Opening the World Passage; Tsunade Goes to Sky City. Sky City floated above the clouds, cherry blossoms drifting down in the morning light.
Chiyo stood in the plaza at the center of the city. Beneath his feet were stone slabs carved with silver patterns, the lines radiating outward from where he stood like a massive spiderweb covering the entire city.
Kaguya stood behind him, holding Tsuki-chan in her arms.
Tsuki-chan had her hair tied into two little pigtails and was reaching with her chubby fingers for Kaguya's hanging white hair.
Kagome stood on the left, with Coral beside her, while Kagura and Kanna stood on the right.
Princess Lingyue, Abihime, Kanade Hime, Suiko, Kikyo, and the others were also present. After five years, everyone had long since grown used to scenes where they all gathered together like this.
Chiyo raised his right hand.
Silver white Rule Power surged from his palm and spread along the patterns beneath his feet.
The patterns lit up, giving off a soft white glow. The light spread from the center of the plaza across the entire city, then pierced through the clouds and extended toward the ground below.
A pillar of light dropped from Sky City, piercing the sea of clouds, piercing the mountains, and falling onto an empty plain.
The instant the pillar of light touched the ground, the earth trembled slightly. A circular formation about a hundred meters in diameter emerged on the ground, its patterns exactly the same as those on Sky City.
The barriers between the two worlds were torn open.
A door appeared at the center of the formation. It stood three zhang tall and two zhang wide, cast from silver white metal, with golden patterns flowing across its surface.
On the other side of the door, another sky, another