Chapter 301: The War is Pacified, the Ninja World is Unified
As soon as Sasuke arrived, he appeared beside Naruto and said coldly, "Well, if it isn't the rogue ninja of Konoha, Uzumaki Naruto? Haven't seen you for a few days, how did you get yourself into such a mess?"
Naruto, who had just been freed from Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's ninjutsu, was instinctively about to retort, but he looked up at Ōtsutsuki Isshiki not far away, who had turned his gaze back to them, and had to hold it in for the time being.
"This guy should be the leader behind that group of artificial humans that Jiraiya-sensei and I encountered on the border of the Land of Rain. The special energy on him is very similar to that on the group of artificial humans we met at that time."
"You don't need to remind me. I also received intelligence that this guy appeared on the battlefield on the Land of Earth side a while ago. In order to repel him, Neji was also seriously injured," Sasuke said coldly. "His target is the Tailed Beasts."
"He's after Big Brother Kurama?" Naruto nodded, and then used the technique of Ninshū to contact Jiraiya and Gaara below, who were preparing to act on an opportunity.
"Grandpa Jiraiya, can you hear me? That guy is here for the Tailed Beasts. In a moment, you take Gaara and retreat first," Naruto said seriously.
"What about you if we leave?" Jiraiya asked hurriedly.
"Leave this to me and Sasuke. This is not a battle you and Gaara can interfere in," Naruto took a deep breath, and then the orange-red Sage Mode eyeshadow appeared around his eye sockets.
"You should still be able to fight, right?" Sasuke said. At the same time, the purple Sage Mode eyeshadow also appeared at the corners of his eyes.
"I can still fight him for a whole day," Naruto said, clenching his fists. The crimson-gold Nine-Tails chakra gushed out again. Almost at the same time, Sasuke's Susanoo completed its covering! The deep purple, liquid-crystal-like chakra armor perfectly enveloped and attached to the Nine-Tails' massive body! The purple armor covered the Nine-Tails' crimson fur. The burning purple flames and the Nine-Tails' golden chakra intertwined and wrapped around each other, forming a new form of interwoven purple and gold, full of destructive power!
"ROAR—!!!"
A roar mixed with the ferocity of the Nine-Tails and the cold majesty of the Susanoo erupted from the mouth of this purple-gold giant beast! It fiercely stood up again from the collapsed ruins! Its massive body looked even more ferocious and heavy due to being covered in the Susanoo armor! With every step, the shattered palace let out a groan of being overwhelmed!
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki hovered in the air, a clear fluctuation appearing in his eyes for the first time. It was no longer complete indifference, but a hint of cold interest and scrutiny. "Interesting... but that's all."
Subsequently, he raised his right hand, and the dark light in his palm lit up again. "In the face of absolute power, all struggles are futile."
"Whether it's futile or not, we'll know after we try!" Inside the Susanoo Nine-Tails, Naruto roared with all his might, enduring a tearing pain! At this moment, his and Sasuke's consciousness were synchronized as never before!
The purple-gold giant beast moved! The Nine-Tails, covered in Susanoo armor, drew its giant sword wreathed in purple flames and golden chakra. With the momentum of crushing everything, it fiercely slashed at Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in the air!
At the same time, the giant wings on the back of the Susanoo Nine-Tails flapped fiercely, stirring up a violent hurricane! Its giant head opened, and a ball of pitch-black Tailed Beast Ball rapidly condensed in its mouth, with Sage Art chakra wrapped inside, and a layer of pitch-black lightning attached to its surface, aimed at Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
"Let's go, Sasuke!"
"Hmph!"
The purple-gold sphere of destruction, launched second but arriving first, closely followed the space-tearing giant claw, like a world-destroying meteor, and blasted towards Ōtsutsuki Isshiki!
Facing this terrifying combined attack that could destroy a nation, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki hovered in the air, his eyes calm and without ripples. His black eye flashed, reflecting the destructive energy that was sweeping towards him.
Sukunahikona.
A strange fluctuation wrapped around the Tailed Beast Ball that was whistling towards him. Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's special dōjutsu activated, wanting to shrink this whistling Tailed Beast Ball.
However, Sasuke, who had already been supported by certain intelligence, would naturally not let the other party succeed. He instantly formed a seal and detonated this Tailed Beast Ball in advance.
A destructive explosion occurred in an instant. Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, caught off guard, was also affected by this explosion and was sent flying backwards.
