Chapter 182: Breakthrough! Great Spiral Wheel Rinnegan!
That artificial sun hanging high in the center of the dome inside the moon emitted constant light and heat, but its core was not lava, but rather a bizarre space constructed from pure energy.
Deep within the majestic castle floating in the air, countless servant puppets stood in rows along both sides of the corridor.
In a hall, the decaying Otsutsuki Sakuya was guiding the young Tenseigan User to sense the Power of the Stars of the Giant Tenseigan, teaching him how to use the Giant Tenseigan.
Suddenly, on the star map floating in the center of the hall, the node representing the passage entrance “Giant Crab Puppet” suddenly dimmed, turning into a deathly gray-white.
Sakuya’s face wrapped in rune bandages turned toward the star map, and a cold anger silently spread.
“Foul vermin… daring to desecrate Ancestor Hamura’s Sacred Land!” The hoarse voice was like rotten wood friction.
Buzz—!
A piercing alarm instantly tore through the castle’s silence!
Below the castle, countless hidden hatches opened simultaneously!
Over a hundred combat puppets leaped out in perfect formation!
They wore ancient-style brown robes, their faces tightly wrapped in layers of bandages, with a cloth band tied around their foreheads, prominently displaying the Otsutsuki Branch Family’s clan crest.
These combat puppets moved with precise and swift actions, like well-wound killing machines, steadily landing on the backs of the giant puppet eagles already hovering in wait.
These puppet eagles had dark red masks covering their heads, and their massive wings suddenly unfurled, stirring up silent air currents!
Screech—!
The combination of over a hundred puppet eagles and combat puppets shot forward like a rain of black arrows from bowstrings, fiercely diving toward the barrier exit direction of the artificial sun below!
At the same time, in the vast sky below the artificial sun.
Menma’s figure hovered in the void, his black robe fluttering in the microgravity, the levitation power brought by the Nine-Faced Beast Celestial Maiden allowing him to fly freely without external aid.
Behind him, two massive summoned beasts emitted overwhelming pressure.
On the left, the Vermilion Bird elegantly spread its wings, with Uchiha Hikari and Uzumaki Kushina standing on its back, Hikari’s deep blue clan robes fluttering, Kushina’s red hair like fire.
On the right, the Azure Dragon coiled and circled, with Uchiha Shisui, Hyuga Hizashi, and Kimimaro Kaguya steadily standing on the dragon’s spine.
Shisui’s expression was grave, Hizashi’s Byakugan vigilantly scanning the dome, and Kimimaro’s Byakugan also surveying the sun in the sky.
The team was heading straight toward that “sun” in the center of the dome!
“Above! Enemy attack!” Hizashi’s Byakugan was the first to detect the anomaly, shouting a sharp warning, his voice muffled and oppressive in the vacuum.
Before the words finished, pale yellow light spots approached like a meteor shower!
The puppet eagle knights uniformly raised their arms, their palms instantly erupting with blinding light!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Dense Chakra Light Orbs tore through the sky, weaving into a deadly light net covering the heavens, pouring down toward the team!
“Scatter! Counterattack!” Menma’s voice remained steady, yet crystal clear in everyone’s ears.
The Azure Dragon roared, lightning blazing around its body, transforming into a zigzagging blue bolt of lightning that barely dodged several thick energy beams, the lightning colliding with grazing light orbs, exploding into silent electric sparks.
The Vermilion Bird’s crimson wings flapped violently, a raging heat wave forming a shield that prematurely detonated several incoming light orbs, turning them into brilliant yet dangerous energy fireworks!
On the Vermilion Bird’s back, Uchiha Hikari’s eyes were sharp as blades.
Her hands formed seals so fast they left afterimages: “Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Claw Red!”
Her cherry lips parted lightly, and dozens of blazing orange-red fireballs bloomed like violent death flowers, howling toward the diving puppet swarm!
In the instant of the flame expulsion, her wrist flicked, sending over a dozen precision steel shuriken shooting out, perfectly hidden behind the roiling fire waves!
Pfft! Boom!
Flames and shuriken played a symphony of death!
Several leading puppet eagles were precisely pierced by shuriken wrapped in flames, the blazing fire then consuming them, exploding into fragments mid-air!
The puppet knights on their backs turned to scrap along with their mounts.
“Corpse Bone Pulse: Ten Finger Bullet!”
Kimimaro Kaguya raised both arms levelly, the skin at his fingertips instantly splitting, ten pale finger bones gleaming with eerie cold light launching like crossbow bolts with piercing screeches!
The bone bullets moved at speeds beyond visual capture, trailing ten nearly straight white afterimages in the air!
Pfft pfft pfft pfft!
Precise point kills!
Dense impact explosions rang out like popping beans!
Puppet eagles hit by the bone bullets, whether their tough frames or wrapped “flesh,” were easily pierced and torn like rotten wood!
