One move was all it took to shatter everyone's composure.
Or to put it another way, who could watch the moon get split in half and not lose it?
It wasn't just the people reading the diary. Even the people in the Shinobi World saw the moon crack apart. A massive fissure appeared across its surface like an abyss, spreading over the moon like a giant wound.
"It's over." Otsutsuki stood high above them, maintaining Tenseigan Chakra Mode, looking almost like a god.
"It's not over yet!"
Uzumaki Naruto created countless Shadow Clones, and they all burst out from inside the crack.
Every single Shadow Clone charged straight at him with a Rasengan in hand.
Otsutsuki Toneri couldn't dodge in time and was blasted away.
"It's useless. Give up."
While in Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Otsutsuki Toneri didn't take Uzumaki Naruto seriously at all.
He hovered above him like a divine being.
But those words clearly couldn't convince Uzumaki Naruto. Carrying a Rasengan, he pushed straight through the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion that could split the moon open and sent Otsutsuki Toneri flying with a direct hit.
After taking such a heavy blow, Otsutsuki Toneri was even knocked out of Tenseigan Chakra Mode. The mode had already been unstable to begin with, and now it was shattered outright.
The eyes were not his in the first place, and he had not awakened the Tenseigan's chakra for long, so his control over it was not that deep. Faced with Uzumaki Naruto's attack, he simply couldn't hold on.
Or rather, every exchange between Uzumaki Naruto and Otsutsuki Toneri left huge sections of the ground caving in. The cliff face Otsutsuki Toneri had been blasted into cracked apart with him at the center, dense fractures spreading in every direction.
Clearly, even when they weren't using Ninjutsu as absurd as the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, which could cleave the entire moon apart with one sword strike, their power still wasn't something an ordinary Kage Level or even Super Kage Level shinobi could imagine.
If any one of those attacks landed on them, they would instantly be reduced to a spray of Blood Mist.
"This feels just like Monstrous Strength."
Tsunade watched the two of them trade blows on the screen, her expression turning grave. Every punch and kick they threw felt like her using Monstrous Strength. No, more than that, each strike released power even greater than her Monstrous Strength.
Her Monstrous Strength looked simple on the surface, but every punch consumed enormous amounts of stamina and Chakra to achieve that astonishing effect. One punch carried the force of an A-Rank Ninjutsu.
That was why it had to be used together with her Yin Seal. Without that, she simply couldn't keep it up.
With her own Chakra alone, she couldn't sustain Monstrous Strength for long.
Yet now, the casual attacks from these two carried the same kind of power as Monstrous Strength. Once someone reached a certain level, every punch and kick possessed tremendous force.
Otsutsuki Toneri had also been beaten until his defenses broke. He stared up at the sky, his face full of sorrow. After giving everything he had to obtain a pair of Tenseigan, he had still lost just like this?
All from a single punch by Uzumaki Naruto!
"Ah, the Tenseigan disappeared." At that moment, Otsutsuki Toneri discovered in terror that his Tenseigan had vanished. More accurately, his eyes had regressed, then dispersed completely into the world.
The ancestral stone statue that had been under the Tenseigan's control had been beating the Nine-Tails down, but now it suddenly lost connection as well.
Only then did Hyuga Hinata finally break free. She came to stand in front of Otsutsuki Toneri and said, "Give Hanabi's eyes back."
She dug Hyuga Hanabi's eyes straight out of Otsutsuki Toneri's face. At that moment, his eye sockets became pitch-black again, just like when he had first appeared. There were no eyeballs left inside them.
"It's over." Uzumaki Naruto let out a breath of relief.
"Not yet."
Otsutsuki Toneri growled in a low voice. Following his furious roar, countless Byakugan flew through the air and merged with him.
"I'll use these eyes to end everything. Puppet Reincarnation."
Otsutsuki Toneri seemed to have fallen into madness as he regained control of the ancestral stone statue and made it attack the Nine-Tails.
At that moment, the Nine-Tails finally flew into a rage and unleashed a Tailed Beast Ball, blasting the ancestral stone statue away.
"Toneri, stop this. You're only following the mistaken teachings of your ancestors."
Hyuga Hinata stood before the massive fissure carved out by the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and hurriedly spoke to Otsutsuki Toneri in front of her.
"Shut up! As the last descendant of the Otsutsuki Clan, I must fulfill Hamura's divine will!"
How could Otsutsuki Toneri possibly believe something like that? Was he supposed to believe that everything he had been taught all these years was false? That it had all been wrong?
"The last descendant of the Otsutsuki Clan?"
At that moment, Uchiha Itachi's eyes suddenly widened. He seemed to have heard something incredible. Otsutsuki Toneri was only a descendant?
Unlike what he had imagined, with a vast clan surviving on the moon, the Otsutsuki Clan had declined to the point where only one person remained?
Their bloodline had been cut off little by little?
Everyone reacted at once.
The Otsutsuki Clan descendants they had been worried about before might not exist at all, because only one clansman remained. Otsutsuki Toneri.
"This explains a great many things. For example, why the Otsutsuki Clan's Branch House never hunted down the Main House. They must have suffered a devastating blow as well."
Uchiha Itachi believed he had grasped the key to the matter.
The Main House's strength was certainly greater than the Branch House's. The Branch House must have used some method to heavily damage the Main House, but they must also have paid an enormous price. That was why things eventually ended up this way.
As the line continued into the modern era, the Otsutsuki Clan's population gradually withered, until in the end only one descendant remained.
Using the Hyuga Clan's strange habit of marrying within the clan as a reference, Uchiha Itachi had reason to suspect that the Otsutsuki Clan's Branch House had likely gone to the same extreme on this issue as the Hyuga Clan. They had insisted only on marriages within the clan. But after a bloody war, there could not have been many people left.
Under those circumstances, the population had gradually decreased until now, leaving only Otsutsuki Toneri, the final survivor. He had gone completely insane and wanted to fulfill Otsutsuki Hamura's divine will by burying the entire Shinobi World.
It was very possible they never looked down on the lives in the Shinobi World at all, let alone considered marrying native women from the Shinobi World and producing descendants with them.
Many issues had likely occurred during that period as well. That was the true reason they had not chosen to pursue the Hyuga Clan down to the Shinobi World.
The Otsutsuki Clan was finished!
But with the strength Otsutsuki Toneri had displayed, a divine clan like that was still extremely dangerous, even if only one person remained.