Chapter 467: Outcome Decided?
The water blade slashed down from the air.
Obito only felt his scalp tingling, his hair standing on end instantly!
Haruno Sakura's move was no joke. He had already seen the scene of the Wind Blade Torrent showing its might just now. Danzo was easily cut into two pieces by one slash. Even if he had half a Sage Body himself, he obviously couldn't withstand such an attack!
—He would die.
The gazes of three cold Mangekyo Sharingan met in the air at this instant.
Killing intent interwoven, entangled, and collided fiercely in the air.
The contest between ninja is a contest of jutsu, and also a contest of will!
And Haruno Sakura's will confronted Obito head-on with the most tyrannical and resolute attitude!
Want to kill me?
Then exchange it with your life!
Fighting by betting your life... do you dare?
The girl's fervent fighting will forced Obito into a corner!
Facing such a choice, Obito... turned intangible.
His pupils contracted violently, activating Kamui, letting the water blade pass through his body. At the same time, his right hand, which was only a phantom, also passed through the girl's body emptily, failing to suck her into the different dimension.
Seeing this, Haruno Sakura didn't persist relentlessly. The moment the water blade slashed empty, the Ice Body Flicker activated, disappearing from Obito's face again.
The girl's figure fell from the top of the Giant God Warrior's head, looking down along her toes, looking at Obito.
In the confrontation of ninjutsu, neither side won nor lost.
In the contest of will, Haruno Sakura gained the upper hand!
Therefore, in Obito's view, the look she gave him actually carried a taste of condescension.
Obito's expression hidden under the mask became gloomy.
"If I hadn't turned intangible and insisted on attacking," he looked up and asked suddenly, "would you have continued to attack, insisting on perishing together with me, or would you have used Body Flicker to escape?"
"Hehehe..." Haruno Sakura laughed coldly.
"Who knows?" She said lightly, "However, probably before you completely sucked my body into the different dimension, I would have cut off your head first!"
In that case, she still had a chance to kill Obito at the cost of serious injury.
—So even if the main body was fighting here, she might even adopt the same approach!
"Is that so..." Obito said silently, "By the way, your Body Flicker Jutsu can only be performed with ice as a medium, right?"
Haruno Sakura certainly wouldn't answer such a question—but Obito didn't need her response either.
"Let's get rid of these annoying ice blocks first!" The masked man rubbed his chin and said thoughtfully.
Haruno Sakura frowned slightly.
He discovered the key point...
Although the combat power of the Giant God Warrior could crush the Majestic Attire Wood Golem, when facing an enemy like Obito with MAX agility, it didn't play much role—that huge body was too clumsy relative to his Space-Time Secret Technique.
However, Haruno Sakura had been consuming chakra to maintain it just to leave a medium for her Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals Jutsu to Body Flicker.
With Ice Body Flicker, she could deal with Obito's Kamui.
It's really a pity to be seen through by Obito so quickly.
Haruno Sakura certainly wouldn't sit back and watch the masked man's actions. She put her middle finger and index finger together, chakra surging, manipulating the Majestic Attire God Warrior to slap its own shoulder abruptly—obviously hitting nothing.
Obito was like a fly, flying out before the Giant God Warrior's palm fell.
Landing in Haruno Sakura's blind spot.
He reached out and pressed on the exposed pink flesh of the Giant God Warrior, pupil power condensing to the extreme.
"Mangekyo Secret Technique: Kamui!"
Suction fully open!
Veins bulged on Obito's face, chakra all over his body surged frantically, boiling to the extreme in an instant!
A line of bloody tears flowed down sadly from Obito's right eye socket.
Kamui, which was originally soundless and colorless, actually bloomed with vast white brilliance when Obito pushed it to the extreme.
White light exploded. Dazzling chakra light burst out from Obito's palm in a flash; under the action of huge pupil power, space faintly collapsed. The huge body of the Giant God Warrior was shrouded by Obito's terrifying suction force, twisting and rotating in an instant, submerging into a void space!
Most of the Giant God Warrior's body actually ceased to exist under this move.
The Majestic Attire God Warrior let out a wail, its figure shrank abruptly, restoring to the cyan Susanoo appearance.
"Now... you can't perform Ice Body Flicker anymore, Haruno Sakura!"
Obito's expression twisted, a grin appearing on his face.
Shoo—!
Answering him was a water blade from above.
Haruno Sakura stood on top of Susanoo's head, her face cold, flipping her wrist, throwing a white water line high down!
Obito's smile disappeared in a flash.
The moment she sensed Obito's chakra, the seal of the Water Gun Jutsu began to prepare in the girl's hands.
The casting of Kamui was certainly extremely fast.
But the seal forming of the Water Gun Jutsu was not slow at all!
The seemingly slender but amazingly powerful white thin line fell from the sky, slashing across the moment Obito sucked away the Giant God Warrior!
This time, Obito didn't have time to activate Intangibility. He twisted his body desperately to avoid it, but was still touched by the water blade on his right hand.
The indestructible white line, the moment it touched Obito's flesh, dissociated his clothes, skin, muscles, and even bones into two unrelated segments!
Silently, Obito's arm fell off along with a few pieces of fabric.
Before the pain signal reached Obito's brain, before the masked man felt that his arm had been cut off, the water blade continued to slash across!
Then came the arched chest, ribs were cut first, then the lung lobes—
When the water line faintly touched the spine, Obito finally activated the Intangibility ability.
Losing resistance, the water blade shot aimlessly towards the ground, cutting a slender and deep crack in the mud ground, and was withdrawn by Haruno Sakura.
