Kaguya's Infinite Tsukuyomi became a gigantic blood-red eye in the void, nine tomoe spinning within its pupil. Its illusion power surged toward Shengu Xuan like a tide, seeking to erode his will.
Shengu Xuan stood at the center of the embryonic world he was creating and did not even raise his eyelids.
"An illusion? Against me?"
He extended a finger and flicked it toward the gigantic blood-red eye. A barrier of will formed from eight layers of Demon Black Chi bounced the mental erosion of Infinite Tsukuyomi straight back, and the backlash made Kaguya's entire translucent body shudder violently.
"Are those the only moves you've got?" Shengu Xuan put his hand back in his pocket, his tone plainly disappointed. "Ash bones, ice and snow, switching spaces, Tsukuyomi... the same few things over and over. Even the ramen shop downstairs from my place has a longer menu."
Kaguya clenched her teeth. Silver liquid seeped from the corner of her mouth, and the red light in her third eye flickered incessantly as she desperately maintained the stability of this void dimension.
But the dimension was collapsing.
It was not because their clash had damaged its structure, but because the embryonic world taking shape around Shengu Xuan was devouring the void's very property of "annihilation" at an unstoppable pace, replacing nothingness with existence and crushing destruction with creation.
"You're using my space as nourishment." Kaguya's voice took on an almost absurd disbelief. "You're eating my Amenominaka."
"Eating?" Shengu Xuan tilted his head. "That's not quite the right word."
He raised his right hand and pressed his index and middle fingers together, repeating a gesture Kaguya had already witnessed once.
The light of the Rat Talisman shone at his fingertips.
"I just think it'd be a waste to leave all these broken spatial barriers