Dust Release, Atomic Dismantling Jutsu.
Disassemble, deconstruct, and then, Explosion!
Orochimaru's lips curled into a smile. In his view, unless Ryosuke possessed the ability of "hollowfication," there was absolutely no way he could avoid this strike.
As the blinding light of the explosion faded, Uchiha Itachi was the first to look toward the battlefield.
"Konan! What happened?! Is Ryosuke dead?" Deidara shouted loudly.
Konan was surprised, "Can't you see for yourself?"
"That art just now was too dazzling. I can't see anything right now."
Itachi and Konan turned to look, only to see Deidara's eyes red and continuously shedding tears.
Deidara, rare to meet a like-minded artist, not only didn't cover his eyes like the others, but instead widened them, carefully appreciating and admiring.
Uchiha Itachi somewhat missed Hoshigaki Kisame. Ugly as he was, he at least knew his boundaries.
"Ryosuke… is fine. To be precise, the one in trouble is the Second Tsuchikage, Mū."
Ryosuke, at the center of the explosion, was completely unscathed, holding a throwing pose. The terrifying Ruin Greatsword, using the cover of the explosion's light, had crossed dozens of meters and pierced through Mū, suspended in the sky.
At this moment, whether it was the trio in the sky, the scouts from various nations on the ground, or Orochimaru hiding in the shadows, all were dumbfounded.
'What exactly happened in that instant just now?'
Clearly Senju Hashirama and Mū, two legends from history, had performed an excellent combination. Ryosuke had been covered by the attack zone of the Dust Release, Atomic Dismantling Jutsu, and there was nowhere to escape.
'Why… was the one injured Mū instead?'
Everything happened too fast. The intense light also interfered. Even Uchiha Itachi's Sharingan didn't clearly see it.
Only Orochimaru, as the caster, vaguely sensed a trace of something.
"The Dust Release, Atomic Dismantling Jutsu did indeed hit. It disassembled and deconstructed enough matter, which is why it triggered a terrifying explosion, but…"
Orochimaru looked at Ryosuke's round, bulging backpack, speculating that it most likely held the Dragon-Snake Pearl. He also recalled the slash Ryosuke had made earlier in the village.
Natural energy.
The principle of Dust Release, Atomic Dismantling Jutsu was to create a "deconstruction field." Anything that entered the field would be stripped and disassembled.
But was this disassembly infinite?
Obviously impossible.
Otherwise, the Second Tsuchikage could just fire a Dust Release into the ground and pierce through the planet on which the Hokage world resided, and even come out the other side.
Considering chakra consumption, Dust Release, Atomic Dismantling Jutsu could probably deconstruct objects about six times the mass of a human body.
Once beyond that range, the deconstruction field created by chakra would vanish.
After deconstruction completed, an explosion would be triggered based on the heat generated by the disassembled object.
At that instant just now, Ryosuke had relied on the Dragon-Snake Pearl's attraction to natural energy to forcefully inject a massive amount of natural energy into the Dust Release field, exhausting it before it even touched him.
As for the resulting explosion, with Star Platinum's defense, it was enough to withstand it. Ryosuke even used the explosion's blinding light to throw the Ruin Greatsword and achieve a counter-kill in desperate circumstances.
This whole chain of judgments and decisions came just from Ryosuke noticing the depletion of natural energy along the path of the Dust Release.
"Is this the talent of the Uchiha?" Hearing Orochimaru's analysis, Kabuto, who was standing guard beside him, exclaimed.
"No."
Orochimaru stared at Ryosuke, "This is his talent."
Ryosuke yanked hard, pulling the skewered Mū in front of him with the Ruin Greatsword. Orochimaru, watching this scene, instead smiled.
"Fight! Fight to your heart's content! And then…"
"Submit to fate."
Orochimaru didn't care that Ryosuke won one or two exchanges.
The immortal and undying Edo Tensei allowed countless opportunities to fail. As long as Ryosuke made one mistake, he would lose.
Orochimaru smiled broadly.
Until… he saw The Snake appear.
Ryosuke gripped Mū's throat with one hand. The Snake grinned and slapped Mū across the face.
Zzz~
Click!
Two discs popped out. The Snake plucked them out.
