stonecrandall Chapter 447 Switching to Tenseigan Chakra Mode!
Chapter 447 Switching to Tenseigan Chakra Mode!
Asma's sorrowful murmurs were like a stone thrown into a deep pool, stirring up layers of suppressed ripples among the survivors.
Ao from Kirigakure and Samui from Kumogakure across the way exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes.
The Third Hokage... is dead?
The air was so heavy it seemed you could wring water out of it, and the wariness and hostility towards the people of the Land of Stars began to build in the eyes of the Konoha ninja.
Just then, several whooshing sounds came from afar.
The first to land were three light yet swift figures: Yukimi, Ita-suke, and Hyuga Neji.
Xuejian landed on a charred rock, her eyes quickly sweeping over Gaara, Temari, Kankuro, and then over Karin, Kurotsuchi, and Ranmaru.
Seeing that her disciples, though disheveled, were all standing there unharmed, she breathed a sigh of relief and asked with concern, "Are you all alright? Are you injured?"
Upon seeing her teacher, Temari relaxed slightly, nodded, and replied, "Teacher Yukimi, we're alright, we're all fine. It's just..."
She glanced at the desolate sinkhole with mixed feelings, and at the still distorted air above it.
Gaara crossed his arms, his emerald green eyes calm and unwavering. He simply nodded slightly to Yukimi to indicate that he was unharmed.
Kankuro quickly spoke up to prove that he was still in good condition.
On the other side, Karin, Kurotsuchi, and Ranmaru were also visibly invigorated when they saw Ita-suke.
Karin spoke first, "Teacher! We're alright!"
Heitu also clenched his fist, his little face still covered in dust, but he tried his best to look energetic.
Ranmaru stood obediently beside Kurotsuchi and Karin, giving Ita-suke a reassuring smile.
On his back, carrying the enormous cleaver, Itada's solemn face now showed a look of relief.
He walked over to Ranmaru, reached out his large hand, and naturally ruffled Ranmaru's hair, smiling gently, "It's good that you're alright. That was quite a blow just now; I thought you were going to be blown away."
Among the Konoha crowd, Hiashi's gaze was fixed on Hyuga Neji, who was standing next to Idasuke in a pristine white training uniform.
Six years.
Since that "night of defection" six years ago, when his younger brother Hyuga Hizashi led some members of the branch family to defect from Konoha and seek refuge in the Land of Stars, Hyuga Hiashi has never seen his nephew again.
At this moment, Neji stood tall and handsome, his right arm wrapped with the headband of the Land of Stars. He had long since shed his childhood naiveté, and his brows held a calmness and aloofness beyond his years.
What made Hiashi Hyuga's Byakugan shrink slightly was that Neji's smooth forehead was completely empty, without any trace of the "Caged Bird Seal"!
Riji's feelings were extremely complicated.
There is a sense of unfamiliarity with his nephew's growth, complex emotions about the separation and defection of the family, an indescribable sense of relief at seeing Neji break free from the caged bird's restraints, and deep concern and vigilance towards Neji's stance as an "enemy" of Konoha.
Neji seemed to sense the gaze as well. He turned his head slightly, his pure Byakugan calmly meeting Hiashi Hyuga's eyes.
There was no hatred, no excitement, not even any emotional fluctuation; it was as if I were looking at a stranger.
That cold, indifferent gaze drew a clearer line than any heated words.
This silent estrangement and confrontation was instantly ignited by Asuma's barely suppressed anger.
"The Land of Stars... Shura!" Asuma suddenly turned his head, his bloodshot eyes staring intently at Yukimi, Itada, and Gaara, Karin, and the others behind them.
It was these three Star Country ninjas who blocked them at the competition venue, which prevented them from providing immediate support to the Third Hokage!
Driven by grief and anger, he turned all his hatred towards Orochimaru's "accomplices".
Judging from his posture, he's about to rush forward at any moment to avenge his father!
"Asuma!"
A steady, powerful hand pressed heavily on Asma's tense shoulder.
The crowd looked in the direction of the sound and saw that Jiraiya, accompanied by a young man in black and a blond boy, had quietly appeared on the outskirts of the crowd.
