Chapter 287 : Rinnegan

Riku didn’t respond. He simply clapped his hands together calmly and pressed them to the ground.

In an instant, dozens of golden chains erupted from the earth, surrounding the fake Nine Tails that was about to charge at the real one.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Dozens of spear-tipped chains shot out, binding the false Nine Tails in place.

"ROAR—!"

Despite being violently pulled down and pinned by the powerful Adamantine Sealing Chains, the fake Nine Tails struggled with wild fury, snarling at Riku.

The thick, glowing chains wrapped the beast from head to tail, anchored deeply into the surrounding earth. With the sheer sturdiness of the Adamantine Chains, no matter how it thrashed, the fake Nine Tails couldn’t break free.

The real Kurama, standing next to Riku, was completely stunned.

"Your Adamantine Sealing Chains... they’re even stronger than Mito Uzumaki’s back in the day."

Riku rose to his feet, eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at the restrained beast still trying to break loose. Its mouth began to open, chakra condensing rapidly—an attempt to form a Tailed Beast Bomb.

Sparks began crackling along the chains.

"Zzzzzzt—!"

Lightning surged through the golden bindings. Thunderbolts exploded across the length of the chains and blasted the restrained creature with terrifying force.

Though it wasn’t enough to kill it outright, the power was overwhelming.

The scale and control of the lightning were precise—Riku held back just enough to torture but not destroy.

Seeing this, the real Kurama flinched. "Damn, you’re ruthless. Good thing you used the Myojin Gate on me last time and not this technique."

Riku smiled faintly. "What, are you scared now?"

Kurama rolled his eyes. Wasn’t that obvious? If Riku ever used this on him, it would be hell.

The Tailed Beast Bomb being formed in the false Nine Tails’ mouth fizzled out completely under the force of the electric surge.

It tried to resist, but the chains didn’t just bind it—they were draining its chakra.

Its form began to shrink as the massive chakra body flickered and thinned. Eventually, it couldn’t even maintain its tailed beast transformation.

With a puff of white smoke, the fake Nine Tails vanished entirely.

In the sky, the chakra it had released briefly formed a translucent image of the Nine Tails before fading into the clouds.

At the center of a massive crater, Sora lay unconscious and bloodied, covered in wounds.

Riku looked toward Kurama. "You’re not going back in yet? It’s over."

Kurama scoffed. "It’s rare for me to be out. Let me stay a bit longer."

Riku didn’t argue. He understood—Naruto’s consciousness was completely suppressed for now, and Kurama was in control. But since Naruto had willingly cooperated with Kurama, the jinchūriki link was stable. Naruto might be unconscious, but Kurama’s chakra wouldn’t harm him.

Still, Naruto would be weakened for a while after this.

Riku didn’t bother checking on Sora. Instead, he turned toward the village.

Activating his sensory ability, he weaved hand seals.

"Lightning Style: Thunder Net."

In the next instant, streaks of lightning rained from the darkened sky.

Kazuma’s subordinates, who had been fighting Konoha’s ninja, were struck one by one with unerring precision.

Each bolt struck like divine retribution.

In mere moments, His forces were obliterated by the heavenly barrage.

Even the four shinobi who had been preparing to unleash Lightning Style techniques of their own were incinerated, reduced to ash mid-chant.

With their summoners dead, the Edo Tensei ceased functioning.

Many corpses crumbled into piles of dirt, no longer animated by forbidden chakra.

Just like that, the war ended.

The Konoha shinobi stood stunned. After all that brutal fighting, everything had ended within minutes of Riku making his move.

Whether it was the fake Nine Tails, the four Lightning Style users, or elite guard—none of them stood a chance.

Tsunade stood at the window, her expression calm.

Because she knew.

As long as Riku got involved, the outcome would be absolute.

There was no longer a single shinobi in the entire world capable of standing against him. Not even the leader of the Akatsuki could match him now.

At least, that was Tsunade’s belief.

To her, Riku had already transcended the realm of normal human strength—he had reached a higher state of existence.

His Rinnegan alone was terrifying.

Now, it had evolved into the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan.

Unlike the Rinne Sharingan, which was a fusion of the Sharingan and the Rinnegan, the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan was a pure, more advanced form of the Rinnegan.

But Riku hadn’t awakened the Rinne Sharingan yet.

In the entire shinobi world, only Kaguya Ōtsutsuki had possessed the true Rinne Sharingan. Not even Uchiha Madara had truly awakened it. His so-called Rinne Sharingan came after he implanted both Rinnegan and became the Ten Tails’ jinchūriki.

Since the Ten Tails was actually Kaguya’s body, the eye that formed on his forehead was essentially Kaguya’s own.

But Riku would awaken the true Rinne Sharingan.

The time just hadn’t come yet.

And when that time came—he would surpass Kaguya.

Why were Madara, Sasuke, and even Hagoromo unable to surpass Kaguya?

Because their chakra levels were nowhere near hers.

Kaguya had fully merged with the Ten Tails. She was the Ten Tails, and the Ten Tails was her.

That’s why she couldn’t truly be killed—their lives were one and the same.

Tailed Beasts are practically immortal. As long as chakra exists, they will always return.

When Riku’s chakra reserves reach five times the total output of a complete Nine Tails, he will ascend beyond the mortal plane—matching or even exceeding Kaguya’s level.

This was thanks to his terrifying physical constitution.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it the Body of a God.

And the only person in the entire shinobi world who knew Riku had awakened the Rinnegan was Tsunade.

Not even Kakashi, Riku’s teacher, was aware.

That’s why Tsunade was confident. Even if the Akatsuki leader had the Rinnegan, he was no match for Riku.

Riku’s Rinnegan was unique—the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan.

It was still a Rinnegan in essence, but just as a Three-Tomoe Sharingan vastly surpassed a One-Tomoe, the power difference here was enormous.

The same principle applied.

Ōtsutsuki clan members weren’t factored into this comparison, of course. For example, Indra Ōtsutsuki could summon a full-body Susanoo with just the standard Sharingan, and its power rivaled or even surpassed Madara’s Eternal Mangekyō.

Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths, had a Susanoo of unimaginable scale—close in size to the Ten Tails itself.

By comparison, Madara’s perfect Susanoo was about as big as Kurama. And Kurama, next to the Ten Tails, was no larger than a speck.

That should give a sense of how absurdly large Hagoromo’s Susanoo was.

As for Riku—he hadn’t yet summoned his own Susanoo. But when he did, it would certainly surpass even that of the Sage of Six Paths.

After all, his Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan was far beyond Hagoromo’s ordinary Rinnegan.

Hagoromo’s eyes had evolved from a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, but only to a base-level Rinnegan.

Still, even that was stronger than Madara’s.

Later, Sasuke’s Six-Tomoe Rinnegan surpassed the standard Rinnegan in power.

And now—Riku’s Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan far surpassed even Sasuke’s.

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