"Freeze!"
Even at the moment of crisis, Shin remained calm. With a simple word, the world responded.
In an instant, the wind ceased, the water stopped flowing, and everything between heaven and earth came to a halt, sinking into an eerie stillness. It was like someone watching a recording had suddenly pressed pause, freezing everything in that exact moment.
Yet only the world within a radius of ten miles had stopped. Outside, everything continued as normal. Hyuga Tamamo's battle with Uzumaki Naruto, and Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama's battle with Otsutsuki Hamura, were completely unaffected.
In other words, only the new world had undergone this change...
The white chakra glow stopped before Shin's brow. Then, he smiled faintly and casually waved it away. The instant the chakra light dispersed, the entire world resumed its original motion, as though everything that had just happened had been nothing more than an illusion.
"Sage of Six Paths, do you still think you can defeat me?" Shin asked softly. His tone was calm, yet it carried an unusual confidence.
Standing ten miles away, the Sage of Six Paths narrowed his eyes slightly. From beginning to end, he had never entered Shin's new world. But to a Six Paths Level expert, that distance was no different from standing right in front of him.
Only the Sage of Six Paths understood what it meant when the entire new world had stopped just now, and where Uchiha Shin's confidence came from.
It was something beyond space and ninjutsu. In that instant, Uchiha Shin had directly used his own authority to stop the entire new world. It was a true halt... unrelated to time or space. It was the ultimate authority that only a Creator God could wield.
Within the new world spanning ten miles, Uchiha Shin was