The pitch-black Susanoo: Shikigami Body stood by the Heaven-Piercing River. Before it could even take to the skies, it gazed levelly toward the summit of Mount Hiba!
Splash... Behind it, the Heaven-Piercing River surged endlessly. Uchiha Riu sat calmly atop Susanoo, taking in the vast rivers and mountains with a single glance as the gods wavered.
Boom!
In an instant, the Susanoo: Shikigami Body beneath him split apart, transforming into countless clones. Black shadows swarmed with the force of a locust plague!!
"Ghk...!"
Seeing such a display, the more than two thousand Branch Family disciples below Mount Hiba became like startled birds!
"Uchiha Riu, I've been waiting for you for a long time..."
Atop Mount Hiba stood a resolute young man with bronze skin, facing the wind with a heroic bearing!
"Haah!!!!"
As he spoke and laughed, his fist shot forth like a landslide. Crack! The void shattered like a mirror, and from the fractured space, blood energy erupted, transforming into ten dragons and ten elephants that swept through the heavens. Everything in their path was annihilated!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The hundred Susanoo clones acting as the vanguard were wiped out in the torrent of blood energy. Behind them, every Susanoo clone came to a halt.
The corner of Riu's mouth lifted slightly as he calmly said, "Who stands ahead? State your name!"
The young man remained unmoving as a mountain and shouted, "Hard Fist Style, Masato!"
Riu's expression darkened. "Oh? The foremost master of the Eight Gates. I'd heard there was someone like you."
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
As they spoke, three figures—two men and one woman—landed beside Masato. All possessed extraordinary poise and were clearly no ordinary Branch Family disciples!
The three spoke in unison. "If you want to pass Mount Hiba, you'll have to step over the corpses