That sense of emptiness made his breathing stop for a moment.
However, in the very next second.
Hashirama, temporarily suppressed by the White Vine Seal, was struggling to raise his head toward the sky.
He saw a small hole suddenly break open in that indestructible barrier, as though it were glass.
Then, like a domino effect, the entire barrier collapsed and vanished in an instant, dissolving into specks of starlight.
At the sight of this.
Hashirama froze completely.
What... exactly did this kid do?
He had forcibly broken the ultimate forbidden technique of Uzumaki Ashina, the reputed progenitor of Sealing Jutsu, in a single instant.
This was a power that even Madara Uchiha had feared back then. How could it have disappeared so effortlessly?
But the truth was right before his eyes. He had no choice but to believe it.
Had Gekkō Raito been born in the Warring States Period, even he and Madara together would probably have paled before this junior!
This kid was simply defying all limits.
Gekkō Raito himself felt the same way.
Fantastic! That effect-you really lived up to your name, Great Sage!
[Great Sage: Hmph!]
Gekkō Raito could not keep a wildly delighted smile off his face.
Although this ocular technique consumed an enormous amount of power and had nearly drained him dry, its effect was worth far more than the cost.
The reason Kotoamatsukami was called the strongest Genjutsu lay in its ability to alter the will.
And with the Great Sage's radical modifications, it had taken "deception" to its absolute limit-deceiving the world.
By comparison, the Uchiha Clan's forbidden technique, Izanagi, was child's play.
Because what Kotoamatsukami could do now was directly alter reality's cause and effect.
It ignored all logic and forcibly turned a particular "phenomenon" into fact.
As long