Chapter 193: I'll Be Waiting for You in the Pure Land!
On a mountaintop, Uchiha Tekka reappeared. At the same time, under his cloak, the second three-tomoe Sharingan on his left arm slowly closed.
I can't keep fighting his Susanoo head-on…
He stared at the Ice Golem, which was as large as a small mountain. He then turned and fled in the direction of the Land of Rain at top speed. This time, he did not use his Susanoo. Moreover, the terrain here was all mountains and forests, which was conducive to hiding his figure.
But Genichi could fly.
Dispelling his Ice Body form, he flew, weaving rapidly through the forest, and quickly caught up with Tekka.
He clapped his hands together, spat out a high-pressure water jet that cut down one tree after another. Tekka glanced out of the corner of his eye, leaped, and narrowly avoided the attack.
Genichi pursued relentlessly, spitting out small water spheres that exploded immediately upon hitting the ground or an obstacle. For a time, the forest was filled with soaring flames and continuous roars. This was the Explosion Release Kekkei Genkai, a combination of Wind and Water. The so-called water spheres were actually just a layer of water on the outside, with an explosive hydrogen-oxygen gas mixture inside. They were an enhanced version of his bubbles, and a reduced version of his explosive clones.
Tekka was battered and bruised. Soon, Genichi seized an opportunity and blasted him to pieces with a Wind Release: Great Vacuum Sphere. But immediately after, his "corpse" vanished, and he reappeared a hundred meters away and continued to flee.
You chase, I run. I run, you chase.
Tekka died and was reborn again and again. Genichi killed him over and over.
Wind Release, Water Release, Explosion Release, genjutsu… he used all sorts of ninjutsu that he usually didn't use.
As for Tekka, of the techniques he had mastered, besides his dōjutsu Yachihoko no Kami, he had no other means to threaten Genichi. But even that had to hit its target. And Genichi's reaction speed and mobility were astonishing. Even if he used it at point-blank range, Genichi could still dodge with the Flying Thunder God.
This drove him nearly insane. He had thought he was very strong, but in front of Genichi, all the techniques he thought were powerful were useless. The so-called inextinguishable black flames were useless. Yachihoko no Kami had formidable attack power, but it couldn't hit its target. As for genjutsu, he was completely crushed.
Seeing another Sharingan being consumed, Tekka was finally filled with regret. He shouldn't have come. This bastard Genichi was simply… not human. How could a ninja from a commoner background be so powerful? He couldn't understand.
Finally, on a vast plain, Tekka stopped. He was panting heavily, his crimson eyes staring at Genichi in the air. "Damn it, I can't run anymore…"
His three-tomoe Sharingan were all used up. And he didn't want to run anymore.
His breathing gradually calmed. His gaze became firm, then crazed, then calm again. A calm that carried a hint of madness.
"If I'm going to die today, then… I'm taking you to hell with me!" He took off his mask and tore off his Akatsuki robe.
The next moment, a massive amount of dark-red chakra erupted, and a complete Susanoo rapidly formed.
"Still not enough…"
With a line of bloody tears streaming from his eyes, he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. The next moment, the Susanoo's chakra completely stabilized. A truly complete Susanoo.
In the air, Genichi watched him power up and couldn't help but sigh. "As expected of an Uchiha. But is this a desperate last stand?"
He quickly turned to ice, his body expanding, and became a six-armed Ice Golem with two dragons coiled around its body.
"Since this is the final battle, let's have a little surprise." He smiled to himself.
The next moment, the Ice Golem was covered in a golden chakra. He was no longer in Sage Mode.
A Nine-Tails cloaked Ice Golem.
On the ground, Tekka was shocked. "This feeling… Nine-Tails chakra! You… how did you become the Nine-Tails jinchuriki?"
Genichi didn't bother to respond. With a roar that kicked up a storm, the Ice Golem dived down from the sky. Tekka immediately suppressed his shock and doubt, condensed a spear, and threw it.
Genichi threw the giant ice sword in his hand. The sword and spear collided in the air and exploded. The next moment, the Susanoo also shot into the sky.
