Splash!
Amid the increasingly violent currents and the growing roar of waterfalls crashing down, Uchiha Nobuhiko slowly pushed himself upright. As he rose, the white vapor billowing from his neck gradually subsided. He stood firmly atop the water at last, no longer drifting with the waves.
Rinnegan...
The supreme power truly was extraordinary.
Planetary Devastation alone had already surpassed every power wielded by shinobi.
Including Wood Release! Not to mention the other powers contained within these most exalted eyes.
Moreover, Planetary Devastation was not a technique—or power—in the purely physical sense. In a way, though it had physical manifestations, its essence was a Sealing Jutsu, making it perfectly suited for dealing with Taki Chiba.
Really... I have Taki Chiba to thank for awakening my Rinnegan.
If Hashirama's Power, the power of my Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and that inexplicable force had not merged and awakened into the Rinnegan at that very instant—if not for that Shinra Tensei at the critical moment—I would probably have been annihilated by Taki Chiba's incomplete Truth-Seeking Orb.
He had always tried to fuse the five Nature Transformations with Yin-Yang Release, but in the end, he could not fully infuse Yang Release into it. He was just a little short. If he had completed the Truth-Seeking Orb, I would probably have died several times over.
As he watched the hollow nearby where the roaring current poured down and the water level steadily fell, the sound of the waterfall striking the ground gradually changing into the sound of water slapping against water, a faintly relieved thought surfaced in Uchiha Nobuhiko's heart.
But...
Give him ten years. Once he can fully control the Gate of Wonder, combine it with Wood Release, and add the Truth-Seeking Orb...
The odds will probably still clearly favor him.
Taki Chiba did not possess