The boundless space-time stretched as far as the eye could see, filled with floating blocks.
Time was painfully short. Based on his experience fighting Madara in his previous life, the Limbo: Border Jail shadows would take roughly three minutes to recover.
Finding the absorbed Totsuka Blade and Kabuto's severed head in this vast space-time within those three short minutes was almost impossible.
But Sasuke had only dared to enter because he had something to rely on.
"East, south, west, north, above, below—everything in every direction. With my current strength, I wonder whether this technique can reach the boundaries of this space-time."
Sasuke sat down on the block beneath his feet and formed hand seals.
—Heavenly Canopy Formation!
Whoosh! An invisible sensory barrier spread out in every direction, scanning hundreds upon thousands of blocks in an instant!
A minute and a half soon passed. Apart from an astonishing number of uniformly sized blocks, he detected nothing.
"I'd only heard how big this place was before. I never imagined... it really would be like searching for a needle in a haystack."
But right now, he had no better option than to concentrate fully and keep expanding the barrier.
His persistence paid off. Thirty seconds later, a familiar presence entered the formation's outer edge.
Sasuke's eyes lit up... After calculating the coordinates, he reached out and opened his hand, unfolding Yomotsu Hirasaka beside him. Maintaining the seal with one hand, he thrust the other through the rift and used Banshō Ten'in... to draw a dark red short blade with a gourd for its hilt off a distant block and into his palm.
This was the Totsuka Blade's physical form, known as the Sake Slayer Blade!
When Itachi had found it all those years ago, he had needed a few tricks to successfully graft