52: Chapter 52 Crushing and Return on InvestmentBonds?
That kind of thing never existed in the first place.
Naruto Uzumaki's words were soft, yet they possessed a power more penetrating than the roar of the waterfall at the Valley of the End.
It was an invisible poison needle that pierced Sasuke Uchiha's most vulnerable nerves, which were wrapped in layers of cursed seals and arrogance.
All the twisted pleasure and cruel smile on Sasuke's ominous gray face froze in that instant.
He had everything prepared.
He was prepared for Naruto's anger, his confusion, his passionate verbal sparring, and even his tears and pleas.
He will use absolute power to crush these ridiculous emotions one by one as his final ritual to sever ties with the past.
But this was the one thing he wasn't prepared for.
negative.
A complete and utter rejection from the root.
"What.did you say?" Sasuke's voice was dry, and for the first time, a pure, incomprehensible confusion appeared in his three-tomoe Sharingan eyes.
"I said," Naruto raised his azure eyes and calmly repeated, "there has never been any bond between us.You are just an interesting sample for me to observe the weaknesses of human nature."
boom!
The string of reason snapped completely.
"asshole!"
Sasuke let out a roar that sounded inhuman.His hands flew into hand seals, the movements so fast they had become instinctive that they were just afterimages.
"Fireball Technique!"
He expelled all the air and chakra from his chest, unleashing a massive orange-red fireball, over ten meters in diameter and far larger than any he had ever used before.This fireball, radiating an incinerating rage, hurtled towards the orange-clad figure who had his hands in his pockets and wasn't even bothering to adopt a defensive stance.
[Ding!You have received 18,000 Extreme [Rage] from Uchiha Sasuke!]
However, Naruto simply raised his right hand casually.
No hand seals were used.
He simply spread his five fingers, facing the small sun hurtling towards him.
An extremely cold, otherworldly chill emanated from his palm.
The water vapor in the air condensed instantly, not into ordinary ice crystals, but into a smooth, black ice wall with a dark hue.
The ice wall appeared out of thin air; it wasn't large, just enough to block Naruto's figure.
The next second, the huge fireball crashed into the thin ice wall.
The scene of ice and fire merging and water vapor rising as expected did not appear.
The flames, powerful enough to melt steel, were swallowed up by the eerie ice wall the moment they touched it, like light being sucked into a black hole.Without even a spark, they were completely devoured by the wall and vanished without a trace.
Possessed by Evil Spirits - Ice Demon.
Sasuke's attack couldn't even cause the slightest change in the temperature of that ice wall.
"What.what is this."
Sasuke's mind went blank.
His Sharingan could clearly see the flow of chakra within Naruto's body, but the nature of that power was beyond his comprehension.
That's not water escape; it's a purer, more fundamental "freezing" law.
Is it a bloodline limit?
How could someone who's at the bottom of the class possibly have a bloodline limit?
[Ding!You have received 19,000 units of ultimate [Shock] from Uchiha Sasuke!]
The incomprehensible reality gives rise to a deeper level of madness.
I don't care what tricks you used!
Sasuke roared, and his left hand erupted with blinding blue lightning, instantly tearing the air apart with the sharp cries of thousands of birds.
"Chidori!"
He poured all his speed and power into this strike, transforming himself into a streak of blue lightning, hurtling straight for Naruto's heart at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow.
He was going to use this strike, which contained the strongest penetrating power of his lightning release, to pierce through that strange ice wall and the hateful face behind it!
This time, Naruto didn't even bother to lift his hand.
The ground beneath his feet, the hard rocky surface wet from the waterfall, suddenly groaned under the weight of the descent.
Boom!
Just a fraction of a second before the tip of the Chidori was about to touch Naruto's chest, several massive, dark brown trees, thicker than an adult's thigh, burst forth from the hard rock in a manner defying the laws of nature.
They twisted, coiled, and intertwined wildly, instantly forming an incredibly thick wooden dome in front of Naruto.
Wood Release.
Bang!
Sasuke's Chidori slammed solidly into the wooden wall.
Lightning exploded, and debris flew everywhere.
However, the lightning, powerful enough to pierce through everything, only left a shallow scorch mark on the dark brown tree trunk.
Immediately afterwards, a massive surge of life energy flowed out from the wooden wall in reverse, actively absorbing the chakra contained in his Chidori.
Sasuke was thrown backward by the enormous recoil force, staring incredulously at the wooden wall that exuded a powerful life force.
ice.
Then comes wood.
These two words represent two kinds of power in the legends of the ninja world.
One type is a bloodline limit that has long been lost and can rival the Uchiha clan.
Another kind of power belongs only to the man hailed as the "God of Shinobi," the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.
Why?
Why would these legendary powers appear in this loser's body?
"Did you see that?"
The wooden wall slowly opened, and Naruto calmly walked out, hands still in his pockets.He looked at Uchiha Sasuke, who was panting heavily from the collapse of his worldview, with an almost pitying gaze.
"Your attacks are like children's toys to me."
His voice was calm, yet it was like an invisible hammer that slammed into Sasuke's pride.
"Your fire-style techniques, which you are so proud of, cannot warm me in the slightest."
