After Heart Takeover had been transferred, everyone rose to their feet, Naruto first!
Shi Mei looked at Sasuke and said, "Your mental strength really does outstrip everyone else's by a staggering margin. But taking on the mental burden of everyone behind you... you certainly have some nerve."
Sasuke murmured, "So this is the real reason the prophecy said only the two God Ninja and the Ten Celestial Ninja could face you here, rather than the more people, the better."
Against Shi Mei's Omnipotence, piling on more people meant nothing. And this pared-down roster was precisely the number of people whose mental expenditure Sasuke could shoulder alone.
Then... if the mechanisms each ninja possessed meshed as perfectly as gears, they would have a chance to break through Shi Mei's defenses!
After all, powerful as Shi Mei was, he was still a living being.
And any living being could potentially be killed.
But Shi Mei had forged his divine body by consuming 530,000 Chakra Fruits. With a whole series of Divine Techniques protecting him—Killing Intent Reflection, Ten Directions, Omnipotence, Sukunahikona, Daikokuten, Claw Mark, and Heavenly Tribulation—killing him had become an impossible task.
Everyone had already undergone "adaptation" to Shi Mei's Divine Techniques a year before the battle began.
Killing Intent Reflection had been the first technique everyone adapted to through Sasuke.
They had also adapted to Omnipotence through Sasuke. He had used Omnipotence to produce as many phenomena as possible, allowing them to adapt to similar phenomena caused by Shi Mei afterward.
But as Shi Mei had said, the accumulating mental exhaustion and Heart Takeover's attacks could not be adapted to... Sasuke had prepared his "transfer" method to counter those as well.
They had also adapted to Claw Mark, again through Sasuke. As a result, they could ignore Claw Marks that "directly