"ORA ORA ORA ORA!"
Star Platinum's fists rained down like a storm.
Toneri's chest was instantly beaten to pieces.
Large chunks of flesh mixed with shattered rib fragments splattered everywhere. If it weren't for the Otsutsuki bloodline, an ordinary human would have been beaten to death long ago by such a barrage of punches.
The emerald-green chakra cloak began to recover. Before it could completely cover his chest again, Star Platinum threw one final punch, sending Toneri flying like a torn rag.
His condition was miserable beyond description, yet Toneri actually let out a sigh of relief.
"I finally… got away from that monster!"
At this moment, Toneri truly understood the meaning of what Hidan had said, "You'll instinctively want to stay far away from Ryosuke."
All he wanted was to escape.
Compared to close combat, long-range bombardment with chakra orbs was his optimal tactic.
"That's right, this is how it should be..."
"Come back." A cold, indifferent voice fell by Toneri's ear.
Star Platinum disappeared.
C-Moon appeared behind Ryosuke.
Its right hand formed an OK gesture and was placed in front of its eye.
The circle formed by the index finger and thumb became like a cage, "imprisoning" Toneri inside it.
Buzz!
Gravity locked onto Toneri, pulling him toward Ryosuke without any room for argument.
The Tenseigan could also manipulate gravity.
But the gravity control of C-Moon and the Tenseigan were vastly different.
C-Moon's control range had a radius of three kilometers. On the scale of the "universe," this was extremely small, but correspondingly, within that three-kilometer radius, it was the absolute ruler of gravity.
The Tenseigan, on the other hand, was the exact opposite. It could control the moon and draw in meteors and cosmic dust floating in space, but when it came to face-to-face combat, the strength of its gravity simply wasn't enough.
Toneri struggled, but could only watch helplessly as he was dragged back toward Ryosuke once again.
Ryosuke raised his hand. The power of senjutsu chakra gathered around it, and hundreds of surging rays of light appeared behind his arm.
His gaze locked onto the Toneri flying back toward him. He clenched his fist bit by bit, until the power was compressed to its limit, then punched out.
BOOM!
The entire lunar base shook violently, as if this single punch was about to split the moon in two.
Sasuke dodged a falling chunk of rock and narrowed his eyes as he looked toward the center of the dust cloud.
"Where's Toneri? Is he dead?"
Everyone turned their gaze toward the dust.
Whoosh!
A giant stone hand swung out from within the dust, dispersing the smoke.
What appeared before them was a gigantic humanoid stone statue over a hundred meters tall, though its appearance was utterly miserable.
After emerging from underground earlier and trading a punch with Ryosuke, half of the statue's body had now turned into rubble, crashing down in a clatter.
However, this stone giant was a treasure created by Otsutsuki Hamura long ago, specifically used to strengthen the seal of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
As long as the controller did not die, the stone giant was immortal and indestructible.
Countless fallen stones flew back once again, filling in the missing parts. Meanwhile, Toneri, who had been protected behind the statue, had long since merged into its interior, controlling this colossal behemoth.
This was a choice made out of desperation.
Ryosuke, who possessed triple sage power, could tear open Toneri's chakra barriers with his bare hands under the boost of the Golden Spin.
He could only rely on the massive size of the stone statue to serve as the first layer of defense.
The glow around Ryosuke's fist gathered once more.
Standing before the hundred-meter-tall stone statue, he looked as tiny as an ant.
Yet the moment he saw the radiance on Ryosuke's fist, Toneri didn't say a word. He immediately turned the stone giant's head and ran, charging toward the surface of the moon.
Ryosuke turned back and glanced at Sasuke and the others, saying, "It's too dangerous here. You should go back and wait for me."
With that, he chased after Toneri in the direction he had fled.
Left behind, Sasuke and the others looked at each other.
Going back was indeed safer, but…
They really wanted to watch.
They really wanted to see how Ryosuke would take Toneri down.
Hidan, who had already started running, saw that no one was following and asked, "Aren't you guys going to watch?"
Naruto licked his dry lips and glanced back at Sasuke. "Then… maybe we just watch from far away?"
"Watch?"
"Let's go, let's go."
Sasuke and Rei followed as well.
Captain Kakashi watched the backs of his four teammates as they left. His heart felt tight. He sighed and chased after them.
The group kept leaping forward. Along the way, they also rescued Hyuga Hiashi and Hanabi from the prison cells. The whole group marched in grand fashion to the surface of the moon.
