The moment those words fell, it stamped its foot and vanished from the spot.
Its speed was completely beyond what dynamic vision could capture. Even with Lin Jin's Sharingan spinning to its limit, he could barely make out a dark-red afterimage.
Almost without thinking, his combat instincts drove him to raise Susanoo's defenses to their utmost. At the critical moment, the purple skeleton abruptly solidified into a complete half-body giant.
The Nether King appeared before him, its five corpse claws gleaming with a ghostly green chill as they stabbed straight toward Susanoo's chest.
A piercing tearing sound rang out.
The Nether King's five fingers actually pierced straight through Susanoo's armor and sank into the purple chakra, cracks spreading outward from them. That single claw strike tore a massive breach in Susanoo's chest.
Just one strike had broken Susanoo's defenses.
"So strong!" Lin Jin's pupils contracted slightly. The power of the Corpse Drought True Form was even greater than he had estimated.
He had no doubt that if that claw landed on his body, it would be enough to tear him in half.
Rather than take it head-on, he sprang off the ground and retreated rapidly, forming hand seals as his chest expanded.
"Sage Art: Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame."
A searing sea of fire surged toward the Nether King, blanketing everything before it. This was one of the strongest Fire Release techniques enhanced by Sage Mode, its flames hot enough to melt steel in an instant.
The Nether King did not dodge. It crossed its arms in front of itself, dark-red balefire gushing from within its body to form a layer of armor so dense it was visible to the naked eye.
The sea of fire slammed into the Nether King, the scorching crimson flames colliding fiercely with its dark-red