The smile on Otsutsuki Shibai's face froze instantly.
In his vision, everything around him became blurred. With his terrifying realm of All Creation Power, he instinctively distinguished that this blurring was not merely a blur of visual light and shadow, but space itself twisting!
"How... how can this be!?"
His brain began to ponder.
However, he quickly ruled out the possibilities of having fallen into a genjutsu, a space-time dojutsu, and so on. Because with his current realm, let alone ordinary genjutsu, even genjutsu like Kotoamatsukami and Tsukuyomi, which could compete for the title of the strongest genjutsu, were ineffective against him.
As for space-time dojutsu, that was even more impossible. Because as a master of the shinjutsu Claw Marks, his control over space far exceeded that of ordinary people. Coupled with the warning ability of the shinjutsu Premonition, no one could ambush him with space-time dojutsu without his knowledge.
"Damnable!"
Everything around him became increasingly blurred; the previously clear scenery had now completely twisted into lines and mottled blocks of color.
Being in the midst of it, he began to feel terrified.
Because he discovered that not only his vision, but his hearing also seemed to be obscured. At some unknown point, the surroundings had become completely silent—so silent that he could only hear his own increasingly rapid heartbeat.
His expression changed drastically upon realizing this, and he finally reacted with hindsight.
This was not a problem of vision or hearing at all; all of his senses seemed to have been obscured by something. Except for his own body, he found that he had completely lost interaction with the surrounding environment, as if he had been wrenched out of the real world by an invisible giant hand and thrown into nothingness.
"No! This is impossible, it's all fake, all of it is fake! I am All Creation Power, I am the strongest god!"
Endless fear caused him to begin to go mad.
He did not expect that after successfully promoting to All Creation Power, he would encounter such a desperate situation. And precisely because he knew what All Creation Power meant, he grew increasingly unable to understand all of this, and increasingly terrified of his own encounter.
Undoubtedly, he had reason to be terrified.
Because All Creation Power, which could refine everything, using knowledge as nourishment and itself as a furnace, was already the top existence in the world.
Even those Hegemons in the deep universe who fed on worlds had not actually completely moved beyond the level of All Creation Power. Or rather, a so-called Hegemon was merely a somewhat more powerful All Creation Power!
Unfortunately, Otsutsuki Shibai had only just stepped into the All Creation Power level and had not yet fully adapted to or mastered the power of All Creation Power. And what he was hit by was the shinjutsu Jiko Choga, created by Shinji using the history of the entire shinobi world as an anchor.
At the moment of falling into Jiko Choga, he had already been stripped from the normal timeline and banished into a loop of time.
To be sure, even something as strong as the shinjutsu Jiko Choga could not completely kill him now that he had promoted to All Creation Power, but having fallen into madness and terror, he was likewise unable to break free from Jiko Choga.
In a short while, Otsutsuki Shibai began to vent his fury toward his surroundings.
All kinds of terrifying ninjutsu, secret techniques, and even shinjutsu were blasted toward the surroundings as if they cost nothing. However, these techniques soon dissipated silently into the distortion and chaos; even the shinjutsu Claw Marks could not leave a trace.
Otsutsuki Shibai stared blankly at the surroundings, finally letting out a roar: "No!"
...
In reality.
Inside the cluttered underground shelter, Amado looked hesitantly at Ada: "What's going on? Is my perception malfunctioning? How did that aura suddenly disappear?"
Ada's expression was actually even more solemn than before.
Because like Amado, she had also suddenly lost perception of Otsutsuki Shibai. One must know that a second ago, Otsutsuki Shibai, whose strength had climbed to All Creation Power, had even caused her, who possessed shinjutsu, to fall into suffocation.
Yet merely a second had passed, and this pressure, terrifying enough to make her despair, had vanished into thin air without reason.
Damon, who was nearby, seemed as if he had almost drowned; while gasping heavily, he asked in a lost soul manner: "Sis, are... are we still alive?"
Ada did not answer but instead activated her Senrigan, the shock on her face slowly transforming into suspicion.
Sasori also leaned over: "How are things above?"
Ada shook her head: "I cannot find Otsutsuki Shibai!"
Sasori said: "Wasn't your Senrigan always unable to lock onto him?"
"No, it is different this time!" After a pause, Ada explained: "Although he could block my Senrigan before, I could always perceive his existence. But now..."
Amado hurriedly asked: "But now what?"
Ada said: "He seems to have completely disappeared now; I can no longer perceive his existence at all!"
Damon nodded in agreement: "Mm, me too. I feel much more comfortable all over!"
Amado asked: "Then what is the situation up there now?"
Ada said: "There are only three Kekkei Mora left up there! I suspect they must have done something to cause Otsutsuki Shibai to disappear. But what exactly could they have done to make Otsutsuki Shibai disappear so completely?"
...
On the ground.
With just a single technique, the chakra of the three Kekkei Mora was instantly drained.
But looking at Otsutsuki Shibai who had disappeared into Jiko Choga, the faces of Karin, Hikari, and Kaguya Otsutsuki all showed the relief of survivors who had escaped death.
The shinjutsu Jiko Choga was indeed the killer move Shinji had left for the three of them—a technique that required the collective activation of at least two Kekkei Mora.
But in the plan, the target of this technique was a peak Kekkei Mora. Thus, the three of Karin's group had been holding onto this technique, preparing to launch it in one go after Otsutsuki Shibai reached an unsurpassable peak state!
They hadn't expected Otsutsuki Shibai to actually break through to the realm of All Creation Power at the final moment, giving the three of them an unsurpassable, terrifying pressure in an instant, forcing them to surrender this trump card!
Hikari asked with lingering fear: "Did we trap him?"
Karin nodded lightly and said: "Probably... trapped him. Regardless, I can no longer perceive his existence now!"
Beyond her lingering fear, Kaguya Otsutsuki's expression was somewhat complex: "If my perception was not wrong, at the final moment he perhaps broke through the Kekkei Mora realm and reached an unprecedented new realm! It is simply incredible that our technique could trap him!"