Chapter 146: Xx Paradise?
Boom boom boom——!!!
The massive fireball whistling through the air crashed into the barrier, like waves slamming against a reef, exploding violently, with scorching flames flowing along the smooth barrier walls and scattering, unable to shake it in the slightest!
The Stone Ninjas lunging forward had their kunai and ninja swords strike the barrier, producing a piercing sound of metal friction, the huge recoil force cracking their palms open and sending their weapons flying, their bodies slamming into an invisible wall.
They screamed as they were sent flying backward, crashing heavily into the rock walls or the ground, the sound of cracking bones clearly audible!
Despair, like an icy tide, instantly flooded the hearts of all the Stone Ninjas.
Their strongest attacks couldn’t even breach the opponent’s defense! This wasn’t a battle on the same level at all!
The opponent’s strength far surpassed that of an ordinary ninja!
Nono Yakushi’s pupils contracted sharply.
The instant the Northern Dipper Immortal’s barrier opened, she moved!
Not to attack, but to retreat!
Her body, like weightless willow fluff, floated backward at an unbelievable speed, her target being the narrow escape passage behind the outpost leading to the complex rock fissures!
Years as a spy had taught her that against such absolute power, any resistance was futile; the only way out was to escape!
Using the complex terrain!
Nono Yakushi had faced such crises more than once, but always turned danger into safety through caution and unwavering decisiveness.
Her movements were as fast as a ghost, retreating to the passage entrance almost simultaneously with the barrier expanding and the Stone Ninjas flying backward.
Just one more step forward, and she could slip into the fissure, then quickly flee the outpost!
However, just as she was about to enter the passage.
Shura in the field slightly turned his head, and the left eye under the White Three-Eyed Fox Mask suddenly lit up with a flash of red light!
It wasn’t the scarlet Sharingan, but a more eerie, purer crimson glow!
Like boiling blood, or burning lava!
Red Eye·Activate!
An invisible interference force specifically targeting perception and vision erupted instantly!
The world before Nono Yakushi’s eyes blurred violently! The familiar rock passage entrance distorted and deformed in her vision!
Her sense of direction completely scrambled, the entrance right before her seemed pulled to the horizon!
A powerful dizziness assaulted her brain, causing her high-speed moving body to lose balance instantly, staggering for a moment.
It was this fatal lag of less than half a second!
Shura’s figure appeared behind her the instant she staggered, using Body Flicker!
A large hand wearing black fingerless gloves clamped down on Nono Yakushi’s slender yet powerfully strong wrist like iron pliers, with irresistible force!
His other hand shot out like lightning, precisely seizing her nape!
Nono Yakushi felt an overwhelming, unstoppable force; with her wrist and nape vital points controlled, all her chakra was forcibly suppressed and sealed by a cold, violent foreign energy!
Her body felt bound by invisible chains, all her techniques and power rendered feeble under that iron hand.
She jerked her head around, coming face-to-face at close range with the White Three-Eyed Fox Mask inches away.
The mask’s icy touch seemed pressed against her cheek, and deep in its hollow eye sockets, two points of scarlet light seemed to flicker.
“Don’t move.” The flat, emotionless cold voice sounded softly by her ear.
Nonō’s body went completely rigid, her will to resist melting away under absolute suppression.
She closed her eyes in resignation, her long eyelashes trembling slightly.
Years of living on the knife edge had taught her that struggling now would only bring death.
The outpost fell into dead silence.
The surviving Stone Ninjas stared dumbfounded at it all, watching the mysterious and powerful Shura easily subdue a medical ninja amid the siege of over a dozen Rock Village ninjas.
Menma gripped Nono Yakushi’s nape, ignoring the terrified gazes around him, his eyes sweeping over the outpost.
The Northern Dipper Immortal’s barrier still emitted a faint glow, isolating them outside and snuffing out all their courage to resist.
Even that Rock Village jonin now slumped on the ground, watching wide-eyed as the opponent captured the female medical ninja, his breathing cautious, afraid to draw the killer god’s attention.
Nono Yakushi seemed to have accepted her fate, her body no longer struggling at all, just eyes closed, face pale.
However, the instant Menma prepared to activate Flying Thunder God to leave, Nonō seemed to sense something—or rather, her top spy instinct caught a trace of anomaly in this desperate situation.
“You…” Under her slightly panicked eyelids, her eyeballs seemed to shift slightly.
She felt it: the hand gripping her nape, while suppressing her chakra, carried an indescribable vastness and heat, as if originating from life source.
“Shura…” What shook her heart even more was that at such close range, through the slight angle of the mask’s hollow eye sockets, she seemed to glimpse… a fleeting scarlet?
That color wasn’t the mask’s white or dark red; it was more like… Sharingan?
The thought exploded in her mind like thunder!
Shura?
Possessing Sharingan? How was that possible?!
The massive shock nearly made her unable to control herself from opening her eyes.
However, she had no chance to observe further.
Menma gave her no time to probe or think; Flying Thunder God jutsu activated instantly!
The eerie black figure and the restrained Rock Village female medical ninja, along with the massive Northern Dipper Immortal barrier, vanished from the outpost like wiped away by an invisible hand, under the dazed gazes of all the Rock Village ninjas inside.
Leaving only a mess on the ground, the Stone Ninjas still shaken, and the cold wind whistling past outside, kicking up sand dust.
A long time passed, until the suffocating oppression in the air slowly dissipated; the Rock Village jonin in the outpost was the first to stand up.
But in his heart lingered an even deeper fear branded “Shura.”
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Star Capital, underground prison.
When Menma pushed open the iron gate, Uchiha Hikari was hurriedly closing a book.
“You stay here and behave; don’t think about escaping.” Menma tossed Nono Yakushi, whose chakra points he had sealed, into a cell.
In the adjacent cell, Bishamon huddled in the corner of the wall, trembling, knees hugged to his chest, seemingly still not recovered from the Mangekyo Sharingan illusion technique.
“Hm?” Menma noticed Uchiha Hikari’s face slightly flushed and asked, “Why is your face so red?”
“N-Nothing… you got back so fast.” Uchiha Hikari’s eyes darted, hiding the book in her hand.
His gaze flicked to the covered book.
Faintly visible《XX Paradise》 lettering.
