"Lord Tsuchikage."
Uchiha Gen'yō slowly turned around, looking at the three Root elites in his palm who struggled desperately but could not budge Susanoo in the slightest. A cruel smile appeared on his face.
"It looks like I'll have to clear out the trash before we negotiate."
"Guess how many seconds it'll take me to crush them into pulp?"
Ōnoki's pupils contracted to pinpoints!
He stared fixedly at that ferocious purple hand formed from pure chakra, his heart pounding wildly!
Susanoo!
This was the ultimate power that, according to legend, only Uchiha who had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan could possibly awaken!
And this young man's Susanoo was so solid it seemed tangible. The pressure it exuded was even more terrifying than what he had felt facing Madara Uchiha at his peak in his youth!
Crack!
Before Ōnoki could recover from his shock, a teeth-grating sound of breaking bones rang out.
Uchiha Gen'yō made no unnecessary movements. The purple Susanoo hand clenched violently!
Squelch!
The three Root assassins, each worthy of being called an elite Jonin in the Shinobi World, could not even scream before that absolute power crushed them into a mangled mass of flesh!
Blood and entrails dripped through Susanoo's fingers onto the ground, a horrifying sight!
An instant kill!
A true instant kill!
"Is this your answer, Uchiha Gen'yō?!"
A hoarse, icy voice rang out from the shadows of the valley.
Dozens of figures wearing pure white masks appeared from every direction, surrounding the entire valley without a gap.
Their leader wore a sinister mask engraved with the character for "owl." He held a shattered crystal compass in his hand.
It was none other than Root Captain Owl!
As he looked at the three piles of minced flesh on the ground, no longer recognizable as human, his single eye filled with fury and disbelief.
Their specialty killing formation had failed to so much as touch their opponent's clothes, and three of them had been killed in an instant instead!
"An answer?"
Uchiha Gen'yō chuckled as though he had heard a joke.
He slowly withdrew Susanoo's arm, maintaining only its upper-body skeletal form around himself.
"You vermin who don't even dare show yourselves in sunlight think you deserve an answer from me?"
Gen'yō's gaze was cold, devoid of emotion.
"I'm merely informing you."
"Your time to die has come."
"Arrogant fool!"
Owl roared, his hands rapidly forming hand seals!
"Do you really think you can take on all our Root elites alone?"
"Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld!"
As Owl activated his ninjutsu, the dozens of Root ninja behind him formed the same seals in unison!
Hum!
The ground throughout the valley instantly began shaking violently!
Within mere seconds, the hard, rocky ground within a hundred-meter radius of Uchiha Gen'yō turned into a swamp! Bubbles constantly rose from the pitch-black mire, which gave off a foul stench.
Powerful suction came from the depths of the swamp, as though it would drag everything on the surface into an endless abyss!
Even Ōnoki had to channel Dust Release to float a little higher. His face was grave.
This was a combination Earth Release ninjutsu!
Cast jointly by dozens of ninja proficient in Earth Release, its power far exceeded the bounds of A-rank ninjutsu and was enough to rival an S-rank forbidden technique!
They intended to restrict Uchiha Gen'yō's movements this way!
"A useless struggle."
Yet faced with a situation that would give any Kage-level powerhouse a headache, Uchiha Gen'yō still wore the same calm, untroubled expression.
He could not even be bothered to move, merely raising his left eye slowly.
The Mangekyo, shaped like a windmill shuriken, looked especially eerie in the dim night.
"Before these eyes of mine, the earth you speak of is nothing more than a child's toy."
"Kamui!"
A low shout!
At the center of the black swamp where Uchiha Gen'yō's left eye was focused, space suddenly began twisting violently without warning!
It was as though an invisible hand had brutally wrung that space into a twisted braid!
Riiip!
A sound like tearing canvas rang out!
The Swamp of the Underworld, capable of swallowing everything, was forcibly stripped from the earth along with the dozens of meters of soil beneath it! It all twisted into a mass before a suddenly appearing black vortex swallowed it whole in an instant!
Only a vast circular cavity with mirror-smooth edges remained in the ground!
And Uchiha Gen'yō stood at the center of the cavity, completely unharmed!
"What?!"
Every Root ninja stared dumbfounded!
Their killing formation had been broken just like that?
This was no longer ninjutsu!
This was power only a god could possess!
"My turn."
Uchiha Gen'yō's voice was like a death sentence delivered by the Grim Reaper.
His figure left an afterimage behind. The next second, he appeared directly amid the densest cluster of Root ninja!
He formed no seals, simply weaving through the crowd like a ghost.
"Kamui Intangibility!"
Every kunai, short blade, and ninjutsu aimed at him passed eerily through his body. They could not even touch the hem of his clothes!
Yet his right hand had already settled on a Root ninja's shoulder.
"The first."
The triangular-shuriken-shaped Mangekyo in Gen'yō's right eye spun furiously!
"No!"
The Root ninja barely managed a despairing scream. Under the pull of spatial power, the entire right half of his body was instantly sucked into a vortex that appeared out of thin air!
His body was torn straight in half!
Blood rained through the air!
Even Ōnoki, watching from a distance, felt his scalp crawl at the sight!
What kind of dōjutsu was this?!
On one side was intangibility that ignored all physical attacks!
On the other was distorted space that could forcibly swallow everything!
Combined, these two abilities were simply invincible!
"A monster! He's a monster!"
One Root ninja lost his nerve at the bloody, brutal sight and turned to flee.
"Think you can escape?"
Without even turning his head, Gen'yō focused the Mangekyo in his left eye slightly!
The fleeing Root ninja's body suddenly froze in midair!
Without any warning, space was forcibly twisted apart at the point where his head joined his neck!
A masked head flew into the air! The headless corpse continued running forward for over ten meters from momentum before crashing heavily to the ground!
Dual Kamui!
Only at this moment did Uchiha Gen'yō truly reveal to the world the terrifying, virtually unanswerable dominance of these two eyes working together!
This was no longer a battle!
This was a one-sided, unequal slaughter!
"You're next."
Uchiha Gen'yō appeared before Root Captain Owl like a phantom. His pitch-black eyes held not the slightest trace of emotion.
Owl felt cold all over, as though a demon god that had crawled out of hell had fixed its gaze firmly on him!
He had never felt such a pure, despair-inducing aura of death!
Could this man really slaughter every last one of them single-handedly?