Chapter 183: Moon Battle! Susanoo Vs Giant Rinnegan!
Uchiha Hikari’s Susanoo carried the low-roaring Vermilion Bird and Azure Dragon, coiling down as it descended, the hard floor tiles cracking like a spiderweb under the massive impact force.
Everyone leaped down from the back of the Summoned Beast.
This was the massive plaza in front of the floating Castle, the ground paved with smooth, mirror-like deep black stone slabs.
Dozens of black Stone Pillars towered around the plaza, carved with distorted star patterns, emitting a faint cold glow.
And at this moment, this plaza, which should have been solemn and majestic, was filled with clamor.
Click, click, click…
The teeth-grating sound of joint friction rang out in a cacophony!
Hundreds and thousands of Puppets surged like a tide birthed from the plaza’s shadows, silently and ferociously closing in, a dense black mass emanating bone-chilling Malice.
The main force was still those ordinary Puppets wrapped in tattered brown robes with Bandages covering their faces, their bandage-wrapped faces aimed at the crowd in the center, the most numerous.
Among them were mixed two starkly different Existences.
One type was slender and petite, like seven- or eight-year-old girls.
They wore strangely tailored Kimonos, the upper body in deep brown matte fabric, the lower body in blood-red pleated miniskirts, paired with white long stockings and small Wooden Clogs.
The most eerie were their heads, not wrapped in Bandages, but flawless, pale faces like the finest porcelain dolls, their mouths curved in a fixed upward arc, revealing jagged sharp teeth, white long hair cascading like a Waterfall to their ankles.
The other type was far fewer in number, only three.
They were tall in stature, nearly adult-sized, dressed in elaborate black attire, their faces covered by matte black Face Towels.
Their positioning was clearly superior to the other Puppets, hidden behind the ordinary ones, their movements more refined, every subtle shift emanating an Oppression far surpassing that of a Jonin!
The encirclement had yet to close when an even more massive Aura suddenly descended.
The Castle’s massive Door, tall enough for several people, silently swung open, and amid the escort of six exquisite maid Puppets, a figure in Otsutsuki traditional plain white robe slowly walked out.
Pale white long hair tied into a bundle at the back of his head, his expression arrogant and Coldness—it was Otsutsuki Sakuya.
To his left stood a white-haired boy clearly much younger, it was the Tenseigan User, his youthful face showing a trace of curiosity and alarm, vigilantly guarded from behind by two tall butler Puppets.
Sakuya coldly swept his Mind’s Eye over the encircled crowd, as if appraising lifeless stones.
When his Mind’s Eye gaze fell on Hizashi Hyuga, especially the bulging veins on his forehead and those pure white Eyes, his icy expression cracked clearly for the first time!
“Byakugan… to think you could find this place? You… what are you things?” Sakuya’s voice carried suppressed fury and a trace of incredulous Bewilderment, as if the Hyuga Clan’s Bloodline stepping foot here was the deepest desecration of this sacred space.
However, his Bewilderment did not last long, replaced by absolute desire for control.
He sneered disdainfully, as if to crush ants, raising his right hand with palm facing sky, an invisible Power communing with some colossal entity lurking deep within the Castle.
“Very well, under the gaze of the God’s Eye, all reverse travelers return to dust! Awake, wrath of the ancestor!”
Boom—!
The tops of the two thickest Stone Pillars at the plaza’s edge suddenly lit up with blinding white-hot light!
Light flowed and converged, accompanied by earth-shaking rumbling, a colossal Stone Statue like a mountain range rising from the plaza’s edge!
The Stone Statue’s upper body was majestic, its waist and below vanished, replaced by countless stacked massive shell-like Rocks, layered like the bloated insect body of a hermit crab, firmly adsorbed to the ground.
That massive head was incredibly clear, its statue face somewhat resembling Otsutsuki Hamura, the brother of the Sage of Six Paths, with two giant horns sprouting from the head.
Most terrifying were its two massive stone arms, each over five meters in diameter, covered in uneven textures like rocky knobby tumors, harboring Power terrifying enough to Shatter mountain ranges!
The instant the Stone Statue fully formed, Sakuya’s cold Command echoed across the plaza: “Kill them!”
Buzz—!
The encirclement suddenly tightened!
The three types of varied Puppets, the moment the Command was given, became killing machines unleashed from their final Restraint, transforming into a surging tide of death, rasping and clicking as they fiercely pounced!
