The wind howled as the massive sand sphere rapidly ascended into the air.
Inside the sand sphere, Second Wind Shadow panted, still shaken. He hadn't expected Shin'yu's perception to be so sharp. That punch contained an extremely domineering force, causing his brewing killing move to collapse. He could only do his best to maintain the sand sphere.
Fortunately, that punch couldn't directly shatter the sand sphere. The fist's impact with the sand surface instantly created a huge depression, with countless grains of sand flowing and frantically neutralizing the force. Even so, he was still blasted into the sky.
Shin'yu stood in place, about to pursue, when his brow suddenly furrowed slightly.
In an instant, black energy swirled and rose around him, accompanied by fierce winds that swept in all directions. A pitch-black, four-armed giant projected from his body, its skeleton appearing and meridians filling in. It was thick and solid, stretching its form under the round moon, its massive shadow completely enveloping the entrance of Whirlpool Tide Village.
"Susanoo·Fourth Stage·Mature Body."
Ōnoki's pupils shrank, realizing that the giant was coming for him. He immediately formed hand seals, and an invisible wave gently brushed out from his body. Although there was no wind, his hair floated as if he were underwater, slowly drifting upwards.
"Earth Release: Super-Lightened Boulder Technique!"
Suddenly, his figure swayed slightly, as if an afterimage twisted on his body for a moment. As if a certain restriction had been lifted, his feet left the ground, and his body floated into the air.
The Susanoo clasped its hands together, and as it pulled them apart, a string of rosary-like black magatama had already condensed, shooting out like rapid-fire cannonballs, slamming hard towards Ōnoki.
"Damn it!"
Ōnoki's eyes narrowed, and he quickly retreated, constantly shifting left and right, narrowly avoiding the spinning giant magatama as he shot into the sky.
His strategy was simple. The Dust Release from earlier had been too intense, exceeding his body's limits, and he needed to pause for a while before he could use it again.
And the Susanoo... it cast too great a shadow on him. It was an Eye Technique born for destruction, and he couldn't fight it head-on with anything other than Dust Release. He could only create distance and stall for time.
The black giant roared, its powerful sound waves rolling out, causing everyone to turn their heads.
With a clap of its four hands, a series of "Yasaka Magatama" scattered across the sky, even blasting apart the leaden gray clouds!
Ōnoki's face was unsightly, and he cursed "beast" under his breath, but he didn't make any move to retaliate, only relying on his small stature to constantly dodge in mid-air, narrowly avoiding danger.
His disheveled appearance was somewhat similar to Uzumaki Kongming, who he had previously suppressed.
Kongming, however, had no time to watch the show. After Ōnoki was restrained by Shin'yu, he immediately rushed to support his clansmen, fighting alongside the Uzumaki shinobi.
As for Minazuki Sora, ever since Shin'yu appeared, he had immediately stopped, standing there motionless, appearing very well-behaved.
"Why did this evil star... have to come here?" He frowned, lamenting, "If I had known, I wouldn't have participated in this operation..."
In the night sky, "watching" Shin'yu shoot towards him like a rocket, Shamon gritted his teeth, steeled his heart, and slammed his hands together.
"Desert: Rebel Slave!"
The quicksand on the surface of the sand sphere surged, quickly condensing into two giant sand arms, reaching out towards Shin'yu from afar.
Shin'yu's lips curled up, and his body swayed slightly, quickly creating more than twenty identical afterimages. Ripples of water spread out beneath each figure's feet, causing the two sand hands to grasp at empty air.
At this moment, the sand sphere had already begun to fall.
One of the "Shin'yu" moved his foot, and with the ripple spreading out, instantly appeared below the sand sphere, kicking it away.
The sand sphere once again displayed its good elasticity. After all, Shamon had used Chakra to mix high-hardness minerals gathered from underground into the sand under pressure, supplemented by the sand's fluidity, to form this mobile fortress. Its toughness was naturally not to be underestimated.
However, before the sand sphere could fly away, another "Shin'yu" flashed out with a smile, repeating the same trick, lifting his foot and kicking it in another direction.
"Phantom Body Flicker Technique: Shin'yu Barrage!"
Phantom Body Flicker Technique in tandem, ripples scattering, all the "Shin'yu" swarmed forward, completely treating the sand sphere like a beach soccer ball, passing it to each other. In an instant, countless dust clouds scattered, the sand sphere severely deformed, constantly rebounding in mid-air!
