Chapter 184: Nine-tails Chakra Cloak, Clashing With The Giant Rinnegan!
At the same time.
The puppet flood in the center of the battlefield, under the crowd’s thunderous counterattack, melted away rapidly like snow thrown into boiling water, visible to the naked eye!
Shattered limbs and broken parts covered the ground.
Those exquisite maid porcelain dolls and black-robed butlers had all turned into wreckage, mixed in with the ashes of ordinary puppets.
Only that half-body stone statue, which had been violently thrown out by Susanoo and smashed a large area of buildings, struggled to break free from the restraints of the ruins.
Menma, standing at the edge of the shattered stone pillar array, had his eyes under the mask piercing through the gradually dissipating energy smoke and dust, locking onto Otsutsuki Sakuya, whose face was already distorted.
“It’s time to end this farce.” Menma’s cold voice was like a death sentence.
He slightly spread his right hand, and a profoundly deep darkness rapidly gathered and rotated in his palm!
In an instant, it expanded to a diameter exceeding one meter, like a miniature, collapsing black star!
The bathtub-sized black sphere had a surface that was not still; a silver-white star ring made of extremely compressed Wind Release Chakra rotated at high speed around it, emitting a sharp, piercing screech that cut through the surrounding space, bringing up tiny space cracks!
Spiral Rinne!
The black destruction star was flung out by Menma the moment it formed!
It assaulted that half-body Hamura stone statue that had just propped itself up and was roaring in anger!
Sakuya’s face changed dramatically, his hands frantically forming hand seals, trying to activate the stone statue’s defense!
However, the speed of that black energy ball was faster than lightning!
There was no sound of impact.
The black sphere passed through the stone statue’s thick arm, which was trying to block and had condensed solid rock armor, like a ghost without substance, silently embedding into the enormous Otsutsuki Hamura statue!
A brief stillness, as if even time had frozen.
The next moment—
Boom rumble rumble!!!
Dark black light erupted from the stone statue’s forehead position toward its entire head and massive chest-abdomen insect body like a volcano that had been dormant for millennia!
Countless pitch-black energy cracks instantly crawled over the entire stone statue!
Those seemingly indestructible shell rocks, sturdy arms, and the sacred Hamura face rapidly swelled, distorted in the violent decomposition of the black energy, and then—
Shattered!
Like billions of pieces of dark glass exploding at the same time!
The stone statue’s massive head bore the brunt, decomposed into the most primordial particles in the chakra storm capable of tearing everything apart!
The huge shell body that followed was like dominoes being toppled, starting from the impact point, inch by inch swallowed, torn, and disintegrated by the black light!
Finally, it collapsed with a boom, turning into a flood of gravel that continuously collapsed and was thoroughly decomposed by the dark energy!
Smoke and dust spread like mist!
After dealing with this big guy, Menma charged straight at Otsutsuki Sakuya, who had just witnessed the divine statue’s collapse and was mentally shaken!
The Flying Thunder God Technique’s mark instantly teleported him above Sakuya!
“Let’s perish together!!”
The final trump card was revealed!
Immense fear and madness drove Sakuya to emit a hysterical roar!
Disregarding everything, he communed with the Giant Tenseigan core deep within the moon!
The Hamura Shrine not far from the castle began to shake violently, a destructive energy capable of blasting the entire moon into cosmic dust rapidly gathering at one point!
He wanted everyone to be buried with him!
Just like how their branch family’s ancestors slaughtered the entire main family back then!
Go completely mad!
Pfft!
The dull sound of a sharp weapon piercing flesh, muscles, and bones was chillingly clear!
All the mad roars came to an abrupt end.
The smoke and dust were dragged into a blank trajectory by the high-speed moving figure.
Eight chains emitting dazzling golden light and covered in the Uzumaki clan’s ancient sealing runes shot out like living spiritual serpents from eight extremely tricky angles the moment Sakuya erupted, precisely piercing his shoulders, arms, legs, waist, and abdomen!
The source of each chain was shockingly connected between Menma’s outstretched fingers and palms!
Golden runes flickered on and off in the smoke and dust!
Adamantine Sealing Chains!