Thud!
One of Obito's arms fell weakly, blood splattering, drawing a cruel black flower on the ground.
Obito's main body stumbled out from not far away.
"You lost..." Haruno Sakura said coldly.
"Madara Uchiha."
She withdrew Susanoo, and the duration of Sage Mode had long ended, but facing the masked man missing a right hand and with chaotic breath, the threat was greatly reduced.
After multiple rounds of high-intensity outbursts, the momentum and chakra of both sides had already declined, less than half of the peak moment; but the injured Obito was obviously in a more disadvantageous position.
Although he could still continue to use the Mangekyo Secret Technique to shuttle through time and space at will, using Kamui to launch unexpected and hard-to-defend attacks; in the eyes of bystanders, the threat of the masked man was still very high, but in the confrontation of experts of this level, small problems caused by physical defects, such as decreased balance ability and decreased chakra, could easily become the cause of defeat!
But Obito laughed.
Surprisingly, laughed easily!
"I said," blood kept spitting out from Obito's mouth, he stopped laughing and said slowly, "it's too early to assert whether I failed!"
Saying that, a purely white humanoid monster emerged from the ground.
"It's it again...?"
Haruno Sakura was stunned.
Although she didn't understand the meaning of White Zetsu's appearance, the girl still subconsciously used ninjutsu, and the silver-white thin line chased and slashed over again!
The water blade cut White Zetsu into several pieces crisply and neatly, but ultimately didn't touch Obito's body.
The latter fell from another place, holding a section of White Zetsu's arm in his hand.
Although his breath still carried the weakness of heavy injury, the flesh of the hard wound on his chest was actually squirming automatically, beginning to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He pressed White Zetsu's arm on the smooth wound of his right hand. Reattaching a severed limb, using someone else's arm, actually grew back in the blink of an eye!
The self-healing speed of the Sage Body was actually so terrifying!
Haruno Sakura was completely dumbfounded for a moment.
This healing speed, although not as fast as when she used medical ninjutsu, as a self-healing ability, this was too exaggerated...
"Almost healed..." Obito stroked the terrifying scar on his chest and said lightly.
He moved his right hand: fingers, wrist, elbow.
Flexible as if his hand had never been broken.
This is unscientific... phooey, this is un-ninjutsu!
Even if that vegetable man's arm had no rejection, even if the masked man's self-healing ability was strong enough that muscles, fascia, and nerves and blood vessels could automatically align, the just-attached arm couldn't be so agile and free!
Because the meridians don't match.
Unless... this is an arm originating from homologous power.
Haruno Sakura's clear red eyes narrowed slightly.
However, on the battlefield, she couldn't be distracted to think more.
Haruno Sakura just kept it in mind secretly, looking coldly at the masked man not far away with her Sharingan.
"The annoying ice blocks that can be used as a medium for Body Flicker Jutsu have disappeared..." Obito moved his wrist, looking at Haruno Sakura, saying unhurriedly, "Then, it's also time to start the third round!"
Haruno Sakura turned her head slightly and sneered.
"Hmph... who told you that the ice blocks have disappeared?"
The indifferent voice was spat out from the girl's crimson lips.
She panted slightly, stepping on the riverbed that was a mess after the great battle.
The terrain here had been permanently changed by the battle between the two. The place that was originally a riverbed had now widened into a small lake, and countless scattered puddles around.
The turbid lake water, as the battle changed from earth-shattering hand-to-hand combat between Majestic Attire giants to exquisite and deadly Body Flicker combat, gradually calmed down and became clear. On the quiet lake surface, glistening waves turned into clear ripples nearby, flowing盈盈ly under the exquisite black sandals; waves with white foam slapped on the instep, clear flowing water brushed over the girl's round toes gracefully, but left no sand at all.
Just the clarity suitable for freezing.
Haruno Sakura lifted her foot slightly. The shallow lake deeper than her waist under her feet suddenly condensed into ice blocks. Crystal luster instantly spread to the entire lake surface, and the puddles everywhere were also tainted with chill at the same time, freezing into ice pools!
The girl's chest heaved, panting in small breaths, looking provocatively at the masked man.
"Really troublesome..." Obito frowned.
Where there is water, it can freeze... where there is ice, she can perform Body Flicker Jutsu.
"However, your stamina has also dropped a lot. Sage Mode and Susanoo disappeared. This freezing ninjutsu, which had further offensive variations when dealing with Danzo before, now only remains pure freezing." Obito said coldly.
"The remaining power of you and me is not abundant anymore... so, the battle is also nearing the end..."
Let's do this.
His hands quickly formed seals and slapped fiercely on the ground. Massive chakra vented out turbulently!
"Wood Release: Cutting Sprigs Jutsu!"
Countless thick thorns emerged abruptly from the ground, twisting into a dense thorn forest, piercing and crushing all the ice blocks sealing the lake surface!
"This time, you can't run away. Round three... start!"
While speaking, Obito's figure suddenly disappeared into the air.
His Space-Time Ninjutsu was extremely fast. When both sides began to get tired, Haruno Sakura finally couldn't react in time to this ultra-high-speed Body Flicker—
When Obito emerged again, the sharp blade in his hand had penetrated the girl's left chest!
Blood dripped along the long sword. Haruno Sakura lowered her head with difficulty, holding the long sword, her expression frozen on her face.
"It's over."
Obito said coldly.
"No... you are too hasty."
Haruno Sakura turned her head with difficulty, a strange smile appearing on the corner of her mouth.
Crack.