Chapter 81: Before These Eyes... Is Worthless!
"Almighty Push."
Once again, Izayoi unleashed a repulsive force storm, blasting away the Five Elements ninjutsu coming from all directions.
As if sensing something, Izayoi suddenly retracted his gaze from the Kurozuki clan, who were locked in fierce combat with other squads, and glanced at the shadowy area to his left.
A figure clad in a black robe, wearing a mask that covered the upper half of their face, burst out from the darkness, speeding towards Izayoi with incredible velocity.
"Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld."
As if receiving a command, the Root members all ceased their barrage of attacks. One of them performed the Earth Release again, turning the ground beneath Izayoi's feet into a swamp.
Two hands of mud emerged, attempting to grab Izayoi's legs and drag his body into the mire.
This tactic was not being used for the first time.
If there were no surprises, Izayoi would once again float into the air and release a repulsive force to blast everything away.
Sure enough...
A few seconds after releasing the repulsive force, Izayoi's body floated into the air again, evading the grasp of the mud hands. He hovered in the air, spread his hands, and softly uttered, "Almighty Push."
The invisible repulsive force instantly blasted away the extending mud hands and Aburame Torune, who was charging towards him.
However, when the repulsive force storm collided with Torune's body, Torune's body instantly transformed into countless black insects, which were blown away and killed by the repulsive force storm.
This was precisely the Aburame clan's secret technique: Insect Clone.
The repulsive force storm had just spread a few meters away and hadn't even dissipated yet when Yamanaka Fu suddenly emerged from the churning swamp, charging towards Izayoi, his body covered in numerous glowing sigils – he was covered head to toe in explosive tags.
"Did you discover the weakness of the Almighty Push? That's right, after so many rounds of fighting, and with so many elites present, it would be too incompetent if you hadn't."
Looking at Yamanaka Fu, who was disregarding his own safety and charging towards him with the intention of mutual destruction, Izayoi chuckled softly to himself, "Since that's the case, let's see what tricks you're playing."
After speaking, Izayoi once again released an invisible storm.
However, the power of this storm was significantly weaker than the previous repulsive force storm.
After all, there were no perfect ninjutsu in this world, and even Kekkei Mōra and divine arts were no exception.
Izayoi's repulsive and attractive forces had only one advantage over Pain Tendo's: a shorter cooldown time.
Nagato needed to transmit chakra through the Yin-Yang Release: Black Receiver rods for Pain Tendo to release the Almighty Push.
Even the weakest Almighty Push required five seconds to convert chakra into repulsive force.
Therefore, Pain Tendo would enter a five-second cooldown period after each use of Almighty Push and Universal Pull.
Izayoi didn't know Nagato's cooldown time, but his own was two seconds.
To be precise, to release an Almighty Push at Pain Tendo's level, he needed to charge up for two seconds to convert chakra into a repulsive force storm.
Without any charging, the repulsive force he released was just a strong wind with reflective properties.
This was still because he had the Chakra Control (Gold) skill entry, allowing him to instantly mobilize a significant amount of chakra.
However, even if it was just a strong wind, it was still a rule-based power that couldn't be resisted without sufficient strength.
Clearly, Yamanaka Fu didn't possess that strength.
The repulsive force storm, like an invisible carriage, sped forward, slamming Yamanaka Fu, who had leaped into the air, back to the ground.
Rumble rumble rumble...
Before even landing, Yamanaka Fu turned into a human bomb, exploding like fireworks.
While slowly descending, Izayoi instantly released another Almighty Push, the strong wind blowing away the mushroom cloud that hadn't fully formed.
Looking at the location of Yamanaka Fu's corpse, he saw that the deep crater created by the explosive tags didn't contain any limbs or body fragments; instead, there was only a puppet made of materials.
The Yamanaka Fu from just now was clearly just a puppet.
Izayoi's expression didn't change; he had obviously seen through it long ago.
Watching Danzo Shimura, who had instantly moved and appeared before him the moment the strong wind dissipated, his two fingers stabbing towards his left eye, Izayoi mimicked Pain Tendo's demeanor and said indifferently, "Finally willing to come out? Danzo Shimura, today is your death day."
As soon as the words fell, Danzo Shimura's fingers, about to succeed, suddenly stopped just a few centimeters away from Izayoi's eyeball.
Looking at the 'Pain Tendo' with black metal piercings all over his face, Danzo Shimura's expression slightly changed as if recalling something. "No, the brat who possessed the Rinnegan back then wasn't you! So that's it, the red-haired kid died, and you obtained your comrade's eyes..."
