"You really are arrogant!"
Deva Path Pain stared at Houka's Mangekyou and spoke calmly. "You should have noticed by now, shouldn't you? Your Mangekyou ocular techniques are utterly useless before these eyes."
Indeed, Houka's Mangekyou ocular techniques were all countered by his opponent. But that was no surprise, because the Rinnegan had evolved from the Eternal Mangekyou. Compared to the Mangekyou, the Rinnegan was a full two tiers higher!
"So, from here on, I don't intend to use the Mangekyou to fight you."
"What?" Deva Path Pain froze.
As he spoke, the black-and-red pentagram in Houka's eyes slowly rotated before finally becoming Three Tomoe Sharingan.
At the same time, Houka's spiritual projection appeared within the Sealing World inside his body.
Above the Sealing World, countless densely packed starlights filled the sky. They were the innumerable Yang Seals that Houka had accumulated over time—cough, that his Shadow Clones had accumulated over time—by refining and storing Sage Chakra. Yet the moon-like radiance at the very center was a flaw, because that Yang Seal had gathered far too much Sage Chakra. Once used, the terrifying Sage Chakra would directly burst Houka apart!
"Hey, are you serious about this?"
Isobu's turtle head emerged from the lake, its single eye fixed intensely on him. "The Rinnegan—that's the Sage of Six Paths' eyes. You'll be killed!"
Houka's spiritual projection slowly spread his arms toward the sky, as though embracing the countless glittering stars. His murmuring voice gradually escaped his lips. "Isobu, it's precisely because my opponent has the Rinnegan that I have to fight. Maybe... this will be the pinnacle of my life..."
The next instant, the countless Yang Seals above the Sealing World simultaneously blazed with dazzling light.
Streams of Sage Chakra flowed into Houka's body like a hundred rivers converging into the sea.
"So