Hoshino stood in the void, her long, gray hair swaying gently under the moon's weak gravity.
They watched as Obito Uchiha's figure disappeared into the golden path of light leading to the Shinobi World, until that light completely dissipated into darkness.
Obito Uchiha chose to face reality, which is good. This means that the other party will definitely become a great help in the future.
Hoshino turned to face the gray satellite, her empty eye sockets seeming to pierce through the moon's surface with some kind of invisible gaze.
There, he sensed a solitary yet powerful Chakra surge, stubbornly clinging to outdated beliefs.
" Otsutsuki Toneri..." Hoshino murmured the name, his voice disappearing into the vacuum of space.
The lunar surface is not entirely barren.
An ancient stone palace is nestled in the shadow of a crater.
The palace's outer walls are covered with cracks from the passage of time, but the overall structure still retains the solemnity and mystery unique to the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Hoshino slowly landed in front of the palace, his feet on cold moonstone. He reached out and touched the stone door, the Chakra flowing from his fingertips activating a hidden technique.
With a heavy rumble, the stone door slowly opened, revealing a deep, dark passage inside.
There was no light source in the passage, but Hoshino didn't need light. His senses covered every inch of space, and he noticed countless stone golems standing silently on both sides.
Hoshino ignored them and walked straight ahead.
After traversing the long corridors, Hoshino arrived at the heart of the palace.
The dome soars high, and moonlight shines through the crystals at the top, casting dappled shadows on the ground.
In the center of the hall, a stone throne stands silently.
On the throne, Otsutsuki Toneri sat with his eyes closed, his long, snow-white hair falling naturally over his shoulders, his face calm to the point of being indifferent.
Behind him floated a huge, pale purple sphere.
' Giant Tenseigan '.
This forbidden object, formed from the fusion of countless Byakugan, exudes a suffocating Chakra aura.
"Trespasser... die."
The Toneri did not open his eyes, but his voice echoed throughout the hall:
In an instant, hundreds of stone golems activated simultaneously, their joints emitting a piercing grinding sound, and surrounded them from all directions.
Their movements were perfectly synchronized, as if they were being controlled by some invisible threads.
Faced with the surging puppets, Hoshino gently raised his hand.
Click--
Space seemed to freeze.
All the puppets' movements came to an abrupt halt; their joints were locked by some invisible force, and even the flow of Chakra was completely frozen.
Taking advantage of this gap, Hoshino arrived at the circular hall at the heart of the palace.
"We've finally met, the last descendant of Hamura Otsutsuki."
The Toneri slowly raised his head, revealing empty eye sockets. Behind him, the Giant Tenseigan spun rapidly, emitting suffocating energy fluctuations.
"Unauthorized trespassing on sacred grounds will come at a price." His voice was icy cold and devoid of any emotion.
Suddenly, intricate patterns appeared on the floor of the entire palace, Hoshino felt his body become suddenly heavy, as if an invisible mountain was pressing down on his shoulders.
Her long, gray hair swayed slightly amidst the energy fluctuations emanating from the Giant Tenseigan.
He sensed the increasing oppressive feeling around him, as if the gravity of the entire moon had been concentrated in this one space.
Toneri remained seated on the throne, his empty eye sockets 'staring' in Hoshino's direction, his expression unwavering, as if he had long anticipated this moment.
As a descendant of Hamura Otsutsuki, the mission to protect the moon is ingrained in his very being, and he regards any intruder as an enemy.
Hoshino did not rush into action.
The five forces within his body maintained a delicate balance under the harmonization of Qi.
The Priestess Power, the Power of Jashin, the energy of the Dragon Vein, Chakra, and the energy of the Mutant Insect Swarm flowed through his meridians, forming an invisible barrier to resist the erosion of the technique.
" Otsutsuki Toneri," Hoshino's voice was calm and clear, "Your mission is long over. The Shinobi World has no need for your 'judgment'."
The Toneri's lips curled into a cold smile, "Mortal, how dare you presume to speak of the will of the gods?"
As he finished speaking, the light of the Giant Tenseigan suddenly intensified, and a blinding purple beam shot out from the sphere, heading straight for Hoshino.
Hoshino's figure blurred instantly, the beam of light pierced through his afterimage, struck the stone wall behind him, and exploded with a deafening roar.
Gravel flew and dust filled the air, but Hoshino had already appeared on the other side of the hall.
His movements appeared slow, but were actually as fast as lightning, as if space itself had lost its meaning before him.
Despite his attack missing its mark, Toneri remained unmoved. He slowly raised his right hand, palm facing upward, and the Giant Tenseigan split into dozens of tiny orbs of light, which floated in the air like stars.
The next moment, these orbs of light transformed into dense beams of light, attacking Hoshino from all directions.
