Chapter 192: Black Zetsu is Beaten into Silence
"Jiraiya!" Gamabunta sliced off one of the Six-Tails' tails with his sword, and Hiruzen Sarutobi, wielding the Adamantine Staff, sent it flying again. However, the Six-Tails' acidic gas and liquid were also taking a toll on Enma.
After retracting the staff, Hiruzen and Jiraiya both used the Swamp of the Underworld technique, creating an even larger swamp to restrict the beast's movements. Immediately after, Orochimaru and Fugaku Uchiha used Fire Release to rapidly dry the swamp.
Crack! Crack!
The immense strength of the beast, combined with the corrosive acid, caused the dried mud to quickly shatter.
Fugaku activated his light-purple Susanoo half-body. It was the version complete with Tengu armor. Enduring the intense pain in his eyes, he strode forward, and the Susanoo's arms pressed down on the struggling Six-Tails.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
The terrifying liquid corroded the Susanoo, but its armored defense was far stronger. The Six-Tails then spat acid directly at its face, which was also blocked. Seeing this was ineffective, it opened its mouth to form a Tailed Beast Bomb.
Fugaku, however, took the opportunity to cast a genjutsu, instantly breaking Uchiha Tekka's control and seizing it for himself.
The Six-Tails' body stiffened. The Tailed Beast Bomb that had just begun to form dissipated, and the beast's giant form rapidly shrank, finally reverting to the unconscious jinchuriki, Utakata, who lay on the ground.
Phew… Fugaku let out a long breath, immediately closing his Mangekyō Sharingan as his eyes throbbed with pain. As expected, using the Susanoo damages the eyes far more than using my dōjutsu. His specific dōjutsu was a genjutsu type, requiring eye contact to activate. That was why he had needed to relatively control the beast first. Controlling a Tailed Beast was much more difficult than controlling a ninja. Just from this, he could feel the immense gap between himself and Madara Uchiha.
On the other side, Orochimaru's gaze was fervent as he looked at Fugaku. "Hehe, so Fugaku has also awakened the Mangekyō. What astonishing power! So that is the Susanoo. To think it can withstand a Tailed Beast's attack. And… he controlled the jinchuriki the moment their eyes met." Orochimaru unconsciously stuck out his tongue. He had to admit, he was becoming more and more interested in the Sharingan. It was just that the Mangekyō was too rare.
"Hehe, this is getting more and more interesting," he mused, retracting his gaze. He thought of Madara cultivating Tekka.
At this moment, Hiruzen also let out a long breath, his own breathing a bit ragged. "I'm really getting old."
"You can't fight old age, Hiruzen," the Adamantine Staff reverted to Enma, who also remarked.
"This time I've troubled you, Enma. Go back and rest," Hiruzen nodded.
"Summon me again if you need me," Enma said before vanishing in a puff of smoke.
Gamabunta also said goodbye to Jiraiya and was unsummoned.
"Was it only the Six-Tails jinchuriki?" Jiraiya frowned, looking at the unconscious Utakata. "Did Madara and Nagato all go to deal with Genichi?"
"Jiraiya! Orochimaru!" Hiruzen immediately shouted. "Go to Genichi's location at once!"
They both nodded and vanished. Hiruzen then called for the Sealing Team to come and seal the jinchuriki.
"Fugaku, you've worked hard," he said. "But we can't relax yet. We don't know the situation on Genichi's side. Madara hasn't appeared, and neither has the Akatsuki."
"Understood," Fugaku nodded gravely. "I will lead my men and continue to stand guard."
In the rear, Katsuyu was already treating the wounded. The rampage had injured many, but thankfully, they had been well-prepared, and the casualties were not high.
Before they had even gotten close to the barrier, Jiraiya and Orochimaru heard a continuous series of roars. By the time they arrived, they saw that the earth had been blown to pieces, and there were large craters everywhere.
And the corpse of Uchiha Tekka was lying there.
"Only one enemy?" Jiraiya was stunned.
Then, the corpse vanished.
"Izanagi!" Orochimaru's eyes narrowed. He immediately scanned the area and locked onto Tekka, who had reappeared, completely unharmed.
"Was the Six-Tails dealt with so quickly?" Tekka also saw them. "As expected of Konoha. It seems I can't drag this out any longer. That bastard's chakra..." He felt he had miscalculated. Genichi had no intention of conserving his chakra at all, using a large number of explosive clones, which had put him in a very passive position.
"In that case…" Tekka formed hand seals. An immense amount of chakra erupted, and a dark-red Susanoo rose up. It had both feet, first forming flesh and sinew, then being covered in Tengu armor. However, the chakra was not very condensed, not yet at Madara's level. But even so, it was a huge shock to Jiraiya and Orochimaru. The feeling the Susanoo gave them was like a mountain. Its size even surpassed the Six-Tails from before. And Fugaku's half-body Susanoo couldn't even be compared to it.
"Is this the true power of the Susanoo?" Orochimaru was filled with excitement. "He must have used Hashirama's cells to achieve this."
