Chapter 183
Fierce Battle on the Moon! Susanoo VS Giant Tenseigan!
Chapter 183 Fierce Battle on the Moon! Susanoo VS Giant Tenseigan!
Uchiha Hikaru's Susanoo, accompanied by the roaring Vermilion Bird and Azure Dragon, descended, causing the hard floor tiles to crack like a spiderweb under the immense impact.
The group jumped off the back of the spirit beast.
This is the huge plaza in front of the floating castle, with the ground covered with smooth, mirror-like dark black stone slabs.
Dozens of black stone pillars, carved with distorted star patterns, stand around the square, emitting a faint, cold light.
At this moment, this square, which should have been solemn and dignified, was filled with noise and clamor.
Click, click, click...
The sickening grinding sound of joints filled the air!
Hundreds and thousands of puppets, like a tide rising from the shadows of the square, silently and swiftly surrounded it, a dark mass exuding a chilling malice.
The main body consisted of ordinary puppets wrapped in tattered brown robes and with their faces covered in bandages, their bandaged faces facing the crowd, and they were the most numerous.
It contains two completely different kinds of existence.
A type of girl who is slender and short, like a seven or eight-year-old girl.
They wore oddly tailored kimonos, with a dark brown matte fabric upper body and a bright red pleated skirt lower body, paired with white stockings and small wooden clogs.
The most bizarre thing was their heads. Instead of being wrapped in bandages, they were flawless, deathly pale faces like those of fine porcelain dolls, with the corners of their mouths curving upwards in a fixed arc, revealing serrated sharp teeth, and long white hair cascading down to their ankles like a waterfall.
The other type is rare, with only three.
They are tall, almost like adults, dressed in sophisticated black clothing, with their faces covered by matte black face masks.
Their positions were significantly higher than the other puppets, hidden behind the ordinary puppets. Their movements were more refined, and every subtle shift exuded a sense of oppression far exceeding that of a Jonin!
Before the encirclement could be completed, an even more powerful aura suddenly descended.
The castle’s massive gate, several meters high, opened silently, and a figure dressed in a traditional white robe of the Otsutsuki clan slowly emerged, surrounded by six exquisitely crafted maid puppets.
His long, light-colored hair was tied up at the back of his head, and his expression was arrogant and cold; it was none other than Ōtsutsuki Sakuto.
To his left stood a white-haired boy who was clearly much younger than him. It was Sheren, whose innocent face showed a hint of curiosity and fear. He was being warily protected behind two tall butler puppets.
Shuo Ren coldly swept his 'mind's eye' over the surrounded crowd, as if examining lifeless stones.
When his inner gaze fell upon Hyuga Hizashi, especially upon the bulging veins on the other's forehead and those pure white eyes, a clear crack appeared in his icy expression for the first time!
"Byakugan... how did you manage to find this place? What... are you?" Sakuto's voice was filled with suppressed rage and a hint of disbelief and confusion, as if the presence of the Hyuga clan's bloodline here was the deepest desecration of this sacred space.
However, his confusion did not last long before it was replaced by an absolute desire for control.
He scoffed contemptuously, raising his right hand as if to crush ants, palm facing the sky, and an invisible force connected him with a colossal being lurking deep within the castle.
"So be it. Under the gaze of this divine eye, all adversity will ultimately return to dust! Awaken, wrath of the ancestors!"
boom--!
Suddenly, the tops of the two thickest stone pillars at the edge of the square were illuminated by a blinding white light!
As the light flowed and converged, accompanied by a deafening roar that shook the earth, a colossal stone statue, as large as a mountain, rose from the edge of the square!
The stone statue is towering at the waist, but below that it seems to disappear, replaced by countless stacked, massive, shell-like rocks, layer upon layer resembling the bloated body of a hermit crab, firmly attached to the ground.
The enormous head was incredibly clear, bearing a striking resemblance to the statue of Hamura Ōtsutsuki, the younger brother of the Sage of Six Paths, with two massive horns on its head.
Most terrifying of all are its two thick stone arms, each over five meters in diameter, covered with uneven textures like mountain rock knots, containing a terrifying power capable of crushing mountains!
The instant the stone statue solidified, the cold command of the Shuo people echoed across the square: "Kill them!"
Om-!
The encirclement tightened suddenly!
As soon as the command was given, the three different puppets, like killing machines released from their final restraints, transformed into a raging tide of death, hoarsely and clattering as they pounced forward!