"Hanzo has confessed everything, and he has left this world before you. The current Amegakure is our Akatsuki's territory," Izayoi presented the great gift he had given to Akatsuki.
Immediately after, he merely glared, and a powerful repulsive force storm blasted Danzo Shimura away.
Danzo Shimura, ruthlessly flung backward, wore a bizarre smile on his face.
In the next second, his body vanished like a mirage.
Then he reappeared before Izayoi, his two fingers turning into afterimages as they stabbed towards Izayoi's left eye.
Izanagi!
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Those unfamiliar with Izanagi would be caught off guard by Danzo Shimura.
Even Uchiha Shisui, known as 'Shisui of the Body Flicker', didn't have time to dodge and was tricked by Danzo Shimura.
Having tasted success with Uchiha Shisui, Danzo Shimura was now repeating his old trick.
From flying out to reappearing, there wasn't even a second's interval.
Izayoi had just released a repulsive force storm and couldn't even perform a rapid-fire version now!
Looking at the purple ripple eyes, Danzo Shimura's eyes were filled with greed.
The Sage of Six Paths' eyes are mine!
However, as fast as he was, Izayoi was even faster.
Izayoi, whose Tenseigan had already seen through the deception, raised his hand with lightning speed and grabbed Danzo Shimura's wrist, looking at the astonished Danzo Shimura and saying, "Being able to find the flaws and weaknesses of the Almighty Push and devise a counter-strategy is indeed remarkable. But strength is the fundamental issue; the gap between us is too large!"
"Farewell, Danzo Shimura..."
"Kotoamatsukami!"
Watching Izayoi prepare to unleash a powerful attack, Danzo Shimura, in his Izanagi state and unafraid of death, unhesitatingly used his strongest trump card on Izayoi.
The three-tomoe Sharingan in his right eye spun wildly, then the tomoe transformed into black lines connected together, forming a black shuriken pattern.
As Danzo Shimura glared at Izayoi with his right eye, the Mangekyo ocular power, nurtured for many years and amplified by Hashirama cells, instantly seeped through his eyes into Izayoi's mind.
In the next instant, their spirits arrived in a blood-red space similar to the Tsukuyomi world.
An eyeball the size of a moon floated above the blood-red space, its pupil pattern the black shuriken.
This massive eyeball watched the scene below, slightly rotating like a living being, wanting to find the manifestation of the target's will and prepare to unleash its power to destroy it.
Soon, the target appeared. However, the person whose will manifested wasn't Izayoi transformed into Pain Tendo, nor Izayoi's main body, but... Danzo Shimura.
"How could I be here? Did Kotoamatsukami fail? Impossible!"
Danzo Shimura, who had just had a god's-eye view, suddenly materialized in the blood-red space, his face filled with bewilderment.
Wasn't the ocular jutsu residing in the Mangekyo Sharingan supposed to just pull the enemy into a genjutsu space, then use the power of Kotoamatsukami to destroy or modify their will, turning them into his puppet?
Why was this different from what he had imagined!
Danzo Shimura, who had originally been confident of victory, could no longer maintain his composure.
He looked around but couldn't find any trace of Izayoi.
At the same time, his will couldn't return to the Kotoamatsukami eyeball in the sky.
Just as Danzo Shimura, feeling a pang of heartache, formed hand seals to dispel Kotoamatsukami, his expression changed drastically again in the next second. "Why can't I dispel it? Isn't this the genjutsu space of Kotoamatsukami? Could it be..."
Swish—
As if responding to Danzo Shimura's thoughts, two long cracks suddenly appeared in the blood-red sky above the Kotoamatsukami eyeball, as if the sky had split open.
Immediately, these two cracks slowly widened, and blue-white light burst forth from within.
The dazzling blue-white light, like the light of the sun, instantly transformed the oppressive and eerie blood-red space into a beautiful blue-white space resembling a celestial realm.
When the cracks widened to their maximum, a pair of blue-white eyes floated in the sky.
White flowing light surrounded the pupils, forming a white flower pattern that swayed like it was blown by the wind, exquisitely beautiful and containing supreme ultimate ocular power.
If the Kotoamatsukami eyeball was the size of a moon, then the volume of this pair of eyes was like two enormous suns, overlooking the Kotoamatsukami and Danzo Shimura below from a high vantage point.
No longer in the tone of 'Pain Tendo', but a young boy's voice echoed throughout the blue-white space.
"Your ocular jutsu, before these eyes... is worthless!"
As the words fell, the exquisitely beautiful blue-white eyes, like the midday sun, released a dazzling white light that engulfed the space at a visible speed.
The first to be hit was the Kotoamatsukami floating in the sky.
