Chapter 453: Takemikazuchi
"What's so funny!"
Sasuke was furious. What was this guy Uchiha Itachi laughing at?
Was he mocking his weakness!
That glaring smile pricked his heart like a needle.
"I just thought of something happy."
Uchiha Itachi's voice remained calm. After speaking, he pursed his lips, but the amusement swirling in his eyes could not be hidden, carrying a playfulness that ignited an inexplicable rage in Sasuke.
"You bastard! I'm going to break your limbs and drag you back to Hidden Leaf Village, where you will kneel before Mother and repent!"
Furious Chakra erupted around Sasuke like purple flames. Bones, meridians, and flesh constructed layer by layer, and a massive purple Perfect Susanoo rose from the ground, instantly shattering the ceiling of the sturdy Mizukage's office. Bricks and rubble fell like rain.
"We have intruders! Prepare to engage immediately!"
The voice of Chōjūrō, the youth stationed in the village, was filled with shock and anger. He arrived at the scene instantly, his twin swords "Hiramekarei" already glowing with a dangerous light.
Other Kirigakure Ninjas surged forward like a tide, surrounding the gigantic purple demon.
Shino had acted the instant before the Susanoo appeared. Countless kikaichu swarmed like a black wave, instantly enveloping Black Zetsu, who was still under the control of the genjutsu, forming a wriggling ball of insects.
He didn't hesitate for a second, quickly retreating from the center of the battlefield with this strange black substance.
This thing was too bizarre; he had to ensure it was secure.
While retreating rapidly, he took a scroll from his ninja tool pouch.
It was a gift from Uzumaki Naruto on the eve of their graduation from the Ninja Academy—a simple sealing scroll that held great significance for Shino.
Shino unhesitatingly sealed the weakly struggling Black Zetsu inside.
The scroll closed, and the runes on its surface flashed and vanished.
"Shino, let's go."
Standing within the diamond-shaped crystal on the forehead of the Susanoo, Sasuke looked down coldly at the Kirigakure Ninjas below, who were braced for battle.
He didn't consider this encirclement a threat at all.
The vast Ocular Power and Chakra brought by the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan surged within him, convincing him that if he wished, he could turn this land into scorched earth in an instant.
Obstacles? They were nothing but dust.
Shino nodded and put away the sealing scroll.
With a thought from Sasuke, a gap quietly opened near the feet of the purple Susanoo.
Shino flashed forward, passing calmly through the Chakra barrier amidst countless vigilant gazes. He landed steadily inside the Susanoo, then, propelled by the internal Chakra, arrived at the head of the Susanoo and stood beside Sasuke.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Jutsu!"
A Kirigakure Jonin hidden in the shadows could no longer hold back and quickly formed hand signs.
A water dragon, condensed from high-pressure water and seven or eight meters long, roared as it tore through the air, slamming fiercely into the leg of the Susanoo!
Boom!
Water splashed everywhere; the display was impressive.
However, for the Perfect Susanoo that Sasuke was maintaining with full power, this violent Water Dragon Jutsu was like a small loach; it didn't even stir a ripple, nor did it cause the Chakra flames on the surface of the Susanoo to flicker in the slightest.
The water dragon collapsed, turning into ordinary water and falling, only adding to their embarrassment.
Sasuke didn't even look down to see the source of the attack. His scarlet Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan swept coldly over the faces below, which were variously angry, nervous, or terrified.
His voice, like cracking ice, clearly reached the ears of every Kirigakure Ninja:
"Be grateful. If it weren't for Naruto specifically instructing me to spare your lives before we came..."
He paused slightly, the unfinished killing intent sweeping across the field like a tangible cold current, causing the air to freeze. "You would all already be dead."
He slowly raised his right hand, his palm slightly cupped, as if to grasp invisible lightning.
"To make you fully realize the reality and stop this pathetic, futile resistance..."
Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan suddenly erupted with an unprecedented, blinding scarlet light. The light even overshadowed the purple flames of the Susanoo itself, and a terrifying pressure, vast as an abyss, exploded outward from him as the center.