Sasuke attached chakra to his skin, forming a thin membrane similar to a spacesuit.
For ninjas, this wasn't a difficult thing to do.
Only Hidan didn't set up any chakra protection, letting himself be fully exposed to the space environment, as if soaking in a hot spring, enjoying the quartet of vacuum, lack of oxygen, radiation, and cold.
Soaking in a hot spring while enjoying a battle between powerhouses… Hidan narrowed his eyes and sighed softly, "What an absolute pleasure."
Naruto wanted to complain, but he had no spare energy to be distracted, because the battle before his eyes was far beyond his imagination.
Toneri unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, condensing a golden chakra light sword that was held in the stone giant's hand.
Under the giant's swings and slashes, the surface of the moon was torn apart as easily as tofu.
Even from several thousand meters away, Naruto could still sense the sharp, chilling chakra fluctuations coming from the light sword.
And yet, even such a giant… was being pressed and beaten by Ryosuke.
The Ruin Greatsword spun and flew out, slamming heavily into the stone giant's chest and knocking it back four or five steps.
Ryosuke followed closely behind, gripping the saber's hilt with one hand and slashing once horizontally and once vertically, tearing a deep cross-shaped wound into the stone giant's chest.
Surging senjutsu energy and the power of ghosts and gods poured in, "Hah!"
Two energies detonated together. Huge chunks of stone flew everywhere, but in the blink of an eye, they all flew back along their original paths.
Toneri's mocking laughter echoed from inside the stone giant.
"I thought you were really that strong. Turns out… you're just borrowing power that doesn't belong to you!"
"Your attacks can't shatter the stone giant. Right now, I'm invincible!"
"When that borrowed power of yours dissipates, you won't be able to casually smash through my chakra barriers anymore. At that time…"
"It'll be your time to die!"
Toneri roared as he controlled the giant to swing the light sword, but Ryosuke caught it with one hand.
His fingers dug into the light sword. With crackling sounds, fine fractures spread backward.
Ryosuke rarely wasted words with enemies in battle.
If you're going to fight, then fight. What's there to chat about?
But today, Ryosuke wanted to say a few more words to Toneri.
Because this wasn't just a battle between him and Toneri, this was the first direct collision between humanity and an alien civilization.
"What you said is right."
Ryosuke floated in midair. "I did indeed borrow the power of three sages. But I didn't just borrow the power of three sages."
He looked in the direction of the ninja world.
"You're waiting for the power I borrowed to run out?"
"Coincidentally, I'm also waiting for the power that belongs to humanity to arrive."
Toneri swallowed hard and slowly turned his head.
As far as the eye could see, streams of golden meteors rose into the sky from the ninja world.
People's hope for the future, their anger toward Toneri, their fighting spirit against the darkness…
Countless emotions, under the resonance of Ripple, became part of the golden meteors, turning into beams of light that crossed fifty thousand kilometers toward the moon.
Toward… Humanity's enemy.
"Do you see it?"
"Otsutsuki Toneri, this is…"
"The wrath of humanity."
Ryosuke calmly gazed at Toneri, who was hiding inside the stone giant.
"What are you going to use to block it?"
"Ryo..."
BOOM!
The first golden meteor fell, smashing into the stone giant and cutting off Toneri's shout.
Then came the second, the third, the fourth…
Countless golden meteors rained down from the sky.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The stone giant kept repairing itself. Its repair speed was indeed very fast. Even if Ryosuke went all out, he couldn't completely shatter it and find Toneri hidden inside.
But what Ryosuke alone couldn't do…
Didn't mean that all of humanity together couldn't.
Piece by piece, the stone shattered and splintered, gradually revealing Toneri hidden deep within.
"I refuse to accept this!"
"Ryosuke, you despicable bastard! This is supposed to be a one-on-one fight!"
Ryosuke let out a soft laugh.
"Idiot."
Golden crystals tore apart Toneri's arms, legs, and abdomen one by one. He exerted all his strength to deploy chakra barriers, protecting his vital organs and his head.
Ryosuke flew in front of him, and the Golden Spin appeared once again in his palm.
Toneri's pupils shrank.
"No, no… don't… ahhh!!!"
Toneri let out a miserable scream.
His Tenseigan eyes were forcibly dug out by Ryosuke while he was still alive.
Ryosuke applied a bit of force.
With a crisp sound, both eyes were crushed.