Kaguya was just like Takuno before; her practical combat experience was not exactly sufficient.
The reason was even quite similar; because their strength was too overpowered for the Shinobi World, they basically did whatever they wanted, and all their battles were complete crushes.
Under such conditions, at best, they could only possess the experience of mowing down grass.
However, Takuno did have the kind-hearted Madara to help him make up for this deficiency, but Kaguya did not.
Although she had two filial sons, their strength was too great, and they had directly sealed her away.
This sealing lasted for a thousand years, so naturally, Kaguya had no way to acquire the relevant experience.
Therefore, even now, Kaguya's combat basically could only rely on crushing opponents; if she could not crush them, then the possibility of her losing the battle would be very high.
However, facing Takuno, Kaguya had already lost her greatest advantage.
Her previously unrivaled magnitude had already been surpassed by Takuno, and Takuno basically knew all the abilities she possessed; what he lacked were only some insignificant abilities.
But the abilities Takuno mastered, Kaguya had not.
Because when they were merged, Takuno had taken out all the constitutions containing special abilities, which was equivalent to using a blank slate to fuse with Kaguya.
Even if this blank slate were placed in the current Shinobi World, it could be considered Six Paths level, whether in terms of constitution or Kekkei Mora.
But Kaguya already possessed all of these originally, so obtaining another copy was meaningless.
"So, Kaguya, how are you going to fight me now?" The corners of Takuno's mouth curled up. From the moment he separated from Kaguya, he had already placed himself in an invincible position.
In his eyes, all of Kaguya's current struggles were nothing more than futile efforts.
Just at this moment, the entire Ice World seemed to come alive, and the endless glaciers shattered with a roar.
They transformed into billions of sharp ice spikes, carrying bone-chilling killing intent and the whistling sound of tearing space, shooting toward Takuno in an overwhelming torrent!
Lofty icebergs also rose from the ground, pressing down on him with an aura that could crush everything.
At this moment, Takuno seemed to have become the mortal enemy that the entire frozen world was determined to erase with all its might!
"Hmph, deathbed struggle."
Facing this world-destroying offensive, there was not the slightest panic on Takuno's face; instead, the confident arc at the corners of his mouth deepened.
The eerie, blood-colored Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead rotated slightly.
Facing this terrifying attack that could instantly annihilate the entire Shinobi Allied Forces, Takuno did not even move a step.
He simply raised one hand casually and pressed it forward into the void.
"Disperse."
As this understated word was uttered, an invisible force instantly erupted from him as the center.
Hum!
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
When those billions of ice spikes, capable of piercing through everything, were still a hundred meters away from Takuno's body, they seemed to collide with an invisible barrier that was absolutely impossible to cross.
They shattered inch by inch, turning into the purest ice crystal powder, falling down with a rustling sound.
The massive iceberg pressing down from above disintegrated silently from its tip, turning into ice dust that filled the sky, not even a trace of wind pressure reaching Takuno.
The riot of the entire frozen world was completely quelled by his casual movements.
It was as if the world-destroying scene just now was merely a dream.
After resolving the 'crisis' before him, Takuno stroked his chin, observing Kaguya's method of controlling the Ice World.
"Natural Integration? This ability is quite interesting." Takuno murmured.
Kaguya continued to manipulate the Ice World, and the endless ice turned into the fiercest attacks, surging toward Takuno like an overwhelming tide.
The entire space seemed to have become an extension of her limbs, with every snowflake and every wisp of cold air containing her will and killing intent.
This was the essence of "Natural Integration"; she was the Ice World itself.
However, facing this terrifying offensive, Takuno appeared unusually calm.
He was not in a hurry to counterattack; those eerie Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan eyes flashed with deep light, observing every subtle energy flow of Kaguya's manipulation of the ice and snow.
He was not passively enduring, but analyzing and learning from her.
Kaguya was not unaware.
However, a sense of humiliation and powerlessness welled up in her heart; she knew that Takuno was learning "Natural Integration."
But what could she do? Stop attacking? That would be no different from sitting and waiting for death.
Takuno's power already surpassed hers; if she left this ice and snow space that she temporarily controlled, she would have no chance of winning at all.
