Almost at the exact moment Toho Hiroshi completed his transformation, Tengen's counterattack arrived.
The remaining stardust did not attempt to reshape its previous massive body, but instead, in a more fundamental way, completely merged with the Barrier network across all of Japan.
The sky, the earth, the air, and even every wisp of remaining Cursed Energy seemed to become Tengen's eyes and arms.
"Those who profane the source and steal divine power shall suffer the punishment of eternal exile."
Tengen's emotionless voice rang out from all directions; it was no longer coming from a specific source, but rather, the entire world was passing judgment.
"Universal Disintegration"
Hum—
A formless power of rules, more terrifying than any physical attack, descended.
The space around Toho Hiroshi seemed to have been "cut out" from the reality of the world.
Color, sound, matter, energy... all the basic elements that constitute "existence" were being forcibly stripped away and decomposed, returning to the most primitive, meaningless state of chaos.
This was not an attack, but a "deletion" of the "fact" of his existence!
"Hmph!"
Toho Hiroshi snorted coldly, and the Truth-Seeking Orbs behind him instantly flew in front of him, spinning rapidly to form a Barrier of absolute defense.
The Truth-Seeking Orbs themselves were the prototype of all creation, containing the laws of creation and destruction, making them the nemesis of this kind of rule-level attack.
"Sss-sss-sss—"
The invisible power of disintegration collided violently with the Truth-Seeking Orbs Barrier, emitting a teeth-grinding, strange noise as space at the boundary between the two was constantly annihilated and reborn.
Toho Hiroshi's mind stirred, and the Nine Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead suddenly lit up.
"Six Paths • Limbo: Border Jail"
Countless invisible Limbo shadows separated instantly; unconstrained by the rules of reality, they passed directly through the obstruction of the disintegration Barrier and appeared outside the Barrier, launching attacks simultaneously from different directions toward the core of Tengen's will.
However, Tengen's form was already different.
The attacks of the Limbo shadows were like striking at thin air; Tengen's will was like flowing water—dispersing into gas, gathering into form.
The shadows' attacks could only temporarily disturb the energy flow in that area, but could not touch the true core.
"It is useless. I am the Barrier, and the Barrier is me. In this world, I am everywhere, yet nowhere to be found."
Tengen's voice carried a hint of indifferent mockery.
"Everywhere?"
A fierce look flashed in Toho Hiroshi's eyes as he slammed his hands together.
"Then I shall completely reshape this world, along with you!"
"Amenominaka!"
The Dōjutsu Power of the Nine Tomoe Rinnegan poured out madly, forcibly rewriting the spatial rules of reality.
In an instant, with Toho Hiroshi at the center, the space for several kilometers around was forcibly stripped from reality and dragged into an independent dimension he dominated—the Lava Prison!
Scorching magma churned beneath his feet, the sky was filled with eternally burning clouds of fire, and the air was thick with the scent of sulfur and destruction.
Here, Tengen's connection to the Barrier of Japan was significantly weakened!
"Found you!"
The moment the Lava Prison took shape, Toho Hiroshi keenly captured an uncoordinated "node" of Tengen's will within this space.
Wielding the Six Paths Staff, his figure turned into a stream of light as he thrust the staff out.
At the tip of the staff, the power of the Truth-Seeking Orbs was highly concentrated, piercing directly at that invisible node.
"Puff!"
A faint sound, like a bubble bursting, rang out.
Tengen's dispersed will seemed to let out a muffled groan; clearly, it had been injured by this strike.
But her reaction was astonishingly fast.
Almost at the same moment she was injured, the spatial Barrier of the Lava Prison emitted a cracking sound of being unable to bear the load.
Tengen had actually forcibly mobilized the power of the external real-world Barrier to break through the point of weakness, brutally tearing apart the spatial Barrier of Amenominaka.
The battlefield of the two returned once again to the skies above the devastated Shinjuku, but the level of the battle had already ascended to a confrontation of space and rules.
