Don't Worry, Earth Has Two Guardians

"Hum—!!!"

"Hum—!"

"Whoosh—!"

Two piercing sounds, fast to the extreme, exploded simultaneously. Both figures completed their strikes in nearly a thousandth of a second!

Two Six Paths Level divine weapons faced each other from afar!

The next second, they slammed into each other fiercely!

There were no flashy moves, just a pure, extreme collision of speed, power, and will. In a mere instant, the two completed tens of thousands of exchanges!

"Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap—!!!"

The deafening roar of divine artifacts clashing rang out incessantly, shaking the very heavens and the firmament!

The two figures were like streaks of light, constantly intersecting and grappling in mid-air, the Six Paths Sword and the Sword of Amenonuhoko clashing madly!

Every collision erupted with blinding energy shockwaves, the tyrannical power seemingly intent on tearing the entire sky asunder!

"Hah—!"

"Hah—!"

Two roars that shook the heavens erupted at the same time, a chakra storm sweeping in all directions!

Below, Indra and Asura looked up at the fierce battle in the high sky, their eyes wide, faces filled with unbelievable shock.

They had exhausted all their learning, yet they found that the battle before them had long since transcended their understanding. This duel lacked large-scale world-destroying techniques, but the sheer intensity of this combat power was terrifying!

Susanoo was like a plastic bag before these two.

Thousand-Handed Buddha was like a speed bump before these two.

Ten thousand meters above, the violent airflow was churned into a frenzy by the force of the battle. The gazes of Sage Manji and Hagoromo collided countless times in the blink of an eye.

Hagoromo's heart was in turmoil. He had lived for a long time, understood the limits of the living beings on this planet, and knew the power ceiling of this world.

Yet, the Sage Manji before him had completely shattered all his perceptions!

"Teacher! Who exactly are you! According to the limits of the living beings on this planet, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to reach your level!"

Hagoromo gripped the Sword of Amenonuhoko tightly and asked in shock.

He had lived for hundreds of years and seen countless powerhouses, but he had never seen an existence as absurd as Sage Manji.

Living a long time was one thing, but for his power to be so terrifying was another.

"Heh, how could a little brat like you shake the cultivation I have accumulated over these thousands of years?"

Sage Manji remained calm and composed, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

The Six Paths Sword in his hand seemed to move slowly, yet it always accurately blocked every heavy, powerful strike from Hagoromo.

Sage Manji sneered inwardly.

He was an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon; how could the cultivation foundation of this planet's beings compare to his?

They were not even existences from the same dimension!

The battle between the two intensified, the combat zone climbing higher and higher until they were fighting at an altitude of ten thousand meters!

Both shared a tacit understanding; neither wished for a battle of this level to affect the mortals and living beings below, so they tacitly shifted the battlefield to the high sky, far away from the ground.

Meanwhile, on the distant moon, Ōtsutsuki Hamura and his disciples and grand-disciples were observing the shocking battle above the Earth's surface.

"Oh my god! Great-Grandfather! What on earth is happening on Earth? That power fluctuation is too terrifying!"

An old man with white hair and beard stared fixedly at the fluctuations on the Earth's surface, speaking with a grave expression.

The aged and frail Ōtsutsuki Hamura, leaning on his cane, looked at the fluctuations on the Earth's surface.

A trace of shock flashed through his cloudy eyes.

Hamura remained calm, waving his hand with a steady voice:

"Rest assured, Sage Manji and my elder brother Hagoromo are holding down the fort on Earth. With those two guarding the planet, we can sleep soundly!"

With that, Hamura put his hands behind his back and slowly turned to leave, leaving his disciples and grand-disciples staring at each other in dismay.

"Understood."

The group scratched their heads, finally setting their hearts at ease, and dispersed, saying no more.

"Hah—!!!!"

A roar that shook the nine heavens exploded, and the Six Paths Sword and the Sword of Amenonuhoko collided fiercely once again!

Purple-gold and pitch-black divine radiance clashed madly, and even space was ground into fine cracks!

In this instant, Sage Manji's pupils shrank violently, and a trace of genuine shock flashed through his heart.

The Sword of Amenonuhoko and the Six Paths Sword were divine weapons that connected directly to the heart and mind, carrying the wielder's will. The stronger the wielder's will, the more terrifying the power the weapon erupted with!

And in the moment of that collision, Sage Manji clearly sensed the will within Hagoromo—as thick and indestructible as the bedrock of the primordial world—it was a heart of great love that embraced all things in the world and protected all living beings!

Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo truly possesses a boundless love for all!

The legendary lover king.

"Hagoromo, it seems your love is truly boundless..." Manji sighed softly, his tone tinged with a hint of emotion.

Opposite him, the veins on Hagoromo's arms bulged as he desperately braced the Sword of Amenonuhoko against the immense force of the Six Paths Sword, finding it increasingly difficult to hold his ground.

"Teacher, your power is truly unfathomable."

Hagoromo gritted his teeth and said.

Manji remained calm and composed on the surface, but inwardly he clicked his tongue: This Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo is truly a camel that is dead but still bigger than a horse.

Even though he had long since passed on a portion of his power to Asura and was now old and far past his prime, he could still withstand his onslaught!

"I must end this quickly."

Manji thought to himself. If this dragged on, it would inevitably affect the outside world, so he stopped holding back and unleashed his Sage Mode chakra in a sudden explosion.

"Sage Art: Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"

Manji's figure instantly split into five!

The five identical figures formed a surrounding formation, trapping Hagoromo firmly in the center!

"Sage Art: Five Immortal Art Barrage!"

The five figures shouted in unison, each channeling one of the five great immortal powers derived from Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, Shikkotsu Forest, Yata, and Monkey Demon!

Five distinct, world-destroying immortal killing moves!

Carrying the weight of hundreds of years of accumulated sage power, they roared toward Hagoromo!

How terrifying was the sage power Manji had accumulated over hundreds of years?

As it poured out in its entirety, the power approached the level of recreating the elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, annihilating all things!

Watching the five-colored torrent of sage arts rushing toward him, Hagoromo's expression changed instantly!

This vast, boundless energy was enough to grind everything tangible into dust!

"Rinnegan Absorption!"

Hagoromo's mind was clear; he knew that forcibly absorbing such sage energy would lead to his body exploding from the rampaging chakra, but to protect the common people below, he had no other choice!

At the same time, the Truth-Seeking Orbs floating behind Hagoromo shot out, the black Yin-Yang Release chakra spreading like a canopy to instantly form an indestructible barrier!

He locked the entire battlefield down tightly, ensuring not a single ripple of the explosion would leak out to harm the living beings on the ground!

Then, with a thought, the very last Truth-Seeking Orb began to expand!

"Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb!"

It appeared!

A technique once used by his mother Kaguya, but stopped; now, Hagoromo had replicated it.

Although Hagoromo could not reach the level of his mother Kaguya.

In this way, even if Master does not die, he will be severely injured, and then I can only leave the rest to Asura... It is helpless; Master's sealing is too strong, I cannot contact Hamura on the moon at all...

A tear fell from Hagoromo's eye.

"An Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb, is it?"

The moment Manji saw the Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb, he understood exactly what Hagoromo intended to do.

"BOOM!!!"

A deafening roar instantly turned the entire night as bright as day!

In that instant, heaven and earth fell silent!

The Anbu said: Hagoromo won.

The Super Kage said: Manji won.

And the author said: I am going to start winning with my hands.