"It never existed in the first place."
Shengu Xuan heard those words. The layer of golden ripples in his chaos-colored eyes turned once, and the corner of his mouth curved around the blade of grass.
"Oh? You've got some backbone."
Momoshiki broke free of Urashiki's support. After stabilizing again, the golden light of his Golden Rinnegan began to intensify once more. He pressed his hands together before his chest, and golden chakra erupted from his body into a spherical barrier, its surface covered in ancient runes of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
"Urashiki, give me all three of your temporal reversals."
Urashiki did not hesitate. Three rings of light lit up in his purple Rinnegan, detached from his pupils, and flew into Momoshiki's body. After losing those three portions of power, the blue-haired youth's figure visibly shrank.
After absorbing Urashiki's space-time power, Momoshiki's Golden Rinnegan evolved again. Fine purple lines interwove among its golden patterns, and his aura swelled until the entire lunar surface trembled faintly.
"I don't believe it." Momoshiki's voice emerged from within the golden barrier, heavy with two overlapping voices. "I don't believe anything in this world is absolutely untouchable."
He charged.
His speed was another order of magnitude greater than before. The golden barrier enveloping his body became a meteor-like orb of light, and the airflow tore the lunar surface in two along his path.
Shengu Xuan neither dodged nor blocked. He simply stood there, watching the golden meteor draw closer.
At the moment of impact, the lunar surface collapsed outward from the point of collision into a crater over five hundred meters in diameter. More than thirty meters of rock strata were torn up throughout the area, and the golden energy aftershocks spread through the vacuum in a perfectly spherical shock front.
Momoshiki's fist rested against Shengu