“Urgh…” Sakuya’s body suddenly stiffened, the violently brewing self-explosion energy solidifying and dispersing instantly like a spring whose root had been cut off!
His face was filled with utmost astonishment and bewilderment.
But even more fatal restraints followed!
Menma’s left hand was as fast as an illusion, five fingers spread out, virtually grasping at Sakuya, who had lost resistance!
Sizzle!
A slender black rod, pitch-black throughout like a strand of ghostly light intercepted from the deepest night sky, grew and extended directly from Menma’s palm without warning!
The tip was sharp, the entire body covered in fine, vein-like dark textures.
Yin-Yang Release: Black Rod!
The black rod precisely stabbed into Sakuya’s right shoulder, which was nailed through by the Adamantine Sealing Chains!
The moment the black rod entered the body, the chakra points around the entry point went into frantic disorder like water surfaces with stones thrown in!
Sakuya only felt a cold force carrying strong interference and blockage instantly invade his body, forcibly interrupting the chakra flow in almost all his main meridians!
The remaining light in his body dimmed rapidly like candlelight blown out.
The massive chakra linked to the Giant Tenseigan instantly lost control and dispersed!
“You…” Sakuya slumped to the ground, tightly bound by the eight golden chains to the remaining half-section of the castle wall, like a sacrificial offering. With his mind’s eye, he incredulously looked at the mysterious strong practitioner before him, at that White Three-Eyed Fox Mask, his heart filled only with endless fear and despair.
Almost at the same moment Sakuya was defeated and bound, at the other end of the ruined plaza.
Kimimaro’s figure was like lightning!
He instantly closed in on Tenseigan User, who was stunned by this terrifying scene!
The bone spear in his hand had already dissipated, claws turning into fingers, chakra-condensed fingertips lightning-fast pressing down on Tenseigan User!
The acupoint-sealing and meridian-blocking technique was fierce and ruthless, precise beyond compare!
Young Tenseigan User grunted, his whole body’s chakra forcibly sealed, body going limp.
The two maid puppet guards beside him just moved when several golden chakra chains descended like a net of light!
“Quiet!” Kushina lightly scolded, the chains wrapping around, instantly binding the two maids and the immobilized Tenseigan User tightly together!
The situation was settled!
The smoke and dust had not fully settled, the golden chains and the black rod binding Sakuya clearly visible.
Uchiha Shisui, who had just steadied himself from the impact of the stone statue’s destruction, had his three-tomoe Sharingan locked dead on Menma, looking at the vortex mark in his palm controlling the golden chains, his eyes filled with utmost shock: “Adamantine Sealing Chains?! That’s not the Uzumaki clan’s…”
Hyuga Hizashi beside him was even more shaken, his Byakugan, which could magnify details dozens of times, clearly capturing the precise-to-the-millimeter control at the other end of those eight chains, and that pitch-black long rod inserted into Sakuya’s shoulder, emanating an ominous aura!
“Uzumaki clan? But he’s not red-haired…” Cold sweat instantly soaked Hizashi’s back!
He couldn’t figure it out, no matter how hard he tried.
In the Byakugan field of view, the chakra in Menma’s body was vast like a starry sea, immeasurable, yet finely controlling two completely different powers.
The black-robed Menma stood independently in the center of the battlefield, ignoring the shocked gazes of his companions.
He coldly swept his gaze over the Hamura Shrine at the distant castle top, which still emitted a ghostly light.
Giant Tenseigan!
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The Hamura Shrine floated in the void, entirely constructed of cold gray-white giant stones, its massive archway like an entrance to another world.
The interior of the shrine was not the imagined religious hall, but more like a precisely operating giant mechanical core.
In the vast space, countless thick and thin dark golden metal tracks extended and intersected along specific trajectories, like the vascular network of a giant beast.
Substantial pale golden energy flows coursed through the tracks, emitting a low, continuous hum, illuminating the entire space in brilliance.
At the core intersection of all metal tracks floated an unimaginably huge creation.
A pale yellow light sphere over a hundred meters in diameter!
It was like a miniature sun imprisoned here, emanating soft yet oppressively majestic energy fluctuations.
