Shattering Ōnoki the Tsuchikage! Monstrous Strength Even Old Bones Couldn't Stop

Yuan held the pose of his punch, the muscles in his right arm drawn taut from taking Dust Release head-on, every vein bulging.

He bared his teeth in a grin, revealing a row of stark-white teeth. "Old man, that broken flashlight of yours is actually a little interesting. This is the first time I've run into something even 'Extinguish' couldn't melt instantly."

Ōnoki clenched his teeth and immediately dispersed the Dust Release barrier. He couldn't waste chakra on such a meaningless contest of force. His hands flashed through seals, and with a roll in midair, he shot straight toward the space above Yuan's head.

"This old man has lived for seventy years! You think you're the only one who can fight up close? Take this!" Ōnoki's shriveled hands slammed down toward Yuan's position. "Earth Release: Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique!"

An invisible yet terrifying gravitational field instantly enveloped an area of more than ten meters around Yuan. This was no ordinary change in gravity—it was extreme pressure capable of crushing stone into dust.

Crack—!

The rocky ground beneath Yuan's feet let out an overwhelmed groan and collapsed into a pit two meters deep. Yuan's knees buckled sharply, that force heavier than a mountain pressing directly onto his shoulders.

His flesh made a skin-crawling sound of compression. If the Strength of a Hundred Technique from Tsunade's cells hadn't been frantically repairing him, an ordinary Kage-level powerhouse would have already been crushed into a puddle of meat by this technique.

"Your body... is heavier than a mountain now!" Ōnoki hovered in midair, gasping for breath. Looking at Yuan bent over at the bottom of the pit, a hint of victorious joy finally appeared on his face. "No matter how strong you are, before this absolute gravity, don't even dream of moving an inch. Explosion Corps, prepare..."

Ōnoki had just been about to order the Iwagakure shinobi to blanket him with explosive tags when a cold voice, like that of a demon from hell, cut him off.

"A mountain? I carried the resentment of a thousand damn people from the Hidden Leaf Village for six years. What the hell does your crappy rock count for?"

"Creak... creak..."

A hair-raising sound of bones grinding came from the bottom of the pit. Under the disbelieving gazes of tens of thousands of Iwagakure shinobi, Uchiha Yuan, who had been pinned down by the Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique, actually withstood that gravity capable of crushing everything and, bit by bit, forcibly straightened his body!

Yuan's knees no longer bent. His spine stood ramrod straight. The black trench coat on his body had long since been torn to shreds under the pull of gravity, revealing lean, powerful muscles beneath that looked cast from steel. A fine layer of blood beads oozed from his skin where capillaries had ruptured, but under the flickering blue light of the Strength of a Hundred Technique, the wounds instantly healed, cycling again and again.

For every bit he straightened, the rock layer beneath his feet sank another three feet.

Yuan's eyes locked on Ōnoki in midair. At that moment, his rage value soared completely to its limit. A visible, materialized storm of red chakra exploded from within him, piercing straight through the invisible gravitational field overhead like a sharp sword!

"You old bones... is that all the strength you've got?" Yuan rolled his neck, producing a crisp crack. The wild grin at the corner of his mouth completely tore apart the Iwagakure army's mental defenses.

"He stood up... he stood up under the Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique?!" Kurotsuchi stumbled back in terror. How was this still a human? This was clearly a tailed beast in human skin!

Ōnoki felt his scalp go numb. His ninjutsu hadn't failed. He could truly feel that the tens of millions of pounds of gravity he had added were still pressing down on that man. But that monster had actually relied on pure physical strength and that unreasonable chakra to forcibly overturn the mountain!

"No... impossible! This is absolutely impossible! Dust Release..." Ōnoki, panicked and flustered, raised both hands again, trying to condense the barrier of the Detachment of the Primitive World Technique once more.

"Too much nonsense. Go mutter it in hell."

The rock beneath Yuan's feet blasted into powder. His figure vanished completely from where he stood, moving so fast that even the force field of the Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique couldn't drag down his afterimage. It was an overwhelmingly powerful Body Flicker Technique unleashed after Lightning Release chakra stimulated his cells to the limit.

