Chapter 295: Onoki Recalls The Fear Of Being Dominated By Susanoo
Han’s attack was swift and fierce like thunder, this strike not only contained the full thrust of the steam armor’s instant explosion, but also incorporated the violent chakra of Five-Tails Kokuō.
Its power was so great, let alone ordinary jonin, even Naruto Uzumaki who entered Nine-Tails Chakra Mode during the Fourth Ninja World War in the original work, was also kicked flying hard by this move.
The red steel fist tore through the air, carrying scorching white steam, seemingly about to completely devour Uchiha Hikari’s apparently slender figure.
However, at this critical moment—
Buzz!
A surge of red chakra erupted instantly, a ferocious half-body skeleton frame materialized out of thin air, completely enveloping Uchiha Hikari.
Han’s punch, aimed to kill, solidly smashed onto this red skeleton frame!
Clang——！！！
A deep, bell-like roar exploded, the violent shockwave spreading outward in a ring, kicking up sand and gravel from the ground.
That strike powerful enough to split mountains and crack rocks surprisingly failed to shake the skeleton frame’s foundation, only creating a few spiderweb-like fine cracks at the point of contact with the fist.
Protected by Susanoo, Uchiha Hikari’s figure didn’t even sway in the slightest.
She slowly turned around, her scarlet Sharingan indifferently scanning the cracks on the skeleton, then cast her gaze toward the incredulous Han, her cold voice saying: “Using steam explosion and tailed beast chakra to amplify taijutsu… You must be Rock Village’s Five-Tails jinchūriki. Speed and power are decent enough.”
This nonchalant evaluation was no less than the greatest sarcasm in Han’s ears.
His all-out strike had only earned him a “decent enough” from the opponent?
Before Han could react further, the other arm of the half-body skeleton frame had already clenched into a fist and swung forward simply and directly!
No flashy techniques, only absolute power crushing down.
Bang!
Han barely had time to cross his arms over his chest for protection before his entire body was struck head-on like by a high-speed train, that irresistible force making his throat sweeten as his body uncontrollably flew backward, tracing a parabola in the air.
“Han!” Roshi growled lowly, dark red tailed beast chakra surging from his body instantly, forming a chakra tail, his figure shooting out to catch Han mid-air.
The massive impact force made the two slide more than ten meters on the ground before barely stopping.
“Thanks, Roshi.” Han steadied himself, a trickle of blood flowing from the edge of the red mask covering half his face, his expression terrifyingly grave.
He stared dead at the distant red skeleton frame, saying solemnly: “This guy’s strength is extremely terrifying… Conventional means are probably meaningless. I’m afraid we both need to activate full tailed beast transformation to have any chance of contending with her!”
“Full tailed beast transformation?!” Roshi’s pupils shrank, shock appearing on his wrinkled face.
After just one clash, Han, who had always prided himself on taijutsu and power, had made such a judgment?
He knew Han was not one to speak recklessly, but to activate full tailed beast transformation amid tens of thousands of Stone Ninja troops?
“Now? Here?! You’ll injure your own people!”
Just as the two were hesitating in shock, a commotion arose from the Stone Ninja crowd behind them.
Onoki was seen clutching his lower back, standing up with his granddaughter Kurotsuchi’s support, grimacing in pain.
“Ouch… This old man’s old bones… These youngsters don’t know how to hold back, no respect for elders at all…” He grumbled while rubbing his waist, but when his turbid old eyes looked toward the battlefield ahead, all complaints turned into unprecedented gravity.
Ahead, Uchiha Hikari, who had activated the first form of Susanoo, did not remain in place.
In the half-body skeleton frame’s hand, a great sword burning with red chakra flames had coalesced at some point.
She moved!
The deep blue figure, wrapped in the red skeleton, was like a meteorite crashing into a yellowish ocean, charging proactively toward the still massive Stone Village army!
She didn’t even use any more ninjutsu, merely relying on this first form of Susanoo and the chakra ninja sword in hand, transforming into the most efficient killing machine.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
Every flash of red blade light was accompanied by crumbling earth walls, snapping ninja tools, and agonized screams of lives fading.
The Earth Style defenses cast by Stone ninjas with all their might were as fragile as paper before that chakra ninja sword; the dense rain of kunai and shuriken striking Susanoo’s bones only sparked fleetingly before bouncing off powerlessly.
Uchiha Hikari’s figure weaved through the crowd, her Sharingan precisely capturing every attack gap and defensive weakness, blade light sweeping, Stone Ninja falling in swathes, blood soon staining the Gobi red.
The frontal line formed by over ten thousand Stone Ninja was forcibly pierced and torn apart by her alone!
Wails everywhere, heavy casualties, in a short time, hundreds to thousands of Stone Ninja lost combat capability, either dead or injured.
The originally orderly formation was now a scene of chaos, panic spreading like a plague.
“We can’t let her keep slaughtering like this!”
Kurotsuchi’s eyes nearly split in rage, roaring: “Roshi! Han! Come with me! Akatsuchi, Bun’ya, organize long-range ninjutsu support to restrain her!”
“Understood!”
