"Sage Art: Dust Release: All-World Detachment Technique."
The square mass of transparent light rose from between his palms.
Like a miniature sun rising over the horizon, it hovered silently above his palm and fingertips as Lu You slowly aimed it at the Tailed Beasts.
It felt like a second, or perhaps ten minutes, before the brilliant radiance spread out in every direction in an instant.
The dazzling light made no sound and produced no shock wave. It simply swept smoothly through the space, instantly enveloping the five Tailed Beasts below.
The moment the pillar of light passed over their bodies, the outlines of the thick-skinned Tailed Beasts began to blur from their upper bodies down, then gradually faded away.
There was no explosion, no tremor. With effortless ease, their upper bodies were permanently erased within a breath, as though rubbed out by an eraser.
Tailed Beast chakra dispersed wildly.
Their remaining bodies still retained the basic shapes of the Tailed Beasts, but without their upper bodies to support them, they froze briefly before toppling toward the ground one after another.
Only the Eight-Tails' eight tentacle-like tails remained intact. His thick torso fell to the ground, sending dust flying and scattering debris everywhere.
The Two-Tails' remaining body lay on its side, chakra that had yet to fully dissipate flowing like blood along its severed edges.
Like a candle slowly going out.
The Four-Tails' half-body remained motionless, lava slowly overflowing from the severed surface and cooling into dark rocks on the ground.
The Five-Tails' body lay prone on the ground, steam spilling from the severed surface and gradually dissipating.
After the enormous Six-Tails fell, sticky bodily fluids seeped from the wound and slowly spread through the soil.
The clamor of the battlefield diminished at that moment.
Shouts of battle and explosions still