A single battle drew spectators from multiple factions and generated a series of chain reactions.
Jokichi knew absolutely nothing about this.
Even if he did, he would not care.
No matter how many schemes and calculations, in the face of absolute power, they were just thin paper, torn to pieces with a gentle pull.
This was also the reason why, when Pain and Obito teamed up to assassinate him, he did not go after them.
As long as one's power is great enough, anything can be easily accomplished.
The covetous eyes of enemies?
Hatred?
Showing off?
There is no need to rush any of these.
Prioritizing making oneself stronger is the fundamental key.
Jokichi currently only cared about the enemy in front of him.
Ever since Otsutsuki Urashiki transformed, the way he looked at him had changed.
It became condescending.
As natural as the look humans have when observing monkeys or other highly intelligent animals.
At this moment, Urashiki, having transformed into an Otsutsuki birdman, truly believed his life had been elevated.
And that he had a fundamental difference from humans in form and level.
Being looked at as a lower lifeform by a guy weaker than himself, this feeling was very unpleasant.
Jokichi stretched his neck, wore a smile, held his sword, and slowly walked toward Urashiki.
"A last look at the world?"
"Are you leaving your dying words?"
"Or is it that after becoming like a bird, your IQ has also become equivalent to a bird's?"
"Hmph, you are nothing but trash, a bug-like thing. Watch me crush you to death."
Urashiki snorted coldly, bowed his body, and like an arrow loosed from a bow, drew a diagonal line across the sky as he plummeted toward Jokichi.
Jokichi hopped slightly to the right, dodging it.
"Boom!"
As Urashiki crashed into the earth, a deafening roar immediately followed. The ground trembled, kicking up billowing smoke and dust.
Before the smoke and dust could disperse, seven meter-long needles slipped from Jokichi's hands, stabbing into the ground around the crater shrouded in smoke and dust.
These were the Lightning Rods (Attractors)!
"Zzzt, zzzt."
Electric light intertwined around the seven lightning rods. Dark clouds were rapidly summoned to the sky, with lightning snakes slithering within, as if nurturing something.
Thousands of miles away, Sasuke, watching the battle, slightly opened his mouth.
And Boruto beside him cried out in surprise, "Sasuke-san, isn't that your Kirin..."
"No." Sasuke stared at the thunderclouds in the sky, his expression grave. "Although it looks very similar, that is not Kirin."
Boruto opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally gave up and focused on watching the battle through his binoculars.
In the center of the battlefield, the smoke and dust dispersed.
Urashiki stood up from the crater, completely unharmed.
He glanced at the seven lightning rods stuck around him and curled his lips disdainfully. "Whatever little tricks you're playing, they're useless."
"You really are in the late stages of cancer!"
The corner of Jokichi's mouth twitched, and he clapped his hands together. "Sage Art: Earth Release: Dunhuang Buddha."
"Rumble."
As deafening sounds rang out, the earth trembled violently. Two massive hands made of rock burst forth, clamping Urashiki in the middle in a praying posture.
"You think this can bind me?" Urashiki glanced at it contemptuously, then struggled forcefully. Cracks appeared on the giant rock hands.
Then, increasing his force, he pushed them apart and shattered them.
"Ahahaha... this kind of thing is completely useless!" Urashiki laughed wildly at the sky.
The power after transformation gave him a god-like confidence.
Only.
The sight that entered his eyes caused his arrogant laughter to cease abruptly.
As if a punishment descending from heaven, a sea of lightning crashed down from the highest heavens.
"How could a human possibly do such a thing!?"
Urashiki widened his eyes in disbelief, then laughed wildly. "I must admit, you are the strongest human I have ever seen. I, Otsutsuki Urashiki, am willing to call you the strongest human!"
After speaking, he opened his right hand toward the sky, unleashing purple chakra in the shape of a four-pointed star from his palm. He then manifested a massive black-purple snake that coiled across the sky.
The large snake gazed at the lightning descending from the sky, its mouth also condensing purple lightning, seemingly brewing something.
Just as the sea of lightning from the highest heavens was about to fall, the large snake opened its massive mouth, and a pillar of purple lightning shot out.
Its scale and power were even more massive than the sea of lightning falling from the highest heavens.
"Ame-no-Subaruboshinomikoto: Ryugu!"
The manifested large snake's mouth could release the same ninjutsu as the opponent, amplify its power, and strike back.
"Boom!"
The purple and bright white pillars of lightning collided in mid-air, erupting in an airwave spanning dozens of kilometers.
Even though the collision was thousands of meters in the air, the airwave snapped large trees and shattered giant boulders.
Some rocky mountains collapsed entirely.
However, after the initial clash, the purple pillar of lightning pushed against the bright white pillar of lightning, slowly shifting upwards.
"Ahahaha..." Urashiki laughed arrogantly again. "See that? This is the power of a celestial being. Even heaven and earth cannot defy me."
"Is that so?"
Jokichi's calm voice rang out from the side, accompanied by a long sword gleaming with lightning.
"Pfft!"
The sharp blade pierced through his heart, trailing fresh blood as the tip emerged from the other side.
Urashiki's eyes widened.
"Why can you still move freely while unleashing such a powerful ninjutsu? Don't you need to continuously input chakra?"
"Because, this isn't a ninjutsu at all!"
Jokichi said indifferently, withdrawing his sword and slashing continuously. The blade wrapped in electrical arcs was like a violent storm, drawing a sky full of sword shadows.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft..."
Fresh blood gushed wildly like a fountain.
Suffering this heavy injury, Ame-no-Subaruboshinomikoto: Ryugu could no longer be maintained properly. The bright white sea of lightning instantly crushed the purple sea of lightning, pouring down like an overturned celestial river.
"Damn it!"
Urashiki cursed in exasperation. "Even if I die, I'm taking you with me."
"You can just die by yourself!"
Jokichi smiled and used the Flying Thunder God Jutsu to warp away.
The next second, the sea of lightning engulfed Urashiki, swallowing all sound.
The densely packed lightning gathered, looking like a pillar of light connecting heaven and earth, kicking up layer upon layer of airwaves.
The dazzling light snatched away everything in the world.
Even several kilometers away, Jokichi only saw a expanse of bright white before his eyes. He could only feel the earth shaking continuously and waves of heat shockwaves spreading outward.
That immense power forced him to erect a ninjutsu defense.
"With this kind of power, even if that guy's physical durability is extremely high, he must be dead!"
To be able to rely on physical durability to break free from the binding of an A-rank ninjutsu enhanced by senjutsu, Urashiki's physical durability at this moment was far stronger than his.
In fact, even those fighting like gods in the Fourth Shinobi World War. Their physical durability was not much stronger than ordinary people.
They mostly relied on the enhancements of forbidden jutsu, senjutsu, Kekkei Genkai, or Tailed Beasts to unleash that inhuman speed and strength.
Jokichi's physical vitality was indeed vigorous, but his durability was only at the level of an ordinary Kage. He could only compare to Urashiki by relying on the enhancement of senjutsu.