Chapter 292: Ōtsutsuki Isshiki Makes His Move
Neji would never forget that ordinary night. After dinner, he, Naruto, and Sasuke had gone to Uchiha Douhuan's home to begin their weekly lesson.
"The three of you must remember, it doesn't matter if you're an ordinary ninja, but if you want to become a high-ranking official, you must always keep yourself on the moral high ground," inside the Uchiha clan head's residence, Uchiha Douhuan said with a smile to the three children before him, who were not yet 12 years old.
Uchiha Douhuan looked at the three disciples before him, each with a different expression. Sasuke was listening intently, while Neji showed a hint of confusion, and as for Naruto, his pretense of listening was quite cute.
"Only by placing yourself on the moral high ground can you point fingers at others," Uchiha Douhuan said with a laugh.
"So, is this why the Third Hokage used to come to the Ninja Academy to preach about the Will of Fire?" Sasuke said at this time.
"That's the principle, but don't use this example next time," Uchiha Douhuan nodded.
"Neji, you should have some understanding of this principle," at this time, Uchiha Douhuan looked at Neji and then said.
"Me?" Neji looked puzzled.
"Yes, your father, back then, was pointed at from the moral high ground, and in the end, he couldn't hold on and walked down such a path," Uchiha Douhuan said. When he taught his three disciples, he could often only use examples from his own village. After all, the ninja world was not like Uchiha Douhuan's previous life, where a large number of historical allusions could be borrowed.
"Then Teacher, if you were in my father's position, what would you have done?" Neji had no objection to Uchiha Douhuan using his own father as a teaching material and instead pressed on.
"How much do you know about that incident back then?" Uchiha Douhuan asked.
"My uncle has basically told me everything," Neji said.
"That's good. It seems I don't need to explain the cause and effect to you again," Uchiha Douhuan nodded. "If it were me, after killing the Cloud's kidnapper, I would have taken the initiative to blow the matter up, letting the entire village know that the Cloud coveted your Hyuga's Byakugan and thus resorted to kidnapping a child."
"And... and then?" Neji was a bit dumbfounded, and then continued to ask.
"And then raise high the banner of the Will of Fire, putting the Third Hokage of that time on a pedestal so high he can't get down, and ultimately define this matter as a heroic act of protecting the village's tender sprouts. Of course, the most important thing is to make the other ninja clans in the village realize that today it's the Hyuga, and tomorrow it could be them, thus making them stand together with you Hyuga."
"I... I understand," Neji was a bit dumbfounded, but that day's lesson had still left an extremely deep impression on him.
Therefore, at this moment, facing the successive appearances of the Impure World Reincarnation technique on the battlefield, Neji didn't even think before taking the initiative to seize the moral high ground, and at the same time, poured a bucket of dirty water on Iwagakure.
And perhaps because the appearance of Senju Hashirama was too shocking, Onoki was also half a beat slow. By the time he reacted, Neji was already standing righteously on the moral high ground, pointing fingers at him.
Another thing was that on the battlefield, the Second Raikage and the Second Tsuchikage had appeared first, and had even helped Iwagakure kill many of the allied forces' ninjas. This was something Onoki could not explain no matter what.
In fact, it wasn't just him. Even Senju Hashirama, who had returned to the allied forces' formation after dealing with the reincarnated Gengetsu Hōzuki and Mū, also showed a look of bewilderment on his face at this moment.
[Didn't Douhuan bring me over to guard against the enemy hidden in the shadows? How did I become someone who was created by Iwagakure's conspiracy and then shattered the other's conspiracy by relying on the Will of Fire?]
"Lord First Hokage, please don't speak. Just stand here and let every ninja in the village see you," fortunately, at this time, Hiashi Hyuga came to Senju Hashirama's side and reminded him.
"Alright," Senju Hashirama nodded. Subsequently, whenever the ninjas of the allied forces turned their heads, they could see the heroic figure of the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, standing on high ground.
With the boost in morale, the ninjas of the allied forces were like a hot knife through butter. The defensive line built by Kannabi Bridge was instantly in jeopardy.
However, just as the momentum of the allied forces had just risen, it was fiercely pushed back by a cold, viscous, tangible malice that suddenly descended.
That malice did not come from the fleeing defeated army, but from the center of the battlefield, next to the two lone standing coffins of the Impure World Reincarnation.
The air rippled with strange circles, as if a stone had been thrown into water. A slender figure, wearing a simple white robe of ancient style, silently emerged from it. His face was carved with special markings, and his pair of eyes were so cold that they contained not a trace of human emotion, as if looking down on ants in the dust.
