Chapter 178: Two Days and Two Nights
On the dimly lit moon, two colossal black orbs hovered.
As the black orbs liquefied and dissipated, turning into eight desk-sized black spheres, two figures emerged.
One was Izayoi, enveloped entirely in a greenish-blue chakra aura, while the other was Uchiha Madara, clad in a combat suit with a red armored outer layer. Their Tenseigan and Rinnegan, brimming with astonishing dōjutsu power, disregarded the darkness caused by the absence of the artificial sun and met each other's gaze.
The next second, a thunderous roar erupted.
Massive tree branches burst from the ground, either shooting towards Izayoi or lashing out.
Izayoi did not manipulate his Truth-Seeking Orbs to counter them, because these branches were imbued with Six Paths Sage Art chakra, one of the few Six Paths Sage Art Wood Release techniques capable of contending with the Truth-Seeking Orbs.
Manipulating a Truth-Seeking Orb to float before him, Izayoi placed his hand upon it. The surface of the black orb was then covered by another layer of black substance.
It was a Truth-Seeking Orb layered with... Chakra Beads!
How terrifying would a Truth-Seeking Orb, imbued with destructive power, become when it also possessed the characteristics of creative power?
The answer was immediately revealed!
Shuu!
A dazzling and incomparably sharp golden light ripped through the darkness. Even Uchiha Madara, at a considerable distance, found the golden light blinding.
Furthermore, the threat posed by this golden light instinctively prompted Uchiha Madara to use Limbo: Border Jail, creating two shadows to block in front of him.
Because Uchiha Madara was all too familiar with this golden light.
In their previous battle, he had been struck from the moon back to the ninja world by this infinitely extending golden light.
However, this time, the golden light did not extend infinitely, nor was its target Uchiha Madara.
Splitting, tearing sounds could be heard, like cloth being ripped apart.
Izayoi, gripping the golden light sword formed by the Truth-Seeking Orb and Chakra Beads, swung it like Sun Wukong's Ruyi Jingu Bang, continuously extending, shrinking, enlarging, and diminishing. With a few casual swings, he severed all the tree branches that shot and lashed out at him.
Having done this, Izayoi continued to pour chakra into the golden light sword, sending it shooting forth in one direction.
The light sword extended as fast as light itself, instantly extending and then stopping.
At the tip of the light sword, skewered was a Limbo shadow, visible only to Izayoi and Uchiha Madara, which had attempted to ambush Izayoi while he was distracted.
"Sage Art... Storm Release: Light Fang!"
Just then, a piercing whooshing sound entered his ears.
Without needing to turn his head, Izayoi, with his 360-degree X-ray vision, instantly saw a half-bodied Uchiha Madara emerging from the cut surface of a tree branch below, spitting a purple laser at Izayoi.
Compared to Darui's Storm Release and Izayoi's Storm Release Secret Technique, Uchiha Madara's Storm Release laser was incredibly small.
Yet, this tiny purple laser contained power from another dimension.
In terms of speed, it was no less inferior to Izayoi's Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
Too late to dodge, Izayoi manipulated a Truth-Seeking Orb to fly towards the incoming purple laser.
At the same time, he created a string of Chakra Beads on his wrist, at least a dozen of them.
When the Truth-Seeking Orb, which annihilated everything upon contact, collided with the lightning-fast purple laser.
An incredible sight immediately unfolded.
The Truth-Seeking Orb, which had just moments ago been so impressive, destroying the artificial sun by self-detonation, was actually sliced in half by the fine, thread-like purple laser. The remaining power, undiminished, continued to shoot towards Izayoi.
"Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"
The Chakra Beads on Izayoi's wrist rapidly enlarged, rotating to form a greenish-blue chakra wheel, which then transformed into a colossal tornado, roaring forth.
The natural disaster-like tornado successfully destroyed the purple laser, and its undiminished force continued to engulf downwards, pulverizing the tree branches and Wood Clones below. It even curved around, attacking Uchiha Madara's main body.
Both the speed of light and wind were incredibly fast.
Even if Izayoi and Uchiha Madara could see them, it was difficult to dodge.
