Faced with such a fierce attack, Fugaku did not dare be the least bit careless.
His eyes narrowed slightly as he quickly drove the power of his eyes.
In an instant, the originally phantom-like skeleton of Susanoo grew flesh, then was covered in an incomparably solid layer of armor.
At the same time, a huge and ferocious clawed arm suddenly appeared on Susanoo's right hand, gleaming with a chilling light.
In the blink of an eye, when Han's leg collided with Fugaku's clawed arm, there was a heaven-shaking explosion.
RUMBLE!
The entire ground trembled violently.
A powerful shockwave spread in all directions, uprooting the surrounding trees and sending dirt and rocks flying.
On the other side, Roshi also showed astonishing strength.
Besides the Tailed Beast chakra constantly pouring out from inside his body, his whole body was wrapped in blazing, high-temperature magma.
That magma was like flowing flame, giving off a scorching light. Anything that dared approach would be melted into ash in an instant.
With a huge "ROAR!"
Roshi unleashed his signature move
Lava Release: Scorching River Flowing Rock!
He pressed his hands together, then suddenly spat out a huge ball of magma from his mouth. It whistled through the air like a cannonball, shooting straight toward Itachi.
Because of the Melt Lock Seal placed on his body, Roshi was no longer as afraid of the Uchiha clan's genjutsu as before.
So he stared fixedly in Itachi's direction, ready to respond at any moment to any attack from the other side.
However, he never imagined that there was a kind of genjutsu where, with a single glance, ten thousand years pass, leaving him no time to break free at all.
The instant their eyes met, Itachi decisively activated his unique eye technique
Tsukuyomi!
In a flash, time seemed to freeze. Roshi's consciousness was instantly pulled into an endless world of darkness.
Roshi only felt the scene before him suddenly go pitch black, as if the entire world had collapsed in an instant.
Before he could react, a powerful and mysterious force tightly grabbed hold of him, dragging him straight into the strange and unfathomable world of Tsukuyomi.
When Roshi opened his eyes again, he was shocked to find himself firmly bound to a huge pillar, unable to move even a bit.
His eyes were wide, his face full of disbelief, as he muttered to himself, "What's going on? How could I possibly get caught in this kind of genjutsu?"
At this moment, Itachi was standing not far away, staring at him with an expressionless face. In his eyes there was a chill that made one's heart freeze.
Itachi slowly raised the sword in his hand, the blade flashing with cold light, and said without a trace of emotion, "Relax. We have plenty of time."
Before his voice had even fallen, he swung his arm, the sharp tip of the sword thrusting straight toward Roshi's body.
At the very same moment, in the real world, Roshi, who just a second ago had still been surging with momentum and wrapped in blazing magma chakra, suddenly seemed to lose all his strength. His whole body went out like a flame, and he fell straight to the ground.
That searing magma chakra also went out completely, like a candle flame snuffed by the wind.
Inside Susanoo, Itachi looked slightly weary. There was even a faint trace of blood seeping from the corner of his eye.
Even so, he did not hesitate in the slightest. His figure flashed like lightning as he lunged toward the fallen Roshi.
Because he knew very well that if they could successfully capture this jinchuriki, then they had already won half this battle.
Unfortunately, things rarely go as smoothly as one imagines.
Just as Itachi approached Roshi, the four Iwa ninjas who had been guarding at Roshi's side saw him pass out and all their faces changed.
Without any hesitation, they all pressed their hands heavily onto the ground at the same time.
In an instant, the earth began to shake violently, and the area where Roshi was quickly sank down, disappearing beneath the soil in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, a huge stone slab slowly rose up from underground, just in time to block Itachi's path.
Seeing this, Itachi swung Susanoo's fist and smashed down hard on the stone slab.
With a dull boom, the stone slab shattered on the spot.
But by then, those Iwa ninjas had already used that time to dig Roshi out from the ground nearby and were quickly moving him to the rear.
Han, on his side, remained extremely wary of Fugaku's genjutsu.
Even though he had the Melt Lock Seal on his body, he still did not dare look directly into Fugaku's eyes.
He was deeply afraid that the slightest carelessness would cause him to fall into the carefully woven genjutsu and be unable to escape.
After all, "Evil Eye" Fugaku was a genjutsu master who had been famous for many years.
Yet at this tense moment, Roshi on the side was suddenly ambushed.
Completely unprepared, he was knocked down by genjutsu.
Han's face changed sharply. At the same time, without the slightest hesitation, he pulled out a signal flare and fired it into the sky.
A blinding light shot up at once, so that every Iwa ninja nearby could see clearly.
Naturally, Fugaku would not let this fleeting chance slip by.
He flicked his wrist lightly and a Yasaka Magatama that was overflowing with powerful chakra waves shot straight toward Roshi.
The magatama spun rapidly in the air, kicking up a fierce whistling wind.
Han, who had been closely watching the situation, saw that things were turning bad and immediately used his ultimate technique without hesitation.
Complete Tailed Beast Transformation!
In an instant, his body underwent an astonishing change, turning into a gigantic pure white beast that was a perfect fusion of dolphin and stallion.
It was the Five-Tails, Kokuo.
With a deafening crash, Kokuo charged violently at Fugaku's Susanoo.
There was a booming sound.
Fugaku, together with his Susanoo, was actually sent staggering back several steps by that thunderous impact from Kokuo.
At the same time, large numbers of Iwa ninjas surged toward Fugaku and Itachi's position like a flood.
They knew the situation was critical and they had to rescue the injured Roshi as quickly as possible and stop Konoha's pursuit.
These Iwa ninjas moved with extreme speed. In the blink of an eye, tall and solid stone walls rose up continuously from the ground.
They were trying to completely cut off Fugaku and Itachi's pursuit routes.
Although Konoha's side kept using jutsu to destroy these stone walls, Iwa's construction speed was simply too fast.
And the advantage of Iwa's group-style combat showed itself at this moment.
The earth walls they created together on the battlefield were thick and hard.
Even though Susanoo was powerful, they could only watch as Iwa dragged the heavily injured Roshi away, retreating toward a safe area.
Because of Iwa's stubborn resistance and timely, effective tactical arrangements, Konoha ultimately failed to capture the jinchuriki Roshi in the first crucial moment.
Faced with this situation, Fugaku and Itachi exchanged a glance. Both understood in their hearts that if they kept dragging this out, they were unlikely to gain anything.
So the two of them decided on the spot to temporarily give up the chase and break out first.
Fugaku controlled the giant Susanoo and swung its massive claw sideways in a sweep.
A violent gust of wind erupted at once, leveling all the bothersome stone walls around them.
Then, leading the members of the assault squad, he seized the momentary gap in Iwa's defenses and charged forward, tearing open a path by sheer force and breaking through.
On Iwa's side, they were both intimidated by Susanoo's might and worried about the injured jinchuriki Roshi.
When they saw the two Susanoo opening a path, they could not help but unconsciously step aside one after another.
On Konoha's side, they actually did not hold that big of an advantage either.
You have to know, the pupil power of the Mangekyo Sharingan is not limitless.
Neither Fugaku nor Itachi could maintain a powerful eye technique like Susanoo for a long time.
However, Iwa did not know this.
So both sides had their concerns. They carefully kept their distance from each other and withdrew.
At this moment, for Iwa, the situation was extremely urgent.
They had to wake the unconscious Roshi as fast as possible, or find a way to bring Onoki back to the battlefield.
Otherwise, with no one to command, the battle would only grow more and more difficult.
On the other side, Konoha's carefully planned decapitation operation had ended in failure, forcing them to discuss a completely new strategy and tactics.
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