Chapter 188: Yagyu’s Self-Created Five-Element Ultimate Technique, Heaven and Earth Cataclysm

"Fantastic, this is the feeling I've been waiting for!"

The blinding white light and the hurricane that swept across half of the Land of Rain had not caused any damage to the Complete Body Susanoo.

However, Uchiha Madara, witnessing this scene from behind the absolute defense, shouted excitedly, though he also expressed regret: "It's a pity this body has no sensations. Otherwise, I'd love to experience the blood-boiling excitement of fighting Hashirama again."

After saying this, Madara formed hand seals, his expression slightly twisted as he grinned: "Before the Ten-Tails completes its evolution, let's play a little more!"

"Let's dance together, kid… Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame!"

As he spoke, Madara spat out a small flame from his mouth.

The flame passed through the head of the Complete Body Susanoo, rapidly expanding into a massive fire arrow that shot toward the Wooden Human Arhat below.

"Sage Art… Water Release: Water Severing Wave!"

The Wooden Human Arhat also spat out an ultra-high-pressure water column, which effortlessly shattered the fire arrow and continued its momentum, shooting toward the head of the Complete Body Susanoo.

In response, the winged Complete Body Susanoo flew through the air, zigzagging to avoid the water column's directional attacks. Meanwhile, its hands condensed numerous blue magatama, which it hurled toward the Wooden Human Arhat below, like a bomber dropping a barrage of bombs.

"Fire Release: Dragon Flame Singing Projectile!"

At the same time, Madara formed more hand seals and spat out a barrage of scattered flames from his mouth.

These flames passed through the head of the Complete Body Susanoo and, like the previous fire arrow, rapidly expanded into dragon-shaped fireballs, infused with incredible fire nature transformation. They rained down like a storm of fireballs alongside the blue Yasaka Magatama.

"Heh… nothing special."

Looking at the multicolored barrage of projectiles, Yagyu sneered, though his eyes burned with fighting spirit.

Although they had only exchanged about ten moves, Uchiha Madara was indeed the opponent Yagyu had been waiting for. His strength was far beyond those who relied on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to reach the true Kage level.

This kind of evenly matched battle was something Yagyu hadn't experienced since awakening his game system.

Thus, Yagyu decided to showcase one of his growths over the years.

He quickly formed a one-handed seal, and four branches sprouted from the head of the Wooden Human Arhat, rapidly expanding into four wooden clones.

Then, Yagyu and the four wooden clones simultaneously formed hand seals and shouted: "Sage Art… Five Release: Five Dragon Bullet Technique!"

Brilliant blue chakra, like flowing water, poured from Yagyu and the four wooden clones' mouths.

Then, four of the chakra streams visibly changed color, transforming into four different hues.

Even the one stream that remained blue transformed from chakra flames into water, emitting an invisible gravitational force that absorbed moisture from the air, rapidly swelling into a massive water dragon.

Once the water dragon formed, the other four chakra streams also transformed into dragon-shaped energy bodies of different colors.

Indeed, these five dragons of different colors were none other than Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet, Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet, Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Bullet, Wind Release: Wind Dragon Bullet, and Fire Release: Fire Dragon Bullet.

Each dragon was colossal, akin to the towering trees of the Forest of Death, and contained vast amounts of Sage chakra.

Just like Hiruzen Sarutobi's Five Release: Grand Annihilation Technique, the five elemental chakra dragons merged immediately after appearing, forming a super dragon that shimmered with five colors.

This dragon's size was no less than the Wood Dragon that had previously coiled around the Wooden Human Arhat.

The energy it contained even surpassed that of the Wood Dragon.

As for which was stronger, that depended on how they collided.

If they clashed head-on, even with its vast Sage chakra, the Five Dragon Bullet Technique would be mercilessly absorbed by the Wood Dragon, and the absorption speed would be no less than that of the Rinnegan's Preta Path.

After all, even the chakra dragon of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path could only fight the Wood Dragon to a standstill.

However, if the Five Dragon Bullet Technique exploded before the Wood Dragon could absorb it, the power would be like the flying slashes of the Complete Body Susanoo, instantly reducing the Wood Dragon to dust.

And the reason Yagyu used this technique was precisely for the latter scenario.

