At that instant, the world seemed to have been muted.
There was no deafening explosion, no earth-shattering clash of energy.
Along the path of that slash, everything withered away.
The chakra turbulence still raging through the air, the arrogant Majestic Attire: Susanoo fused with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and even the clouds and light filling the sky behind it all evaporated into nothing.
This was "Tenchi Kaijin."
It was neither spectacular nor dazzling. It was so plain that it amounted to nothing more than an extremely thin black line.
But wherever that line passed, matter was erased and the rules were rewritten.
Ryūjin Jakka had already returned to its sheath in Chiya's hand. Its crisp click sounded especially piercing across the deathly silent wasteland.
The "Zanjitsu Gokui" around him slowly faded, revealing his spotless white God's Robe.
And opposite him...
The blue giant hundreds of meters tall, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path inside it, and the impossibly arrogant Madara Uchiha had all vanished.
Only an empty vacuum remained.
No wind dared blow there. No light could enter.
It was absolute destruction.
"Is... is it over?"
More than ten kilometers away, Raikage A stared with his one remaining eye, a dry rasp scraping out of his throat.
He could not understand what had just happened.
All he had seen was that black line flashing past. Then Madara Uchiha, who had driven even the combined Five Kage to despair, was simply gone?
Without even a trace of ash?
"That's impossible..."
Ōnoki lay on the ground, trembling all over.
His sensitivity to chakra was the keenest. In his perception, the chakra in that area had not been dispersed-it had been "burned" out of existence.
Not on a physical level, but on a conceptual one.
"Impure World Reincarnation makes