Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and his hidden Nest vanished without stirring the slightest ripple in the Ninja World, like a drop of water melting into the ocean without a sound.
However, for Neji, who had already embarked upon the Golden Core Dao and nurtured the Divine Eye between his brows, removing this festering tumor that had lurked for a thousand years was merely the beginning.
This world of the Ninja World was like a patient recovering from a long illness yet still plagued by invisible lesions. Kaguya's true body and Black Zetsu's will, clinging like gangrene to the bone, were the deepest and most stubborn of those lesions.
Eradicating them completely was not only to uproot the problem once and for all, but also to purify this world's rules, allowing him to proceed with his next plan without concern. At the same time, he could obtain the final intelligence regarding the Ōtsutsuki Homeworld and the so-called "God."
"Rather than waste time searching, I might as well catch them all in one net." Neji hovered above the nine heavens, looking down at the blue planet below as a plan formed in his mind.
Drawing on his understanding of Ōtsutsuki secret arts and the planet's energy veins from Isshiki's memories, combined with his supreme control over rules at the Golden Core stage, a vast and precise plan took shape in his mind—he would lay down the Cosmic Crystal Release Formation, using the entire Ninja World as its foundation for a complete "purification" and "refinement."
This formation was no trifling matter. It could not be deployed without the Golden Core realm, nor controlled without Chaos Immortal Power.
With a thought from Neji, the Primordial Chaos Golden Core in his Dantian slowly accelerated its rotation. Core Essence, vast and surging like the sea, poured forth and