Chapter 129: Dead Demon Consuming Seal
In mere moments, that thunder dragon filled with tremendous electrical energy seemed drained, shrinking from large to small before flickering several times and completely disintegrating, absorbed entirely by the strange spherical puppet.
Immediately, a thick barrel protruded from the sphere's body—entirely forged from chakra metal, its inner wall carved full of energy-enhancing seal formulae—aiming at Susanoo striding rapidly forward.
Blue light gathered on the barrel, growing brighter and brighter. In an instant, it condensed into a massive chakra sphere—like a Tailed Beast Ball formed from concentrated lightning—that shot from the barrel, hurtling toward Uchiha Yasushi.
This attack exceeded Yasushi's expectations.
This thing clearly imitated Tailed Beast Ball research. Could Sand Village puppets achieve such effects?
It didn't seem very practical!
Before his thoughts finished, the lightning sphere struck Susanoo's chest.
BOOM!
The moment the lightning sphere contacted Susanoo, time seemed to freeze for one second. Then the lightning sphere exploded on Susanoo's chest.
Just like divine thunder unleashed, the terrifying energy contained within the lightning sphere released instantaneously.
The erupting light blinded everyone within a thousand meters. The intense illumination even cast clear shadows from distant mountains.
Massive electrical energy rampaged across Susanoo's body—millions of arcs coursed like living things over Susanoo's surface.
The violent lightning energy obliterated the armor on Susanoo's chest, even tearing through energy muscles, exposing the crystalline skeletal structure beneath.
Those bones' surfaces covered in fine cracks, each crack crackling with struggling lightning.
Susanoo's chest looked like an ever-festering wound, its edges where chakra and lightning engaged in continuous fierce combat.
Repair chakra barely condensed before residual lightning disrupted and destroyed it.
Under the lightning's sustained damage, Susanoo's chest wound couldn't recover quickly.
But that was all. Without the thunder dragon providing energy to that strange spherical puppet, the impractical device had no way to fire a second identical lightning sphere attack.
"Heh, truly quite targeted!" Yasushi sneered coldly, canceling control of Thunder God Takemikazuchi. The Mangekyo Sharingan on his left shoulder slowly closed.
"Then try this next one—let's see how you block it!"
He clapped his hands before his chest, bringing them together.
"Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees!"
As chakra continuously output, the earth cracked and bulged everywhere. Countless thick roots burst from the ground like giant serpents, growing wildly, rushing from beneath Susanoo's feet toward the Sand shinobi position ahead.
"It finally came. Sister, we're going in."
Under Ebizo's eyebrows, a fierce glint flashed and vanished in his eyes. After muttering quietly, he extended his hand and threw out a massive scroll. Chakra threads from his fingertips hooked—a huge vehicle-shaped puppet suddenly landed, charging toward the Wood Release forest.
This puppet was meticulously modified.
The vehicle's front featured a massive drill, its surface carved full of spiral Wind Release runes. Spinning at high speed with ear-piercing shrieks, it was unstoppable—whether trees or boulders, nothing could halt its advance.
Meanwhile, sharp propellers were installed on all sides of the vehicle body, including the underside and wheels. All spun at high speed, forming an omnidirectional cutting domain that ground all approaching trees and vines into fragments.
This extreme modification style was completely unsuitable for conventional warfare—clearly designed specifically to counter Wood Release's binding characteristics.
The vehicle puppet rampaged forward, crushing all obstacles in its path to powder, quickly reaching Susanoo's feet.
The underside propellers suddenly detached. Flames abruptly sprayed from beneath the vehicle, propelling the entire vehicle to leap skyward, hurtling toward Susanoo's chest wound.
"Heh, quite creative. But you have to actually reach me!" Yasushi sneered coldly. Susanoo's massive hand swept, grabbing at the vehicle.
But the instant the energy hand contacted the vehicle puppet, the propellers on the vehicle's exterior suddenly detached automatically, revealing nozzle-like openings. They simultaneously ignited, spraying streams of chakra energy.
Under this propulsion force, the vehicle puppet performed a second acceleration mid-air, breaking through the energy hand's interception and crashing heavily into Susanoo's chest wound.
Amid violent explosions, all buffer devices at the vehicle's front ruptured. But leveraging this impact force, the drill at the vehicle's front embedded itself directly into Susanoo's skeletal structure.
Immediately, the front drill's rotation speed suddenly increased several times, spinning at superhuman speeds invisible to the naked eye.
Wind Release chakra wrapped tightly around that sharp metal drill, adding several times more power to this already tremendously kinetic weapon.
The high-speed drill ground against Susanoo's crack-covered chest bone, producing continuous ear-piercing buzzing. Only a thin layer separated it from Uchiha Yasushi's figure behind the bone.
Chakra sparks from drill and Susanoo bone friction cascaded like torrential rain. Cracks continuously extended under sustained attack, producing tooth-grinding shattering sounds.
But what the Wind Release drill ground away wasn't just chakra bone—but also the mutually stalemate lightning.
Without lightning restraint, Susanoo's recovery ability immediately restored. The cracks covering his chest gradually began healing.
However, at that moment, Chiyo in the rear suddenly formed a seal, shouting gravely:
"Forbidden Technique: Puppet Energy Absorption!"
As his forbidden technique activated, the vehicle body behind the drill suddenly split open with a large hole. A tube shot out, firmly attaching to Susanoo's body. Strange suction transmitted through this tube—in an instant, it sucked out a large hole from the chakra bone before the drill.
With a crack, the drill drove straight through this hole, stabbing toward Uchiha Yasushi inside.
Yasushi didn't hesitate. He immediately grabbed Haku and Karin behind him, leaping backward decisively, separating from Susanoo's body as he dropped rapidly toward the ground.
But the sky above darkened. The vehicle puppet suddenly disassembled—the drill continued forward, but the carriage changed direction mid-air, crashing straight toward Yasushi.
Yasushi shoved Karin into Haku's arms, pushing hard to send them both flying toward the three Yashiro in the distance. Single-handedly drawing his blade, he slashed forward, blocking the carriage outside.
But the carriage suddenly split left and right. A white-haired old woman leaped out from inside, her gaze coldly fixed on Yasushi. Her hands rapidly formed seals before her body as she shouted quietly:
"Go to hell!"
"Forbidden Technique: Dead Demon Consuming Seal!"
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