Countless gray-white All-Killing Ash Bones had already closed to within ten meters of Chiya. The bone spikes tore through space, leaving pitch-black spatial fissures in their wake. Their annihilating aura had locked onto every inch around him, leaving no opening through which he could dodge.
At the platform's edge, Kakashi and the Five Kage stiffened under that aura, their breathing grinding to a halt. They could clearly sense the power carried by those bone spikes. Even the slightest graze would erase them completely from this world, with no hope of recovery. Even a Six Paths-level body could not withstand the annihilating power of All-Killing Ash Bones.
Everyone in the Allied Shinobi Forces clamped their hands over their mouths, not daring to make a sound. Their eyes remained fixed on Chiya, their hearts in their throats. This was the Progenitor of Chakra's killing technique, the most terrifying single-target annihilation ninjutsu since the Shinobi World's birth. They could not imagine how Chiya might stop this overwhelming, lethal assault.
Kaguya hovered in midair, her Byakugan coldly fixed on Chiya. The Rinne Sharingan on her forehead slowly rotated, betraying no emotion. As far as she was concerned, this strike would utterly annihilate the outsider who had dared provoke her, leaving not a trace of him beneath her All-Killing Ash Bones. Since her birth, no one had ever withstood this attack head-on, much less countered the technique.
Just as the All-Killing Ash Bones were about to touch his body, Chiya finally moved.
His right hand held Ryūjin Jakka, and he gave it a gentle forward sweep.
There was no earth-shaking rumble, no deafening explosion. Only extreme heat burst from the blade in an instant. Golden flames spread along its edge, forming a wall of fire before Chiya that spanned the entire Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball Space.