The gleaming short blades, the fists and feet imbued with chakra, the merciless tearing and biting—all aimed directly at the people at the center of the encirclement!
"Kimimaro, Vanilla, clear the area!" Menma's voice remained cold, steady, and utterly calm.
With a slight movement, he approached one of the black butler puppets like a ghost.
"understand!"
"give it to me!"
Kaguya Kimimaro activated his Byakugan, his pupils burning with fighting spirit, and his skin instantly rippled as if boiling!
"Corpse Bone Pulse: Dance of the Camellia!"
Zheng——!
A white bone spear, over three meters long, suddenly thrust out from his right forearm with a sharp whistling sound as it tore through the air!
At the same time, countless sharp bone spurs of various shapes pierced through clothing and grew suddenly on the left arm, shoulder blade, back, and outer sides of both legs!
At this moment, his entire body transformed into a skeletal storm covered with thorns and blades, fearlessly crashing into the area where ordinary puppets were most densely packed!
puff!puff!puff!
Wherever the bone spear swept, it pierced and tore through everything, from the tough brown robe to the hard skeleton made of wood and stone!
The bone spikes surged forward with his wild spin, like a meat grinder, engulfing, cutting, and crushing the oncoming puppets!
The sharp edges of white bones mingled and flew together with the shattered limbs of puppets, and a strange smell of decaying wood and rust filled the cold square.
"King Kong Blockade!"
Whirlpool Vanilla clasped her hands together and slammed them hard into the ground!
The immense vortex of chakra within her body suddenly erupted!
Boom boom boom!
Seven chakra chains, as thick as giant pythons and with ancient golden sealing runes flowing on their surfaces, burst forth from behind her like angry dragons breaking through the earth!
The chains, imbued with unparalleled power and the demon-dispelling properties of sealing techniques, strangled, whipped, and pierced!
Each swing of the golden whip brought forth large amounts of severed limbs and shattered bodies!
Those puppets that tried to get close, or that attacked from the side or behind, were all crushed into dust by the chains!
Single-handedly, she tore a blank area that kept expanding outward on the left side of the square!
"Give us these toys!" Uchiha Shisui shouted, his newly formed three-tomoe Sharingan spinning rapidly!
"Phantom Body Flicker Technique!" His figure instantly transformed into dozens of afterimages that were difficult to distinguish from reality, and his shurikens rained down like a storm, accurately targeting the joints of the ordinary puppets and the vulnerable neck connection points of the maid puppets that were rushing towards him.
Its true form had already ghost-like clung to a butler puppet!
Hyuga Hizashi was almost in sync with him!
As his Sharingan detected the enemy's movements, his Byakugan also locked onto the chakra flow points of another butler and a dozen maid puppets.
Even a puppet needs to circulate chakra throughout its body to move.
Therefore, seeing through these chakra flows, Hiyori, unwilling to be outdone, immediately unleashed his strongest move!
"Eight Trigrams Palm - 128 Palms!"
Hizashi charged forward like a falcon, his palms enveloped in a bright blue chakra aura!
His movements are fierce and swift, focusing on accurately striking pressure points, and incorporating the robust strength he possesses as a taijutsu jonin!
Palm shadows filled the sky!
boom!boom!boom!boom!
The force of the palm strike was incredibly sharp!
The two maid puppets, whose heads were as delicate and fragile as porcelain dolls, shattered into pieces like inferior porcelain under his heavy palm, which was infused with chakra! The headless bodies convulsed and fell to the ground.
The joints of the three ordinary puppets on the side were instantly shattered and disintegrated!
His figure darted through the puppet horde at high speed. With each strike and block, he precisely dismantled the encirclement. At the same time, in coordination with Shisui's high-speed afterimage, he firmly suppressed the attack on the two butler puppets!
Between the palm strikes and finger movements, there was a peculiar rhythm that was both expansive and powerful, yet subtly subtle and skillful.
"Light, that pile of stones is yours." Menma's voice pierced through the intense metallic clanging and explosions, coming clearly.
His duel with a butler puppet ended almost instantly.
The puppet's speed and strength far surpassed that of a Jonin, its fist tearing through the air. But Menma merely turned slightly to the side, advancing with lightning speed to close the distance. His left hand, with its five fingers like steel hooks, gripped the puppet's outstretched wrist joint, the movement as simple as brushing dust off his clothes.
Lift your right knee, like a battle axe swinging upwards!
Click!
A loud, teeth-grinding explosion!