“Earth Style: Rock Fist Jutsu!” Kurotsuchi’s massive rock fist smashed fiercely toward Susanoo.
“Earth Style: Gangli Style Jutsu!” Akatsuchi summoned a massive rock giant, charging forward with heavy steps.
Bun’ya shouted hoarsely, directing the ninjas behind: “Third and Fourth Divisions, joint Earth Style: Earth Flow River! Fifth Division, Wind Release support! Restrict her movement range!”
In an instant, various Earth Style and Wind Release ninjutsu poured down on Uchiha Hikari’s Susanoo like a storm, explosions incessant, smoke and dust filling the air.
However, most attacks were tanked head-on by Susanoo, the few more threatening ones precisely slashed apart or deflected by that agile chakra ninja sword.
Amid the ninjutsu bombardment, Uchiha Hikari remained at ease, Susanoo seamless in offense and defense, protecting her airtight.
“Lava Release: Flower Fruit Mountain!” Roshi finally hesitated no more, stronger tailed beast chakra erupting around him, forming a four-tailed tailed beast cloak, spewing a vast sea of lava to try melting Susanoo with high heat.
“Boil Release: Super Strength Double!” Han also entered half-tailed beast transformation, growing five tails, steam mixing with chakra for even greater power and speed, fists pounding like rain on Susanoo’s frame.
Boom! Boom! Clang! Clang!
The battle instantly entered a white-hot phase.
The two half-tailed beast jinchūriki, coordinating with Kurotsuchi, Akatsuchi, and other jonin’s fierce assault, engaged Uchiha Hikari wrapped in the red skeleton in intense close-quarters combat.
Roshi’s Lava Release scorching and violent, Han’s steam fists swift and fierce, but the Susanoo frame and ninja sword under Uchiha Hikari’s manipulation always blocked and countered in the most ingenious ways, occasionally seizing a gap with a “Fire Style: Majestic Dragon Flame Jutsu” forcing Roshi and Han to temporarily evade.
The more they fought, the more shocked Roshi and Han became.
The opponent’s grasp of battle rhythm, use of Susanoo and ninjutsu, was simply terrifying!
Was this the strength of a top Uchiha ninja?
Merely the first form of Susanoo had left their two jinchūriki plus several elite jonin helpless!
Just as the battle situation was deadlocked—
“Everyone, get out of the way!”
Onoki’s aged yet authoritative voice rang out.
He had at some point flown above the battlefield, hands clasped before his chest, a translucent cubic barrier rapidly forming and stretching between his palms into a conical shape!
“Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!”
Dazzling white light shot from the cone’s tip, transforming into a massive rectangular light beam that instantly enveloped Uchiha Hikari and most of her Susanoo!
Wherever the light beam passed, even air seemed utterly erased, carrying an aura of annihilation!
Uchiha Hikari’s Sharingan narrowed sharply, pupils contracting slightly.
She sensed an immense threat!
Instinctively manipulating Susanoo to raise its right arm, blocking before the light beam.
Sizzle——!
No earth-shattering explosion, only a teeth-grinding, substance-decomposing subtle sound.
Before that seemingly indestructible Dust Release beam, Susanoo’s red skeleton right arm melted like ice under sunlight, disintegrating and dissipating instantly from the contact point into fundamental particles, vanishing completely!
“Success!”
“Tsuchikage Lord’s Dust Release!”
“Take her down!”
Seeing this, Kurotsuchi, Akatsuchi, and others’ faces lit up with ecstatic joy.
Roshi and Han were also invigorated, surging chakra again to prepare a fatal follow-up strike!
However, as smoke cleared, the anticipated scene of Uchiha Hikari gravely wounded on the ground did not appear.
She still stood steadily on the ground, looking up at the shoulder-level “erased” right arm stump of Susanoo, where red chakra writhed like a living thing but temporarily failed to regenerate immediately.
Far from panicking, she even chuckled softly.
“A bloodline elimination that decomposes matter to atomic state? Dust Release, interesting.” Uchiha Hikari’s voice remained aloof and cold.
“No wonder it left an impression on that kid Uchiha Madara back then. However…”
Her tone
Mangekyo Sharingan!
“If it’s just this level, it’s still far from enough to see.”
Cold words fell, and the Mangekyo pattern in Uchiha Hikari’s eyes lit up slightly.
“Fire Style: Lava Release!”
In an instant, black flames ignited out of thin air!
But this black flame did not burn aimlessly; rather, as if possessing life, it precisely adhered to the remaining bone frame of Susanoo!
Black flames quietly burn and flow on the red bones, emitting an ominous aura that inspires fear.
Meanwhile, at the place covered by those black flames, the right arm of Susanoo that had been shattered by Dust Release began to rapidly reform and regenerate at a speed visible to the naked eye!
At that moment, Roshi and Han’s full-powered strike had also arrived!
Lava fists and steam heavy punches fiercely smashed onto the Susanoo chest covered in black flames!
Boom!!
In the midst of the intense explosion, Susanoo slightly trembled, but the Kagu-tsuchi black flames covering it clung like a festering sore, instantly wrapping in reverse along the attack contact point onto Old Purple and Han’s Tailed Beast Chakra Cloak!