Jiraiya's white hair was covered in dust, his face showed weariness and lingering worry, and his eyes, which always held a hint of unruliness, were now filled with solemnity and sorrow.
The young Sasuke was badly injured, and dried bloodstains remained on his black clothes, but he still stood straight, his Rinnegan under his bangs vigilantly observing the direction of the sky.
Boruto, meanwhile, was staring intently at Naruto, who was still gazing blankly at the sinkhole not far away.
When Boruto's gaze swept over Hinata, the eldest sister standing next to Naruto with one hand on her hip, he trembled and a bead of cold sweat trickled down his forehead.
Jiraiya felt a pang of pain as he looked at Asuma's face contorted with grief and his bloodshot eyes.
The old man died, killed by Orochimaru, that traitorous disciple. How could he not want to avenge the old man?
but……
"Don't be impulsive!" Jiraiya's voice was deep as he emphasized again, his hand exerting slight pressure on Asuma.
"Today's events...were very complicated..."
"But... Lord Jiraiya!" Asuma turned his head abruptly, tears finally streaming down his face, his voice hoarse and trembling.
"The old man was killed by Orochimaru! They were in cahoots with Orochimaru!!" He pointed at Yukimi and the others, his fingers trembling.
"I know! I know everything!" Jiraiya growled, a hint of pain flashing in his eyes.
He took a deep breath and released his hand from Asma's shoulder.
Jiraiya took two steps forward, his gaze passing over the various Konoha ninjas with different expressions, and finally landing on Yukimi, who was at the very front of the group from the Land of Stars.
"Little girl," Jiraiya said, his hoarse voice trying to remain calm.
"Just now... I heard what your sir said, it seems there's something important to announce to the ninja world?" He paused, his gaze sweeping over the sinkhole, the meaning of which was self-evident.
"Now, can you tell us what happened? Who are those two enemies?"
Jiraiya's words instantly drew everyone's attention.
Whether it was Konoha Jonin like Shikaku, Hiashi, Kakashi, and Might Guy, or Kirigakure's Ao and Suigetsu, Kumogakure's Samui and Omoi, or even Asuma, they all couldn't help but turn their gazes toward Jiraiya and Yukimi.
Yes, just who is the enemy who created this hellish sinkhole?
Is that really something a ninja could do?
Xuejian's expression remained unchanged despite the many hostile gazes she faced.
She raised her little hand and casually wiped away a speck of dust that was obstructing her view next to a freckle on her cheek with her index finger.
Then, she slightly raised her head, her eyes meeting everyone's gaze, and her clear voice echoed at the edge of the silent sinkhole:
"You've seen it too."
As she spoke, she didn't answer directly, but instead turned to the side, gesturing towards the enormous, despair-inducing sinkhole.
"Who in the ninja world, besides our Lord Shura, could accomplish this level of destruction?"
"The true enemies of the ninja world have just shown themselves. Their strength is such that they can easily create this scale of destruction with just a wave of their hand."
Her words were calm and understated, without any deliberate embellishment. However, combined with the enormous sinkhole and the devastating explosion just now, they made everyone's hearts grow heavier and heavier.
"The ninja world... the real... enemy?" Nara Shikaku frowned, repeating the question as his mind raced, trying to find clues from the known information, but to no avail.
Hiashi, Kakashi, and others also looked confused.
Wuyin's brows were furrowed, as if he were recalling something.
Samui and Karui of the Hidden Cloud Village exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise and uncertainty in each other's eyes.
Boruto and young Sasuke, who came from another time and space, both shuddered slightly upon hearing these words.
The Otsutsuki clan from outer space!
The name flashed through their minds instantly.
Their purpose in traveling through time was to hunt down Urashiki Otsutsuki and stop him from absorbing the Nine-Tails' chakra from young Naruto through time travel.
And now, Urashiki is right in front of us, and another Otsutsuki clansman has appeared!
The situation is much worse than they anticipated!
Young Sasuke looked at Yukimi, but he had absolutely no information about her in his memory.
However, the other side seems to have quite a bit of information about the Otsutsuki clan.
His gaze swept over Yukimi, then over Itasuke, Neji, and Gaara, Karin, and others a little further away.
