Pfft—!
Leaning against a wall cracked like a spiderweb.
Itachi violently spat out a mouthful of blood.
Uchiha Shin's previous strike had caught him completely off guard.
He had only managed to activate his Susanoo as he was sent flying backward.
Although the damage from crashing through several walls was blocked by the Susanoo.
The initial damage from Uchiha Shin's punch had broken several of his bones.
It seemed his internal organs had also suffered a degree of trauma.
"He blocked it!"
A hundred meters away.
From within his golden Susanoo, Shin watched Itachi supporting his red Susanoo and raised an eyebrow.
He directly drew the golden Susanoo's own weapon, a mountain-cleaving great axe.
He charged towards Itachi's location.
"Die, weasel!"
At this moment, Uchiha Shin's disgust for Itachi was truly from the bottom of his heart.
He wasn't even willing to call him by his real name.
He gave him an insulting nickname instead.
The moment he closed in, he decisively swung the great axe down at Itachi.
"Yata Mirror!"
Itachi watched the attacking Uchiha Shin.
Without the slightest hesitation.
He immediately revealed the divine treasure carried by his Susanoo, the Yata Mirror.
In an instant.
The golden great axe cut through the air and struck the red Yata Mirror fiercely.
With a loud CLANG.
A violent shockwave erupted.
Instantly destroying several nearby houses.
Itachi's red Susanoo was also pushed back four or five steps under Uchiha Shin's powerful blow.
If one were to observe closely.
One would find.
In that instant.
Several cracks seemed to have been carved into the Yata Mirror.
However.
Under Itachi's continuous input of chakra.
They quickly disappeared.
After forcing back Itachi's red Susanoo with one strike.
Uchiha Shin did not stop there.
Instead, he quickly pressed forward.
And swung his axe again.
BANG! BANG! BANG!!!
Three consecutive axe strikes!
Each axe strike faster than the last.
For a moment, Itachi's red Susanoo could only parry, with no room to counterattack.
He was beaten back again and again.
The Yata Mirror, after blocking three consecutive axe strikes, could no longer maintain its perfect state.
Cracks spread across the entire surface of the mirror.
If Itachi wasn't constantly pouring chakra into it to maintain it.
It would have likely shattered into pieces.
But even so.
The Yata Mirror was in a precarious state.
He estimated that one more strike.
Could completely shatter the entire Yata Mirror.
Seeing this, Uchiha Shin did not hesitate in the slightest.
He gathered his strength once more and swung the great axe towards the Yata Mirror.
Seeing this, Itachi's expression remained unchanged.
At this moment, Uchiha Shin might only need one more axe strike to break the Yata Mirror.
But he, too, was gathering strength, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.
The golden Susanoo's three-strike combo was indeed fierce and overwhelming, suppressing him to the point where he couldn't fight back.
But, the golden Susanoo's combo was only three strikes.
After the third strike.
Even though the golden Susanoo's attacks were still fast.
They were not as continuous as the previous three strikes.
There was a pause.
And so.
This gave Itachi a chance to counter.
As the great axe descended with unparalleled power.
Itachi also manipulated his red Susanoo, swiftly swinging out the Sword of Totsuka!
A crimson river of sword energy shot out.
Inside the golden Susanoo, Uchiha Shin raised an eyebrow.
"Aiming for mutual destruction?"
"No, although the Yata Mirror is on the verge of breaking, it still has some defensive power. My axe strike might break it, but after breaking the mirror, the axe will likely have no power left to break through the Susanoo."
"The Sword of Totsuka is one of the Three Sacred Treasures; its power is not weak. It could probably break my Susanoo in one hit."
"A desperate gambit to find life in death!"
"But things may not go as you wish!"
Uchiha Shin sneered.
"Amplify: Tenfold Defense!!"
In a flash.
Uchiha Shin directly amplified his golden Susanoo's defensive power by ten times.
The great axe's momentum did not decrease.
It struck the Yata Mirror fiercely.
CRACK.
BOOM!
The Yata Mirror, one of the Three Sacred Treasures, completely shattered.
It turned into sparkling fragments and disappeared into the world.
Then, the great axe swiftly chopped down on Itachi's red Susanoo.
Itachi had already anticipated that the Yata Mirror could not block Uchiha Shin's strike.
The moment the Yata Mirror shattered.
He manipulated the red Susanoo's mirror-holding arm to resist the great axe's attack.
Although the great axe was blocked by the red Susanoo's arm, it cut three feet deep into the flesh.
