Moonlight spilled like water, quietly bathing the Eternal Paradise Cult's Headquarters, now reduced to ruins.
Kokushibo slowly straightened. He reached out with his demonic hand and, with an almost calm demeanor, tore away the kimono fabric and skin scorched by Amaterasu's black flames, which could no longer regenerate. The hideous wound lay exposed to the air, but under his terrifying regenerative power, new flesh writhed and grew at a visible speed. In an instant, it was restored, as though the undying fire capable of burning all things to ash had never existed.
All six of his eyes now gleamed with an almost fanatical excitement, fixed intently on Uesugi Sasuke a short distance away.
"Your flames are indeed troublesome." Kokushibo's voice held not the slightest emotion, yet it made the surrounding air freeze. "But what if my slashes themselves are something your flames cannot burn?"
Before he had finished speaking, he vanished from where he stood.
This was not teleportation, but the pinnacle of pure speed.
Uesugi Sasuke's Mangekyō Sharingan spun rapidly, barely catching a trace of an afterimage. Without hesitation, he pushed the defensive power of Susanoo's third form to its limit, making the purple Chakra Armor even denser and thicker. He sensed that his opponent's next attack would be utterly different from those before.
Kokushibo reappeared in midair, the Demon Blade in his hand tracing a graceful, lethal arc.
"Moon Breathing, Second Form: Pearl Flower Moongazing."
Several enormous, curved slashes swept from his blade like bright crescent moons. These were no simple straight-line attacks. They crisscrossed and wheeled through the air, forming an attack network without a single blind spot, completely sealing off every route Sasuke could use to dodge.
Clang!
Sasuke controlled Susanoo, swinging its enormous chakra sword to precisely block the first main slash to arrive. The