Crack!
The secret chamber inscribed with formation patterns split apart.
Xuandou abruptly opened his eyes and rushed out of the chamber.
At once, he saw the sun drawing ever closer in the sky, and beneath it, more and more ninja.
Endless flames intertwined and exploded without cease, painting a scene of the world's destruction.
"This..."
With Xuandou's eyesight, he could naturally make out the desperate, crazed expression on every ninja flying toward the sun.
"What on earth happened?!"
Xuandou had never imagined it either.
In the brief time he had spent taking the Divine Marrow and evolving, everything had changed beyond recognition.
The Shinobi World, which not long ago had been brimming with life, with all things flourishing and thriving.
Had actually become like this...
Rumble!
The rising crust completely buried Azure Tide Port. As far as the eye could see, only ruins remained, without a trace of anything familiar from the past.
In just an instant, the place where Xuandou had made his fortune.
Azure Tide Port, now the Shinobi World's most prosperous and populous city, was utterly destroyed.
Xuandou's chest heaved, his fury blazing.
There was no time to look for his wife and children.
"Tokitsumori!"
Tokitsumori activated in his right eye. Space-Time Reversal took Xuandou back one minute.
Bang!
Xuandou burst out of the chamber and gazed as far as he could. The sun in the sky was still giving off light and heat as usual.
Probably no one would have imagined that in another thirty seconds, the sun that brought light and heat to the Shinobi World would become the very thing that ultimately destroyed it.
"Who could possibly use a sun a million times greater in volume than the Shinobi World as a weapon?"
Xuandou's thoughts raced, one name after another flashing through his mind.