"Let bygones be bygones?"
"Hahahahaha... Are you saying I need your forgiveness?"
Uchiha Yuzuru asked with a laugh, his tone dripping with disdain.
Otsutsuki Shibai fell silent for a moment before speaking. "Perhaps my phrasing was inappropriate, but I simply wish to quell this conflict."
"Fine then..." Yuzuru said lightly. "Kill all the remaining Otsutsuki clansmen with your own hands, and I will leave."
"Otherwise, it would be quite humiliating to back down from such a meticulously planned campaign just because you asked nicely."
Hearing Yuzuru's demand, Shibai fell silent once more.
The Otsutsuki clansmen paled in horror at his reaction.
"Ancestor Shibai, you cannot agree to this! By making such an outrageous demand, he is showing absolutely no respect for you!"
"That's right! We believe in you! You can definitely defeat him!"
"Lord Shibai, without us, who will gather Chakra Fruits for you in the future?"
"A lowly bloodline like his could never be your match, even if he somehow lucked into obtaining power similar to yours!"
Hearing their clamor, Yuzuru scoffed coldly. "Such audacity!"
The moment his voice fell, the nearly one thousand Otsutsuki clansmen who had just spoken died instantly.
In an instant, the remaining Otsutsuki fell dead silent, too terrified to utter another word.
In truth, had Yuzuru not threatened to slaughter them all, these clansmen would never have dared to speak out of turn.
After all... Yuzuru was an existence capable of making even Otsutsuki Shibai yield.
After a brief pause, Shibai finally spoke.
"Uchiha Yuzuru, after your massacre, not even one in ten of the Otsutsuki clan remains."
"I still need them to serve me, so I will ask you one last time..."
"Are you truly going to refuse a truce and slaughter us all?"
Shibai's tone was as cold as ancient ice, chilling to the bone.
He was, after all, an entity who had reached the realm of gods. When had he ever been so utterly disrespected?
If the other party insisted on pushing their luck... then they would fight!
Hearing this, Yuzuru mocked, "A truce? At this point, you must be joking."
"There can only be one true god in this universe, and that is me, Uchiha Yuzuru!"
"Let's go. This place isn't suitable for a battle. We're changing venues."
With that, Yuzuru's figure vanished instantly.
Shibai followed closely behind, similarly disappearing into the void.
After they left, the Third Raikage and the others did not continue their assault on the remaining Otsutsuki.
After all, both Yuzuru and Shibai had just displayed their divine might.
Everyone's life and death now hinged entirely on a single thought from those two...
Deep in the cosmos.
Uchiha Yuzuru and Otsutsuki Shibai stood facing each other.
Their bodies had returned to normal size, both radiating an incredibly terrifying aura.
Shibai made the first move, charging directly at Yuzuru and throwing a punch.
Yuzuru raised an eyebrow in mild excitement and met the attack with a punch of his own.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Fueled by overwhelming power and extreme speed, every collision between them was like a supernova explosion.
The terrifying shockwaves instantly obliterated everything in their vicinity.
Even the fabric of space itself was torn apart by their sheer force.
In an instant, the entire star sector was reduced to dead silence.
"Damn it!"
As time passed, Shibai's expression grew increasingly ferocious.
Whether in strength or speed, Yuzuru was actually a cut above him.
Most importantly... Yuzuru's mastery of taijutsu exceeded his expectations, reaching an unfathomable level.
During their exchange, Shibai was slapped across the face several times.
While the physical damage was minimal, the insult was absolute!
He could clearly sense that Yuzuru was completely toying with him!
"Begone!"
Shibai roared in anger, a boundless surge of chakra erupting from his body.
In a flash, a dazzling wave of energy swept toward Yuzuru.
Boom!
Accompanied by countless terrifying explosions, the surrounding space twisted and warped, birthing a miniature black hole right in the center.
"Too weak."
"Is this the full extent of your power?"
Yuzuru's voice echoed through space, dripping with disdain.
Shibai's attack had indeed caused him a bit of trouble, but that was all.
This allowed Yuzuru to completely put his mind at ease.
His opponent did not possess the strength to threaten his life.
Faced with Yuzuru's provocation, Shibai did not grow angry.
He merely stated calmly, "For beings at our level, there is no longer anything that can truly threaten us."
"If we continue fighting, aside from destroying star sector after star sector, it will be completely meaningless even if we battle for thousands of years."
Hearing Shibai's words, Yuzuru smiled and shook his head.
"That is merely your assumption. I don't see it that way."
With that, the power within Yuzuru's body began to surge.
The next moment, he connected with the Heart of the Universe.
"Heavenly lightning, earthly fire, roaring waters, astral winds..."
"Strike!"
Yuzuru pointed a finger at Shibai from afar. Countless terrifying attacks seemed to bypass the barriers of space, appearing directly in front of Shibai and swallowing him whole.
Rumble!
Under the torrential downpour of energy, everything was annihilated.
When the light faded, the space where Shibai had stood was completely shattered, reduced to a patch of absolute nothingness.
In the distance, Shibai's roar of disbelief rang out.
"No, this is impossible! How can your power hurt me?!"
"Just what... are you?!"
Shibai had lost half of his body, looking incredibly miserable.
He had originally thought that Yuzuru's attacks were on par with his own and would struggle to cause him any real harm.
But the moment the attack landed, Shibai realized something was terribly wrong.
Had he not retreated fast enough, he would likely be dead right now!
Most crucially, Shibai discovered that even with his immense power, he was completely unable to regenerate his destroyed body...
"I read the memories of the people from the Ninja World. You've only been alive for a few decades, and you've never consumed a Chakra Fruit... You merely sealed a Ten-Tails and the ley line energy of a single planet."
"How... how did you achieve this?!"
Yuzuru did not answer, simply extending his finger once more.
"The dead have no need to know so much."
"Once I kill you, I will be the sole ruler of this universe!"
"Prepare to die!"