The blood-red Six Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead and the pale-purple Six Tomoe Rinnegan in his left eye seemed finally to have absorbed enough vast energy, and their internal structures completed their final transformation in an instant.
The six tomoe spun like living things, then finally stabilized, shockingly turning into forms that each bore nine deep tomoe.
Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan!
Minamoto Takuya was not surprised in the slightest.
He knew full well that the core of the Rinnegan's evolution lay in the power of Yin Release.
His original Six Tomoe Rinnegan had already been only one step away from the final nine-tomoe form, separated from it by nothing more than that thin bottleneck.
Now, the surging new power within him had fused with the Yang Release power he had just taken from the Sage of Six Paths.
Though their natures were different, it was finally enough to become that crucial "catalyst."
This Yin Release did not directly drive the evolution; rather, it completely fulfilled that last stringent evolutionary condition, allowing his eyes to cross that chasm as a matter of course.
The instant both eyes evolved into the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan, the pressure around Minamoto Takuya, already so heavy it seemed almost tangible as it crushed down on space itself, erupted like the ignited core of a star.
Boom!
An indescribably terrifying wave of energy swept outward with him at its center.
The air froze, and space let out an overburdened groan, as if the entire battlefield ruin had been paused in that moment.
Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju felt their very souls tremble. They were pinned in place, and even their thoughts grew sluggish.
Black Zetsu was even worse, as if he had been thrown into an abyss of absolute zero. The fear of a higher-level power that came from deep