Chapter 312: Pseudo-Ten-Tails Jinchuriki
The battlefield had transformed into a fiery purgatory. The roar of the Ten-Tails and the cold dōjutsu of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki intertwined. Every collision seemed to tear at the very foundations of the world.
Uchiha Madara stood atop the Ten-Tails' head, his wild hair flying, the light of ultimate battle spirit flashing in his Rinne Sharingan.
He was already completely immersed in this exhilarating peak duel. The power he possessed at this moment was a true peak that he had never reached while alive. And in the battle against Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, after his extraordinary combat experience had integrated this power, Uchiha Madara's movements also became more and more swift and fierce.
"Hahahaha! Ōtsutsuki Isshiki! Your power is indeed astonishing, but your way of fighting... is too crude!" Madara laughed wildly, controlling the Ten-Tails to slam down a giant claw capable of smashing mountain ranges, forcing Isshiki to once again use "Sukunahikona" to shrink and dodge.
But at the instant Isshiki's form became small, a sharp light flashed in Madara's Rinnegan.
"Anticipated! Almighty Pull!"
The powerful gravitational force was not applied to Isshiki himself, but to a patch of sharp giant rocks in the area where he was about to appear!
Just as Isshiki returned to his normal size, before he had time to teleport again, countless giant rocks, accelerated to the extreme by gravity, bombarded his body like cannonballs!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Violent explosions rang out. Isshiki was sent flying back by the impact. The chakra shield on the surface of his body flickered violently, even showing a trace of a crack.
Although he immediately stabilized his figure and his Byakugan coldly brushed off the dust from his body, he had clearly suffered a small loss.
"A guy who only relies on dōjutsu and brute force!" Madara pressed his advantage. Limbo shadows silently appeared around Isshiki, simultaneously launching a fierce attack, sealing off all his escape routes. The Ten-Tails once again condensed a Tailed Beast Ball, the terrifying energy fluctuations making heaven and earth lose their color. "You have such great power, but can you even exert seventy percent of it?"
Uchiha Madara, one of the two strongest ninjas who had fought his way out of the sea of bodies and blood of the Warring States period, his combat experience, grasp of timing, and ability to read the battlefield had indeed reached the pinnacle.
After the initial inability to adapt to the absolute power and bizarre abilities of Isshiki, he quickly found his rhythm. He began to use the Ten-Tails' vast power as a feint and suppression, while he himself used the diverse abilities of the Rinnegan and the strangeness of Limbo to continuously create trouble for Isshiki, gradually gaining the upper hand.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's face grew darker and darker.
He indeed possessed vast power and advanced dōjutsu, but in the face of a grandmaster-level figure like Madara, who had turned combat into an art, he felt somewhat constrained, as if every move was seen through by the other party. This feeling of being suppressed by a "lower creature" made him feel an unprecedented humiliation.
"Ant... you have angered me." Isshiki's voice was as cold as eternal ice. He raised his hands, and an even more terrifying energy began to gather, seemingly preparing to launch a final killing blow regardless of the cost.
However, just as this final collision was about to erupt—
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Several figures moving at extreme speed, like phantoms, suddenly cut into the battlefield! They ignored the rampant chakra storm raging everywhere and accurately appeared at several key nodes of the battlefield.
These figures had humanoid forms, but their skin was pale, their faces expressionless, and their eyes empty. A cold and efficient energy reaction, completely different from chakra, emanated from their bodies. They were precisely the strongest artificial humans created by Amado with scientific ninja tools and biotechnology after he was rescued by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki!
Their attack targets were extremely clear!
Two of the artificial humans went straight for the Ten-Tails under Uchiha Madara's feet! Their arms instantly deformed, turning into giant energy drills, and fiercely stabbed at the Ten-Tails' leg joints, attempting to destroy its balance!
Another artificial human appeared at Madara's rear flank. Its chest opened, revealing a huge cannon muzzle. A dazzling white light began to condense, aiming at Madara's main body!
The last one, on the other hand, rushed towards Uchiha Madara at an astonishing speed, its arms turning into sharp blades, launching what looked like a suicide charge. Its core energy fluctuated extremely unstably, clearly intending to delay him with a self-destruction!
This sudden turn of events instantly broke the balance of the battlefield!
"What are these things?!" Uchiha Madara frowned. A Limbo shadow immediately returned to defend, smashing the artificial human rushing at the Ten-Tails' joint flying with one punch. But the other artificial human's drill had already pierced the Ten-Tails' skin. Although not deep, it made the Ten-Tails let out an angry roar. And the energy cannon from the side had already arrived!
