The Railgun Xia Yuu fired packed quite a punch.
After piercing and killing the Stone Ninja, it slammed into the distant cliff face, blasting a crater several meters across.
Its power was already on par with the original form of the Rasengan. The Rasengan was, after all, one of the few A-rank ninjutsu.
And Xia Yuu had only used a small amount of Chakra. He was nowhere near unleashing the full power of Kagutsuchi.
With enough Chakra, increasing its power a hundred or even a thousand times wouldn't be a problem!
By then...
Could one of his Railgun shots pierce a star? Maybe piercing a moon was still possible, right?
And this was only one way to use the electromagnetic force created by Kagutsuchi.
There were still plenty of other ways Xia Yuu wanted to try it out!
Damn...
The power of his Rinnegan was incredible! What a rush!
It was far better than Amaterasu, which couldn't even burn anyone to death.
He'd try out the other eye's ability next time.
Satisfied, Xia Yuu withdrew his gaze. He paid no more attention to the two Stone Ninja corpses and turned to look back at the battlefield ahead.
On the battlefield below,
the slaughter continued...
Nobody could stop Madara, and with their own people all around them, the Stone Ninja didn't dare unleash any large-scale ninjutsu.
It would only kill more of their own.
What about dragging it out?
Could they wear Uchiha Madara down?
But look at how effortlessly he was fighting. Did he seem tired at all?
If things went on like this...
It was hard to say whether Madara would ever tire, but these Stone Ninja were likely to be wiped out!
They couldn't let him keep slaughtering them!
Hovering in the air and surveying the entire battle from above, Tsuchikage Ishikawa immediately made a decision.
He quickly ordered his trusted men to activate the barrier.
"Barrier: Super Weighted Rock Technique!"
Layers of weighted barriers gradually appeared on the ground. This was one of the traps Iwagakure had specially laid in advance.
Iwagakure was a whole village, and they knew their enemy was coming to challenge them. How could they possibly be unprepared?
They had secretly laid barrier seals all around the village, inside and out.
Once activated,
the gravity acting on every living thing caught within the barrier would increase dramatically, slowing them down to a crawl.
Inside the barrier, hundreds of Iwagakure Genin instantly fell to their knees. It was as if a mountain had been placed on their backs. They struggled to brace themselves against the ground, panting heavily.
Madara's speed suddenly plummeted. The barrier's power had bound him too, slowing him down considerably.
Only this could restrain Madara's nearly unstoppable taijutsu.
And that wasn't all.
Since this was a trump-card trap, they had to finish off their enemy in one fell swoop.
The instant the weighted barrier activated,
Mu, who had been lying in wait, finally revealed himself.
Outside the barrier, he took aim at Madara and began charging his Kekkei Tōta technique, Dust Release: World of Emptiness Devouring Technique!
Under normal circumstances,
hitting Madara with Dust Release would have been almost impossible.
Even Rock Lee, with the weights off, moved faster than a ninja's eyes could track. And Madara's taijutsu was on par with Might Guy's with the Seventh Gate open. How could anyone hope to aim at him?
But inside the weighted barrier,
Madara's speed had been severely restricted. Landing a direct hit was possible!
And if Mu landed a hit,
he was absolutely certain he could vaporize Uchiha Madara!
Reduce him entirely to molecules!
But Mu could only use this ultimate technique once. He had to wait for the perfect moment.
And now was that moment!
One strike, one kill!
Unfortunately, Madara's combat experience and instincts were nothing like those of a rookie ninja such as Ninja Xiaobai.
The instant the barrier activated and he felt his body grow heavier and slower,
Madara guessed that the enemy would seize the opportunity to target him with a powerful ninjutsu.
So he formed hand seals and used a technique at once.
"Fire Style: Dust Concealment Technique!"
Madara exhaled a vast cloud of scorching dust. The Chakra-infused dust obstructed the enemy's vision, hiding him from view.
Even the Sharingan couldn't see through it.
