Chapter 490
We are the final link in this chain of fate!
Chapter 490 We are the final link in this chain of fate!
Before the three colossal figures of the Ten-Tails, Susanoo, and Wood Golem, there was a figure that appeared minuscule in comparison to them, amidst the golden light that pierced the heavens and earth.
From the distance where Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others were, they couldn't even see the figure, but the power of the light itself instantly brought a name to everyone's minds.
"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!" Mei Terumi blurted out almost immediately. "It's Hyuga Kumokawa! Jiraiya and Tsunade really saved Hyuga Kumokawa?!"
Upon hearing this, all the Allied Shinobi, including Hiruzen Sarutobi, were invigorated.
However, their shocked and excited reaction caused several samurai, including Chosuke, to show strange expressions and a hint of wariness in their eyes.
Are these guys really the 'Shadow' they know?
The ninja world is in crisis, and it is the resurrected Hyuga Kumokawa who is leading them in the fight.
Hyuga Kumokawa is now not only the Hokage of Konoha, but also the last hope of the entire ninja world, a savior.
This is something that almost everyone in the ninja world knows, but these guys in front of me seem to know nothing about it?
the most important is……
Chosuke and the others glanced at Danzo, Nagato, and Orochimaru not far away, then looked at each other and realized something was wrong. They all gripped the hilts of their swords tightly.
That's right, these guys are the Ten-Tails' clones that Orochimaru modified!
呲!
At the same time, the golden light slashed straight down towards the Ten-Tails, splitting the thick, scarlet clouds above in two.
Before the Ten-Tails, the colossal Tailed Beast Ball, as large as a mountain, shot out towards the figure that was exceptionally small in comparison.
The two collided violently between heaven and earth.
boom!!
A burst of intense white light suddenly erupted, instantly dispersing and clearing the clouds above, revealing a vast expanse of sky.
The ground below was shattered by the explosion, and the rock layers at the edges were thrown and broken into dust like ocean waves, with the shockwave spreading in all directions.
A shockwave and a deafening roar swept over them. Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others felt a buzzing sound in their ears, followed by a sharp crackling sound, and their faces showed pain.
All external sounds disappeared, drowned out by the roar and howling wind, and vision was obscured by the surging dust that swept in like a tsunami.
"Tu Dun·Tu Liubi!"
The allied ninjas simultaneously unleashed defensive ninjutsu, hastily erecting earthen walls in front of them in an attempt to withstand the devastating aftershocks of the explosion.
The thick, tall earthen wall was blasted open by the terrifying impact, and violent, scorching air surged from both sides of the wall, slapping against everyone.
After a moment, the impact subsided slightly, but the earth was still trembling, and the thick dust cloud slowly settled, making visibility even lower.
"Cough cough!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi coughed, brushed away the dust in front of him, and looked in the distance.
The distant battlefield was indistinct, with only flashes of light and the constantly shaking ground visible. Clearly, the fighting had not stopped; in fact, it had become even more intense…
呲!
A chilling killing intent and the sound of air being torn apart came from behind. Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't turn his head and drew his kunai to block behind him without hesitation.
Clang! Clang clang!
Several gleaming blades slashed down, colliding with the kunai, sparks flying amidst the billowing dust!
The attackers were none other than Chongjie and his samurai, their faces now filled with nothing but coldness and murderous intent.
“Chongsuke, you…” Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned as he looked at Chongsuke, whose face was contorted with rage. “Why?”
"Stop pretending, you damned split personalities!" Chosuke's hand gripping his sword trembled slightly. "The Fifth Mizukage, Danzo, and Nagato, they're all dead!"
These words, packed with information, left Hiruzen Sarutobi momentarily stunned.
"and many more!"
Onoki was both shocked and furious, completely bewildered by the situation: "What split entity? What are you talking about? We just came from the underground palace..."
"Attack!" Chongjie suddenly parried the blade with force, using the momentum to retreat and regain his footing. Without giving them a chance to explain, he roared, "Kill these monsters!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the samurai followed closely behind, their swords flashing, and charged straight at Hiruzen Sarutobi and his companions.
However, at this critical moment...
Boom!!
The ground beneath their feet suddenly arched upwards, as if some enormous thing was churning wildly underground and bursting forth from the earth.
Bang bang bang!
The hard ground was shattered, and countless twisting, writhing black shadows shot out like giant pythons!
"what!"
"Help, help!"
"What is this thing?!"
