Chapter 146
XX Paradise?
Chapter 146 XX Paradise?
Boom boom boom——! ! !
The massive fireball hurtled towards the barrier, crashing into it like a wave hitting a reef. It exploded with a deafening roar, and the scorching flames slid down the smooth barrier wall, failing to budge it in the slightest!
The Iwa ninja who rushed forward slashed at the barrier with their kunai and ninja swords, producing a piercing metallic scraping sound. The enormous recoil caused their hands to crack, their weapons to fall from their hands, and they felt as if they had crashed into an invisible wall.
They screamed and flew backward, crashing heavily onto the rock wall or the ground, the sound of bones cracking clearly audible!
Despair, like an icy tide, instantly overwhelmed the hearts of all the Iwa ninja.
Their strongest attacks couldn't even break through the opponent's defenses! This was a battle on a completely different level!
The opponent's strength far surpasses that of an ordinary ninja!
Yakushi Nono's pupils contracted sharply.
The moment the Big Dipper Immortal's barrier opened, she moved!
It's not an attack, it's a retreat!
Her body, like a weightless willow catkin, drifted backward at an incredible speed, her target the narrow escape passage leading to a complex rock crevice behind the base!
Years of espionage experience taught her that in the face of such absolute power, any resistance was futile, and the only way to survive was to escape!
Make use of the complex terrain!
Pharmacist Nono has encountered such crises more than once, but she has always managed to turn danger into safety, thanks to her caution and decisiveness.
Her movements were as fast as a ghost; almost at the same time the barrier opened and the Iwa ninja was sent flying backward, she had already retreated to the entrance of the passage.
Just one more step forward and she could slip into the crevice and escape the stronghold quickly!
However, just as she was about to enter the tunnel...
The demon in the arena turned his head slightly, and a red light suddenly shone from his left eye beneath the white three-eyed fox mask!
That wasn't a scarlet Sharingan, but a more eerie and purer blood-red light!
Like boiling blood, or like burning lava!
Red Eye - Open!
An invisible, interference force specifically targeting perception and vision suddenly erupts!
The world before Yakushi Nonou's eyes suddenly blurred! The familiar rock passage entrance instantly twisted and deformed in her eyes!
My sense of direction was completely distorted; the entrance, which was so close at hand, seemed to have been pulled away to the horizon!
A strong wave of dizziness hit her brain, causing her to lose her balance and stagger as she moved at high speed.
It was that fatal, less than half a second of delay!
The moment Yakushi Nonou staggered, Shura's figure appeared behind her in an instant!
A large hand wearing a black fingerless glove, like an iron clamp, with irresistible force, suddenly gripped Yakushi Nonou's slender yet incredibly powerful wrist!
His other hand shot out with lightning speed and precisely gripped the back of her neck!
Yakushi Nonou felt an overwhelming force coming at her, her wrists and the back of her neck were restrained, and her chakra was instantly suppressed and sealed by a cold and violent alien energy!
His body was as if bound by invisible chains, and all his skills and strength seemed pale and powerless in the face of that iron hand.
She turned her head sharply and came face to face with the white three-eyed fox mask so close to hers.
The mask's cold touch seemed to be pressed against her cheek, and deep within the empty eye sockets, two points of scarlet light seemed to be flickering.
"Don't move." That cold, emotionless voice whispered in my ear.
Nonou's body froze completely, and her will to resist vanished under absolute suppression.
She closed her eyes resignedly, her long eyelashes trembling slightly.
Years of living a life of constant danger have taught her that struggling now will only lead to death.
The stronghold was deathly silent.
The surviving Iwa ninjas stared in disbelief at what was happening, watching as the mysterious and powerful Asura easily subdued a medical ninja amidst the combined attack of more than a dozen Iwa ninjas.
Menma gripped the back of Yakushi Nonou's neck, ignoring the horrified gazes around them, and swept her eyes across the base.
The Sage of the North Star's barrier still emitted a faint light, isolating them and cutting off any courage they might have to resist. Even the Iwagakure Jonin was now slumped on the ground, watching helplessly as the other side captured the female medical ninja, his breathing becoming cautious, lest he attract the attention of the god of death.
Yakushi Nonou seemed to have resigned herself to her fate. Her body stopped struggling and she simply closed her eyes, her face pale.
However, just as Menma was about to activate Flying Thunder God Technique to leave, Nonou seemed to sense something, or rather, it was the instinct of a top spy that allowed her to detect something unusual in this desperate situation.
"You..." Her eyelids fluttered slightly, and her eyeballs seemed to move a little.
She felt it; the hand gripping the back of her neck, while suppressing her chakra, seemed to possess an indescribable, immense, and intense heat, as if originating from the very source of life.
"Shura..." What shocked her even more was that, at such close range, through the subtle angle of the empty eye sockets of the mask, she seemed to glimpse a... fleeting crimson?
The color wasn't the white or dark red of the mask itself, it was more like... the Sharingan?
The thought exploded in her mind like a thunderclap!
Shura?
Possessing the Sharingan? How is that possible?!
The immense shock almost made her open her eyes uncontrollably.
However, she didn't have the chance to observe it more closely.
Menma gave her no time to investigate or think; the Flying Thunder God Technique was activated instantly!
The eerie black figure, along with the restrained female Iwagakure medical ninja and the massive Hokuto Sage Barrier, vanished into thin air as if wiped away by an invisible hand, leaving all the Iwagakure ninjas in the base in a daze.
All that remained were the wrecked and shaken Iwa ninja, and the cold wind howling past the stronghold, stirring up dust.
After a long while, until the suffocating oppressive feeling in the air slowly dissipated, the Iwagakure Jonin inside the base was the first to stand up.
But a deeper fear, known as "Asura," remained in his heart.
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Star City, inside the underground prison.
As Menma pushed open the iron gate, Uchiha Hikaru hurriedly closed a book.
"You stay here and don't think about escaping." Yakushi Nono, whose chakra points were sealed by him, was thrown into a cell.
In the cell next door, Hiruko huddled in the corner, trembling, her hands wrapped around her knees, seemingly still not recovered from the genjutsu of the Mangekyou Sharingan.
"Hmm?" Menma noticed that Uchiha Hikaru's face was slightly flushed and couldn't help but ask, "Why is your face so red?"
"N-nothing... How did you get back so quickly?" Uchiha Hikaru's eyes flickered as he tried to hide the book in his hand.
His gaze drifted to the book that was being covered up.
The words "XX Paradise" are faintly visible.
(End of this chapter)