And in the impact of the explosion, the Nine-Tails, clad in the Susanoo armor, followed up with its sword. A heavy slash fell. Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who was in a somewhat sorry state, had a ruthless look flash in his eyes. With a raise of his hand, a space gate opened in front of him, and a massive pitch-black cube shot out from it, colliding with the giant sword that the Nine-Tails had chopped down.
A terrifying energy fluctuation then exploded. Below, Gyūki, who had just recovered a little from its injuries, had just looked up when it was enveloped by this energy fluctuation, once again letting out a piercing wail.
The massive purple-gold body of the Susanoo Nine-Tails trembled violently in the terrifying energy backlash. The Susanoo armor covering its body emitted a piercing cracking sound, and spiderweb-like cracks spread rapidly. The Nine-Tails' main body let out a painful roar, and golden chakra light points seeped out from under its crimson fur.
Sasuke let out a muffled grunt in the crystal on Susanoo's forehead. Bloody tears flowed from his eyes. The load on his Eternal eyes had reached its limit.
Naruto, in the core, felt as if his internal organs had been displaced. The intense pain almost made him faint.
However, before the light of the explosion had completely dissipated, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's pale figure was still hovering in the broken spatial rift. His golden Rinnegan coldly looked down at the struggling giant beast below, completely unharmed. It was just that the rotation speed of the tomoe around his right eye seemed to have slowed down a little.
"Is that all?" Isshiki's voice was still flat, but it carried a trace of imperceptible annoyance. To have his clothes soiled by the ants in his eyes was an unacceptable thing for him. He slowly raised his hands, and a strange light lit up in his palms again. This time, the light was deeper, more dangerous, as if it was going to compress and swallow the entire space! "Then, the game is over."
A terrifying suction force descended again! This time, the target was not just chakra. It was as if even light and space itself were about to be swallowed by that pair of palms!
The giant body of the Susanoo Nine-Tails was uncontrollably pulled upwards. The cracks on its body spread at an accelerated rate, letting out a wail of being overwhelmed! Naruto and Sasuke both felt as if their souls were about to be pulled out of their bodies!
"Bastard!" Naruto roared, desperately squeezing out the last trace of Kurama's chakra in his body. The purple-gold light flared up for a moment, trying to resist that terrifying suction force.
"Damn it! This guy is stronger than when we met Neji last time!" Sasuke gritted his teeth.
"Naruto!" Sasuke roared.
"Sasuke!" Naruto, gritting his teeth against this huge suction force, shouted. The tacit understanding they had developed since childhood allowed them to find a way to defeat the enemy at this moment without any communication.
Inside the body of the Susanoo Nine-Tails, the wills of the two were unprecedentedly unified! The giant beast suddenly opened its large mouth. This time, what condensed was not a huge energy ball, but an extremely condensed, compressed to the extreme, purple-gold-thin-line-like destructive light beam—the ultimate compressed form of the Tailed Beast Ball and the Susanoo's power! This light beam ignored the chaotic edge of the repulsive force field and, at a speed that surpassed visual capture, accurately shot at the very center of Isshiki's chest, which was slightly exposed because he had raised his hands to defend!
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's pupils contracted violently for the first time! He felt the concentrated destructive power contained in this light beam, sufficient to threaten this vessel of his! At the critical moment, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had to activate his ability again.
"Sukunahikona!"
His body, in the moment before being hit by the light beam, was instantly shrunk by an almost infinite amount, becoming the size of a dust particle, almost invisible to the naked eye! The condensed destructive light beam grazed past that barely visible "dust" and shot into the distance, annihilating everything in its path into nothingness!
However, forcefully and continuously activating various dōjutsu and the "Karma's" ability, especially the extreme shrinking in a hurry, had obviously put a considerable burden on this vessel. When Isshiki instantly returned to his original form in the distance, his face seemed even paler than before, and his breathing also showed an extremely subtle disorder. His pair of cold eyes, for the first time, truly carried a cold anger, staring deadly at Naruto and Sasuke below, who had deactivated their fusion and were kneeling on one knee, panting heavily.
"A good struggle... but it ends here," Isshiki's voice was bone-chilling. He slowly raised his hand, seemingly preparing to launch a real killing move.
But at this moment, his gaze suddenly glanced to the other side of the battlefield—at the heavily injured, having lost a tentacle, and with violent chakra fluctuations, Eight-Tails Gyūki!
