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Chapter 142: Great Spiralling Ring, Kamui Malfunctions?
Obito, possessing Menma, sprouted a pair of wings from his back and flew high into the sky.
His right eye flashed with purple ripples as he roared, "Nine-Tails! Now is not the time for you to sleep!!"
Using Menma, the Jinchuriki, as a medium, he used the Rinnegan to forcibly control the Nine-Tails.
On the lake surface, the frozen Nine-Tails' eyes instantly transformed into the pattern of the Rinnegan. Regardless of the consequences, it forcibly mobilized the power within its body.
Endless purplish-black chakra erupted from its surface. The temperature was extremely high and possessed strong corrosive properties.
Crack, crack, crack.
Massive cracks appeared in the ice layer from the inside out, dissolving and melting rapidly.
The tails broke through the ice first. Taut and straight, they turned into nine giant iron spikes, stabbing upward at Konan with a whoosh.
Konan transformed into a streak of white light, hugging close to the tails as she dodged with agility. For every tail she dodged, she delivered a punch or a kick. In Sage Mode, her immense physical strength meant that even the Nine-Tails' appendages were hard-pressed to resist her.
Following a series of explosions, the nine giant tails were knocked away like flower petals scattering in the wind.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Just then, four kunai shot down from above.
They weren't aiming at Konan, but rather plunging into the lake, embedding themselves into the lakebed. Each kunai dragged a tail of crimson flame, radiating intense chakra fluctuations.
A shout came from high above: "Uchiha Flame Formation!!"
Shwaa! Shwaa! Shwaa!
In the next instant, four walls of fiery red light shot up from underwater. They pierced straight into the clouds!
The barrier locked both the Nine-Tails and Konan inside. The coverage was vast, the height staggering. Flames seemed to burn on every sheet of light, the blinding crimson glow visible clearly even from dozens of kilometers away.
It resembled a pillar of fire connecting heaven and earth.
"As expected, the Nine-Tails' chakra is on a different level."
High in the sky, Obito Uchiha looked down at the massive Uchiha Flame Formation with satisfaction. Possessing Menma gave him the Jinchuriki's characteristic of having almost inexhaustible chakra. This was the only way he could deploy an Uchiha Flame Formation of such astounding scale.
He raised his right hand, emitting violent chakra fluctuations.
A pitch-black sphere of energy floated above his palm, surrounded by rings of galactic starlight. It was dazzlingly brilliant. Beautiful, yet dangerous.
"Hmph!" Obito sneered. "This move rivals the Super Shinra Tensei. Let's see how you dodge this!!"
"Die!! White Tiger!"
"Great Spiralling Ring!!!"
His facial features twisted hideously as he flipped his right palm. The "Great Spiralling Ring" fell like a crashing star, disappearing directly into the Uchiha Flame Formation.
Below.
The moment the fiery red barrier appeared, Konan flew upward at extreme speed, intending to exit the Uchiha Flame Formation through the only opening at the top.
However, she had only reached halfway when Obito's attack descended. A black energy sphere shining with starlight was falling directly above her head!
Having been briefed by Alex (Ling Xiao) about Menma, she knew this ninjutsu possessed immense power, comparable to Deva Path Pain's Super Shinra Tensei.
She stopped flying upward and instantly turned to dive down.
Countless sheets of white paper emerged from her body, splicing and aggregating behind her to form a rapidly thickening ice wall. As Konan dove, the white color representing the ice wall grew longer and longer within the fiery red barrier, occupying almost half the height and volume of the space.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The next instant, the "Great Spiralling Ring" struck the very top of the ice wall and detonated.
Energy terrifying to the extreme erupted. The black energy sphere expanded rapidly. In a split second, it engulfed a radius of several kilometers.
Everything in its path...
Wherever the black energy swept, the Uchiha Flame Formation, the lake water, the ground—everything was annihilated. Even the thousand-meter-thick ice wall created by Sage Arts vanished in an instant, unable to block it in the slightest.
"Heh heh heh!" High in the sky, Obito Uchiha watched the gigantic black energy sphere blooming on the ground and laughed maniacally.
His face was filled with pleasure and vindication. "Dead! Finally dead!! Heh heh heh!!"
"White Tiger! You traitor, you're finally dead! This is the price for opposing me, Madara Uchiha!!"
