Time, stopped moving.
Linto pulled out the Ruin Greatsword, shaking his wrist, the bandage wrapped around the blade came undone.
Ripple and natural power flowed into it. The nearly two-meter long sword became even longer, turning into a light blade ten meters long.
Linto and Star Platinum looked at each other, taking a step forward at the same time.
The greatsword swung, "Ora" kept coming.
A person and a Stand, bursting with absolute speed and power.
From White Snake Sage's snake head all the way to its tail, they chopped and beat, smashing every section of its body to pieces.
Its tail was fused with the ground of Ryuuchi Cave, and a steady stream of natural power flowed into its body along with the Land.
Linto raised the greatsword high, chopping down.
Nine point nine seconds, not a bit wasted.
Time started flowing.
Shhh—
The White Snake Sage, who was just looking gloomy and arrogant a second ago, had blood spurting from every inch of its skin. Countless fragrant flesh and blood splattered, with a piece landing on Green Snake's eye.
"So... White Snake Sage also bleeds?"
Green Snake was a silly snake, stunned in place.
Tsuruzumi was shaken by what she saw.
She was too familiar with it!
Yugito was killed like this, then Manda, Garaga, and now it was White Snake Sage's turn!
Her eyes were full of despair.
Could it be that White Snake Sage would be ruthlessly beaten to death by Linto, just like the previous few people?!
What kind of monster have we provoked? The legendary Sage of Six Paths?!
Tsuruzumi looked at Linto.
But she saw that Linto didn't look happy. The hand holding the sword tightened a bit. The next moment, Tsuruzumi saw the flesh and blood on the ground being devoured by the Land.
White Snake Sage's body, which was almost beaten into mush, returned to normal in an instant.
That's right!
Tsuruzumi hadn't seen White Snake Sage fight in so long that she almost forgot that the old lady... was invincible!
Undying and unyielding.
Limitless magic power.
Knowing everything in Akatsuki.
In this world, there was simply no one who could defeat White Snake Sage!
"Not bad for loosening up the muscles."
White Snake Sage slowly straightened up: "It's a pity, you can't kill me! There's no way anyone in this world can kill me!"
It opened its mouth, and a phantom of a red dragon holding a pearl flew out.
"Sage Art: White Rage Technique!"
The red dragon spun rapidly around the pearl until it suddenly exploded.
Blinding and deafening light and a piercing sonic boom appeared.
Along with the explosion, the air had an abnormal high-frequency vibration. The vibration was transmitted to Linto through the air.
His skin, muscles, and bones all trembled along with it.
The flow of ripple and natural power inside his body was affected, making it difficult to move.
Just one move could make someone lose their five senses and freeze their body.
As expected of the old monster who has lived since the Sage of Six Paths era. And this was just a control-type Sage Skill. The real attack was right after it—
"Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation!"
The land writhed like seawater, and countless rocks turned into venomous snakes, knives, and guns, carrying vast natural power, piercing towards Linto at speeds that the naked eye couldn't see.
Time stopped again.
Linto rubbed his sore eyes and strode up to White Snake Sage.
This time, he didn't rush an attack.
The recovery ability shown by White Snake Sage was different from Orochimaru, the cult leader, and even Linto.
Orochimaru relied on a body modified thousands of times, plus various life-saving Ninja Techniques.
The cult leader relied on ritual arrays and absorbing the lives of innocent people.
Linto relied on ripple, natural power, and deep development of his own genes.
All three had a limit.
That was, when the life force or energy in the body, or the energy that was plundered, was exhausted, regeneration and recovery would stop.
But the feeling White Snake Sage gave Linto was completely different.
Linto could sense the breath of all things. When he swung his sword before, he injected a large amount of ripple into White Snake Sage's body to destroy its cells.
Even if White Snake Sage was difficult to kill, and had many magical resurrection secret techniques, it should still have a fluctuation or drop in life force when it was restored to its original state from a pile of minced meat.
But... there wasn't.
White Snake Sage's life force field not only didn't decrease, but became even more vibrant.
Linto walked to White Snake Sage and put a hand on her.
Ripple was injected.
Along with White Snake Sage's cells and the flow of natural power, after going around, the ripple...
Flowed into the ground.
Time stop ended.
"You and the Land are one?"
Linto didn't expect it to be like this, but it was the only thing that made sense.
No wonder it couldn't be killed, no wonder there wasn't the slightest fluctuation in life force.
It was because White Snake Sage had long since merged with the Land through thousands of years of practice, and the Sage Art of "Inorganic Reincarnation" was originally a derivative ability of the fusion.
White Snake Sage tapped its tail, and the pipe fell into its mouth again:
"You noticed it so quickly? You are a sharp young man, but unfortunately, you have a common problem of young people—"
"Lack of respect for elders."
"Sage Art: Super Inorganic Reincarnation!"
The land changed again, but this time, it was no longer limited to the scope of Ryuuchi Cave.
Surging natural power was released, with White Snake Sage as the center, and the ground within a three-kilometer radius was all given "life."
"For thousands of years, I have witnessed the changes in mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas."
White Snake Sage exhaled a puff of smoke: "Linto, I saw your battle with Yugito. You can control the waves, but earthquakes, landslides, and plate tectonics... these are the 'waves' that belong to the Land."
The land rose from behind White Snake Sage.
Stones, trees, animals... everything was like tiny splashes of water, unable to stir up even the slightest ripple in front of this "Sage Art."
Only by truly standing in front of a rising wave of Land can one feel their own insignificance.
White Snake Sage stared at Linto coldly:
"I really want to know, can you handle the waves of the Land?"
A tailed beast?
The power that White Snake Sage displayed was not something that a tailed beast could compare to at all.
This was a true "natural disaster" level of power!
Linto avoided the land that was crushing over, grabbed Sasuke, and flew into the sky.
Hands made of land grabbed at them, Linto twisted and turned, and when he really couldn't dodge, he would chop them apart with his sword.
After flying to a thousand meters, the attacks from the land could no longer reach them because of the distance.
The sea-like land returned to calm again. White Snake Sage smoked, and its tail rolled up a "small snack" from the ground, throwing it into its mouth, crunching and munching:
"My eyes can see everything that happens in the Ninja World. Linto, with your ability, you can run wild in most places, but there are three places where you can't—"
"Mount Myōboku, Shikkotsu Forest, and my Ryuuchi Cave."
White Snake Sage, Toad Sage, Slug Sage.
The three ancient beings who have survived to this day are practicing in their respective chosen paths, and have walked a considerable distance under the polishing of time.
Toad Sage walked towards the "future." It can jump out of the river of time, look at the distant shore, and lay out the first move.
Slug Sage pursued the "past," obtaining the unity of chaos. The entire Shikkotsu Forest has only one slug, and all of them are clones, and all of them are the main body.
As for White Snake Sage.
"...I am a pragmatist. I stay in the 'present.' The strongest power, Sage Art, and the Land under me, that is my power."
"As for you saying eating people?"
It rolled up two or three more small snacks and threw them into its mouth again. The crunching and munching sounds were particularly harsh in the silence.
White Snake Sage spat out a small head:
"I just ate them, what can you do to me?"
"You want to kill me?"
"Are you worthy?!"
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