The two giant figures collided, and with a violent roar, a terrifying storm was unleashed. Then, the Susanoo and the Ice Golem plummeted rapidly.
RUMBLE!
The earth shook, and waves of mud tens of meters high were thrown up.
In the giant crater, the tattered Susanoo was entangled by the two dragons, but its arms were tightly wrapped around the Ice Golem.
Yachihoko no Kami! Amaterasu!
Hundreds of spears, wreathed in black flames, appeared in the air and then rained down on the two figures in the crater.
"Let's die together!" Tekka's face was filled with madness. With his last bit of strength, he locked down the Ice Golem.
The next moment, with a dense roar, the spears covered the crater, striking the Ice Golem.
When the roaring stopped, the crater had become even deeper. And at the bottom, only the broken limbs of the Ice Golem remained. The Susanoo had also disappeared. Only the upper half of Tekka's body was left.
But he was not yet dead. "Hahaha…" he laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Genichi appeared in the crater, completely unharmed.
The laughter stopped abruptly, replaced by a violent cough. "You… how are you not dead?" Tekka's eyes widened in disbelief. "I had you locked down."
Genichi did not answer. For the Flying Thunder God, unless he was sealed, what was the use of being locked down? Not to mention, what Tekka had locked down was just the Ice Golem. What did that have to do with him? But this was information that was obviously not known to outsiders.
"You still have two Mangekyō. Are you going to keep running?" he asked quietly.
Tekka suddenly calmed down. "Kinoshita Genichi, I admit you've won. But in the end, you will still lose. I will be waiting for you in the Pure Land."
"If you could control the future, you would not have ended up like this," Genichi shook his head slightly. "I know everything you know, and I know what you don't. Lose? To Madara Uchiha? Tekka, you know nothing of my strength."
For him, Ice Release was indeed his strongest means at the moment. But he believed that soon, it would not be. Neither Nagato, nor the possibly revived Madara, would be able to keep up with his version updates.
"Madara Uchiha is just a slightly larger stumbling block on my path," he said coolly.
Tekka responded with Amaterasu. Black flames burned on his body. Tekka also vanished from the bottom of the crater.
On the edge of the crater, watching the ice armor fall from Genichi's body, Tekka once again activated Yachihoko no Kami, even though he knew such an attack was useless.
A dense barrage of spears struck. Genichi clapped his hands together, and an ice pyramid formed, enveloping him. The spears struck one after another, shattering the pyramid layer by layer, but in the end, they could not reach him.
Tekka's pupils constricted. He had thought Genichi couldn't block his dōjutsu at all, but he hadn't expected…
Genichi floated up. He raised his hand, and a Rasengan formed, which then transformed into an Ice Release: Rasenshuriken.
Swoosh!
He flicked his wrist, and it shot out.
A single spear collided with it and exploded, creating a terrifying storm that swept out, the ground rapidly freezing. A layer of frost quickly covered Tekka's body, and his speed dropped. Then, a large number of bubbles surrounded him.
BOOM! BOOM!
He was blown to pieces again.
Reappearing, he was panting heavily. His chakra couldn't hold out. He could no longer use his Susanoo.
Staring at Genichi in the air, his mind was filled with intel about him. Unbreakable. And he was like a mystery; you never knew what new moves he had.
Despair. Not the despair of death, but the despair of powerlessness.
In the air, Genichi just watched as he made his final struggle. Anyway, whether he killed him or not, when the time was up, the effect of Izanagi would disappear.
Time passed, bit by bit. Soon, his left eye went blind. The effect was gone.
Genichi instantly activated a genjutsu. Heaven and Earth Seal!
Tekka instantly fell to the ground. Genjutsu! Damn it, I can't break it! He wants my eyes… He realized his purpose.
However, as Genichi dived down from the sky, he saw his body being enveloped by a black substance.
The genjutsu broke. "Black Zetsu, kill me! Take my right eye!" he said. He no longer had the strength to use Izanagi again. He didn't want this eye to fall into Genichi's hands.
"Then give yourself a funeral." The White Zetsu, Tobi, also emerged from the ground, enveloping his body and at the same time injecting him with chakra.
