A black storm has engulfed the sky.
The sun had long since disappeared, leaving only a pale gray shadow hanging in the leaden sky, like a blade dulled by wind and sand, its last vestige of sharpness dissipated in the howling gale. The earth began to crack like old tree bark, the once oasis of the Wind God Temple turned into a gravel graveyard, and the ruins of the thousand-year-old temple let out a dying wail in the storm—this was the scene of the Fujin God Shuo's return to the world, and also a sign that the hell on earth had begun.
"That's an immortal ancient god..." In the stone temple in the desert of the Land of Wind, an old monk huddled in an underground cave, his withered fingers digging into the rock wall as he spoke to the monks around him, "Ancient texts say that in ancient times, dozens of Onmyoji exhausted the life essence of eighty thousand boys and girls, using their own souls as locks, to suppress it beneath the desert. That seal was a shackle forged with the souls of one hundred thousand living beings, a foundation forged with the blood of a hundred generations of Onmyoji. Without a key, how... how could it have crumbled!"
The sandstorm raged and swept in all directions, making a sound like a demon grinding its teeth. No one saw that at the heart of the storm, the god-demon forged from billions of grains of sand was slowly stretching its body.
The sand formation of Shuo had grown to over a hundred feet tall, each grain of sand imbued with millennia of malevolent energy, gleaming with a dark, eerie light under the sunlight. The wind patterns flowing across the sand's surface suddenly lit up; those rune-like patterns were actually ancient divine script, writing the laws of the " Divine Domain " at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. Within this domain, wind pressure could crush space, turning even the hardest steel into dust; sand blades could cut through the laws of nature, causing any Ninjutsu Cursed Seal to crumble before it even got close.
Tian Zhiyun knelt on the sand, her rune-encrusted armor now covered in Spiderweb -like cracks. Blood trickled down the seams, leaving fleeting red marks on the sand. She had just used all her cultivation to activate the Konoha Dragon God Jutsu, but the azure Azure Dragon phantom, which embodied the essence of her Taijutsu, had barely peeked out when it was sliced into countless fragments by an invisible wind blade. The remaining force of the wind blade struck the armor, producing a crisp metallic clang, and the armor's spiritual light suddenly dimmed, almost disintegrating into specks of light.
"But... is a normal attack really this powerful?" She gritted her teeth, her mouth filled with the taste of blood. Sand poured into her mouth and nose, each breath feeling like swallowing knives, her lungs burning with pain. She wanted to retreat, but towering wind walls surrounded her from all sides, sand blades weaving into an impenetrable cage, leaving not even a crack.
Just then, a beam of icy blue light Space Break, instantly freezing the sand curtain wherever it passed. Tian Muyan stepped on the ice crystals and rushed into the arena. The power of her Tenseigan formed a light blue shield around her. She pushed forward with both palms, and the repulsive force actually pushed open a ten-zhang vacuum zone.
"Sister Shiun, I'm here to help you!" She knelt down to support Tian Zhiyun, and the ability of her Tenseigan allowed her to instantly see the situation clearly, "This domain is absorbing the earth's Spiritual Qi, and its power is still increasing!"
Before she finished speaking, nine frost arrows had already materialized at her fingertips. The arrows were engraved with Senjutsu runes, and the cold air froze the surrounding airflow, even slowing down the raging sandstorm. The nine arrows were fired at the same time, turning into dark blue rainbows that pierced straight into Shuo's chest, but before they could touch the sand, they were crushed into ice shards by the invisible wind pressure, without even causing a ripple.
The black sandstorm closed in again, and the domain began to shrink like a millstone. Tian Zhiyun and Tian Muyan stood back to back, and it was already pitch black all around them. The only sound was the shrill Space Break of the wind blades cutting through the air, like countless knives slicing in their ears.
Shuo's hundred-foot-tall body slowly lowered its head, its pupils, formed by Uzumaki sandstorms, revealing an indifference as if looking down upon ants. Legend has it that it once used sandstorms as a sword to flatten three sacred mountains; and used sand as a coffin to bury an entire dynasty. The seals of the Yin-Yang Masters can only trap it, but cannot kill this ancient and eternal god and demon.
Tian Zhiyun suddenly closed her eyes, and the Eight Gates Released Formation diagram emerged from the soles of her feet, with blood-red lines crawling up her ankles and covering her skin. " Gate of Life, Gate of Pain, Gate of Limit... Open!" Steam gushed out from the pores of her body, and azure flames ignited at the ends of her hair. Her fists clenched so tightly they cracked.
"Hah!" She unleashed a punch, a sonic boom exploding in the storm. The force of her punch materialized into the head of Azure Dragon, tearing through the Divine Domain and slamming into Shuo's sand body. The hundred-foot-long sand body was shattered in half, sand and gravel scattering everywhere. But before Tian Zhiyun could even catch her breath, the sand and gravel seemed to have a life of their own, flowing upstream and instantly reforming into a complete body, leaving not even a crack.
