As the Gate of Hell swung wide, Kikyo's Sacred Arrow of Purification tore through the vacuum with unstoppable momentum.
Sensing the mortal peril, Otsutsuki Ryushiki's dark bones expanded violently like a web of bloody veins.
They wrapped around his Black Murderous Bone, pumping in a massive surge of chakra that caused the weapon to double in size, swirled by ancient blood-pattern totems.
A blinding brilliance flared within Ryushiki's Rinnegan. He was now forcefully merging the captured Tenseigan energy into his own visual prowess.
Entering his version of the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, he swung the massive, mutated bone blade, condensing its trajectory into a sharp, horizon-splitting line of light.
Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!
The same technique, but executed with vastly superior catastrophic power. This iteration far eclipsed the scale Uzumaki Tomoko had managed, unleashing a sweeping blade of pure destruction that violently counter-attacked toward Kikyo's position.
"As if I'd let you have your way!"
The surrounding space warped and churned. Shiraishi stepped forward, a cluster of golden light condensing in his palm. As he raised his hand toward the cosmic sky, the energy expanded into a massive, shimmering sphere.
Particle Style: Photon Release!(Jinton: Kōshi Kaihō)
In truth, this move was the inverted application of his Photon Surge. While the latter specialized in wide-area bombardment, Photon Release compressed the entirety of that subatomic energy into a single point, combining it with Particle Style's molecular-dismantling attributes to form a lethal finishing blow.
It was the exact technique that had broken Nagato and Konan's combined assault in the Hidden Rain Village. At its peak, it emitted a continuous stream of hyper-dense photons every second, each carrying the cataclysmic, matter-shredding power of Particle Style.
Shiraishi's Photon Release crashed head-on into the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. The two catastrophic energies locked jaws on the lunar surface, erupting in a blinding, multi-colored aurora that illuminated the dead vacuum.
Amidst the violent intersection of light, stray photon beams pierced straight through the Black Murderous Bone, inflicting severe, internal structural damage to Otsutsuki Ryushiki.
Yet, the remnants of the giant chakra blade simultaneously breached Shiraishi's line of sight, striking his upper torso.
Blood splattered into the low gravity. Shiraishi's right arm was nearly severed by the kinetic force of the light blade, leaving a horrific, gaping wound. Worse, the corrosive, necrotic properties embedded within the Black Murderous Bone instantly began to fester, eating away at his flesh and aggressively targeting his internal organs.
On the other side, Ryushiki's weapon cracked, and he was forced to redirect his internal Pill-Chakra reserves to actively neutralize and suppress the molecular decay Shiraishi's Particle Style had inflicted on his body.
In terms of raw bloodline and physical constitution, the celestial Otsutsuki still held a slight advantage.
Despite taking a severe hit from Shiraishi, Ryushiki's unique anatomy allowed him to forcefully absorb and convert a portion of the residual destructive energy into his own chakra.
However, Shiraishi's sheer ruthlessness caught Ryushiki completely off guard. Without a moment's hesitation, Shiraishi severed his own corroded right arm.
Utilizing Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation, combined with the hyper-active cloning cells within his body, a pristine new arm burst forth and regenerated in seconds.
The integration of Ryuchi Cave's Sage Transformation and advanced cellular cloning tech had pushed Shiraishi's physical resilience to monstrous heights.
But before Ryushiki could even process this tactical recovery, he ran out of time—Kikyo's Sacred Arrow had already bypassed the frontline and arrived at his back!
The entire sequence of exchange, from the clash of world-ending techniques to the physical reconstructions, had taken less than a few seconds.
Enveloped in the blinding, purifying aura of the arrow, the hairline fractures across the Black Murderous Bone began to spread. The sinister, obsidian color of the weapon rapidly bleached into a pristine, holy silver.
This priestess... is purifying my own bone lineage!
Because the weapon was an extension of his own skeletal system, the purification of the blade sent a backlash of agony tearing through his nervous system. Realizing the weapon was compromised, Ryushiki decisively abandoned it.
Gripping the half of the giant Tenseigan's energy he had managed to successfully siphon, he turned into a streak of light and fled the Moon's surface.
Through their coordinated, seamless execution, Shiraishi and Kikyo had finally forced the proud celestial of the Otsutsuki main family into a retreat.
