The storm swept through everything like an eraser, quickly turning the entire battlefield into a desolate wasteland, with none of its former lush greenery left behind.
"What...?!"
Tsunade, who had been treating Jiraiya, unconsciously stopped her medical ninjutsu. Her eyes were fixed on the distant battlefield, filled with shock.
Jiraiya paid no mind to the abruptly halted treatment. Staring blankly at the distant battlefield, he murmured, "Is this the power of the Tenseigan?"
Among the crowd, however, no one was more shocked than Neji's father.
Even now, Hizashi wore an expression of utter disbelief. For someone like him, who had been bound by the Caged Bird Seal since childhood and passively accustomed to the Hyuga Main Branch's conservative, rigid way of thinking, the scene before him was simply too great a shock to his worldview.
On the battlefield, Naruto, having caught his breath, exclaimed in amazement, "Neji, your Tenseigan is so strong!"
"The thing you used to save me just now... was that a Truth-Seeking Orb?" After a pause, Sasuked asked with a complicated expression, "You... you're already a sage now?"
"Ahhh!!!"
Neji, suspended in midair, had just opened his mouth to answer when his expression suddenly froze. He then clutched his eyes and let out a pained howl in the air.
"Neji, what's wrong?"
Sasuke and Naruto were both startled.
Bang...
Neji, who had been howling in the air, quickly lost his ability to maintain Tenseigan Chakra Mode. He reverted to normal and fell from the sky, crashing onto the ground.
The three Truth-Seeking Orbs that had been circling around him also vanished one after another, dissipating before Sasuke and Naruto's eyes.
Sasuke was somewhat dumbfounded. "What happened?"
Naruto hurried over to Neji, helping him up from the ground. "Are you okay? What's going on?"
One hand covering his