Chapter 186: Bullying an Old Man, Ice Release vs. Susanoo!
"Hmm? He blocked it with just Ice Release?"
Watching the vines that could no longer grow, Madara Uchiha was slightly surprised. "To be able to use Ice Release to this extent is truly unprecedented."
"Speaking of which," Spiral Zetsu's voice immediately piped up, "Lord Madara's 'surprise' was indeed a little small. But this guy is indeed much stronger than last time. If you're not careful, Lord Madara, you might be defeated by this little brat."
Madara ignored the Zetsu, who loved to contradict its master, and formed hand seals.
Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!
He spat out a stream of fire that then exploded outward, turning into a sea of flames that crashed against the spreading cold air. However, the flames were quickly extinguished. The charred ground crackled and was quickly covered in a layer of ice, which only stopped at Madara's feet.
"So… so strong! Amazing!"
On the mountaintop, Uchiha Inabi's eyes were wide. He had just been worried that Genichi would be no match for the Wood Release, but in the blink of an eye, he had frozen that terrifying technique. From their vantage point, the sight was truly spectacular.
Fugaku and the other two were also shocked into silence. They had seen Kirigakure's Ice Release users before. The difference… it was as if they weren't even the same Kekkei Genkai.
"To possess such an Ice Release, to be able to resist the Wood Release secret technique, is truly astonishing," Uchiha Shinjin's lips trembled slightly, and he subconsciously swallowed. In his view, a Wood Release of this level could only be matched by their Uchiha clan's Mangekyō Sharingan.
"It seems Genichi-kun already possesses strength comparable to the First Hokage," Fugaku glanced at the clan elder beside him.
Shinjin's heart trembled. He understood the hidden meaning in his words.
But Uchiha Yashiro couldn't help but say, "It's unbelievable. He's only 13, isn't he?"
Madara looked down at the thin layer of ice on the ground, and at the ice crystals floating in the air, and laughed to himself. "This level of strength is worthy of me fighting with all I have."
Since Hashirama's death, Madara had once again felt a surging fighting spirit. It was a pity that this body had already reached the end of its life, preventing him from enjoying that hot-blooded feeling. He felt it was a great pity. And what was even more of a pity was that such a rare opponent was about to be snuffed out by him.
Just then, Genichi descended from the air, his toes tapping on the frozen vines. With a crackle, the vines shattered into countless ice shards. Like a row of dominoes being pushed over, the entire frozen sea of trees collapsed and disintegrated in a very short time, sinking with a roar.
A cold mist billowed up. Genichi stood on the ice shards.
"In terms of Ice Release," Madara said, "I, Madara Uchiha, declare you the strongest. An Ice Release like this is probably not what an ordinary Kekkei Genkai should be. Has it become a Kekkei Tōta?"
"The power of Wood Release from the First Hokage," Genichi didn't answer, "a pity it is, in the end, a stolen power, far from being comparable to the First's."
Madara's face, under the Zetsu mask, immediately darkened. "Oh? You know Hashirama's true strength?"
"The Asura of the Ninja World was the only one who could contend with the God of Shinobi back then," Genichi chuckled. "Please, let me witness it, although it may be far inferior."
"As you wish," Madara said, forming hand seals.
Blue chakra manifested outside his body, and a Susanoo with legs, flesh, and an outer garment instantly condensed.
"Lord Madara," Spiral Zetsu reminded him, "this guy's eyes seem a little strange. They look like the Sharingan, but they're not. Also, this state of the Susanoo is probably not enough to take him out. But if it's the complete body, it won't be able to last for long."
"I am aware of that," Madara said, looking at Genichi's Mirror Eye. "As for what it is, we will soon find out. And you, don't talk so much, or I'll melt you down and remake you."
Spiral Zetsu immediately fell silent. It did not want to be remade.
As expected, the Susanoo can also be mirror-copied, Genichi thought with secret delight. I just don't know if I can control it later with my own single Mangekyō.
If he couldn't control the mirror copy, it was a one-time ability. For example, he hadn't mastered Dust Release yet, so he couldn't use it again, unless he went and mirrored it from Onoki once more.
However, he did not use his mirroring ability. Instead, his body rapidly turned to ice, becoming an ice person. He then clapped his hands together, and his icy body expanded dramatically, in an instant becoming as large as Madara's Susanoo, with three arms under each armpit and a pair of ice wings on its back.
Madara rose into the air and stood on the Susanoo's forehead. Two Susanoo swords were then generated. Genichi's six arms, four of them empty, each condensed a giant ice sword.
The next moment, with a boom, the ice wings vibrated, creating a storm. The ice giant shot into the sky and then fiercely pounced on the Susanoo. He couldn't fly before, but after studying the Seven-Tails, he was now able to.
So fast, Madara was secretly surprised. The Susanoo swords immediately crossed and swung at the pouncing giant.
The ice giant's two ice swords came crashing down, colliding with the Susanoo's. The other two ice swords swung in a cross-cut from the left and right. With two clangs, Madara's two swords were sent flying by the pincer attack of the four ice swords, flying from the Susanoo's hands and plunging into the ground with a roar.
