Chapter 511
The Child Who Took the Final Step
Chapter 511 The Child Who Took the Final Step
The nights in the desert of the virtual world are bitterly cold, a stark contrast to the scorching heat of the day.
The pale moonlight shone down from the eerie black moon in the sky, illuminating the desolate sea of sand.
Everywhere were mummified corpses in contorted postures, some half-buried in the sand, others exposed in the wilderness, their faces and eyes frozen with the fear and struggle of their dying moments.
The blood had already soaked into the sand, congealing into large patches of dark red scabs in the low night temperatures, emitting a nauseating stench.
The souls of the dead seemed to be silently absorbed and dissolved by the desert itself, leaving no trace.
"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
"Wind Escape·Vacuum Jade!"
Lightning Release: False Darkness!
Boom! Boom boom!!
The light from the ninjutsu kept exploding, and the booming sound echoed across the empty desert.
With bloodshot eyes, the allied ninjas unleashed a torrent of ninja tools and techniques at the distant sand pyramid.
At the top of the pyramid, 'Sandstorm' stood barefoot, the childlike, innocent yet cruel smile on his face long gone, leaving only undisguised impatience and irritability.
Inside the pyramid beneath his feet, Bulubi is now sealed.
The attacks of the allied ninjas landed on the pyramid, only blasting open gaps the size of washbasins, but the surrounding quicksand immediately surged to fill them, restoring it to its original state in the blink of an eye.
All attacks aimed at the 'sandstorm' are blocked by the towering 'mother' behind him, who extends her arms and embraces him with a gentle yet indestructible force.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The body formed by the sand and dust was constantly blasted open, with sand and gravel falling down only to be replenished by more sand and dust, in an endless cycle, never able to reach the small figure in his arms.
"A bunch of annoying bugs that you can't kill off."
'Sandstorm' curled its lip, ignoring the futile attacks, and stretched out its palm, aiming at the Allied Ninjas who were still fighting hard in the distance, through the smoke and fire of the explosion.
“Bound tightly by sand,” he said casually.
The next moment, the sand beneath the feet of the allied ninjas suddenly churned. Sensing this, one of the ninjas' expressions changed, and he hissed, "Watch your step!"
Most of the quick-reacting ninjas immediately dodged in a flash.
However, many ninjas whose movements were slowed down due to insufficient chakra or injuries were tightly bound by the quicksand that suddenly rose up beneath their feet.
"what!"
"save……"
The screams abruptly stopped.
The surging sand climbed up and instantly enveloped their entire bodies, compressing and condensing them into sand balls.
Immediately afterwards, a chilling sound came from inside the sand sphere, as if a water-filled balloon had been violently squeezed and burst.
puff!puff!puff!
A dozen or so plumes of blood mist and bits of flesh and bone shot out from the exploding sand sphere, staining the sand a blinding crimson.
Those ninjas who tried to leap into the air to dodge were not spared either.
Two giant hands formed from sand and dust rose up from the sea of sand on their left and right sides with a roar. The five fingers of the giant hands were spread out and closed on the ninjas who had nowhere to get a foothold in the air!
Bang! !
Two enormous sand palms collided, sending up waves of sand that shot into the sky. As the sand palms slowly turned into quicksand and slid down, all that remained was a mist of blood and a pile of mangled flesh.
Further away, the Allied ninjas, who were not within the attack range, watched the scene. Their already bloodless faces grew even paler, and their hands, gripping the kunai, trembled uncontrollably.
"whee."
'Sandstorm' stood atop the pyramid, a childlike smile of pure pleasure at destruction returning to his face.
However, the smile didn't last long, as the 'sandstorm' wanted to continue its attack and completely crush these annoying ants.
But the next moment, as if sensing something, he suddenly turned his head, and his scarlet eyes reflected the giant bull-headed octopus in the far distance.
Before the Eight-Tailed Gyūki, a jet-black sphere radiating a destructive aura rapidly condensed, its target seemingly the pyramid beneath the 'Sandstorm's' feet.
Or rather, it is Brubi sealed within it.
"This is what Lord Kage wants."
The thought flashed through Sandstorm's mind, and almost without hesitation, he withdrew the power he had originally intended to use to continue annihilating the Allied Shinobi Forces.
With a thought, the 'mother' behind him, who had just recovered, immediately stretched out her hands, fingers spread, aiming at the eight-tailed fox in the distance...
scoff!
With a sharp whooshing sound, a long whip crackling with blazing white lightning shot out like a venomous snake, wrapping around the 'mother's' outstretched arm and wrist.
The whip taut, its powerful force pulling the sand and dust from the arm.
Immediately following were countless subtle whooshing sounds as the surviving Allied Ninjas launched numerous specially made, tough steel wires, layer upon layer, wrapping around 'Mother's' other arm.
"Lord Killer Bee! Hurry!"
