It was not Amaterasu.
Those pitch-black flames came from the direction of Sunagakure.
Amid the sweeping wind and sand, Pakura darted like fire through the dark night, weaving through the gaps in the gold dust falling across the sky.
Eerie, pitch-black yin flames coiled around her. Unlike the scarlet blaze of ordinary fire, these yin flames were dark and deep, yet their temperature was terrifying to the extreme. This was... the new form of her Scorch Release kekkei genkai after it had been tainted by curse power.
"Scorch Release: Dark Style: Evaporating Hell!"
A clear, fierce shout rang out. Pakura formed hand seals, the chakra within her pouring out wildly alongside curse power, as though burning itself dry.
The yin flames filling the sky instantly swelled into a boundless sea of black fire, surging toward the clouds and wrapping layer after layer around the enormous wooden hands bearing down upon them.
Sssss-!
The instant the black fire touched Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands-
Piercing sounds of scorching erupted in a crackling chorus.
The wooden body clad in purple Susanoo Armor rapidly began to smoke and char beneath the burning yin flames.
The intensely hot fire formed from Scorch Release chakra seemed capable of igniting chakra itself. The domineering yin flames spread wildly along the Susanoo Armor covering the wooden arms, seeping inward.
Flames towered into the sky as the yin fire ravenously ate away at the colossal statue's chakra. As the yin flames poured in, the chakra burned, its connections were severed, and the previously unstoppable giant hands faltered instantly.
At the same moment, a dense clamor of interlocking mechanisms and chains cutting through the air rang out overhead!
Chiyo still stood on the gold dust giant's shoulder, strands of white hair whipping freely in the gale.