"Your famous Thousand Birds cannot even scratch my bark."
""Uchiha Sasuke, you betrayed the village and abandoned your comrades for power, joining the ranks of a rogue ninja and begging for mercy."
"And this is all you got?"
[Ding!You have received 25,000 units of ultimate humiliation from Uchiha Sasuke!]
[Ding!You have received 28,000 units of Ultimate [Unwillingness] from Uchiha Sasuke!]
"Aaaaaaaahhhhh!"
Sasuke let out a desperate and furious roar.
The black, flame-shaped curse mark on his body, stimulated by extreme negative emotions, spread wildly and completely covered his entire skin.
His hair turned gray-white and stretched out endlessly, and a pair of huge, fleshy wings spread out from his back.
Cursed Seal State Two, Complete Form.
A surge of chakra, several times larger and extremely malevolent than before, erupted from his body.
"Naruto!"
He gritted his teeth and roared out the name, word by word, his Sharingan eyes, with their three-tomoe patterns, brimming with unyielding resentment and madness.
I'm going to kill you!
Black lightning gathered in his palm.
It was no longer a bright blue, but a deep, dark black that seemed to devour all light.
The birdsong became even hoarser, filled with an aura of foreboding and destruction.
Black Chidori.
This was his strongest attack, unleashed by pushing the power of the cursed seal and his own chakra to their limits.
[Ding!You have received 31,000 units of Ultimate Rage from Uchiha Sasuke!]
Faced with this power that would make any Kage-level expert take notice, Naruto finally made a new move.
He stopped dodging.
He slowly pulled his right hand out of his pocket and raised it with one hand.
A blue chakra sphere rapidly formed and spun in his palm.
Dayama Rasengan.
But that's not all.
Sizzle!Sizzle!Sizzle!Sizzle!
Four white, solidified, enormous wind blades suddenly grew out of the Rasengan, like a rapidly spinning planetary windmill.
The wind attribute changes and is perfectly integrated.
At that moment, the sharpness emanating from this Rasengan, capable of cutting through everything, even drowned out the roar of the waterfall.
Two distinct forces confront each other at the Valley of the End.
On one side, there is black lightning, representing hatred, jealousy, and destruction.
On the other side is the Storm Planet, representing absolute power and pure crushing dominance.
"Go to hell!"
Sasuke roared and charged forward, transforming into a black afterimage.
Naruto also moved.He didn't make any unnecessary movements; he simply and unremarkably met the attack with the Storm Rasengan in his hand.
The next second.
The two moves collided.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
The pitch-black Chidori, which embodied all of Sasuke's dignity and anger, was like a piece of paper hitting a high-speed rotating industrial cutting machine the moment it came into contact with the four wind blades on the outside of the Rasengan.
The black lightning was instantly torn apart and shattered, transforming into the purest chakra particles that dissipated into the air.
The massive Rasengan, with an absolute and irresistible force, devoured all the remaining lightning and then slammed firmly onto Sasuke's face, which was contorted with extreme terror.
boom!
Absolute power, erupting in an instant.
Sasuke's body, like a tattered sack hit head-on by a battering ram, lost all its shape in an instant.
The fleshy wings on his back were instantly torn apart by the violent energy flow, and his bones emitted a dense, teeth-grinding cracking sound.
He was blasted away by this unparalleled force, leaving a horrific trail in the air before crashing heavily into the massive stone statue representing Uchiha Madara in the distance, carving a deep, human-shaped dent into the hard rock wall.
The smoke and dust slowly dissipated.
Naruto slowly withdrew his hand; the Rasengan in his palm had already dissipated.
He walked step by step to the ruins.
Sasuke was embedded in the rock wall like a lump of mud, barely alive.
Half of his body's flesh had been shredded by the violent chakra, and he was on the verge of collapse.The cursed seal had also faded, revealing his pale, paper-white face.
His consciousness was rapidly drifting away; his worldview, his philosophy of life, everything he held dear, had all been shattered by that single blow.
Naruto walked up to him, looked down at him, and saw no joy of victory in his blue eyes, only a cold calm.
He said softly.
"Look, this is the power you gained by exchanging bonds.It's so weak."
boom.
This was the last thing Sasuke heard before he completely lost consciousness.
despair.
Endless despair.
And, at the very end of despair, the purest and most insane desire for that incomprehensible, higher-dimensional power is born.
[Ding!You have received a top-tier compound negative emotion from Uchiha Sasuke, Shadow Points +500,000!]
Naruto received this epic amount of emotional points, but his heart remained completely unmoved.
He turned away, not glancing at the "sample" that had completely lost its value.
Not far behind him, a figure emerged from the ground—it was Orochimaru.
He looked at the heavily injured and unconscious Sasuke, then glanced at Naruto's departing figure.His snake-like eyes burned with unprecedented greed and fear.In the end, he chose to pick up Sasuke and quickly disappear.
Naruto stood atop the stone statue of the First Hokage, facing the wind blowing from the Valley of the End, and murmured to himself.
"The return on investment in the first phase was quite good.So, everyone in Xiao.your 'emotions' must be even more delicious now."
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