Hoshino stood still, the four-colored mark between his eyebrows shimmering slightly.
An invisible barrier unfolded around him, and the beam of light vanished without a trace the instant it struck the barrier, as if it had disappeared into the sea.
This is the purifying property of the Priestess Power, capable of neutralizing all energy attacks.
Toneri seemed to sense something was wrong, his brows furrowing slightly. He had never seen anyone so easily deflect an attack from the Tenseigan.
After a brief hesitation, he clasped his hands together, and the Giant Tenseigan behind him suddenly expanded, with energy fluctuations sweeping across the entire hall like a tidal wave.
" Tenseigan: Intimidation!"
An invisible force descended from the sky, as if the entire gravity of the moon had been concentrated on Hoshino.
The ground began to crack, and the stone floor turned to dust under the weight.
Hoshino's feet sank slightly into the ground, but his posture remained upright and unwavering.
He slowly raised his hand, golden light emanating from his fingertips, spreading like ripples and neutralizing the oppressive force of the Toneri.
The air in the hall seemed to freeze, and the clash of the two forces caused a subtle distortion in the space itself.
Toneri finally opened his 'eyes', although his eye sockets were still empty, the light of the Giant Tenseigan gathered in his 'sight'.
He said coldly, "Who exactly are you? How can you resist the power of a god?"
Hoshino did not answer, his figure disappeared again, and the next moment he appeared in front of Toneri, his right hand turning into a gray bone spike, aiming straight for Toneri's throat.
Toneri reacted extremely quickly, and the light from the Giant Tenseigan condensed into a shield of light in front of him.
The bone spikes collided with the light shield, erupting in blinding sparks.
Hoshino's attack was blocked, but he did not stop. At the same time, he swung out his left hand, and a purple energy blade slashed towards Toneri's side.
Toneri snorted coldly, his figure retreating like a phantom, avoiding the attack.
Her movements were elegant and composed, as if she had anticipated Hoshino's every attack. Then she hovered in the air, looking down at Hoshino with a hint of mockery in her tone.
"Mortal, your struggles are futile."
Hoshino remained silent, his senses locked onto Toneri's every move, analyzing his energy flow.
Toneri's power comes from the Giant Tenseigan, and the Tenseigan's energy comes from the fusion of countless Byakugan.
This is a near-limitless power, but it also has a weakness: it is not the power of the Toneri themselves, but rather an external force.
Thinking of this, Hoshino's lips curled up slightly, and his figure disappeared again.
This time, he did not attack Toneri directly, but appeared next to the Giant Tenseigan, placed his hands on the surface of the Tenseigan, and poured in the Priestess Power, attempting to disrupt the energy balance of the Tenseigan.
"Stop!" Otsutsuki Toneri's expression finally changed. He instantly appeared behind Hoshino and struck Hoshino in the back with a palm.
This palm strike contained the destructive power of the Tenseigan, enough to level a mountain.
Hoshino was prepared and shifted half a step to the side, avoiding the attack. Her attention remained focused on the Tenseigan, and the purifying properties of the Priestess Power began to take effect, causing a brief disruption in the Tenseigan's energy flow.
Enraged, Otsutsuki Toneri Hand Seals, and the light from his Giant Tenseigan suddenly became violent.
" Tenseigan Chakra Mode!"
The entire palace trembled in the energy storm, the crystal matrix on the dome exploded one after another, green Chakra gushed out like flames, and nine jet-black Truth-Seeking Orb slowly rotated around him.
Otsutsuki Toneri hovered in the air, like a god descending, his voice filled with a thousand years of suppressed rage. "Blasphemer, accept divine punishment!"
Nine Truth -Truth-Seeking Orb shot out simultaneously, tracing strange arcs in the air.
Wherever these black spheres, imbued with the power of Yin-Yang Release, pass, space itself is subtly distorted.
Hoshino simply raised his left hand, and a Bagua diagram appeared in his palm, which was the starting stance of Feng Hou Qimen.
" The Luan Jin Tuo."
The flow of time suddenly became disordered.
The third Truth -Truth-Seeking Orb decelerated strangely just before it hit, while the seventh accelerated and pierced through Hoshino's afterimage.
To Otsutsuki Toneri's astonishment, the Truth-Seeking Orb he was controlling were now like insects caught in a spider's web, their trajectories completely deviating from his calculations.
Hoshino's figure suddenly appeared directly above Toneri, his right hand spur wreathed in grayish-white flames.
Otsutsuki Toneri hastily raised his hand to block, Truth-Seeking Orb quickly returned to defense, but Hoshino's left hand suddenly made a tearing motion.
Space seemed to be torn apart by an invisible hand, and a vacuum suddenly appeared around Toneri's green Chakra.