Unless space-time abilities were used, the speed of flight, in front of the speed of light and wind, was like a carriage versus a sports car; the former had just started, while the latter was already speeding away.
If they hadn't stepped into the extraterrestrial realm, these abilities, created by chakra, could all be absorbed by the basic abilities of the Rinnegan and Tenseigan, and would even enhance their own chakra.
But after taking a big step into the extraterrestrial realm, these powers, which were a dimensionality strike to the ninja world, were already considered inferior.
Storm Release: Light Fang, which could even sever a Truth-Seeking Orb, simply could not be absorbed by the Preta Path or the green chakra sphere.
Similarly, the Almighty Push, a power of rules, unless charged for a very long time, the repulsive storm and invisible barrier it released would be as fragile as thin paper.
While Truth-Seeking Orbs could still block Storm Release: Light Fang, Almighty Push would probably be instantly pierced, and would consume even more chakra.
These low-cost powers had already been eliminated.
What followed was a battle of the ninja's fundamentals... a battle of information!
Uchiha Madara didn't even glance at the roaring tornado, focusing on condensing a Truth-Seeking Orb and a Six Paths Staff.
When the tornado was about to engulf Uchiha Madara, with a loud bang, the tornado instantly dispersed.
It was dispersed by the Limbo shadow, which was responsible for protecting Uchiha Madara.
After activating Six Paths Sage Mode, Uchiha Madara's greatest improvement, besides the exponential increase in his stats, was Limbo: Border Jail.
Limbo shadows were invisible shadow clones. Any ability the main body possessed, the Limbo shadows could also use.
Last time, Uchiha Madara hadn't even mastered Sage Mode, and the Limbo shadow had no resistance whatsoever against the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
Now, having activated Six Paths Sage Mode, the Limbo shadow's strength also reached the Six Paths level.
Facing the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, which was merely created by chakra beads and did not contain Six Paths Sage Art chakra, the Limbo shadow easily dispersed it.
Seeing that these long-range abilities were ineffective against each other.
Izayoi and Uchiha Madara exchanged glances, and with unspoken understanding, flew towards each other.
The golden light sword extended, shooting towards him.
Uchiha Madara, wielding the Six Paths Staff, collided with it.
The golden light sword, whose sharpness surpassed even that of Storm Release: Light Fang, failed to sever the Six Paths Staff.
Although the nature of the Six Paths Staff was the same as that of the Truth-Seeking Orb, it was just like the golden light sword in Izayoi's hand, created from a Truth-Seeking Orb and Chakra Beads, containing astonishing Yang Release power.
This Yang Release power came precisely from the sun mark on Uchiha Madara's palm.
With the boost of Yang Release, the Six Paths Staff was actually on par with the golden light sword.
But only for a moment!
After a dozen clashes, realizing that their respective attacks could not bypass the Rinnegan and Tenseigan's insight to injure each other, Izayoi increased his chakra output, raised the golden light sword in his hand, transforming it into a giant sword dozens of meters long, and brought it down.
Although it was a giant sword dozens of meters long, its attack speed remained unchanged, still as fast as lightning.
Flight and evasion were meaningless. Uchiha Madara could only grasp the Six Paths Staff with both hands, swinging it out to collide.
At the same time, he created another Limbo shadow to attack Izayoi.
The golden giant sword struck the Six Paths Staff, still failing to sever it, but the terrifying force knocked Uchiha Madara to the moon's surface.
Looking at the surging Limbo shadow, Izayoi, with both hands gripping his sword, couldn't dodge. He could only manipulate the Truth-Seeking Orbs floating around him to divide their tasks. One transformed into a black beam of light and shot towards the Limbo shadow, while the others liquefied and merged to form a giant black sphere, enveloping Izayoi.
The next second, numerous holes appeared on the black sphere, as if it had been pierced by an invisible attack.
However, looking through these holes, it was clear there was no one inside.
As if triggering some limitation, the black sphere liquefied and reverted into individual orbs, shooting downwards.
The scene shifted to the moon's surface, where a thunderous explosion erupted.
