"How is this possible!?"
Amado stood up with a 'whoosh', the astonishment on his face even greater than Eida's.
No one knew better than him how powerful the Shinjutsu Eida possessed was, so in his view, Eida's Senrigan couldn't possibly fail.
Because Eida's Senrigan could not only observe what was currently happening but also observe all history that had occurred in the shinobi world from the moment Eida obtained the Shinjutsu until now.
This was also the reason he specifically came to the Hidden Leaf to find Eida and ask those previous questions.
Before defecting to 'A', he had to confirm Otsutsuki Isshiki's life or death. Only if Otsutsuki Isshiki was truly eliminated would he dare to defect to 'A'.
Unexpectedly, such a simple matter for Eida actually went wrong.
"Damn it!"
Eida was also somewhat distressed at this moment.
She deliberately stayed in the Hidden Leaf not only because the Hidden Leaf indeed treated their siblings as honored guests but also for another important reason: she wanted to wait here for 'A' to come find her.
For someone possessing the Senrigan like her, 'A's true identity was no secret at all, so she felt that as long as she stayed in the Hidden Leaf Village, 'A' would definitely obediently come to find her.
Seeing Amado, Eida, and Daemon all somewhat losing their composure, Tsunade hurriedly asked: "What is the Senrigan? What exactly happened?"
Amado didn't explain the Senrigan to Tsunade but instead asked Eida: "Why is it like this?"
Eida shook her head: "I don't know either; the two of them seem to have completely disappeared!"
"Completely disappeared..."
Chewing on Eida's words, Amado gradually formed a guess.
Eida's Senrigan must have some kind of limitation, only that various attempts in the past had never touched upon this limitation, so he mistakenly thought Eida's Senrigan could spy on everything. Now it seemed that wasn't the case.
Thinking of this, Amado said: "Eida, Daemon, you siblings live well here. I'm leaving first!"
Saying this, Amado turned around prepared to leave.
He originally wanted to verify whether 'A' was worth defecting to by confirming Otsutsuki Isshiki's life or death. Now discovering that 'A' could even evade Eida's Senrigan, continuing to verify Otsutsuki Isshiki's life or death became meaningless.
Tsunade accompanied Amado out of the mansion.
Along the way, Tsunade beat around the bush, probing for topics related to the Otsutsuki, her words inside and out worrying about whether the Otsutsuki would make a comeback.
Amado said: "Hokage-sama, regarding this point I also cannot give an answer, because the Otsutsuki clan is a very mysterious and powerful group. What we can do is pray they don't notice us!"
"Sigh!"
Tsunade sighed softly.
The Great Toad Sage's prophecy of world destruction made her restless. If Otsutsuki Isshiki wasn't the culprit destroying the shinobi world, then who would be the culprit threatening the shinobi world in the prophecy?
Previously, she firmly believed the 'light' saving the shinobi world was Naruto, but now she began to suspect whether this light could be Shinji.
Because Shinji was too powerful, so powerful that if he wasn't the 'light', he could very likely be the culprit destroying the shinobi world in the prophecy.
If that really were the case, she wouldn't know what to do.
...
T33.
Shinji, who was in 'T33', was unaware of Eida's spying using the Senrigan. He was currently busy with the matter of sacrificing Otsutsuki Isshiki to the Divine Tree.
Actually, the failure of Eida's Senrigan was quite normal.
'T33' was a world of the same specification as the shinobi world, protected by a powerful spatial barrier. Apart from the power of Lamp, even a Hegemon could only wear down the spatial barrier bit by bit from the outside. Therefore, even though Eida's Senrigan was a Shinjutsu, it couldn't directly spy on Shinji inside 'T33' through the spatial barrier.
Rumble...
Another burst of roaring sounded in the distance!
Shinji looked up and saw incomparably massive flesh puppets appearing in his vision beneath the sky full of dust.
These flesh puppets lined up like a moving mountain range, pouncing toward the Divine Tree!
"Got bigger again!"
Shinji murmured.
As the Reproduction Hegemon's erosion of 'T33' deepened, the volume of the flesh puppets also grew larger and larger, causing Shinji's Truth-Seeking Balls to become somewhat overwhelmed.
Because facing flesh puppets as massive as giant mountain peaks, even if the Truth-Seeking Balls transformed into a huge flat circular paddle, it required repeated attacks multiple times to thoroughly destroy a single flesh puppet.
And these flesh puppets seemed endless; after destroying one batch, another batch came. The corpses had almost piled up into a plateau at the base of the Divine Tree.
"Didn't expect that before T33 had issues, I'd be unable to hold on first..."
While secretly complaining, Shinji activated Limbo: Border Jail, having the four Limbo clones also join the formation to exterminate the flesh puppets.
Then he placed his hand on the Divine Tree's trunk and sensed again.
The Divine Tree's absorption was very smooth, far exceeding his expectations. If nothing unexpected happened, as long as he persisted for another week, the Divine Tree should be able to absorb enough energy required to nurture a Chakra Fruit.
At that time, he only needed to sacrifice Otsutsuki Isshiki to the Divine Tree to harvest a Chakra Fruit and break through to the realm of Kekkei Mora in one fell swoop.
Thinking of this, his gaze shifted to the distance again. The endless stream of flesh puppets surging from all directions made him somewhat worried about whether he could hold on for another week.
...
In the blink of an eye, another five days passed.
The situation was just as Shinji predicted. As 'T33's spatial barrier was continuously weakened, the power infiltrated by the Reproduction Hegemon grew stronger, causing the flesh puppets to become increasingly terrifying.
Just today, a terrifying flesh puppet that blotted out the sky appeared, confusing even Shinji, who thought a dark cloud had drifted from the horizon.
In the end, Shinji had no choice but to return to the shinobi world, drive the pair of Tenseigan nurtured by Neji and Kimimaro, and then activate the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to destroy that sky-blotting flesh puppet.
After resolving the trouble, Shinji realized he couldn't wait any longer, so he immediately took Otsutsuki Isshiki out of the sealing scroll.
Seeing the towering Divine Tree in front of him, Otsutsuki Isshiki was stunned at first, then exclaimed: "This... this is impossible!"
He knew Shinji would sacrifice him to the Divine Tree, but based on his assessment of the Divine Tree's condition, even if Shinji ran at full capacity to let the Divine Tree absorb planetary power, it would take at least a dozen years to be ready.
And with these dozen years as a buffer, Momoshiki, Urashiki, and Kinshiki might be able to rush to the shinobi world to rescue him. Unexpectedly, the Divine Tree recovered so quickly that it reached the level where it could nurture a Chakra Fruit again.
Shinji glanced at Otsutsuki Isshiki at this moment and said indifferently: "It's your turn to go on stage!"
Otsutsuki Isshiki's eyes were filled with horror: "No! No!"