"We're finished! We're all going to die! No one can stop that attack!"
The young Chunin's desperate howl was completely drowned out by the approaching storm of destruction.
Throughout Konoha, every survivor closed their eyes, awaiting the verdict of death. Tsunade lay collapsed amid the ruins, using the last of her strength to stare fixedly at the sky. She refused to accept it. Was Konoha's century-old foundation really going to be destroyed today?
Yet the terrifying repulsive force, powerful enough to flatten mountains, stopped halfway through its descent in an utterly bizarre fashion.
There was no earthshaking explosion, no impact tearing through the ground.
It was as though someone had pressed pause on the world.
Everyone opened their eyes in astonishment and looked up at the sky. Then they witnessed a sight they would never forget for the rest of their lives.
The boy in the black trench coat-Shengu Xuan-had merely raised one hand with utter nonchalance and spread his fingers, casually holding it before that invisible storm of repulsive force capable of destroying everything.
Buzzz-!!!
A dark purple radiance, deeper than the night and more twisted than the abyss, erupted from Shengu Xuan's palm.
At that moment, Gravity Demon Tso Lan's black chi was like an awakening primordial beast, opening its enormous maw to devour heaven and earth.
"Hundredfold Gravity: Space Distortion!"
Shengu Xuan's voice was so calm that not a ripple could be heard in it, as though he were merely stating something insignificant.
When the Super Shinra Tensei powerful enough to destroy Konoha struck that dark purple gravitational field, it was like a comet plunging into a black hole. It failed to raise even a single ripple before that even more domineering, utterly unreasonable gravity forcibly warped, tore apart, devoured, and crushed it!
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