Ryun's sword strike failed to injure his opponent, and Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi and Otsutsuki Karashi seized this fleeting opportunity to launch a fatal assault on him.
The fiery red divine sword, carrying extreme heat that distorted space, slashed towards Ryun's head, while Otsutsuki Karashi's divine blade cleaved directly towards his torso, aiming to dismember him.
Both possessed the power to tear through space. At this moment, even Kamui intangibility would find it difficult to help him escape this predicament!
Yet, the instant their attacks were about to land, Ryun's figure abruptly vanished from before them.
"Space-time ability!" Otsutsuki Karashi exclaimed in shock and anger, sensing a distinct spatial fluctuation.
Ryun had used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport to a distant point, precisely where the Ame-no-Murakumo Sword hovered!
This Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi had only now revealed his elemental transformation ability. Ryun was nearly caught off guard. Next, he needed to figure out a way to counter this ability of his opponent!
Of course, it wasn't just Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi's elemental transformation that needed solving. Otsutsuki Karashi's ability to freely traverse space also had to be countered!
"Damn it..."
Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi cursed inwardly. He felt this battle was truly unwinnable, and the thought of retreat once again rose in his heart.
However, before he could open his mouth to persuade, he heard Otsutsuki Karashi speak first, "Kagutsuchi... you, the clan's second strongest, should still have a trump card you haven't used, right..."
"I don't even dare open my eyes, what fucking trump card do I have left!" Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi retorted angrily.
"If I can restrain him one more time, can you seize the chance to defeat him... or kill him? This guy is too great a threat to our clan!" Otsutsuki Karashi asked with utmost seriousness, seemingly convinced that Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi still had an ace up his sleeve.
"How will you restrain him? Dare to open your eyes and use a ocular technique on him again?" Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi couldn't help but counter.
"Yes! I want to use Space-Time Freeze once more..." Otsutsuki Karashi directly stated his idea.
"Taking another mental attack, do you not want to live..."
"Time is short. Just tell me, are you confident you can decide the outcome with one strike..." Otsutsuki Karashi urged urgently.
"Yes! But who's to say that guy can't reverse life and death again!" What Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi truly feared was this. Ryun had already used this move to eliminate two of their companions!
"That's impossible! The more powerful the ocular technique, the greater its limitations. That ability of his absolutely cannot be used again!" Otsutsuki Karashi refused to believe Ryun's Izanagi ocular technique could be reused.
Upon hearing this, Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi only fell silent in thought for a moment. The next instant, he could only grit his teeth and nod, choosing to gamble, because he felt Otsutsuki Karashi's words made sense.
"He's coming..."
While the two were communicating, Ryun had already charged forward again.
This time, he held the Ame-no-Murakumo Sword, with ten black Truth-Seeking Balls floating behind him. As he engaged in a new round of fierce combat with Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi, the ten Truth-Seeking Balls also formed a highly effective autonomous defensive barrier behind him. This way, he at least didn't have to worry about Otsutsuki Karashi stabbing him in the back anymore.
Ryun went all out from the start. Every move and strike carried the power to tear through space. Moreover, a certain sealing formula was inscribed on the blade of the Ame-no-Murakumo Sword. He was waiting for Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi to use elemental transformation again to give him a surprise.
Unfortunately, Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi also seemed to sense danger from Ryun's sacred weapon. Even though he was forced back repeatedly by Ryun's terrifying brute force, he never blindly used elemental transformation again to physically block Ryun's sealing sword!
"This guy... every move can easily tear through space. An ordinary Space-Time Freeze simply cannot restrain him..." Watching the savage power Ryun possessed, Otsutsuki Karashi thought this to himself.
"No other way... can only concentrate ocular power into one eye..."
Otsutsuki Karashi murmured. The next moment, he actually gouged out his own Rinnegan right eye, and then directly ate it!
"He actually ate his own Rinnegan..." When Otsutsuki Karashi ate his eye, Ryun also noticed the anomaly here.
The act of eating an eye reminded Ryun of a guy named Otsutsuki Urashiki. He knew the other party was trying to fight desperately!
Realizing Otsutsuki Karashi's attack method was most likely still a space-time ability, with a single thought from Ryun, the ten Truth-Seeking Balls behind him actively separated from his body and shot out in all directions in an instant!
While Otsutsuki Karashi's appearance underwent a drastic change, Ryun's ten Truth-Seeking Balls used this gap to encircle the two.
"Barrier, Ten Directions Divine Confinement Formation!"
As Ryun slashed at Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi and formed hand seals, the ten Truth-Seeking Balls immediately shot out streaks of golden light the next moment. The golden light interconnected and merged in the blink of an eye, ultimately forming a massive golden cage.
Within this enormous golden cage, all space was firmly imprisoned. No one could use space-time abilities anymore, including Ryun himself!
Since his Kamui intangibility wasn't very effective against these two enemies, he might as well let no one use space-time abilities. After all, the advantage was his now!
When the space-imprisoning barrier appeared, Otsutsuki Karashi's expression changed. Clearly, he hadn't expected Ryun to possess the ability to imprison space, and to deploy it before he could...
This situation would render his space-time abilities useless. No matter how strong his ocular power was, he couldn't use the Space-Time Freeze ocular technique within an anti-space field!
"Kagutsuchi! He has imprisoned space. We need to break this cage first!" Otsutsuki Karashi shouted urgently. Even he couldn't help but feel some panic at this moment.
"Fuck! You useless piece of shit!!!" Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi couldn't help but curse loudly. However, at this moment, he wasn't cursing Ryun, but Otsutsuki Karashi...
Retreat was originally the wisest choice. Now, good, even space is imprisoned, the retreat path is cut off, and you, Otsutsuki Karashi, don't even have a solution. How could Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi not be furious?
Now he also had no choice but to fight desperately alongside him!
Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi tore off his clothing, revealing extensive flame tattoos etched onto his skin.
Seeing Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi disrobe and begin reciting some obscure, ancient divine incantation, Ryun immediately sensed danger. The next moment, without a second thought, he charged towards the opponent at full speed.
However, Otsutsuki Karashi's combat intelligence was still online after all. Even without Kagutsuchi ordering him to intercept, Otsutsuki Karashi knew to buy precious time for his teammate.
As the incantation was recited, the flame tattoos on Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi's body seemed to come alive. These tattoos detached from his body at an astonishing speed and scattered in all directions in an instant.
In just the blink of an eye, the fiery red patterns continuously extended until they finally completely covered the golden cage Ryun had created.
"Divine Flame!"
Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi forcefully brought his palms together. Instantly, the flame patterns erupted with terrifyingly extreme high-temperature divine fire. The Ten Directions Divine Confinement Formation lasted less than a second before being completely burned through. The spatial imprisonment was also completely lifted at this moment.
Sensing the change in the surrounding space, Otsutsuki Karashi decisively opened the large golden Rinnegan on his forehead.
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