Rumble—
The massive black-smoke blade that stretched across the mountains and forests slammed heavily into the earth. Amid the trembling roar of the ground, the blade sank halfway into the soil. Cracks erupted from around it with a series of sharp snaps, spreading far and wide in an instant, covering the clearing and several hundred meters of the surrounding area. Wherever the cracks passed, trees toppled one after another with endless crashing sounds, all the way to the end of the fractured zone.
The rumbling sound carried far into the distance.
It nearly drowned out the furious roars of the colossal beast far away.
Damn it!
Damn Taki Chiba!
At that moment, within the gem-like structure at the very center of the black giant's brow—a giant seemingly formed from pitch-black flames—Uchiha Nobuhiko knelt on one knee amid solid Chakra, gripping the enormous blade as he forced it downward. Blood continued to spill from the corner of his mouth, and his face was deathly pale, yet he appeared remarkably alert.
He did not look like someone with a huge hole punched through his abdomen.
Clearly, Chiba's attack had not killed this Reincarnator. Even the charred hole in his stomach was shedding blackened dead flesh, while wisps of white vapor continuously rose from the wound. Amid hissing sounds, the hole—and even the organs inside that had been half-destroyed or completely incinerated—were regrowing at a visible rate.
Uchiha Nobuhiko's body was regenerating in a strange manner!
Or rather...
Repairing itself!
And judging by his condition, not only would he not die, but his spirits were growing more vigorous. Returning to normal was merely a matter of time.
That Rasengan just now...
*No! It shouldn't be called a Rasengan. With that level of fused Nature Transformation, Taki Chiba's little sphere can no longer be