Onoki? Dust Release Clashes Head-On! The Ultimate Ninjutsu That Can Disintegrate Everything

Land of Earth, the Hidden Stone Village front line.

On the barren Gobi, fierce winds swept fist-sized chunks of rock through the air. The borderlands, once silent, were now filled with a suffocating killing intent.

Tens of thousands of Hidden Stone Village ninja, dressed in matching brown combat uniforms, stood in dense formation across the Gobi. At the front were heavily armored defensive troops carrying giant shields; behind them were demolition units waiting in full battle array. This lineup was entirely on the scale of a full-scale war.

And at the very front of this army of ten thousand, the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, floated in midair. His short body was clad in a green vest; though his beard was white with age, his eyes were as sharp as knives. Behind him stood his granddaughter Kurotsuchi and his guard Akatsuchi.

"Grandpa, the intelligence said that Uchiha Yuan is alone. Is it really necessary to put on such a huge display?" Kurotsuchi swallowed, looking at the empty horizon opposite them, always feeling a chill crawling over her.

"Shut up. That piece of trash Rasa got his head smashed in with one punch because he underestimated the enemy." Onoki stared fixedly ahead, gravity in his aged voice. "That brat killed Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru. The Hidden Leaf Village's Kage-level fighters were all wiped out by him. We absolutely cannot measure him by common sense!"

The moment his words fell, a lone black dot appeared at the end of the horizon.

No army, no followers. Yuan came walking just like that, wearing his long black coat, both hands in his pockets, stepping over the broken stones one step at a time. His pace was very slow, but with every step, that chakra pressure mixed with brutality and bloodlust crashed toward the tens of thousands of Stone ninja like a tsunami.

When he was still a hundred meters from the Hidden Stone battle line, Yuan stopped.

He lifted his head, and those scarlet Mangekyo Sharingan swept coldly over the dark mass of people ahead before finally settling on Onoki in midair.

"Putting out such a grand formation to welcome me, old man? Are you planning to make me kill until my hands go numb?" Yuan tugged up the corner of his mouth and laughed with extreme arrogance, his voice echoing across the empty Gobi and stabbing at every Stone ninja's nerves.

"Arrogant Uchiha remnant!" Onoki flew into a rage. He had dominated the ninja world for decades and had never been looked down on like this by a junior. "Do you think the Hidden Stone Village is like that loose sand of the Land of Wind? Before this old man's Dust Release, that Susanoo you're so proud of is nothing more than slightly harder glass!"

Onoki had no intention of wasting words with Yuan. He knew that against this kind of monster, he had to go for the kill from the very start.

He suddenly stretched out both hands in midair, and a translucent white barrier radiating dazzling light rapidly took shape between his palms. This was a kekkei tota that combined changes in wind, fire, and earth chakra natures—Dust Release. It could completely strip all matter within the barrier down to atoms at the molecular level.

"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"

Onoki roared and shoved both hands forward. That transparent white pillar of light was like a laser cannon slicing through heaven and earth, carrying an aura that would destroy everything as it blasted straight toward Yuan's position. Wherever the pillar passed, the boulders on the Gobi, the air, even the light itself were utterly erased in that instant.

Facing this ninjutsu known as the strongest in destructive power in the ninja world, Yuan did not dodge.

Not only did he not dodge, he did not even activate Susanoo. A trace of mad excitement flashed deep in his eyes.

"Dust Release that can disintegrate all matter? Interesting." Yuan drew his right hand out of his pocket and clenched it into a fist. A supremely evil chakra deeper than the night instantly wrapped around his right fist. This was system chakra pushed to the limit by his brutality value, mixed with the ocular power of conceptual erasure, "Extinguish."

"Then let's see whether your Dust Release is tougher, or my disintegration is fiercer!"

Instead of retreating, Yuan advanced, meeting that thick white pillar of light head-on and ferociously throwing a Chakra Enhanced Strength Punch!

"Boom—!"

Two completely different extreme powers collided violently at the very center of the Gobi.

There was no earth-shaking explosion, nor stones flying all over the sky. There was only an extremely eerie, tooth-aching "hiss, hiss" sound.

Onoki's Dust Release pillar, powerful enough to vaporize a mountain in an instant, actually stopped when it struck Yuan's right fist. The white light and the black lightning-flames on Yuan's fist bit fiercely into each other. At the interface where the two touched, space seemed unable to withstand the pull of this double disintegration, and countless extremely fine black cracks appeared.

The conceptual disintegration of "Extinguish" and the physical stripping of Dust Release formed a perfect cancellation in that instant. The white light could not advance another step, and the black lightning could not shatter the pillar of light either. The massive chakra aftermath spread outward along the collision point, directly shaving a layer of ground off the hundred-meter radius beneath Yuan's feet.

"How is that possible!" Onoki's face changed drastically in midair, his eyes nearly popping out. "This old man's Dust Release... was actually blocked?!"

This was a terrifying scene Onoki had never seen in seventy years of life and countless battles to the death. Even the once-invincible Madara Uchiha had to activate Susanoo to dodge or withstand Dust Release. But this brat before him had actually used a punch from his flesh-and-blood body to forcibly cancel out Dust Release's disintegration?!

"Your ninjutsu... can actually reach this level?" Cold sweat broke out on Onoki's forehead.