The shock wave from the Sand Death Star's explosive destruction took a long time to subside. Countless scraps of flesh floated in the deathly stillness of space.
As though they had been put through a high-speed meat grinder, the scraps were mixed with a few relatively intact pieces of tissue that could still be called "chunks of flesh."
One chunk seemed unwilling to simply rot and stink. It writhed and struggled desperately, and a Rinne Sharingan opened on its surface!
Then... the chunks of flesh seemed to find their guiding center.
Two black Six-Tomoe Rinnegan and two white Six-Tomoe Rinnegan opened on the other chunks in succession.
The eye-bearing chunks collided and fused. Before long... half of Naruto's face appeared.
The five eyes turned toward the scattered scraps of flesh. The sole remaining corner of his mouth tugged upward into Māra's signature smile. "What a miserable sight..."
"Fortunately... I finally 'adapted' at the last moment and escaped being utterly obliterated!"
Boom!! In the void... a storm swept up the scattered flesh, reconstructing it around the half-formed head!
Naruto's body was molded anew.
His build and appearance were no different from before, and a red Divine Robe draped his body... Māra had been reborn through Nirvana!
Feeling his utterly transformed chakra, Māra could not suppress a laugh that boomed like an exploding Tailed Beast Bomb.
"Kyehehehehehehehehehe!!! Kyehehehehehehehehehe! Kyehehehehehehehehehe!!!!"
"Ōgetsuhime... is terrifyingly powerful!!!!!!"
"Not only did it directly evolve my true Māra body into a 'God Tree,' it even enhanced the strength of that brat Naruto Uzumaki, the vessel for my power, until he rivaled ten of the old Ten-Tails???"
"That's a little irritating... but after all, a God Tree is my final form. The 'mother tree' of Māra is controlled by 'Shi Mei,' the current ruler of the Ōtsutsuki. Bound by