Inside the sand sphere, Shamon felt a surge of turmoil. Crisp, continuous cracking sounds came from all directions. His heart tightened; it was the sound of high-hardness mineral sand being constantly crushed.
At this rate, it wouldn't be long before all the mineral sand he drew from the ground would turn into fine sand, and his sand sphere would likely be breached by Shin'yu in an instant!
If that's the case, better to go for broke!
He tried his best to adjust his body in the sand sphere, his hands quickly forming hand seals, "Desert Wave!!"
The surface of the sand sphere suddenly undulated, countless protrusions extending outward, turning into dense spikes, like a giant brown sea urchin. The spike tips were entirely formed of the thickest, high-hardness mineral material, each one exceptionally sharp.
"Scatter!" Shamon supported himself with both hands, and the huge sand sphere dissipated on its own, countless fine needles scattering in all directions, instantly piercing the bodies of every "Shin'yu".
And Shamon also quickly fell to the ground, his flustered appearance very much like a hermit crab eager to change its shell.
The afterimages suddenly dissipated, leaving only one figure standing in the void. He raised a hand and pressed down, drawing a huge amount of water vapor, highly condensing and compressing it to form a Water Molecule Barrier of extremely high density, protecting him.
As ripples swayed, most of the sand needles shattered directly, only a few breaking through the Water Barrier and disintegrating into smoke at Shin'yu's chest.
Shin'yu glanced at his unscathed chest, his skin still delicate, as bright as jade. He didn't care, but raised his hand and flicked it, a sword aura brushed out, a streak of emerald light flashing across the night sky.
At a certain position in the high sky, a grape-sized sand eye was instantly split in two, falling in an instant.
"Ah!"
Shamon had just landed when he groaned, covering his right eye, because in that moment of delay, Shin'yu appeared strangely beside him, like a life-reaping ghost, unleashing a punch without explanation.
Shamon was simply terrified. This guy was clearly in the high sky just now, such a long distance away, yet he arrived in an instant. Could it be a space-time Ninjutsu!
In a hasty glance, he only had time to notice that the clothes on Shin'yu's body had been miraculously restored, and a fist was already blasting towards his eyes.
In this critical moment, he immediately burst out with all his strength, driving layers of quicksand to condense into a shield, wrapping his whole body. The fist broke through layers of sand shields, directly hitting Shamon's chest.
With a muffled sound, his body arched like a shrimp, shooting out dozens of meters away, scraping a long trail on the ground with his feet, barely stopping.
The sand shield on the surface of his body peeled off like sugar coating. He couldn't care about the blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, desperately squeezing Chakra to regenerate the sand sphere, hiding his body inside.
"Barrage Sand Shower!"
The ground was his battlefield. As long as his feet were on the ground, all his moves were veritable map attacks!
A large number of circular sand bullets shot out, like bullets fired from a machine gun, with such power that they could easily turn rock layers into sieves!
Shin'yu calmly raised his palm, accompanied by a rapid buzzing sound, a blue-ice Chakra ball suddenly condensed in his palm, suddenly expanding in high-speed rotation.
"Super-Massive Rasengan!"
The storm swirled into a vortex, and blue light illuminated the night sky. Shin'yu used the "Super-Massive Rasengan" as a shield, easily blocking all the sand bullets, and then extended his index finger.
Under the terrifying Chakra manipulation ability, the mountain-like Massive Rasengan suddenly contracted, suspended at his fingertip. Although small in size, the light became more intense, and terrifying energy was brewing in the center!
"Spiral Bullet!"
A wisp of ice-blue streamer cut through the sky, instantly piercing through the sand sphere. Shin'yu narrowed his eyes, his falcon-like gaze directly locking onto the Second Wind Shadow inside the sand sphere.
He raised his sword fingers, stabbing remotely in a certain direction. As the Mangekyo in his right eye rotated quietly, Shamon's body appeared beside him without warning.
"Puff!"
"Autumn Dew on Leaves" pierced out suddenly from the sword's tip, the sword energy whistling like a blue dragon, breaking through Shamon's chest without any obstruction, piercing his heart, and leaving a bloody hole in his back.
Shamon's face twisted, and he fell powerlessly to the ground, a look of horror, incomprehension, and astonishment intertwined in a grimace that would forever be etched on his face.
Shin'yu casually adjusted his sunglasses, as if he had done something insignificant.
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