Screams erupted instantly as these dark figures moved with astonishing speed, entangling the panicked civilians, ordinary samurai, and allied ninjas who couldn't escape in time.
They wrapped their ankles, waists, and necks.
The moment Shimura Danzo sensed something was wrong when he felt the movement beneath his feet, he immediately leaped into the air.
His gaze swept down to the twisted black shadow that had burst from the ground and was dancing wildly. A strange sense of familiarity welled up in his heart, but without the slightest hesitation, the deformed right arm stretched out.
"Wood Release: Explosive Spear Tree!"
The skin on his arm instantly mutated and multiplied, transforming into countless jet-black, sharp branches that, like a thicket of thorns, lashed out at the dark shadow rushing below.
Chi la la!
The sharp wooden branches shredded and cut the dark figures, and a thick, foul-smelling liquid gushed out, splashing onto Danzo's face, making a sizzling, corrosive sound and causing a slight burning sensation.
At the same time, Hiruzen Sarutobi also leaped into the air, his Vajra staff spinning instantly.
hum!
The rapidly spinning Vajra Ruyi Cudgel stirred up a tornado, not only shattering the surrounding black shadow tentacles, but also temporarily dispelling the dust and mist that filled the vicinity.
As the smoke and dust dissipated, the true faces of those "shadows" below were finally clearly revealed to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others. Just one glance sent a chill down their spines and up to the top of their heads.
Those were countless constantly dancing fleshy tentacles, their surfaces covered with mucus and blood vessels, crimson light shining through them, and densely packed golden vertical pupils covering them!
Thousands of eyes turned simultaneously, their cold, greedy, and malicious gazes instantly locking onto Danzo, Nagato, and Mei Terumi.
Then, the tentacles tightened suddenly, unleashing terrifying power...
Click! Pfft!
The screams abruptly stopped, replaced by the crisp sound of bones breaking and the muffled thud of flesh being strangled to death.
Blood, bits of flesh, and severed limbs splattered everywhere, turning this place into a bloody and pungent slaughterhouse, staining those black tentacles blood red!
Meanwhile, the tentacles, bathed in blood and flesh, wriggled and absorbed the blood and bits of flesh, causing the corpse to quickly shrivel up.
"What the hell is this?"
Even with their experience, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Onoki felt a sense of shock and unease upon seeing this scene.
The next moment, the tentacles, which had absorbed flesh and blood and become even thicker, began to swell and writhe on the surface, as if something inside was struggling and trying to break free.
Puff! Puff puff puff!
Countless arms pierced through and extended from within those swollen tentacles. Then, twisted, humanoid shadows swayed and emerged from the flesh and blood.
"Damn it!" When Chosuke saw the monsters emerging from the tentacles, his face turned deathly pale. "They're the tentacles and split forms of the Ten-Tails!"
What's going on? It's one thing for some disguised split entities to suddenly appear, but how come so many special attack type split entities have suddenly appeared? Even the Ten-Tails' tentacles have reached here.
Based on previous estimates, this area should not be affected in the short term.
Meanwhile, in the shadows on the other side, Orochimaru, who had never shown himself, remained hidden from the beginning.
He stared intently at the fleshy tentacles that seemed to ignore him completely, the golden vertical pupils on the tentacles, and the monsters crawling out of them.
His gaze gradually turned fiery and crazed, and the corners of his mouth stretched uncontrollably upwards, widening until they almost tore to his ears—a silent, manic smile.
I see! I see!
"Hahaha, so that's how it is!" Orochimaru finally couldn't hold back and let out a wild, almost maniacal laugh. "We are the final link in this chain of fate!"
The next moment, he suddenly stretched out his arms, his sleeves ripped open, and countless pitch-black lines shot out, even gleaming with a metallic sheen, clearly enhanced by the Steel Release technique.
However, his target was neither those tentacles, nor Hiruzen Sarutobi, Onoki, or the roaring monsters that pounced at him.
Instead, it was Danzo Shimura, who was right next to them and completely unprepared, along with Nagato and Mei Terumi!
Although Nagato and Orochimaru were partners, Nagato never trusted Orochimaru in the slightest and always remained wary of him.
At that moment, facing the black line that suddenly attacked from behind, he raised one hand without hesitation.
"Shinra Tensei".
boom!
An invisible, immense repulsive force erupted from him, causing visible ripples in the air. The black lines, reinforced by the Steel Release technique, were instantly torn apart and severed!
