Deep within this chaotic spiritual world, Hiruko's expression was extraordinarily furious and grotesquely twisted.
"Bastard, you were created and nurtured by me! How dare you kill your master?"
The Chimera took the form of a gigantic tree made of gelatinous matter, like a ferocious and terrifying beast.
It had already hoisted Hiruko tightly into the air.
And on its other branches hung one head after another belonging to people with Kekkei Genkai.
Their mouths opened and closed nonstop in an extremely eerie manner, the entire scene indescribably strange and nauseating.
Hiruko struggled desperately, but all of his efforts were completely futile.
At the same time, outside, streak after streak of incomparably sharp lightning crashed down like silver serpents dancing wildly.
Each bolt carried astonishing power, slamming fiercely into them.
Under this dual assault, the mental strength of both sides was being rapidly consumed, plunging continuously.
"If you keep this up, we'll both die here!", Hiruko shouted in agitation, 'Who is it, exactly?'
'Could it be Black Zetsu?'
But the Chimera lacked complete logical thinking and acted purely on instinct, wanting to devour Hiruko.
Even though Black Zetsu was constantly striking from the shadows, the Chimera never loosened its grip on Hiruko.
This heart stopping struggle lasted for more than half a day.
By the end, both Hiruko and the Chimera had become extremely weak.
Hiruko was already barely clinging to life, his breath thin and faint, his flame of life ready to go out at any moment.
The Chimera had also completely withered, as if it were about to shrivel up and collapse.
At this moment, the situation outside underwent a new change.
Just as Black Zetsu was preparing to deal further with Hiruko.
A White Zetsu that had been checking information on the battlefield in the Land of Rivers rushed over using the Mayfly Technique.
It crawled out of the ground and reported to Black Zetsu, "Uchiha Rengoku used Susanoo to defeat the Sand. Over two thousand Sand ninja were killed."
This White Zetsu clearly belonged to the type that lacked much self awareness, so it simply completed the report without any extra thought.
Hearing this news, Black Zetsu could not help but be greatly shocked.
He thought to himself, 'Uchiha Rengoku's Susanoo is that powerful?'
With this thought, Black Zetsu temporarily set aside his handling of Hiruko.
His form flickered and instantly turned into a pool of pitch black sludge, then merged together with the White Zetsu that had come to deliver the report.
Every detail and every frame observed by the White Zetsu appeared in Black Zetsu's mind as clearly as a movie.
When Black Zetsu saw the Warrior God form Susanoo towering over two hundred meters tall, an indescribable shock surged through his heart.
"How is this possible?"
Black Zetsu widened his eyes and muttered in disbelief, 'Rengoku's strength has already reached this kind of level?'
'He has actually awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan?'
One had to know that the Uchiha clan's complete form Susanoo was not something that could be used casually.
Even someone as strong as Uchiha Madara could only use the complete form thanks to his special identity as Indra's reincarnation.
Uchiha Madara possessed chakra reserves and pupil power far exceeding those of ordinary Uchiha.
That was why he could control the complete form Susanoo.
And the age at which Madara obtained the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was far greater than Rengoku's current age.
Yet now, Rengoku had achieved this at such a young age.
"Damn it! If this keeps developing, the situation will become extremely unfavorable for us."
Black Zetsu clenched his teeth, cursing silently in his heart.
He took a deep breath, forcing his restless mind to calm down.
After all, in order to realize his plan, he had carefully plotted for a full thousand years, enduring countless failures and setbacks along the way.
Although the situation he faced now was exceptionally difficult, he firmly believed that as long as he stayed calm, he would always find a way to respond.
Thus, Black Zetsu decided to continue moving forward according to his established pace, pushing the plan step by step.
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Within Hiruko's spiritual world, everything was silent and eerie.
Without Black Zetsu's interference, that gelatinous mysterious tree had already tightly wrapped around Hiruko and completely strangled him against its trunk.
Hiruko's consciousness was like falling into a bottomless abyss, sinking and sinking… until it finally vanished entirely.
At the moment Hiruko's consciousness dissipated, the Chimera Tree seemed to be freed and began to grow wildly at an astonishing speed.
Its branches stretched and thickened, its leaves grew denser, the entire tree like a gigantic monster greedily devouring all the surrounding space.
At the same time, in the real world, the previously motionless Hiruko suddenly trembled and convulsed violently, as if struck by a powerful electric shock.
Seeing this, Black Zetsu's eyes flashed with light, and he secretly rejoiced, "It's finally finished! But I wonder who won this struggle?"
Hiruko's body bulged and churned nonstop, as if countless rats were racing madly beneath his skin, a horrifying sight.
This state lasted for a full half hour, during which Hiruko's body remained extremely unstable, before it finally began to calm down.
After a while, Hiruko slowly opened his eyes. His gaze was blank and vacant, his limbs flailed wildly, yet he was completely unable to control his own movements.
Black Zetsu stared at Hiruko's constantly rolling eyes and the mouth that opened and closed without making a sound, and a hint of curiosity arose in his heart.
So he reached out and gently placed his hand on the top of Hiruko's head, trying to sense the fluctuations of his consciousness.
However, the powerful consciousness that had once belonged to Hiruko was now completely gone.
Occupying this body now was only an extremely weak and unfamiliar consciousness.
'Tsk! Looks like the Chimera ended up winning this struggle after all!'
Black Zetsu thought to himself.
In truth, though, it made little difference to him which side had won.
Such a feeble consciousness could never become his opponent anyway.
At this moment, Black Zetsu's body gradually began to melt, as if turning into a pool of thick black sludge.
It slowly seeped toward Hiruko's body.
Hiruko, meanwhile, trembled violently all over.
He was not only unable to stop his body from being eroded and penetrated by this strange black mud, but even the surface of his body was rapidly covered completely by Black Zetsu.
In the blink of an eye, the figure that once belonged to Hiruko had already disappeared.
In its place was a mass of pitch black substance, exuding waves of sinister aura.
Immediately after, Black Zetsu easily broke into Hiruko's consciousness space.
The moment he entered this mysterious domain, what met his eyes was a gigantic gelatinous tree that soared into the clouds and stood between heaven and earth.
It was like a towering mountain standing there, bringing an endless sense of shock.
Black Zetsu merely fixed that gelatinous giant tree with his deep and icy gaze.
In an instant, countless brilliant bolts of lightning poured down like a torrential rain, smashing fiercely into the giant tree.
Struck by such a violent assault, the gelatinous tree immediately began to twist and deform in agony, its trunk and branches snapping and shattering, bursting into flames.
As time passed, the fire spread, and the entire tree was soon engulfed in blazing flames, burned down to ashes.
At the same time, within this consciousness space, Black Zetsu's form also began to slowly swell and expand.
In the end, accompanied by a heaven shaking explosion, he suddenly burst apart, releasing a terrifying energy wave capable of destroying heaven and earth.
And in the real world, Hiruko, whose eyes had been tightly shut, finally slowly opened them at this moment.
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