The instant the All-Killing Ash Bone shattered inch by inch, Yukio felt a terrifying recoil surge from his palm into his arm. His entire right arm went numb, and even the power of his Kama was briefly suppressed.
"So strong!!"
Yukio muttered under his breath, his eyes filled with shock.
Arisu stood where he was, still looking completely at ease. His black-and-red robe swayed gently in the breeze of the separate dimension as he rested the Six Paths Sword on one shoulder.
"The power of the Kama is indeed impressive. It combines Momoshiki's, Urashiki's, Kinshiki's, and part of Kaguya's authority. Its destructive power has already surpassed that of an ordinary Six Paths level.", Arisu spoke calmly, his voice carrying a hint of instruction.
"But unfortunately... it's still not 'hard' enough."
As soon as he finished speaking, Arisu vanished from where he stood.
Yukio's pupils shrank. Almost by instinct, he twisted aside while forming a hand seal. A black Truth-Seeking Ball instantly gathered behind him and turned into a heavy shield.
"So you've unlocked the Truth-Seeking Balls too?" Arisu said with slight surprise.
BOOM!!!
The next second, a terrifying slash tore through space and struck the Truth-Seeking Ball shield directly.
The instant the Six Paths Sword collided with the Truth-Seeking Ball, a thunderous ringing erupted from the impact.
The next moment, the Truth-Seeking Ball shield, which had always been indestructible, began to crack apart.
Yukio's eyes shook.
'The Truth-Seeking Ball shattered?!'
'Isn't this thing supposed to be indestructible?'
Arisu wasn't surprised at all.
That was only natural.
His Six Paths Sword wasn't the same as those Truth-Seeking Balls.
It had been tempered and refined by sage arts for over a thousand years.
It had long since become several times, even dozens of times, stronger than the original Six Paths Sword.
A thousand years ago, the Six Paths Sword had already been able to clash head-on with the Ame-no-Nuboko.
Now, after so many years of tempering, coupled with Arisu's mind having become as unshakable as bedrock, the Six Paths Sword had become truly unbreakable.
"Time Rewind!!!"
Yukio immediately tried to use Urashiki's power to rewind time and come up with a new strategy.
But the familiar rewinding scene never appeared.
"Yukio, your rewind doesn't work on me."
Arisu shook his head calmly.
Back then, the ability he had been most wary of was Urashiki's time rewind.
To resist it, he had even sought out the Otsutsuki clan's space-time treasure, the Plow.
The next second...
Yukio felt an unimaginable force crash into him. His whole body shot away like a cannonball, carving a trench hundreds of meters long across the ground of the Beginning Ball Dimension.
Fortunately, it was only a minor scrape for Yukio.
"Cough..."
Yukio barely steadied himself. A trace of blood ran from the corner of his mouth, and even the Kama Stage Two markings flickered unsteadily.
'So fast... No, Father is much faster than before! And this power... it's on a completely different level!'
A chill rose in Yukio's heart.
Holding the Six Paths Sword, Arisu slowly stepped out of the void, calmly looking at his battered son in the distance.
Yukio took a deep breath. Not only had the fighting spirit in his eyes not faded, it burned even hotter.
He clapped his hands together.
The power of the Kama inside him erupted completely.
"Haaah!!!"
Black energy shot into the sky like a volcanic eruption, dyeing the heavens of the Beginning Ball Dimension a strange dark purple.
Yukio's aura surged instantly.
Behind him, the phantoms of Momoshiki, Kinshiki, Urashiki, Kaguya, Hagoromo, and Hamura appeared around him, empowering him together.
His aura climbed higher and higher, quickly breaking past the limits of an ordinary Six Paths level and approaching the realm of Six Paths: True, nearly divine.
Arisu's expression turned complicated, yet filled with surprise and delight.
As expected of someone with the same Outer Heavenly Demon talent as himself.
Yukio was only fifteen years old, yet he had already reached the Six Paths level. It was simply unbelievable, even stronger than Boruto!
A fifteen-year-old at the Six Paths level...
It was that outrageous.
"Father! Take this!"
Yukio raised both hands high. Terrifying chakra and the power of the Divine Tree gathered wildly as an enormous sphere of energy, black with blood-red patterns, formed above his palms.
It looked like a dark crimson Rasengan, but it wasn't.
It was the World-Destroying Ash Bone Bomb, created by combining the properties of the All-Killing Ash Bone, the Expansion Technique, and Momoshiki's Takamimusubinokami.
Space itself let out a strained wail as cracks spread through it like a spiderweb.
Without hesitation, Yukio hurled the terrifying sphere of energy, powerful enough to destroy everything nearby, straight at Arisu with all his strength.
Facing the incoming attack of destruction, excitement appeared at the corner of Arisu's mouth.
It had been a long time since he'd fought a battle at this level...
"You're still too young."
Holding the sword in one hand, Arisu slowly raised the other. A purple Six Paths Sage Art seal appeared in his palm.
"Six Paths: Sage Art: Amenominaka!"
Buzz!
The entire Beginning Ball Dimension suddenly shook violently. The laws of time and space seemed to be forcibly rewritten.
The World-Destroying Ash Bone Bomb, which was about to explode, strangely froze in midair for an instant. Then an invisible force forcibly twisted its trajectory, sending it flying back toward Yukio himself.
This technique had been created by Arisu several hundred years ago.
He had improved Kaguya's Amenominaka and developed it into this technique.
His space-distortion ability had also been born alongside it.
Just like how he had previously distorted Urashiki's landing point.
"What?!"
Yukio's face changed drastically. He hurriedly tried to dodge, only to find his movements had become incomparably sluggish, as though he had fallen into an invisible swamp.
At that critical moment, Arisu instantly appeared beside him and lightly swung the Six Paths Sword.
Clang!
The blade struck the side of the Ash Bone Bomb with perfect precision, knocking it all the way to the distant edge of the separate dimension.
The next moment, it exploded with a world-shaking roar.
Rumble!!!
Half of the Beginning Ball Dimension was blown to pieces. Countless fragments of space scattered like shattered glass as a terrifying energy storm swept across everything.
Yukio was hit head-on by the aftershock and sent flying. Large sections of his Kama Stage Two markings shattered apart, and blood sprayed from his mouth.
The instant Yukio was blasted away, the Shikkotsu Forest Sage Art inside him activated.
A layer of pale cyan Shikkotsu Forest Sage Art markings quickly spread over the black Kama Stage Two markings. The two overlapped, forming a strange double-layered pattern, and his aura surged once again.
At the same time, Yukio took out the chakra pill he had prepared beforehand.
Using Momoshiki's Sukunahikona Alchemy, he had previously refined this chakra pill. It could quickly restore chakra and instantly heal injuries.
He swallowed it in one gulp.
Dense life force and chakra immediately burst through his body. His shattered injuries healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his Kama Stage Two state quickly stabilized.
"Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!!!"
Yukio shouted in a low voice as both arms swung forward.
Countless enormous fist shadows, pale cyan with black radiance, appeared out of thin air and rained toward Arisu like a storm. Every punch carried terrifying destructive power, smashing space into repeated collapses with ear-piercing explosions.