The surface of the light sphere was not smooth, but pieced together from countless tiny diamond-shaped light spots, slowly pulsating; each pulsation caused the surrounding space’s energy flows to surge and ebb.
At the deepest core of the light sphere, faintly visible was a six-petal flower-shaped symbol of pure light constantly rotating, emanating an even more ancient, primordial aura—that was the true core of the Giant Tenseigan!
Eight Adamantine Sealing Chains like a golden spider web tightly wrapped and nailed Otsutsuki Sakuya to a cold metal giant pillar at the shrine entrance.
Each chain end was deeply embedded in the pillar, golden sealing runes flickering indeterminately on the chain surfaces, continuously suppressing his remaining chakra.
That pitch-black Yin-Yang Release black rod piercing his right shoulder was like a maggot in the bones, precisely destroying the chakra circulation nodes in his body, preventing him from mobilizing even a shred of extra power.
Uzumaki Kushina’s Adamantine Sealing Chains also bound the young Tenseigan User, guarded by Kimimaro at the side.
Tenseigan User’s small body trembled slightly. Though he couldn’t see, the oppressive pressure from that massive, star-like energy source in his mind’s eye perception made his face pale.
“You… who exactly are you?” Sakuya’s voice was hoarse and dry, carrying unconcealable weakness and suspicion.
His “mind’s eye” perception frantically swept over this space he was extremely familiar with, yet could only “see” a fog.
The opponent’s goal was so clear, straight to the shrine core!
They even seemed to know this place like the back of their hand!
“For… this eye?” His voice suddenly rose, carrying a trace of incomprehensible anger.
“Hyuga! Is it you Hyuga clan who brought reinforcements?! Hahaha… ridiculous! Truly ridiculous! The main family’s thousand-year secret ultimately destroyed in the hands of you bloodline-mixed branches!” His hollow eye sockets “looked” toward Hyuga Hizashi’s direction, his words full of contempt.
Hyuga Hizashi stood a bit farther away, lips tightly pressed, his face unusually grave under the golden light flowing in the shrine.
Sakuya’s words pierced his heart like thorns, but at this moment, he was more concerned about what Shura would do next.
In the Byakugan view, that massive Tenseigan core was like a violent energy vortex; merely gazing at it made his eyeballs ache.
Menma ignored Sakuya’s questioning, not even sparing him a glance.
He walked straight to the shrine center, stopping a dozen meters from the Giant Tenseigan core.
His black robe fluttered in the breeze stirred by the energy flows, and under the White Three-Eyed Fox Mask, those heterochromatic pupils calmly stared at the ancient creation emanating terrifying pressure before him.
The Giant Tenseigan seemed to sense the approach of a foreign aura; the light flowing on its surface suddenly intensified, the pulsation frequency quickened several times, emitting a louder hum.
The invisible pressure in the air surged steeply, like tons of seawater pressing down!
“Cough…” Sakuya, bound by the chains, suddenly let out a suppressed cough, followed by a sigh full of dejection and unwillingness, as if completely resigned: “Fine… fine…”
“If you want it, then take it… This eye never belonged to us failures anyway…” He lowered his head, his voice filled with the desolation and abandonment of a “failure.”
Menma finally slightly turned his head, his cold gaze piercing through the mask, as if seeing through Sakuya’s disguise.
His voice was calm and unwavering, yet like a heavy hammer smashing into Sakuya’s heart: “Without guidance from one with Hamura’s bloodline, touching it rashly will instantly drain your chakra, turning you into dry bones. Sakuya, put away your clumsy trick.”
“What?!” Sakuya jerked his head up, the bandaged eye socket area seeming to crack open!
The opponent actually knew even this deepest secret?!
The shock in his heart instantly overwhelmed the disguise, his body struggling violently in the chains, his voice distorted shrill from extreme shock and fear: “You… how could you possibly know?! Who exactly are you?!”
Menma ignored him no longer. His gaze returned to the pale yellow light sphere emanating immense suction.
“However,” he slowly raised his right hand, his voice carrying a indifference challenging the unknown.
“I do want to try just how much this so-called God’s Eye can suck.”
The moment the words fell!
