[Eye Power 146/1000]
Susanoo, the God's Power that symbolizes destruction. Eye Power consumption: 1–100 per minute.
What could you do in a minute?
Eat a quarter of an apple, drink a glass of water, refine some Chakra.
But for Perfect Susanoo, slicing a mountain into pieces like tofu in a minute was no problem at all.
"Prosthetic Eye, let me see just how far your capacity can go!"
Uchiha Chen raised his hand in a sword-finger gesture and pressed it to his forehead, drawing on the Eye Power within his Prosthetic Eye to the fullest.
A complete skeletal body suddenly rose from the flames of light. Meridians, flesh, and an outer robe rapidly grew over its bones. The moment they finished forming, Crow Tengu Armor covered the Susanoo, making it appear even more imposing.
At this point,
it was only the beginning.
Powerful, materialized Yin Release Chakra surged out like an angry sea, turning into crimson pentagonal crystals that enclosed Uchiha Chen's body. The giant Susanoo continued to grow at an incredible rate, eventually becoming a roughly two-hundred-meter-tall figure, like a titan from mythology who held up the heavens and earth.
"Settle!"
Wings that blotted out the sky sprouted from the back of the Crow Tengu Armor. The vast Eye Power Chakra of the Susanoo stabilized in an instant, and humanlike features appeared on its face. It resembled a martial god clad in armor.
Perfect Susanoo!
As his Eye Power surged and changed, Uchiha Chen's emotions were roused as well. Standing in the Susanoo's forehead, he folded his arms across his chest, his smile growing ever more twisted.
This was the moment to say something cool.
However,
when he looked down over Dayu Mountain, all Uchiha Chen saw were countless small animals fleeing in panic. The strongest among them were just a few bears that had only recently woken from hibernation.
A lump caught in Uchiha Chen's throat, and he forced back the words that had been about to leave his mouth.
"Next time. I'll definitely do it next time. Time is limited, so let me slice up the cake in front of me first."
Uchiha Chen's gaze sharpened. The deep-crimson Susanoo drew a long sword from its waist, raised both arms, pulled the blade free, and slashed horizontally.
Clang!
The enormous red blade of light swept across the mountain again and again. Each strike sheared away another section of Dayu Mountain, and every blow's shockwaves shook the earth and sky, setting the clouds overhead swirling.
That was despite his doing everything he could to control the force of his strikes, so he wouldn't destroy the seal and Uchiha Hikari inside it along with them.
After several slashes, amid the clouds of dust, Uchiha Chen's Sharingan spotted a remnant of a Sealing Technique with its microscope-like vision. He immediately released Susanoo.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The tremors caused by Susanoo continued.
"Buried pretty deep. That's sixty or seventy meters beneath the mountain's surface, right?"
Uchiha Chen landed on a smooth platform Susanoo had cleaved moments earlier and looked down at the traces of the Sealing Technique beneath him.
This strange, distorted Chakra presence. Was it a space-time technique?
Puzzled, Uchiha Chen followed the traces of the Sealing Technique in search of the seal.
Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!
After finding the spot where the Chakra reaction from the Sealing Technique was strongest, Uchiha Chen formed Hand Seals and used Wind Release to blow away the loose rocks and dirt around him.
At last, he saw the "Yellow Springs Corridor Reincarnation Technique" recorded in History of Warring States Sealing.
The pale-yellow square crystal was two meters on each side, and as clear as glass. Inside it, like something preserved in amber, was a beautiful young woman wearing traditional Uchiha clothing.
Her long black hair billowed as if it were still blowing in the wind. Her eyes, with their Three-Tomoe Sharingan, were cold and bright, while a fearsome aura emanated from her face. Blood still stained the blade of the Kunai in her hand.
She seemed to be in the midst of some fierce battle from more than a hundred years ago.
Uchiha Chen gently ran his hand over the surface of the pale-yellow crystal, sensing this exceedingly rare space-time Sealing Technique.
He could tell that the seal had already weakened considerably. If he didn't come to undo it, it would probably run out of power in another thirty or forty years.
He could almost picture what had happened more than a hundred years ago.
The young woman had slaughtered her enemies left and right. At last, the Senju and Uzumaki shinobi, having suffered heavy losses, could take no more. They used this strange Sealing Technique to "freeze" the young woman in time.
They couldn't kill her.
To kill her, they would have to break the seal. But if they broke it, they still wouldn't be a match for her. So they had no choice but to use Earth Style on the spot and bury the crystal containing her deep inside the mountain.
Uchiha Chen examined the traces of the Sealing Technique, memorized its entire design, then reached out and lightly touched one of its weaker points with a finger.
Bright-blue Chakra surged from his fingertip, instantly disrupting the seal's stability.
The crystal melted away at once, turning into wisps of light that vanished from the world in a flash.
Uchiha Chen nodded lightly and started toward the young woman.
Just then, the young woman's long upper lashes twitched. The Kunai in her hand shot up to guard her chest, and the Tomoe in her eyes spun rapidly, forming the pattern of the Mangekyō.
"Susanoo!"
The young woman gave a sharp cry. A crimson skeletal arm appeared out of nowhere, enclosing her entire body.
"Hmm?"
The young woman's scarlet eyes met Uchiha Chen's, and she clearly saw the Sharingan in his eyes.
Her memories were still frozen at the moment the Uzumaki shinobi had activated the Sealing Technique more than a hundred years ago. She couldn't understand why all her enemies had suddenly disappeared, leaving only a Uchiha dressed in "strange clothes."
After looking around several times, the young woman withdrew the Susanoo protecting her and slowly walked toward Uchiha Chen.
With each step, the lively light in her eyes faded a little more. By the time she reached Uchiha Chen, who had no idea what to say, her expression had turned numb and cold, like a doll's.
"You..."
Before Uchiha Chen could finish speaking, the young woman obediently clenched her hands together and held them out toward him.
Confused, Uchiha Chen watched Uchiha Hikari remain motionless in that pose and asked,
"What does that mean?"
"Don't you need to put me in shackles? Are there still enemies somewhere that you haven't cleared out?"
The young woman's voice was as pleasant as a clear spring, but her tone held no inflection.
Uchiha Chen looked down at the young woman's wrists. Sure enough, red marks showed where she had worn shackles for a long time.
That was the only injury on Uchiha Hikari's body.
Even though he already knew what she had been through, Uchiha Chen couldn't help feeling a pang of sorrow when he met her cold, distant gaze.
"It's over!" Uchiha Chen said, his expression complicated.
"The mission is over?"
Uchiha Hikari nodded indifferently, then held her hands out toward Uchiha Chen again.
"No. Everything is over!"
Uchiha Chen looked up at the sky.
It was one of the rare warm, sunny days of winter. The clouds around them had been scattered by Susanoo earlier, and now the slightly warm sunlight fell over every corner of the land.
"Your great battle against the Senju and Uzumaki Clans happened more than a hundred and thirty years ago! You've been sealed here for over a hundred years.
"Everything you went through has become history."
"More than a hundred years?"
Doubt and helplessness flickered in the young woman's cold eyes. For the first time, her voice wavered.
"Yes." Uchiha Chen looked at the young woman who had crossed a century of time with sympathy.
"It's all over."
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