The Valley Vanished

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Rumble...

A massive storm driven by the Truth-Seeking Balls swept across the entire valley in a heartbeat.

Inside that violent storm, everyone was reduced to a drifting speck, whether it was an elite Kumogakure jonin as strong as Fukado or an ordinary Kumogakure genin.

Small as ants.

It was not only the Kumogakure shinobi. Countless trees in the valley were torn up by their roots. Huge boulders were lifted whole from the earth. Houses and sentry posts disintegrated into countless fragments the moment they touched the storm.

Crack, crack, crack...

Everything was crushed into debris inside the storm, colliding together and producing a chaotic roar of different sounds.

The entire valley was like a drawing on paper that had been wiped clean by an eraser called Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. Only a bleak blankness remained.

"Not enough. Still not enough."

Even at this point, Naoki had no intention of stopping.

Although the entire valley had almost been flattened by him, many chakra reactions still existed within his Tenseigan's field of vision. That meant quite a few Kumogakure survivors remained inside the valley.

He absolutely could not leave those survivors alive.

If he let them go, Kumogakure would glimpse the Tenseigan's secret.

Kumogakure had a dark record. They had kidnapped Kushina and Hinata in succession. To obtain the secrets of other villages, they were capable of using any method.

Controlled by the pull and suspended in the air, Shisui stared blankly. For several minutes already, the expression on his face had not changed at all.

'Is this Senior Naoki's true strength?'

Shisui, who had always hidden his pride deep inside his heart, saw for the first time a power so overwhelming that even the Mangekyo Sharingan could not resist it. Beyond his shock, his emotions were tangled beyond words.

This time, his pride had truly been torn apart.

Naoki did not notice the change in Shisui's state of mind. He was fully driving Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, destroying every Kumogakure shinobi within his sight.

Suddenly, the endless chakra source was cut off.

Naoki's body felt as though it had been hollowed out all at once. The process was so abrupt that he had no time to prepare.

In truth, he had already guessed that this chakra came from the giant Tenseigan on the Moon. Only chakra from another Tenseigan could feel so familiar to him.

And precisely because he had guessed the source was on the Moon, he had poured everything into releasing Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

He knew the descendants of Otsutsuki Hamura on the Moon would not allow him to use the giant Tenseigan's power without restraint. This opportunity would likely come only once.

If he missed it, he would only be able to stare helplessly at the Moon afterward.

Even so, the speed of the Moon's Otsutsuki descendants' response still far exceeded his expectations. From the moment his Tenseigan resonated with the giant Tenseigan on the Moon to the moment the resonance was severed, the entire process lasted only a few minutes.

'I can't stop now.'

Facing the situation before him, Naoki quickly made his decision.

Until every Kumogakure shinobi was dead, he could not release Tenseigan Chakra Mode. Even if he had to overdraw some of his life force, he had to grit his teeth and hold on.

Based on his estimate, it would not take more than a few dozen seconds for Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to flatten the entire valley and even tear several feet into the earth.

At that point, let alone people, even rats and insects hiding underground would not escape death.

But without the support of the giant Tenseigan on the Moon, Naoki, who had already exhausted his own chakra, was immediately struck by an overwhelming wave of fatigue. The whole world felt as if it were swaying.

'Seven... six... five... four...'

His eyelids grew so heavy he could barely keep them open, but he forced himself to sense the remaining chakra reactions inside the valley.

'Three...'

'Two...'

'Last one.'

When the final chakra reaction vanished and he confirmed there were no living people left in the entire valley, Naoki could no longer hold on. Vomiting blood, he descended to the ground with Shisui.

Before he could actively release Tenseigan Chakra Mode, it disappeared on its own.

At the same time, the Tenseigan in his eye sockets, just like Toneri Otsutsuki's after exhausting his chakra in the battle with Naruto, regressed from the Tenseigan back into the Byakugan.

Noticing Naoki's abnormal state, Shisui hurried over to support him. "Senior, how are you?"

"Go. Move!"

Shisui nodded. He lifted Naoki onto his back and fled toward the Land of the Moon.

Not long after Naoki and Shisui escaped, squads of Kumogakure shinobi arrived at the valley from every direction.

Of course, this place was no longer suitable to call a valley.

Everything in sight was flat, as though a giant had violently plowed the land with an enormous iron shovel.

"Did we come to the wrong place? Wasn't there supposed to be a valley here?"

"Where are the people? Where is the secret warehouse?"

"What happened here..."

The Kumogakure shinobi stood in place, stunned and at a loss.

A Kumogakure jonin stepped forward and roared, "Idiots! What are you standing around for? Search for survivors. I want to know what happened here!"

The Kumogakure shinobi snapped back to themselves and immediately scattered, searching through the ruined earth for survivors.

But after turning over the wreckage again and again, all they found were broken corpses. Without exception, every one wore Kumogakure clothing.

"What? You didn't find a single enemy body?"

After receiving the report, the Kumogakure jonin began to panic as well.

He pointed at the rows of mangled bodies gathered in front of him, his voice trembling. "D-does that mean all of these corpses are ours?"

On the Moon.

After cutting off the giant Tenseigan's external chakra supply, the three remaining Otsutsuki elders were all filled with suspicion.

The oldest elder spoke in a hoarse, weak voice. "This disturbance in the Tenseigan was too strange. I suspect it is connected to the one who stole the Gedo Statue."

The equally aged Second Elder was shocked and furious. "Does he dare seize our Otsutsuki clan's treasure, the Tenseigan?"

The Third Elder was calmer. "Why not use the Tenseigan to sense the situation? That disturbance just now was deeply unusual. Perhaps something has changed on Earth."

The Great Elder nodded, then formed a seal and shouted, "Open."

The dim giant Tenseigan bloomed with brilliant light again. The radiance turned into a curtain of light and projected toward Earth from afar.

On Earth.

As Shisui carried him toward the Land of the Moon, Naoki suddenly sensed that familiar chakra sweep over him.

However, because his Tenseigan had exhausted its chakra and regressed into the Byakugan, the familiar chakra did not pause on him. It passed over once, then swept away into the distance.

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