Boom——！！！
An indescribable dark, brutal terrifying chakra erupted from Menma’s body without warning!
Dark red chakra like boiling magma instantly enveloped his entire body!
Viscous, intense, emanating an aura that made souls tremble!
This chakra surged and shaped frantically on his body surface, in an instant forming a chakra cloak covering his whole body, flowing with dark red glow!
But this was merely the beginning!
Roar——！！！
A roar filled with endless rage and destruction desire echoed from within Menma!
With this roar, behind the dark red chakra cloak, nine massive dark red tails of pure energy burst out like breaking from a cocoon, shooting skyward!
The nine giant tails thrashed and whipped wildly in the air!
Each swing brought a screech tearing the air and substantialized energy storms!
The entire interior space of the Hamura Shrine trembled violently under this extremely brutal chakra pressure!
The metal tracks flowing with pale gold energy emitted groans of overburden, lights flickering madly!
Tails Mode: Nine-Tails!
“This… this is impossible!!!” In Sakuya’s “mind’s eye” perception, that suddenly erupted dark red chakra like an abyssal tsunami was completely different in nature from any chakra he knew!
Violent, chaotic, filled with primal bestiality bent on destroying everything!
That was absolutely not an aura a Hamura descendant should have!
“You… what kind of monster are you?!” Sakuya no longer had the strength to roar.
Uchiha Hikari stood not far behind Menma, her Mangekyo Sharingan deadlocked on those nine violently thrashing giant tails.
Her body tensed slightly, chakra latent in her body, like the most loyal guard, ready to rescue at any moment.
She felt the terror in that chakra, but also keenly sensed Menma’s absolute control over this power.
Uzumaki Kushina’s face was grave, the runes on the Adamantine Sealing Chains shining brightly, subconsciously strengthening the binding force.
“Nine… nine tails…” Kimimaro’s pupils contracted violently, instinctively stepping back half a pace; the combat instinct from his bloodline depths blared alarms under this pressure!
His transplanted Byakugan from the Hyuga Main Family Elder clearly saw under that dark red chakra cloak, the inhuman chakra volume in Shura’s body surging like a volcanic eruption!
Uchiha Shisui and Hyuga Hizashi were like struck by invisible lightning, instantly frozen in place!
Shisui’s three-tomoe Sharingan spun frantically, trying to analyze this cognition-subverting scene!
Those nine thrashing giant tails of pure brutal chakra.
That dark red figure burning like hellfire…
Shisui felt all his body hair stand on end in that instant, a chill rushing from his spine to his head!
His breathing seemed gripped by an invisible hand!
This… this is… tailed beast cloak?!
And it’s… Nine-Tails?!
In Hyuga Hizashi’s Byakugan view, it was now filled with indescribable waves of shock!
That dark red chakra like a viscous blood sea, the power at its core so vast, its nature so brutal, how similar to the demon fox of the Nine-Tails Attack!
Each thrash of those nine tails stirred up destructive chakra turbulence!
Hizashi’s forehead veins bulged wildly from extreme shock and strain, his eyeballs aching with stabs of pain!
Nine-Tails… the one that took the lives of the Fourth Hokage couple… Nine-Tails Fox Demon?!
But the Fourth Lord sealed the Nine-Tails into…
Why?
Shura actually… actually controls the Nine-Tails?!
What is his relationship with the Fourth Lord!
And Kushina…
A even more terrifying thought struck Hizashi’s mind like lightning!
That optimistic, cheerful figure like a little sun gradually overlapped in Hizashi’s violently shaken consciousness!
‘No! Impossible! Fourth…’
Under the mask, Menma’s eyes showed no fluctuation.
He ignored all the shocked gazes behind him, ignored Sakuya’s hysterical roars, ignored the Giant Tenseigan’s even stronger energy tides and terrifying suction erupting from sensing the threat!
Menma’s raised right hand, wrapped in dense dark red tailed beast chakra, steadily and slowly reached toward the Giant Tenseigan core emanating pale golden light, resolutely!
The dark red tailed beast chakra and pale gold Tenseigan energy already clashed fiercely and annihilated in the few inches of space before the contact point!
‘So, do you want to come out and stop me? Hamura—’
