Chapter 231 Sasuke's
Mangekyou Sharingan A deafening roar echoed throughout the Valley of the End, the entire earth groaning and cracking under the explosion!
A tangible shockwave, forming a ring, exploded outwards at supersonic speed! Wherever it passed, the air was compressed into white walls of air, the surging waterfalls beneath their feet were abruptly severed, and towering waves were unleashed!
Countless tons of water were instantly evaporated into scorching white steam, then brutally torn apart by the shockwave! The stone statues of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, which had stood there since that battle, enduring the daily ravages of wind and rain yet remaining unmoved, shattered like fragile plaster statues from the neck up under this cataclysmic impact!
Countless massive fragments of rock were hurled high into the air like a meteor shower, then crashed back down into the churning steam and giant waves below!
At the heart of this destructive storm, Sasuke's vision was a blinding white and chaotic blur! The immense impact caused his entire body to groan in agony!
A tearing pain shot through his right arm, as if it would be completely crushed by the raging golden power in the next second! The lightning of Chidori, under the endless spinning of the Rasengan and the terrifying brute force of the Nine-Tails' chakra, emitted a piercing scream, its light rapidly dimming!
Was he going to lose? Was his arm going to break? No! Absolutely not! How could he lose to this loser who had abandoned the group! He would break this guy's
legs and take him back to the village! The loneliness of being abandoned, the anger of being left alone, burned his heart like poisonous fire!
"Ughh ...
A crisp sound, seemingly from the depths of his soul, rang out—a sound only he could hear!
The three tomoe that had been spinning wildly in his vision froze abruptly, then, in a fraction of a second, as if pulled, twisted, and exploded by an invisible force! An indescribable pain instantly pierced his brain! At the center of the shattered crimson fragments, a new, bizarre, and complex pattern instantly formed and solidified!
The pattern was profound and cold, carrying a mysterious and ominous quality, as if it understood the trajectory of fate. The instant the pattern took shape, a new, cold, and powerful torrent of ocular power, like a glacier that had been dormant for millennia suddenly collapsing, crashed into Sasuke's eyes, flowing throughout his entire body! The Mangekyou Sharingan!
The world changed abruptly in his eyes! The flow of energy became clearer than ever before; every minute detail of the chakra circulation in Naruto's ferocious Rasengan was as clear as the lines on his palm! Furthermore, a cold power instantly awakened and condensed within the Chidori in his right arm, which was on the verge of collapse!
"Sizzle—!"
A tiny yet incredibly condensed arc of black electricity, like a blade from the underworld slicing through chaos, suddenly shot out from the core of Chidori! Ignoring the Rasengan's high-speed rotation defense, it carried a power of annihilation, instantly piercing through the golden chakra's outer shell and heading straight for the core of Naruto's Rasengan!
"What?!" Naruto's eerie vertical pupils constricted sharply; his Nine-Tails Mode senses instantly detected the danger of that black arc! It was a power capable of eroding and disintegrating the very essence of chakra! He instinctively wanted to withdraw, but the momentum of their full-force clash was unstoppable!
The moment the black arc pierced the core of the Rasengan was like a drop of cold water being poured into a boiling oil pan!
"Boom—!!!"
A second explosion occurred! It wasn't an external impact, but rather an energy explosion triggered by the erosion and destruction of the Rasengan's internal structure by the black arc! The highly compressed chakra lost its restraint and exploded uncontrollably in Naruto's palm!
"Pfft!" Naruto coughed up blood as if struck by a heavy blow, his entire body blasted backward by his out-of-control ninjutsu! His golden chakra cloak fluctuated violently, flickering and nearly dissipating!
Sasuke was also violently thrown back by the force of the explosion, crashing heavily into a huge, not yet completely collapsed rock wall behind him, creating a spiderweb-like crater, with debris falling in a shower. He knelt on one knee, panting heavily, the wound on his left arm and the excruciating pain in his right arm tearing at his nerves, his brain spinning and throbbing from the activation of the Mangekyou Sharingan. But he suddenly raised his head, his newly formed eyes, flowing with cold and eerie patterns, locking onto the backward-flying Naruto, his pupil power like a tangible cold current, piercing through the billowing smoke and water vapor.
The smoke and water vapor, like a tattered curtain, slowly settled and tore apart in the violent aftershocks of energy. The Valley of the End seemed to have witnessed a war of gods, a scene of utter devastation. The colossal stone statue was reduced to a broken torso. The once roaring waterfall had been blasted apart, creating a massive, misty void where murky water gathered again below, emitting a mournful sound.
Naruto staggered to his feet on a huge rock protruding from the water in the distance, bloodstains still visible at the corner of his mouth. His golden chakra cloak flickered like a candle in the wind, and his eerie vertical pupils reflected Sasuke's cold, unfamiliar Mangekyou Sharingan, which contained a new and terrifying power. His heavy breathing aggravated the pain in his chest, each breath carrying the stench of blood. He slowly raised his right hand, his palm charred and mangled, evidence of the injury inflicted by his out-of-control Rasengan.
Sasuke, leaning against the cold rock wall, endured the tearing pain in his left arm and the burning sensation from the Mangekyou Sharingan deep within his brain, and slowly straightened up. His newly awakened eye power flowed coldly in his eyes, clearly taking in Naruto's disheveled state, his charred right hand, and the undisguised pain and exhaustion in his eyes.
"Haha...hahaha...hahahahaha!" Sasuke laughed heartily, then looked back at Naruto: "Naruto, this time you can't escape."
"Mangekyou Sharingan..." Inside the sealed space, Kurama stared intently at the slowly rotating Mangekyou patterns in Sasuke's eyes.
"This time, we really have to get serious." Naruto took a deep breath, steam rising from his injured right hand, which healed in a few breaths. "Let's go, Kurama-nii!"
Golden flames ignited again on Naruto's body, and he entered Kurama Mode.
The two, standing on opposite sides of the pool, said no more. They charged at each other, fists and feet clashing against swords. As Naruto attacked, his chakra aura coalesced into claws, striking Sasuke. Sasuke, his body crackling with black and purple lightning, calmly used the skeleton of his Susanoo to block. For a moment, the two exchanged blows, neither gaining the upper hand.
However, in the heat of battle, Sasuke seized an opportunity. He first used a slash of purple lightning to force Naruto back, then closed in, his eyes fixed on Naruto's.
"Mangekyou Sharingan Genjutsu, activated!"
Caught off guard, Naruto's movements slowed. Sasuke seized the opportunity to invade Naruto's sealed space.
Once inside, Sasuke ignored Naruto, whose pupils now bore the mark of his Mangekyou Sharingan, and instead looked up at the Nine-Tails behind the sealed gate.
"Nine-Tails, it was you who bewitched Naruto, wasn't it! Before these eyes, your schemes end here!"
Nine-Tails: ?
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