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Clang!
You bravely clashed with Kakuzu, who despises you for being poor, and obtained a random skill from him: Secret Technique: Earth Grudge Puppet Stitching (Proficient, A).
Your Heart of Steel layer has increased.
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The Flowing Flame Great Sword descended.
Carrying an unparalleled storm, embers, and a fiery tail, it plummeted down.
It slammed into the Water Barrier that Kakuzu had raised!
The massive Water Barrier, which was six meters high and seemed formidable, was sliced through like hot knife through butter.
Sizzle—
Intense steam surged out immediately and was then swept away by the storm carried by the Flowing Flame Great Sword.
The battlefield suddenly cleared up.
Uchiha Shi saw the scene behind the Water Barrier, and his pupils constricted sharply.
At this moment, Kakuzu had already replaced his heart with a water attribute heart. The Earth Grudge Fear mask, with its earth attribute, had hardened its entire body and leaped up, trying to block Uchiha Shi's Flowing Flame Great Sword.
However, the three masks that Uchiha Shi thought were preparing to clash with him—fire, wind, and lightning—
were actually facing away from him!
In the next instant, the blue light cannon of Earth Grudge Fear's Final Shot was fired, a giant cannon that combined fire, wind, and lightning, and continuously enhanced each other, aiming in the exact opposite direction of Uchiha Shi, and blasted onto the barrier of the Super Deadlock Barrier!
The light screen of the barrier fluctuated, deformed, and bulged high, cracking.
The entire cliff, enveloped by the barrier, began to crack and crumble, teetering on the brink.
Seeing this, Uchiha Shi's eyes widened instantly, his pupils constricting to a point, the skin on his face contorted, and the veins on his forehead bulged, his hands struggled to control the Flowing Flame Great Sword, swinging it down with all his might at Kakuzu's main body, a feeling of being deceived and on the brink of despair climbed wildly in his heart!
"What are you doing?!"
"Kakuzu! What are you doing?"
"You coward!"
"Are you trying to run?"
"What?!!"
At this moment, Uchiha Shi had already given everything, ready to die, waiting to fight the strong enemy to the death.
But now, Kakuzu actually wanted to run?
He actually wanted to run?
What a joke!
If he ran, Uchiha Shi, who would be left outside the battle and burned to death by his own techniques, would this still be within the scope of the insurance?
Uchiha Shi didn't know and couldn't afford to gamble, so he looked mad, forcing his body, which was already at its limit, to leap forward!
"Come back!"
"Come back to me!"
"Roar!"
"You coward!"
"Fight me to the last drop of blood!"
Uchiha Shi's eyes were bloodshot, his Sharingan eyes wide open, emitting a fierce and demonic aura, he was in mid-air, twisting his waist, lowering his head, spinning around, rolling and swinging the Flowing Flame Great Sword in a wide arc!
Under this sword, Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Fear mask was forced into the cliff wall and then flung into the air, only to face another sweeping sword.
This sweeping sword, pulled Kakuzu's main body and the other three masks into its range of attack!
"This power is truly astonishing."
Kakuzu looked up at this god-like sword, his eyes narrowing, filled with deep wariness.
Then, a cold smile appeared on his lips, and he formed hand seals.
"But, I still win."
The Flowing Flame Great Sword fell, sweeping across Kakuzu's main body, forcing him to open his eyes wide, his body evaporating from the waist down.
Then, it turned into a puddle of water.
At the moment this puddle of water hit the ground, a deafening boom sounded!
Dense, innumerable Earth Grudge Fear tentacles burst through the ground, growing wildly, and wrapped around the Flowing Flame Great Sword!
This is Earth Grudge Fear!
Black tentacles hiding life beneath the battlefield, writhing and eager!
The sword cut down, burning the dense tentacles to ashes, but more tentacles continued to surge from beneath the ground, one after another, endlessly.
This slowed down the sweeping speed of the giant sword.
Just this small gap.
The blue light cannon of Earth Grudge Fear's Final Shot blasted through the barrier of the Super Deadlock Barrier.
Kakuzu jumped out of the puddle of water on the cliff face, recalled the three masks, and leaped out from the gap in the barrier.
Then, he dashed forward, before anyone on the scene could react, rushing towards the old crooked tree in the center of the cliff.
"Fugaku, run!"
Uchiha Shi's angry warning echoed from inside the barrier.
The three people outside the barrier, stunned by the sudden change, finally reacted. Zoumei Mei was the first to come to her senses; she immediately turned and saw the rushing Kakuzu, instinctively forming hand seals.
However, a hand, entangled by Earth Grudge Fear tentacles, burst from the ground on the cliff face, grabbing Zoumei Mei's calf and pulling her down, interrupting her hand seals.
Fugaku stood on the tree trunk, looking left and right, seeing the bottomless abyss on both sides, a sense of despair rose in his heart.
What the hell, where do I run?
Trusting Uchiha Shi, Fugaku closed his eyes and leaped off the tree.
Seeing this, Shennong was startled and immediately dashed down the cliff face to catch Fugaku.
However, Kakuzu was faster.
He twisted his waist and extended his Earth Grudge Fear arm, wrapping around Fugaku and pulling him back, tucking him under his arm.
Fugaku opened his eyes at this moment, looking bewildered.
Kakuzu didn't bother with any nonsense with this future 'immortal partner,' slapping him on the back of the head and knocking him unconscious.
Then, with a few leaps, he jumped from the cliff face to the city wall, and then down from the city wall.
In no time, he reached the entrance to the underground cave of the Evil God Sect's headquarters.
Shennong watched this, his eyes narrowing, and stopped in his tracks.
When Kakuzu grabbed Fugaku, at this distance, he had the ability to activate Flesh Transformation and Eight Gates to stop him, at least to engage in a struggle.
But for some reason, he stopped.
After the shock, the battlefield returned to silence.
The full moon gradually faded, and the wind was like the cry of cranes.
The barrier that connected heaven and earth shattered.
The Flowing Flame Great Sword in Uchiha Shi's hand turned into a pool of wild fire, dispersing with the wind.
He knelt on the cliff face, his entire body without a single patch of intact skin, red muscles exposed, the thick oil from burned skin dripping from his scorched body.
The Kunai in his hand tore off a piece of flesh, smoking as it fell to the bottom of the cliff, turning into a puddle of molten iron.
All the chakra in his body had almost completely burned out.
Uchiha Shi turned his head, dazed, looking in the direction Kakuzu had fled.
Then, a look of anger appeared on his face.
His eyes were bloodshot, his teeth clenched, and his fists tightly clenched.
But beneath this expression, there was a hint of panic.
In the end, all his intense emotions turned into a blankness as a sudden sense of powerlessness overwhelmed him.
What will happen next?
He fought to the last moment, can he go home?
But the enemy escaped, and he ultimately died by his own hand. Is this still within the scope of the insurance?
The Heavenly Path Boss shouldn't be so petty, right?
Will Fugaku still become that insane member of the Evil God Sect?
Was everything I did worth it?
These questions surfaced in his mind, urgently needing answers.
But he no longer had the strength to think.
Ah, my brain seems to have burned out.
My body can't move at all.
I can't hear anything, as my eardrums have burned through.
There is only silence, only silence.
Uchiha Shi closed his eyes weakly, the last bit of chakra in his feet dissipating.
He fell headfirst off the cliff.
Strangely, he didn't feel the pain of being smashed into a pulp, but rather, it felt like he had landed on a soft, warm, pink cotton candy cloud.
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Bang! Bang! Bang!
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(End of Chapter)