Jigen, or rather, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
"Tenseigan... Rinnegan..." Jigen's voice was flat and without ripples. "Such treasures, to have fallen into the hands of lower creatures, is truly a blasphemy."
After speaking, he slowly raised his right hand, his palm facing the two reincarnated bodies below, which were tightly bound by the Wood Release.
In the next instant, a terrifying chakra suddenly erupted. The Wood Release prison that Senju Hashirama had used to suppress the two reincarnated bodies instantly disintegrated.
"Go," Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's voice was like a final verdict. "Clear the obstacles."
Gengetsu Hōzuki's hands flew through seals at high speed, his chakra surging violently. "Steaming Danger Tyranny: Infinite Explosion!"
This time, it was no longer a single giant oil clone, but dozens of oil clones of various shapes and sizes that instantly split from his body. Like a cluster of out-of-control oil bombs, they charged with strange laughs at the densest areas of Neji, Senju Hashirama, and the allied forces, from extremely tricky angles! Each oil clone exuded an extremely unstable, ready-to-detonate terrifying fluctuation.
Mū floated into the air, his hands clasped together in front of his chest. The Dust Release cube, condensed to the extreme, emitted a dazzling white light, its target aimed straight at Senju Hashirama, who was standing in a conspicuous spot on the battlefield: "Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling!"
This time, the Dust Release crystal in Mū's hands, like several beams of white light that could annihilate everything, like the judgment spears of the death god, tore through the air and arrived in an instant!
Senju Hashirama's brow furrowed slightly. He could feel the terrifying aura from Isshiki's body, which was different from the ninja world and originated from a higher level.
"Wood Style: Hōbi Technique!" A giant, tusked wooden shield instantly rose in front of him, taking the several pillars of Dust Release light head-on. The intense annihilation energy and the tough life force clashed fiercely, and wood chips flew like snow.
Neji's Tenseigan shone with a blue light, perceiving the trajectory of the oil clones flying all over the sky.
"Tenseigan! Repulsive Force!" An invisible force field instantly enveloped an area. The trajectory of several oil clones rushing towards the crowd of the allied forces was suddenly distorted and forcibly pulled away.
"Almighty Push!" The Deva Path Pain puppet, at this time, also came to another direction of the allied forces, using its repulsive force to block these death-defying oil clones.
The dozen or so oil clones charging at the very front were as if they had hit an invisible wall of sighs and were instantly detonated! A chain of blazing white light balls and destructive high-temperature steam shockwaves exploded. The violent airwave plowed huge charred craters in the ground, and rubble and steam obscured a large area of vision.
However, although the range of the two's repulsive force techniques was wide, it could not cover all directions. There were still oil clones that broke through the repulsive force field and pounced on the flanks of the allied forces!
"Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!" Neji said in a low voice. His Tenseigan's dōjutsu flowed, and several tornadoes composed of high-speed rotating green chakra light balls roared out, accurately hitting the oil clones that had slipped through the net, rolling them up, tearing them apart, and annihilating them in the violent vortex.
"They're more than a notch stronger than before," after blocking the opponent's attack, Neji looked with a grave expression at Gengetsu Hōzuki and Mū, who had broken free from Senju Hashirama's seal. Then his gaze focused on the figure flying in mid-air. "Is he the one who stole the Impure World Reincarnation?"
Isshiki coldly watched as his first wave of attacks was neutralized, his face showing no ripples. "A little interesting."
As his voice fell, he disappeared from his original spot as if teleporting. In the next moment, he had bizarrely appeared less than ten meters behind Neji's side! His speed was so fast that it surpassed the limit of visual capture!
"Be careful!" Nagato's main body issued a warning through Pain's vision. The Asura Path Pain's arm instantly transformed, shooting out a high-energy laser. The Animal Path summoned a giant chameleon, its long tongue rolling towards Isshiki.
Facing this offensive, Isshiki didn't even turn his head.
"Sukunahikona."
A strange scene happened! The laser shot by the Asura Path, the giant tongue rolled out by the chameleon, and even the light in a small space around Isshiki himself were all instantly compressed and shrunk by several tens of times! The laser became a red thread as thin as a hair, and the giant tongue became the size of a small earthworm, easily swept away by Isshiki's sleeve. He himself also shrank to the size of a particle, easily avoiding the Gentle Fist palm strike that Neji had hastily swung around!
"What?!" Neji's pupils shrank abruptly. The perception of his Tenseigan had almost lost its target!