The sky instantly turned gloomy. Thick, dark clouds gathered from nowhere, pressing low upon the Hidden Mist Village, and muffled thunder rumbled faintly within the clouds.
"It is time to let you remember, with your bodies and Souls, the insurmountable chasm between us!"
The moment his voice fell—
Sasuke's right-eye Ocular Power poured out without reservation.
Hum—!
A low hum, as if from beyond the nine heavens, resonated through heaven and earth.
Sasuke's massive purple Susanoo underwent a drastic, earth-shattering transformation.
The Susanoo began to emit a metallic texture.
Even more Soul-shudderingly, countless thick, blindingly white, violent bolts of lightning erupted, coiled, and flowed like living things from every gap in the Susanoo's armor.
These lightning bolts were no longer simple Chakra form changes; they seemed to contain a will of destruction, emitting deafening "crackling" explosions, ionizing the air, and releasing a pungent scent of ozone.
The purple Chakra and the blinding white lightning merged perfectly, forming a suit of thunderous divine armor that constantly leaped and roared on the surface of the Susanoo.
The massive Susanoo seemed to have transformed into a Thunder God descending to wield divine punishment.
The energy fluctuations it emitted were like a tangible tsunami, forcibly pushing back the Kirigakure Ninjas who were nearby. Those with weaker strength were directly shocked into collapsing to the ground by this pressure, making even breathing extremely difficult.
Rumble—Crack!
The sky's response was even more direct.
A massive, pale white lightning pillar over ten meters in diameter tore through the thick clouds, like a spear of divine punishment, and with an earth-destroying momentum, struck down ferociously upon the Ninja blade held high by the Susanoo, which was also wreathed in equally violent lightning.
There was no explosion, only the pure, deafening roar of thunder.
The lightning pillar was completely absorbed by the Susanoo and integrated into that thunderous divine armor, causing its power to surge once again.
The entire Hidden Mist Village was illuminated in brilliant white for a moment, then immediately submerged in violent lightning.
The earth groaned; the air trembled.
All the Kirigakure Ninjas, including the Mizukage Chōjūrō, completely lost their will to fight in the face of this majestic divine power.
They looked up at the purple Thunder God standing in the endless lightning, as if at the center of the world, with only boundless fear and despair left in their eyes.
This was not the power of a Ninja! This was the authority of a deity!
Any Ninjutsu, any resistance, seemed so ridiculous and insignificant in the face of this absolute power.
Sasuke's Dōjutsu differed from the original work; one of his Dōjutsu was still Amaterasu, while the other was a Dōjutsu that could enhance the Susanoo and himself.
Sasuke named it—Takemikazuchi!
Sasuke stood on the forehead of the Susanoo, surrounded by lightning, looking down coldly at the dead-silent Hidden Mist Village. The Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, set against the lightning, looked like the eyes of a god overlooking the human world.
"Now, is there anyone else who wants to block my path?"
The voice was not loud, but it exploded like a thunderclap in the heart of every dejected Kirigakure Ninja.
His only answer was a deathly silence, and the omnipresent, ear-splitting roar of thunder.
Shino stood beside Sasuke, his eyes behind his sunglasses full of gravity.
Even knowing this power was not directed at him, the sheer might of the lightning, so close and seemingly capable of annihilating everything, still made him feel a tremor deep in his Soul.
He instinctively touched the sealing scroll in his arms.
Uchiha Itachi, firmly gripped by the Susanoo's giant hand, raised his head slightly amidst the violent lightning and pressure.
He looked at his younger brother's back, which controlled the lightning and dominated the world, and at those Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan that contained endless power and obsession. The playful smile that had been in his eyes earlier quietly receded, replaced by an extremely complex, indescribable expression.
Was it relief? Was it emotion? Or... deeper worry?
Only he knew.
His lips seemed to move again, but ultimately, he made no sound.
The purple lightning giant spread its wings, ignoring the ant-like Kirigakure Ninjas below, and flew off in the direction of the village outskirts.
Everywhere it passed, it left only scorched air, a dead-silent village, and an indelible, terrifying legend about the arrival of the "Thunder God."
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