Dust Release, formed by fusing the nature transformations of wind, earth, and fire chakra, was a Kekkei Tōta invented only in modern times. Without question, it was an immensely energy-intensive trump card.
Following the original storyline, even the combined power of the Five Kage had found it difficult to expand this technique to a scale comparable to a complete Susanoo!
This showed that while its power was undeniably formidable, it was by no means a technique ordinary shinobi could afford to use...
And Kitsuchi, having already unleashed the large-scale Earth Release: Mountain Earth Technique, had spent nearly all the chakra he had accumulated in one go.
Not to mention that he had never learned the essence of Dust Release from his father. Even if he truly broke through at the last moment and exceeded his limits, the energy remaining in his chakra pathways would not meet the basic requirements to activate Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique...
Yet despite knowing this, Kitsuchi still formed the hand seals for Dust Release.
—This could only mean that Ōnoki's son had another plan!
Sure enough...
Once the hand seals were completed, no destructive white light swept across the battlefield.
Instead, dense clouds of multicolored smoke rose from all over Kitsuchi's body...
Judging by the direction of the energy flow, this clearly was not an effect like the Eight Inner Gates, which burned the body in exchange for a temporary boost in chakra.
At the very least, every acupoint node in Kitsuchi's body remained in its original state. Nor were his cells draining life energy through extraction methods exceeding normal efficiency because their flow-control valves had failed.
Logically speaking, then, the mist and dust enveloping Kitsuchi's body could only have come from the outside world...
But what was baffling was that, as