Just by being touched by the white light, the moon-like eyeball rapidly turned into dust, without even the sound of an explosion.
"This isn't the Rinnegan, and you're not that Rinnegan brat! Who are you?!"
Even as just a spiritual body, Danzo Shimura sensed the aura of death at this moment. He hurriedly shouted, "This old man is very certain, I haven't heard your voice before! Who ordered you to kill me? If we have no grudges, as long as you let me go, this old man is willing... No!!"
Before he could finish his sentence, Danzo Shimura looked at the white light that had already engulfed him and let out a desperate cry.
His body, like the Kotoamatsukami in the sky, turned into dust.
To be precise, the entire space turned into nothingness.
...
In the genjutsu space, an unknown amount of time passed, but in the real world, it was only an instant.
In the eyes of the Root members, Lord Danzo still had his wrist grabbed by the enemy, then glared at the enemy with his right eye, which displayed the shuriken pattern of the Mangekyo Sharingan.
However, very quickly, some Root members with exceptional vision and sensory abilities all showed shocked expressions.
They all saw that the shuriken pattern in Lord Danzo's Mangekyo Sharingan suddenly reverted to the three-tomoe Sharingan.
The vitality in his eyes and the Yin Release chakra in his brain both vanished in an instant.
Along with that, the Izanagi on his body automatically dispelled, and all the Sharingan on his arm closed up.
Without the suppression of the Yin Release chakra from the Sharingan, the arm Danzo Shimura had created from Hashirama cells suddenly twitched, as if something was drilling around inside. After realizing it couldn't break free, it immediately followed the arm and was about to rush into his body and wreak havoc everywhere.
Tear—
Izayoi reached out and grabbed, tearing off the entire arm.
From beginning to end, Danzo Shimura didn't let out a single scream.
Although not yet dead, the 'Shadow Hokage' had already become a half-dead vegetable.
Looking at Danzo Shimura, whose eyes hadn't closed but were now vacant and lifeless, Izayoi sighed softly, "The strongest genjutsu? It does live up to its reputation..."
Apart from Izayoi, no one knew what had just happened.
Unlike Yamanaka Fu's Yin Release chakra, which couldn't even penetrate his body and was blasted away by the Otsutsuki resistance and the ultimate ocular jutsu's Yin Release chakra, Danzo Shimura's Kotoamatsukami successfully broke through this defense, only to meet a tragic end.
Because his ocular power had violated the ocular power of the Tenseigan, which was in the process of孕育 (nurturing) the second stage of the power of all creation!
Izayoi's Tenseigan hadn't completed its final evolution, and even he couldn't unleash its full power.
But that didn't mean the Tenseigan wasn't an ultimate ocular jutsu.
On the contrary, its rank and power surpassed the Mangekyo Sharingan.
Danzo Shimura failed to destroy and modify Izayoi's will; instead, his spirit and will were destroyed by the Tenseigan's ocular power within the Kotoamatsukami's genjutsu space.
Even Izanagi couldn't rewrite this reality.
This was a suppression of rank, a dimensional reduction strike from another dimension.
"It's over."
After resolving Danzo Shimura, the leader of Root, Izayoi glanced at a dark area and then looked at the Root members who were still standing呆滞 (blankly) in place, not having recovered yet, and said softly.
As his voice fell, several figures instantly appeared around him.
It was the Kurozuki clan, controlled by Shadow Clones and able to use all of Izayoi's Five Elements ninjutsu, their strength far surpassing what they had in life.
Immediately, Izayoi changed his previous passive defense, actively using Universal Pull and Almighty Push to support the human puppets.
Watching the human puppets who didn't need to pay attention to the opponent's ninjutsu, as the repulsive force would blast them away and the attractive force would track down their targets, allowing them to focus solely on fighting, the corners of Izayoi's mouth slightly turned upwards.
After observing for so long, he had finally figured out why puppets couldn't increase the drop rate, while human puppets could.
The reason was that they weren't considered Izayoi's techniques.
Even if Shadow Clones had very little chakra, they couldn't increase the drop rate because it was Izayoi's ninjutsu.
Wireless puppets were also Izayoi's techniques.
Only human puppets possessed a special characteristic that Shadow Clones and puppets didn't have.
This special characteristic should be due to the corpse and the heart.
For human puppets to use their bloodline limits from before death, both the corpse and the heart were indispensable, and the heart couldn't even have the slightest damage.
Only in this way could the chakra inputted into the chakra core, through the operation of the heart and meridians, be converted into the nature transformations required for bloodline limits and abilities from before death.
Using game industry terminology, this new mechanism could perhaps be called – an alternative party system.
(End of this chapter)
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