Chapter 121: Second Fetal Movement
In this era, the ninjas and civilians of the Five Great Shinobi Villages had witnessed the Tailed Beast Ball as the grandest explosion, one that filled them with terror.
It was a strategic-level force capable of instantly destroying several small hills and influencing the course of war.
But now, whether it was the Chuunin and elite Jonin wearing vests, or the Akatsuki members possessing power that threatened the Five Kage, they all felt that the power of the Tailed Beasts seemed to be nothing more than this.
Even Yugito Nii and Killer B, who had already become Perfect Jinchuriki, felt their own insignificance for the first time.
They saw, far ahead of the three parties, mushroom clouds with orange-red flames rising one after another.
Before the rumbling explosions even approached, the hurricane formed by the terrifying shockwaves had already swept over.
The Cloud Ninja forces, who thought their location was very safe, had many ninjas overturned on the ground by the howling gale.
Even some Cloud Ninjas who reacted in time, gathering chakra in their feet to stick to the ground, were blown to the point where they couldn't open their eyes and could only raise their hands to shield themselves.
Before they could continue watching, the dust and mist stirred up by the gale, along with the spreading earthquake, engulfed them.
The entire force was instantly thrown into disarray.
On the Akatsuki side, Deidara and Sasori of the Red Sand, riding on Deidara's white clay bird, were also blown away and had to abandon the clay bird, landing on a rocky mountain to continue watching.
Although they were unaffected by the gale, dust, and earthquake, the shock they felt in their hearts was even greater than that of the Cloud Ninja forces.
In this era where super-standard combat power didn't exist, they, the S-rank rogue ninjas, were the strongest small group in the ninja world.
Even the Five Kage might not be able to completely defeat them one-on-one.
Escaping was even easier.
Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame had recently moved freely in Konoha, one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
But at this moment, these arrogant fellows all felt their own insignificance.
In front of those two people, they were probably just toys in their hands, like the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, and they didn't even need to use such large-scale techniques.
The thought of being targeted by such beings sent a shiver down their spines.
Fortunately, one of these monsters was their leader.
With such a monster protecting them, their situation was actually better than that of the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
The meteor shower continued to bombard for an unknown amount of time before finally stopping.
During this time, the gale and dust had long since engulfed the three parties.
Except for Hinata, who was more than twenty kilometers away and still unaffected, everyone's vision was a hazy gray.
The shockwaves and earthquakes produced by the meteor explosions made it difficult even for elite ninjas with a good foundation to steady themselves.
The violent tremors even reached Amegakure.
Fortunately, most of Amegakure's buildings were made of steel with very solid foundations, and there was also a barrier protecting the village. Konan had also returned, so the villagers were not frightened into fleeing their underground shelters.
When the rumbling explosions and the piercing howling of the gale completely stopped and dissipated,
A gust of wind blew away the dust and mist in front of them. The three parties looked towards the battlefield of Izayoi and Nagato, only to see an area of astonishing size, with dust so thick that anyone who mistakenly entered would be completely unable to see their own hands, like being in the middle of a desert with a sandstorm about to hit.
Boom————
Just as the sensory ninjas clasped their hands together, preparing to fully release their sensory ninjutsu to check the chakra situation of the two monsters on the battlefield,
The gray dust and mist in front suddenly dispersed.
To be precise, the top of the dust and mist was blasted away by terrifying air currents.
However, these air currents were not a repulsive force storm.
"Wh... what is that?"
"Are you kidding me? Is that also a meteor?!"
"..."
Looking at the thing that blasted away the top of the dust and mist, the three parties once again had trembling eyes and gaping mouths.
They saw that the thing was also a meteor.
However, unlike the previous meteor shower, this meteor didn't generate flames from friction with the atmosphere, enveloping its entire body in a huge fireball. Instead, it fell like a mountain.
The terrifying air currents not only blasted away the sandstorm-like dust and mist but even punched a huge hole in the dark clouds in the sky, revealing the azure sky and the midday sun.
Heavenly Obstacle Shattering Star!
Before the super meteor could blast away the remaining dust and mist, falling to the ground and kicking up even more dust, an invisible repulsive force storm blew away the remaining dust and mist, turning into distorted air currents. It was like a faint, ethereal hand of a god catching the falling super meteor.
The super meteor, suspended in the air, suddenly shattered from the bottom, and the cracks spread upwards at a visible speed.
In just a few blinks of an eye, the mountain-like super meteor turned into countless fragments, shooting violently towards the sky as if to turn the dark clouds into a hornet's nest.
After the repulsive force storm dissipated, the hole in the sky hadn't closed yet, and another super meteor fell down.