Moreover, even if Takuno were not learning it now, with the Kekkei Mora level he currently possessed, understanding and mastering "Natural Integration" would only be a matter of time.
Takuno's previous strike far exceeded her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, and combined with that understated word "Disperse" just now, which dismantled her full-force ice and snow offensive, it had completely shattered Kaguya's confidence in resisting.
That was a crushing defeat at the level of absolute power, making the techniques she was so proud of appear so pale and weak.
At this moment, only despair remained in her heart.
The attacks continued, but that was more like a kind of inertia, a deathbed struggle that refused to be silenced.
She didn't care anymore; she didn't care if Takuno was learning from her, and she didn't care if these attacks were futile.
She might be sealed again later, but before that, she had to at least do something, right? She had to struggle a little, didn't she?
The loneliness of being sealed for a thousand years and the powerlessness of being completely surpassed at this moment intertwined, causing her to fall into unprecedented depression.
She just numbly drove the Ice World, pouring out her final, superficial anger toward that invincible opponent.
Takuno did not know of Kaguya's despair.
But this despondency of giving up resistance instead allowed him to focus more on analyzing the mysteries of "Natural Integration."
Finally, Takuno completed the analysis of "Natural Integration."
The blood-colored Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead flashed with a deep, eerie light, and the entire frozen space seemed to become an extension of his will.
His figure was no longer a solid entity, but like a water droplet merging into the ocean, it silently sank into the glacier beneath his feet.
In an instant, those billions of mountain-sized ice spikes that were shooting toward him with destructive momentum abruptly stopped in mid-air.
Space seemed to freeze for an instant, and immediately after, all the ice spikes emitted a harsh friction sound, forcibly changing direction, with their tips turning in unison to lock onto the other end of the battlefield!
"Ugh!"
Kaguya's figure was forcibly squeezed out of the "Natural Integration" state by a force, appearing on the ice field with a stumble.
Her long silver-white hair fluttered in the cold wind, but there was not a trace of surprise on her face.
Just as she had anticipated, in a situation where the opponent also mastered "Natural Integration" and was even at a higher level, her ability to hide and control the environment had completely failed.
Watching the torrent of giant ice spikes pouring down toward her like a sky-covering deluge, a trace of fatigue flashed in the depths of Kaguya's Byakugan, but more than that was the pride and determination belonging to the Progenitor of chakra.
"Hmph, all form and no substance!"
She gave a sharp shout and thrust her arms forward violently.
Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!
Countless huge chakra fists instantly condensed and formed, carrying the terrifying power to shatter space, and slammed head-on into the incoming torrent of ice spikes.
The deafening roar resounded across the ice field!
The glacier-sized ice spikes shattered inch by inch under the impact of absolute power, turning into ice crystal dust that filled the sky, as if a blizzard had fallen.
Kaguya's figure was faintly visible amidst the fist shadows and ice debris; she had successfully blocked this first deadly counterattack.
However, just at this moment...
Hum!
The entire frozen space trembled violently again!
This time, it was not just simple ice spikes.
The ice crystals that had been shattered by Kaguya did not dissipate, but instead rapidly gathered and reorganized!
Countless brand new ice spikes, even larger and with tips flashing with deep blue cold light, instantly took shape.
Not only that, the ice field itself rose, forming new and even more precipitous ice cliffs.
And from the peaks of these cliffs, at an even faster speed, a second wave, a third wave... an endless rain of ice spears was shot out!
They were no longer scattered attacks, but formed a deathly net that covered all of Kaguya's evasion space!
The number and coverage of the ice spikes had increased several times over compared to before, as if the entire frozen world had turned into an arsenal targeting Kaguya under Takuno's will.
Kaguya's Byakugan pupils contracted sharply.
Then her Rinnegan suddenly burst with eerie light, and a pitch-black void that devoured light split open behind her.
It was the ultimate Space-Time Ninjutsu, Yomotsu Hirasaka.
Facing Takuno, whose strength already surpassed her own, she decisively gave up the fight and leaped into the void channel.
"Futile."
Takuno's Swift Release: Godspeed power erupted, his figure turning into a blue gleam that tore through space, actually penetrating simultaneously at the moment the channel closed.
Arriving on the other side of Yomotsu Hirasaka, Takuno was also somewhat surprised.
