Meanwhile, on a stretch of high ground still some distance from the battlefield, Yunju stopped.
His gaze pierced through the overlapping curtains of rain and the forest canopy. In the distance, the clouds continued to churn as lightning struck straight down from their underside, illuminating the entire horizon before fading. Then new lightning gathered, its direction shifted slightly from before, as though someone were moving and guiding where the bolts would land.
Deidara followed behind and to one side of him, and he noticed the pattern of those bolts as well. "Someone's drawing down lightning. At this scale—it's not ordinary Lightning Release."
"It's Sasuke Uchiha." Yunju did not turn around. "He can guide natural lightning down. That means he's forced Itachi into a position where he needs this move to finish things. This should be his ultimate technique."
As he spoke, he rapidly sorted through the scenes he had just observed.
When the first bolt had struck, the Lightning Release chakra filling the air and the scorching heat from some high-temperature flame farther away had both been drawn into the clouds overhead—the Lightning Release chakra and the heat from the Fire Release met beneath the clouds, stirred together by the airflow, and formed a mixed state.
This natural phenomenon was structurally very similar to how he had previously used Turbidity Release, injecting chakra of different attributes into the same domain at the same time.
He began reconstructing the model in his mind. Turbidity Release was a high-precision fusion of Water Release and Earth Release. By combining Water Release's moisture with Earth Release's viscosity, it formed a muddy domain that could slow enemies and absorb their chakra at the same time.
What if Lightning Release and Fire Release chakra were poured into it following the same structure? He tried to simulate