Successive spatial shifts and rule collisions caused Tengen's will, which was deeply integrated with the Barrier, to experience severe depletion and turmoil.
Toho Hiroshi keenly seized this fleeting opportunity.
"Next!"
The Nine Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead blazed with light, and his Dōjutsu Power, like a surging tide, once again rewrote reality.
"Amenominaka: Super Gravity Space!"
The environment changed abruptly!
The scene of the Lava Prison instantly faded away, replaced by an endless, eerie world of monotonous gray.
Here, terrifying gravity was everywhere, hundreds or even thousands of times that of the normal world!
The air was as thick as mercury, and every inch of space was filled with an invisible force capable of crushing steel into thin sheets.
Tengen's dispersed will, which relied on energy flow, became instantly sluggish and slow under the crushing weight of this super gravity, like an insect trapped in amber.
Its omnipresent "fluidity" was greatly restricted, as if bound and dragged by countless invisible chains.
"It's not over yet!"
Toho Hiroshi did not give Tengen any time to catch its breath or adapt; his Dōjutsu Power erupted for the third time!
"Amenominaka: Acidic Space!"
The gray faded, and the world transformed into a ghastly green.
Beneath his feet was a bubbling swamp of strong acid emitting a pungent odor, and from the sky fell ceaseless, corrosive acid rain.
Every drop of rain and every wisp of mist contained a terrifying power capable of dissolving Cursed Energy and disintegrating the soul.
"Sizzle—"
Tengen's fragments of will were forcibly revealed in this space as a blurred outline, consisting of countless interwoven lines of Cursed Energy that resembled a neural network.
At this moment, under the erosion of the acid rain and mist, these lines emitted a teeth-grinding sound, their light dimmed rapidly, and their structure began to collapse.
Having been forcibly dragged into three different spaces with different rules in succession, each designed to weaken its form of existence to the extreme, Tengen's vast, cold will finally let out a wail of being unable to bear the burden.
Its connection to the external Barrier was severed and interfered with time and time again; its core consciousness became unprecedentedly fragile under the crushing rules and energy erosion.
Now is the time!
Toho Hiroshi's Nine Tomoe Rinnegan locked onto the most concentrated and violently struggling core ball of light in the Acidic Space—that was the final condensation of Tengen's millennium of will and power!
"Return!"
He slammed his hands together!
The scenes of the Lava, Super Gravity, and Acidic spaces dissipated like shattered mirror shards.
All the stripped spatial fragments, along with the weakened will of Tengen within them, were forcibly dragged and compressed, finally converging at the starting point of all things—the "Beginning Ball Space."
This was a pale, empty world, devoid of everything save for absolute nothingness.
Here, there was no energy, no rules, and no concept of time or space; it was the ultimate prison and execution ground that could be created by Toho Hiroshi's Dōjutsu Power.
Tengen's broken core of will was forcibly condensed into a ball of light that constantly twisted and attempted to reorganize, hovering in the center of this nothingness.
It still emitted unyielding fluctuations, attempting to connect to something, to call out to something, but in this absolute "nothingness," everything returned to silence.
Toho Hiroshi hovered before Tengen's core, his expression calm to the extreme, and cold to the extreme.
He slowly raised his right hand, and the nine Truth-Seeking Orbs behind him, as if summoned, flew rapidly to converge in his palm.
They fused and compressed with each other, their forms changing, eventually transforming into a Six Paths Staff about a foot long, pitch black, with strange protrusions at both ends.
But this was not the end.
Toho Hiroshi poured all his power, the vast Cursed Energy of the Ten-Tails, the Yin-Yang power of the Six Paths, and the ultimate Dōjutsu Power of the Rinnegan into it without reservation.
The staff began to emit an indescribable aura of "demise" that transcended all light and darkness.
It was no longer a material creation, but rather the embodiment of the very concept of "the end."
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