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"Die!"
Although Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was somewhat surprised that Goku had actually blocked his surprise attack, his hand movements did not pause at all.
A black rod suddenly appeared in his hand, then rapidly grew larger, and immediately struck toward Goku.
Besides Sukunahikona, which could shrink things, his black eye had another ability called Daikokuten.
Daikokuten was a time-stopped different dimension.
Usually, he would store his shrunk items inside Daikokuten, taking them out and enlarging them to launch attacks when needed.
Just like the sharp short black rod that was suddenly fired earlier and the long black rod in his hand used for close combat.
Both were taken out by him from Daikokuten.
"Fighting with a rod? I have one too."
Goku sidestepped to dodge the black rod's strike, casually took out the power pole from the box at his waist, and began fighting Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's black rod danced into blurred afterimages, aiming at all major vital points on Goku's body, but Goku intercepted them one by one with the power pole.
The two of them fought evenly for a time, neither able to gain the upper hand.
"To think you can keep up with my speed! How about this then!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki thrust his rod at Goku again. Just as Goku was about to parry, he discovered that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had suddenly disappeared.
By the time he reacted, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had unexpectedly appeared on his left side, and the black rod was about to pierce his temple.
"Is it teleportation? No!"
He knew the opponent could teleport, and he could do the same, but in a battle between experts like them, using teleportation was not wise.
Because no matter how fast teleportation was, due to the need to traverse space, there would always be a slight pause before and after.
Even if that pause was only zero point zero one seconds, ordinary people couldn't react at all, but for them, it was already a massive opening.
"He shrank his body."
Through the perception of Ki, Goku instantly understood what had just happened.
When attacking, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki activated his ability to shrink his body to an extremely small size, and then restored it when he got close and was about to strike.
This gave people the feeling of suddenly disappearing, just like teleportation.
"Wrath of the Giants!"
Enhancing the explosive Ki with Giant Magic, Goku instantly deflected the attack position of the black rod and backhanded the power pole toward Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
For opponents whose current close-combat strength was similar to his normal state, he cherished them very much and would fight them properly.
Because this kind of battle would also be valuable experience that could enhance his strength.
The stronger his normal combat power was, the better the effects of enhancements like Giant, Great Ape, and Golden Warrior would be.
Of course, he wasn't stupid either. If he really couldn't beat them in his normal state, he would immediately transform to increase his strength.
The Ōtsutsuki Isshiki before him was even more formidable than the Ōtsutsuki Toneri from earlier, and his combat experience was quite rich, with all kinds of skills at his fingertips.
He was a good sparring partner.
"Still a little bit short!"
Seeing his attack miss, the experienced Ōtsutsuki Isshiki immediately retreated, keeping just enough distance to dodge the power pole swung by Goku.
However, just as he thought he had dodged this attack and was preparing to counterattack again, the power pole, which was still one centimeter away from him, suddenly lengthened by a section.
"Boom!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was heavily struck by the power pole and blasted away like a cannonball.
"Forgot to tell you, my power pole can lengthen."
Goku put away the power pole and said.
The opponent could create a sneak attack effect by restoring shrunk items, and he could also use the extension effect of the power pole to counterattack.
"Very good, you have successfully angered me!"
Crawling out of the deep pit, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's appearance had undergone some changes.
At this moment, a horn winding around the top of his head had unexpectedly grown out of his head.
He had not released all his power; if he released all his power, this body wouldn't be able to bear it and would suffer irreversible collapse in three days.
He was only releasing the limit of power this body could bear right now. As long as he had a good rest afterwards, it wouldn't be a big problem.
In this state, his strength in all aspects had increased by a full fold, completely enough to easily crush the opponent.
"It's over!"
With a flash of his figure, the confident him had already arrived beside Goku, the black rod in his hand piercing directly at Goku's ear, intending to penetrate his entire skull.
With his strength doubled, he believed the opponent probably wouldn't even be able to react in time.