The moment the cosmic energies on the Moon settled, far below in the Land of Demons, Uzumaki Tomoko's rampaging form froze. The third eye on her forehead slowly closed, its light fading away as she collapsed into unconsciousness.
Uzumaki Tomoki rushed forward to catch her before she hit the ground, immediately channeling medical chakra to stabilize her vitals.
Why did a third eye manifest on my niece's forehead?And what was that deeply unsettling, primordial chakra aura...
Tomoki's mind swirled with questions. From the day she was born, Tomoko had defied all standard conventions of the ninja world. Possessing both the Shikotsumyaku and the Byakugan was already an impossibility—but now, she could manifest a third eye capable of altering reality?
It was beyond his comprehension. This child was wrapped in layers of ancient mysteries that filled him with deep, protective anxiety.
Back on the lunar surface, although Shiraishi had successfully regenerated his arm, the chakra expenditure required to fight at that level was astronomical. Chest heaving as he gasped for air, he walked slowly toward the remaining half of the Tenseigan.
In an ironic twist of fate, Ryushiki's brutal, heavy-handed extraction had completely shattered the thousand-year-old seals binding the artifact.
The giant Tenseigan had been reduced to a concentrated, unsealed sphere of raw, pure chakra energy—sitting open and completely vulnerable right in front of Shiraishi.
The Gate of Hell dissolved into particles of light. Kikyo utilized her spatial displacement to materialize directly onto the Moon, her curious eyes scanning the alien landscape. To her, even the barren terrain of this celestial body was fascinating.
Reaching the Moon... in her original era, such a concept belonged strictly to the realm of myth.
"My thanks," Shiraishi said softly, turning to her. Without Kikyo using her long-range spiritual archery to suppress Ryushiki from the flank, he likely wouldn't have been able to salvage even half of this cosmic prize.
"So this is the Moon?"
Looking up at the unique star-swept void and the massive, vibrant blue-and-green planet hanging in the distance, Kikyo's gaze softened, lost in a rare moment of quiet contemplation.
Shiraishi refrained from breaking her silence. He turned and quietly walked into the ruins of the Moon's Otsutsuki palace to begin his exploration.
The lunar Otsutsuki lineage traces back to Otsutsuki Hamura, the twin brother of the Sage of Six Paths (Otsutsuki Hagoromo) and the son of Kaguya.
Having inherited the pure power of the Byakugan, Hamura had fought alongside his brother to seal their mother after she merged with the God Tree to become the ten-tailed beast.
Following that ancient war, Hamura became the patriarch of his branch. After the Sage of Six Paths passed away, Hamura led his clan to migrate to the Moon to eternally guard the husk of the Ten-Tails—the Gedo Mazo.
But over the millennium following his death, his descendants fractured into the Main and Branch families due to conflicting interpretations of his final decree.
A brutal civil war ensued, where the Branch family weaponized a synthesized Tenseigan to completely annihilate the Main family. Otsutsuki Toneri was the final, lonely product of that tragic lineage.
And today, with the arrival of the celestial intruder Otsutsuki Ryushiki, the lunar bloodline of Kaguya has been completely brought to an end.
Reflecting on the volatile, shifting nature of fate, Shiraishi made his way into the clan's grand archives. Without hesitating, he systematically stored away the massive collection of historical texts, ancient scrolls, and secret books into his storage seals, taking them all.
Beyond the knowledge, there were the puppet soldiers. Compared to the ancient Dragon Vein automatons he had encountered in Roulan, the quality, material craftsmanship, and engineering of these lunar puppets completely outclassed them.
The very origin of puppetry in the ninja world was deeply tied to the chakra-thread manipulation techniques handed down by Hamura. Over a thousand years of isolation, the Otsutsuki clan had refined this craft into a highly sophisticated art.
Shiraishi flipped through the recovered technical manuals, quickly deciphering the core frequencies. Extending dozens of glowing chakra threads from his fingers, he synchronized with the dormant army, successfully mapping their mechanics to his own movements.
Yet, as he worked, Ryushiki's parting words continued to echo uncomfortably in his mind.
Within the spatial barrier of the final world lay four golden cards. The system was hinting that these cards held a profound connection to his own existence and the optical glasses system he carried.
Recalling the fragments of dialogue dropped by Ryushiki during their clashes, Shiraishi's grip tightened around the hilt of his Divine Dao Heavenly Sword. He stared into the void, murmuring under his breath:
"Otsutsuki Asura... just who exactly are you?"
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