Chapter 205: The Game Is Over
An alternate dimension, not belonging to Amenominaka, with plains for ground and a green sky.
Izayoi appeared here with the Ten-Tails, then shared his Wood Clone's perspective to watch the dimension collapse again.
Unlike the previous dimension engulfed by white light, the alternate dimension devoured by the space-time anomaly resembled a collapsing building. The sky and ground were shattering, and like the trees and land, they were drawn into the space-time anomaly which emitted terrifying gravity.
The space-time anomaly grew larger and larger, eventually occupying the entire alternate dimension.
Of course, neither Izayoi nor his Wood Clone actually saw this; they only witnessed such a future through Heavenly Constant Stand.
Unlike the spreading space-time cracks, which were both beautiful and deadly, the space-time anomaly's devouring was extremely violent. Unless one could immediately leave that alternate dimension, once the space-time anomaly grew larger, its terrifying gravity might even render space-time abilities ineffective.
This level of influence naturally couldn't stop Izayoi's Amenominaka and Yomotsu Hirasaka.
But for Kamui, it might spell doom.
"A space-time anomaly is truly the ultimate version of Sasuke's Amaterasu," Izayoi couldn't help but sigh.
After speaking, a smirk curved Izayoi's lips.
Although he had lost two alternate dimensions, having witnessed the destruction of alternate dimensions twice, and in different ways of collapse, Izayoi, with his Transcendental Aptitude (Rainbow) and Aerial Control (Rainbow) attributes, had greatly increased his understanding of space-time.
He had inspiration for new techniques.
Before Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo could find him, Izayoi clapped his hands, creating twelve Chakra Orbs.
The orbs emitted a dazzling golden-yellow light, spinning to form a halo.
Soon, the halo transformed into countless golden-yellow photons, dissipating into nothingness.
Rather than dissipating, they seemed to merge into the void.
Izayoi's Rinne Tenseigan and Rinne Sharingan both flickered with dazzling light.
Soon, Izayoi's eyes established a connection with this alternate dimension, making it one of the alternate dimensions accessible by Amenominaka.
At the same time, a white crack appeared.
When the crack opened to form a gateway, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's figure quickly flew out from within.
Swish—
Without a word, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo still held the Sword of Nunoboko, unleashing a space-tearing white slash towards the Ten-Tails.
Izayoi almost instinctively moved to transfer the Ten-Tails to another alternate dimension.
However, also instinctively, Izayoi used Heavenly Constant Stand to check the Ten-Tails' future, immediately stopping the activated dōjutsu, and raising his black blade of light, formed by the fusion of the Chakra Orb and the Sword of Nunoboko, he unleashed a golden-yellow slash.
When the two collided, the space-tearing white slash was surprisingly unable to immediately destroy the golden-yellow slash.
But the latter only lasted a few seconds before being split in two by the white slash, which continued its attack on Izayoi with undiminished force.
In those few seconds, Izayoi had already created a Wood Clone, which used Yomotsu Hirasaka to take the Ten-Tails away.
The Wood Clone did not go to other alternate dimensions accessible by Amenominaka, because the future Izayoi saw was that Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo had arranged clones in those alternate dimensions.
Once the Ten-Tails was transferred there, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo would seize the opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
"Eyes that can see the future are truly a troublesome ability," Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo couldn't help but lament, then a cold glint flashed in his eyes.
Since banishing the Ten-Tails was impossible, he could only try his best to defeat Izayoi.
At the very least, he had to seal him away.
Thus, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo stopped contemplating tactics and flew towards Izayoi, holding the Sword of Nunoboko.
As if discerning his thoughts, Izayoi dismissed the black blade of light in his hand, clapped his hands, creating a large number of golden-yellow orbs of light, which revolved around him along with Truth-Seeking Orbs.
One of the orbs, only fingernail-sized, was grasped in Izayoi's hand.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo witnessed this scene.
After all, Chakra Orbs were also products of condensed chakra.
As long as it was chakra, it could not escape the Rinnegan's X-ray vision.
But the next second, the chakra in Izayoi's hand vanished.
Along with it, Izayoi himself disappeared.
