Picking Peaches

When Divine Shadow's senses detected the presence of Hagoromo Otsutsuki, an indescribable shock surged from the depths of his heart, like waves churning amid a storm, raising a thousand towering breakers that shot into the sky.

His heart was drowned beneath raging waves. Every cell in his body throbbed madly, as though they sought to burst through their restraints in pursuit of endless power and glory.

"Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Otsutsuki. I've finally met you."

A cold sneer curled across Divine Shadow's lips, his voice filled with endless mockery and disdain.

He had proven the Dao with strength, forcibly breaking through the Inner Demon of the Fourth Tier Beginner and reaching an entirely new level—the Fourth Tier Intermediate.

At that moment, he felt as though he had become omnipotent. Although his control over energy still could not compare with that of a Fifth Tier genetic-lock Saint, his mastery of microscopic control was already enough to let him reign supreme over the entire Shinobi World.

When microscopic control reached its pinnacle, it could penetrate the soul and inflict damage. Crushing a stone into powder and then kneading it back into shape was effortless.

He had awakened his personalized Heart's Light, possessing an immortal origin, reversing entropy's increase and transforming from seeking externally to providing from within.

Moreover, because it was a power corresponding to memetic distortion, it granted him a slight resistance to spacetime and causality. Even when facing anti-logical memetic effects, he was not entirely helpless.

He stood high above, looking down at the ant-like living beings below as an intense desire to conquer rose within him.

Combined with that endless, boundless Heart's Light, his arrogance and madness reached their peak.

He seemed to have become a true demon god, making the entire world tremble.

Utterly dominating thought. Utterly