"Limited Tsukuyomi, Menma, Uchiha Flame Formation, Great Spiralling Ring, Rinnegan... It wasn't in vain that I used so much power to kill you. You should be proud!!"
"Heh heh heh!!!"
Obito laughed with utter abandon. The frustration of recent times, the humiliation and resentment of being suppressed by Konan, were finally washed away.
No one could block that move. No one could survive it. Unless they possessed a resurrection ninjutsu like Izanagi, there was only one outcome—death!
"Hmph!!" Obito said coldly. "Letting you die so cleanly was letting you off easy!"
"Oh, is that so?"
Suddenly, a voice—familiar to the point of being unmistakable—rang out coldly from behind him.
"You..." Obito was scared out of his wits, his face full of disbelief. "You're not dead??!!!"
Squelch!
Before he could turn his head, he felt a sharp pain in his chest.
A snow-white ice blade protruded from his chest, the tip radiating a biting chill as beads of blood rolled off it.
It was a surprise attack launched by Konan!
What the Great Spiralling Ring had just destroyed was merely a Paper Clone. Her main body had long been hiding in the clouds, waiting for Obito to get cocky and let his guard down to deliver a fatal blow.
The ice blade poured out extreme freezing Ice Release chakra. Layers of ice spread with a crackling sound to every inch of his body.
Instant freezing!
Obito's shouting came to an abrupt halt. The expressions of shock, unwillingness, and gloom on his face were frozen stiff, looking lifelike.
Bang!
Konan smashed down with a powerful punch, and the entire ice block instantly shattered into countless ice chips. Menma's body was pulverized, dead beyond a doubt.
With the Jinchuriki dead, the Tailed Beast naturally could not survive. However, the Nine-Tails had already been annihilated in the explosion on the ground.
Hmm?
Konan frowned, looking at a phantom shadow emerging from the falling ice chips.
It was Obito.
He was unharmed, but his eyes were extremely gloomy, containing a trace of fear that he couldn't suppress.
The destruction of Menma's possessed body had no effect on him. He was special in this illusionary world; he couldn't be killed, as it was created by him.
It was just that all his hard work and planning had gone to waste. He thought his sequence of attacks would completely destroy Konan with the "Great Spiralling Ring." He didn't expect that after all that effort, he had only killed a Paper Clone.
Limited Tsukuyomi, Rinnegan, Menma, Great Spiralling Ring...
Thinking of how none of these could kill Konan, Obito felt a wave of powerlessness and the urge to vomit blood. He had even been beaten into psychological trauma, unable to suppress his fear of Konan.
Crack!
Before Konan could rush at Obito, dense cracks suddenly appeared in the void everywhere.
His body began to glow white. The actions just now had exhausted Obito's remaining energy, and the entire illusionary world began to disintegrate. The Limited Tsukuyomi could no longer be maintained.
With a soft hiss, the illusory world completely collapsed.
The Limited Tsukuyomi ended, and Konan and Obito broke away, returning to the real world.
.....
Konan's vision blurred, and she immediately regained her senses.
Her position was exactly where she had been before being sucked into the Limited Tsukuyomi. However, a significant amount of time had clearly passed; the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals barrier that had existed in the sky had long since crashed to the ground and mostly melted.
Konan shifted her gaze and found Obito dozens of meters away.
"White Tiger! Our battle isn't over yet! Just you wait!!"
Even in defeat, Obito didn't forget to make threats. His body fell back toward the ground, sinking into it bit by bit.
Konan flapped her wings, transforming into a streak of light and rushing to his side.
The paper blade in her hand slashed down like lightning—ten cuts in an instant, slicing through where his body was.
"Heh heh heh!" Obito laughed triumphantly. "Have you forgotten? In my intangible state, you can't hit me at all—"
"Is that so?"
Konan stood behind Obito, holding her blade, the purple hydrangeas in her eyes blooming quietly.
"Heh heh, you're just wasting your—"
The word "energy" never left his mouth. Obito's voice came to a jarring halt.
"You—my Kamui... how could you hit me...!!"
Cracks appeared all over Obito's body, but even more horrifying was the bloody mark beneath the bridge of his nose.
Crimson blood sprayed from various wounds.
His Kamui intangibility—the technique he had always been so proud of, the technique that kept him forever invincible—had completely failed under Konan's blade!
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