A standoff in "Between the Star Cores."
The smooth, pure-white mask reflected the violet-gold starlight rising around Lin Ye, like the coldest eye of judgment. The Faceless One stood there without moving or releasing any pressure, yet the entire spherical space's "sense of existence" was collapsing toward him. The black "voids" he had erased into being, their edges perfectly smooth, silently proclaimed what absolute erasure meant.
"'Key,' the trial is over. Now, come with me to meet my master."
The cold, mechanically synthesized voice sounded again. It was not a request, but a declaration. As though taking Lin Ye away, like erasing those voids, was an established fact about to unfold.
Lin Ye tightened his grip on Dawn's hilt, feeling the newborn power surging through him and the faint resonance between the Origin Starmark on his forehead and the slowly rotating miniature singularity at the center. The unwavering will he had just tempered in the torrent of laws stood like bedrock in his mind. He forcibly suppressed his anxiety over Karin and Sasuke. Right now, distraction meant death.
"I told you," Lin Ye said, slowly raising his starlight longsword and pointing its tip at the Faceless One, "ask my sword first."
Before his words had faded, he moved.
No probing, no maneuvering. He struck with everything he had! Against an entity that commanded conceptual erasure, holding anything back was foolish.
"Rinnegan Jōgan: Kamui Attraction!"
The violet-gold galaxy in his left eye suddenly blazed, unleashing terrifying eye power beyond Mangekyo Kamui! This was not merely spatial distortion, but a compound application of spatial laws driven by the Reincarnation Jōgan, combining Amenotejikara's substitution with Kamui's tearing! The space around the Faceless One seemed to be seized by an invisible giant hand, twisted, then torn apart on top of that! This was not