The puppet's seemingly indestructible rock shoulder guards were smashed to pieces by the impact!
At the same time, the five fingers of the numb left hand exerted force like iron clamps, and the forearm joint made of alloy skeleton emitted a heart-palpitating groan, twisting and deforming instantly!
Before the butler puppet could move its other hand, the numb man's right elbow shot out like a cannonball and slammed into the core of his chest!
boom!
The butler puppet was like a terracotta pot hit by a battering ram; its intricate internal components shattered completely with a deafening roar!
Propelled backward by immense force, it slammed into a stone pillar ten meters away, scattering a cloud of broken parts and viscous energy liquid. Meanwhile—
Boom! ! !
The half-body stone statue with the head of Hamura and the giant arms of the insect body moved!
Its massive arm, as large as a mountain, rose high, carrying immense force and a suffocating sense of oppression, and crashed down like a falling meteor, slamming into Kimimaro and Kaoru, who were strangling ordinary puppets in the center of the square!
The giant arm's impact covered an extremely wide area, and the terrifying air pressure descended first, causing the ground to shatter and fly!
"Don't think about it!"
Uchiha Hikaru's clear voice carried a resolute determination that could cut through steel!
The fully formed red Susanoo is like a god incarnate, standing tall and upright!
Facing the overwhelming punch from the stone statue, Susanoo gripped the massive chakra katana with dark red magma patterns tightly with both hands and met the attack head-on!
"drink!"
The wings behind Susanoo unleashed a massive surge of energy!
The giant's body advanced instead of retreating, and its massive katana tore through the void from below, drawing a destructive arc of dark red blood moon light!
The space around the blade seemed unable to withstand this force, becoming distorted and blurred!
laugh--
boom! ! !
The blade clashed violently with the stone fist!
No stalemate!
Only utter destruction!
The crimson chakra blade, like a branding iron cutting into solidified fat, forcefully cleaved the incredibly hard, rock-covered giant stone fist in two!
At the massive cut, shattered rocks shot wildly to both sides like erupting volcanic lava!
The massive shockwave ripped up the ground within a radius of tens of meters!
The stone statue let out a deep, mournful cry, as if the sky were collapsing, and its upper body arched violently backward!
"Not enough!" The kaleidoscope pattern in the eyes of Uchiha Hikaru, who was standing in the diamond-shaped crystal in Susanoo's forehead, spun wildly. Susanoo's other hand suddenly reached out and grabbed the stone statue's arm that had not yet retracted after being split open by the giant fist!
A terrifying burst of power!
Boom——
Crack!
Amidst countless flying pebbles and dust, the massive, mountain-like upper body of the stone statue was actually swung up by the red Susanoo in its complete form!
It was like wielding an enormous blunt weapon, smashing it hard towards another dense cluster of buildings at the edge of the square!
The earth was shaking violently!
Just as the stone statue was being swung away like a heavy hammer, Mianma had already moved!
He ignored the remains of the butler puppet he had just killed. His gaze, like a cold, sharp knife, instantly pierced through the chaotic battlefield, through the flying puppet fragments and swirling dust, and locked firmly on Otsutsuki Sakuto standing in front of the castle gate!
Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Beside the ruins of the puppets pierced by Kimimaro, on the crumbling walls swept by the ends of the vanilla chains, in the shadows where Shisui dodged the maid puppet's attack.
One by one, specially made kunai engraved with special spell runes fell silently into the ground!
They were like deadly coordinates, silently spreading throughout the vast plaza battlefield.
The next moment, Menma's figure suddenly disappeared!
Flying Thunder God Stage 2!
The trajectory of the spatial jump was even faster than the line of sight!
Before the afterimage he left behind had even faded away, his true form had already torn through the void and appeared less than ten meters in front of Shuo Ren!
Without the slightest pause, taking advantage of the impact generated by the high-speed movement, the body's center of gravity pressed forward like flowing water, and a cannon punch carrying the force of wind and thunder tore through the obstructing air and slammed straight into Shuo Ren's center!
The movement trajectory was refined to the extreme, carrying a terrifying sharpness that could penetrate any defense!
Before the fist even landed, the tangible air pressure caused Shuo Ren's long hair, which had been tied up, to dance wildly behind him!
boom!
At the critical moment, the two puppet stewards protecting Shuo Ren acted as the most loyal shields, taking a step to the side and using their bodies to block the path of the punch!
The immense force exploded from the two butlers' bodies, creating visible white shockwaves!