"Almighty Pull!" The Deva Path Pain reacted extremely quickly, and a powerful gravitational force instantly locked onto that almost invisible particle!
The particle was forcefully pulled, but Isshiki's voice carried a hint of mockery, "Daikokuten."
He disappeared from his original spot. Space was as if torn open, and a black, house-sized giant cube that had been compressed to the extreme appeared out of thin air. With terrifying kinetic energy, it slammed down hard on the Deva Path Pain like a cannonball!
BOOM! The Deva Path Pain was hit hard by the giant rock and fell to the ground like a meteor, and smoke and dust shot up into the sky!
"The power of a god, how can the likes of you窺 (kuī -窺)?" Isshiki returned to his normal size, floating in the air, looking down at the slightly battered Neji and the Deva Path Pain who had been smashed into the ground below. He raised his hand again, his palm facing Neji, "It's over. The Tenseigan is mine."
An irresistible, terrifying suction force suddenly erupted from Isshiki's palm! This suction force was not aimed at the body, but directly acted on the source of the Tenseigan deep in Neji's eyes! Neji felt as if his soul was about to be forcibly stripped out of his eyes. Intense pain instantly swept through his brain. The azure-blue halo flickered violently, and his body was uncontrollably pulled towards Isshiki!
Senju Hashirama witnessed this scene, and anger rose within him. Subsequently, he clasped his hands together, the earth beneath his feet roared, and countless thick giant trees, like mad pythons, broke through the earth, wreathed in verdant green sage chakra, and surged towards Isshiki from all directions, trying to interrupt his jutsu, "Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!"
"Troublesome," Isshiki didn't even bother to look at Hashirama.
"Daikokuten: Divine Punishment!" He waved his other hand casually.
Weng—!
Space once again tore open a huge gap! This time, what poured out from it were densely packed, tens-of-times-compressed black cubes burning with raging flames! Each one contained destructive power, like a rain of heavenly punishment, smashing down crazily towards the Deep Forest Emergence summoned by Hashirama, as well as the area of the large allied army below!
"Damn it!" Hashirama's face changed. This attack's range was too wide, and its power was too strong! He could only push his Deep Forest Emergence to the fullest. Countless giant trees grew wildly, intertwining, trying to form a huge barrier to block the meteor shower.
BOOM! BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!
The black cubes falling from the sky and the tough Sage Art Wood Release slammed into each other with a boom! The firelight of the explosion shot up into the sky. The raging flames instantly swallowed a large area of the forest, and the shockwave, wrapped in burning wood chips and rubble, swept in all directions! The allied forces' position instantly turned into a sea of fire, and miserable screams were endless.
"Although I don't know who you are, sir, thank you for your help," in the Iwagakure formation, Onoki looked at the allied forces' offensive being thwarted and, after securing Kannabi Bridge, looked at Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in the sky and said.
However, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's response to Onoki's show of goodwill was just to indifferently raise his other hand, the direction being the Four-Tails Jinchuriki beside Onoki.
Rōshi's body struggled uncontrollably as he flew towards the sky.
"You!" Seeing this, Onoki also understood that the newcomer was an enemy, not a friend. He condensed the crystal of Dust Release, preparing to try and save Rōshi.
And Neji, in the pain of his Tenseigan's source being forcibly extracted, had been pulled close to Isshiki! That pair of black and white eyes was close at hand, coldly watching him, as if looking at a collection piece that was about to be obtained.
"Sage Art: Gracious Deity Gates!"
A deep shout exploded like a clap of thunder! Several giant red torii gates, wreathed in powerful sealing jutsu formulas, descended from the sky!
At the corners of Senju Hashirama's eyes, the eyeshadow representing Sage Mode had already appeared. The instincts honed in the Warring States period told him that this was not an opponent that could be easily defeated. So, Senju Hashirama had also brought out his current strongest form.
"The body of an ant can also reach such a degree?" Ōtsutsuki Isshiki looked up at the descending torii gates and let out a disdainful sneer, "But that's as far as it goes."
"Sukunahikona."
Just as the Gracious Deity Gates were about to smash into Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, a strange light flashed past, and the descending Gracious Deity Gates seemed to disappear out of thin air, turning into the size of particles.
"Almighty Pull!" Nagato also took this opportunity to bring Neji back with his gravitational force.
"Are you alright," the Deva Path Pain caught the flying Neji and asked.
"I'm fine, it's just this guy..." Neji wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said with some difficulty.
(End of chapter)
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