"Mm!"
Yan pondered briefly. The wounds on his arm rapidly withered, as though time were passing over them; his skin suddenly aged and quickly spread across his entire body.
Chakra circulated as the Rinnegan's absorption ability activated, but it had no effect.
"Sage Art chakra has been mixed in, along with a power of time. The Rinnegan can't absorb it."
Yan's gaze darkened slightly. Green points of light emerged within his body, then swirled around him and sank into his arm. The arm that had been rapidly withering immediately stopped, and his skin regained its vitality.
In the sky, Shin floated with the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi in hand, steadying his disordered breathing. The Eternal Mangekyo patterns had already vanished from his eyes. In every sense, that last strike had been the pinnacle of his power.
In Sage Mode, he could mobilize the chakra within his body to the utmost limit, concentrating all his power into a single point before unleashing it.
At that instant, the sea roared, space boiled, and black spatial fissures abruptly appeared as the laws of this world began to twist.
"Didn't you say it wouldn't collapse again?" Shin chuckled as he watched the space begin to crumble. That black space just now had been the concentrated power of this dimension. Having been shattered by his strike, this space naturally found it difficult to remain stable.
"..."
Yan said nothing. Perhaps he had no answer, but it did nothing to shake his resolve. On the contrary, that sword strike only strengthened his determination to eliminate Shin.
The ocean dimension had collapsed? No matter. He could simply switch to another.
As his sacred chakra erupted, space shifted once more. Before he realized it, they had arrived somewhere else.
Everywhere he looked was thick, heavy rock. Strange stone forests rose from