orbs formed a shield at the very front!
"I can see them!" Sasuke's Rinnegan spun frantically, accurately predicting the trajectory of every punch. "Neji!"
"Byakugan: Pressure!" Neji instantly released his Tenseigan's terrifying repulsive force. It was not a hard block, but a clever deflection of the trajectory of most of the fists!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Violent explosions rang out around the three. The earth continuously collapsed, but the cooperation of the three became more andA more tacit. Naruto was on main defense, Sasuke was on analysis and command, and Neji was on support and crowd control. They actually managed to withstand Kaguya's fierce attacks!
"All-Killing Ash Bones!" Kaguya shot fatal gray bone spikes from her palms.
"Amenotejikara!" Sasuke instantly swapped one bone spike with a piece of rubble in the distance. The other was narrowly deflected by Naruto with his Yang Power shield.
"Yomotsu Hirasaka!" Kaguya tried to open a space portal to sneak attack from behind.
"Don't even think about it! Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!" Neji's Truth-Seeking Orb instantly transformed into a golden giant sword, slashing at the space portal, forcing her to interrupt the jutsu.
"Damn it! Damn it!" Kaguya became more and more anxious. She found that although the individual strength of these three juniors might not be as good as hers, their cooperation was seamless. Especially that pair of Rinnegan and Tenseigan, which could always see through her intentions and interfere. That Nine-Tails Jinchuriki's Yang Power was also extremely tenacious and difficult to break through.
"Mother! Use that! The ice and snow dimension!" Black Zetsu shrieked.
Kaguya immediately clapped her hands, "Ame no Minaka!"
The surrounding environment instantly changed. An extremely cold world of ice and snow descended. A terrifying low temperature instantly struck, seeming to freeze even chakra!
"So cold!" Naruto felt his movements becoming sluggish.
"Sasuke, Neji, get close to me!" Naruto pushed his Yang Power to the extreme. The golden light spread out like a small sun, and the warmth dispelled the cold.
"It's useless! Here, my power is infinite!" Kaguya roared, and the endless ice and snow turned into giant icebergs that smashed down. The blizzard cut like sharp blades.
"Sasuke, have you found the location of the core dimension?" Naruto shouted while supporting the protection.
"Almost! Her dimension jumps have a pattern! Neji, interfere with the coordinates of her next dimension jump!" Sasuke's Rinnegan stared deadly at the subtle fluctuations of space around Kaguya.
"Understood!" Neji pushed his Tenseigan to its limit, and the azure-blue light tried to invade Kaguya's spatial laws.
"Don't even think about it!" Kaguya sensed the threat and disregarded everything to mobilize all her power, even beginning to absorb the chakra transmitted from the God Tree from the Infinite Tsukuyomi. The Rinne Sharingan on her forehead erupted with a dazzling red light!
"Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb!" A giant, world-destroying black sphere began to condense in her palm!
"Now!" Sasuke suddenly shouted!
"Six Paths: Planetary Devastation!"
The sun mark in his left palm and his right eye's Rinnegan lit up at the same time! Naruto, without hesitation, madly poured his own vast Yang Power into Sasuke's jutsu formula!
A special, black core containing the ultimate power of Yin-Yang Release instantly flew out. It did not attack Kaguya, but floated directly above her, erupting with an irresistible, powerful gravitational pull!
"What?! This jutsu again?!" Kaguya let out a terrified shriek. She had an instinctive fear of this power! She tried to use the Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb to counter it, but found that her own chakra was being severely interfered with and attracted by that black core!
The ground cracked, and giant rocks and ice blocks were forcibly pulled into the sky! Even Kaguya herself began to be uncontrollably pulled towards that core!
"No!" Kaguya cried out in despair.
"Mother!" Black Zetsu tried to wrap around her, but was sucked over along with her!
"Neji!" Naruto shouted.
"Tenseigan! Repulsive Force!" Neji pushed his Tenseigan's power to its limit. A powerful repulsive force pushed upwards, fiercely "pushing" Kaguya, accelerating her process of being sealed!
"Ahhhhhh—!!!" Amidst Kaguya's unwilling shrieks, her body, along with Black Zetsu, was completely submerged and sealed by countless rocks and ice, finally turning into a giant stone sphere floating in the ice and snow space.
The seal was complete!
The effect of Ame no Minaka disappeared, and the environment instantly returned to its original state.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji knelt on the ground, half-exhausted, panting heavily. Their faces were filled with the joy of victory and fatigue.
Just at this moment, the invisible spatial barrier quietly disappeared.
Uchiha Douhuan's figure slowly descended, stood in front of that giant Planetary Devastation stone sphere, glanced at it, and then his gaze turned to the three, who were successful but exhausted.
"Well done," he commented lightly, his tone carrying a trace of imperceptible approval.
"Teacher! That Isshiki..." Naruto asked hurriedly.
"Dealt with," Douhuan's answer was concise.
Upon hearing this, the three finally let out a complete sigh of relief. A huge joy and sense of accomplishment welled up in their hearts. They had succeeded! They had joined forces to seal the Progenitor of Chakra and saved the world!
Uchiha Douhuan's gaze turned to the stone sphere that sealed Kaguya, and to the moon in the sky that was still emitting an ominous red light. He smiled lightly, and with a casual wave of his hand, the Infinite Tsukuyomi technique was released. The people who had fallen into a deep sleep slowly woke up.
(End of chapter)