The Night Owl Guard's curiosity, the sea of lightning subsides
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the hundreds of Night Owl Guard members all turned solemn, and the shock in their hearts grew even stronger.
They finally understood that this seemingly young Uchiha lord, who had been training silently in the back mountains for many years, had already undergone a terrifying transformation far beyond the imagination of all his clansmen through unknown trials and tribulations. He had quietly caught up with the clan's top elites and even possessed deadly methods comparable to the core high-level combat power.
The atmosphere on the viewing platform on the back mountain was far more somber and oppressive than that at the foot of the mountain.
Uchiha Fugaku, who was about to turn and leave after seeing the situation had come to an end, suddenly froze on the spot, his muscles tense, his pupils fixed on the Training Ground below, which was completely shrouded in a sea of lightning.
Large beads of cold sweat kept seeping and sliding down his forehead, soaking his hair, and his back was already drenched in cold sweat.
As the former clan leader of Konoha and a veteran powerhouse who had experienced countless life-and-death battles and earth-shattering conflicts, he had never felt so anxious and uneasy as he did at this moment.
The entire Training Ground had long been completely destroyed, overturned, and annihilated by endless lightning. The landscape had been completely altered, leaving behind a scene of devastation and scorched earth. The violent lightning power continued to rage and surge in the same spot without any pause.
The blinding lightning obscured all vision, and the thick lightning energy isolated all senses. The naked eye could not penetrate the sea of lightning to see the slightest battle situation inside.
Everyone could only rely on their fully extended Observation Haki to barely detect the two faint but incredibly resilient auras remaining deep within the sea of lightning.
A weak, fleeting, and nearly exhausted aura, yet it remained steadfast and unbroken, carrying the stubborn tenacity unique to a young man—it was Sasuke's aura.
Another aura, calm, profound, and unwavering, remained steadfast and undiminished even as it was battered and crushed by endless lightning. It was the aura of Natsu's clone.
The two auras remained locked in a stalemate within the sea of world-destroying lightning, mutually restraining each other, with neither weakening or collapsing, nor completely crushing the other.
"Sasuke... can he succeed?"
Fugaku murmured softly, his voice trembling with barely concealed anxiety.
As a father, he both hoped that his son would break through the impasse and turn the tide, winning this two-month-long battle, and was also terrified by the terrifying power of this forbidden Forbidden Technique, fearing that the boy would overexert himself, damage his Origin, and suffer lifelong hidden injuries.
Time seemed to stretch out infinitely, freeze, and slow down at this moment.
Every second was agonizing. The sea of lightning surged endlessly, thunder roared incessantly, and the heavens and earth trembled incessantly. No one knew the battle situation deep within the sea of lightning, and no one knew the final outcome of this desperate duel. Victory, defeat, life and death, success and failure were all buried in the vast expanse of lightning.
Uchiha Natsu, standing to the side, also lost his usual composure and calm demeanor, and his brows furrowed in a rare display of concern.
In his dark, deep eyes, two completely different emotions intertwined and surged.
On one hand, there was a heavy sense of unease, a concern that Sasuke was overloading his Chakra and depleting his physical foundation. Such a resolute secret technique could easily damage his Origin, resulting in more harm than good.
On the other side was an undisguised burning anticipation, hoping that their disciple, whom they had poured two months of effort and rigorously honed, could break free from constraints and surpass limits at this moment, proving to everyone the brilliance of the new generation of Uchiha and tearing apart the shackles of destiny that had been imposed on the clan for thousands of years.
The wind blew across the cliff, ruffling his black hair, but it couldn't dispel the deep emotions in his eyes.
He gazed silently at the endless, raging sea of lightning below, whispering to himself, his tone filled with expectation and a deep-seated belief in the future of the entire Uchiha Clan: "Sasuke... don't let me down."
Beside her, Uchiha Izumi gently clenched the hem of her clothes, her heartache and tension growing stronger. She silently leaned against Natsu's side, saying nothing, quietly waiting for the battle to end.
She knew that this battle was not only Sasuke's personal breakthrough, but also Natsu's first step in overturning destiny and resisting the thousand-year-old fate of the Asura Lineage.
On the cliff, four people stood silently, lost in thought. Below, in the tribe's territory, all eyes were on them, and everyone waited in silence. In the sky above the four islands, lightning flashed and thunder roared incessantly.
No one knows whether the blood-soaked youth in the infernal sea of thunder can defy fate and break the deadlock; no one knows whether this crushing battle that has lasted for two months can be completely reversed at this moment; no one knows whether the destiny of the new generation of Uchiha will be completely rewritten in this world-destroying thunder.
Only the relentless raging thunder continued to swirl and surge, burying endless suspense, the unknown, and the future within this scorching, exploding inferno of lightning.
The rolling thunder, like a receding tsunami, slowly receded and dissipated from the entire dilapidated Training Ground.
The world-destroying sea of lightning that had just overturned the four islands and devoured the heavens and the earth has finally lost its extremely violent edge.
The pale lightning in the sky gradually dimmed and disappeared, and the continuous thunderous roar gradually subsided. The remaining fragments of lightning crackled and danced in the cracks of the scorched earth, and the sporadic residual heat of the thunder scorched the air, leaving the entire valley still filled with a scalding and violent residual heat.
The world regained its clarity, but what met everyone's eyes was a complete apocalyptic ruin.
The once flat and hard Training Ground on the back mountain, which bore witness to countless extreme training sessions, has been completely erased from the tribal landscape.
The ground was torn apart by lightning, leaving countless crisscrossing, bottomless black ravines. Layers upon layers of rubble and scorched earth piled up everywhere, and all the hard rocks were vaporized and shattered by the lightning, turning into a sky full of black ash.
The training posts, barrier bases, and attack and defense trial facilities that once stood there were all reduced to dust, leaving not a trace.
Looking around, the landscape was devastated and barren, the entire valley was deathly silent, with only the desolation and bleakness after the lightning tribulation enveloping the surrounding area.
Amidst this desolate and ruined landscape, a tall and solitary figure stands silently amidst the crumbling walls.
It is a clone of Uchiha Natsu.
At this moment, it was no longer the composed and fierce creature it once was; its condition was utterly wretched.
Natsu's unique dark gold Semi-Complete Susanoo had been completely shattered by the destructive power of the Heavenly Punishment of Furious Thunder, its skeletal body disintegrating completely, leaving not even a layer of Chakra shield.
The clone's Chakra was severely depleted, its strength was almost completely exhausted, and its meridians were covered with cracks caused by the scorching of lightning. Chakra were uncontrollably dissipating outwards.
Beneath that overwhelming sea of lightning, he barely survived only by pushing his Observation Haki to its limit and shifting his body several times, narrowly avoiding several fatal lightning strikes that could have directly obliterated the core of his clone.