Chapter 40: Hell Has Eighteen Levels
Yasushi's face showed an expression full of regret at not achieving his wish, while Obito's face had turned nearly green—though with his mask covering it, outsiders couldn't see.
The phosphorus destruction insects were completely uncontrollable. Upon landing, they scattered everywhere.
The swarm emitted a teeth-chilling dense buzzing, flickering with purple phosphorescent light. Wherever they passed, even the ground was corroded with fine holes.
Yasushi had no choice but to use the medicinal herb gourd to absorb some of the swarm back.
But he didn't absorb them completely. When the swarm was about to fail covering Obito, he'd control the gourd to spit them out a bit more.
The insect tide undulated like silk ribbons under his precise control, always maintaining a dangerous critical point, keeping Obito's form fully covered.
As soon as Obito's Kamui time limit was reached and his body materialized for even an instant, these insects would immediately swarm and bite wildly.
No need to devour him completely—just the slightest contamination would make Obito suffer tremendously.
In the original story, Obito paid the price of one White Zetsu arm to take down Aburame Torune.
But now the swarm covered his entire body's range without leaving the slightest gap—this couldn't be solved with just one arm.
Now Obito was in trouble.
He actually had other methods he could use, like Kamui attacks or Wood Release—also very powerful and not necessarily weaker than Yasushi.
But he'd grown accustomed to bullying weaklings with intangibility. Every battle, he instinctively used this method.
This reliance on past invincibility had now become fatal shackles binding him.
In the shinobi world, combat was intelligence warfare. Once intelligence was discovered by the opponent, even the most powerful jutsu had countermeasures.
Yasushi had seized precisely this point, turning the situation to his advantage with this lethal insect formation.
With just one move difference, Obito was suppressed by Yasushi.
Now if he wanted to change tactics, he first had to exit intangibility, then would immediately be engulfed by phosphorus destruction insects.
This was an unsolvable death loop. Intangibility, originally perfect defense, had now become the most magnificent cage.
Obito hastily retreated, but as he retreated, Yasushi advanced, always preventing him from escaping the swarm's coverage.
"Enough, everyone stop!" Pain finally arrived, shouting angrily: "I said before—internal fighting is forbidden in the organization. Did you not take my words seriously?"
"Leader, Obito came to kill me!" Yasushi reported while controlling the swarm's expansion and contraction. "Look at where the battle started—it was inside my residence. Obito came to my door!"
Pain's gaze swept over and indeed found this to be true. His anger intensified.
"Obito, if you don't want to cooperate with the Akatsuki organization, then leave early and don't cause trouble here!"
The Rinnegan gleamed coldly in shadow. Pain slightly raised his hand, his black robe with red clouds rustling in the wind, clearly ready to strike at any moment.
Having lost Madara Uchiha's legendary aura, a mere Obito couldn't make Nagato regard him highly.
Especially now that Yasushi had exposed Obito's intangibility weakness, Obito's position in Pain's heart had fallen repeatedly. There was no need to be polite to him anymore.
If Obito remained ignorant, Pain didn't mind personally taking action to eliminate him.
Obito's face bulged with veins, the Sharingan beneath his mask spinning frantically as a wave of humiliation surged through him again.
How many years had it been since anyone looked down on him!
He almost wanted to just turn and leave, but White Zetsu urgently reminded him secretly that the bigger picture was what mattered.
After a long silence, Obito finally said in a muffled voice:
"Fine, ultimately our plan is more important."
"I was impulsive this time. I won't trouble this brat again in the future."
"But after the plan succeeds, I won't let him go."
"Kekeke..." Yasushi laughed strangely at Obito, his face full of provocation: "You won't let me go, and I won't let you go either!"
"I'll make you live in hell!"
"Hehe..." Obito laughed coldly as he turned to leave, only dropping an extremely suppressed statement: "I'm already in hell."
This time Yasushi didn't stop him but absorbed all the insects back, calling to his retreating back:
"Then I'll let you know—hell actually has eighteen levels!"
Though he hadn't managed to waste Obito's Kamui dimension as wished, related intelligence had already leaked out.
With that traitor Itachi around, the outside world would definitely find out.
Obito's past good days of using Kamui dimension to dominate all enemies were gone forever starting today!
Yasushi cheerfully followed Konan to find a new room and slept peacefully.
Finally he could rest.
He could rest, but Konoha Village couldn't.
Minato's sudden return and the intelligence he brought back made the entire Konoha Village explode.
"What?! Rinnegan?" The Third was so surprised his pipe fell onto the desk.
"That's right." Minato's brows were tightly furrowed, his tone grave. "I'm very certain—those are the legendary eyes possessed by the Sage of Six Paths."
"Moreover, the Rinnegan's ocular jutsu is extremely powerful. Whether gravity control or sealing Tailed Beasts, it's incredibly comprehensive with no blind spots in usage."
"Although it has the weakness of recovery time, with only a five-second interval, ordinary people find it hard to seize opportunities."
"And worst of all, the two villages have already clashed. I'm afraid war is unavoidable."
The Third took several puffs, sighing: "What troubled times!"
"We finally reached peace agreements with Hidden Cloud and Hidden Rock. How long has it been peaceful, and now we're going to war again!"
"Sigh, if we can avoid fighting, better not to fight!"
"Minato, is negotiation truly impossible?"
Minato shook his head: "I'm afraid it's very difficult."
"Especially those twin Uchiha traitors—they seem to harbor extreme hatred toward the village."
"Susanoo, something that only exists in legends, must have extremely harsh activation conditions."
"The village should talk properly with Clan Head Fugaku to understand what happened, at least clarify the intelligence and figure out their weaknesses."
"Fugaku..." The Third's expression froze, unable to speak.
Minato was actually quite sharp. Seeing the Third's expression, he knew something was wrong and directly asked:
"Did something happen to Clan Head Fugaku?"
"Don't tell me he was assassinated by traitors?"
"This... ahem..." The Third coughed dryly twice, saying awkwardly: "The situation is rather complicated..."
"The Uchiha clan attempted rebellion and has already been eliminated by the village."
"What?!" Now it was Minato's turn to be shocked.
"The Uchiha clan rebelled?"
"And was massacred?"
"Third Hokage-sama, what kind of joke is this?"
The two stared at each other, relatively speechless.
Minato had been Hokage. The Third knew lies couldn't fool him, but telling the truth was also difficult. He could only avert his gaze, saying nothing.
After a long while, facing Minato's angry eyes, the Third finally picked up his pipe again, lowering his head as he mumbled vaguely:
"It was all Danzo acting recklessly. I've already punished him."
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