Chapter 229: Sasuke's Mangekyo
A deafening roar resounded through the entire Valley of the End. The whole earth groaned and cracked under this explosion! A tangible shockwave, in the shape of a ring, suddenly exploded outwards at a speed surpassing sound! Wherever it passed, the air was compressed into a white wall. The rushing torrent of the waterfall below was forcefully cut off, thrown up into a monstrous wave! Countless tons of water were instantly evaporated into scorching white steam, which was then viciously torn apart by the shockwave! The stone statues of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, which had stood here since that battle, enduring the daily wash of wind and rain yet remaining steadfast, shattered from the neck up under this world-destroying impact, like fragile plaster statues! Countless huge broken stones were thrown into the high sky like a meteor shower, then smashed down heavily into the churning steam and giant waves below!
In the core of this destructive storm, Sasuke's vision was a field of glaring white and chaos! The immense impact made every bone in his body scream! His right arm felt a tearing pain, as if it would be completely crushed by that violent golden power in the next second! The lightning of the Chidori emitted a piercing wail under the endless rotation of the Rasengan and the terrifying brute force of the Nine-Tails' chakra, its light dimming rapidly!
Am I going to lose? Is my arm going to break? No! Absolutely not! How could he lose to this dead-last who was leaving on his own accord! He was going to break this guy's legs and then take him back to the village! That feeling of being abandoned, that anger of being left behind alone, burned his heart like a poisonous fire!
"Ugh, Aaaaaahhhhh—!!!!"
A roar from the deepest part of his soul, desperate and unwilling, burst from Sasuke's throat! That desperate craving for ultimate power that erupted in this dire situation, that obsession to turn everything around, was like a red-hot branding iron mixed with a trace of special chakra flowing from his body, searing deep into his wildly spinning three-tomoe Sharingan!
"Crack—!"
A crisp sound, as if from the depths of his soul, that only he could hear!
The three tomoe spinning wildly in his vision suddenly froze, then, in a thousandth of a second, they were as if pulled, twisted, and shattered by an invisible great force! An indescribable, intense pain instantly shot through his brain! In the center of those shattered crimson fragments, a new, bizarre, and complex pattern instantly formed and solidified!
That pattern was deep, cold, carrying an arcane and ominous quality as if it could see through the trajectory of fate. The moment this pattern formed, a new, cold, and powerful torrent of dōjutsu, like a glacier that had been silent for ten thousand years suddenly collapsing, poured into Sasuke's eyes and flowed throughout his entire body! The Mangekyo Sharingan!
The world suddenly changed in his eyes! The flow of energy became unprecedentedly clear. Every subtle node of chakra circulation in Naruto's violent Rasengan was as clear as the lines on his palm! Moreover, a cold power instantly awakened and condensed within the Chidori in his right arm, which was on the verge of collapse!
"Chii-la—!"
A fine but extremely condensed arc of black lightning, like a blade from the underworld that cut through chaos, suddenly shot out from the core of the Chidori! It ignored the high-speed rotational defense of the Rasengan and, with a power that seemed to follow a law of annihilation, instantly pierced through the outer shell of the golden chakra, stabbing straight into the core of Naruto's Rasengan!
"What?!" Naruto's eerie, slit pupils shrank abruptly. The perception of his Nine-Tails mode allowed him to instantly capture the danger of that black lightning arc! It was a power that could erode and disintegrate the very essence of chakra! He instinctively wanted to withdraw his hand, but the inertia of the full-power clash was already unstoppable!
The moment the black lightning arc pierced the core of the Rasengan, it was as if a drop of cold water had fallen into a pot of boiling oil!
"BOOM—!!!"
A second explosion occurred! Not an outward shockwave, but an energy implosion caused by the internal structure of the Rasengan being eroded and destroyed by the black lightning arc! The highly compressed chakra lost its restraint and exploded uncontrollably in Naruto's palm!
"Pfft!" Naruto was hit as if by a heavy blow, spitting out a mouthful of blood. His entire person was blasted backwards by his own out-of-control ninjutsu! The golden chakra cloak fluctuated violently, flickering on and off, almost dissipating completely!
Sasuke was also fiercely thrown back by the recoil of the explosion, slamming heavily into a huge, not-yet-completely-crumbled rock wall behind him, creating a spiderweb-like crater. Broken stones fell around him. He knelt on one knee, panting heavily. The wound on his left arm and the severe pain in his right arm tore at his nerves, and his brain throbbed with dizziness and stabbing pain from the awakening of the Mangekyo. But he fiercely raised his head. That new pair of eyes, with their cold and bizarre patterns, locked tightly onto the flying Naruto. The dōjutsu, like a tangible cold current, pierced through the permeating smoke and water vapor.
The smoke and water vapor, like a tattered curtain, slowly settled and tore apart in the violent aftershocks of the energy. The Valley of the End looked as if it had experienced a war of gods, a scene of complete devastation. The giant stone statues were left with only broken torsos. The once-roaring waterfall had been blasted apart, forming a huge cavity of water vapor. The turbid water reconverged below, making a whimpering sound.
Naruto staggered to a steady footing on a large rock protruding from the water in the distance. A striking trace of blood remained at the corner of his mouth. The golden chakra cloak burned like a candle in the wind, flickering unsteadily. His eerie slit pupils reflected Sasuke's pair of cold, unfamiliar Mangekyo Sharingan, which contained a new and terrifying power. His heavy breathing pulled at the pain in his chest, and every breath carried the smell of blood. He slowly raised his right hand. His palm was a blackened, bloody mess—proof of being injured by his own out-of-control Rasengan.
Sasuke supported himself against the cold rock wall, enduring the tearing pain in his left arm and the burning sensation deep in his brain from the Mangekyo, and slowly straightened his body. The new dōjutsu flowed coldly in his eyes, clearly taking in Naruto's battered state, his blackened right hand, and the undisguisable pain and exhaustion in his eyes.
"Haha... hahaha... hahahahaha!" Sasuke threw his head back and laughed. After laughing his fill, he looked at Naruto again, "Naruto, this time, you're not getting away."
"The Mangekyo Sharingan..." Inside the seal space, the Nine-Tails looked gravely at the Mangekyo pattern slowly rotating in Sasuke's eyes.
"This time, I really have to get serious," Naruto took a deep breath. Steam rose from his injured right hand, which then regenerated in a few breaths. "Let's go, Big Brother Kurama!"
A golden aura once again ignited on the surface of Naruto's body as he entered Kurama Mode.
The two, standing on opposite sides of the water pool, exchanged no more words. They erupted and charged towards each other. Fists and feet clashed with sword and blade. As Naruto attacked, the chakra aura on his body condensed into claws, attacking Sasuke. Sasuke, wreathed in black-purple lightning, calmly used the bones of his Susanoo to block. For a time, the two were locked in a fierce, back-and-forth battle.
However, in the midst of the fierce battle, Sasuke seized an opportunity. He first used a diagonal slash with Shiden to force back the Naruto in front of him, then closed the distance, his eyes staring intently into Naruto's.
Mangekyo Sharingan genjutsu, activate!
Caught off guard, Naruto's movements became sluggish. At this moment, Sasuke also used this opportunity to invade Naruto's seal space.
After entering the seal space, Sasuke ignored the Naruto in front of him, whose pupils already showed the mark of his Mangekyo Sharingan, and instead looked up at the Nine-Tails behind the seal gate.
"Nine-Tails, it was you who bewitched Naruto, wasn't it! In front of these eyes, your conspiracy ends here!"
The Nine-Tails: ???
(End of chapter)
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