Otsutsuki Toneri felt the power surging within him, and a faint smile curled his lips.
His figure flickered, and he vanished from the castle.
In an instant, Toneri appeared somewhere on the moon.
He slowly raised his right hand, spreading his fingers and aiming at the ground not far away.
Starlight flashed in his Tenseigan, and an invisible force poured from his palm.
The surface more than a dozen kilometers away exploded, and tens of thousands of tons of lunar soil were lifted into the air, condensing into a gigantic sphere in the vacuum!
Compress, then compress again!
The gigantic sphere instantly became a black orb less than a meter in diameter, hovering in midair and trembling faintly.
Toneri clenched his fist, and the black orb was silently annihilated.
This was merely the most basic power of the Tenseigan: absolute control over repulsion and attraction.
Its truly terrifying abilities still slumbered deep within his pupils, awaiting the moment of complete awakening.
But he could not wait that long.
He was going to act!
Toneri turned and returned to the castle.
He walked silently down the corridor, where puppets dressed in splendid clothing stood quietly to one side, awaiting his orders.
Countless stone tablets were embedded in the walls on both sides of the corridor, covered in ancient writing passed down through Hamura Otsutsuki's lineage.
As his gaze swept over them one by one, a sharp gleam rose in Toneri's eyes.
Starting today, he would fulfill his ancestors' dying wish.
Toneri sat back down in his magnificent seat. He raised his head, his gaze piercing the castle's stone walls, the moon's surface, and the vast reaches of space, locking directly onto that blue planet.
"It begins!"
The next second, driven by a certain secret technique, the Tenseigan's power erupted!
The instant