Chapter 329: This Still Isn’t Enough To Awaken The Mangekyō?
Yoru dodged a strike from the Wood Dragon and retreated to a spot even farther from Nagato Uzumaki.
He glanced at Uchiha Madara.
Uchiha Madara was facing the Uchiha group, while still manipulating the Wood Dragon from the side to deal with Yoru—he was over 70 years old.
Chakra is formed by mixing physical energy and mental energy—wouldn’t Uchiha Madara’s physical energy decline due to old age?
Wouldn’t his mental energy weaken due to senility?
Before Uchiha Madara showed any signs of weakness, Yoru could only grit his teeth and continue charging toward the Wood Dragon.
Taking a hit from Tobi’s Thorn Technique head-on, Yoru formed hand seals, and Water Severing Wave shot out.
The high-speed water line severed one of the Wood Dragon’s claws and sliced through half of its body.
The Wood Dragon’s tough body consumed the energy of the Water Severing Wave.
The first time seeing Uchiha Madara, using the degraded version of Water Severing Wave given by Hiruzen Sarutobi, it had cut through one-third of the Wood Dragon.
Now, after obtaining the correct Water Severing Wave from Orochimaru, it could cut through half of the Wood Dragon.
However, the Wood Dragon’s severed body healed, and the broken claw grew back again.
Wood Style’s life force is very strong—it’s a bloodline limit built on life force.
The temporary scheme was to continuously consume Uchiha Madara’s chakra, eventually finding the right opportunity to seize Nagato Uzumaki.
Aries Squad and Flower Deer Squad performed outstandingly—they had Ten Seals and kept bombarding Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence from afar with combined ninjutsu, clearing the increasingly encroaching wood release.
Wind-Fire Combination Ninjutsu, Lightning-Water Combined Ninjutsu, destroying one twisted growing tree after another.
The reconnaissance squad led by Hyuga Yue watched Fox Captain flipping and entangling with the Wood Dragon and Vortex White Zetsu amid Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, then looked at the impressive combined ninjutsu from the two Anbu Squads, growing more and more admiring of Anbu.
As expected from Hokage’s direct troops—Anbu’s combat performance was extremely good.
The Uchiha group on the main battlefield had fallen into a bitter fight.
Uchiha Madara stood in a tree hollow halfway up the big tree—every Great Fireball flying toward Uchiha Madara was blocked by the tree trunks of Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.
Uchiha Goka’s Shuriken Technique, various shuriken and kunai connected by steel wire, shuttled between the tree trunks but were ultimately stopped by them.
Uchiha Madara knew Uchiha ninjutsu too well—his Three Tomoe Sharingan continuously captured, precisely predicting every action of the Uchiha group.
Uchiha Goka and Uchiha Touka stood back-to-back, panting heavily.
Both of their chakra had been poured into Fire Release, barely holding off the surrounding tree trunks without advancing an inch.
Their chakra amounts were hugely depleted.
Wood Style’s flexibility was extremely strong—the tree trunks grew randomly, making them extremely hard to deal with.
Just as the two were struggling to cope, Uchiha Goka suddenly noticed a thin branch growing from the broken stump of a nearby tree trunk that had just been smashed.
What use could such a thin branch have?
A bright red flower bloomed on the thin branch.
Raindrops fell on the flower bud, and the pollen on the flower bud formed a thin film—every raindrop flowed completely off the flower bud.
In the next instant, the flower bud burst open violently.
Red-brown pollen exploded toward the surroundings.
Uchiha Goka’s heart trembled—surely these pollen grains posed no problem?
In such an intense battle, why would Wood Style bloom flowers?
The pollen was knocked down by rainwater, and the range it spread wasn’t far, letting Uchiha Goka breathe a sigh of relief.
The pollen fell to the ground—temporarily no danger.
However, a raindrop fell on his eyebrow, and the rainwater spread near his eyelid—Uchiha Goka’s vision was a vivid red.
The rainwater contained pollen!
He quickly looked up—unbeknownst at what point, at a height of a hundred meters overhead, the Wood Style trees had connected, forming pointed arches in the sky.
The pointed arches were covered in bright red flowers!
The flowers burst open, and the pollen dyed even the rainwater a vivid red.
Pollen landing on the body seeped into the skin.
Uchiha Goka felt his skin go numb, then lose sensation, followed by his muscles—they also lost sensation.
Uchiha Goka slowly collapsed, crashing into the mud with a thud.
He was clearly conscious but unable to control his body.