"Lava Release: Lava Monster Technique!"
Mei Terumi's cheeks also puffed out, and corrosive acid gushed out, meeting the incoming black line with a hissing sound as it quickly dissolved, failing to get even a fraction closer.
However, Danzo Shimura, who was closest to Orochimaru, never expected that Orochimaru would suddenly attack him out of the blue.
The "Earth Grudge" black lines, enhanced by the Steel Release technique, had already coiled around his right arm, waist, and legs like venomous snakes, piercing his flesh and tightening like hooks.
Orochimaru! What are you doing?
Danzo roared in shock and rage, and his right arm, pierced by the black lines, instantly mutated and exploded, with countless sharp black branches growing wildly, breaking and shattering the black lines that bound him.
But the moment he broke free, Orochimaru grinned and swung his arm, and the black lines followed suit, throwing Danzo like a sandbag into the wildly dancing tentacles below.
Pfft! Pfft pfft!
Below, those sharp tentacles shot out, piercing straight through Danzo's body.
"Ah!" Danzo couldn't help but let out a miserable scream as blood gushed out, staining the slippery surface of his tentacles red.
The tip of the tentacle that had pierced his body instantly opened its fine, suction-cup-like mouthparts and firmly adhered to his wound, generating a greedy suction force.
"My chakra..."
Danzo was horrified to discover that the tentacles were frantically draining and devouring his chakra at an alarming rate, as if they were trying to suck him dry, skin and bones, and even his soul.
"Orochimaru, why? Why?!" Danzo roared with his last breath, his eyes wide with rage, desperately trying to resist the suction force by channeling his chakra.
He doesn't understand!
He didn't understand at all!
He knew Orochimaru was untrustworthy, but Orochimaru clearly still needed his power and his assistance in controlling the powerful beings resurrected through the Impure World Reincarnation technique. He still had irreplaceable value!
Why did Orochimaru suddenly attack him at this moment out of the blue?
What on earth is this madman thinking?!
However, even more terrified and horrified than Danzo were the struggling Chosuke and his companions.
Orochimaru?
Chosuke stared blankly at Orochimaru, as if he had witnessed the most absurd and unbelievable sight. His voice was shrill: "How is this possible? How could you be here?"
"idiot!"
Onoki was furious. Everything that had happened since he woke up had been too fast and too bizarre, completely beyond his comprehension. He roared, "What on earth is going on?"
"This disaster that swept through the ninja world, that Ten-Tails, and these monsters, were all Orochimaru's doing," Josuke said blankly.
"He was right there, directing the Ten-Tails and the reanimated ninjas in a desperate battle against the Fifth Hokage. How could he possibly be mixed up with you all here?"
what?
Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others felt like their brains were about to explode.
They had absolutely no concept of time travel, so how could they possibly imagine that they were in the future?
In their view, at most, it was because he had been unconscious for too long that some changes had occurred in the ninja world, and they had no idea what Josuke was talking about.
However, they were not given any time to sort things out.
呲呲!
The tentacles that had pierced Danzo's body suddenly retracted and tightened. Danzo was like a fish that had taken a bait, his body being pulled by the tentacles and dragged toward the crack from which more tentacles were constantly emerging!
"Hiruzen! Save me!"
Danzo screamed in terror and instinctively turned to Hiruzen Sarutobi for guidance.
Hiruzen Sarutobi snapped back to his senses instantly, and almost instinctively, he stretched out his Vajra Staff to try and stop the tentacles.
But it was too late.
Or rather, the target of those tentacles was Danzo.
Once they succeed, they leave immediately without lingering.
Orochimaru!
Danzo's terrified and shrill screams quickly grew muffled and distant as he was dragged into the rift, eventually disappearing completely into the bottomless darkness.
Hiruzen Sarutobi abruptly turned his head, his anger almost bursting from his eyes, staring intently at Orochimaru, and shouted sharply, "Orochimaru, what exactly did you do?"
However, Orochimaru seemed to completely ignore Hiruzen Sarutobi's question, remaining standing in place with his head slightly tilted back, his gaze piercing through the billowing smoke and dust.
Looking at the outline of the Ten-Tails in the red sun, and the figure hovering above the Ten-Tails.
At this moment, Orochimaru, separated by a great distance, stared into the eyes of that figure.
Although their faces were obscured, the madness and ambition in their eyes were palpable...
same.
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(End of this chapter)