Defeating Kaguya

The light in his eyes flickered once more, and he immediately activated Amenonotokotachi; the power to rewind time surged through his body.

Ying Yue's physical state was restored in an instant, his shattered body knitting itself back together as time flowed in reverse.

Looking at his unscathed form, Uchiha Ying Yue smiled.

"Let us begin again."

At this moment, Kaguya Otsutsuki watched as Uchiha Ying Yue recovered to his original state, her heart filled with shock.

She had not expected that the Ying Yue before her could survive her All-Killing Ash Bones, let alone recover from them in an instant.

This ability was even more potent than the recovery speed of her own immortal body.

"You... how is this possible?" Kaguya Otsutsuki whispered in disbelief. A flicker of panic crossed her gaze, but she quickly regained her composure. "It seems your recovery ability surpasses my own, but that does not change the fact that you cannot defeat me."

Uchiha Ying Yue smiled faintly, seemingly indifferent to Kaguya's words.

Although Kaguya Otsutsuki's chakra was endless and infinitely powerful, as the battle deepened, she began to feel a trace of exhaustion—not only because Uchiha Ying Yue's bizarre recovery ability was a time-based ocular jutsu that could reverse all injuries as long as his ocular power remained, but also because she realized her combat experience was far inferior to his.

"Kaguya Otsutsuki, you have already failed." Uchiha Ying Yue's words were cold and firm.

He stared at Kaguya with his Rinnegan, as if he had seen through her very essence.

In this moment, Kaguya began to realize that while her immortal body and vast chakra were formidable, they were not invulnerable.

The existence of Uchiha Ying Yue had completely overturned her original understanding and combat style.

At the critical juncture of the battle, the power of Uchiha Ying Yue and Kaguya Otsutsuki reached its limit.

Kaguya Otsutsuki knew well that conventional ninjutsu and fighting styles could no longer defeat Ying Yue; his recovery ability, combat experience, and even his tactics had exceeded her expectations.

A trace of resentment stirred in Kaguya's heart; she knew that only by unleashing even greater power could she reverse the tide of battle.

Thus, she decided to hold nothing back and fully release the power she had kept sealed for so long.

A deep resolve flickered in Kaguya Otsutsuki's eyes as she slowly closed them, beginning to gather the deepest chakra within her body.

"Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball," Kaguya whispered, forming hand seals.

As her voice fell, an immensely powerful energy surged from her body, beginning to form a massive, pitch-black sphere.

The core of the sphere shimmered with purple light, and its dark outer layer gradually expanded like a boundless black hole, swallowing all the space around it.

It was the evolved form of the Truth-Seeking Ball—the Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball—capable of devouring everything, dissolving everything, and even altering the nature and dimensions of space itself.

It was not merely a symbol of power, but the beginning and the end of the world.

As the Truth-Seeking Ball expanded, the nature of the five elements, yin and yang, and all phenomena were consumed; the laws of the surrounding world gradually collapsed before this power, and all existence seemed to be dissolving.

Ying Yue felt a deep sense of dread; even his powerful intuition told him that if he were struck by this, he might not be able to escape unscathed.

However, at this moment, Kaguya had not yet fully mastered the power of the Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball.

She was fully focused on her Ten-Tails Beast Transformation, seeking to maximize her own power.

She began to absorb the chakra of all the ninjas in the Ninja World affected by the Infinite Tsukuyomi, striving to convert it into her own strength to further bolster the Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball. As the chakra flowed in continuously, the volume of the Truth-Seeking Ball grew, becoming large enough to annihilate the existence of an entire world.

A cold glint flashed in Uchiha Ying Yue's eyes; he knew that if he allowed Kaguya to complete this process, the entire world would descend into chaos and might even become a world belonging solely to Kaguya.

He could not allow this to happen; he had to act before Kaguya completed her beast transformation.

Ying Yue did not hesitate, immediately unleashing his ultimate technique—The World.

"The World!" His eyes flashed with a mysterious light, and time throughout the entire world instantly came to a standstill.

Whether it was the flowing air or the expanding Truth-Seeking Ball, everything was frozen in that moment.

Kaguya's movements were also completely halted; her chakra, the Truth-Seeking Ball, and the process of her beast transformation were all locked by time.

Ying Yue seized this precious opportunity, deploying his space manipulation and Amenominaka abilities. His body vanished from his original position, replaced by a series of Space Slashes that tore through the boundaries of time and space, striking rapidly at Kaguya's Truth-Seeking Ball and her beast-transformed body.

The Space Slashes struck like thunder, one after another. Within this brief temporal stasis, every one of Ying Yue's strikes was swift, precise, and carried the power to sever time and space.

He continuously unleashed powerful Space Slashes, each one accurately carving through Kaguya's body and the Truth-Seeking Ball.

As the time stop neared its end, Ying Yue used the Rinnegan technique Amenonotokotachi to rewind his own time, restoring his ability to pause time.

In those few dozen seconds, Ying Yue used almost all his chakra to unleash Space Slashes, striking tens of thousands of times.

Before the time stop ended, he had completely severed the Ten-Tails Beast Transformation within Kaguya, freeing the nine tailed beasts and Uchiha Madara from her body.

As the flow of time resumed, the Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball began to vibrate violently. Once Kaguya lost the power of the Ten-Tails, its core began to collapse; the powerful chaotic energy was no longer supported, and it finally exploded.

The immense power of the Truth-Seeking Ball was shattered by Ying Yue's attacks, beginning to crumble and disintegrate as the darkness and void gradually dissipated.

Ying Yue did not stop; he immediately activated a sealing jutsu, rapidly restricting Kaguya's power to the early stages of the Six Paths level.

This seal effectively suppressed Kaguya's chakra, preventing her from returning to her peak state.

Having lost the power of the Ten-Tails Beast Transformation, Kaguya's body remained formidable, but compared to her previous prime state, she had been significantly weakened.

"Kaguya Otsutsuki, you have lost." Uchiha Ying Yue said calmly, his eyes devoid of pity, filled only with coldness and resolve.

Kaguya's gaze swept across the ruins, seeing her lost power. A sense of resentment surged in her heart, but she knew that the Uchiha Ying Yue before her had truly defeated her; she could no longer turn the tide.

She slowly lowered her head; the long years of sealing and the battle left her feeling a sense of powerlessness, as if all of this had been destined.

Kaguya slowly looked up at Uchiha Ying Yue, her eyes carrying a complex emotion that was hard to describe: "So... what do you intend to do? Will you seal me away once more?"

Ying Yue shook his head, his voice remaining calm: "No, I do not intend to seal you. You planted the God Tree and created the White Zetsu army merely to deal with the threat from the main branch of the Otsutsuki Clan, but that poses no threat to me. Furthermore, if you no longer threaten the Ninja World, there is no need for you to continue existing as an enemy."