But it still failed to completely sever the red Susanoo's entire arm.
It was stuck there.
Itachi's Sword of Totsuka had already struck Uchiha Shin's golden Susanoo.
Sparks flew everywhere.
The crimson river of sword energy cut again and again but was unable to break through Uchiha Shin's golden Susanoo.
"What??"
Seeing this.
Itachi's face couldn't help but change drastically.
"How can this be?"
"Why is your Susanoo's defense so strong?"
At this moment, Itachi could no longer remain calm and cried out.
He had to know, this was the Sword of Totsuka.
One of the Three Sacred Treasures.
It had failed to break Uchiha Shin's golden Susanoo.
It was too unreasonable.
"Hmph, speechless, are you? But I have no intention of solving your confusion."
Uchiha Shin sneered.
He retracted his great axe and once again chopped towards Itachi's red Susanoo!
"Die, weasel!"
The Yata Mirror, being a divine treasure, was now shattered and would be difficult to reform in a short time.
Without the Yata Mirror, Itachi.
In Uchiha Shin's eyes, was a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
However.
Itachi did not sit and wait for death.
He quickly formed a chakra sword for his red Susanoo.
At the same time, he swung the Sword of Totsuka, continuing to attack Uchiha Shin's golden Susanoo.
With a tenfold defense on his Susanoo.
And with Rapid Regeneration.
Even if Itachi could break through his Susanoo's defense, Uchiha Shin was not afraid that Itachi could kill him.
He paid no mind to Itachi's counterattack.
BOOM—!
The simple chakra katana that Itachi had formed was instantly shattered by the great axe with absolute dominance the moment it tried to block.
Afterward, the great axe's power did not diminish.
It struck Itachi's red Susanoo fiercely.
Under the great axe, Itachi's red Susanoo was like paper.
It was directly split open.
In the nick of time.
Itachi narrowly avoided the falling axe blade.
BOOM—!
The axe blade hit the ground, instantly cleaving a hundred-meter-long fissure in the earth.
Before Itachi could catch his breath, Uchiha Shin once again manipulated his Susanoo to sweep horizontally at Itachi.
The massive axe body surged with power.
Itachi had no time to dodge.
BOOM—!
Itachi was hit squarely by the flat of the axe.
His entire body shot out like a cannonball.
Once again, he crashed through several houses.
Flying over a hundred meters.
Uchiha Shin did not stop there; he chose to press his advantage and finish him off while he was down.
In just a brief moment, he was in front of Itachi.
Itachi was in a sorry state.
Blood stained half of his body.
Dust covered his face.
His hair was a mess.
He lay in the rubble.
Unable to stand for a long time.
"Weasel, you thing worse than a pig or a dog, you heartless beast. Calling you a beast is an insult to beasts."
"At least crows know to feed their parents in return, and lambs know to kneel for milk. But you willingly debased yourself, becoming Sarutobi Hiruzen's attack dog, raising the butcher's knife against your own kin."
"Those clansmen you killed are waiting for you on the road to the underworld. Go down and accompany them on the rest of their journey!"
After Uchiha Shin finished speaking, he was about to execute Itachi.
Hearing Uchiha Shin's words, and seeing the raised great axe, Itachi's face was contorted with a ferocious and emotional expression:
"I know, you narrow-minded clansman, you only ever see the clan, you only ever think of the clan."
"The clan, the clan."
"With your narrow vision, do you know how difficult things are for the village? Have you ever considered the village?"
"You know nothing, what right do you have to accuse me! Everything I have done is for the village!"
"Hmph, you make it sound so grand, but you're just deluding yourself! A person who doesn't even love their own clansmen, family, or parents, can love the village? Do you think anyone would believe the words of someone like that?!"
Uchiha Shin sneered: "Sarutobi Hiruzen said you had the thinking of a Hokage at age seven! Heh! What kind of Hokage thinking is that? It's just you adopting Sarutobi Hiruzen's perspective!"
"Do you consider problems from the fundamental interests of all of Konoha? No, you consider problems from the perspective of Sarutobi Hiruzen's interests."
"You think you're so smart, but in reality, you're just a fool who's been played by Sarutobi Hiruzen from beginning to end."
"You have no right to say such things here."
After Uchiha Shin finished speaking, he couldn't be bothered to listen to any more of Itachi's self-serving bullshit.
The golden great axe in the Susanoo's hand swung directly down at Itachi.