Chapter 351: Yama's Strike
[Azure] (Ao)!
Space let out a mournful cry amidst compression. The thousand-meter saber glow slashed by Red Dust suddenly collapsed into a light spot the size of a ping-pong ball. But the frosty white cold Qi didn't dissipate. Instead, it spread in reverse along the spatial folds. The Ice Silkworm tassel on the saber hilt moved without wind. The temperature of the entire fractured layer instantly dropped below absolute zero.
Kaito Shirogane's body disappeared instantly, pulling back via teleportation. But after moving merely dozens of meters, he reappeared staggering. Instead, intense Chakra burst out from his body. Ghostly blue Chakra rose like flames. Ribs appeared one by one, wrapping around him completely in an instant.
Boom!
Saber Qi fragments and cold air crashed onto the surface of [Susanoo], dissipating instantly.
In the Sharingan belonging to Uchiha Madara, there was nothing but disdain for Gojo Satoru's trickster combat style. The enemy attacked boldly and openly, seemingly holding absolute advantage.
He snorted coldly. Susanoo had already appeared. Thanks to the half Nine-Tails in this body, he could obtain massive Chakra so quickly, although it hadn't yet reached the form of Complete Body Susanoo in his prime.
But it was enough for a head-on confrontation.
The current Susanoo was clad in Tengu armor, drawing a huge Chakra katana with both hands. Its form was already quite close to Complete Body Susanoo.
[Red Dust] also realized the situation inside Mercenary Tao's body seemed more complex than he thought. It was as if multiple souls were controlling that body simultaneously. This made the opponent's combat style strange and varied, but at the same time, it lost continuity.
His figure became elusive. Driven by his powerful internal force, the speed of his [Water Shifting Steps] had become completely imperceptible to the naked eye.
Moving hundreds of meters in a second, he maintained this high-speed mobility and slashed constantly from all directions.
At this moment, he hadn't mastered high-level cultivation methods like [Sacred Heart Scroll] and [Seven Limitless Realms] that truly matched his realm, so his output methods appeared somewhat singular.
But this speed was enough to make it difficult for the opponent to cast [Infinite Void] to capture and defeat him.
A giant Susanoo approaching two hundred meters in height appeared. Red Dust didn't dodge. Looking at the Chakra flames burning on that terrifying katana, his fighting spirit intensified.
Holding the saber with both hands, he stepped forward and slashed at Susanoo!
Compared to Mercenary Tao who possessed both [Susanoo] and [Limitless Technique] as powerful defenses, he knew very well where his advantage lay.
That was the power of energy and the accuracy of control.
Half a Dragon Essence combined with the terrifying amplification of [Reverse Universe]'s first turn made most Third Ladder Reincarnators unable to compare with him in energy attributes.
He believed that Mercenary Tao, with only one Six Eyes, would definitely deplete Cursed Energy faster than him.
Perhaps he didn't need to wait for his Cursed Energy to be completely exhausted. As long as the opponent's energy dropped to a certain level, this special possessed transformation state would be hard to maintain.
Moreover...
Infused with tyrannical internal force, his slash began to cause fluctuations in space. He noticed that under the Limitless Technique earlier, his saber Qi successfully approached Mercenary Tao.
"Ha!"
[Sixth Form · Cold Blade Icy Heart]!
This was the strongest move of the Six Techniques of the Arrogant Cold. Because Red Dust could never comprehend that state of absolute icy coldness, he could never grasp the essence of it. But today, driven by overly powerful internal force, he forcibly used this move.
In an instant, the rolling clouds in the sky turned pitch black. The temperature dropped to freezing point instantly. As the powerful saber Qi slashed down, the sky became a scene of chilling dead silence.
Uchiha Madara couldn't help laughing wildly seeing this scene. In the era of ninjas, only he and Senju Hashirama could achieve such an offensive. But the attack of the person before him was far wilder than ninjas.
He could even savor a completely different feeling from the opponent's saber swinging motion.
In the saber swinging motion that looked like slow motion in his Sharingan, there seemed to be heavy snow permeating heaven and earth.
He couldn't describe what that thing was. It was a power that the ninja world never had. The opponent holding a saber and him holding a saber represented powers of completely different dimensions~
"Interesting. I acknowledge you~"
Uchiha Madara spread his arms. The overly robust muscles of this body made his saber swinging motion far more terrifying than his former body.
But he never thought before that swinging a saber relied on strength.
Ninja battles always prioritized accuracy over force.
The point wasn't how heavy your slash was, but whether the opponent blocked your slash.