The ninjas roared, their feet sinking deep into the sand, using all their strength, even risking having their palms cut by the steel wire, as they pulled themselves back with all their might.
At the end of the whip, the two Yugito were covered in a dark blue Two-Tails chakra cloak, their faces smeared with blood and sand, looking disheveled and ferocious.
She gripped the whip handle tightly with both hands, her knuckles white, blood flowing down the whip, but as 'Sandstorm' suddenly turned her gaze, she grinned, revealing a crazed smile.
"The sand is getting heavier, isn't it?" she asked hoarsely.
Upon hearing this, 'Sandstorm' paused slightly. He did indeed feel that controlling the desert beneath him had become increasingly difficult since the beginning.
He initially thought it was just due to the continuous fighting and excessive exhaustion, but now...
"So many lives are buried here, so much blood has soaked this place..."
Yukito's eyes were bloodshot, and he clenched his teeth, each word squeezed out from between them, filled with hatred: "How could your sand not become heavy?!"
"I will definitely kill you here!"
"Yataru! Give me your chakra!!"
Before she finished speaking, the chakra within her body suddenly erupted, frantically demanding and pouring in, and a dark blue chakra flame shot into the sky from her body!
Squeak squeak squeak!!
A high-pitched, sharp thunderclap resounded throughout.
The God-Slaying Whip in her hand, which was gripping her 'mother's' arm, became a conductor, and blazing white lightning and blue ghostly fire surged from her body, spreading along the whip towards her 'mother'.
Blazing white lightning and blue ghostly flames surged wildly, instantly covering the 'mother's' body.
"I'm already tired of playing with you. Wouldn't it be better if you just died quietly?"
The sandstorm lost its last bit of patience. Its childlike face twisted slightly as it stretched out its two hands, intending to crush Yukito and the troublesome bull-headed octopus.
However, the anticipated scene of sand churning did not occur.
"..." He paused slightly, his crimson pupils suddenly turning behind him, "Mother?"
The towering figure of the 'mother' was now half-covered by blazing white lightning and eerie blue flames.
Sand is not a good conductor, but the flames of the Two-Tails Matatabi are chakra, and chakra is a good conductor of lightning.
The two combined instantly melted and crystallized the sand grains under terrifying high temperatures, as if covering them with a thick, colorful glass shell, allowing the 'mother's' body to gradually solidify.
"I've seen through you. You're just a brat who only knows how to rely on your mother!"
Yugito continuously unleashed the chakra within his body, along with Matatabi's power, through the God-Slaying Whip without reservation.
"Although I don't know why, the thing that truly controls the desert on a large scale is that thing you call 'Mother'!"
"Without that thing, you're just a naughty brat!" Just as Yugito finished speaking, in the distance, the Tailed Beast Ball, which was filled with terrifying chakra and had an astonishing diameter, finally took shape in the mouth of the Eight-Tails.
呲! !
With a deafening roar, the Tailed Beast Ball broke free from the Eight-Tails' control, transforming into a black torrent that tore through the night sky and hurtled straight toward the location of the 'sandstorm'.
His target was not the pyramid beneath his feet, but the crystallized 'mother' and the 'sandstorm' under her protection!
A hint of helplessness flashed in 'Sandstorm's' scarlet eyes, like a child lost from its mother, instinctively manipulating the surrounding sea of sand to rise up...
At the moment of impact, all sound was swallowed up by the light and heat. A blinding white spot of light appeared first at the point of impact, and then expanded and exploded.
Rumble!!
The earth-shattering explosion finally swept across the entire desert like a belated tsunami!
A terrifying storm raged wildly in all directions, its blinding light illuminating the world as bright as day.
The sand sea, bearing the brunt of the attack, disintegrated and dissolved the instant it made contact, unable to stop it for even a second. The explosive torrent shattered the 'mother's' body with overwhelming force.
Click, click, click! Snap!
The 'Mother's' crystallized body exploded into countless fragments, while the 'sandstorm' that was being protected in her arms was swept up in the explosion.
"Did it...did it succeed?"
In the distance, the Allied ninjas, who had used their last bit of strength to pull the steel wire, collapsed to the ground, struggling to lift their heads and look at the center of the explosion, a faint glimmer of hope burning in their eyes.
"No..." The two Yugitos' chests heaved as they stared intently at the billowing dust in the distance. "Something's not right!"
The billowing smoke and turbulent currents were slowly subsiding, but the deathly stillness that permeated the desert was converging on the epicenter of the explosion from all directions.
The entire desert seemed to be groaning and trembling, causing Yukito's cat-like pupils to gradually shrink to slits.
call!
The shockwave suddenly spread out from the center of the explosion, like a giant hand sweeping across, dispersing the last remaining smoke and turbulence.
The scene at the epicenter of the explosion, exposed to the pale moonlight, was reflected before everyone's eyes.
There, an enormous crater had been carved out by the Tailed Beast Ball. The sand and soil had been melted by the high temperature and then cooled back to become glass. In the center of the crater, a figure stood quietly.
