When the golden beam blasted toward Shengu Xuan, he pulled his right hand out of his pocket.
Not to block it, but to hold out an open palm, all five fingers spread, toward the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion beam that could vaporize the rocks on the moon's surface.
The beam struck his palm like water hitting a floodgate, spraying violently to either side. The golden energy spilling past him plowed two symmetrical trenches behind him, tearing up a full hundred meters of lunar ground.
While maintaining the beam, Toneri kept his Tenseigan fixed on the palm of the black-clad youth in the center of the crater. All the energy of Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion was concentrated on a single point, at a temperature sufficient to vaporize any known substance upon contact, yet Shengu Xuan's palm had not even changed color.
"You're catching my reincarnation technique with your hand?" Toneri's voice cut through the beam's shrill roar.
"What else would I use, my foot?" As Shengu Xuan spoke, he tilted his palm slightly, as though adjusting the direction of a flashlight. The golden beam reflected straight off his shifting palm and shot toward a distant crater.
Boom.
The entire crater was cleaved in two down the middle. Shattered rocks drifted slowly through the vacuum like a gray firework in slow motion.
Toneri withdrew the beam and let his hands drop to his sides. The white light of his Tenseigan flickered constantly, as though its internal energy circuits had fallen into disorder.
"You reflected my Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion."
"Reflected isn't quite the right word." Shengu Xuan put his hand back in his pocket and flexed his wrist. "That beam of yours is still fundamentally a concentrated release of chakra energy. Against my hand, it's no different from a flashlight beam. I