"Amaterasu!"
The inextinguishable black flames of Amaterasu instantly clung to Shisui's body—yet in less than a fraction of a second, they were shattered by repulsive force.
As the highest level of the Mangekyō Sharingan, the Rinnegan's almost omnipotent Six Paths and Outer Paths techniques could repel 99% of the Mangekyō's abilities. Even Amaterasu, famed as the ultimate physical attack, was but trivial before the Rinnegan.
Of course, Obito didn't intend to defeat Shisui with this. He was just a bit emotionally triggered by what Shisui said.
In short, he got mad.
Looking at the pure white haori fluttering in the wind, the image of Shisui in Obito Uchiha's eyes gradually overlapped with the image of Yomizu Minazuki.
An unspeakable emotion continuously surged in Obito's heart at this moment. The purple light in his eyes flared, and his ocular power and chakra began to soar.
Driven by his rising fury, Obito leapt into the air, Yin-Yang staff swinging down as he roared the name of his foe.
"Shisui!!"
"Obito!!"
Boom!!
The Zanpakutō and the Yin-Yang Staff collided fiercely. Accompanied by the clang of metal clashing, the two figures collided at high speed.
Obito Uchiha's staff thrust was blocked by Shisui's horizontal Zanpakutō. Shisui then threw a back kick toward Obito's abdomen.
Obito leaned his body back. While dodging Shisui's kick, a chain blade extended from his right sleeve, fiercely striking at Shisui's throat. But Shisui retreated slightly, barely dodging it by the front of his neck.
It was the absolute limit.
Both were masters of taijutsu rooted in the Konoha and Uchiha styles. Both wielded matching eyes. Their battle looked less like a brawl and more like a deadly dance, balancing on the knife's edge.
Their exchanges were perfectly even. After another clash, both drew back simultaneously.
"Fire Release!"
"Spiritual Mimicry!"
Obito formed seals as his chest expanded. Shisui's cheeks puffed, his throat surging with compressed energy.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu! ×2!"
Twin fireballs howled into being—one burning with Six Paths power, the other with the amplification of spiritual power. A mere C-rank ninjutsu elevated instantly to the level of a forbidden technique.
They collided midair with an ear-splitting boom, exploding into a rolling curtain of fire and smoke.
Obito surged through the smoke, left hand raised—Banshō Ten'in!—pulling Shisui toward him, while his right hand whipped the Yin-Yang staff like a spear aimed at Shisui's throat.
Expressionless, Shisui did not resist at once. Only when the pull drew him in close did he unleash Shinra Tensei, repelling the thrusting staff. At that same moment, a massive skeletal arm erupted behind him, slamming down at Obito.
Boom!!
The pale blue skeletal arm blocked the emerald green Susanoo's attack. In just an instant, both of their Susanoo simultaneously grew and surpassed the second stage, entering the third stage!
Howling flames of Amaterasu swirled with Kamui's spatial power, condensing into a jet-black shuriken within Obito's Susanoo's palm.
Seeing this, Shisui's gaze sharpened. His own Susanoo's chest cavity split open, unleashing a storm of spiritual orbs like torrential rain.
"Kamui: Amaterasu Shuriken!"
"Susanoo: Ninety-Nine!"
The power that could rival a Tailed Beast Ball did not burst out. The two powers were swallowed by the twisted space the moment they collided in mid-air.
The battle began to escalate at this moment!
Both Obito's and Shisui's Susanoo had long-range AOE skills. Just two simple collisions caused a huge stir in the sea and a roaring tsunami.
But since ancient times, there was a saying: no smoke, no harm.
This kind of clash that seemed to cause huge waves was nothing to the two of them. Not only did they not have any injuries on their bodies, but they didn't even have any energy loss.
The waves that were stirred up shattered into splashes in their eyes. The moment the two pairs of Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan looked at each other in mid-air, the two Susanoo simultaneously began to transform and grow!
Countless chakra flames attached themselves to the half-bodied Susanoo and grew frantically. In the blink of an eye, the two Perfect Susanoo spread their wings and stood on the sea like majestic mountains, facing each other from a distance!
"Shisui!"
"Obito!"
The roars of the two Uchiha prodigies began this demonic battle. The collision of the Perfect Susanoo shook the heavens and the earth. The huge impact created endless waves, which were then defeated by the roaring gale, turning into water vapor and splashes all over the sky.
