High above the battlefield, gale-force winds howled—only to collapse on their own the moment they neared those two colossal beings.
Shinju stood at the brow of the golden Susanoo, his footing steady, chakra perfectly stabilized.
Senpo: Susanoo (Sage Art: Susanoo).
This was the ultimate form—born from the Uchiha's ocular power, the Senju's life force, and the Uzumaki clan's near-infinite chakra reserves, fused into a single final manifestation.
It wore solid armor. It had flowing "meridians." It even gave off the sense of a living thing breathing.
Momoshiki hovered opposite him.
After absorbing Kinshiki, his appearance had changed drastically.
Twin horns grew from his head. A golden Rinnegan opened on his forehead. Black markings spread across his body.
He could feel it—the threat. The sheer energy tier contained within that golden giant.
"Impossible."
"How can a lowly lifeform possess Sage chakra this pure?!"
He couldn't accept it.
How could a monster like this be born from the nursery Kaguya the traitor created?
The purity of this power even surpassed Kaguya's.
"Otsutsuki—your era is over."
"Today, I'll be the one to ring the death knell for you arrogant 'gods'!"
Momoshiki was enraged.
As a noble member of the Otsutsuki main family, he had never been looked down on like this by "inferior creatures."
"Impudent!"
"Don't think you're invincible just because you caught me off guard with one sword strike! There are existences in this world you ants can't even imagine. And we are gods!"
Momoshiki moved.
One moment he was a thousand meters away—then the next, he was right in front of the golden Susanoo.
Red light condensed in his hand.
A weapon formed from chakra compressed to extreme density.
He threw a punch.
Boom!
A dull impact exploded across ten thousand meters of sky.
The shockwave instantly cleared the clouds below, revealing the tiny outline of the Leaf Village.
The golden Susanoo didn't budge.
Momoshiki's eyes widened.
Blocked?
Not only blocked—there wasn't even any sign of dispersing force. It had tanked the blow purely through defense.
"Too light."
Shinju's voice rang out again.
A massive golden hand swept over with an overwhelming force.
Momoshiki tried to dodge.
But the air around him thickened like honey—moving even a little became difficult.
The enormous gravitational pull emitted by Senpo: Susanoo (Sage Art: Susanoo) locked down the entire area.
Wham!
Momoshiki was struck head-on.
His body flew like a cannonball.
He shot backward dozens of kilometers before he barely managed to steady himself.
He was injured.
Since descending on this planet, he had finally been injured in the true sense of the word.
"Unforgivable…"
Momoshiki wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his expression turning savage.
He slammed his hands together.
The vast chakra inside him erupted.
"Inukai Takerunomikoto!"
In the void, several gigantic rock dragons and wooden dragons were born out of nothing.
They roared, twisting their massive bodies as they charged the golden Susanoo from every direction.
Each dragon held power enough to destroy an entire shinobi village.
Shinju's face remained expressionless.
The golden Susanoo simply extended both hands and caught the first two wood dragons that reached it.
Then it tore.
Riiip!
The unbelievably tough wood dragons were ripped apart, exploding into a storm of splinters.
Next, the Susanoo opened its mouth.
A golden sonic wave blasted out.
The magma dragons that touched it shattered instantly into their most basic chakra particles.
Not even a fight.
Momoshiki's expression grew uglier and uglier.
His ninjutsu, in front of that golden giant, was like a child's toy.
"Why?!"
Momoshiki roared and charged again.
He refused to believe it.
He was Otsutsuki!
A black chakra rod formed in his hand, stabbing straight toward the Susanoo's chest.
Shinju controlled the Susanoo and drew the long blade at its waist.
Golden Truth-Seeking Ball energy coiled around the blade—power that embodied the principles of all creation.
Clang!
The black rod collided with the golden blade.
Sparks burst.
This time, Momoshiki felt a crushing force surge down the blade.
His grip split open.
Cracks appeared on the rod.
"Move."
Shinju's low voice thundered.
The Susanoo's blade swept across.
The terrifying force cleaved Momoshiki away once more.
This time, he flew clean out of the atmosphere, into the edge of outer space.
The environment changed.
Below him, the planet formed a vast curved horizon.
Momoshiki floated in vacuum, staring at the golden point of light pursuing him from below—and for the first time, fear crept into his heart.
Conventional methods wouldn't win.
That monster's chakra quantity was even greater than his after absorbing Kinshiki.
He had to use that technique.
Momoshiki raised his right hand high.
The Rinnegan in his palm erupted with blinding red light.
"Kōō Kōrei no Mikoto!"
Everything floating through space—meteor fragments, cosmic dust, even dispersed chakra—was pulled in.
It all gathered madly above Momoshiki's palm.
In the blink of an eye…
A black sphere over ten kilometers in diameter formed.
It was so large it blotted out the sun, casting a gigantic shadow over the land below.
This wasn't just a mass of rock.
It was compressed with all of Momoshiki's chakra—and high-density natural energy.
If it fell, it would be enough to sink the continental plate beneath it.
"Disappear!"
Momoshiki's face twisted as he used every ounce of strength to slam the enormous black "planet" downward.
The black sphere fell with the momentum to destroy everything, plunging toward Shinju.
Shinju stared at the black celestial body filling his entire view.
He didn't retreat.
The chakra within Susanoo began to boil.
He drew a second sword from his back.
Nine Truth-Seeking Balls automatically flew in and fused into the blade.
The sword's radiance withdrew, turning into a deep, dark gold.
There was no earth-shaking charge-up.
Shinju simply gripped the sword with both hands and raised it overhead.
The movement was simple. Pure.
The Dao reduced to its most direct form.
He swung downward at the falling black sphere.
"Senpo: Kaiten (Sage Art: Heaven-Splitting)!"
A thin line appeared.
It extended from the sword tip, instantly crossing ten thousand meters.
It cut into the surface of the black sphere.
The continent-destroying black "planet" was as fragile as tofu before that slash.
A golden line passed through the center.
The gigantic sphere split cleanly into two halves.
The cut was smooth as a mirror.
The two halves slid past the Susanoo's sides and plunged into the atmosphere below, burning into two massive fireballs before vanishing completely.
But the golden sword light didn't fade.
Its momentum remained, continuing upward into deeper space.
Momoshiki saw that light.
He tried to dodge.
But it was too fast—faster than his nerves could react.
Faster even than his understanding of space-time techniques.
A faint sound.
Momoshiki felt a chill on his right shoulder.
He turned his head in a daze.
His right arm had been severed at the root.
The cut was unnaturally smooth, and golden energy clung to the wound, preventing his body from regenerating.
The severed arm floated in vacuum for only a moment before the golden energy eroded it into ash.
"Aaaaargh!"
Only now did the agony slam into his brain.
Momoshiki screamed, his voice tearing apart in misery.
He had lost.
In a direct clash—after using his strongest move—his attack had been broken by a single sword, and he had lost an arm.
Shinju guided the Susanoo forward until it was level with him.
The enormous golden head looked down on Momoshiki with cold indifference.
"This is your full strength?"
Those words became the final straw that crushed Momoshiki's sanity.
Humiliation.
With his remaining left hand, Momoshiki frantically pulled out a fistful of red chakra pills.
Everything he had collected over the years—he shoved it all into his mouth at once.
"I'll kill you…"
His eyes bloodshot, his body began to swell violently.
Black markings spread across him.
A chakra even more wicked—more violent—erupted from within.
He was going to fight to the death.
(End of Chapter)
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