He had spent fifteen thousand points to modify the Box of Ultimate Bliss, leaving him with only twenty three thousand points now. Besides incubating Xu, the Box of Ultimate Bliss now functioned as an independent space that could be entered and exited through the black cavity. As long as Yunchuan Hyuga or this clone of Shadow held the Box of Ultimate Bliss, they could tear open space anywhere to move or summon a Great Hollow.
Just like this.
In the next instant, from the center of the black cavity that connected space to the Box of Ultimate Bliss, a slender white figure radiating cold stepped out. It was the First Blade, Whirlpool. The temperature of the entire battlefield seemed to drop, and even the nonstop fighting between the Sunagakure Ninja and the Konoha Ninja paused for a brief moment.
That inhuman appearance made the pupils of Nagato and the others shrink. "My lord," Whirlpool said, placing a hand before his chest and bowing slightly to Shadow.
Shadow slowly raised his hand and pointed upward, unconcerned about whether it could be seen. He smiled and said, "They stand too high." Whirlpool looked up into the heavy clouds, crimson eyes locking onto the two figures above.
At the same time, Toneri Otsutsuki's father sensed the source of the cold. His gaze pierced through layers of rain and fixed on the two figures on the ground. The instant he locked onto Shadow and Whirlpool, the latter raised the hand that held a deep Void Hole.
With sharp cracking sounds, several jet black chains covered in red runes shot out from the Void Hole in Whirlpool's palm like living snakes. Their speed was unbelievable, crossing hundreds of meters in a blink and screaming through the air. Their target was clear, the father and son floating high above.
"How is this possible? From this distance, we were actually seen?" The father's heart shook as he urgently accelerated the flying Ninja Tool to climb higher and escape. Yet the chains seemed endless, clinging like parasites, extending and chasing at a speed far beyond their flight.
The chains did not travel straight. They twisted, coiled, and intertwined in the air, their speed and extension completely beyond the father's understanding of power in the Ninja World. "Lowly ninja, you are courting death," he shouted, eyes flashing coldly as the ominous chains closed in like hands from hell.
He raised both hands and formed seals, as if connecting to something far away. Deep within the Moon, the Giant Tenseigan floating at the center of a vast temple erupted with unprecedented light. A vast and pure torrent of Chakra ignored distance, crossed the gap between worlds, and poured into his body.
A blue green layer of Chakra wrapped around him like armor as he thrust his palm downward toward the pursuing chains. Under Nagato's suddenly contracting gaze, a terrifying wave of repulsive force burst outward in a fan shape.
"Shinra Tensei?!"
The cry burst from Nagato before he could stop himself. In front of Toneri Otsutsuki's father, the space seemed crushed by an invisible giant hand, releasing a sharp scream like glass under unbearable strain, a sound of cracking and collapse.
kacha! kacha! kacha!
The black chains that had rushed forward met the same fate. Before the power drawn from the Giant Tenseigan, they shattered inch by inch like fragile crystal and fell apart.
The remaining force spread outward like a tidal wave, sweeping the area and clearing the rain within hundreds of meters. Even the dark clouds above them seemed torn away, blown apart into a vast circular hollow.
"Hmph."
Seeing this, Toneri Otsutsuki's father snorted coldly, pride and disdain flashing through his eyes. If he had come alone, he would have made these low and filthy Ninja understand what real power was.
But Toneri was still at his side, so he chose not to pursue them further. He formed hand seals, controlled the flying Ninja Tool, and prepared to leave this polluted place.
Watching this, the shocked Nagato instinctively raised his hand and tried to use Universal Pull. At that moment, Shadow spoke.
"Uzumaki," he said. "Try the new move."
As his words fell, the one beside him called "Uzumaki" made a new motion. It did not chase with chains again, but slowly lifted its head, the lower half of its face hidden by a mask, and opened its mouth as if in slow motion.
Behind the mask was not teeth or tongue, but a hollow darkness. A deep hum rang out as a terrifying wave appeared, freezing the soul, while vast mental energy gathered wildly before its mouth.
Before the opened maw, a point of deep blood red light suddenly lit up. It condensed, compressed, and refined at an alarming speed, and a frightening aura climbed higher and higher.
"That is Tailed Beast Ball… no, that is wrong. Pure Yin Release?! And that thing…"
Feeling the pressure from below, Toneri Otsutsuki's father looked down without thinking, and his expression changed at once. As a member of the Otsutsuki Clan with a complete legacy, he knew far more than most Ninja about the Akatsuki.
Yin Release is the power of Yin, born from mental energy that governs imagination, creating form from nothing. Yang Release is the power of Yang, born from physical energy that governs life, giving vitality to form.
The Tailed Beasts were created by the Sage of Six Paths after extracting the Chakra of the Ten-Tails and using his powerful Yin-Yang Release. In that process, Yin Release creates the body from nothing, while Yang Release grants it life.
Within Yin-Yang Release, the use of Yang Release and Yin Release, and the nature and form changes of their chakra, exist on completely different levels. If the Sage of Six Paths wished, he could even create living people.
Everyone else, including the Nara Clan and the Akimichi Clan, only grasped the surface and were nowhere near Yin-Yang Release. Even the Tailed Beast Ball used by the Tailed Beasts relied only on extreme nature and form changes of Yin Release chakra and Yang Release chakra, just like the Nara Clan and Akimichi Clan.
Aside from the former Sage of Six Paths, no one had mastered Yin-Yang Release. And yet.
"How is this possible!" Toneri Otsutsuki's father stared in disbelief. "That monster is the ultimate Yin Release creation of Yin-Yang Release?!"
Before this, he had not drawn chakra from the Giant Tenseigan on the Moon, so he had not understood what the existence of "Uzumaki" truly meant. Now, through part of the Giant Tenseigan's power, he could clearly see its essence.
That thing had no life force at all. There was no flesh or blood inside its body, only an empty shell created through Yin Release shaping form from nothing.
How could anyone in the filthy Ninja World achieve such a thing?
"Father!"
Toneri tugged at his clothes, pulling him back from his stunned state. At this moment, the dark red light gathered before that "Yin Release creation" already carried a threat that could end his life.
This was not any technique Toneri Otsutsuki's father had known before. If Tailed Beast Ball mixed Yin Release and Yang Release chakra in a ratio of two to eight, compressing them before release, then the technique used by this "Yin Release creation" was pure Yin Release chakra compressed to extreme density, more violent and more unstable than Tailed Beast Ball.
"Toneri! Hide well!"
Without hesitation, Toneri Otsutsuki's father shouted and rapidly formed seals, drawing even more Chakra. They were completely locked on by that monster, with no time to escape its range, and the only option left was to endure it head on.