A deafening roar erupted next to Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's ear.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo showed no panic. Instead, he turned and looked at the direction from which Eighty Gods Vacant Attack was coming, raising his hand to control the Truth-Seeking Orbs around him, spinning them to release a white tornado, easily blocking the Eighty Gods Vacant Attack that could shake the heavens.
At the same time, the Sword of Nunoboko in his hand was also gathering the power of thought manifestation.
After the white tornado and the Eighty Gods Vacant Attack wrestled for a while, mutually consuming half their energy, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo suddenly swung his sword. The pure white slash easily tore through the tornado and the fist-shaped light curtain, which could annihilate everything.
Joining Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's attack was Izayoi, who was also charging a powerful technique.
Izayoi held a multicolored orb of light in his hand, which shot out as a rainbow-like light beam, colliding with Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's slash.
In an instant, countless space-time cracks spread, and the alternate dimension violently shook.
Ignoring the tremors in space, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo continued to fly towards Izayoi.
Izayoi, meanwhile, flew backward while fully utilizing Yomotsu Hirasaka, creating a window-sized black teleportation gate, and firing a dozen bone arrows into it.
Black cracks appeared in the space around Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, rapidly forming black windows, from which bone arrows flew out, assaulting him from all directions.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo did not defend, nor did he use the Sword of Nunoboko to swat them away.
This was because it was the power of a Kekkei Mōra; even a Truth-Seeking Orb could not block it.
However, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's method of counteracting it was also very simple.
He raised his hand and conjured a black sphere, throwing it into the sky.
Invisible gravity immediately altered the bone arrows' flight path.
Just then, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's pupils suddenly constricted, his expression slightly changing.
Because he saw that each of the bone arrows had a Flying Thunder God Technique formula on it.
The next second, several white orbs of light appeared without warning around the bone arrows.
Boom—
Dazzling white light engulfed the area.
A deafening, earth-shattering explosion intensified the spatial tremors.
The white light curtain did not last long before being shattered by a golden-yellow fist.
Columns of golden-yellow, fist-shaped light seemed to shatter space itself, causing the white light curtain to dissipate in a fragmented manner.
Once the light curtain disappeared, all that remained in this alternate dimension were the closing space-time cracks.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and Izayoi both vanished from this alternate dimension.
In the space-time tunnel, which was filled with distorted gates, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, his body covered in explosion marks and missing limbs, was flying at high speed.
As if sensing something, he casually found a distorted gate and entered it.
Soon after, Izayoi also arrived at his location and similarly flew into that gate.
In the snow-falling ice dimension, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's body had mostly regenerated.
Although this body wasn't his, and he had lost the Self-Healing (Rainbow) attribute because he wasn't the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki.
But Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's recovery speed was still second only to Izayoi, who possessed Self-Healing (Rainbow).
This was because Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo possessed ultimate Yin-Yang Release power; his mastery of Yin-Yang Release allowed him to even create Tailed Beasts and alternate dimensions.
As long as he wasn't killed instantly, no matter how severe the injury, he could easily recover.
Gazing at Izayoi, who had pursued him from another alternate dimension, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo launched another attack.
However, this time, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo did not unleash a slash. Instead, he threw the Sword of Nunoboko in his hand.
No sooner had the divine sword left his hand than it instantly changed from black to gold, and its shape transformed from a long sword into a large net made of chains.
Izayoi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he unhesitatingly dodged.
Just as Izayoi had used the Sword of Nunoboko as a shield to defend against Uchiha Madara's attack, this net seemed ordinary but actually contained the power of thought manifestation; not even a Truth-Seeking Orb could destroy it.
Moreover, this golden net also contained terrifying sealing capabilities.
With just a glance, Izayoi understood how the Six Paths Tools were created.
No wonder those tools were so overpowered; they were all Yin-Yang Release + thought manifestation power.
Or rather, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo injected the power of certain rules into the tools using Yin-Yang Release and the Sword of Nunoboko's creative power.
The golden net missed its target and did not return to Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's hand. Instead, it pursued Izayoi, emitting astonishing gravitational force, attempting to pull Izayoi towards it.
Izayoi, being pulled, remained unhurried, manipulating a Chakra Orb to turn into a metallic object.
Seeing this, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's spirit instantly perked up, and he created another Sword of Nunoboko.
The next second, he sensed Izayoi's chakra appear behind him to the right.
