The Ōtsutsuki Clan Head had already realized that Kaoru had been treating this entire battle like a game from the very start.
Even freezing him in ice had felt like nothing more than a way to mock him — once trapped, Kaoru had done nothing further, simply allowing him to break free.
This brat... didn't seem to have any intention of fighting seriously at all.
"You can't really say that," Kaoru replied with a smile, spreading his hands open. "It's not that I'm playing with you — it's just that you truly are far too weak."
"Dammit!! Yang Release: Sky Shaking Palm!!"
Completely enraged by Kaoru's taunting words, the Clan Head's Yang Release chakra erupted violently within him.
It rapidly gathered in his palms before he unleashed it with full force toward Kaoru.
As the strike was released, the air itself trembled. Kaoru saw a dense wave of force surging toward him like a cannon blast — its power and speed countless times greater than even the Hyūga clan's famed Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.
"Divine Dragon Sweeps Its Tail!!"
In an instant, Kaoru remained as calm and unhurried as ever. His chakra circulated at maximum speed, converging entirely into his right leg.
His muscles tensed slightly, his body coiling like a drawn bowstring, before he swung his leg forward with explosive force.
BOOM!!
The dragon-shaped shockwave released by Kaoru collided directly with the fierce pressure wave from the Clan Head.
The air around them groaned as if unable to bear the impact, sending a massive gust of wind scattering floating rocks and dust in every direction.
The dragon-shaped blast showed no sign of slowing; it had clearly gained the upper hand. It shattered the Clan Head's attack completely and roared onward, unstopped, straight toward him.
Never imagining that even a casual taijutsu strike from Kaoru could hold such terrifying power — let alone destroy his strongest technique — the Clan Head was caught completely off guard.
He was struck head-on by the dragon blast, coughing up a mouthful of blood as he was sent flying like a projectile.
Kaoru's Rinne Sharingan locked onto his opponent effortlessly. He could clearly see how the man's body had been nearly torn apart by the strike, yet was slowly beginning to knit itself back together.
"It seems your mastery of Yang Release is still lacking... Your regenerative abilities aren't nearly strong enough... recovering this slowly?" Kaoru analyzed calmly, his scarlet eyes glinting with light.
Indeed, while the Clan Head's Sage Body granted him incredible healing thanks to Yang Release, it was not truly immortal like a Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, nor everlasting like Kaguya Ōtsutsuki herself.
Such power could only be truly suppressed through sealing techniques using Yin-Yang Release.
"Truly astonishing strength... But no matter how powerful you are, it changes nothing. No attack in existence can kill me!"
The Clan Head stood once again before him, his body fully restored and wreathed in golden flames of chakra. Yet Kaoru showed not even the slightest trace of alarm.
"No attack can kill you...? I highly doubt that," Kaoru replied, a look of disdainful amusement crossing his face.
Even Kaguya Ōtsutsuki — a being of true eternal life — had ended up sealed away forever by him within the Six Paths Chibaku Tensei, locked away in eternal darkness.
And here was this man, who hadn't even reached the level of the Six Paths, boasting such arrogance just because he possessed an incomplete form of Yang Release...
"Though you are still so young, I must admit you are the strongest opponent I have ever faced... I truly did not wish to resort to this unless I had no other choice..."
"You brat... consider yourself lucky. You are the first — and shall also be the last — to witness this form of mine."
The Ōtsutsuki Clan Head let out what sounded like a sigh, his gaze turning icy cold as he looked at Kaoru as if already staring at a corpse.
"Oh... very well then. I shall look forward to it," Kaoru smiled at his opponent's arrogance, then gestured casually.
"Since you insist, hurry up and show it to me — otherwise, you may not get another chance to use it."
"Hmph..."
Offering no retort, the Clan Head began forming hand seals. A rapid sequence of complex patterns appeared in his hands in the blink of an eye.
The moment he completed the seals, vast amounts of pale green chakra erupted from his entire body, swirling around him like an eerie emerald flame.
At the collar of his white robe, markings resembling black tomoe began to manifest one after another.
Then, from deep within one of the distant palaces, a blinding beam of white light surged out from an unseen source and poured directly down upon the top of the Clan Head's head.
"That white light... he's drawing upon part of the power of the great Tenseigan, isn't he?" Kaoru observed silently to himself.
The Clan Head's black hair instantly turned snow-white. Within his Byakugan, tiny specks of light began to bloom like stars, forming a pattern similar to a magnificent flower.
His chakra and power surged explosively, filling every fiber of his being to the point where it felt as if his body might burst apart at any second.
"TENSEIGAN CHAKRA MODE!!!"
He roared the name of the transformation, and the air all around him cracked and shattered from the sheer force of the release.
The atmosphere trembled violently as powerful currents swept through the air, effortlessly shattering every floating stone nearby.
Rings of dust began to spin in intricate patterns around his body, following some mysterious and ancient rhythm.
Through the vision of his Rinne Sharingan, Kaoru saw the Clan Head's chakra skyrocket several times over in an instant — rising like a thick column of smoke that pierced straight toward the heavens.
"So, brat... have you prepared yourself for death?"
Now fully transformed, the Ōtsutsuki Clan Head spoke the words softly.
"The Tenseigan, huh..." Kaoru muttered, looking at the Clan Head's eyes.
They were no longer pure white, but now a deep, brilliant blue, with a six-pointed flower pattern forming within the pupils. A faint look of interest appeared on his face.
"So you are using the power of the great Tenseigan to temporarily break your limits and manifest its power... even managing to activate the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, too."
Even so, this was only a temporary state borrowed from the massive Tenseigan itself. It was far from perfect — so much so that not even a single Truth-Seeking Ball had formed around his body.
Though, Kaoru had to admit... aesthetically speaking, those deep blue Tenseigan eyes were certainly far more beautiful than the plain white Byakugan.
"Now this is a proper level of chakra... Not bad at all. This might actually make the fight somewhat interesting!" Kaoru said, clapping his hands lightly.
"Somewhat interesting?! I will have you know — in this form, I AM INVINCIBLE!!"
Before the Clan Head's words could even finish leaving his mouth, before the sound could fully travel through the air... Kaoru had already vanished.
BOOM!!
Before his mind could even register the impulse to defend himself, his entire body was struck and sent flying backward!
"Impossible!! I have just activated the Tenseigan Chakra Mode!!"
"Yang Release: Divine Sky Hands!!!"
Feeling as though his body was being torn apart piece by piece, his survival instinct kicked in. An unprecedented amount of energy erupted from within him.
The full power of the Tenseigan surged forth, covering his hands in blazing Yang Release chakra, as he unleashed a flurry of countless invisible strikes into the air.
To the naked eye, it looked as though dozens of golden miniature suns had exploded around him, creating a protective and offensive barrier all in one — truly a desperate technique meant to secure victory.
To be fair, everything the Clan Head had used so far was not standard ninjutsu or simple taijutsu.
His style resembled the ancient fighting principles of the Ninjutsu Path — from a time before the concept of "techniques" even existed.
In many ways, this raw form of combat held greater inherent power than modern jutsu, and with the amplification provided by the Tenseigan, his strength had indeed reached tremendous heights.
Yet... standing before Kaoru in his Six Paths Chakra Mode, even such a formidable technique amounted to nothing more than a futile, last-ditch struggle.
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