Uchiha Goka saw his younger brother—his brother Touka had also been poisoned by the pollen toxin and fallen into the mud.
Teacher Uchiha Michi on the side could still move.
Uchiha Michi stabbed a kunai into his own thigh, using the pain to stay awake.
Uchiha Goka was very annoyed—why hadn’t he thought of this method himself?
Uchiha Michi rushed to his side, grabbed the shoulders of him and his brother, and forcefully threw the brothers outward.
Goka only hated his own weakness—he couldn’t move at all.
Teacher’s strength was even greater, but he didn’t escape himself, instead giving this chance at survival to the two brothers!
Goka’s mouth was numb—he desperately wanted to shout something, but nothing came out.
In midair, he rolled his only movable eyeballs, staring at his teacher, hoping the teacher would quickly leave these terrifying tree trunks and pollen rain.
However, several tree trunks lunged toward Teacher Michi.
Uchiha Michi was already at the end of his strength—he was deeply poisoned, and the pollen toxic rain had flowed into the wound on his leg.
The pollen followed the flesh and blood of the wound, numbing his thigh.
Two tree trunks wrapped toward Uchiha Michi’s waist, instantly crushing his pelvic bone.
“No!”
Uchiha Goka watched his teacher in agony!
The air was filled with the cracking sounds of bones shattering, like a wild beast crunching the bones of its prey.
Uchiha Goka’s eyes were full of bloodshot veins, gathering toward the scarlet Three Tomoe Sharingan in his eyes.
In the tree hollow halfway up the big tree, Uchiha Madara slowly turned his head, looking toward Uchiha Goka.
“Hmm? Some talent, but still a bit short… Let me give you a push. Without me, you’ll always miss that final step—you’ll never awaken it in your lifetime.”
Uchiha Madara was delighted at the prospect, formed hand seals with both hands, and finely manipulated the tree trunks.
Two tree trunks crushed Uchiha Michi’s pelvic bone, then wrapped upward like twin serpents, pulverizing Uchiha Michi’s abdominal cavity.
Uchiha Goka’s eyes widened more and more, the red bloodshot veins increasing.
He could accept Teacher Uchiha Michi dying in battle as a sacrifice, but not such a cruel death.
Bones crushed inch by inch, ground finely.
“Ah! Teacher!”
More and more tree trunks appeared, pulverizing Uchiha Michi’s chest cavity.
Uchiha Goka saw a broken rib stump from Uchiha Michi protruding from the gaps between the tree trunks.
On the white rib, fresh red blood was washed by rainwater, growing whiter and whiter until it had no trace of blood, a pallid white.
Finally, two tree trunks wrapped around Uchiha Michi’s head.
Uchiha Michi’s skull burst open like a watermelon.
A Three Tomoe Sharingan eye squeezed out from the gaps between the tree trunks, the eyeball trailing flesh and nerve bundles.
“No! No!”
Uchiha Madara shook his head inwardly—mediocre trash, unable to awaken Mangekyo even with this?
He formed hand seals with both hands and cast a genjutsu.
Powerful pupil power pierced through the gaps in the tree trunks, straight into Uchiha Goka’s eyes.
Uchiha Michi’s slow and cruel death process replayed over and over in Uchiha Goka’s eyes in the form of genjutsu.
“No!”
Yoru on the flanking battlefield saw Flower Tree Release, then saw Uchiha Madara continuously using several techniques, not knowing what Uchiha Madara was busy with.
Uchiha Madara lowered his hands, his breathing somewhat rapid.
For someone like Uchiha Madara who put on such a show, starting to lose control of his image proved his chakra consumption was considerable.
Yoru thought to himself, maybe this was the opportunity.
He suddenly abandoned the Wood Dragon and Vortex White Zetsu, charging toward Uchiha Madara!
“Aries! Flower Deer! Help me block them!”
In midair, Yoru formed hand seals with both hands and used his own technique.
Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!
《Outer Path Fangxian》
The young Daoist priest, just sixteen, had his youthful troubles stirred.
Day after day witnessing the suffering of aging, sickness, and death, beholding love, hate, anger, delusion, and resentment.
I do not wish for my countenance to wither and fade, I do not wish for my skin and flesh to grow decayed spots,
I do not wish for limbs to wither, five viscera to empty with worms, white bones to rot foully.
The young Daoist priest, just sixteen, single-mindedly sought immortality.
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Refining self into medicine, nurturing body as bait—a tale of a mere mortal transcending tribulation to seek immortality.