Yachihoko no Kami!
Tekka used his dōjutsu on Genichi again. Genichi was already on his guard. He moved sideways, dodging the attack. But the next moment, a dense barrage of spears descended from the sky, enveloping the spot where Tekka was.
RUMBLE!
A cloud of dust and smoke rose up.
He killed himself? Genichi raised an eyebrow slightly. He had thought he would try to escape with the help of the Zetsus. But Black Zetsu had appeared, which meant that Madara was definitely dead.
When the dust settled, Genichi landed from the sky. He looked at the large crater created by the attack. There was nothing left at the bottom. And in his electromagnetic perception, deep in the earth, Black and White Zetsu were rapidly fleeing.
"They run fast." He chuckled. Although he hadn't gotten his eye, he wasn't too bothered.
The job was done. He stretched, looked up at the round moon, and then vanished.
At the same time, less than ten kilometers from the battlefield, Tendo Pain stopped. After waiting for a moment, Zetsu and Tobi emerged from the ground.
"It seems we were too late," Pain said.
"Genichi's strength is too great," Tobi said regretfully. "Even with Izanagi, Tekka could not escape. In the end, he could only destroy his own body to prevent Konoha from getting his eyes."
"I have to admit," Black Zetsu, attached to Aloe White Zetsu, said in a deep voice, "his strength has already surpassed Lord Madara's back then. His Ice Release should be a Kekkei Tōta. His chakra reserves are probably no less than any Tailed Beast's."
"From what we've seen," White Zetsu continued, "he has also mastered more than one Kekkei Genkai. Besides Ice Release, there's also an explosion ninjutsu similar to the Six-Tails'. Oh, and those eyes that are very similar to the Sharingan. They should have very powerful genjutsu abilities and be able to grant immunity to a certain degree of attack."
"The most important point," Tobi said, "is that this guy has the Nine-Tails' chakra on him. It seems Konoha has transferred the Nine-Tails to him. This is very troublesome. It will be very difficult to take the Nine-Tails from him. This guy has mastered space-time ninjutsu and can easily escape."
Pain listened without expression. In summary: Genichi was very strong, incredibly strong. They couldn't win.
"I understand," he turned and said coolly. "Everyone has a weakness. He is no exception. What he cherishes most is Konoha, right? However, the Nine-Tails is to be collected last. Let's deal with the other Tailed Beasts first."
Tobi looked at Zetsu and shrugged.
"It seems we'll have to rely on ourselves," White Zetsu said.
"Leave this matter to me," Black Zetsu said proactively. He detached himself from Aloe White Zetsu, then sank into the ground and disappeared.
When Genichi returned to Konoha, the villagers who had entered the shelters were orderly returning home.
On the roof of the Hokage's tower, Tsunade and the others were still waiting. He landed, and everyone gathered around.
"Genichi, how did it go?" Hiruzen, the most senior, was the first to ask.
"Uchiha Tekka has been dealt with," he smiled. "Also, it can be basically confirmed that Madara Uchiha is dead."
Hiruzen and Tsunade sighed in relief. Although he was very strong, the pressure from Madara was too great.
"Which means," Tsunade said, "that now, all that's left is Nagato with the Rinnegan. That guy is hiding in the Land of Rain, right?"
"It's highly likely," he said. "But let's put that aside for now. In the village, besides me, no one can defeat him."
"Genichi, are you being a bit too exaggerated?" Jiraiya was still a little unconvinced. "That kid Nagato was taught by me."
"The Rinnegan is the eye of the legendary Sage of Six Paths… no, not a legend, it's real," Genichi said with a half-smile. "And the Sage… hehe, all nine Tailed Beasts were created by him."
What? This information blew Tsunade and the others' minds. Even Orochimaru was shocked.
"Is this information… certain?" Tsunade was shocked. "The Sage of Six Paths, he is said to have pacified the world. Why would he create something like the Tailed Beasts?"
"The Uchiha clan has a stone tablet that has been passed down for generations," he said. "It can only be deciphered with the Sharingan. It hides a piece of history. That guy Madara probably wanted to gather the nine Tailed Beasts, fuse them to form the Ten-Tails, become its jinchuriki, and then pacify the ninja world."