Unfortunately, the black rod in his hand did not give the illusion of piercing a skull; instead, it was steadily caught by a hand.
"Since you've increased your combat power by a fold, I'll also increase my combat power by a fold, so that we can spar better."
Goku grabbed the black rod, smiled, and then kicked toward Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
Indeed, at this moment, Goku was using the Breathing Style to temporarily double his combat power.
"What!"
Raising his arm to block Goku's kick, feeling the power brought by this kick, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki knew Goku wasn't lying, and a solemn expression appeared on his face.
He hadn't expected that the opponent actually had a way to increase their strength too.
"Let's see how long you can hold out!"
Waving his hand, countless shrunk black rods burst out, while his body simultaneously shrank to launch a sneak attack.
He knew that human Ninjas possessed various Ninjutsu to enhance their strength in a short time, but it inevitably placed a heavy burden on the body and Chakra.
Whereas he was merely restoring his original power; although it also had a burden, it would inevitably be much easier than the opponent's.
Therefore, as long as high-intensity combat was maintained, the opponent would inevitably collapse before him.
Thus, both sides entered into intense combat once again.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki frequently used various abilities of his Byakugan and black eye, and under supportive coordination, his attacks were bizarre, unpredictable, and extremely formidable.
But Goku's Moves were even more numerous.
In martial arts, there were the Afterimage Fist, Phantom Star Fist, Ten Thousand Realms Heaven-Shocking Palm, Aura Fist, Solar Flare, and Four Witches Fist.
In magic, there were Petrificus Totalus, Expelliarmus, Stupefy Curse, Leg-Locker Curse, Dancing Curse, and Levicorpus.
And occasionally throwing in a Gravity Magic for omnidirectional suppression.
Because apart from Gravity Magic, Goku's magic attacks were all unleashed with fists after getting close, making them basically very hard to dodge.
And Gravity Magic was an area-of-effect magic, which was similarly impossible to dodge.
The more they fought like this, the uglier Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's expression became.
Having lived for thousands of years, he had watched humans gradually master and develop various Ninjutsu with his own eyes, so he naturally had a deep understanding of Ninjutsu.
However, the human he encountered today truly filled him with a head full of question marks regarding his Ninjutsu.
"No, I'm going to lose."
The more they fought, the heavier he felt his body's burden was, and the more he fell into a disadvantage, while the opponent didn't look like he was under any pressure at all.
He knew he was in trouble today.
He had tried to escape via space-time Ninjutsu, but unfortunately, just as he activated it, his head was almost blown apart by a punch.
"Dammit, you forced me to do this."
Seeing that he couldn't escape and couldn't win in a fight, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
"Let you witness the true power of me, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki!"
The power within his body completely erupted, and his form completely transformed from a human shape into an Ōtsutsuki shape.
From head to toe, his skin was pale with spiral-shaped long horns, and all his pitch-black hair completely disappeared.
At this moment, he finally recovered the state he was in when he first arrived on this Planet back then; however, this state could only be maintained for three days.
In three days, this body of his would collapse, but he hadn't found a suitable body yet.
Therefore, his heart was enraged to the absolute extreme right now.
"Because of you, my life only has three days left, so I will definitely thank you properly, along with everyone you care about.
Right, you might not know, my current power is... five times that of just now!"
As Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's Killing Intent-filled voice fell, his figure had already disappeared, charging straight towards Goku.
He wanted to brutally slaughter Goku, as well as all of Goku's family and friends, making them experience what pain was and regret opposing him.
"Five times, huh?"
Hearing this, Goku smiled instead, and then silently chanted the spell in his heart:
"Animagus Transformation, Great Ape Form!"
A dozen-meter-tall Great Ape appeared in Konoha once again, and then slapped towards Ōtsutsuki Isshiki who was charging at him.
Is five times a lot? His Great Ape Transformation is ten times.
Besides, he hasn't even used Giant Magic, Eight Gates, and the Golden Warrior form yet.
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