The giant turtle island, which was as big as an island, became like a pet turtle in front of these two hundreds of meters tall Perfect Susanoo. Fortunately, two extremely powerful chakras gathered on the turtle island, pushing the turtle island away from the battle of the two monsters.
"These two… actually…"
On Turtle Island, Yugito Nii's eyes were wide and vacant as she watched the distant battle of Susanoo, as if gods themselves had descended to grapple. Her worldview—built over years—crumbled in an instant.
All her life, as a Jinchūriki, she had been loathed and feared, seen as a vessel of calamity—believed by her villagers, her comrades, even by herself—to be a terror waiting to destroy everything.
Yet now she realized, compared to the monsters before her, the Two-Tails within her was no more than a docile housecat…
"A battle of monsters… terrifying! Two-Tails and Eight-Tails—we'd better retreat while we can!"
Even at such a moment, Killer B couldn't help but rap, drawing an exasperated sigh from the Eight-Tails within.
This guy—rapping now of all times?
These are monsters with eyes like the Sage of Six Paths himself! If we don't run with everything we've got, we're dead!
BOOM!!
After the two Perfect Susanoo clashed dozens of times, Obito's light blue Susanoo suddenly flew into the air, and its two hands clasped together.
The next moment, a black staff slowly condensed and formed. The black Amaterasu flames and the power of Kamui gathered on it.
But what really shocked Shisui was that besides these two powers, this staff also contained an extremely terrifying chakra!
The power of the Six Paths!
"Come, then!!"
Shisui, who was inside the Susanoo's crystal, roared in a low voice. The Zanpakutō at his waist was raised high at this moment.
BOOM!!
An unparalleled pressure erupted from within the Susanoo's crystal.
Obito's attack, which was about to be unleashed, was abruptly halted by the eruption of spiritual power. His expression grew solemn as he turned his gaze upon the emerald Susanoo, spiral spear raised high.
He could clearly feel the aura on Shisui's body constantly soaring. The surging pillar of spiritual power light went straight to the sky, instantly tearing apart the clouds in the sky, as if it was about to tear open the heavens!
"Bankai!"
Accompanied by a vast spiritual power that seemed to be able to cover the heavens and the earth, Shisui's voice at this moment was like a god's whisper.
"Meikyō Shisui, Getsugakōfū! (Clear Mirror Still Water, Moonlight and Gentle Wind!)!!"
The ripples of a water drop entering a lake spread out from the tip of the Zanpakutō in Shisui's hand and merged into his body, and also into the Perfect Susanoo under his command.
In that instant, the world around them seemed to halt—everything drained into shades of black and white.
The heavens lost their color.
The earth itself seemed to whisper of the passage of ages.
In the next moment, Shisui's Perfect Susanoo swung its spiral spear, striking down upon Obito.
The spear's brilliance streaked like an arrow, the air itself quivering, and though the distance was but a hundred meters, it felt as if space had been stretched infinitely. A strange dissonance gripped the heart.
Only by relying on the Six Paths' power did Obito react in time—barely. He raise his Six Paths Staff, forged from Kamui, Amaterasu, and Yin–Yang Release, and met the strike head-on!
"BOOM!!!"
A brilliant energy that seemed to rival the sun in the sky burst out at this moment. The spiral spear and the Six Paths Staff fiercely clashed in mid-air. After the energy burst, the two huge monsters actually held each other in a tug-of-war, not giving an inch.
"So… this is your Bankai, Shisui."
Looking at Shisui, whose spiritual power was surging and whose Zanpakutō had disappeared, a strange smile suddenly appeared on Obito's face.
Shisui's power after activating his Zanpakutō was indeed very strong. This kind of amplification-type Zanpakutō combined with the Perfect Susanoo, its combat power could even be said to surpass Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju.
Even the Madara who once displayed his full strength in the Infinite Tsukuyomi's dreamscape had not wielded such overwhelming force.
But—
"My resolve, my pain, is greater than yours!!"
Behind the pure white mask, accompanied by a distorted face, the aura on Obito's body suddenly soared. A light gray light suddenly appeared on the Six Paths Staff that was in a tug-of-war with Shisui's Susanoo.
The gray light was not brilliant, but the moment this gray appeared, the Susanoo on Shisui's body in its Bankai state suddenly began to crumble.
It was like a thousand-mile dike destroyed by an ant hole, a tall building losing its foundation. The Perfect Susanoo, which was holding the spiral spear like a demon, began to fall apart and crumble, like a stack of building blocks being knocked over. Even with Shisui constantly using his ocular power, he couldn't maintain it.