The Ten-Tails jinchuriki! Another bombshell.
"Such a legend…" Jiraiya scratched his head.
"Perhaps Mount Myōboku knows more," he said, looking at him. "You can ask the Great Toad Sage, Master Jiraiya."
Jiraiya looked at him with suspicion. How did he feel that he was very familiar with Mount Myōboku?
Just then, Orochimaru said, "Genichi-kun, the Ten-Tails you mentioned, can we deduce that the nine Tailed Beasts themselves came from it?"
"I have the same speculation," he said. "A pity the Nine-Tails won't cooperate. He definitely knows."
It was not surprising that Orochimaru could make such a deduction. Many myths and legends often had a story of a god or hero vanquishing evil. The Sage of Six Paths defeating the Ten-Tails and splitting it into nine was a logical story.
"Let's end it here for today," Hiruzen said, his head aching. "We still need to be cautious about Nagato."
Tsunade nodded. She also didn't want him to take the risk.
And so, they all went home.
Orochimaru returned to his lab, but he was repeatedly thinking about some interesting questions. For example, the contents of the Uchiha tablet he had mentioned—had they been relayed by Fugaku, or had he deciphered them with his own eyes?
If it's the latter, hehe, has Genichi-kun awakened the Mangekyō? Which means he has very likely completely deciphered the secret of the Sharingan. And about the Ten-Tails…
Orochimaru stuck out his tongue and licked his lips. He had sensed many things from the information he had given. The Sharingan, the Tailed Beasts, the Ten-Tails, and the Rinnegan…
Kabuto's previous speculation… if it's true, then that's interesting. He thought of Madara. Now that it was confirmed that he was dead, then if he could get his body, perhaps he could unlock many secrets.
"Genichi-kun's talent is really enviable," Orochimaru's eyes gleamed. He had always wanted the power of sage art, but it was a pity. However, the development of his curse mark was not bad. With this, his Living Corpse Reincarnation was even more perfect.
Comfortably lying in the bathtub, Genichi closed his eyes and reviewed tonight's battle. Tekka's strength was still very great. With Hashirama's cells, he had even managed to activate a complete Susanoo. In this regard, his strength was at the Super Kage level.
"It's not that the enemy is too weak, but that I'm too strong," he sighed with emotion. It wasn't arrogance or conceit. With chakra on par with the Nine-Tails, Sage Mode, Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, and the Ice Release Kekkei Tōta, it was only normal for him to have the power to suppress a complete Susanoo, just like Hashirama had. The incomparable mobility of the Flying Thunder God. And the Electromagnetic Release he had just mastered, even without developing it, had boosted his reaction speed. Wood Release, Dust Release, Scorch Release… he hadn't used any of them.
Of course, before he had developed Electromagnetic Release in depth, his numerous Kekkei Genkai and Kekkei Tōta just made his abilities more comprehensive. If he had used Wood Release, entered Sage Mode, and used the True Several Thousand Hands, he could have also suppressed the complete Susanoo. But it wouldn't have been stronger than the power of his Ice Release. Of course, if he combined Ice Release with the complete Susanoo, or the Susanoo with the Great Buddha, he could still improve a little.
"I hope Electromagnetic Release can bring me an even greater breakthrough." He was full of anticipation.
He might be invincible now, but Madara with the Rinnegan…
"If I can sense Limbo, I can still fight him to a draw." But he knew that with his current strength, he couldn't. Not his negative emotion sensing, not his Sage Mode sensing, not his Heaven's Eye. None of them would work.
"My sensory abilities still need to be strengthened. The electromagnetic sensing I tried today wasn't bad." Before, he had used it to capture the underground Zetsus. Otherwise, ordinary sensing methods couldn't have tracked them at all.
Rinnegan Madara. The Sage of Six Paths. Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. There were still three mountains to climb.
"I can't slack off at all."
Opening his eyes, he stood up from the bathtub. It was still early. He was going to the study to continue to sort through his gains from the future.
(End of Chapter)
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