"To this extent…" Jiraiya's heart pounded. "Even if I summon the two great sages, I'm afraid..."
But Genichi, who was floating in the air, just smiled. "So you're finally getting serious." The dark-red Susanoo's weapon also looked different from the usual, much wider.
"You two should fall back inside the barrier," he said to them.
Jiraiya and Orochimaru glanced at each other, nodded, and then bypassed the battlefield to enter the barrier.
Tekka rose into the air, his form landing on the Susanoo's forehead. He then activated his dōjutsu: Yachihoko no Kami!
Genichi sensed it and vanished from the sky. Appearing on the ground, he turned and looked toward the barrier. Tekka wasn't targeting him, but... the delivery room inside!
One after another, spears descended from the sky, easily piercing the barrier.
"Not good!" Jiraiya turned and looked, but it was too late.
On the roof of the delivery room, Minato watched the terrifying crimson spears raining down like meteors. He held a Flying Thunder God kunai high. The next moment, a formula of seals spread out above his head. With a distortion of space, the falling spears vanished as they descended.
"Space-time ninjutsu… he transferred them?" Tekka frowned. A key move in his calculations had failed.
It seems the plan has completely failed. He wasn't disappointed; he had been prepared for this. If Nagato had participated, perhaps they could have succeeded. If Madara hadn't died, they definitely would have. But now...
Time to retreat. It wasn't a total loss; at least he had probed a lot of the enemy's intel.
The Susanoo flapped its wings, and its massive body shot into the sky.
"Trying to leave?" The ground beneath Genichi cracked, then collapsed with a boom as he shot into the sky after him.
Seeing this, Tekka immediately drew his Susanoo's sword. The giant, dark-red blade slashed down at the incoming Genichi. But he dodged it, stepped onto the blade itself, and ran up it, casting Heaven and Earth Seal on Tekka.
At almost the same time, Tekka also locked onto him and released his dōjutsu. Yachihoko no Kami! But it wasn't a dense barrage this time, only three spears, which appeared in a triangular formation, already very close to Genichi. At the same time, Tekka fell into the genjutsu, and his Susanoo began to disintegrate.
The three spears pierced through Genichi's body, which rippled like water. His speed didn't stop at all, and he arrived in front of the Susanoo's face. Just then, Tekka broke the genjutsu and stabilized the dissolving Susanoo.
Genichi instantly entered Sage Mode, and his entire body was filled with electromagnetic chakra.
Boom!
His fist struck the Susanoo's face. Although it didn't shatter it, only creating a few cracks, the immense force sent the Susanoo plummeting downward.
Tekka was shocked that Genichi had ignored his dōjutsu attack. He dodged my attacks before. Although I'm not sure what the move is, there must be a limit to this ability to ignore attacks. Is it the intensity? He quickly made a judgment.
At the barrier entrance, Jiraiya's eyes widened. "That guy's strength… it's even more terrifying than Tsunade's!"
"You idiot, Jiraiya," Orochimaru sneered from the side. "Your senses have dulled. Genichi-kun is using sage art."
Sage Mode? Jiraiya was shocked, then confused. "I didn't see any markings on his face… Wait, could it be~~" A truly perfect Sage Mode. This guy… Jiraiya's teeth hurt.
And in the air, Genichi rapidly turned to ice. His body then expanded dramatically, in an instant becoming an ice giant over a hundred meters tall. Six arms, twin wings, and blue-eyed ice dragons coiled around its body, which also each had a pair of ice wings.
Boom!
The six pairs of wings vibrated, creating a storm. The ice giant shot down, charging at the Susanoo. Its four hands condensed giant ice swords.
Tekka stabilized himself, and a spear formed in the Susanoo's left hand. Black flames then attached to it. With a piercing scream, it was thrown at Genichi. Extremely fast.
Is this a special weapon, like Sasuke's bow? Genichi was inwardly surprised. Just as he was about to collide with the spear, the diving ice giant suddenly vanished, and the spear whistled past, hitting nothing.
That teleportation jutsu... he can even use it like that. Tekka was shocked and immediately turned around.
The ice giant appeared on the ground, then flapped its wings, creating a freezing storm as it shot back into the sky.
Yachihoko no Kami! Amaterasu!
A dense barrage of spears appeared, wreathed in black flames. Unlike the thrown spear, this could appear within a certain area and attack from different angles. So, this time, Tekka didn't aim for the front, but for the flank. And he had calculated the distance. The spears would hit just as Genichi collided with him. This was because he now knew that even in this state, Genichi could instantly teleport. This required extremely precise calculations.
Genichi shot into the sky at extreme speed. He also noticed the attack from the side, and couldn't help but admire the Uchiha's high combat talent. They just tended to be mentally unstable. But he didn't stop. As the ice dragons got within a certain distance of the Susanoo, they opened their mouths and spat out two blasts of cold air.
Inside the Susanoo, Tekka formed hand seals and spat out flames. Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation! However, the flames were quickly extinguished. He could only use Amaterasu again.
