"Then..." Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's voice had an echoing quality to it. "Let me show you what true Otsutsuki power is."
He spread his arms.
The black, compressed sand beneath his feet began to tremble, crack, and rise. Countless tiny stones and grains of sand, as though drawn by some invisible force, floated around his body, forming a slowly rotating ring of sand and stone.
"This is the chakra I accumulated over a thousand years, the power of Kāma I suppressed for a thousand years, the resentment and ambition that lay dormant for a thousand years..."
"All of it... unleashed!"
At that instant, his body erupted with brilliant purple light like a star set ablaze!
The purple light shot into the heavens, tearing a pitch-black, cracklike rift in the sky above the desert! Within the rift, countless flickering points of light like shooting stars were faintly visible, along with... some shadow as vast as a planet, so enormous it was suffocating!
Hatake Cang Kong's expression finally changed slightly.
He could sense that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was "opening" something. That thing did not belong to this world or this space-time! It was an "anchor" in the deepest layer of the Kāma within Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, connected to some higher-dimensional existence.
It was the root of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
It was the source of the power with which they crossed the sea of stars to "plant" and "harvest" on different planets.
"Interesting..." Hatake Cang Kong said quietly. "You've even brought out your last resort, summoning the God Tree?"
An icy smile flashed in Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eyes. "I'm not summoning the God Tree. I'm borrowing its power! Using its roots to tear open this world's barrier and connect to a higher dimension."
"And then..." His voice grew deeper. "I'll drown you completely in that dimension's energy."
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