As soon as he finished speaking, Kaguya Yakki slammed both palms against the ground.
"Shikotsumyaku! Early Fern Dance!"
The next second, countless sharp bone spears erupted from beneath the battlefield.
Their targets... were every Kaguya clansman present, as well as their corpses!
"What?" Before the hundred-odd Kaguya clansmen could react, the bone spears pierced their bodies, leaving disbelief frozen on their faces.
Uchiha Sora's shadow clones reacted swiftly, leaping into the air to evade them.
Just then, he saw the flesh of the impaled Kaguya clansmen and their corpses withering at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, they had all become dried husks!
"Forbidden jutsu! Shikotsumyaku! Bone Demon Descent!"
Kaguya Yakki roared. A moment later, the bone spears withdrew, carrying vast amounts of blood energy and chakra back into his body.
Boom!
An immensely powerful aura surged from Kaguya Yakki, sweeping across the entire battlefield.
Uchiha Sora's gaze sharpened. "Interesting. So he had a forbidden jutsu like this hidden away! One that sacrifices his clansmen's lives and blood energy?"
Just as the God Tree absorbed people's chakra through its branches and vines, Kaguya Yakki's forbidden jutsu worked on the same principle.
After absorbing vast amounts of his clansmen's blood energy and chakra, an unnatural layer of blood-red chakra surged over his body.
Enveloped in that chakra, Kaguya Yakki trembled violently, his expression contorting as though he were enduring excruciating pain.
Then a silvery-white exoskeleton appeared across his body.
Those silvery-white bones grew and spread wildly, forming a gigantic skeletal warrior nearly ten meters tall in the blink of an eye!
Kaguya Yakki's body remained hidden within the white skeleton's torso.
Red ghostly flames ignited in the skeletal warrior's hollow eye sockets as it looked toward Uchiha Sora.
Its powerful aura bore down on