"Lord Tsuchikage, watch out!" Akatsuchi roared and immediately formed hand seals. "Earth Release: Golem Technique!" A massive stone giant instantly rose from underground, blocking Ōnoki's front.

"Get out of my way, you pile of junk!"

Yuan's figure instantly solidified before the stone giant. He didn't even use the Sharingan's ocular jutsu. It was entirely a punch of pure monstrous strength. His right fist smashed hard into the stone giant's chest.

Boom—! This Earth Release giant, famed for its extremely strong defense, was punched clean through by Yuan. Huge chunks of stone exploded outward like cannon shells.

The force of the punch did not diminish. That fist, having pierced through the stone man, carried a sonic boom that stabbed at the eardrums and landed with unerring precision on Ōnoki's skull.

Bang!

There was no suspense, and no flourish. The living fossil of the shinobi world who had lived for seventy years, Ōnoki of Both Scales, had his head burst in midair like an overripe tomato struck by a sledgehammer, exploding directly into a miserable mist of blood. The headless corpse lost all support and fell from midair like a torn sack.

One punch. Killed on the spot.

[Ding! Kage-level Ōnoki killed! Obtained Orange Fragments ×50!]

[Detected that the host overturned the enemy's worldview and killed them in an overwhelming manner. Triple critical triggered! Final gain: Orange Fragments ×150!]

[Enemy abilities unlocked: Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique, Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique, Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique!]

Yuan slowly withdrew his right fist and casually shook off the blood and brain matter stuck to his knuckles. He turned around, a pair of scarlet Mangekyō Sharingan looking down at the tens of thousands of Iwagakure troops below, who were scared out of their wits.

The wind stopped. The entire Gobi fell into a terrifying dead silence, leaving only heavy breathing and the chattering of teeth.

Kurotsuchi and Akatsuchi's legs went weak, and they dropped to their knees beside Ōnoki's headless corpse. Even the courage to draw a kunai had been completely crushed by that punch just now.

"Anyone else want to try my gravity?" Yuan's icy voice was not loud, but it spread clearly across the entire battlefield.

No one answered. With a clatter of weapons falling, the heavily armored Iwagakure shinobi in the front row were the first to drop their huge shields and kneel. Immediately after, the army of more than ten thousand people fell to their knees in swathes like toppled dominoes, prostrating themselves in the yellow earth. Iwagakure, a village known for being as unyielding as solid stone, had its spine utterly broken by Uchiha Yuan's single punch.

"Boring." Yuan glanced at the heads bowing all over the ground and snorted coldly. He closed his eyes, digesting the Dust Release knowledge that had just merged into his body. Now that he possessed the Detachment of the Primitive World Technique, which could disintegrate barriers, combined with his ocular jutsu "Extinguish," his means of slaughter had completely surpassed the scope of conventional ninjutsu.

However, just as Yuan was about to turn and summon the Shadow Guard Unit to come take over Iwagakure, the newly granted [Sage Art Sensing] from the system suddenly sent out an extremely sharp, stabbing alarm.

Far, far to the east, in the direction of the Land of Lightning, an extremely violent Lightning-natured chakra, moving at a speed that was simply outrageous, was crossing the border with utter disregard like a blue meteor and rushing straight toward this Gobi! The degree of frenzy in that chakra was no less than that of a tailed beast on a rampage.

"That brute of a Raikage isn't guarding his Kumogakure and actually came running here to die?" Yuan opened his eyes, and a bloodthirsty sneer once again tugged at the corner of his mouth. He knew all too well who was coming. A, the Fourth Raikage, that muscle-bound madman with a temper more explosive than a powder keg.

"Since you're in such a hurry to die, I'll grant your wish." Yuan ignored the Iwagakure shinobi on the ground. Lightning flashed beneath his feet, and he charged directly toward the rapidly approaching blue thunderbolt from the east.

The tyrant of Hidden Cloud Village—come fight!