Kaguya's ethereal voice rang out again, carrying an almost imperceptible tremor, like a hairline crack spreading across ice. This time, she was no longer commenting on the power of her "unfilial son," but directing her attention toward something more specific.
"That stone... the last relic of the Valley of Slumber..." Her pure white eyes pierced the chaotic energy storm raging across the battlefield, fixing precisely on the Black Stone in Ling's arms as its light grew ever brighter. "It can actually... maintain its 'existence'... under such erosion by 'nothingness'..."
For the first time, something that could be called "interest" appeared in her eyes. It was not an emotion directed toward humanity. It was more like a scholar discovering a strange specimen that defied known physical laws, or a starving person seeing a dish they had never tasted, yet whose aroma was irresistibly enticing.
That "interest" made her, who had focused primarily on Hashirama and Madara until now, truly regard Ling and the Black Stone as "variables" worth watching for the first time.
Meanwhile, within the Consciousness Abyss, Ling had reached the most critical moment.
Outside, Madara's Amenotejikara brutally tore at the pale vortex's structure, while Hashirama's golden Gate of the Great God, infused with Asura's Yang Release power, slammed down like a red-hot branding iron upon its distorted core. The two Tobiramas from different eras jointly unleashed Space-Time Sealing Jutsu: Bipolar Dust Reversion. Its two enormous silver-blue serpents of space-time power had already begun cutting into the "weak points" connecting the vortex to the Consciousness Abyss, like precision scalpels.
All this external interference was like several massive boulders hurled into a tranquil-or rather, deathly still-lake, stirring unprecedented, monstrous waves through the Gray Space that embodied the Sacred Lord's Law!
Obito's consciousness unleashed a hysterical roar, mingling pain with madness. **"No!