In just an instant, the vast Perfect Susanoo collapsed and dissipated.
"This power..."
Shisui, who fell from mid-air into the sea, frowned. In that instant, he actually felt a sense of approaching death!
Yes, death.
Ever since he awakened the Rinnegan, Shisui had never experienced that feeling again. But in that instant, in his full-power state with a Perfect Susanoo and Bankai activated, that unusual feeling actually arose in his heart.
That gray power...
"Did you feel it, Shisui? This is my resolve! This is the ultimate power that can only be obtained when chakra reaches its peak!"
Inside the crystal of the Perfect Susanoo, Obito looked down at Shisui and laughed wildly: "You people, who only managed to peek into a little bit of chakra's power, turned around to research some spiritual power. How can you trash ever understand the charm of chakra!"
"Kekkei Genkai… Kekkei Tōta… Kekkei Mōra! I have already mastered the ultimate secret of chakra! I am now the one who holds the power of creation and destruction, the second Sage of Six Paths!"
His Perfect Susanoo lifted the gray staff high, then hurled it down at Shisui with annihilating force.
Wherever the staff passed, everything was annihilated. And the speed at which it roared down was extremely fast. It was so fast that the surrounding space was already twisted. It was so fast that even the Rinnegan could barely catch it.
Nowhere to retreat!
Boom!
Shisui, who was completely locked on by the staff and had nowhere to retreat due to the twisted space, was fiercely struck by the power of the Kekkei Mōra,
The invincible gray staff was like the Spear of Longinus that nailed Jesus. The moment it landed on Shisui's body, it used an unstoppable and terrifying force to break through the sea surface and fiercely nail him to the deep seabed.
The entire sea surface was completely split by this attack, and then it was covered by the seawater again.
Obito, who was inside the crystal of the Perfect Susanoo, looked at the sea surface below. As the seawater covered it again, the entire sea seemed to return to peace.
It was very clear.
He had won this battle.
Although his sight was blocked by the thick seawater, Obito was very confident in his judgment. He not only believed that the battle had been won but also that Shisui was dead.
After all, under the power of the Kekkei Mōra that could annihilate everything in the world, everyone was as fragile as thin paper. Even the Perfect Susanoo was the same.
"…What a pity for those eyes of yours."
Obito chuckled. His ocular power began to dissipate, and the Perfect Susanoo was about to disperse.
But at this very moment, the calm sea surface below suddenly burst open, and a dark red figure tore through space.
The Rinnegan in Obito's eyes caught only a fleeting glimpse of his foe's figure—before a searing, indescribable pain lanced through his heart.
In his shocked and disbelieving eyes, his Perfect Susanoo was actually broken through by a single blow from that dark red figure. The sharp claws, like blades, broke through his chest. The power that erupted was unstoppable, and it sent Obito crashing into the sea like a cannonball.
The seawater tumbled. Obito desperately stabilized his body and subconsciously wiped his chest. Crimson blood stained his palm.
"This is impossible..."
"You should have perished under my Kekkei Tōta… How could you still…"
"ROAR!!!"
A roar full of anger, like thunder, echoed through the sky. An extremely terrifying spiritual power erupted from the dark red figure in the sky. Even the heavens and the earth trembled at this moment.
Under this spiritual pressure, a look of horror appeared on Obito's face. At the same time, he finally saw the appearance of that figure.
The original human body was now covered in black feathers. A ferocious pure white mask covered his face, and there was also a long beak. The most eye-catching thing was that behind him, there was actually a pair of black wings!
"A Hollow?!"
Obito was a little baffled.
The Shisui in front of him was completely in the form of a Hollow. A pure white mask and a humanoid beast form.
But wasn't Shisui a Shinigami? How could he suddenly turn into a Hollow?!
Obito had come into contact with Hollows quite a few times. He had even controlled Hollows, so he understood Hollows to a certain extent.
It was impossible to connect a person who only had the pure instincts of killing and devouring with the most exceptional Captain under Yuki Yoru.
But now...
"Could this be the real reason why Yuki Yoru raises those monsters?!" Obito's palm formed a virtual grip, and the Yin-Yang Staff was once again held in his hand: "To combine the power of a Shinigami and a Hollow to create this kind of monster... Yuki Yoru, what do you really want to do?!"