After knocking the swords away, the ice giant's other two arms, which had been poised to strike, immediately punched out. Madara reacted quickly. After the swords had left his hands, he immediately used the arms that had held the sheaths to block, but he was sent stumbling back by the giant's terrifying strength. And then, the four ice swords came slashing down one after another.
With a roar, the Susanoo's arms were cut off one by one, and then its armless body was clamped by the giant's two arms. Then, under Madara's slightly astonished gaze, the giant's head slammed down, colliding with the Susanoo's.
Thump!
Crack!
The Susanoo's head cracked, and then it was hit again.
Boom!
Its head exploded. "Lord Madara…" Spiral Zetsu cried out.
It's too late… Madara's gaze hardened. Looking at the giant ice hand that blotted out the sun, the three tomoe in his left eye flared with blood-red light. The next moment, he was caught in the giant's hand.
On the mountaintop.
The brains of Uchiha Shinjin, Yashiro, and Inabi had almost stopped thinking. The Susanoo and the Wood Release secret technique had appeared in one person at the same time. This was already enough to shock them. But the Susanoo, the legendary power of the gods possessed by the Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan, had been blown apart in the blink of an eye.
An illusion! It must be an illusion! Inabi couldn't help but rub his eyes, but even when they were red, the facts did not change.
"Clan… Clan Head," Yashiro's voice was hoarse and trembling, "who is this person? He actually possesses both the Mangekyō and Wood Release at the same time?"
The impact was too great.
Fugaku was also deeply shaken. He had been mentally prepared, but he was still shaken by Genichi's wild strength. He took a deep breath. "He is Madara Uchiha."
"What? Madara Uchiha?" Shinjin almost screamed.
Yashiro and Inabi were dumbfounded.
On the battlefield, Genichi, transformed into the ice giant, grabbed Madara. A freezing cold invaded, quickly freezing him. "Arrogance, conceit, and contempt are everyone's greatest enemies. Madara, you underestimated me. In that case, I will be very disappointed." A Susanoo of this level, he had broken it before. To use it again was just too perfunctory.
With that, he squeezed. With a crackle, Madara was crushed into countless ice shards that fell like snow. Genichi knew, of course, that this wouldn't kill him. Izanagi. He knew it very well.
He turned, and as expected, Madara reappeared, and the Susanoo condensed once more. This time, it was the complete body, with Tengu armor and wings, and an even larger form. In front of it, the ice giant now looked like a dwarf.
On the mountaintop, Shinjin looked at the massive Susanoo, and his three-tomoe Sharingan opened involuntarily from the shock. "A Susanoo of this level… it's him… it can only be Madara Uchiha!"
Excitement? No, it was fear. Although when Madara had called on the clan to leave Konoha back then, Shinjin had only been a teenager with no say in the matter, his father had been an Uchiha elite, one of the staunch faction that had betrayed Madara. And as time passed and the Uchiha were ostracized, he had now become a hardliner. But even as a hardliner, he held no hope for Madara. At this moment, he completely understood the real reason for the easing of tensions between the clan and the village since the Fourth had taken office.
Madara Uchiha.
Fugaku also completely confirmed that the person wrapped in the white armor was Madara. The Uchiha had had many who had awakened the Mangekyō throughout their history, but according to the records, only he possessed such power.
At this moment, Fugaku opened his own Mangekyō Sharingan and then turned to the other three. "From now on, Madara is our primary enemy."
"Clan Head, you… you've awakened the Mangekyō!" The three of them were both shocked and happy.
"Even if I have," he said coolly, "do you think we are qualified to compete for those things?"
The joy on Shinjin's face immediately vanished. He understood what he meant and nodded. "I understand, Clan Head." If they could submit to the rule of the Senju back then, then what was wrong with submitting to Genichi now? The Uchiha revered the strong. Strength was the eternal truth.
After the emotional rollercoaster, the four of them composed themselves and looked seriously at the battlefield below.
At this moment, at the forehead of the ice giant, Genichi's form appeared. The giant's form could also be switched to be similar to a Susanoo. Seeing that Madara had opened his complete body, he knew that in his current state, he was no match for it. So he switched modes. His body returned to flesh and blood, and he instantly entered Sage Mode. After that, he turned back into ice, merging with the giant. In this state, it was more comfortable.
And with the switch, under the enhancement of Sage Mode, the temperature of the ice dropped again, and its size also expanded dramatically, in an instant becoming as large as the complete Susanoo. At the same time, two blue-eyed ice dragons condensed, coiling around its giant body, their heads resting on its shoulders, making it look like it had three heads and six arms. And as the temperature dropped further, it turned a translucent ice-blue.
BOOM! BOOM!
The two giants took a step, and the earth shook violently. The Susanoo raised its hands, and a string of Yasaka Magatama was formed. At the same time, the ice giant's two empty hands also raised, and an Ice Release: Rasenshuriken formed on each of its ten fingers.
The Susanoo fired the Yasaka Magatama. The ice giant threw the Rasenshuriken.
RUMBLE!
