The suction force generated by Chibaku Tensei suddenly intensified once again.
A deep purple, dragon shaped stream of energy shot straight toward Chibaku Tensei.
Seeing this, Rengoku, who was standing not far away, merely snorted coldly and immediately began forming seals.
His hands moved with agile precision, and one mysterious, complex seal after another continuously flew out from his palms, drifting down toward the ground.
One had to know that the sealing techniques Rengoku had mastered were by no means limited to a single system, but spanned many different frameworks.
Among them were even numerous seal formulas that not even someone as powerful as Otsutsuki Hagoromo had ever known.
In just a few short seconds, Rengoku formed more than seventy seals in rapid succession.
Finally, when all the seals were completed, Rengoku brought his palms together, then suddenly thrust them forward.
A rune seal blazing with dazzling light instantly condensed in his hands.
Without the slightest hesitation, he forcefully drove this massive rune seal deep into the ground.
As the rune seal sank into the earth, the Dragon Vein that had been constantly pulled toward Chibaku Tensei in midair suddenly seemed to be pressed down by an invisible tremendous force, slowly retracting back underground.
However, Otsutsuki Hagoromo clearly had no intention of giving up so easily. He poured everything he had into further increasing the suction of Chibaku Tensei.
Yet because his own energy had been consumed too heavily, his body now appeared half transparent, showing clear signs of weakness.
If this continued, it would not be long before the energy within him was completely exhausted, leaving him unable to sustain himself any further.
His gaze swept rapidly up and down like twin bolts of lightning.
Suddenly, his eyes stopped on the crowd Rengoku had brought below, precisely locking onto two familiar figures, Sasuke and Naruto.
"So they truly are my outstanding children."
Hagoromo murmured softly. At the same time, the mysterious vortex at the center of his brow slowly began to turn, as if it contained boundless power.
As the vortex spun, his eyes gradually emitted a hazy, pale purple glow.
At that very moment, Naruto and Sasuke, standing on the other side, suddenly felt an indescribable, overwhelming sense of danger crashing down upon them.
In an instant, both of them felt as though their bodies had been ignited, growing hot and burning, the temperature on their skin rising at an astonishing rate.
"Aaahhh!"
Naruto could not help but let out a scream, clutching his body tightly as he tried to resist the sudden, searing pain.
"Ugh!", Sasuke was just as tormented, veins bulging on his forehead as beads of sweat rolled down his face.
Finally, unable to endure the pain any longer, the two of them collapsed to the ground together, their bodies curled up tightly.
Immediately afterward, two powerful streams of chakra burst violently out of Sasuke's and Naruto's bodies, like unbridled wild horses charging straight toward Hagoromo.
Seeing this, Rengoku did not hesitate in the slightest and sent a message to Orochimaru's location, telling Minato to quickly take Sasuke and Naruto to safety.
However, after the two streams of chakra met in midair, it was as if they had encountered mortal enemies, colliding and intertwining with frenzied intensity.
They struggled against each other, neither willing to yield, locked in a stalemate.
Hagoromo swung the staff in his hand violently. Along with a sharp gust of wind, the two fiercely clashing streams of chakra were forcibly driven into the Dragon Vein beneath the ground.
In an instant, the Dragon Vein, which had been relatively calm, was like a heavy bomb had been thrown into it, immediately becoming violently unstable.
A dull rumble came from deep underground, followed by the sudden eruption of an incomparably massive energy surge.
The entire ground shook violently, then exploded apart with a thunderous roar, countless chunks of earth and stone blasting upward and blotting out the sky.
This terrifying energy was like a ferocious beast opening its bloody jaws, mercilessly swallowing Rengoku whole.
Rengoku felt an indescribable force gripping his body tightly, like an invisible giant hand, tearing at him with brute force.
His heart jolted violently as he instantly realized that this was the power of space and time.
At this moment, Rengoku felt as if his entire body had been thrown into a high speed, violently spinning washing machine. Amid the dizzying chaos, he completely lost control of his own movements.
The chakra, pupil power, and pupil techniques that had once surged powerfully within him were all now being violently disrupted by the force of space and time.
These formidable powers were like they had been swept into a raging storm, thrown into utter chaos, and he could only intermittently transmit fragments of information to his clone.
Then Rengoku and the Dragon Vein's energy exploded together in midair.
A shocking scene unfolded. In the blink of an eye, Rengoku completely vanished without a trace.
At the same time, the Dragon Vein, which had been rampaging just moments earlier, also disappeared as if it had evaporated from the world.
For a moment, it was as if a KTV that had been deafeningly loud had suddenly suffered a total blackout.
All noise and clamor came to an abrupt halt, leaving behind nothing but deathly silence.
"Shishou!"
Karin stared in terror at the place where Rengoku had just been.
The scene in midair looked as if glass had been misaligned, filled with semi transparent cracks.
After only a moment, those cracks fully repaired themselves, as though nothing had ever happened.
Her heart sank straight to the bottom, her face filled with disbelief.
But just then, Karin suddenly turned her head, her gaze falling upon Rengoku's clone.
To her slight relief, the clone had not vanished along with the main body.
It merely slowly closed its eyes and, with great difficulty, forced out a few words, "No… need… to wor…ry… wait… for… me to come… back…"
Each word seemed to take tremendous effort to utter, yet even so, these words brought a small measure of comfort to the frantic Karin.
In the next instant, Rengoku's clone lost all strength, its body going limp like a deflated ball and collapsing weakly to the ground.
Seeing this, Karin hurried forward and caught the clone, supporting her master.
"Shishou! Shishou?", Karin cried out anxiously.
She knew Rengoku's clone very well. It was normally closely linked to the main body and fully capable of independent action. It should never have fallen into a state resembling deep sleep like this.
Fortunately, there was still one sliver of hope that eased her heart slightly.
As long as Rengoku's clone was safe, then the real body would not be in danger.
Just then, Kurama Yakumo suddenly showed a look of terror and shouted in alarm, "He's coming!"
The others could not see it, but they all knew that Otsutsuki Hagoromo was rapidly flying toward the direction where Naruto and Sasuke were.
[T/N: What happened to "They laid the trap for me. How can I not entertain?", "I am the strongest" and all? Facking egoistical edgelord.]
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