“Urgh!”
“What kind of flame is this?!”
The two simultaneously let out a cry of pain; that black flame not only brought searing pain deep into their bones, but was also madly burning their chakra!
No matter how they tried to extinguish it, that black flame remained completely still, instead showing a tendency to burn even more fiercely!
“This is the Uchiha Clan’s Mangekyo Sharingan dojutsu, Amaterasu!” Onoki’s face changed dramatically in the distance, and he hurriedly shouted a reminder: “The released black flames will absolutely not extinguish until the target is completely burned up! Quickly escape the chakra cloak!”
Han’s reaction was extremely fast. Upon hearing this, he unhesitatingly shook both hands fiercely. The outerwear on his body, condensed from Tailed Beast Chakra, instantly peeled away. The black flames attached to it also fell to the ground, burning pits into the surface.
Roshi also followed suit, enduring the pain to detach from the Tailed Beast Transformation state.
Although the two escaped the entanglement of the black flames, their auras were significantly weakened, forcing them to exit the partial Tailed Beast Transformation mode.
Only at this time did they have the leisure to look around.
Only to see the originally densely packed Stone Ninja army had already retreated a great distance backward to avoid the aftermath of the battle between them.
Around this core area where they clashed with Uchiha Hikari, large swathes of scorched and pitted land remained, along with thousands of Rock Ninja corpses in various poses, silently recounting the brief yet brutal battle that had just taken place.
Onoki slowly floated down to the side of Roshi and Han, looking at the red Susanoo ahead that was covered in black flames with its right arm fully restored, as well as Uchiha Hikari under the protection of Susanoo, her Mangekyo Sharingan coldly staring at them.
He took a deep breath, a resolute expression appearing on his face.
“It seems conventional tactics are already ineffective against her.” Onoki’s voice was heavy and solemn: “Roshi, Han, we can’t hold back any longer. Go all out. The opponent… is a monster that surpasses ordinary Kage Level.”
Roshi and Han exchanged a glance, both seeing the same determination in each other’s eyes.
At this point, they truly could no longer worry about friendly fire, otherwise, the entire Stone Village army might be buried here.
“Understood.”
“Roar——!”
The two no longer suppressed the Tailed Beasts within their bodies.
Vast Tailed Beast Chakra like an ocean surged out from their bodies like a volcanic eruption!
Dark red chakra shot up into the sky, rapidly condensing and taking shape!
At the position where Roshi was, a massive giant ape with a completely red body and four thick tails roared deafeningly toward the sky!
Four-Tails Son Goku!
At the position where Han was located, a similarly huge, pure white giant beast with a shape resembling both a horse and a dolphin, possessing five tails, appeared, lowering its head and pawing the ground with its hooves, emitting a heavy neigh!
Five-Tails Kokuō!
The two enormous bodies of the complete Tailed Beasts stood tall on the battlefield, their oppressive aura enough to mentally shatter ordinary ninjas.
They clustered around Onoki floating in the air, looking down condescendingly at Uchiha Hikari on the ground, who appeared “tiny” in contrast to them.
Facing this terrifying power sufficient to overthrow a small country, Uchiha Hikari just let out a light laugh, a glint of excitement flashing in her Mangekyo Sharingan.
“Finally showing some decent strength. Then…” She tilted her head slightly, her tone still carrying that infuriating composure.
“I’ll get a little serious too.”
As soon as the words fell, red chakra ten times, a hundred times more majestic than before, erupted from her like a flood bursting through a dam!
The ground beneath her feet cracked inch by inch, and the surrounding space seemed to distort!
That half-body skeletal frame emitted an overburdened hum, then abruptly burst up from the ground!
Bones grew wildly, extending and becoming thicker and more ferocious; red Chakra flesh and meridians rapidly covered them; immediately after, ancient and majestic black tengu armor assembled piece by piece!
A pair of enormous wings suddenly unfurled behind him, and with a powerful flap, they instantly whipped up a violent hurricane that blew the distant spectating Stone Ninja off their feet!
This red Perfect Susanoo, with its left wing gripping a massive scabbard, slowly drew from it with its right hand a chakra great sword over a hundred meters long, burning with red flames!
Where the blade edge points, space itself seems to tremble!
When this towering red war god fully appeared before everyone, a sense of fear and insignificance gripped the heart of every Stone Ninja.
The elite Stone Ninja including Kurotsuchi, Akatsuchi, and others, who had already fled several kilometers away and thought themselves safe, now had undisguisable terror on their faces.
The fierce wind blew through their hair, and the whirling gravel struck their faces, bringing stinging pain.
They each had a deathly pale complexion, their bodies trembling all over, even their breathing becoming difficult!
He stared blankly at the red armored giant in the distance, as well as the two Tails facing the giant.
This is fundamentally not an existence that can be resisted by human power!
Onoki, hovering between the Four-Tails and Five-Tails, looked up at this red warrior god that seemed to possess even more oppression than the blue Susanoo of Uchiha Madara in his memory, his aged body trembling slightly.
On this day, Onoki finally recalled the fear of once being dominated by Susanoo.
【PS: Today’s illustration, leg shadow】
