Uchiha Ling looked at the densely packed Iwagakure army still surrounding him. Their faces had gone from elation to shock, then to disbelief and fear. A feeling of utter absurdity and irony welled up inside him.
Uchiha Ling smiled.
At first, it was a low, suppressed chuckle. Then it grew louder and more unrestrained, until it became a wild laugh that rang across the battlefield, filled with endless mockery and madness!
"Haha... Hahaha... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"
As he laughed, he slowly raised his hand and pointed at the seemingly endless Iwagakure army. In an utterly arrogant tone, he spoke the words destined to be branded into the souls of every survivor:
"You worthless scum! You almost did it! You almost killed me!
"But just because I've gotten weaker doesn't mean you've gotten stronger!"
The moment his words fell, before the Iwagakure shinobi could recover from the sheer insult and the shattering of everything they thought they knew, the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan in Uchiha Ling's eyes blazed with a crimson light as dazzling as the sun!
"Feel it... the hopeless difference in power! Susanoo!!!"
RUMBLE!!!!!
The heavens and earth changed color, and the winds and clouds reversed!
Chakra surged into the sky, countless times more terrifying than when the Perfect Susanoo had appeared before!
The dark-red energy no longer spread like flesh over a body. It condensed and took form!
A Perfect Susanoo, a hundred meters tall and clad in even heavier Tengu Armor bristling with vicious spikes, rose from the earth like a demon god descending upon the world!
This Susanoo was no longer crimson. Its dark red was deeper and more ominous!
It was so enormous that simply standing there cast a vast shadow over nearly half the battlefield!
Its terrifying pressure swept in every direction like a tangible tsunami! Many