A few minutes later, the dust gradually settled.
On the utterly transformed land, the charred giant crater still emitted wisps of smoke.
The dense forest within several miles had vanished completely, leaving only bare rocks and shattered earth.
Tianyi hovered high in the sky, looking down at the colossal creature below.
The Eight-Tails Gyūki was in its complete form, its eight enormous tails swaying slowly behind it as Tailed Beast chakra surged.
The corners of Tianyi's lips curled up slightly.
"I've been waiting for you, Eight-Tails!"
He continued rising, passing through thin clouds and the increasingly frigid upper atmosphere.
The planet beneath his feet began to reveal its curve, with blue seas and ocher continents faintly visible through the clouds.
Tianyi pressed his hands together.
Chakra surged from his body like a tsunami as Gravity Manipulation activated at full power.
An invisible force swept across dozens of kilometers, reaching into low orbit.
Those rocks that had drifted through dark space for millions of years, those asteroids never touched by any living creature.
At that moment, they felt some kind of summons. They began to tremble, to deviate from their billion-year orbits, and to slowly descend.
One, two, five, seven, ten!
A full ten asteroids were captured from orbit and began falling toward the ground.
Tianyi's chakra was draining frantically, and fine beads of sweat seeped from his temples.
He spread his hands wide, his chakra erupting to its limit as a low roar burst from deep in his throat:
"Fall for me—!"
All ten meteors turned into blinding red streaks at once.
Trailing long plumes of flame, they pierced the atmosphere, growing faster and faster.
The air before them was compressed, torn apart, and set ablaze, producing deafening sonic booms.
Ten trails of fire tore across the sky, plunging rapidly