The sandstorm now looks completely different from what it used to be.
He lowered his head, obscuring his face; only his red hair fluttered in the heat. One hand was pressed against his face, and fine sand slowly trickled down between his fingers.
Outside the deep pit, the blood scabs that had dried up, solidified, and soaked into the sand were now turning into a blood mist and rising up.
In the air, scattered specks of fluorescent light refracted brilliantly in the residual firelight of the explosion; these were remnants of the shattered 'Mother'.
The blood mist and fluorescent light surged toward the 'sandstorm' and seeped into his body.
"Uh……"
From 'Sandstorm's' throat came painful and suppressed whimpers, and its body began to undergo strange changes under everyone's gaze.
Time seemed to accelerate for him.
The childlike figure slowly grew taller and longer, the slender limbs became long and powerful, the slightly thin shoulders became broad, and the waist became more defined.
His entire body displays the smooth and agile lines of a young man.
"How... is this possible..."
Yu Muren's breathing gradually stopped, and a look of fear slowly appeared on his face.
If the 'sandstorm' previously emanated an undisguised brutality that swept everything away like a sandstorm, inspiring fear...
At this moment, the 'sandstorm' standing there quietly exudes an aura as desolate, cold, and boundless as a desert at night.
Everyone who senses this aura feels a chill creeping up from the depths of their soul, and trembles uncontrollably.
Click... Click...
In the dead silence, a faint yet clear sound of something shattering rang out, waking everyone who had been stunned by the sound.
"Kill him!" The two wooden figures were the first to react, letting out a sharp, piercing roar.
The instinct for survival overcame the fear of the unknown.
The allied ninjas snapped out of their daze. Under Yugito's roaring command, they no longer considered the consumption of chakra, and only one thought remained in their minds.
attack!
Kill this monster completely!
"Fire Release: Great Fire Dragon Technique!"
"Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!"
Lightning Release: Gratitude Wave!
The light of ninjutsu shone brightly again, carrying the fear and anger of the allied ninjas, and poured out like a torrential rain towards that figure!
The light of the ninjutsu illuminated the gradually maturing, sharply defined profile of 'Sandstorm'.
He kept his head down, his hand pressed against his face, his knuckles taut from the excessive force, trembling slightly, and one could vaguely see his clenched teeth and the twitching of his cheek muscles.
"She's dead..."
"She's long dead..."
"Why?" He pressed his hand against his face with sudden force, the veins on the back of his hand bulging as if he wanted to crush his face, and said hoarsely, "You all deserve to die!!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the 'sandstorm' suddenly raised its head, and the pale bone face that had covered most of its face shattered completely, breaking off into fragments that fell and dissipated into fine sand in the air.
Only a few bones remained on his right temple.
The young man's face was contorted with rage, his eyes still bloodshot, but the childlike mischief was gone, replaced by pure and cold killing intent.
The child who only knew how to hide behind his mother and act recklessly was finally forced, staggering, to take that step forward after losing his mother's protection.
He became the "Broken Face".
The previous 'sandstorm' was a powerful but immature child who gave most of his power to his 'mother' to protect himself and toyed with his prey.
Now, having lost the protection and reliance of its 'mother', the 'Sandstorm', after being completely shattered, has finally gained complete control over its own power of natural disaster.
'Sandstorm' pressed one hand to his face, slowly raised the other, and stretched it forward, towards the onslaught of ninjutsu, towards the surviving Allied Shinobi in the distance, and then...
"Sleep now..." He slowly clenched his fist, his hoarse voice echoing in the desert, "Sand burial."
boom!!
Centered on the feet of the 'sandstorm', the desert surged like boiling seawater!
It was no longer the localized sandstorms or sandstorms of the past, but the entire desert. As far as the eye could see, the desert seemed to have come to life, transforming into a boundless, sky-reaching tsunami.
Layer upon layer, obscuring the sky and the sun, they surged towards the location of the allied ninjas!
Amidst the sandstorm, countless human faces formed from sand grains twisted in agony, silently opening their mouths to roar.
The ninjutsu unleashed by the allied ninjas with all their might crashed into the unimaginably thick sea of sand, only splashing up a tiny, insignificant wave before being completely swallowed up and crushed.
A sandstorm engulfed everything in sight.
The desperate screams of the allied ninjas were drowned out by the roar of the sandstorm.
Faced with the sandstorm that seemed to overturn the entire world, a solemn expression appeared on the face of the Eight-Tailed Gyūki.
"Hey! There's nowhere to hide when a sandstorm hits, so an octopus rolls around to fight it off, you idiot, you bastard!" Killer Bee's tone was more serious than ever before.
The next moment, the eight incredibly strong octopus tentacles of the Eight-Tailed Octopus retracted and wrapped around its body layer by layer, and then suddenly began to spin!
Eight Tailed Beasts!
hum! !
(End of this chapter)