Crackle!
The Ōtsutsuki Vessel Hammer collided with Amenonuhoko... Lightning Release blazed!
The spectacle was even more magnificent than when Naruto and Sasuke had joined forces against Six Paths Obito!
Amenonuhoko was a Six Paths sacred weapon imbued with its wielder's powerful will. As long as that will endured, nothing could withstand the spear!
By all rights... however powerful the Ōtsutsuki Vessel Hammer was, it should have been shattered beneath Amenonuhoko!
Yet... all the Sage of Six Paths felt through the spear's tip was an unbreakable resistance!
"How is this possible... how can my will fail to pierce Sasuke's technique!?"
The old man blazed with youthful fervor, thrusting his blade forward with all his might!
Even fiercer Lightning Release erupted from Takeamikazuchi's hammerhead... an arc of Lightning Release struck the Sage of Six Paths!
He saw a vision.
Dark clouds shrouded a devastated land!
A man in a black haori looked down upon the earth from high above.
Those eyes scorned all living beings... merely meeting them robbed anyone of the will to resist.
Before a crowd that had already abandoned hope, a one-armed man unafraid of death stood face-to-face with God!
"I am... Shi Mei Ōtsutsuki. Weak yet unyielding ant, state your name!"
The man raised his face. Beneath his bangs... a Sharingan that had weathered countless hardships yet remained unbowed stared straight at God!
"My name is..."
—"Sasuke Uchiha!!!!!"
With a thunderous shout, Sasuke surged forward. Crack! Crack! Starting at its tip, Amenonuhoko shattered inch by inch!
Shattering alongside it... was the Sage of Six Paths' conviction!
"Could it be... that I truly feared Mother's threat and let myself stagnate?"
Boom...!!!
Takeamikazuchi's hammerhead slammed into the Sage of Six Paths' frail form, carrying a crushing torrent of Lightning Release down into the black swamp!!
"Rooooar...!!"
Within the Consciousness Realm,