Shinra Tensei

Suddenly, Douyang felt the ground begin to tremble faintly.

Before he could react, a massive fissure split the island open. A thick ice dragon burst out of the crack, roaring as it lunged at Douyang and Shisui.

At that moment, if Douyang used Sukunahikona to shrink himself, he could avoid the ice dragon unharmed.

However, the exhausted Shisui had nowhere to dodge. If the ice dragon struck him head-on in his current state, he would either die or be injured.

Almost without hesitation, Douyang immediately activated his Kokugan, aiming at the ice dragon as he prepared to shrink it with Sukunahikona.

"Stop!"

Douyang roared in fury, blood seeping from his right eye.

The ice dragon, originally over ten meters long, shrank to just a few meters in the blink of an eye, then slammed into the two of them.

Douyang shielded Shisui, feeling as though a speeding train had struck him. The two rolled more than ten meters across the ground before finally stopping.

"It's over."

Hidden underground, Sora Minazuki gave a confident smile.

Taking one of his killing moves head-on with their exhausted bodies would leave them dead or crippled.

In all honesty, both of them were stronger than he was.

But the situation on a battlefield changed in an instant, and the weak defeating the strong was a common occurrence.

Sora Minazuki emerged from the fissure. Looking at Douyang and Shisui lying on the ground, he folded his arms across his chest and could not help laughing loudly.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

Amid a series of sounds cutting through the air, more and more Mist Ninja landed on the island.

All the Mist Ninja who had come as reinforcements froze at the sight of corpses of their comrades strewn across the island, pockmarked traces of battle everywhere, and the logistics supply depot engulfed in flames.

Ganryū, the Kirigakure jonin leading the team, shouted at Sora Minazuki, who guarded the supply depot, "Sora Minazuki, all those people couldn't protect the secret warehouse? What exactly happened?"

Sora Minazuki said bitterly, "Ganryū, this wasn't my fault. We were attacked by powerful enemies."

"Powerful enemies?"

The corner of Ganryū's mouth twitched.

Then he looked at Douyang, who was struggling to rise, and Shisui, who could not move. His gaze narrowed. "You're telling me these two brats are the powerful enemies you're talking about?"

Sora Minazuki said coldly, "These two are no ordinary opponents. One is Body Flicker Shisui, and the other is Uncanny Physician Douyang. I'm sure you're familiar with their names?"

"Body Flicker? Uncanny Physician?"

Ganryū's pupils contracted at those words.

During the Third Shinobi World War, the Mist Ninja had fought the Uchiha many times on the eastern battlefield.

At least a hundred Mist Ninja had died at Body Flicker's hands.

And although the Uncanny Physician lacked strength, he was the most renowned medical ninja after Tsunade.

These two had actually raided the logistics supply depot?

Ganryū immediately turned to his attendants. "Notify the Interrogation Department at once."

Sora Minazuki said coldly, "Ganryū, I'll leave this place to you. Two Konoha Ninja escaped. I'm taking a team to pursue them."

At that moment, struck by the Ice Release ninjutsu, Douyang felt his entire body stiffen, unable to move even a finger.

Sensing the dense mass of Mist Ninja around him, Douyang's expression darkened slightly.

The next instant, he looked at the new ability on his stats panel, his expression turning astonished.

Shinra Tensei?

Wasn't that a Rinnegan ability?

As he remembered it, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki could indeed use Shinra Tensei.

In fact, nearly all Ōtsutsuki could use the two basic Rinnegan abilities, Shinra Tensei and Banshō Ten'in.

However, for the Ōtsutsuki, an ability like Shinra Tensei was of little use against opponents of the same level and was usually used to clear out small fry.

These Mist Ninja, however, really were small fry.

Looking at the more than two hundred Mist Ninja reinforcements around him, Douyang took a deep breath and slowly extended his palm toward Ganryū and the others.

Seeing this, Ganryū said coldly, "Still thinking of putting up a last-ditch struggle? Heh, once the interrogation ninja dig every piece of intelligence out of your brain, you'll die under the cruelest torture."

Beside him, Shisui raised his eyes to Douyang and sighed inwardly.

He knew that if he had not been holding Douyang back, Douyang could certainly have escaped using his miraculous Kokugan.

Shisui struggled to sit up and looked at Ganryū.

He prepared to use Kotoamatsukami to forcibly take control of Ganryū.

Only then would Douyang have a chance to escape alive.

After two major battles, Shisui had consumed too much chakra. Using Kotoamatsukami now would come at a steep price and might even cost him one of his Mangekyō Sharingan.

Suddenly, Shisui, Ganryū, and even the surrounding Mist Ninja all froze.

They had detected a terrifying chakra response from Uchiha Douyang.

The next instant, Douyang spoke in an icy voice. "Shinra Tensei!"

Rumble!

A terrifying storm of repulsive force swept across the entire island.

Within that tide-like repulsive force, everyone, from an elite jonin like Ganryū to ordinary chunin and genin, was in peril like a small boat on the ocean.

Not only that, but swathes of coconut trees and massive rocks on the island were hurled away by the repulsive force, leaving an empty zone centered on Douyang and Shisui.

Shisui, who had already prepared to cast Kotoamatsukami, was utterly dumbfounded by the sight.

For several long seconds, no other emotion appeared on his face.

Terrifying. It turned out I knew nothing about Douyang's strength.

As the first genius ninja of the Uchiha Clan's younger generation to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, Shisui possessed unparalleled pride.

But at that moment, that pride was ruthlessly shattered.

After unleashing a single Shinra Tensei, Douyang had consumed more than half his chakra.

Crack, crack!

Two Black Chakra Rods emerged from his palms.

Douyang took a deep breath and charged at the Mist Ninja who had survived Shinra Tensei.

"Ten... seven... five... four..."

With every person Douyang killed, he grew a little more exhausted, his eyelids so heavy he lacked the strength to keep them open.

As the last Mist Ninja was killed, Douyang collapsed helplessly to the ground.

At that moment, he had exhausted his last trace of chakra.

Having recovered a little strength, Shisui hurried over to help him up and asked worriedly, "Douyang, are you all right?"

"Enough of the pointless talk. Get out of here."

Without another word, Shisui immediately hoisted Douyang onto his back and sprinted toward the Land of Waves.

Not long after the two left, another group of Mist Ninja arrived on the island.

The island, once covered in jagged rocks, was now flat as far as the eye could see.

"Is this some kind of joke? This is the logistics supply depot?"

"Where are the guards?"

"Where's the enemy?"

Countless Mist Ninja stared at the flattened island, dumbfounded.

The jonin leading them sensed something was wrong and barked, "What are you all standing around for? Hurry and see if there are any survivors."

Only then did the surrounding Mist Ninja come to their senses, immediately searching through the ruins for survivors.

However, to the astonishment of all the Mist Ninja, they found nothing but corpses.

"All the dead are our own people?"