But right now, looking at the opponent's slash freezing heaven and earth, he also had some new pursuits. Susanoo also held that hundred-meter katana with both hands. Chakra flames on the katana exploded instantly.
Slash!
He wanted to pursue heaviness; he wanted to pursue power. Facing Red Dust's Six Techniques of the Arrogant Cold, Uchiha Madara inexplicably understood he must shatter the opponent's saber momentum head-on to interrupt the opponent's increasingly powerful aura.
One side was terrifying Chakra triggered by a hundred-meter giant blade; the other was thousand-meter saber Qi seemingly condensing the clouds of heaven and earth from top to bottom.
The two collided in mid-air. Ice crystals, flames, saber Qi, explosions—two completely different energies collided in the middle. Space became chaotic instantly.
Devastating shockwaves scattered indiscriminately from the center to the surroundings.
Red Dust protected his body with Qi, but still retreated constantly amidst wave after wave of impact. The intense explosion made his internal breath surge ceaselessly. In the next moment, a turbulent spatial fluctuation appeared.
Red Dust ignored adjusting his breath. His body twisted instantly, disappearing like a phantom.
Amidst the terrifying fluctuations, Uchiha Madara, relying on Susanoo's powerful defense, charged forward boldly. His condition wasn't good right now either, but he was a complete combatant, adept at utilizing all advantages he possessed.
He knew that under his Susanoo + that white-haired brat's peculiar technique + this host's almost immortal physical body, ordinary attacks could hardly kill him.
Therefore, he charged directly into the terrifying windstorm, slashing horizontally with the giant saber.
Boom!
The gale shattered. The Chakra slash extended for several thousand meters, slashing towards the direction of the Spirit World Erosion Zone.
The sonic boom of Red Dust's super-high-speed movement hadn't even transmitted yet.
The superior insight of Six Eyes combined with Sharingan captured Red Dust's position instantly.
In the next moment, the gigantic Susanoo actually threw away the katana. A tomoe-like Chakra energy ball appeared in its left hand, while in its right hand, blue [Limitless Technique Lapse · Azure] (Ao) and red [Limitless Technique Reversal · Red] (Aka)—two opposing spatial fluctuations—began to approach each other.
"You guy..."
Uchiha Madara was also somewhat surprised at this moment that the white-haired brat could control the power in this body simultaneously with him in this state.
This was almost the same body operating two disparate natures of power with two modes of thinking simultaneously.
Because both souls were overly focused on control, they collaborated unconsciously. Pitch-black Cursed Energy covered the surface of the ghostly blue Susanoo, like burning black flames.
Two terrifying powers were thrown by Susanoo simultaneously. In just an instant, the surroundings fell silent. Red Dust, appearing two kilometers away, felt the sensation of being locked on, his heart slightly horrified.
Mercenary Tao's explosive power in this bizarre state was actually so high, completely entering the [Fierce] tier category. If this strike landed in an urban area, it was almost certain to deal a devastating blow to some small cities.
What was more horrifying was that he detected no weakening of the opponent's energy at all.
A Reincarnator who probably just stepped into the Second Ladder had energy attributes above his own?!
Absurd.
Red Dust took a deep breath. Holding the saber high with both hands, he closed his eyes, sensing that space-shaking strike tearing apart all air in between, making space seem to have a pitch-black hollow. The atmosphere was completely chaotic, and hurricanes rose from all sides.
His heart was peaceful.
At this moment, he completely integrated himself into his Way of the Saber.
The Way of the Saber was the Way of Domineering.
Saber meant Kill!
The moment his eyes opened, he slashed out. His body moved with the saber, crossing a distance of two kilometers in an instant, appearing behind the giant Susanoo.
The next moment, Susanoo broke apart abruptly.
But Red Dust's heart tightened instead. That slash just now felt empty; there was no real sensation of cutting into flesh.
He looked back, only seeing Uchiha Madara with long hair covering his face also looking at his own spirit body in surprise.
Spirit body?
That wasn't the physical body?!
Where was Mercenary Tao?!
Red Dust instinctively erupted with internal Qi. The surroundings fell into darkness instantly.
"Domain Expansion, Infinite Void~"
Pitch-black Domain completely enveloped him. Red Dust's heart palpitated.
Bad!
He turned his head, only seeing Gojo Satoru, also remaining as a semi-transparent spirit body, with a smile in his two Six Eyes, slowly releasing the hand seal.
On the other side, Kaito looked at the resurrected Ajin again, and the green-haired girl beside him reeking of alcohol with a surprised expression. His hands were positioned one high and one low.
[Setsuna] activated instantly.
Violent killing intent enveloped all surrounding space in an instant. The resurrected Millennium Bug also formed hand seals with both hands.