The three parties had already become numb.
Rumbling...
The sound of the earth shaking attacked again, and a hundred-meter-tall Buddha statue with hundreds of giant arms rose from the ground.
As soon as this Buddha statue appeared, the countless giant arms behind it extended, bringing with them the sound of tearing through the air, carrying the terrifying power of smashing a mountain with a single fist, and slammed into the falling super meteor.
The super meteor, falling like a mountain, was once again blasted into countless fragments.
As a price, a large number of wooden giant arms were also shattered by the super meteor.
When the super meteor once again turned into countless fragments, falling like a torrential rain,
Another super meteor fell from the huge hole in the dark clouds.
The Buddha statue, which was in the process of growing giant arms, could no longer smash it as it had before.
However, Nagato, standing on the head of the Buddha statue, still didn't change his expression.
He saw the head of the Buddha statue suddenly move, making a lifting motion, then opening its mouth and shooting out five colored chakra flames, merging to form a Five Great Nature Combination Flame Pillar that shot into the sky.
The flame pillar collided with the super meteor, immediately creating a huge firework in the sky.
The dazzling flames were like a Tailed Beast Ball exploding in the air.
The terrifying shockwave turned into a hurricane and swept over again.
"Com... completely different dimension!"
"How many of these large-scale techniques have they released? Do they have no limits?!"
"Could this be how the Valley of the End appeared?!"
"..."
Engulfed in the gale, the three parties numbly watched this scene.
Even a Perfect Jinchuriki couldn't continuously release Tailed Beast Balls.
But these two monsters constantly unleashed techniques with a range and power akin to, or even far surpassing, Tailed Beast Balls.
Such chakra, such ninjutsu mastery... made these ninjas doubt themselves. Were they really the elites of the Five Great Shinobi Villages?
They were all ninjas, why was the gap so large?
When the third super meteor turned into a huge firework blooming in the sky, no more falling rocks appeared from the hole in the dark clouds.
However, a small black dot floated down from the hole, it was Izayoi, disguised as the 19-year-old 'Otsutsuki Toneri'.
At this time, Izayoi still maintained his arrogant posture, looking down from a high position. His Tenseigan was like the eyes of a god, overlooking all living beings. However, upon closer inspection, one would notice that Izayoi's breathing was slightly disordered.
A little sweat had also appeared on his forehead beneath his white hair.
Clearly, even Izayoi, whose chakra was as vast as the sea, had consumed a great deal of energy after the series of powerful moves just now.
The same was true for Nagato below.
If not for absorbing the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki's chakra, Nagato's situation would probably have been much worse than Izayoi's.
After all, whether it was Super Almighty Push, Wood Release: Wood Human Technique, or the Five Great Nature Combination Flame Pillar just now, they all required the consumption of an unknown amount of chakra.
And the attractive force that Izayoi converted from chakra was also on the same level as Super Almighty Push.
If not for the Tenseigan's astonishing farsightedness, which allowed him to see outer space from the ninja world and helped him lock onto the meteor's position, even if all his chakra was converted into attractive force, he wouldn't have been able to summon so many meteor showers and three Heavenly Obstacle Shattering Stars.
Even if he really pulled down a meteor swarm, without the Tenseigan's farsightedness and penetrating lock-on, he wouldn't have been able to achieve precise strikes.
With the ever-victorious Almighty Push failing, facing Nagato who possessed the Preta Path, if Izayoi wanted to defeat him, he could only use physical attacks.
Wood Release couldn't be exposed, and even if it was, it wouldn't be as strong as Nagato wearing Tobi's armor.
Unless Izayoi mastered the Eight Gates Formation and could open the Seventh Gate now, he would only be able to summon meteors for a massive bombardment.
The result was unexpected. The combination of Tobi and Nagato could actually use Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees and Wood Release: Wood Human Technique.
Clearly, this gold-level Wood Release stat had also been converted into strength.
Nagato, wearing Tobi's armor, was now practically on the same level as Uchiha Madara at the Valley of the End with the power of the Tailed Beasts, or even stronger.
After all, Uchiha Madara at that time didn't have the Preta Path.
And Nagato, besides the Six Paths Techniques and Wood Release, also had the trump card of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
The Chakra Dragon was simply a combination technique of the Preta Path and the Human Path released externally.
The two, one above and one below, one in the sky and one on the ground, used their ultimate dojutsu to see through each other's chakra.
After seeing the chakra within each other's bodies clearly, both Izayoi and Nagato couldn't help but slightly furrow their brows.
Because the remaining chakra of the two was surprisingly similar, with Nagato, who had absorbed the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki's chakra, having a slight advantage over Izayoi.
