Near vermilion, one gets stained red; near ink, one gets stained black. When it comes to acting recklessly, Ino couldn't compare to the Saiyans, but her current operating style was certainly far more reckless than the refined Otsutsuki clan.
Her current physical constitution could maintain Kaio-ken x2 for a long period. After entering cosmic space, she hadn't yet found the turbulence Turles mentioned. Relying on repulsive force to propel herself in flight was simply too slow, so she clenched her fists, and a crimson energy aura rose up around her.
In the pitch-black darkness of space, she looked like an erratically flickering red lantern.
Using her spaceship as the center point, Ino gradually expanded her search range.
She traveled through the pitch-black space when suddenly, her figure stagnated, her forward momentum pulled by something.
Borrowing the light of the red aura radiating from her body, Ino looked to her left. Although it was a bit blurry, she could see a translucent tentacle with sucker-like substances shooting out rapidly from behind a piece of debris the size of a football field. This strange tentacle wrapped around her waist, continuously absorbing the red aura escaping from her use of Kaio-ken.
This was the first time she had seen such a thing; it looked like an energy body, yet it could be touched.
Throwing caution to the wind, Ino drew the Hero's Sword and hacked left and right.
Her resistance awakened some kind of creature here, and seven or eight tentacles rushed out.
She was already far away from her spaceship at this point. After fighting for a long time, the enemies only seemed to increase.
These surrounding tentacles were mindless, seeming to be just earthworm-like feelers, but after being chopped off, they could splice together with other tentacles. After killing for a long time, it was all wasted effort.
Ino could only sheath the Hero's Sword and switch to using shockwaves to exterminate these tentacles. She fired countless light bullets, finally wiping out this cosmic lifeform of unknown origin.
After the battle ended, she guessed that it was the red aura emitted by her Kaio-ken x2 that had attracted the enemy.
Not wanting to waste energy here, she could only deactivate Kaio-ken and search alone in the pitch-black space.
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After leaving the spaceship and flying for another day, Ino finally found the spatial turbulence Turles had spoken of. Afterward, she was swept along to an area that could tentatively be called a floating continent.
Turles and his gang had been chased by enemies back then and strayed into this area, eventually finding some inferior God Tree seeds around this floating continent.
They messed around with modifications and cultivation, finally removing a large pile of functions and downgrading the God Tree into the Tree of Might.
Ino didn't go to the surrounding areas. Instead, she used the Transformation Technique to take on Kaguya's appearance. Following that faint, almost non-existent guidance within her body, she headed toward the center of the floating continent. Soon, she stopped in front of ruins that looked like an ancient city.
There was a bit of gravity here. Metal, stone slabs, and some cosmic garbage swept in by the turbulence formed a site covering tens of thousands of square kilometers.
Looking at the traces, it was unknown how many years it had been abandoned.
Ino soon found the giant portal Turles had mentioned. At first glance, it made her liver tremble a bit.
If the ruins were a city, then the gate of this city was a bit horrifying.
Pitch-black, looking as if it were compressed from countless layers of tree bark, the gate was densely packed with countless eyes.
These were all Rinnegan. There were few golden ones; the remaining purple, red, blue, and black Rinnegan seemed to possess their own lives. Some pupils were dripping blood, while some eyes seemed to see Ino, the intruder, and swiveled in unison toward her direction. Others directly cast genjutsu on her.
If it were one or two, she wouldn't care, but she couldn't withstand a hundred or eighty genjutsu smashing over at once.
Ino closed her eyes and retreated more than ten steps before she finally escaped the attack range of this giant gate.
This was the "little trouble" Turles mentioned? Dammit, that grandson definitely didn't tell the truth.
Observing from a distance, she saw things like vines occasionally extending between the Rinnegan. Whenever a Rinnegan wept tears of blood, they would lunge over to absorb the energy within. Afterward, they would entwine with each other. Some vines had been entwined for an unknown amount of time, forming gray fleshy tumors at the junctions.
This door was alive; it possessed life.
Ino's tryptophobia was triggered. This thing looked evil. She felt she couldn't be the only one to suffer, so she immediately took several photos of the gate from different angles, planning to send them to Sakura later...
This gate should be the portal leading to the depths of the alternate dimension, but how was she supposed to enter now?
Turn into Kaguya Otsutsuki? She felt that the Rinnegan on this gate seemed to attack indiscriminately.
According to Turles's description, there should be several patterns of the Otsutsuki clan's horns nearby, like Kaguya's gray giant horns or Isshiki's single horn. These patterns were all there, which was also the reason Ino determined that people like Kaguya were needed to open the gate. But now, she didn't see these diagrams at the scene.
Was it not this gate? Or was there another gate elsewhere?
"Wind Release: Spiralling Shuriken!" She fired a ninjutsu at the gate from afar.
The high-speed rotating Spiralling Shuriken vanished into thin air when it was still five meters away from the gate.
"Is it a space-type ability?" With so many Rinnegan, it wasn't strange for some to have space abilities, but for the effect to be this strong was problematic.
Gathering over a thousand Rinnegan, just how much pupil power was in there?
Ino felt a headache coming on. She didn't rashly try to break the door down but instead scouted around the edge of the city.
Half a day later, she returned to the gate.
The other places were useless. Even entering the city was useless; what was she going to find in a pile of cosmic garbage? She had to pass through this gate to head to that alternate dimension.
Ino tried walking toward the entrance using Kaguya's appearance. The result was hundreds and thousands of ocular techniques smashing over, leaving her in a wretched state.
"Fine, you forced me! Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
She separated out a thousand shadow clones.
"That Ino over there, move forward a bit, yes, one step forward."
"You, step back, step back! Don't go forward anymore!"
She commanded the thousand shadow clones to form a semi-encircling formation, surrounding the gate.
How should one enter normally? She didn't know, so she could only use her own moves.
What was the weakness of the Rinnegan? There was no answer on the Naruto side; the Rinnegan was nearly invincible. However, there was an answer on the Earth side, and Ino had personally experienced it once. The move was simple, but it couldn't be denied that it was truly effective. She had copied it with a glance back then.
A thousand shadow clones simultaneously placed their hands on both sides of their foreheads, converting chakra into ki, and then converting ki into light energy.
All shadow clones closed their eyes simultaneously and unleashed the move.
"Solar Flare!" x1000!
The Rinnegan on the gate hadn't anticipated at all that such a bugged move existed in the world. Let alone having no brains, even if they had brains, they wouldn't have had time to react at this moment.
All the Rinnegan were irradiated by the intense light and closed their eyes in unison. Ino's army of shadow clones rushed up and attacked fiercely—this one chopping vines, that one setting fire to the fleshy tumors. Finally, exerting force together, they pried the gate open a crack. Ino canceled all the shadow clones, her figure flickering as she rushed inside.
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