Infinite Tsukuyomi

"Wouldn't you agree, Black Zetsu?"

Pero's clone's calm voice reached Black Zetsu's ears clearly.

Not far away, Black Zetsu, who had been preparing to sneak over to Madara Uchiha, suddenly stiffened.

An icy, bone-chilling cold spread through his entire body.

He looked up at that golden figure. The other's attention was not entirely focused on him.

But he knew that Pero had already seen through his disguise.

This monster!

Alarm bells rang in Black Zetsu's mind.

A monster of this caliber-could he be another Otsutsuki alien who discovered that Mother is on this planet?

He came here deliberately to stir up trouble. I have to awaken Mother before we can deal with him.

He glanced at Madara Uchiha, lying unconscious in the deep crater with his eyes rolled back, and cursed viciously in his mind.

Useless! You became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, became the Sage of Six Paths, and you still can't deal with him. He's even just a clone!

Hurry up and use that invincible Infinite Tsukuyomi!

As though he had heard Black Zetsu's inward cries, Madara Uchiha lay in the deep crater.

A look of extreme pain appeared on his face.

His rolled-back eyes slowly, laboriously turned back into place.

A trace of life returned to them.

Struggling with all his strength, he formed a hand seal with both hands before his chest.

Crack!

The white, bony forehead protector with horns growing from it shattered at the sound, its fragments scattering to the side.

It revealed the huge, hideous eye in the center of his forehead.

A scarlet Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.

The instant Madara completed the hand seal, that eye snapped open and spun rapidly.

In an instant, it was as though the entire world had been muted.

The thick clouds that almost never dispersed above the Land of Rain.

At that moment, they melted away silently, like ice exposed to sunlight.

No, not just in the Land of Rain.

The clouds over the entire planet vanished.

The sky darkened.

It had clearly been daytime just moments ago, but now the sky was like a curtain that had suddenly appeared. The sun still hung overhead, spilling its radiance, yet the entire world sank into an eerie darkness.

An immense, bright moon abruptly appeared in the pitch-black sky.

The sun and moon shared the sky!

"Th-that... what's that?!"

On the battlefield, the surviving Allied Shinobi, already scared out of their wits, raised their heads blankly.

An ominous premonition welled up in all their hearts.

Though they had no idea what had happened as those mighty figures exchanged blows, this situation certainly could not be anything good.

In the deep crater, Madara Uchiha slowly raised his head. His two Rinnegan, along with the Rinne Sharingan on his forehead-all three eyes-stared fixedly at the enormous moon in the sky.

At that moment, his ocular power erupted in full, without reservation.

Infinite Tsukuyomi.

In an instant, the entire world seemed to be covered by a strange, blood-red veil.

On the surface of the enormous bright moon overhead, concentric rings and nine slowly rotating tomoe gradually spread from one corner to cover the entire moon, like a celestial hound devouring it.

In the end, it became a gigantic Rinne Sharingan identical to the one on Madara Uchiha's forehead.

"Look up!" Among the Allied Shinobi, a ninja noticed the moon's abnormality and shouted.

Everyone who heard the shout instinctively followed its direction and looked toward that scarlet moon.

In an instant, the light vanished from their eyes.

It was as though their souls had been forcibly torn out by that eye.

They sank into happy dreams from which they would never awaken.

One ninja after another stood rooted in place like wooden figures, their eyes vacant, utterly motionless.

"Don't look up! It's genjutsu! Lower your heads!" A few strong-willed ninja sensed something was wrong and roared, trying to save those who had not yet fallen into the illusion.

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

The scarlet moonlight ignored every law of physics and every obstruction, blanketing every corner of the planet.

No matter who they were, where they were, or whether their eyes were closed.

Anyone touched by that moonlight would immediately fall into that eternal genjutsu.

At the same time, the earth shook.

Madara Uchiha's gaze sharpened.

Sage Art: Birth of the God Tree World.

Enormous roots like mountain ranges suddenly burst out of the ground.

Everywhere on this planet where people existed, whether in towns or villages.

The same enormous roots rose from the earth there as well.

At the same moment, countless thick vines dangled from those roots that towered into the clouds, like spiders hunting their prey.

One by one, they entwined the helpless ninja who had fallen into the eternal illusion.

They wrapped them into human-sized green cocoons.

Except in Amegakure.

In the moments before Infinite Tsukuyomi activated, Minato Namikaze's figure was like golden lightning.

He flashed across different parts of the battlefield.

Minato possessed keen insight, and he had long sensed something was wrong.

The instant the sky changed, he used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport everyone in the Akatsuki, along with Kakashi, to the center of Amegakure.

During the earlier fighting, he had left a Flying Thunder God mark on each of them.

There was not enough time. He could not save everyone.

"A ninjutsu has been cast on the sky. Get ready!" He told everyone his conjecture.

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, scarlet moonlight enveloped the earth.

Nagato, Yahiko, Konan, and Rin did not hesitate at all. Their many days of training had, after all, given them a tacit understanding.

Four brilliant golden flames of light shot into the sky. Centered on Amegakure, an illusory rectangular barrier abruptly expanded, covering the entire village tightly like a golden box.

The scarlet moonlight was kept outside by the golden barrier, which brimmed with the aura of the sun.

Obito watched anxiously as the four maintained the barrier with all their strength, his heart filled with helplessness, ignoring Kakashi beside him.

He had not obtained Pero's power.

Meanwhile, Pero's clone, hovering above Amegakure, glanced at the village before watching everything unfold with interest.

He was waiting.

Waiting for that clown in the crater to jump out.

Meanwhile, more than a hundred million kilometers away, in the Sun's core.

[Energy absorption complete. Current energy: 100%. The host has met the conditions for bloodline evolution and may evolve into Silver Superman at any time.]

[Warning: The evolution process may trigger violent, uncontrollable energy tides, highly likely to cause massive upheaval in the current star system. The host is advised to find a safe location for evolution.]

Pero's consciousness awoke from that comfortable state of soaking in a bath.

He could feel that his body had undergone another earth-shattering transformation.

The energy stored within him, so full that it was already overflowing, was dozens of times stronger than before.

He even had the feeling that he could shatter space with the slightest movement of a finger.

Only by running his bio-electric field at maximum power could he barely suppress this force within his body and keep it from leaking out.

Otherwise, even the aftershocks alone could cause upheaval among the planets.

His gaze turned toward that distant azure planet.

He split his attention, observing the situation through his clone's eyes.

"The sweet, innocent fool is about to come out."

His figure paused briefly.

The next moment, he turned into a golden meteor, instantly vanishing from the spot as he hurtled toward that distant planet.