Over a dozen puppet eagles, along with their controllers on their backs, disintegrated under Kimimaro’s precise and ruthless sniping, turning into scattered debris!
Menma nodded approvingly at Kimimaro’s performance; Byakugan paired with Corpse Bone Pulse could even perform mid-to-long-range high-precision kills.
“Adamantine Sealing Chains!”
Uzumaki Kushina’s voice carried the Uzumaki Clan’s unique chakra resonance.
She raised her right hand and thrust it forward forcefully!
Several chakra chains as thick as an adult’s arm, inscribed with golden sealing runes throughout, materialized behind her.
The chains did not target individuals but whipped like giant lashes into the densest flank of the puppet eagle swarm!
Boom!
Crack crack crack—!
The immense force combined with sealing jutsu properties snapped the puppet eagles’ tough frames like rotten wood wherever it passed, tore apart the wrapped dark materials effortlessly, and directly burst the puppets on their backs with the sheer power!
One strike pulverized over ten puppet eagles along with their puppets!
The team rapidly ascended amid the fierce counterattack, soon closing in on the outer wall of the artificial sun emanating vast energy fluctuations.
However, the puppet army showed no fear, their formation shifting instantly like a well-trained swarm, charging fearlessly once more.
More Chakra Light Orbs poured down like a torrential rain, completely enveloping the Vermilion Bird and Azure Dragon!
“Lord Shura! How to break through?!” Shisui attacked the artificial sun with Fire Release Ninjutsu but found its defenses astonishingly strong, at a loss.
Menma hovering in the void did not answer.
He simply slowly raised his right hand.
Above his palm, the air suddenly distorted and collapsed!
A heart-palpitating destructive energy madly gathered and compressed!
In a blink, a black energy sphere the size of an apple, deep as an abyss throughout, coalesced!
It hovered silently in Shura’s palm, its surface wrapped in rapidly rotating Wind Release Chakra that sliced the surrounding space, creating fine spatial ripples.
Extreme compression brought extreme silence, as if even the surrounding light was devoured by it!
“Great Spiraling Ring!” Menma’s voice was calm without a ripple.
No earth-shattering prelude, just a gentle push of the wrist.
That small black sphere drifted silently toward the indestructible sun barrier.
Upon contact!
Boom!!!!!!
Indescribable destructive light erupted on the artificial sun’s surface!
First an extreme white point, instantly expanding into all-devouring pure white!
The white light so intense it instantly stripped everyone’s vision!
Following closely was a terrifying roar that could tear eardrums, as if the entire lunar space groaned in agony from this strike!
Blinding intense light instantly swallowed everyone’s view!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Destructive shockwaves centered on the light orb spread perfectly spherically in all directions!
Wherever they passed, space shook violently, emitting overburdened groans!
The pursuing puppet eagle swarms, like paper thrown into a shredder, were silently decomposed and vaporized upon the shockwave’s arrival, along with their back-mounted puppets, vanishing completely!
Even shielded by the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird’s protections, Shisui, Hizashi, Kimimaro, and the others trembled in awe at this heaven-shattering might!
Kushina instinctively gripped the Vermilion Bird’s feathers, Hikari’s Sharingan slightly squinting from the intense light.
As the vision-impairing glare slightly weakened, an apocalyptic scene appeared before everyone.
On the artificial sun’s indestructible pale yellow barrier, a massive hole over a hundred meters in diameter had been blasted open!
Inside the hole, soft golden light shone through.
Even more shocking, the explosion’s turbulence faintly outlined in the air a slowly rising mushroom cloud contour formed of dust and scattered energy!
A trace of undisguisable shock appeared for the first time on Uchiha Hikari’s cool face, her Mangekyo Sharingan reflecting that destructive light.
Last time clashing with Menma, he hadn’t used this move.
‘Damn, this guy… didn’t even go all out against me!’ Uchiha Hikari glanced at Menma with a hint of resentment.
“Go!” Menma’s cold voice broke the silence, his figure turning into a black thread, leading the charge into the jagged wound!
The Vermilion Bird carrying Uchiha Hikari and Kushina rushed in right after!
The Azure Dragon carrying Shisui, Hizashi, and Kimimaro plunged into the violently torn passage!
Passing through the brief golden light passage, the scene before them brought even deeper shock!
Inside the artificial sun was not the expected sea of molten lava.
Before them was a vast and boundless void.
The space presented a profound dark blue, with countless tiny, faintly glowing dust particles floating like stars within.
At the center of this void, most eye-catching was a massive, incomplete moon!
And diagonally above the broken moon, a bit farther from the group, a towering castle full of alien style quietly hovered!
It was entirely constructed from massive, neatly cut gray-white boulders, with cold and sharp lines, towering spires stabbing into the void, huge arched windows tightly shut, in a style utterly different from any ninja world buildings, carrying an ancient and alienated European flair.