"Almighty Push!" Madara immediately activated his repulsive force to send the energy cannon flying, and then casually waved his hand. A black receiver instantly pierced the charging artificial human.
But at the instant it was pierced, that artificial human exploded with a boom! Although the huge energy impact failed to seriously injure Isshiki, it successfully interrupted his rhythm, making him look quite battered.
"Is it Amado's artificial humans?" from a distance. "I knew that guy was taken away by Isshiki."
"Stop those artificial humans!" Minato Namikaze made an instant decision. "If the balance of the battlefield is broken, we won't be able to stop Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's rampage."
A golden flash, and Minato's figure had already appeared behind the artificial human that was preparing to fire a second energy blast.
"Rasengan!" The high-speed rotating chakra sphere slammed hard into its back, interrupting its attack.
Senju Tobirama, on the other hand, used the Flying Thunder God to appear at the landing point of another artificial human that had been sent flying by Limbo. "Water Release: Water Severing Wave!" The high-pressure water blade accurately cut its energy transmission pipeline.
"Sage Art: Gracious Deity Gates!" Senju Hashirama clapped his hands together, and giant red torii gates descended from the sky, accurately suppressing the third artificial human that was trying to attack the Ten-Tails again, pinning it firmly to the ground.
Neji's Tenseigan surveyed the entire field. A Truth-Seeking Orb flew out, expanding into a shield in front of him, blocking a strange light beam shot by another artificial human towards the Ten-Tails' eyes.
Kakashi's Kamui continuously twisted space, interfering with the movement and attack trajectories of those artificial humans, making their actions sluggish.
The sudden intervention of the Konoha allied forces was not aimed at helping either side, but at sparing no effort to stop the third party—Amado's artificial humans—from disrupting the situation, and maintaining the fragile stalemate of Uchiha Madara and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki checking each other!
The battlefield situation instantly became incomparably complex!
In the center was the life-and-death struggle between the two peerless powerhouses, Uchiha Madara and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
On the periphery was the fierce interception and counter-interception between the Konoha allied forces and Amado's artificial human troops.
The Ten-Tails was in the middle, letting out heaven-shaking roars, sometimes attacking Isshiki, and sometimes indiscriminately venting its anger due to the harassment of the artificial humans.
The sound of explosions, roars, and energy collisions was endless. Ninjutsu, dōjutsu, taijutsu, technology weapons... various powers intertwined. This land had already lost any trace of life. Even the ground had been scraped off several inches by the various energies.
Uchiha Madara, while dealing with Isshiki's fierce attacks, glanced at the Konoha crowd who were entangled with the artificial humans and snorted coldly, "Meddlesome!" But he also understood that at this moment, these "ants" were indeed helping him clean up some annoying flies, allowing him to focus more on the strong enemy before him.
"You annoying bugs... all of you, just disappear!"
He suddenly gave up his fierce attack on Madara and clapped his hands together. An unprecedentedly vast chakra erupted!
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had actually forcibly returned himself to his peak state. The price, however, was that the Karma on this body was completely destroyed. He now not only wanted to kill Uchiha Madara, but at the same time, he had also set his sights on this powerful physical body.
"Daikokuten: Divine Punishment!"
The sky suddenly darkened. A huge, incomparable portal to an alternate dimension opened. Countless giant meteorites, burning with black flames, like an apocalyptic judgment, descended towards the entire battlefield—including Madara, the Ten-Tails, the Konoha allied forces—and indiscriminately bombarded the area!
At this moment, he actually wanted to destroy everything on the field!
"Not good!!" Everyone's expression changed drastically!
Uchiha Madara's pupils also shrank. The Ten-Tails beneath his feet felt a fatal threat and let out an uneasy roar.
Facing Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's "Daikokuten: Divine Punishment," which covered the entire battlefield like an apocalyptic judgment, the endless burning meteorites tore through the sky, crashing down with an aura of destroying everything! Whether it was Uchiha Madara, the Ten-Tails, the Konoha allied forces, or Amado's artificial humans, they were all enveloped in this indiscriminate destructive attack!
"Madman!" Senju Tobirama cursed angrily, instantly using the Flying Thunder God Technique with Minato Namikaze to transfer the nearby comrades as much as possible.
"Ōtsutsuki Isshiki! You are forcing me!" Madara's roar suppressed the whistling of the meteorites. "Do you think you can stop me just like this?! You underestimate me, Uchiha Madara!"
