"But you think that what you see is all of me?"
He slowly raised his hands and pointed his palms at his temples.
"You think I didn't notice anything when I was being observed?"
An extremely strange light flashed through his Black Eye and Byakugan at the same time.
"While you are observing me! I am also observing you."
"Your control of space, your use of Thunder, your Electromagnetic Field power system... I have seen a lot. Although I still can't fully understand it, at least... I know what your core weakness is."
Sōkyū Hatake's brows raised slightly.
"Oh?"
"Your power comes from your connection with this world." Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's voice became low and determined, "Your Thunder, your Electromagnetic Field, and your space folding! All of these are realized through the physical laws of this world. You are the controller of the rules of this world."
"But what if... I cut this connection off?"
He suddenly removed his hands from his temples, palms facing each other, and closed them in front of his chest to form a strange eye-like gesture.
"Wedge·Root Source Gate·Open!"
Inside his body, the core of the "wedge" wrapped in layers of seals underwent some fundamental phase change at that moment.
It is no longer a Mark, but a door! A door that connects Ōtsutsuki Clan Root Source Space, connects to the other side of countless star seas, and connects to some kind of power beyond the current dimension.
A purple circular light door with a diameter of more than five meters slowly opened between Sōkyū Hatake and Shiki.
In the light gate, Sōkyū Hatake saw it! Countless huge Levitate God Tree and Ingrain in Void were in the dark space of the universe. Their root systems spread tens of thousands of kilometers and connected countless planets.
Each God Tree is extracting the energy of the connected planet and transporting it through the root system to a common core located deeper than the light gate.
That core, like a purple heart, beats slowly in Void.
"This is the Root Source Gate that I spent thousands of years to barely open." Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's voice was trembling, and so was his body! Maintaining this door requires a huge amount of energy, and may even consume his wedge itself. On the other side of the door is the Root Source Space of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. The laws of physics there are different from this world."
"And you, Sōkyū Hatake! If your power comes from the rules of this world, then when your power is covered by the laws of Root Source Space..."
He suddenly pushed the light door towards Sōkyū Hatake.
"Can you still maintain your God Form?!"
The light gate expanded at an astonishing speed, like a huge purple black hole, swallowing up Sōkyū Hatake. Wherever the light gate passed, the physical rules of the desert began to distort and collapse! Gravity suddenly grew larger and smaller, the air density changed drastically, and even the speed of light showed a deflection visible to the naked eye.
Sōkyū Hatake has no dodge.
He stood there, looking at the swallowing door of light. There was no fear in his eyes, only a kind of... long-lost excitement.
"Finally..." The corners of his mouth slowly raised, "Finally, I came up with something decent."
"Root Source Gate of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki... connects the channel of Otsutsuki Root Source Space."
He opened his arms as if embracing the purple door of light.
"I have been waiting for this moment for a long time."
On his body, the lightning is no longer released from the body, but automatically pours out from the "surrounding space"! It is as if the world itself is injecting its power into Sōkyū Hatake's body.
"You're right about one thing! My power does come from the physical laws of this world."
"But you said one thing wrong!"
His body began to change, and silver-white lines like Lightning Conversion appeared on the surface of his skin. Those lines extended outward from the body and connected to the ubiquitous Electromagnetic Field in the air, as if he was integrated with the energy network of the entire world.
"I'm not borrowing the power of this world."
"I am the power of this world itself."
He took a step forward.
"This world chose me."
Silver thunder light gathered from all directions, forming a pair of huge wings behind him, composed of pure Lightning principles. The moment the wings unfolded, the surrounding air was ionized into plasma, emitting a dazzling light.
"So! Your Root Source Gate cannot cut off my connection with this world."
"Because this world will not allow it."
He raised his hand, spread his fingers, and aimed his palm at the purple light door.
"Thunder God·Spear of the World."
The entire desert! The ground with a radius of several kilometers! cracked open at the same time. Countless silver-white thunders rose from the ground to the sky, like the blood of the earth boiling. Those thunders gathered, compressed, and condensed into a spear in the hands of Sōkyū Hatake! But the material of the spear was not thunder, but the will of the world.
That is the world's instinctive rejection and counterattack against "foreign invaders"! It was guided, condensed, and shaped into weapons by Sōkyū Hatake.
"Go."
The spear was released, like a silver-white Inazuma penetrating the heaven and earth, shooting directly at the purple light door!
"Boom!!!!"
The moment Spear of the World collided with Root Source Gate, the most violent explosion occurred since the battle between Sōkyū Hatake and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki began. The shock wave was centered on the collision point and covered several kilometers in an instant!
The sand was blown away tens of meters deep, exposing the rough rock formations below; the air was filled with ionized plasma and distorted space ripples; the clouds in the sky were completely blown away, revealing the azure stratosphere above, which contained no trace of water vapor.
The purple Root Source Gate had numerous cracks under the impact of Spear of the World.
Then, it broke.
The purple fragments were like broken glass, flying in all directions. Those fragments slowly dissipated in the air, turning into dots of purple light dust, and were finally annihilated in the silvery white lightning.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki knelt on the sand, gasping for air. Those black lines on his body were fading rapidly! Root Source Gate's shattering had a severe backlash on him. His breath was rapidly weakening, and he was even weaker than at the beginning of the battle.
"... How is it possible..." He lowered his head, his voice hoarse and almost inaudible, "It took me a thousand years and more than half of my reserves to open Root Source Gate... You can..."
"I said," Sōkyū Hatake slowly fell from the sky, the lightning wings dissipated, and the silvery white lines on his body gradually disappeared, "I am not borrowing the power of this world."
I am the existence chosen by this world. Your Root Source Gate is connected to the laws of another world! And the laws of this world do not allow outsiders to be here Ingrain."