The puppet's joints emitted a piercing, mournful cry!
The two puppet stewards were blasted backward several meters by this punch, and deep furrows were plowed into the ground beneath their feet!
Several deep cracks were clearly visible on the chest of one of the butlers!
Shuo Ren's pupils suddenly contracted!
The opponent's attack method, which arrived in an instant and completely ignored distance, completely shattered his understanding!
The kind of physical techniques that come rushing in, combining fierce penetration with subtle destructive power, are unheard of!
"Repulsion!"
A strong sense of crisis made Shuo Ren raise his hand without hesitation and activate his eye technique with the help of the giant Tenseigan!
A pale blue halo instantly erupted from his hand!
An invisible yet extremely powerful repulsive force, like a tangible shock wave, suddenly exploded outwards from him!
hum!
The force of repulsion swept across!
The figure rushing forward with a numb face was as if it had crashed into an invisible steel wall. It was forced backward by this overwhelming force, and its feet left long white marks on the ice!
The maid puppets that tried to pounce on them and the ordinary puppets that surged forward were swept away by the aftershock of this repulsive force, and were tumbled and fell away like fallen leaves caught in a gale!
"This is outrageous!" The Shuo people were filled with shock and anger!
The opponent's strength completely exceeded his expectations!
He suddenly looked up, his empty eye sockets seeming to pierce through layers of castle walls, directly connecting to the distant Hamura Shrine, which floats in the void and emits an eternal, eerie light!
In the name of our ancestors!
boom--! ! !
A massive, blazing pillar of light, beyond description, erupted from the top of the enormous temple that was suspended diagonally behind the castle!
The beam of light was a dark, deep purple that seemed to devour everything, and the space around it was violently distorted!
It was like a divine punishment spear piercing through heaven and earth, ignoring the stone statue in the center of the battlefield wrestling with Susanoo and being used as a heavy hammer, and ignoring the struggling puppets. Its world-destroying spearhead pointed directly at the entire castle square!
This area, which contains all the invaders, along with those lowly puppets, must be completely wiped off the map!
The beam of light descended at a speed beyond comprehension!
A terrifying pressure and an aura of destruction instantly filled every inch of space!
Shisui, who was fighting the maid puppet, paused; Kimimaro's spear pierced the chest of a puppet, and he looked up in astonishment; Vanilla's golden chains hung in mid-air; Hizashi's Byakugan was instantly filled with that destructive purple light!
"Insanity!"
Amidst the cold and disdainful rebuke, Uchiha Hikaru's Mangekyou Sharingan erupted with an unprecedented, eerie red light!
boom! ! !
The fully-formed Susanoo, which had been prepared all along, let out a roar that shook the void!
Just as the purple beam of light was about to engulf the plaza, the giant red warrior suddenly withdrew the force that was suppressing the stone statue, and the huge chakra katana changed from a diagonal slash to a reverse sweep!
The dark red energy swirling around the blade resembled ignited volcanic lava, its brightness surging dramatically!
The enormous chakra blade slashed fiercely towards the world-destroying purple beam of light!
No sound.
Or rather, at the moment of contact, all sound was swallowed up by an even more terrifying phenomenon of annihilation.
Only the clash of extreme darkness and light!
The dark red blade forcefully and ruthlessly cleaved the deep purple beam of light, which was large enough to cover half the square, in two!
laugh--! ! !
The silent annihilation ripples spread wildly to both sides in a fan shape!
The purple light stream that had been split open crashed into the towering stone pillar arrays on both sides of the plaza like an out-of-control torrent!
boom! boom! boom! boom!
The massive stone pillar, harder than glass, melted and vaporized in large swathes under the impact of this destructive stream of light that was forcibly torn apart, just like thin ice encountering high temperatures!
The azure fragments and energy remnants mixed with the purple rain of light, forming a devastating tidal wave that swept across the ice pillar array area!
A large vacuum area was instantly cleared out!
The shockwave that was blocked by the blade swept violently along the angle between Susanoo and the ground, carving the ground several meters deeper!
This strike not only gave Shisui and Hyuga an even more terrifying shock regarding the strength of this Uchiha girl.
"How is this possible!" Otsutsuki Sakuto's mind's eye 'saw' such a terrifying scene, his breath caught in his throat, and he felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.
When did that corrupt ninja world produce such a powerful enemy, capable of withstanding the chakra beam attack of a giant Tenseigan?!
(End of this chapter)