He made a crazy move that no one expected!
His gaze instantly shifted from the sky-filling rain of meteorites back to the restless Ten-Tails at his feet. A look of extreme desire and madness flashed in his eyes.
"There's no choice... Although it's not the complete body, it's enough!" Madara roared in a low voice. "Rather than passively defending, it's better to take the initiative! The power of the Ten-Tails... is mine!"
He suddenly leaped down from the Ten-Tails' head and directly pounced on the Ten-Tails' massive body!
At the same time, his hands formed a complex and ancient seal at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. It was a forbidden jutsu left behind by the Sage of Six Paths, used to become the Jinchuriki of the Ten-Tails!
"Sealing Technique: Ten-Tails Coffin Seal!"
BOOM—!!!
An indescribably powerful suction force erupted from within Uchiha Madara's body! His chest seemed to have turned into a black hole, its target aimed straight at the massive Ten-Tails!
"ROOOOAAAAAR!!!!!!"
The Ten-Tails let out an unprecedented, heaven-shaking roar filled with terror and unwillingness! It struggled frantically. Its ten giant tails whipped about wildly, tearing the earth apart even more. It instinctively resisted the fate of being swallowed!
However, Uchiha Madara's will was as firm as iron. The dōjutsu of his Rinne Sharingan also deadly suppressed the Ten-Tails' resistance. This Ten-Tails, which only had a little bit of the source chakra of the other Tailed Beasts besides the Eight-Tails, its resistance was far weaker than that of its complete form!
Under the shocked gazes of everyone, the massive, mountain-like Ten-Tails, its huge body began to twist, deform, and transform into a vast, violent flood of chakra. Like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, it was forcibly sucked into Uchiha Madara's body!
This process was not smooth sailing. Although the Ten-Tails' chakra was incomplete, its level was also far superior to ordinary chakra. Countless black sealing runes instantly appeared on the surface of Madara's body. His skin cracked and healed, and blood had just seeped out before it was evaporated by the powerful chakra. His expression became somewhat ferocious due to the immense pain, but the light in his Rinne Sharingan grew brighter and brighter!
The meteorites in the sky were already close at hand. The first few had already smashed down with a terrifying roar!
But just as they were about to swallow Uchiha Madara—
WENG—!!!!
An indescribable, terrifying pressure violently erupted from where Uchiha Madara was! A pillar of chakra light, mixed with purple, black, and blood-red, shot up into the sky, directly vaporizing the first few falling meteorites in an instant!
In the pillar of light, Uchiha Madara's figure slowly floated up.
His original Uchiha clan attire had already disappeared, replaced by a white robe that enveloped his body. Behind him floated nine jet-black Truth-Seeking Orbs. In his hand, a black sage staff (Shakujō) appeared. On his forehead, a Rinne Sharingan shone eerily. His face became incomparably calm, the previous look of pain completely swept away, replaced by an indifference and majesty akin to that of a deity.
Although because the Ten-Tails was not complete, his form did not reach the most perfect Six Paths level, and his power was also discounted, at this moment, he had already surpassed the realm of mortals and stepped into the realm of "gods"!
The Pseudo-Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, Uchiha Madara, has descended!
He slowly raised the sage staff in his hand, facing the rain of fire covering the sky, and gently waved it.
"Be gone."
No seals, no roaring, just a light-hearted sentence.
In an instant, the world-destroying meteor swarm, as if wiped away by an invisible giant hand, in a large area in front, instantly turned into the most primitive particles and disappeared without a trace! Only some meteorites at the edge smashed to the ground, causing violent explosions, but they could no longer pose a threat to the core area.
"He... he actually..." Senju Hashirama, who had returned to the battlefield, looked at his old friend's current appearance, his eyes filled with unbelievable shock and heartbreak.
"He... still reached this step..." Minato Namikaze said with a heavy tone.
Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, and the others felt an unprecedented pressure. The chakra emanating from the other's body was so vast that it made them feel suffocated.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki floated in the air, his cold Byakugan staring at the greatly transformed Uchiha Madara. For the first time, an extremely grave, and even a trace of uncertain shock, appeared on his face.
"He actually... forcibly swallowed an incomplete Ten-Tails? You despicable lower creature, you have once again exceeded my expectations."
Uchiha Madara slowly turned his head. His Rinne Sharingan indifferently looked at Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, his voice calm yet containing a supreme authority:
"Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, the game is over."
"Now, let me show you what truly near-divine power looks like."
(End of chapter)