They collided and exploded in the air. But there were more Rasenshuriken, and three of them shot toward the Susanoo. It immediately drew its swords. In an instant, the light of the blades swept across the sky, not only clearing the incoming Rasenshuriken, but also slashing toward the ice giant. This move was also an Iaijutsu slash, striking the moment the blade was drawn.
The ice giant immediately ducked. At the same time, the two blue-eyed ice dragons coiled around its body shot out, slithering across the ground toward the Susanoo's legs.
The light of the swords passed over the giant's head and extended out, slicing apart the mountain where the four Uchiha were.
RUMBLE!
With a deafening roar, the mountain beneath their feet shook, cracked, and disintegrated. Fugaku and the others' hearts stopped for a moment.
"To the air!" he yelled, and they all leaped up. The Light-Weight Rock Technique had not been dispelled, and they all flew into the air. Looking down, the mountain below was collapsing, and a rolling cloud of dust and smoke rose up.
"This… this is the power of a god, isn't it?" Inabi exclaimed. From so far away, he had sliced a mountain in two with a single blow.
And on the battlefield, having missed its target, the Susanoo immediately shot into the sky, causing the pouncing ice dragons to miss. After its attack was blocked, it vibrated its wings and soared upward. The ice dragons opened their mouths and spat out two blasts of cold air that landed on the Susanoo's feet, and frost immediately formed.
And the ice giant pushed off its feet and took to the sky. At the same time, its ice wings vibrated, creating a storm. Its giant body also soared upward. And the two blue-eyed ice dragons also each grew a pair of ice wings and flapped them. And so, the ice giant's speed surpassed the Susanoo's. In the blink of an eye, it had caught up and passed it, and then its giant ice swords came slashing down.
Madara met them with his twin Susanoo swords. One was a chakra energy sword, the other a solid giant ice sword. They collided, and a brilliant light erupted, creating a terrifying storm. The deafening sound of the collision and the terrifyingly cold storm blew Fugaku and the others back, their bodies covered in a layer of ice flakes.
At this moment, Madara was fighting with his twin swords against Genichi's four ice swords and two fists. The two behemoths were in the air, swinging their swords and fists, clashing rapidly.
And Genichi's two blue-eyed ice dragons took the opportunity to coil around the Susanoo's legs, their mouths biting down on the two Susanoo hands that held the sheaths. A surging cold swept over, freezing its legs and arms, and then spreading to its wings. This affected the flow of the Susanoo's chakra, slowing it down. And its wings made its body unstable.
CRACK!
Suddenly, an ice sword broke, but at the same time, one of the Susanoo's sword-wielding arms was also cut off. The giant's broken sword quickly regenerated, and its four swords and two fists swung, slashing and pounding at high speed. The Susanoo, with only one sword, could not block. And with its wings frozen and its body off-balance, it was hit by one sword and one fist after another. Its giant body also fell rapidly from the sky.
Thump! Thump! Thump!~ Boom! Boom! Boom!~
The ice giant slashed all the way from the sky to the ground.
RUMBLE!
The Susanoo's giant body smashed into the ground, creating a huge crater. At the same time, the upper half of the once-complete Susanoo was in tatters, and its lower half and wings were frozen.
"Hah~"
"To be able to do this much is surprising and exhilarating. A pity this body…" Madara looked up, panting heavily.
He had lost. Although this was not his strongest state, a loss was a loss. But he was not dejected. In fact, he felt a thrill of excitement. A pity his aged body could no longer get hot-blooded. He had the will, but not the strength. His chakra was also running out.
Genichi looked down, and then the giant's fist came crashing down, crushing Madara into a pulp.
Obito can last for five minutes. Madara can probably last even longer with one eye.
Genichi turned, and as expected, Madara reappeared, completely unharmed. The Susanoo condensed once more.
Of course, he could also feel his weakness at this moment. He was, after all, old and decrepit. Even with the Zetsu armor, it was not enough. Now he was, to some extent, bullying an old man. It was not a very honorable victory.
But… Genichi still swung his sword without hesitation. The giant ice sword whistled toward Madara.
Boom!
The earth was cut open, and a huge trench was covered in frost. Madara leaped away, dodging the sword, but the terrifying cold swept over him, and his body was quickly covered in a layer of ice. His body quickly stiffened, and his speed and flexibility were greatly reduced. Then, just as he landed, a giant foot came down from the sky.
Boom!
He was stomped into a pulp.
In the air, Fugaku and the others were beyond shocked.
"This… has Lord Genichi's strength surpassed that of the First Hokage, the God of Shinobi?" Inabi murmured to himself.
"Even back then, he would have been on par with the First," Shinjin took a deep breath.
Fugaku didn't speak, but his heart gradually calmed. Genichi was indeed powerful, perhaps no less than Hashirama back then. But the current Madara was clearly not as strong as he had been in his youth. That was why they were seeing the scene of him being beaten up.
Izanagi. He used this forbidden jutsu to deceive the First and Second back then, right? Fugaku thought, watching Madara die again and again.
And just then, a masked figure appeared on the south side of the battlefield. He stopped, watching from a distance as Madara was killed repeatedly. "To think that he would be pushed to this extent. As expected of… Kinoshita Genichi." He had also been defeated by him twice before.
(End of Chapter)
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