The super dragon, shimmering with five colors, had just formed and soared into the sky, devouring the barrage of projectiles. Then, the balanced energy within it—more accurately, only Yagyu's chakra—was instantly disrupted by the external chakra and nature transformations.

In an instant, a five-colored firework exploded in the night sky.

Its brilliance far surpassed the white light from the Wooden Human Arhat's Sage Art: Wind Release: Spiraling Shuriken colliding with the Complete Body Susanoo's katana.

Coupled with the chakra that erupted like a volcano, it resembled the explosion of the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb in the original story, once again drawing the attention of the ninja alliance on the battlefield.

Fortunately, with the previous white light as an example, the ninja alliance was not as shocked this time.

More accurately, they had become numb to it.

The smarter ones even gathered chakra under their feet in advance.

Sure enough…

Whoosh——

The terrifying energy storm, like a hurricane, swept across the battlefield, toppling White Zetsu clones and weaker ninjas, while also stirring up clouds of dust and sand.

"Roar…"

Before anyone could express their astonishment, a deafening roar suddenly reached their ears.

In an instant, whether it was the ninja alliance and samurai, the Akatsuki, or the reanimated army that retained their consciousness, everyone's expressions changed as they turned toward the direction of the roar.

Through the dust stirred up by the energy storm, they vaguely saw a colossal figure in the distance, its shape visibly changing.

The terrifying roar also created shockwaves no less powerful than the explosion of the Five Release: Five Dragon Bullet Technique, instantly dispersing the dust clouds and revealing the figure to everyone.

This colossal figure, whose shape was rapidly changing, was none other than the Ten-Tails, which was far from the battlefield, engaged in battle with the Five Kage, the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, and Uchiha Sasuke.

Facing the remaining Five Kage, as well as Naruto and Sasuke, who were both Kage-level fighters, Obito, whose strength was only at the elite Jonin level without Kamui intangibility, was in a passive position but was not completely suppressed.

The reason was simple: Kakashi Hatake was not involved in this battle as he had been in the original story. Even with the combined strength of the remaining Five Kage and Naruto and Sasuke, they had no way to counter Kamui's intangibility.

The reason Obito was in a passive position was that, after realizing they couldn't harm him, the Five Kage and Naruto and Sasuke directly attacked the Ten-Tails, attempting to destroy this container capable of holding the chakra of all nine Tailed Beasts.

However, aside from Ōnoki's Dust Release: Particle Style, which could inflict serious damage on the Ten-Tails, none of the other Kage or Naruto and Sasuke had the power to destroy the Ten-Tails, which had evolved back to its first stage from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

And for Ōnoki to use Dust Release, he had to enter a charging state. Unless he used the Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique, the cylindrical attack trajectory of the Dust Release: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu was clearly visible to Obito, who possessed both the Mangekyō Sharingan and Rinnegan's dynamic vision.

Every time this happened, Obito would use the Preta Path to absorb Ōnoki's Dust Release attacks, causing the battle to reach a stalemate.

Unless they discovered the one weakness of Kamui's intangibility—forcing Obito into a five-minute intangibility state by continuously attacking him for five minutes—Obito could use Kamui indefinitely as long as he had even a second to catch his breath.

Clearly, the Five Kage and Naruto and Sasuke couldn't achieve this.

After all, unlike in the original story where Obito appeared as Madara, here Obito was merely an unknown Uchiha who had stolen the Rinnegan from the Akatsuki leader and possessed one Rinnegan.

Moreover, without Kakashi's assistance, the Five Kage and Naruto and Sasuke couldn't find Kamui's weakness.

Thus, they could only watch as the Ten-Tails entered its second form.

In its second form, the Ten-Tails became even more violent and monstrous.

The first form of the Ten-Tails was merely a crawling creature, but in its second form, it became slimmer and could stand upright.

At the same time, it transformed from a beast with only animal instincts into a monster that awakened supernatural abilities.

More accurately, it awakened… traits!

Splash——

Crackle——

Whoosh——

As the Ten-Tails entered its second form, Obito, who had been passive until now, changed his approach.

