The Truth of History!

Isshiki's self-destruction could not compare to the world-destroying collision of the earlier "Spiraling Ring" and "Amenosubaruhoshinomikoto: Ryugu," but erupting at the bottom of the sinkhole, its power still reached a terrifying, heart-stopping level.

At the edge of the sinkhole, whether it was the tense Konoha shinobi or the still-shaken people from Kirigakure and Kumogakure, all they saw was a blinding white light suddenly bursting from the bottom of that massive abyss.

The light instantly washed the bottom of the sinkhole in a deathly white, even scattering the roiling smoke, dust, and steam deep below.

Immediately after, a dull, thunderous boom rolled up from the depths of the earth.

The ground beneath everyone's feet shook violently and swayed, fine cracks spreading out like spiderwebs as countless stones clattered down along the rim of the sinkhole.

The shockwave pierced through the earth, making some shinobi who were already wounded or drained of chakra stagger, nearly falling over.

The white light and thunderous boom came quickly, and faded just as quickly.

After lasting only a few seconds, that piercing light rapidly dimmed, contracted, and finally vanished completely.

The aftereffects of that muffled roar echoed several times through the sinkhole before gradually sinking back into deathly silence.

It was as if that heart-stopping explosion just now had only been a hallucination born from everyone's strained nerves.

Only the acrid smell of char and sulfur hanging in the air grew even thicker.

And the earth beneath their feet still trembling faintly proved that everything just now had not been an illusion.

The entire sinkhole, along with the surrounding land that had been ravaged beyond recognition, fell into a suffocating, eerie stillness.

Wind rolled up from the depths of the sinkhole, carrying gunsmoke as it swept across one dazed, pale, still-shaken face after another.

Shikaku stood