Just as Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo prepared to turn and swing his sword, his body suddenly slumped to the ground.
The same happened to Izayoi, who was kneeling on one knee.
It turned out that the scene had changed dramatically; both of them had been transported from the snow-falling ice dimension to the Gravity Dimension.
However, Izayoi was already prepared. He raised his hand and shot two bone arrows at Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo was equally unperturbed, manipulating the Sword of Nunoboko to transform into a black sphere, encasing himself within it.
The next second, a white crack split the black sphere in two, and Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo had already disappeared inside.
"So it still doesn't work," Izayoi muttered, not surprised in the least.
If such a simple trick could outwit Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, then he and Ōtsutsuki Hamura would have been dealt with by Kaguya Ōtsutsuki a thousand years ago.
A thousand years ago, without even being the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki, he could defeat the stronger and overturn the superior.
A thousand years later, such tactics were even less likely to work against Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, who had become an old schemer.
Izayoi did not lose heart. He continued to use Yomotsu Hirasaka to enter the space-time tunnel, pursuing Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo.
Thus, the two moved from the ice dimension to the Gravity Dimension, and then from the Gravity Dimension to a rock pillar dimension similar to Kamui's dimension, constantly utilizing the various environments of these alternate dimensions to devise different tactics, aiming to seal or kill each other.
Without exception, all their attempts were thwarted by the other party.
From beginning to end, neither Izayoi nor Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo used Six Paths Sage Arts; the only ninjutsu they used was the strongest Truth-Seeking Orbs.
Because they both knew that neither ninjutsu nor Six Paths Sage Arts were worth mentioning in the face of Kekkei Mōra.
Even Eighty Gods Vacant Attack and All-Killing Ash Bones proved useless; the former, if it missed, was simply a waste of chakra.
Conversely, Yin-Yang Release, Chakra Orbs, the Sword of Nunoboko, and space-time abilities not only consumed very little chakra but were also extremely deadly.
Izayoi and Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo fought for half a month. During this time, they both thoroughly understood each other's trump cards, techniques, and fighting styles, and were almost caught by each other's tactics, gaining and losing advantages back and forth.
Whenever one side gained an advantage, the other would seize the opportunity to escape.
Izayoi rarely found himself at a disadvantage, as his eyes could see the future.
Moreover, whenever he entered an alternate dimension, Izayoi would secretly use Wood Release to create Wood Clones in certain parts of that dimension, specifically to provide him with an omniscient perspective and to observe the future.
Even when at a disadvantage, Izayoi only needed to use Amenominaka to transfer himself to another alternate dimension, immediately turning danger into safety.
It was during these times that the disparity in their respective stat panels truly became apparent.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, whether he wanted to pursue Izayoi or escape an alternate dimension, needed to rely on the power of the Sword of Nunoboko to perform a "bootleg" Yomotsu Hirasaka.
Although the wind-up time was very short, it still couldn't compare to Amenominaka and the true Yomotsu Hirasaka.
And in this half-month, Izayoi's chakra had been depleted by one-third.
Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's, however, had... increased instead of decreased.
Yes, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's chakra had not only not decreased at all, but had actually grown stronger.
"You're more disgusting than those who profane souls with forbidden jutsu."
Gazing at Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo opposite him, whose chakra reserves were now only slightly inferior to his own, Izayoi sneered disdainfully, "Randomly absorbing the chakra of souls from the Pure Land, you're not the Shinigami of the Uzumaki clan, are you?"
"Only by dealing with you, the outsider, will the ninja world and the Pure Land truly find peace," Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo said coldly. "They are all protecting this world with me; they are the true saviors!"
"Unfortunately, you've run out of chances," Izayoi coldly scoffed. "After fighting for so long, besides Six Paths — Chibaku Tensei, you only have your brother to summon as a trump card, don't you?"
Hearing this, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's pupils constricted slightly.
Staring at those golden-yellow Rinne Tenseigan eyes, he couldn't help but marvel again, "An eye that can see the past and the future... I never imagined such a dōjutsu existed."
"There's still plenty more you haven't imagined," Izayoi said with a profound smile, raising something in his hand. "I had a lot of fun these past two weeks, but now... the game is over."
Gazing at the object in Izayoi's hand, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's expression finally changed dramatically.
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