The group arrived at the rear mountains of Kirigakure.
A man was seated halfway on a tree stump.
"You're here!"
Seeing Ye Liang approach, the Heart Demon stood up: "I've been waiting for you a long time. I didn't expect you to arrive so late."
"Haha! Judging by your expression, you seem quite confident," Ye Liang chuckled.
The man was naturally the Heart Demon. His face, an exact copy of Ye Liang's, left Toneri otsutsuki completely stunned.
The System observed the scene and instinctively stepped aside to give the two some space.
"Shall we fight here, or somewhere else?" Ye Liang asked.
The Heart Demon smiled. He brushed the dust from his clothes: "Right here is fine. After all, I've already annihilated Kirigakure! You don't need to worry about collateral damage."
"Fine! Then right here it is."
Ye Liang took off his coat, revealing his muscular frame. At this moment, his expression darkened, and his long hair trailed past his waist. Anyone watching would have mistaken him for the Heart Demon!
"Is this all your strength after all these years?" The Heart Demon slightly raised his hand, sending several spherical black orbs flying into the sky.
[Planetary Devastation!]
He actually unleashed multiple Planetary Devastations at once!
Ye Liang coldly watched this unfold.
An invisible gravitational force began rising from beneath his feet, slowly lifting his body upward. He stomped the ground, and the tremors ceased.
The Planetary Devastations in the air fell back down before they could take full shape.
"If that's all you've got, don't bother embarrassing yourself!" Ye Liang said indifferently. His pupils transformed into brilliant Byakugan!
Tenseigan!
Just like the Rinnegan surpassed the Bloodline Eye, the Tenseigan surpassed the Byakugan! At its peak, the Tenseigan was every bit as powerful as the Rinnegan of the Otsutsuki Clan!
"Interesting? What kind of Dojutsu is that?" the Heart Demon asked.
"The dead have no need to know!" Ye Liang replied coolly.
Both of them fully activated their eye techniques! One wielded the Tenseigan, while the other possessed the Rinnegan—an ultimate-level power!
During the Heart Demon's recovery, he had used Orochimaru's Secret Technique to absorb Kaguya otsutsuki! In other words, all of Kaguya's abilities were now his to wield!
As soon as they activated their Dojutsu, the surrounding magnetic field immediately shifted!
Not only did the mountain streams scatter wildly in all directions, but even the sun in the sky gradually became obscured!
A total solar eclipse!
Their activation of Dojutsu had actually triggered a cosmic anomaly!
Toneri otsutsuki stood nearby, stunned beyond belief, never imagining Ye Liang could be this powerful! During those five years on the Moon, he hadn't been idle at all—while researching the Tenseigan, he also used its power to further enhance his physical capabilities!
He had permanently unlocked all of his Eight Gates!
And transformed them into passive techniques!
"Then let's fight!" Ye Liang roared.
Three Truth-Seeking Balls flew toward the Heart Demon's body! As he threw them, massive portions of the forest began to collapse!
Everything was drawn toward the balls as if by gravitational pull.
The Heart Demon didn't back down either!
[Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!]
Innumerable fists flickered in the air!
He attacked Ye Liang with eighty punches per second. Each punch tore through the air like Might Guy's Daytime Tiger!
Not only was it bright, it ignited the air itself!
"Hong!"
After countless fist shadows slashed a rift in the sky, they finally collided with Ye Liang's Truth-Seeking Balls!
"Huola!"
The entire forest was wiped out!
The shockwave alone turned the rear mountainous area of Kiri into a flat wasteland. Ye Liang deliberately directed the immense explosion toward the sky—the heavens split!
Numerous storm clouds condensed from the impact.
"Ka-cha!"
A lightning bolt struck the ground.
Then came two! Three! Hundreds! Thousands! All the lightning converged here, drawn by the collision's power.
Toneri was stunned. He followed the System's command and began to retreat frantically!
Right now, he wished he had two extra legs, but the surrounding lightning didn't subside at all—it intensified along with the rising momentum.
"Toneri, don't move! The lightning won't strike you," Ye Liang suddenly said. As if hearing his command, the lightning actually paused its assault. It seemed to have eyes, even going out of its way to bypass Toneri.
"How is this possible?! Ye Liang, can your strength actually control the weather now?!"
"No, it's just basic lightning attraction. Using the Tenseigan with Yin-Yang Release lets me push elemental natured-ninjutsu to their peak," he finished, and immediately, the thunder gathered in the sky once more.
Like they had eyes, countless lightning bolts simultaneously struck toward the Heart Demon's location!
"Hmph! Interesting."
The Heart Demon snorted coldly, and a giant three-headed guardian dog appeared out of thin air. It seemed capable of absorbing lightning, swallowing Ye Liang's Heavenly Thunder entirely.
"This is the Animal Path's Summoning Technique! I never expected you to have mastered the Sage of the Six Paths' power too," Ye Liang said.
"Hahaha! I've even devoured Kaguya Hime! Would I not know the Sage of the Six Paths' ninjutsu then?!"
Seeing the lightning disappear, the Heart Demon's eyes narrowed. His Rinnegan-like eyeballs instantly rotated, and the surrounding air immediately grew calm. Then, even the falling raindrops slowed their descent.
Ye Liang tried to speak, but found his mouth locked shut!
[Time Stop]! He instantly recognized the Heart Demon's technique!
The Heart Demon strode forward.
[Shinra Tensei!]
The S-ranked ninjutsu first mastered by the Sage of the Six Paths—marking both the beginning and end of all causality!
"Ye Liang! Do you know what else I obtained besides inheriting your power?" The Heart Demon looked at Ye Liang, now sent dozens of meters through the air by a single palm strike, and smiled faintly.
"I've also inherited part of your memories! Your memories from before you lost them!"
"I know exactly how powerful you once were, yet you remain completely unaware of it yourself. Do you even realize how utterly tragic that is?"
"You're destined to be replaced by me!"
Ye Liang tumbled across the ground several times before finally coming to a stop.
He wiped a trail of blood from the corner of his mouth.
As he had now moved further away from the Heart Demon, the power of Time Stop had also weakened noticeably.
"Ye Liang! Do you understand? Originally, I was nothing more than a rat in the gutter. If not for you opening my eyes to a broader world, I might have remained forever hidden deep within the human heart!
But now, I've risen up!
I refuse to retreat into shadows ever again!
I'm a person too! I will stand in the light! I want a sky that can no longer blind my eyes! I want an earth that can no longer bury my heart! I want the countless Buddhas to fall from grace and vanish into oblivion!"
His words burned with fiery passion. Ye Liang just shook his head and muttered, "Man, you're ripping off *The Biography of Wukong*..."
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