This place was actually... in outer space?
In the cold and dead space, Kaguya's silver hair danced wildly in the vacuum.
She was shocked to find Takuno following her like a shadow, and in a panic, she tore open a new Yomotsu Hirasaka to jump away again.
However, the absolute speed of Swift Release had already surpassed the barriers of time and space, and Takuno appeared synchronously every single time.
"Why can't I shake him off?!" Kaguya's consciousness trembled.
She had just tried an unprecedented strategy: opening a "Yomotsu Hirasaka" of the smallest scale that only she could pass through, and forcibly closing the spatial rift the moment she passed through.
But Takuno's speed was too fast; he didn't give her time to close Yomotsu Hirasaka in time at all.
Kaguya could only try again and again, praying that she could close it in time so that the opponent could not follow.
Finally...
This time, she succeeded!
The rift closed silently behind her, isolating that figure, which was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, on the outside.
Where she landed was a dead and desolate planet.
There was no atmosphere, no life, only cold rocks and the boundless dark universe.
Absolute silence enveloped her, with only the sound of her own heavy breathing echoing in her consciousness.
She looked around, confirming that the suffocating pressure had indeed disappeared.
"Did… did I shake him off?" Kaguya's tense nerves relaxed for a split second.
The fear of being continuously pursued and Takuno's unfathomable growth speed had almost made even her, the Progenitor of chakra, feel despair.
At this moment, this rare, brief peace seemed so precious.
However, this peace lasted for less than a single breath.
Right in front of her, space tore open without warning, and a pitch-black hole, so deep that it seemed to devour all light, appeared out of thin air.
This black spatial hole was very familiar to Kaguya, because it was... Yomotsu Hirasaka!
Immediately after, that figure that made even Kaguya's soul tremble stepped out leisurely.
Takuno's silver hair fluttered slightly in the windless vacuum, the blood-colored Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead flashed with eerie light, and the azure Tenseigan in his right eye calmly locked onto her.
His posture was composed, as if he had just pushed open an ordinary door and stepped into his own courtyard.
The trace of luck on Kaguya's face froze instantly, and was immediately replaced by boundless horror.
Her pair of pure white eyes widened in extreme shock, and her pupils contracted violently.
"No… impossible!" Kaguya's voice carried uncontrollable trembling. "You… you actually… mastered 'Yomotsu Hirasaka' so quickly?!"
Takuno's mouth curled into a cold arc; the smile carried a hint of playfulness, and even more, a sense of absolute control.
He slowly raised his right hand, his palm facing Kaguya, with a halo of distorted space lingering at his fingertips.
"Every one of your spatial jumps has been showing me the mysteries of coordinates and the paths of folding." Takuno's voice was calm and waveless, yet it contained the power to discern everything.
"If I still couldn't learn it, wouldn't that be a waste of your many painstaking teachings?"
He took a step forward, and that invisible pressure smashed fiercely into Kaguya's heart.
The surface of the desolate planet cracked silently due to his pure power overflowing.
"The cat-and-mouse game should end now."
The next moment, space changed again, and the two had returned once more to the Initial Sphere Space of Amenominaka.
Black Zetsu watched the process of his mother, Kaguya, being defeated and fleeing using Yomotsu Hirasaka, and his heart grew colder and colder.
Finally, having arrived at the Initial Sphere Space, he couldn't help but speak to Takuno.
"Enough! Collector! Do not continue any longer; there is no point in going on like this.
If Mother wants to escape, she only needs to keep using Yomotsu Hirasaka to escape endlessly.
And you have no way to stop this ultimate Space-Time Ninjutsu, so it would be better to let each other go.
We will leave the Shinobi World and give this place to you, and we will never set foot here again."
Kaguya did not refute; she had already given up on defeating Takuno. The winner is king, and the loser is the bandit; she was willing to give up everything.
However, the next moment, Takuno's words caused the hearts of both to drop to the bottom.
"Oh? Are you sure I really have no way to catch you?"
Black Zetsu shrank into the shadow of Kaguya's sleeve, its viscous body almost sweating cold sweat.
Takuno's light, airy counter-question caused it to fall into boundless fear once again.
'Am I really… a jinx?'