A thunderous rumble rose as the entire earth trembled without end.
The mountain wall before Shin slowly split apart. An invisible barrier shattered, clearly visible through Shin's Rinnegan. Then, the barrier's terrifying energy erupted—power beyond the imagination of modern-day shinobi, accumulated to the point where a catastrophic natural disaster could strike at any moment.
If that energy had fully erupted, it would likely have affected a quarter of the Land of Lightning. Even the distant Land of Wind would have felt the tremors.
Yet beneath Shin's "God's Space," that world-destroying energy abruptly froze. It was then compressed by an even more terrifying force, eventually forming an egg-sized sphere of energy that floated above Shin's right hand.
As his right hand clenched, that terrifying mass of chakra energy was forcibly extinguished, without so much as a ripple rising again.
At the same time, a pitch-black passage appeared before Shin, as though it led to another world.
"A spatial passage. Interesting. That old man, the Sage of Six Paths, keeps exceeding my expectations." Shin raised his brow slightly, but there was not a trace of pressure or tension in his tone.
Unless the Sage of Six Paths himself appeared before him, any arrangement would be useless in the face of absolute strength.
Besides, the Sage of Six Paths' preparations had clearly not been aimed at him. After all, a thousand years ago, even if Otsutsuki Hagoromo had been a true god, he could not have foreseen an anomaly like Shin.
Taking a step forward, one Truth-Seeking Orb transformed into a black barrier around him, shielding him from the spatial pressure coming from all sides.
An instant later, Shin felt space shift, and he found himself inside a palace. He called it a palace because he could clearly sense the state of the