With a plop, Mū collapsed to the ground and turned into countless grains of sand, revealing an ordinary man's face.
Orochimaru was suddenly shocked.
'The technique was undone?!'
He carefully sensed for a moment.
No, that wasn't it. Edo Tensei was still being maintained. It's just that the power of the jutsu had transferred from the corpse into the two discs in The Snake's hand.
The Snake flicked the two discs in its hand with disdain. Cracks fell off with clatter-clatter sounds, it was clearly on the verge of breaking.
These discs couldn't be inserted into a body and used, but....
The Snake clapped its hands, rubbed the discs together, and then tossed them stylishly above its head. A flurry of powdery debris scattered, and in midair, a "line" formed from the debris, pointing straight underground.
The Snake was using the connection between souls to reverse track the location of the Edo Tensei's caster.
"Heh-hey."
The Snake placed one hand on its waist, tilted its head, and raised its chin, "Found you."
"Crap!"
Orochimaru's heart jumped. He hurriedly commanded Senju Hashirama to block Ryosuke.
But it was too late.
Ryosuke charged over and slashed down with one strike, the ground split open with a crack.
Star Platinum gripped the gap with both hands and forcibly pulled it open to both sides.
Orochimaru and Kabuto, hiding in their underground base, were exposed under the sunlight.
"Is… light really this blinding?"
Orochimaru couldn't control the thought that rose in his heart.
The next second, a shadow covered him, blocking out all light.
"I..."
Orochimaru had just opened his mouth.
ORAAA!
Star Platinum slammed a fist into his head.
Ryosuke would no longer give Orochimaru even a shred of a chance, not to cast jutsu, not to speak.
Before the other party could use all his life-saving methods, kill him.
After Star Platinum threw its punch, it didn't activate a flurry. Instead, using the split-second that Orochimaru was stunned, Ryosuke immediately switched Stands.
"The Snake!"
The Snake appeared.
Orochimaru's pupils sharply contracted.
It was this "evil spirit" who had found him just now.
If Star Platinum gave Orochimaru a sense of overwhelming strength, an unmatched force, then The Snake gave Orochimaru a chilling feeling, like... Facing another version of himself.
"Got him." The Snake said.
Zzzz~
Click!
Orochimaru's thoughts came to an abrupt stop.
The Snake pulled out the discs and presented them to Ryosuke, one memory, one ninjutsu, both clearly had Orochimaru's face.
No mistake.
This was the real body.
Ryosuke didn't hesitate anymore. With one hand, he raised the blade, infused Ripple energy, the blade shimmered with mountain-blown golden Ripple light. He slashed horizontally, intending to kill Orochimaru and eliminate future threats forever.
Only then did Kabuto react. He clutched a steel needle and lunged to stop Ryosuke.
But everyone knew, Kabuto could not possibly stop Ryosuke.
The scouts all widened their eyes. They would etch what they saw into their memories. They would become witnesses of history.
As the blade tore through the air, at that very moment, Ryosuke caught sight of a pair of eyes reflected from the blade's surface.
Buzz~
The world suddenly turned blood red. A pair of Sharingan floated in the sky above Ryosuke.
Ryosuke's movements froze.
Three figures descended from the sky.
As their faces became clear, the scouts present were about to go insane.
Uchiha Itachi!
Deidara!
Konan!
Which of them wasn't a famous ninja? And they all actually arrived on this battlefield?
The interests and power struggles behind this… would be enough to keep the intel divisions of every great ninja village busy for a long time.
Ryosuke's blade was less than three inches from Orochimaru's neck.
"Is it over just like that?" Deidara asked.
Uchiha Itachi said, "The battle is over."
Deidara and Konan both nodded.
Uchiha Itachi waited a few seconds and then looked suspiciously at the other two, "Aren't you going to seal him?"
The two shook their heads in unison.
They had witnessed Ryosuke's combat form with their own eyes. Whether it was Star Platinum or Ryosuke himself, the destructive power was just too terrifying.
Even if they had many life-saving techniques, they didn't want to step into Ryosuke's attack range voluntarily.
Uchiha Itachi said, "Ryosuke has already fallen into my genjutsu. He can't break free. There's nothing to fear."
As he spoke, he stepped within two meters of Ryosuke.
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