Xuandou felt a surge of lingering fear.
This Shinobi World was treacherous beyond belief. Without sufficient strength and reserves, even a slight misstep would make a hundred lives nowhere near enough!
Fortunately, he had the Mangekyō Dōjutsu, Tokitsumori, which could reverse space-time.
He had also previously used a Shinjutsu Upgrade Card to create Shinjutsu: Divine Concealment.
Otherwise, he would have fallen to Shibai's very first ambush. How would he still have any right to scheme against the Ōtsutsuki Clan now?
Xuandou did not believe that.
The Ōtsutsuki Ancestor, hailed as the being closest to a god, could truly be so easy to deal with, letting him run wild over the Ōtsutsuki time and again. Shibai's earlier Sun Descent killing move was proof.
There had been no probing.
What decent person opened with an instant kill?
Otherwise...
He would not have used two Shinjutsu Upgrade Cards on the same shinjutsu.
At that moment, Xuandou was immensely relieved that he had prioritized the effects of ninjutsu such as the Invisibility Technique rather than offensive ninjutsu.
Had he chosen offensive ninjutsu back then...
Or used only one Shinjutsu Upgrade Card on Divine Concealment...
Xuandou did not know whether he could have beaten Shibai several months ago, when Shibai possessed the complete versions of multiple shinjutsu, including Clairvoyance Shinjutsu and Omnipotence Shinjutsu.
Then, never mind looking forward to the birth of the child in Eida's belly, much less getting Tsunade pregnant with a second child.
Simply surviving would have been good enough.
As for escaping?
Against Clairvoyance Shinjutsu, known as the "World-Peering Technique," escape was not an option for any enemy.
Unless, like Xuandou, they possessed a shinjutsu such as Shinjutsu: Divine Concealment that distorted others' perceptions.
A shinjutsu that transferred the target, whether a person or an object, into another dimension.
But...
Now