Crushing Battle!

Hundreds of black cubes as massive as small mountains—Daikokuten—blocked out the sun above the sinkhole, casting a suffocating shadow of death.

They were not simply falling. They carried a strange force field that interfered with space and chakra perception, making the area beneath them viscous, slowing the flow of chakra, and dragging even sight and spiritual perception into a quagmire.

Even Ōtsutsuki Isshiki felt a bone-deep chill rise in his heart as he faced the sky-blotting, scalp-numbing number of Daikokuten.

He knew full well how terrifying these black cubes were. Not only did they possess a dreadful weight enough to crush mountains into dust, they could also severely disrupt an enemy's sense of space-time and chakra perception. Once someone was struck head-on or trapped by them, even he would not have an easy time of it!

Sukunahikona!

Isshiki barely hesitated. His right eye, the Black Eye, instantly locked onto the most threatening Daikokuten directly overhead, and ocular power poured in wildly!

Brilliant light flared at the center of the black wheel-shaped pattern, and the enormous cubes that were about to smash down onto his head instantly shrank, then shrank again, going from hulking objects ten meters across to the size of fingernails, before finally becoming dust so tiny it was almost imperceptible!

This was one of the unique ocular techniques of his Black Eye, allowing him to freely change the size of a target object. At that moment, it was the perfect way to neutralize the most direct physical attack.

However, in the very instant he used Sukunahikona, his attention was inevitably pulled toward the process of shrinking the Daikokuten.

A flash of golden light, dazzling to the extreme, pierced through the gap that had briefly appeared after the Daikokuten shrank, leaving a golden afterimage in the air!

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