The ash bones left her hands.
Kaguya sent the two All-Killing Ash Bones, condensed from all her remaining life force, streaking toward Shengu Xuan's chest and brow as two gray-white streams of light, traveling faster than light. Those two points were the most fatal weaknesses of any living creature.
Where the bone spikes passed, the air was erased from existence. Even light was annihilated into nothingness before it could refract, leaving two trails of pure darkness.
The ninjas on Turtle Island who were gazing up at the night sky saw those two gray-white lights, and Tsunade's face instantly turned ashen.
"Those are the All-Killing Ash Bones! An Ōtsutsuki forbidden technique that completely annihilates anything it touches!"
Naruto clenched his fists, his golden Chakra Cloak fluctuating violently with anxiety. He wanted to do something, but the battle was taking place thousands of meters in the air, far beyond his reach.
"Shengu Xuan..."
High in the sky, the two gray-white streaks had already reached Shengu Xuan. They were so close that he could even make out the microscopic gray patterns slowly rotating across the bone spikes' surfaces, like a precision annihilation machine.
He did not dodge.
He did not even raise a hand.
"Dog Talisman."
He merely spoke those words softly.
A golden membrane so thin it was almost invisible to the naked eye seeped from the surface of his skin, covering every inch of his body. It was thinner than a cicada's wing, yet radiated an aura of absoluteness that made Kaguya's pupils contract sharply.
The two All-Killing Ash Bones struck Shengu Xuan's chest and brow.
To be precise, they struck that golden membrane.
They did not penetrate.
There was no annihilation.
They did not even stir the slightest ripple on the membrane's surface.
The instant the ash bones touched the