However, this slight difference in chakra couldn't provide any real advantage.
If Izayoi summoned another meteor shower, Nagato would likely need to consume even more chakra to defend against it.
Similarly, even if Izayoi had a chakra advantage, it would be difficult for him to defeat Nagato.
The three parties were still watching from a distance. If Nagato wanted, he could completely go and capture Jinchuriki as a power bank.
The same was true for Izayoi.
The two, with similar abilities and comparable strength, wouldn't be able to determine a winner in a fair one-on-one duel.
Only by relying on external forces or finding fatal weaknesses could the balance be broken.
Thinking of this, Izayoi subconsciously turned his head to look towards Amegakure.
Seeing this, Nagato below instantly had a drastic change in expression. If the range of All Creation Pull wasn't limited, he would have wanted to immediately release the attractive force to pull Izayoi down from the sky.
Just as Nagato was inputting chakra into the Buddha statue beneath his feet, converting it into the five nature transformations, preparing to cast the Five Great Nature Combination ninjutsu again,
Suddenly, Nagato's expression changed drastically, his eyes widening.
The same was true for Obito and Black and White Zetsu, who were watching from afar, their Mangekyo Sharingan and powerful sensing abilities constantly locked onto Izayoi.
"Hiss..."
They saw Izayoi in the sky suddenly take a cold breath, subconsciously raising his hand to cover his eyes.
The next second, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curve into a smile, his tone slightly excited as he said, "Finally here, huh? Looks like you're not willing to be suppressed either!"
In Nagato and Obito's chakra perception, and Black and White Zetsu's sensing, Izayoi's brain was secreting an astonishing amount of chakra, gathering towards his eyes.
The ocular power, which had been severely depleted and as weak as a candle flame, became vigorous again.
And Izayoi felt a wriggling sensation in his eyeballs, as if something was drilling and crawling inside, both painful, itchy, and comfortable, making it impossible for him to exert much fighting power.
This situation was similar to when Uchiha Sasuke transplanted Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan in the original story, belonging to the recovery period after surgery.
So, Izayoi lowered his hand, closed his eyes, pointed at Nagato below, and said with his usual arrogant demeanor, "The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, I'll temporarily leave it with you, the thief. Our battle... no... the battle between the Tenseigan and the Rinnegan has only just begun."
After saying this, Izayoi's figure disappeared without any warning.
"Retreat!"
Seeing the battle end, the Cloud Ninja forces and spies from various nations instantly woke up and immediately issued orders, quickly turning into afterimages and leaving the Land of Rain.
The lunar visitor had run away, leaving only the super-standard combat power of the Akatsuki leader on the field.
If the other party chose to settle accounts at this time, they would all be left here.
Even the self-proclaimed Fourth Raikage chose to leave at this moment.
From now on, the strongest in the ninja world was no longer the Five Great Shinobi Villages, but had returned to the era of the God of Shinobi and the harbinger of chaos in the ninja world decades ago.
To be precise, it was a new era.
He couldn't die yet, he had to ensure that the Cloud Village survived in this new era.
This was his duty as the Raikage!
"Izayoi-kun..."
More than twenty kilometers away, Hinata looked at Izayoi with a worried expression.
Others didn't know that 'Otsutsuki Toneri' was Izayoi, but Hinata knew very well that that person was Izayoi's main body.
She was also the fourth person to see Izayoi's brain secrete chakra.
Hinata had seen this situation once before, in March of last year.
She didn't know the incubation period of the Tenseigan, but she knew that when Izayoi was in that state, he would enter a long period of weakness.
Therefore, Hinata was very worried that Izayoi's Wood Clone would be affected by the main body, leading to his identity being exposed.
"The war is over, let's go back."
Izayoi's Wood Clone only smiled slightly at Hinata, then led the team and teleported back to the Land of Fire.
He naturally knew what Hinata was worried about.
If this was just a Shadow Clone, it might have automatically dispelled long ago.
But a Wood Clone was different from a Shadow Clone. The former was a more perfect clone. Unless the main body remotely performed hand seals to dispel it, the Wood Clone could continue to exist as long as it absorbed other people's chakra.
Even the Tenseigan's abilities from the first incubation period could still be used by the Wood Clone.
The main body's incubation period wouldn't affect him at all.
Seeing this scene, Hinata immediately breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Izayoi's back with her beautiful eyes shining, without concealing her admiration and love for her boyfriend.
If not for Shino Aburame being beside her and the Izayoi in front of her being just a Wood Clone, Hinata would have already thrown herself into Izayoi's arms to express her emotions.
Her boyfriend was really incredibly handsome just now!
(End of this chapter)
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