Glinting short Blades, Chakra-infused fists and feet, ruthless tearing and biting, aimed straight at the crowd in the center of the encirclement!
“Kimimaro, Kushina, clear the field!” Menma’s voice remained ice-cold and steady, without a ripple.
His figure shifted slightly, already ghosting toward one of the black butler Puppets.
“Understood!”
“Leave it to me!”
Kimimaro Kaguya’s Byakugan fully activated, battle intent burning in his Pupils, his body surface instantly rippling like boiling!
“Corpse Bone Pulse: Dance of the Camellia!”
Clang—!
A bone-white Bone Spear over three meters long burst from his right forearm, with a shrill whistle tearing the air!
At the same time, from his left arm, shoulder blades, back, and outer legs, countless sharp Bone Spikes of varied shapes pierced through clothing, sprouting abruptly!
At this moment, his entire body became a skeletal storm covered in thorny Blades, fearlessly crashing into the densest area of ordinary Puppets!
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
Wherever the Bone Spear swept, whether tough brown robes or hard wooden-stone hybrid frames, all were instantly pierced and torn!
The Bone Spikes, with his wild spinning charge, like a meat grinder, engulfed, sliced, and Shattered the oncoming Puppets!
White bone edges mixed with shattered Puppet limbs splattered, filling the cold plaza with a bizarre Scent of Rotten Wood and Rust.
“Adamantine Sealing Chains!”
Uzumaki Kushina clasped her palms together, slamming them to the ground!
The vast Uzumaki Chakra in her Body erupted!
Boom boom boom!
Seven chains thick as giant pythons, surfaces flowing with ancient golden Sealing Runes, like wrathful dragons bursting from soil, instantly shot from her back!
The chains, with unmatched Power and the anti-magic properties of Sealing Jutsu, strangled, whipped, and pierced!
Each swing of the golden long whips brought up swathes of severed limbs and broken Shells!
Those attempting to close in from sides or rear for sneak attacks were turned to debris under the chains’ strangling!
With her alone, she tore open an expanding blank zone on the plaza’s left side!
“These Toys, leave to us!” Shisui Uchiha said in a low shout, his new Three-Tomoe Sharingan spinning rapidly!
“Phantom Body Flicker Technique!” His figure instantly became dozens of hard-to-discern real-and-fake afterimages, Shuriken pouring out like a rainstorm, precisely targeting the joints of oncoming ordinary Puppets and the fragile neck joints of maid Puppets.
His true body ghosted close to a butler Puppet!
Hizashi Hyuga moved almost in sync with him!
The moment Sharingan captured enemy movements, his Byakugan vision had locked onto the Chakra flow points of another butler and over a dozen maid Puppets.
Even Puppets needed to circulate Chakra through their Bodies to move.
Thus, seeing through these Chakra flows, Hizashi refused to yield, immediately unleashing his strongest move!
“Eight Trigrams: One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms!”
Hizashi’s figure shot forward like a hawk, his palms wrapped in deep blue Chakra glow!
Movements fierce and swift, at its core precise strikes to acupoints, infused with his power as a Taijutsu Jonin!
Palm shadows filled the sky!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Palm winds arrived, incomparably sharp!
The two oncoming maid Puppets’ delicate porcelain-doll-like fragile heads exploded into fragments like cheap pottery under his Chakra-infused heavy palms! The headless bodies convulsed and fell.
The joints of three ordinary Puppets from the side were instantly Shattered and disintegrated!
His figure shuttled at high speed through the Puppet horde, every slap, every block, precisely dismantling the siege, coordinating with Shisui’s high-speed afterimages, firmly pinning the attack focus on the two butler Puppets!
Amid palm winds and finger shadows, faintly carrying a unique rhythm of bold sweeps hiding subtle finesse.
“Hikari, that pile of stones is yours.” Menma’s voice pierced the intense metal clashes and explosions, coming through clearly.
His duel with a butler Puppet ended almost instantly.
That Puppet’s speed and Power far exceeded a Jonin, its fist winds tearing air, but Menma merely sidestepped slightly, a lightning-fast step closing in, left fingers like steel hooks gripping the Puppet’s swung wrist joint, the motion simple as brushing dust from clothes.
Right knee lifted like a battle axe upward swing!
Crack!