With the insight of his Rinnegan, he discovered something unusual.
The people of the Star Kingdom all have a subtle trace of being...modified in their chakra flow and cellular activity.
He sensed extremely faint but exceptionally pure Yang Release chakra characteristics, as well as a chakra residue full of vitality yet carrying a hint of disharmony...
The former reminded him of Danzo Shimura's arm.
The latter immediately reminded him of Orochimaru, who successfully reincarnated using a White Zetsu body during the later stages of the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Could it be that these ninjas from the Land of Stars have all undergone physical modifications or enhancements using Hashirama cells and White Zetsu cells?
But what young Sasuke cared about even more was Hyuga Neji.
According to his Rinnegan perception, beneath the pure Byakugan power of the Hyuga clan within Neji's body, there seemed to be an extremely faint trace of chakra.
Although it was so faint as to be almost negligible, that feeling...
It even vaguely reminded him of Kaguya Otsutsuki!
How is that possible?
Young Sasuke looked up at the battlefield in the sky, analyzing the information he now knew.
The demon who altered this timeline was the son of the Fourth Hokage and Naruto's brother. It seems that the Fourth Hokage did not die or was resurrected using some kind of ninjutsu.
Young Sasuke naturally knew that, besides the Impure World Reincarnation, there were many other resurrection ninjutsu in the ninja world.
Just as the people on the ground were wavering because of Xuejian's words, the battlefield in the sky underwent another dramatic change!
A heavy feeling, as if it could suppress the space itself, suddenly spread down from above the sinkhole without warning.
Then, as all the survivors looked up in horror, they saw the airspace above the sinkhole!
The outline of an ancient-looking black object appeared out of thin air!
It consists of two parts: the lower part is a huge, bottomless, bowl-shaped container with a diameter of over 100 meters; the upper part is a huge, tightly sealed lid.
The "bowl" and the "lid" are positioned one above the other, like a "tea kettle," and they come together with a loud bang towards the center of the sinkhole!
Its enormous size almost blocked out half of the sky, and the shadow it cast made the already dark edge of the sinkhole below even more eerie.
"What...what is that?!" someone screamed.
"Sealing technique?! Such terrifying chakra!" The ninja with keen senses paled.
Young Sasuke's gaze sharpened, his Rinnegan locking onto the enormous "Sealing Cauldron".
This is the ultimate application of Yin-Yang Escape, a terrifying technique far surpassing ordinary sealing techniques!
Meanwhile, in the center of the sinkhole, at that high-altitude battlefield that is beyond the reach of ordinary eyes, the situation is changing rapidly.
Just before the "Sealing Cauldron" appeared.
Menma's left index and middle fingers firmly gripped the Rinnegan, which was embedded in his forehead and shimmered with golden light!
A cool sensation came from my fingertips, along with the primal eye power of Urashiki Otsutsuki that was still restless and struggling within them.
Then, his face went numb and his fingers twitched, and fresh blood slowly flowed from Pu Shi's empty forehead.
"This eye is mine now." A satisfied smile curved the corners of Menma's lips.
"Uh...ho..." Urashiki's whole body convulsed violently.
Menma's chakra tail swung several black chakra rods, piercing Urashiki's limbs and pinning him to the void like a strange insect made into a specimen.
He opened his mouth, wanting to utter a curse, to activate a final time reversal, or even to detonate this body and perish together with his enemy.
However, having lost the golden Rinnegan in his forehead, which served as the core of his Crane Form and contained most of his abilities, he found it extremely difficult to even mobilize his chakra.
All that came out of his mouth was blood mixed with pieces of internal organs.
The chilling despair brought on by the rapid passing of life took over Pu Shi's mind.
He could feel that the last connection between himself and that golden Rinnegan was being forcibly severed by a domineering and strange force from the other party.
That's a kind of "plundering" from the very source of chakra!
Fear and despair spread through Pu Shi's heart.
Pu Shi, who had traversed the starry sky for thousands of years, never imagined that he would be forced into such a miserable situation by a "native"!
Just then, something unexpected happened!
Above Menma's head, the "lid" of the sealing cauldron appeared without warning, descending upon him with a heavy, all-suppressing aura!