The bone spur pierced straight in, drawing a string of blood beads from Otsutsuki Toneri's shoulder. In the vacuum, the blood solidified into perfectly round rubies, reflecting the solemn expressions of the two men.
"Impossible!" Otsutsuki Toneri finally lost his temper and roared, his Tenseigan bursting forth with a sun-like light, " Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"
A gigantic lightsaber, powerful enough to slice through the moon, descended from the sky.
Hoshino closed his empty eye sockets, and the instant the lightsaber struck his body, his consciousness suddenly leaped into a dimension incomprehensible to the three-dimensional world.
The Ninth Extraordinary Skill...
' Under the Beneath the High Heavens ', briefly entering a higher-dimensional perspective, overlooking all the causes and effects of the three-dimensional world.
ability...
Cause and effect are intertwined.
At the moment of entering a higher dimension, one can observe and slightly adjust the world lines, altering the reality that is about to unfold.
Absolute prediction.
Because time is no longer linear from a high-dimensional perspective, Hoshino can 'see' all the possibilities within the next few seconds.
Dimensional segmentation.
In a higher dimension, Hoshino's attacks can ignore the defenses of three-dimensional space and directly affect the 'existence' of the target itself.
This was the same move I used before in the Heavenly Martial Empire, but it wasn't perfect yet, and the time I spent entering the higher-dimensional perspective was very short.
However, it's sufficient for enemies in the three-dimensional world.
In a fleeting moment that defies the measure of time, Hoshino witnessed countless tributaries of parallel worlds.
In one timeline, Toneri successfully launched the apocalypse, while in another timeline, the Tenseigan prematurely withered. He gently manipulated one of the world lines, causing a subtle shift in reality.
The lightsaber, which should have struck a vital spot, merely grazed his sleeve, pierced the palace dome, and shot into the depths of space.
A massive trench has been torn open on the surface of the moon, with debris and dust floating silently in the vacuum.
When Hoshino's consciousness returned to his body, Otsutsuki Toneri was panting heavily due to the backlash of the technique. Hoshino's sleeves were scorched, but his body was unharmed.
This result caused a crack to appear on Otsutsuki Toneri's perfect expression for the first time. "What... what are you doing?!"
Hoshino didn't answer, but suddenly clasped his hands together.
The five energies form a perfect closed loop under the harmonization of Qi, and the mark between the eyebrows shines with unprecedented brilliance.
Otsutsuki Toneri was horrified to discover that his connection with the Tenseigan was being eroded by some higher power.
The green Chakra flames were rapidly fading, like frost exposed to the blazing sun, and the Truth-Seeking Orb dimmed one by one until they finally disappeared.
"This is neither Ninjutsu nor Shinjutsu..." Otsutsuki Toneri knelt before the throne. "What kind of power is this?"
Hoshino slowly walked up to the Tenseigan and reached out to touch the forbidden object formed from countless Byakugan.
In the instant of contact, he saw the remaining consciousness of the Hyuga clan members who had been assimilated over the past thousand years, and heard the lamentations of countless souls.
"It's over."
The instant Hoshino's fingertips touched the surface of Hoshino Tenseigan.
The entire moon suddenly trembled violently, and the Byakugan that had been forcibly fused began to stir. Countless Hyuga clan members emitted silent wails within the Tenseigan.
Just then, the red light from the Twin Hands seeped into them like a living thing, and the Byakugan consciousness that had been imprisoned for thousands of years suddenly quieted down.
" Cognition Reconstruction."
The millions of consciousnesses within the Tenseigan began to be rewoven.
Hoshino did not roughly erase these Byakugan memories, but cleverly modified their perceptions, replacing Otsutsuki Toneri's mark with his own energy characteristics.
Otsutsuki Toneri let out a painful roar, feeling his connection with the Tenseigan being severed little by little.
"You... are tampering with..."
"It's not alteration, it's reshaping." Hoshino's voice was terrifyingly calm. "Don't worry, you'll have your own Tenseigan someday!"
As Cognition Reconstruction proceeds, the form of the Tenseigan begins to change.
The originally pale purple sphere gradually became transparent, and countless tiny points of light emerged inside, flowing slowly like a galaxy.
Each of these points of light represents a Byakugan whose perception has been altered; now, they have all become extensions of Hoshino's power.
Otsutsuki Toneri knelt on the ground, his snow-white hair dancing wildly in the turbulent energy currents. He reached out in vain, trying to grasp the power that was slipping away.
"No... this is my mission... my..."
Hoshino ignored his struggles and suddenly tightened her grip.
" Tenseigan."
The entire moon trembled violently, Tenseigan burst forth with an unprecedented light.
But the light no longer harmed Hoshino; instead, it surrounded him like a docile pet. His Byakugan, whose perception had been altered, began to cooperate actively, completely handing over control of the Tenseigan.