Chapter 240 True Despair
Yu Xi narrowed her eyes and looked down at the ever-changing battlefield below.
The confrontation between Madara and the Fourth Raikage made her smile playfully.
The lightning chakra all over the Raikage's body is like boiling liquid lightning.
All the gravel within three meters was shattered into dust. He took a half step back with his right leg.
The ground suddenly cracked into spiderweb-like cracks. "Lightning Release: Thunder Flash!"
The air erupted in a piercing scream, and the Raikage's figure broke through the sound barrier in one thousandth of a second.
Ordinary ninjas could only see a blue flash of lightning across the battlefield, and his right fist wrapped in lightning had already hit Madara's face.
"Too slow." Madara's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan slowly rotated.
In his vision, the Raikage's movements were broken down into hundreds of freeze frames.
Just as the Raikage's fist was about to make contact, Madara tilted his head slightly.
An iron fist packed with immense force brushed past his temple, and the rock wall thirty meters behind him exploded, with countless pieces of rubble vaporized in the lightning chakra.
"What?" Raikage's pupils suddenly shrank.
Madara's left hand had already formed the Tiger Seal at some point, and the hot fire chakra condensed in his throat.
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Song Jutsu!" Seven fire dragons blocked all of the Raikage's escape routes from different angles.
"Lightning Release Armor!" The Raikage roared, and the density of lightning release chakra on his body suddenly increased.
The fire dragon crashed into the blue lightning and exploded into a rain of fire, but a few clusters of flames still penetrated his defense, leaving scorch marks on his bronze skin.
Darui, who was watching the battle from a distance, clenched his kunai: "The Raikage's speed was completely predicted..."
"The dynamic vision of the Sharingan combined with Madara's combat experience." Cold sweat oozed from Samui's forehead protector.
In the center of the battlefield, Madara suddenly revealed a flaw and deliberately exposed his back to the Raikage.
This obvious bait made the Raikage hesitate for a tenth of a second—it was this split second of hesitation.
Three kunai with detonating tags suddenly shot out from Madara's sleeves, forming a triangle shape to block the Raikage's escape space.
"Boom boom boom!" In the smoke and dust of the explosion, the Raikage rushed out covered in blood, his right arm twisted unnaturally.
But the fighting spirit in his eyes only grew stronger, and his broken arm bone was forcibly reset under the stimulation of Lightning Release. "Lightning Release: Righteous Thunder Fury Thunder Axe!"
He leaped high into the air, concentrated all his chakra into his right leg, and chopped it down like a battle axe.
Madara finally showed a serious look.
He put his hands together, and the giant trees on the battlefield suddenly twisted and grew as if alive, and countless sharp thorns pierced the Thunder Shadow in the air from all directions.
At the same time, his Sharingan spun wildly, predicting the seventeen possible trajectories of the Raikage's moves.
"Wood Release: Cutting Technique!"
The Raikage's lightning axe cut through dozens of giant trees, but more wooden spikes penetrated his lightning defense.
Three sharp branches pierced his shoulder, thigh and side respectively, and blood drew a sad arc in the air.
"It's over." Madara's voice came from behind the Raikage.
At some point, the blue Susanoo skeleton had wrapped around Madara's right arm, and the giant fist formed by chakra slammed heavily on the back of the Raikage.
"boom!"
The Raikage smashed into the ground like a cannonball, creating a crater twenty meters in diameter.
He struggled to stand up, but found that all the meridians in his body were blocked by Wood Release chakra, and he couldn't even move his fingers.
Madara slowly landed on the edge of the pit, looking down at the loser from above.
"Nine minutes." Madara glanced at the burning Kumogakure watchtower in the distance.
The Raikage spat out blood and stared at the legendary ninja: "Asshole!"
...
Yu Xi arrived high above the Hidden Cloud Village.
She felt that this farce should end.
She slowly raised her right hand, and the air around her suddenly became sticky.