" Shiun, step back!" Tian Muyan's pupils suddenly burst forth with dazzling golden light, and the strongest mode of her Tenseigan was fully activated. " Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!" She clasped her hands together, and the golden energy in front of her chest collapsed into a point, which then transformed into a spear of light that pierced through the heavens and the earth. Wherever the spear of light passed, the wind and sand were directly annihilated into nothingness, and a hundred-mile-long rift was forcibly torn open in the Divine Domain.
"Boom--" The spear of light struck Shuo's head squarely, and the hundred-foot-tall skull exploded with a deafening roar. The wind pressure suddenly stopped, and sand rained down. Tian Zhiyun was about to speak when she saw the sand suddenly surge upwards, instantly reshaping the skull. Shuo's pupils lit up again, his indifference now tinged with mockery.
Once, five times, ten times... the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion was unleashed one after another, and the roar of the light spear tearing through the sky never stopped. Tian Muyan's Chakra was rapidly depleting, blood kept spilling from the corner of her lips, and her fingertips trembled slightly due to excessive energy concentration. But Wind God Saku's sand body shattered and reassembled, reassembled and shattered again, endlessly, as if there was no end in sight.
"This monster is unkillable... utterly unkillable!" Tian Muyan knelt on the ground, even the light in her Tenseigan dimmed slightly.
Tian Zhiyun pressed down on her shoulder, her voice hoarse like sandpaper. "Take this message back to Konoha and ask Tian Yueqing to use Sealing Jutsu. Only her Sealing Jutsu might be able to temporarily trap it. I'll cover your retreat. Go quickly and return quickly."
"No, we have to go together!" Tian Muyan grabbed her wrist. "After the Eight Gates Released Formation were activated, you were already close to collapse. Staying here means certain death!"
"Someone has to hold it off, or countless people will die." Tian Zhiyun pulled her hand away, and the array diagram beneath her feet suddenly erupted with a blinding red light. " Gate of View, Gate of Wonder, Gate of Opening... Open!" Steam transformed into a visible shockwave, and the azure flames at the tips of her hair surged three feet higher. " Gate of Death —Open!"
The moment the final door opened, Tian Zhiyun's skin turned blood red, her surroundings burned, and her bones crackled as a terrifying pressure far exceeding anything before surged into the sky. She transformed into a blur and charged towards Wind God Saku, her fists raining down like a storm. " Dragon God Soaring to the Heavens!" Countless dragon shadows left scorching marks in the air, crashing into the sandstorm like ten thousand dragons emerging from the sea. Wherever they passed, the sand and dust were instantly incinerated, and the earth cracked open with bottomless ravines as the dragon shadows grazed it.
" Dragon God Roaring at the Heavens!" A dragon-shaped shockwave tore through the sky, and the deafening roar caused ripples in the space. The sand body that Wind God Saku had condensed was shaken violently by the sound wave, and the sand grains fell off, revealing the blurry outline of the god within.
" Dragon's Might Dominates the Heavens!" She crossed her arms into the shape of a dragon's head, and the azure flames around her suddenly contracted and then burst forth. A golden dragon shadow that pierced through the heavens and earth rushed out from her body, crashing into the core of Shuo with the power to burn mountains and boil seas—the place where the soul of the ancient god resided!
The moment the punch landed, the world seemed to freeze. The Setsuna the golden dragon shadow pierced through the sand, the will and power of the Dragon God Art's Decree clung to Wind God Saku's soul like a leech. The ancient dragon's might, carrying the fervor of human will, actually left a scorch mark on the divine soul barrier.
Wind God Saku let out a muffled groan he had never heard before. His condensed sand body crumbled inch by inch in the intense light. The sand grains were no longer scattered, but turned directly into ashes and dissipated in the wind. The Divine Domain within a hundred miles trembled violently. A brief vacuum appeared at the center of the storm, revealing a huge circular crater thousands of feet deep that had been blasted out below. The crater walls were still sizzling from the residual dragon flames.
The wind blades, carrying a backlash of force, slashed wildly at her, the deep wounds penetrating her armor and exposing bone increasing. Tian Zhiyun coughed up a mouthful of blood, but smiled as she wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, "So what if I'm an ancient god? Today I'll show you that human will can burn through a divine soul!"
Her figure grew smaller and smaller in the storm, yet she was like an inextinguishable flame. In the distance, Tian Muyan's icy blue light had broken out of the domain and was flying rapidly towards Konoha.
In the center of the Divine Domain, Wind God Saku's sand body was slowly condensing, but this time, the sand grains were condensing much more slowly. He looked down at his translucent sand arm, and for the first time, his pupils showed emotions other than indifference—first, an incredulous astonishment, the burning pain from his soul was so clear, an injury he had never felt in the tens of thousands of years since his birth.
Immediately, a genuine fear crept into his mind. This ant-like life not only dared to challenge the gods, but could even harm an immortal soul? This burning will, this power that could scorch the soul, made him feel, for the first time, a deep-seated dread of the insignificant race of "humanity".
Because its soul was injured by this human, albeit in a very minor way, this was the first time, apart from being sealed by an Onmyoji, that a power had truly been able to harm its immortal soul. This human must die.