Orochimaru's slit pupils shrank to pinpoints.
For the first time in all his years, terror rose from the depths of his soul.
It inspired such awe that he couldn't even think of resisting!
This was absolute domination on the level of life itself!
Thud.
Orochimaru's knees buckled, and he dropped heavily to the ground. His voice shook.
"What kind of power is this... It surpasses the Sage of Six Paths... I don't even have the strength to stand!"
Outside.
Crack!
The main barrier finally gave way and shattered.
Isshiki hung in midair, his eyes cold.
The ten-thousand-ton Daikokuten cubes and black flames filling the sky were already descending on Obito and Kakashi.
The heat was so intense that their hair had begun to singe.
"We're done for. This is really the end."
Obito closed his eyes.
"Shut that jinxing mouth of yours."
Kakashi climbed out of the crater and tightened his grip on his sword.
Fugaku sighed. Hiruzen held the Ruyi Jingu Bang across his chest.
It was over.
Just as everyone thought Konoha was about to be flattened...
Beneath the ground, a ring of purple-gold ripples spread without a sound.
The ripples swept across the frozen earth, the battlefield, and the sky.
Then something inexplicable happened.
The Divine Punishment attacks, powerful enough to crush an entire shinobi village, touched the purple-gold light and melted away like snow in a furnace. Silently, they vanished into nothing.
Obito knelt on the ground, his hands still raised as if holding something up.
He stared blankly at the empty sky above him.
"What the hell?"
Obito blinked. "Am I dreaming?"
The lightning in Kakashi's hand died out. He rubbed his eyes. "Genjutsu? Or have we already reached the Elysian Pure Land?"
High above.
Isshiki froze. As far as he knew, that attack should