Countless meteorite fragments of varying sizes, like loyal guards, orbited the broken moon and that lofty castle, forming a massive, slowly rotating meteorite belt.
The meteorite belt like a star ring silently guarded the core of this space.
“That’s…” Uzumaki Kushina murmured lowly, the cold and lonely castle reflected in her pupils.
“The Otsutsuki Clan’s castle on the moon.” Menma’s voice came through the mask, cold and certain.
The team immediately adjusted direction, Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird accelerating again, charging toward the castle!
However, just entering the meteorite belt range, a sudden change occurred!
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Countless blinding searchlight beams instantly lit up from the backs of those seemingly dead meteorites, locking dead onto the intruders!
Immediately after, meteorite surfaces cracked open, and one after another ferocious quadruple anti-air gun turrets rapidly rose and calibrated!
Combat puppets operated these anti-air cannons, the dark muzzles instantly gathering heart-palpitating blinding Chakra Light!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
A firepower net ten times fiercer than the earlier puppet eagle knights erupted suddenly!
Dense, astonishingly powerful Chakra Light Orbs like a metal storm shot from all directions, up down left right, without blind spots!
Sealing all evasion space! The scorching trails left by light orbs tearing the void wove into an inescapable net!
“Break through!” Menma barked lowly, dark red chakra surging around him.
But a crimson figure was faster than him!
Uchiha Hikari standing on the Vermilion Bird’s back, her deep blue clan robes whipping wildly in the torrent.
Her pair of three-tomoe Sharingan instantly transformed into the demonic Mangekyo pattern!
“Hmph! Annoying!” A cold, killing-intent-laden crisp shout rang out.
Without hesitation, she stepped forward, leaping from the Vermilion Bird!
“Hikari!” Kushina’s cry was drowned in the silent explosion.
The instant Hikari left the Vermilion Bird, a crimson chakra torrent powerful enough to shake space erupted from her petite frame!
The tangible violent chakra shot skyward, instantly coalescing into a massive, half-skeletal red giant outline!
But this was merely the beginning!
The skeleton was swiftly wrapped, filled, and shaped by flowing red chakra!
In a turn, a complete red giant dozens of meters tall proudly stood in the void!
Behind the giant, a pair of massive wings formed of pure chakra, blotting out the sky, suddenly unfurled!
Like the flame demon god of destruction from myths descending to the mortal world!
In the giant’s hand, a massive samurai blade condensed from dark red chakra gleamed with star-severing chill!
“Susanoo!”
The giant’s massive body, at a terrifying speed unfitting its size, became a red lightning tearing the void, charging head-on into the incoming beam net and dense meteorite belt!
The crimson giant’s wings flared angrily, forcibly tearing a gap through the dense light bullet rain!
Facing the forward meteorite turret positions spewing fiery tongues madly, the sky-splitting giant blade in the giant’s hand was raised high, with unrivaled might to sever causality and annihilate all, slashing down fiercely!
“Break for me…!”
Uchiha Hikari’s cold voice like judgment resounded through the void via Susanoo.
The massive chakra samurai blade was raised high, its blade erupting with blinding red glow!
One slash downward!
No flashy techniques, only pure extreme violence!
Rumble—!!!
The massive dark red blade light like a world-cleaving axe slashed fiercely into the dense beam net and obstructing meteorites ahead!
Wherever the blade light passed, dozens of tracking beams were severed and annihilated like fragile threads! Those incomparably hard meteorites were neatly sliced and shattered like tofu upon touching the blade edge!
Boom boom boom boom boom!
A chain of deafening explosions echoed continuously in the meteorite belt! Slashed meteorites along with their mounted anti-air turrets were thoroughly pulverized in the violent blade qi and chakra storm!
Countless shattered rocks and metal debris shot outward like a storm!
Massive meteorites along with their densely packed anti-air turrets and crystal covers crumbled like rotten wood before absolute power!
Instantly torn, shattered, turned to dust!
Silent explosions became clusters of violently expanding energy fireballs in the void, brilliant and deadly!
This crimson Susanoo became the most indestructible spearhead, forcibly carving a path of blood and fire for the team!
Every giant blade swing accompanied meteorite wails and puppet turret annihilation!
The team followed closely behind this crimson giant, rapidly threading through explosion flashes and metal fragment torrents, steadily approaching that white castle hovering in the void, emanating cold aura.
Uchiha Shisui watched this Susanoo with complex eyes; he could feel Uchiha Hikari’s strength had refined even further, while he…
Hyuga Hizashi standing on the Azure Dragon’s spine kept his Byakugan active throughout, staring dead at that increasingly near majestic castle.
Beneath the bulging veins on his forehead, his pure white pupils surged not only with high alert gravity, but also an extremely complex, indescribable emotion.
His Byakugan saw through those puppets, but he horror-struck discovered these humanoid puppets seemed once to have been living people!
This was the aftermath of the war between the moon’s Otsutsuki Main Family and Branch Family.
