"Rumble—"
The black-and-gold Yang Release: Rasenshuriken exploded before Kaguya. The violent shockwave threw up a hundred-meter wave of lava, and the pungent stench of sulfur instantly flooded everyone's nostrils.
Yet this attack, enough to flatten a mountain peak, struck an invisible wall of air when it came within three feet of Kaguya, failing to stir even a single strand of her flowing white hair.
"Crude power." Kaguya's cold voice echoed through the empty underground world, her pure Byakugan utterly unruffled.
A pale hand emerged from her broad sleeve. From the center of her palm, a gray-white bone spike silently protruded.
There were no hand seals, no sign of chakra flowing.
As if piercing through the barriers of space itself, the bone spike ignored the hundred-meter distance and shot straight for Naruto's brow.
"Great Evolution Divine Soul Art, warning!"
Within his mindscape, his danger sense let out an ear-piercing buzz. Every hair on Naruto's body stood on end. He had no time to dodge as his Pure Yang Chakra surged to its limit in an instant, and the white sun mark in his right palm slammed forward.
"Pssh!"
Fist met bone. There was no earthshaking explosion, not even a gust of wind.
But Naruto's eyes flew wide as his entire right arm went numb. The skin on the back of his hand began peeling away in large patches like burning paper ash, scattering into the air.
"What the hell is this? It can even break down Yang Release?!" Naruto roared through gritted teeth, borrowing the force to shoot backward.
Pure Yang Chakra continuously poured into his arm. Golden light and gray deathly energy tangled furiously, barely suppressing the spread of the graying, but unable to erase it completely.
Kaguya did not pursue him. Her gaze shifted slightly as she indifferently swept