Countless auras visible to the naked eye gathered from all directions and condensed into a dazzling light in her palm.
The light grew brighter and brighter, and eventually extended into a blazing red sword that spanned the sky.
The sword is a kilometer long, with lava-like lines flowing on its surface. The energy it emits causes the surrounding space to begin to distort.
The ninjas of the Hidden Cloud Village below finally noticed the changes in the sky.
"What...what is that?" A young Kumogakure Genin pointed at the sky, his voice trembling.
The growing red lightsaber was reflected in his pupils.
Samui's head shot up, her golden hair dancing wildly in the strong wind.
When she took in the sight of the sky, her icy blue eyes shrank to the size of pinpoints. "Everyone evacuate! Evacuate immediately!" Her screams drowned out the explosions on the battlefield.
But it's too late.
Yu Xi raised the corner of his mouth in a cruel arc and swung his arm lightly.
The moment the blazing red sword fell, the lightning barrier that the Hidden Cloud Village was proud of lit up with a dazzling blue light.
Like fragile tissue paper, it was torn into pieces in less than half a second.
The moment the Qi sword touched the ground, the entire earth groaned in pain.
A dark crack spread across the surface at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"No--!" Darui cried out in despair, watching the air sword slash through the Raikage Building in the center of the Hidden Cloud Village.
The building that symbolized the glory of Kumogakure was cut open like butter, and the cross section appeared as red as lava.
The Qi sword continued to move downward, cutting deep into the earth's crust. Wherever it passed, whether it was rock, steel or human body, it was instantly vaporized.
The earth is shaking and wailing.
An abyss over a kilometer wide opened up in the center of the Hidden Cloud Village at a terrifying speed.
From the bottomless darkness came the roar of collapsing buildings and the screams of countless people falling.
The rock walls on both sides of the abyss appear to have a strange mirror-like surface, which is the trace of being melted instantly by high temperature.
"Help! Help me!"
A Chunin desperately grasped the rocks at the edge of the abyss, his lower body hanging in the air, his fingers scratching in vain on the smooth rock surface.
A thousand meters below him, he could vaguely see his falling companions turning into small black dots and eventually disappearing into the endless darkness.
Yu Xi was suspended just above the abyss, watching all this with indifference.
She deliberately slowed down the speed at which the air sword dissipated, giving those ninjas who were lucky enough not to be hit directly enough time to experience fear.
"Monster...monster..." A medical ninja fell to his knees, and the kunai in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
Her spirit had collapsed, her eyes had lost focus, and she just repeated the word mechanically.
Around her, the surviving ninjas also fell into collective hysteria.
Some people laughed wildly, some cried and some fainted.
Samui held on to her last bit of sanity, but her body betrayed her.
My legs felt heavy as if they were filled with lead, and my fingers trembled uncontrollably.
As a special jonin, she had seen countless tragic battlefields, but had never felt such crushing despair.
That air sword shattered not only the Hidden Cloud Village, but also the fighting will of all the survivors.
Yu Xi admired her masterpiece with satisfaction.
On both sides of the abyss, the surviving ninjas were running around like headless flies, but could not find any way to escape.
She slowly raised her left hand, and new red chakra began to gather.
"Am I dreaming..." Darui slumped on the ground, his back against the half-broken wall.
He used to be proud of being a "genius in Storm Escape", but now he didn't even have the courage to form hand seals.
At his feet was the body of the Raikage, nailed to the ground by Wood Release - this powerful man who once dominated the ninja world could only watch helplessly as the village he protected was destroyed.
The second Qi sword gradually took shape, more solid and larger than the first one.
"You have to bear the consequences of your own choices." She said coldly, but her voice was clearly heard throughout the battlefield.
The light of the air sword illuminated her cold face and also illuminated the desperate faces below.
The moment the second air sword began to fall, the ninjas of the Hidden Cloud Village didn't even have the strength to scream.
They stood there blankly, waiting for death to come.
At this moment, they finally understood what true power was and what absolute despair was.