The inextinguishable black flames and the cold air canceled each other out. The ice giant whistled past and smashed into the Susanoo. In that instant, two giant ice swords were plunged into it. And at that exact moment, the dozens, even hundreds, of dark-red chakra spears wreathed in black flames arrived. But the moment they pierced the giant's outermost layer of ice, it vanished again. The dense barrage of spears hit nothing.
Damn it, his reactions are too fast… Tekka hadn't expected him to be able to dodge even this.
And just as he was about to pull out the ice swords stuck in his Susanoo, his pupils constricted. Genichi had appeared right in front of him.
Could it be… Tekka looked at the two ice swords plunged into his Susanoo.
The next moment, six giant ice swords began to frantically hack at the Susanoo. There was no technique, only wild and pure power.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
From the sky to the ground, the Susanoo's giant body smashed into the earth, creating a huge crater and kicking up a storm. Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and the others raised their hands to shield their faces, but they all stared with wide eyes, able to vaguely make out the towering ice giant.
"To think that Ice Release can be used to this extent. How astonishing," Orochimaru marveled. Such power was too strong. And he had never seen an Ice Release like this before.
"Even the legendary Susanoo is being suppressed," Jiraiya's mouth was dry. "This probably isn't ordinary Ice Release."
Just then, the ice giant waved its hand, and the dust was swept away. In the crater, Tekka's "corpse" had vanished.
His reactions are fast. Genichi turned and saw him running away. One of the giant's ice swords was thrown. Tekka looked back, then leaped. The sword grazed past him and plunged into the earth with a boom. The next moment, the ice giant appeared next to it and stomped its foot down.
Tekka looked up, watching the giant foot descend, crushing him.
Soon, he appeared in the distance. He immediately summoned his Susanoo and, flapping its wings, flew away from Konoha.
"Tekka, your Izanagi can only last for four minutes, right? How many three-tomoe Sharingan do you have on you?" Genichi's voice came. Then, he also took to the sky, chasing after him.
The two giant figures whistled through the sky above Konoha, attracting countless gazes.
On the Hokage's tower, Ina exclaimed, "It's Genichi!"
"The Susanoo," Tsunade's gaze hardened. "That color. It's Uchiha Tekka. Is he the only one who came?"
On the other side, Fugaku and many other Uchiha ninja were also dumbfounded as they watched the two figures. Fugaku had used his Mangekyō and his Susanoo to subdue the Six-Tails, which had made them all very excited. But now…
He had seen the scene of Genichi beating up the elderly Madara and was already immune to this. He said to the clansmen beside him, "That is the clan's rogue ninja, Uchiha Tekka. He has also awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and can use the complete body Susanoo. The one chasing him is Genichi-kun."
This sentence was like a thunderclap in the minds of the many Uchiha. And it wasn't just them who were shocked. Hiruzen and the other Konoha ninja were as well. They had just witnessed the astonishing divine power of the Susanoo, but now… the stronger one was being chased.
"As expected of Genichi," Chōza Akimichi couldn't help but praise.
Beside him, Torifu Akimichi looked at the two distant behemoths and smiled. "Looks like it will be over today."
Outside Konoha, Tobi looked up at the Susanoo and the Ice Golem whistling through the sky. "The situation seems a bit tricky."
"It's very tricky," Aloe White Zetsu said. "That guy Tekka won't be killed by him, will he?"
"Probably… not?" Tobi shrugged. "After all, he prepared quite a few Sharingan."
"Izanagi is not invincible," Black Zetsu's deep voice said. "If he doesn't escape, he will eventually be killed. Tobi, go and inform Nagato. Right now, only he can save him."
"Hope that guy can hold on," Tobi nodded, his form sinking into the ground. It would be very troublesome if he died.
Black Zetsu was also very helpless. This guy Genichi was too unexpected. He was so strong, he didn't seem like a native of this world. And although Genichi had beaten Madara before, he didn't think he could keep Tekka from leaving. That was why he hadn't stopped this action. If he had really captured the Nine-Tails, it would have been very beneficial to their situation. He had never expected…
After Tobi left, Zetsu immediately followed in the direction Tekka had fled. Soon, they heard a huge roar, followed by a terrifying storm sweeping toward them.
"Tekka, you can't escape. Compared to Madara, you are far too lacking. Your dōjutsu power has not yet been honed to its peak," Genichi's voice came.
"By the way," White Zetsu asked, "if that guy Tekka dies, what should we do?"
"Then we can only rely on Nagato," Black Zetsu said in a deep voice. "As Lord Madara said, with the pressure from Genichi, if he wants to achieve his goal, he will have to borrow our power and revive Lord Madara."
"Can Nagato stop him?" White Zetsu asked another question.
Black Zetsu was silent. Good question. Don't ask it next time.
But this was also a question he was thinking about at the moment. Genichi was too big of a variable. Madara should have dealt with him before. And now, he had to have a headache over it.
It seems I need some other methods… Black Zetsu silently considered his countermeasures.
(End of Chapter)
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