A teeth-grating explosive sound!
The Puppet’s seemingly indestructible rock shoulder guard was smashed to pieces!
Simultaneously, Menma’s left fingers clamped like iron vise, the alloy frame forearm joint emitting a heart-chilling Groan, instantly twisting and deforming!
Before the butler Puppet’s other hand could move, Menma’s right elbow shot out like a cannon, smashing hard into its chest core!
Boom!
The butler Puppet, like a Pottery Jar hit by a battering ram, its internal mechanisms utterly Shattered in the massive boom!
Propelled by the huge force, it flew back fiercely, crashing into a Stone Pillar ten meters away, splattering a mass of broken parts and viscous energy fluid.
At the same time—
Rumble!!!
That half-body Stone Statue with Hamura’s face and insectile body giant arms moved!
One mountain-like giant arm raised high, carrying ten thousand tons of force and suffocating Oppression, like a falling Meteorite, smashing fiercely toward Kimimaro and Kushina in the plaza center slaughtering ordinary Puppets!
The giant arm’s impact area was extremely wide, horrific air pressure arriving first, pressing ground gravel into a dance!
“Not a chance!”
Uchiha Hikari’s clear voice carried steel-cutting resolve!
Complete Body red Susanoo like a heaven-supporting god incarnate!
Facing the Stone Statue’s overwhelming heavy fist, Susanoo gripped tight with both hands that massive Chakra greatsword wrapped in dark red magma patterns, meeting it head-on!
“Hah!”
Susanoo’s back wings erupted with overwhelming billows!
The giant frame advanced instead of retreating, the massive greatsword sweeping from below upward, tearing the Void, carving a destructive dark red blood moon arc!
Space around the Blade seemed unable to bear the force, becoming Distorted and blurred!
Sizzle—
Boom!!!
Blade Edge and stone fist clashed head-on!
No deadlock!
Only overwhelming destruction!
The red Chakra giant Blade like a Brand Iron cutting into congealed fat, forcibly splitting that incredibly hard, rock-knobby giant stone fist in half!
From the massive cut, Shattered Rocks erupted like volcanic magma to both sides!
The huge shockwave upheaved the ground dozens of meters around!
The Stone Statue issued a muffled wail like collapsing heavens, upper body jolting back violently!
“Not enough!” Uchiha Hikari, standing in the diamond Crystal within Susanoo’s forehead, had her Mangekyo patterns spinning madly, Susanoo’s other hand reaching out fiercely, grabbing tight the Stone Statue’s arm that had been split but not yet retracted!
Terrifying giant force erupted!
Rumble—
Crackle—!
Amid countless flying gravel and dust, the Stone Statue’s mountain-like upper body was actually hefted up raw by the complete red Susanoo!
Like wielding an enormous blunt weapon, smashing fiercely toward another dense Building Complex at the plaza’s edge!
The earth trembled madly!
As the Stone Statue was swung away like a heavy hammer, Menma moved!
Ignoring the remains of the butler Puppet he had just killed, his gaze like an ice-cold dagger instantly crossed the chaotic Battlefield, piercing flying Puppet fragments and churning dust, locking firmly on Otsutsuki Sakuya standing before the Castle Door!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Beside the Puppet ruins pierced by Kimimaro, on the rubble swept by Kushina’s chain ends, in the shadows where Shisui dodged maid Puppet attacks.
Kunai engraved with special Jutsu Runes silently embedded into the ground!
Like fatal coordinates, quietly covering the entire massive plaza Battlefield.
The next moment, Menma’s figure vanished abruptly!
Flying Thunder God Technique Second Step!
The spatial leap trajectory even faster than sight!
The afterimage left in place not yet faded, his true body tore the Void, appearing less than ten meters before Sakuya!
Without pause, using the impact from high-speed movement, body center of gravity flowing forward like water, a cannon fist carrying wind-and-thunder momentum tore obstructing air, blasting straight at Sakuya’s midsection!
Movement trajectory refined to the extreme, carrying a terrifying sharpness penetrating all defenses!
Before the fist arrived, the materialized air pressure made Sakuya’s bound long hair whip wildly backward!
Bang!
At the critical moment, the two butler Puppets guarding Sakuya’s sides, like most loyal shields, stepped across simultaneously, bodies blocking the fist’s path!
Massive force exploded visible white shockwaves on the two butlers’ Bodies!
