Hard Counter. "Forced to transform right from the start, huh? Heh..."
Otsutsuki Tsukishiki shook her head disdainfully and looked up at Lily and Kaguya across from her. She flexed her wrist and said flatly, "I wonder if you two can last until the battle over there ends."
Kaguya's expression was grave. Facing Tsukishiki, the former head of their line, she felt an immense pressure. Lily, on the other hand, was clearly much more relaxed.
Although Tsukishiki was stronger than Cangshiki, her fighting style was direct and straightforward, while Cangshiki relied more on special abilities, which made him extremely troublesome to deal with.
Lily spread one hand, and demonic energy gathered in her palm, forming a black greatsword with scarlet eyes. Conqueror's Haki erupted, and red-black lightning flickered nonstop across the blade.
At the sight, a hint of surprise appeared on Tsukishiki's face. She said, "That strange power again. I didn't expect you to have it too."
As she spoke, Tsukishiki's somewhat fading desire to fight instantly flared up again. The corners of her mouth lifted, and azure energy once more wrapped around both of her fists.
"Very good. It seems you won't bore me..."
Meanwhile, A tangible-looking brown pillar of light shot into the sky from within the darkness, and Otsutsuki Cangshiki's figure slowly appeared inside it.
Compared to the previous Otsutsuki Cangshiki, the current Cangshiki looked like a completely different person. His shriveled body had become extremely burly, a pair of huge branch-like horns had grown from his forehead, and at the spot between his brows, just like Momoshiki and Urashiki before him, a new brown Rinnegan had opened.
The chakra of an Otsutsuki elder materialized into brown flames that blazed across Cangshiki's body. After transforming, he opened both Rinnegan again. The instant his gaze locked onto Gigue, an