At the same time, dozens of black chakra rods shimmering with an eerie light appeared out of thin air around his body, in all directions, including near the chakra tail that was binding Urashiki!
These black chakra rods weren't aimed at his vital points, but rather at his ten chakra tails!
In an instant, Menma's ten chakra tails were pierced by black chakra rods!
It's Tzu-hsien!
He finally seized the fleeting moment when Menma was taking Urashiki's Rinnegan and made a ruthless move!
Moreover, the first move he made was a deadly attack that combined the spatial abilities of "Daikokuten" with the Yin-Yang Escape sealing technique!
This enormous "sealing cauldron" is clearly one of his trump cards for sealing, while the black chakra rods attacking from all directions are meant to restrict Menma's movement and defense, forcing him to withstand this seal!
Cixian's figure appeared in the air not far away. The black lines of the "Wedge" had spread to his neck, and black cracks were extending from his lower abdomen, which was covered by a white feather robe.
His gaze swept over Mianma, then over the dying and worthless Pu Shi. There was not a trace of kinship in his eyes, only indifference as if looking at garbage about to be disposed of, and... the smugness of finally seizing an opportunity.
"Now's the time! Once it's trapped in the sealing cauldron, even the Ten-Tails won't be able to escape! We can deal with this troublesome guy first, then slowly reclaim Urashiki's remaining chakra and eyes." Isshiki sneered inwardly.
He didn't care whether Pu Shi lived or died.
All he wants now is to get rid of this ridiculously powerful "Shura" who has ruined his plans as soon as possible, and then continue his great work of cultivating the perfect vessel and planting the divine tree!
Faced with this desperate situation of being attacked from both above and below and locked down from all sides, Menma did not seem surprised.
He didn't even look at the "lid" about to fall on his head, nor did he pay attention to the black rods around him that imprisoned the chakra tail.
Menma tightened his grip on Urashiki's golden Rinnegan with his left hand.
puff.
With a soft sound, accompanied by Urashiki's last muffled groan filled with endless resentment, the dazzling golden Rinnegan was completely gouged out, detached from Urashiki's forehead, leaving only a bloody, deep hole where the bone was visible.
Collectible +1.
With a swift release of his right hand, the black chakra rod that had pierced through Urashiki's chest vanished.
Urashiki's body suddenly stiffened, then collapsed completely like mud, his life force rapidly extinguished, and he fell into the "bowl" of the "Sealing Cauldron" below.
It was only then that Menma seemed to notice Jigen's attack.
Then, Menma slowly turned his head and looked at Cixian, who was poised to attack in the distance.
He even chuckled softly, a laugh tinged with a hint of mockery.
"A good opportunity, but I advise you to show some real skill. If this is just a sneak attack of this magnitude..." His voice suddenly turned cold.
"Then you can wait to go and accompany Urashiki, Ichishiki."
Menma ignored the sudden change in Yishi's expression.
Five years later, when a local called out her real name, Cixian's expression changed slightly.
Meanwhile, Mianma calmly took out a transparent glass tube made of a special material.
The tube contained a pale green liquid that shimmered with a faint glow.
He casually placed the golden Rinnegan, still warm from his body and stained with traces of blood, into the glass tube.
The eye fell into the liquid, and the bloodstains on its surface were quickly broken down and purified. The golden pupil floated slightly in the liquid, still radiating a mysterious luster, like a beautiful work of art.
The glass tube containing the mahjong tiles was sealed and casually put away.
Only after doing all this did he refocus his attention on the crisis at hand.
The lid of the "Sealing Cauldron" above his head was less than ten meters away. All around, countless black chakra rods were nailed to his chakra tail, seemingly restricting his movements.
However, the dough just floated there quietly.
The next moment, the dark red tailed beast chakra cloak that had been enveloping him receded and disappeared into his body like a tide.
The black chakra rods lost their support and fell down.
Immediately afterwards—
hum! ! !
A dazzling, pure golden light burst forth from within Mianma's body!
That golden light was like warm sunlight, carrying a sense of holiness that transcended all living beings!
The golden chakra exploded like a supernova, expanding instantly and replacing the previous dark red chakra cloak, forming a brand new, magnificent golden chakra cloak!
