-Great Lord Divine Art: Surplus Nirvana!
Yu's Divine Garment of the Great Lord God vanished in supreme golden radiance!
"His divine power... disappeared??"
As Basara reeled in bewilderment, clang! An ancient bell tolled from beyond primordial space-time!
"The bell of the Gion Monastery...!!!"
Basara's expression became more horrified than ever before. "How is this possible... could it be!?"
Why would a single toll of a bell make even Basara, the strongest beneath the Progenitor Gods, lose his composure like this?
The bell of the Gion Monastery rang only when a Broad-Sense God was born or extinguished!
The last time it had rung was when Yu became the Great Lord God!
Now, only a short time later, it rang again... signifying a Broad-Sense God's "nirvana"!
Legend held that when a Broad-Sense God entered nirvana, inconceivable power would be drawn forth from an inconceivable source!
That source was none other than the Gion Monastery-of which only two existed, one in Takamagahara and one in the Netherworld!
That immeasurable power would be several times the divine power of the god entering nirvana, and... it would also include the amplification from the Great Infinite Sage Art!
What Yu consigned to nirvana was the Great Lord God's "divinity," not his body or soul. Something still remained, hence the name "Nirvana with Remainder"!
Whoosh!
A golden Rasengan formed before Yu's palm. Stirred by the nirvana bell, a tide of Gion Monastery Divine Power surged from a spacetime vortex like an unfurling painting of the galaxy, strengthening the Rasengan!
Yu's resolute voice rang throughout Heaven Beyond Heaven. "Basara, I didn't dare come before you without preparations of my own. If you could bring yourself to sacrifice the Amenominaka Shikigami, wouldn't I fall short if I couldn't bear to give up being the Great Lord God?"
Amid boundless