In just a moment, the dust shrouded an area hundreds of meters wide. The barrier could slow ninjas down, but it couldn't slow the dust's spread.
As a result,
Mu, who was aiming from outside the barrier, lost track of Madara and couldn't target him at all.
Of course, Mu could use Dust Release over a wider area. But that would take much longer to charge, and it would also kill the hundreds of Stone Ninja inside the barrier.
Mu couldn't do that!
With no other choice, he released Dust Release based on instinct,
covering the area where Madara had last been and reducing everything within a cube several meters across to atomic particles.
A few seconds later,
the scorching heat and explosion from the dust dealt another heavy blow to the hundreds of Stone Ninja inside the barrier.
It would have been lucky if even half of them survived.
But Ishikawa and Mu had no time to care about the casualties.
"Did it work?"
Countless Stone Ninja outside the barrier held their breath, eagerly awaiting Lord Mu's instant kill against Madara.
Unfortunately, all that awaited them was despair!
The next moment,
before the dust had even cleared, a gigantic, azure Chakra blade suddenly shot straight up.
It instantly pierced through Barrier: Super Weighted Rock Technique.
Then,
a towering blue Susanoo rose from the ground, as immense as a mountain. It stood taller than the peaks, taking on the perfect form of a War God.
Perfect Susanoo!
The ultimate power of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, a supreme Dojutsu with power comparable to that of a god,
was finally laid bare before the people of Iwagakure.
There was no need for words or description. Just seeing the magnificent Susanoo, standing before them like a War God, was enough to shatter the Stone Ninja's courage.
That overwhelming pressure, that fear of a colossal creature, was more than ordinary people could withstand.
It was like an ordinary person coming face-to-face with Godzilla. They couldn't summon the courage to fight back.
Madara folded his arms and hovered inside the Susanoo's forehead, hundreds of meters above the ground. He looked down at everything below, then fixed his gaze on Mu.
"Not a bad technique. You almost got me."
"In that case, I'll let you witness the true power of Uchiha Madara!"
"Iwagakure?"
"Today, you'll vanish from this world!"
Madara controlled the Susanoo as it drew its blade and brought it down on Iwagakure, a thousand meters away.
That single slash
swept across the land like a river-swallowing wave, its sword energy blazing like a rainbow!
The wind whipped up by the blade was like a hurricane, while the Chakra slash it unleashed was peerless in its sharpness and terrifying in its power!
BOOM!
The sword energy split Iwagakure in two. Every building was reduced to rubble, and a ravine thousands of meters long appeared in its wake.
This was the power of Perfect Susanoo, enough to overturn the world and reshape the land!
In an instant,
every Stone Ninja fell into the abyss, swallowed completely by despair.
Only now did First Tsuchikage Ishikawa truly realize how naive his earlier thoughts had been!
This was Uchiha Madara's true power?
This was the power that could rival Hashirama Senju?
How had Konoha managed to claim two monsters like them?
Konoha, if only you'd made things clear earlier, why would we have bothered with an alliance?
Iwagakure could've just come over and become your lackey.
Why go through all this?
That's right. Ishikawa had figured it all out—or rather, he'd pieced together the whole story in his head.
From beginning to end, this had all been a scheme by Konoha!
On one hand, Hokage Hashirama had represented Konoha in making a friendly request for an alliance with Iwagakure, luring their envoy over to discuss the matter.
On the other, Konoha could claim that Iwagakure had rejected the alliance and refused to recognize their goodwill, giving them every excuse to send Uchiha Madara to destroy the village!
That way,
Konoha would get all the benefits and keep its good name.
Iwagakure would become the chicken slaughtered to warn the monkeys!
That's right. Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara must have planned this together long ago.
What a ruthless Hokage! What a ruthless Konoha!
Ishikawa finally saw the truth.
But it was too late for regret.
Unless someone could defeat Uchiha Madara, Iwagakure was doomed to vanish after today!
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