"Domain Expansion, Sonic Killing..."
Pfft pfft pfft pfft...
In the air, countless fists smashed onto his body in an instant.
[You encountered the influence of Death Intent Shinra]
[Instant Death Check in progress...]
[Check passed]
[You encountered the influence of Death Intent Shinra]
[Check in progress...]
...
In just an instant, a massive amount of checks appeared like screen spam. He felt his soul seemingly undergoing intense forging.
He panicked more and more.
Was this Mercenary Tao's attack?
Instant Death?!
Could this kind of thing kill him?!
At this moment, the disadvantage of his insufficiently tough physique manifested. Under that terrifying attack completely exceeding several times the speed of sound, he couldn't even stabilize his figure, let alone complete that hand seal.
Blue-white light shone from the All-Seeing Eyes of God between Kaito's eyebrows. For the first time in 5th Stage [Setsuna], he captured his own posture attacking the opponent, the tactile sensation of the strikes, the degree of the opponent's body shattering, and... the Shinra Death Intent flowing in his bloodline!
Yes, he felt that cold, dead silent power flowing in his body incredibly clearly. The Underworld began to surge from the layer between his bloodline and soul.
He had never encountered a creature that wouldn't die after being hit so many times. All previous living things were killed directly the moment Shinra Death Intent appeared.
But this time, the Ajin's high-tier immortality characteristic allowed him to constantly resist the Instant Death of Shinra Death Intent, making Kaito attack frantically and ceaselessly.
The speed of [Shun Goku Satsu] superimposed with 5th Stage Setsuna's fist speed began to converge the scattered Shinra Death Intent appearing in Kaito's body. The Underworld began to roar.
Not enough, still not enough~
Kaito's crazy killing intent was suppressed by this death intent. He couldn't wait to let that surging power in his body break through the soil.
Faster. I want to be faster!
6th Stage Setsuna activate!
Still not enough!
Kaito's heartbeat speed was already fast enough to form a continuous line. Lightning began to manifest from all his acupoints.
This scene sobered up the drunk Tornado somewhat. Floating in the air, she originally just wanted to casually crush a bug targeting her sister. Unexpectedly, the opponent came back from the dead and provoked such a freak.
7th Stage Setsuna!
Squelch!
Blood burst out, and even flesh began to fall off. Kaito's physical quality itself was quite strong, but [Setsuna] was an out-and-out multiplier enhancer.
The stronger Kaito's physical quality, the higher his base speed. The speed after multiplication upon activating Setsuna became even more terrifying. Correspondingly, the load on the body would also increase.
After entering the 128x speed enhancement of 7th Stage Setsuna.
His fists already exposed white bones, but he no longer cared about his body. That surging power was inside him; he just wanted to explode it out.
Hiding far behind Tornado, the Title Level Esper [Sylar], seeing Millennium Bug beaten so badly he couldn't condense human form, also looked pale.
No one could have imagined Mercenary Tao's true combat power was so terrifying.
Moreover, this speed...
His scalp tingled. In his perception, only cold, dead silent killing intent remained around. He couldn't feel Mercenary Tao's existence at all.
In other words, if he were Millennium Bug, the outcome wouldn't change at all.
No... because he didn't have the Ajin bloodline, probably even that super-speed regeneration would be completely crushed...
Amidst Kaito's violent beating, suddenly, a cold feeling broke out from his body. He punched out, and turbid yellow dead silent power roared out from his body.
Splash!
Like the roar of a giant wave rising. Millennium Bug, beaten so badly his body couldn't condense, had no reaction before being hit by that wave-like fist momentum.
Boom!
Millennium Bug flew backward. An illusory gate full of azure nether dead silent intent appeared behind him. Terror appeared in his eyes, but his body flew into it irresistibly.
Thud.
The sound of the corpse falling to the ground was dull and ordinary. The undying Ajin turned into a dead silent corpse.
Tornado threw away the wine bottle. Her drunkenness dissipated instantly. Looking at Kaito's eyes, a rare seriousness appeared.
In that instant just now, she actually felt a bone-chilling sensation, as if something dangerous had appeared, but she couldn't perceive it.
[You killed Reincarnator LQ72165844]
[You killed a Reincarnator in a Team Survival Mode world. No Crimson Drop Card generated for this kill.]
[Based on the effect of Omen of the Evil God · Cocoon of Greed, obtained Karma Point x1 for this kill. Forced generation of Crimson Drop Card. Reward increased by 50%.]
[Reincarnator EX051, your bloodline power has sublimated. You awakened Trait · Yama (Hidden, Unique, World's Rare Treasure)]
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