Izayoi, who had used Chakra Bead Creation and then a combination of Heavenly Transfer Technique and Flying Thunder God Technique to instantly teleport from inside the Truth-Seeking Orb behind Uchiha Madara, raised his hand and struck the air at Uchiha Madara, who had already sensed his teleportation and had manipulated his Truth-Seeking Orbs into a shield to protect himself.
"Roar..."
The beads on his wrist transformed into five chakra dragons of different colors, which merged to form a small five-colored dragon.
Then, this small five-colored dragon instantly transformed into a colossal five-colored dragon, letting out a roar that intimidated all beasts. It engulfed Uchiha Madara and then stretched forward for unknown kilometers, plowing a massive沟壑 (gully) across the moon's surface, eventually even flying out of the moon.
Under the protection of the Truth-Seeking Orbs, Uchiha Madara was unharmed, but his figure was sent flying out of the moon by the five-colored giant dragon.
Looking at the colorful swirling air currents around him, Uchiha Madara couldn't help but curse, "These natural disaster-type attacks can actually be fused like composite ninjutsu? Those black orbs' abilities are disgusting!"
By the time the five-colored giant dragon dissipated, Uchiha Madara had already flown a considerable distance from the moon.
Besides the large and small meteorites around him, there were only some distant planets, similar to the moon and Earth, visible to the eye, but too far for Six Paths Sage Mode to detect any life energy.
"Does this guy want to exhaust my Six Paths Sage Art chakra this way?" Uchiha Madara sneered, "If so, then your plan is probably mistaken. Although my current chakra is not as much as yours, your current state consumes chakra every moment. You'll probably run out of chakra faster than I will."
"Then let's see."
Izayoi's voice came from behind Uchiha Madara.
Uchiha Madara, who had already sensed him, calmly turned around and swung the Six Paths Staff in his hand, colliding with Izayoi's golden light sword.
Then, the two flew while engaging in a straightforward taijutsu battle.
The Rinnegan and Tenseigan rotated ceaselessly, their terrifying insight, either combined with Six Paths Sage Mode's perception or using their X-ray ability, seeking out each other's weaknesses.
If no weakness was found, they would feign one, using deceptive moves to find the opponent's weakness, or creating a false impression that the opponent could succeed, forcing them to use a powerful technique and consume more chakra.
Missed powerful attacks shattered meteorites, blooming like fireworks in the universe.
Gradually, Izayoi and Uchiha Madara both realized the other's intention and began to reduce the frequency of using powerful techniques, controlling their chakra consumption. They even refrained from using Truth-Seeking Orb self-detonation.
After all, the chakra required to condense a single Truth-Seeking Orb was even greater than that needed to create a Perfect Susano'o or a five-colored giant dragon.
The two, seemingly god-like with their world-destroying power, ended up fighting a taijutsu battle in space for two days and two nights.
If it weren't for the occasional passing sun, they wouldn't even have known how much time had passed.
Throughout these two days and two nights of battle, Izayoi and Uchiha Madara maintained extreme focus.
After all, the offensive power of the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and the Six Paths Staff was undeniable; a direct hit would essentially end the battle.
After two days and two nights of attrition, Izayoi's and Uchiha Madara's vast reserves of chakra, like an endless sea, were mostly depleted.
The most severely depleted was Izayoi's.
After all, Tenseigan Chakra Mode and the light sword formed by the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion constantly consumed Izayoi's chakra.
In contrast, the Truth-Seeking Orbs were like materialized chakra, similar to Tailed Beasts. Unless they self-destructed, the chakra within them would barely diminish.
If his Ōtsutsuki bloodline hadn't upgraded to a rainbow-tier trait, causing his chakra reserves to massively increase, Izayoi's chakra would have been exhausted by Uchiha Madara long ago.
Even so, Izayoi's chakra, along with the physical and mental energy within his cells, could only sustain him for two days and two nights.
As his chakra dropped to a certain level, Izayoi's Tenseigan Chakra Mode finally deactivated automatically, uncontrollably.
Seeing this, Uchiha Madara, whose expression was also incredibly fatigued but still had 30% of his chakra left, displayed a triumphant smile and said, "I won!"
To this, Izayoi, drenched in sweat, grinned and replied, "No... I won."
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