Puppet joints emitted shrill wails!
The two butler Puppets were blasted sliding back several meters by this punch, plowing deep furrows in the ground underfoot!
One butler’s chest bore several deep cracks!
Sakuya’s Pupils contracted sharply!
The opponent’s instant arrival, utterly ignoring distance attack method completely shattered his cognition!
That oncoming Taijutsu fusing fierce penetration and subtle destructive Power was unheard of!
“Repulsion!”
Intense Crisis Sense made Sakuya unhesitatingly raise his hand, borrowing Giant Tenseigan Power, activating Dojutsu!
Pale cyan glow instantly erupted from his hand!
An invisible yet immensely vast Repulsion like a materialized shockwave exploded fiercely from him as center!
Buzz!
Rejection Power swept!
Menma’s charging figure slammed into an invisible steel wall, forcibly shaken backward sliding by this irresistible force, feet carving long white marks on the icy surface!
Surrounding maid Puppets lunging and ordinary Puppets surging were caught in the Repulsion aftershocks, tumbling away like Fallen Leaves in a gale!
“Outrageous!” Sakuya raged in shock and fury!
The Power shown by the opponent utterly exceeded his expectations!
He suddenly raised his head, his hollow eye sockets seemingly piercing through the layered castle barriers, directly connecting to the distant Hamura Shrine floating in the void and emanating eternal ghostly light!
“In the name of the ancestor!”
Boom——！！！
An indescribably massive blazing light pillar erupted from the top of the enormous shrine floating diagonally behind the castle!
The light pillar presented a dark, all-devouring deep purple, and wherever it passed, space distorted violently!
It was like a divine punishment spear piercing heaven and earth, ignoring the stone statue in the center of the battlefield that was wrestling with Susanoo and being used as a heavy hammer, and even more ignoring those struggling puppets; its world-destroying spearhead brazenly targeted the entire castle plaza!
It would erase this area bearing all the invaders, along with those lowly puppets, completely from the spatial map!
The light pillar’s descent speed surpassed thought!
Terrifying pressure and destructive aura instantly filled every inch of space!
Shisui’s movements stalled while slaughtering the maid puppets; Kimimaro’s spear pierced through a puppet’s chest, and he looked up in astonishment; Karin’s golden chains hung in midair; Hizashi’s Byakugan instantly filled with that destructive purple glow!
“Arrogance!”
In the cold, disdainful rebuke, Uchiha Hikari’s pair of Mangekyo Sharingan erupted with an unprecedented demonic red light!
Boom！！！
The already-prepared Perfect Susanoo let out a roar that shook the void!
At the critical moment when the purple light pillar was about to devour the plaza, that red giant warrior suddenly withdrew the force suppressing the stone statue, and the massive Chakra Greatsword changed from a diagonal slash to an upward flick!
The dark red energy coiled around the blade was like ignited volcanic magma, its brightness surging violently!
The massive Chakra Greatsword brazenly slashed toward that world-destroying purple light pillar!
No sound.
Or rather, at the moment of contact, all sound was swallowed by an even more terrifying annihilation phenomenon.
Only the clash of ultimate darkness and light!
The dark red blade forcibly and barbarically split the deep purple light pillar, which was wide enough to cover half the plaza, right down the middle!
Sizzle——！！！
Silent annihilation ripples violently spread in a fan shape to both sides!
The split purple light streams, like out-of-control floods, fiercely crashed into the towering stone pillar arrays on both sides of the plaza!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The massive stone pillars, harder than glass, under the impact of this forcibly torn destructive light stream, melted and vaporized in large patches like thin ice encountering high heat!
Azure blue fragments and energy residues mixed with purple light rain, forming a heaven-destroying, earth-annihilating torrent that swept through the ice pillar array area!
Instantly clearing out a large vacuum zone!
And the portion of the shockwave blocked by the blade edge fiercely swept over the angle between Susanoo and the ground, shaving the ground down several more meters deep!
This slash not only made Shisui and Hizashi feel even more horrified shock toward this Uchiha girl’s strength.
“How is that possible!” Otsutsuki Sakuya’s Mind’s Eye ‘saw’ such a terrifying scene, his breathing stuttered, feeling an unprecedented crisis.
When did that decayed Ninja World give birth to such a powerful enemy who could hard-counter the Chakra light pillar attack of the Giant Tenseigan?!