Golden chakra burned fiercely on his outer garment like the sun.
Behind him, six jet-black "Seeking Truth Jewels" slowly rotated out of thin air, emitting a fluctuation that caused the space to tremble slightly.
At the same time, a pair of curved horns resembling dragon horns grew from the sides of his forehead, adding an inhuman majesty to his sacred posture.
On the center of the face, the skin split open, and a brilliant golden Tensei eye slowly opened!
Tenseigan Chakra Mode!
open!
"Uh...ho...no...possible..." As Urashiki was falling into the abyss and his life was about to be completely extinguished, in the last glimmer of his consciousness, as if in a final burst of light, he used his last strength to barely lift his head and saw the figure in the air shrouded in endless golden light, with dragon horns on his forehead and the golden Tenseigan activated.
His gradually graying eyes suddenly widened, the pupils reflecting the sacred golden light, and an incomprehensible hoarse sound came from his throat.
Immediately, Urashiki's last bit of consciousness was swallowed by darkness, and his body accelerated its descent into the boundless darkness of the "Sealing Cauldron".
Meanwhile, Jigen, who was in the distance, saw the golden Tenseigan on the face with a pockmarked forehead and the pair of dragon horns. The coldness and calculation he had maintained completely collapsed, and an unprecedented expression appeared on his face!
His wide eyes were filled with disbelief!
"How is this possible?!" he exclaimed in shock.
"You bastard! How could you possibly have eyes like that?! This is impossible! This is... this could it be...?!"
He seemed to recognize something, but couldn't believe it.
The Tenseigan?!
The golden Tenseigan before him brought him a strong sense of oppression and the aura of a "high-ranking Otsutsuki"!
And those corners...
This is a form unique to the Otsutsuki clan!
Mianma didn't give him any more time to be shocked.
The moment he switched to Tenseigan Chakra Mode, it was as if he resonated with the flow of chakra throughout the entire world.
He slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers loosely clenched.
Of the six slowly rotating Truth-Seeking Jewels behind him, three seemed to receive a command and instantly flew over, colliding, fusing, and taking shape in the palm of the man with the numb face!
A blinding golden light erupted from Menma's hand, and a giant golden chakra lightsaber instantly took shape in his hand!
The lightsaber was over a hundred meters long, yet it exuded a terrifying aura that could cut through anything.
"Golden Wheel—"
"Reincarnation Explosion!"
Menma softly uttered the name of the move, and then, with his right hand holding the golden lightsaber, he casually swung it from top to bottom.
The action was understated.
The effect was devastating.
Swish-! ! !
A thin golden line stretched across the sky and disappeared in a flash.
There was no earth-shattering roar, only a faint hum.
The next second, a center line appeared in the black outline of the "sealing cauldron" lid that was about to close, and the bottomless "bowl" below.
Then the center line "broke", and the "Sealing Cauldron" was neatly cut in two!
The cut is as smooth as a mirror!
The momentum of the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion's strike had not yet diminished. After slicing open the sealing cauldron, it transformed into a slender yet unstoppable golden blade of light, slashing swiftly towards the dumbfounded Cixian not far away!
Wherever it passed, a long, empty crack was stretched in space, which could not be healed for a long time!
"What?!" Cixian finally snapped out of his shock. Faced with the golden blade of light that had shattered his strongest sealing technique and whose residual power was still terrifying enough to make him tremble, the shadow of death instantly enveloped his entire body!
Rumble, rumble, rumble—!!!
The earth suffered the consequences of the golden blade's strike.
As the light blade fell, a huge, straight, and bottomless rift silently appeared in a range of hills and forests in northern Konoha!
The rift valley is hundreds of meters wide and stretches forward as far as the eye can see!
The rock walls on both sides of the rift valley bear traces of high-temperature melting and wisps of lingering golden chakra.
This is merely the golden wheel rebirth explosion formed by the condensation of three Seeking the Dao Jade.
If Menma hadn't deliberately restrained most of his power after breaking the sealed cauldron, this single sword strike would have been enough to slice the entire Land of Fire, along with its crust, in two!
If it were the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion formed from the condensation of six Truth-Seeking Balls, it could even cleave the planet beneath our feet in two!