[Taking this fellow away first seems to be a good idea too. With its chakra, I can also recover a little of my strength.] Isshiki calculated in his heart. Although taking down the two brats in front of him was not a big problem, with his current physical condition, it would inevitably come at a great price. And behind them, there was an even stronger Uchiha Douhuan watching him covetously.
In the next second, his figure disappeared from its original spot without any warning!
"What?!" Sasuke's eyes sharply captured the abnormal fluctuation of space and warned sternly, "Be careful!"
But Isshiki's target was not them at all!
Almost at the same instant, above the heavily injured Gyūki, space rippled like a water surface! Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's arm shot out from it like lightning. The dark light in his palm was like the giant mouth of an abyss, and an irresistible, terrifying suction force instantly enveloped Gyūki's massive body!
"MOO—!!!" Gyūki let out a roar of shock and anger. Its giant body was forcefully pulled from the ground and dragged towards that spatial ripple! Its remaining tentacles struggled frantically, lightning flashing wildly, but it simply could not resist that terrifying power from a higher level of life!
Seeing this, a ruthless look flashed in Gyūki's eyes. It decisively severed its own body part that was being sucked into the spatial ripple!
"SPLAT—!!!" Dark-blue blood splashed into the sky like a waterfall! Gyūki's body instantly exploded and then dissipated, revealing the already unconscious Killer Bee that it had been enveloping.
Killer Bee's body slammed heavily amidst the ruins, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki disappeared into the air.
"Damn it, did he get away again?" Although Sasuke said so, he was still relieved in his heart. He wiped the bloody tears from the corners of his eyes. Just that short while had made his dōjutsu almost bottom out. Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's current strength was far above theirs. If they fought any longer, he might have to use the trump card his brother had left him.
"But the Eight-Tails was taken away by that guy," Naruto also said with some regret after recovering for a while with his hands on his knees.
"Brat, now go over. Gyūki wasn't captured," however, just at this time, the Nine-Tails suddenly reminded him.
"Eh?" Naruto was stunned upon seeing this and looked at the place where Killer Bee had landed.
The two rushed over there together. As soon as they reached Killer Bee's side, they found a slowly writhing mass of chakra that was regenerating. Upon seeing the two come over, Gyūki said to the Nine-Tails in the Tailed Beast space with disbelief, "Kurama, you've gone too far!"
"An octopus sacrificing its tail to survive? I see," Sasuke said with a cold laugh, and then hit it with a Mangekyo Sharingan genjutsu.
...
After the Eight-Tails was defeated and the Daimyō of the Land of Lightning was confirmed dead, the situation in the Lightning Capital was also settled. Although some of the nobles and Cloud ninjas in the Lightning Capital still wanted to put up a last-ditch resistance, with the help of the chakra left behind by Naruto through the technique of Ninshū, a portion of the bolder commoners of the Land of Lightning directly broke through the defensive line at the city gate and surrendered the city to the approaching Konoha ninja army.
What was hilarious was that the ones who took the lead in doing this were actually some of the small business owners in the Lightning Capital. It could be said that under the previous policy of the Land of Lightning, besides the ninjas and nobles, most of the common people had been pushed to a dead end.
After taking the Lightning Capital, Konoha's ninjas also continued their previous consistent style. They did not harm the civilians of the Lightning Capital in the slightest, only taking all the Cloud Village ninjas and most of the Land of Lightning's nobles to Konoha under the name of war criminals. And among them, the most important person was Amado, who had provided the Cloud with a large amount of scientific ninja tools.
This war, which Uchiha Douhuan had been preparing for for more than ten years, could be said to have temporarily come to an end. The entire ninja world, except for his allies, was now under the control of the Land of Fire. And soon, the Land of Rain, as an ally of the Land of Fire, was the first to announce that it would join the newly established Ninja World Federation as a member state. And after Konan, as the public representative of the Akatsuki, was appointed by Uchiha Douhuan as the governor of the Rain Province, the other allied countries also began to follow suit.
This process was generally smooth. The Daimyō of a few less sensible countries, after Kakashi had personally made a trip and physically helped them complete the change of Daimyō, the mascot emperor of the new Ninja World Federation, Minamoto Miyuki, also had a few more good friends to play cricket with.
Of course, this process was not entirely smooth. A week after the Lightning Capital was breached, the Jonin squad escorting the war criminal Amado was ambushed by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, and the entire army was wiped out.
(End of chapter)
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