The Ten-Tails, now standing upright, swung its tails. Each time a tail struck the ground, it no longer caused earth-shaking tremors but instead summoned natural disasters like lightning, tornadoes, and floods.

These nature transformations, which required no hand seals and seemed to appear out of thin air, caught the Five Kage and Naruto and Sasuke off guard.

They scrambled to avoid the lightning strikes, the gusts of wind, and the flooding waters.

Sasuke instinctively activated his Susanoo, instantly entering its third stage to protect Naruto and Tsunade.

"Wha… what's going on?"

Naruto, watching the Ten-Tails using Heaven and Earth Cataclysm like a world-destroying monster, exclaimed in shock: "Why has this guy suddenly become so powerful?"

"It's evolving!"

Sasuke immediately saw the fundamental difference and said gravely: "Either it's the prototype of the Tailed Beasts, with all nine Tailed Beasts born from its body, and it's reclaiming its former power; or it has a special ability to absorb the power of sealed chakra and is now using the Tailed Beasts' power."

Aside from Naruto, no one could hear Sasuke's words.

Mei Terumī, with Water Release nature transformation covering her feet, surfed on the floodwaters like a skateboard, dodging lightning strikes while using the wind to quickly distance herself from the Ten-Tails.

The Ten-Tails, now in its second form, was no longer the brute-force monster with incredible defense but only capable of taking hits. Instead, it radiated an otherworldly power that made Mei feel utterly insignificant.

Although she was one of the Five Kage and one of the few in the ninja world to master two kekkei genkai, Mei's strength, like Gaara's, was at the bottom among the Kage.

Even the Third Raikage, the pinnacle of the Five Kage, could only fight the Eight-Tails to a standstill.

Aside from Ōnoki, none of the current Kage had the power to destroy the Ten-Tails and release the Tailed Beasts within.

Now that the Ten-Tails had evolved again, not only were the younger Kage, whose strength had not yet reached its peak, overwhelmed, but even Ōnoki, the pinnacle of the Kage, felt the suffocating presence of death.

However, seeing the Ten-Tails evolving and roaring wildly, Ōnoki, who was flying in the air and only needed to dodge the lightning strikes, found an excellent opportunity.

Thus, he clapped his hands together, then opened them to form a white orb.

Around the orb was a transparent cubic barrier.

"Dust Release…"

Just as Ōnoki was about to use Dust Release: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu to blow off the Ten-Tails' head, the roaring Ten-Tails seemed to sense something. Its red eyes suddenly turned toward Ōnoki, and its gaping maw began to condense a blood-red chakra that matched the color of its eyes.

This chakra rapidly formed a triangular energy sphere, its tip aimed directly at Ōnoki in the sky.

Ōnoki's pupils contracted, as if he could already see his own death, reduced to dust. Instinctively, he canceled the Dust Release in his hands and also deactivated the Earth Release: Light-Weight Rock Technique on his body, causing his small frame to plummet downward.

Whoosh——

Almost the moment he fell, a blood-red streak of light shot past where he had been.

This streak of light, like a rainbow, arced beautifully through the air, shooting toward a distant location in a certain direction.

Boom——!!!

As Ōnoki landed, a blinding explosion erupted in the distance, its light even illuminating the dark battlefield.

The brilliance of this explosion far surpassed the previous white light and the five-colored light.

Before anyone on the battlefield could turn toward the source of the light, a deafening explosion, as if the sky had collapsed, robbed everyone of their hearing, leaving them momentarily deaf.

Looking at the massive mushroom cloud that seemed both impossibly distant and yet right before their eyes, and the hurricane that swept in almost instantly, Ōnoki found himself drenched in cold sweat, his body trembling uncontrollably.

This was a fear born from instinct.

Ōnoki didn't dare imagine what would have happened if he had been reckless and used Dust Release to clash with that blood-red triangular energy sphere.

But one thing was certain: his invincible Dust Release, which could even disintegrate matter, would have been instantly obliterated.

And if that had happened, it would have been a fortunate outcome.

If Dust Release had been a bit more resilient and managed to detonate that blood-red energy sphere, the resulting explosion…

Ōnoki was certain that not only he and the other Kage, but everyone on the battlefield, would have been instantly annihilated.

He had almost caused a total wipeout!!!