Chapter 586: The Death of Hiruko
Ino was not confident that she could defeat Madara. This was the main reason why she had directly used her ultimate move and summoned Izuna to disgust him. She was learning their combat skills, taking their essence, and making it her own.
Madara saw the golden Susanoo that had followed Hiruko. It was also a perfect Susanoo. Him against two? He had been fighting for so long and was already a little tired.
He had been too reckless this time. The matter of the Rinnegan and Izuna had made him lose his calm mind.
That damn tree was also constantly weakening him and strengthening Izuna.
Madara even felt that a part of his own power of all creation had been drawn away by this tree. If he continued to fight, he would lose for sure.
The blue Susanoo swung its arms, slashing out more than a dozen sharp sword lights in all directions.
The golden Susanoo raised its shield to defend. The cyan Susanoo was light on its feet, its katana slashing, parrying, and deflecting, dealing with the attacks perfectly. After all the sword lights had disappeared, Madara had already controlled the blue Susanoo to fly into the sky and retreat first.
Izuna, for a rare change, showed resistance to Ino's order to pursue Madara. You want me to resist my brother, fine. You want me to hunt down my brother? No! The Naihe Bridge shook violently. Ino could only change her order.
The cyan and golden Susanoos simultaneously aimed their weapons at Hiruko.
At this moment, Hiruko finally realized that he had been set up by the residual consciousnesses in his body.
He had walked into his own grave.
Pakura, Gari, Toroi, Chūkichi, and a soul named Inabi Uchiha floated around him.
The five souls' faces were grim.
Normally, souls didn't appear so easily. But now, they were all within the range of the golden tree. The five souls were no longer in their previous whispering state. They were now as solid as real people.
The souls looked at Hiruko with contempt. You trash think you can occupy my kekkei genkai?
The souls' hands rested on Hiruko's body. A cold aura rushed into his chakra pathways. He felt that he had instantly lost control of his body.
The soul of Pakura's Scorch Release was even running rampant in his chakra pathways. The moisture from the Chimera Technique was rapidly evaporating.
"No! You are all my slaves! I am the master, the supreme—" Before he could finish his words, the golden Susanoo swung its sword down vertically, splitting him in half from head to toe. The cyan Susanoo followed closely behind. As a standout of the Warring States period, Izuna was no pushover either. He held his katana with both hands and, with a horizontal slash, cut Hiruko into four pieces.
"Hahahaha—! I am invincible!" Hiruko's face was still filled with terror. After discovering that he had been cut into four pieces and was not dead, the right side of his face was filled with malice and madness.
"The Chimera Technique can..."
A hand of the evil Buddha extended from the golden tree. Its palm aimed at Hiruko and threw a black, high-density chakra sphere.
The sphere spun rapidly. Soon, the surrounding trees automatically peeled off their bark and branches, turning into javelins. Under the effect of gravity, they pierced Hiruko from all directions, turning him into a porcupine. Then, a large amount of soil and rocks flew into the sky, layer upon layer, surrounding Hiruko, and finally compressed tightly together, forming a huge rock mass with a diameter of over a hundred meters.
"Planetary Devastation!"
Ino dispelled the golden tree and the shadow clone, and received the memories from the shadow clone during this time.
Sasuke was sizing up her eyes again. She gave him a strange look, as if nothing had happened. What's wrong? Something the matter?
Hiruko was undoubtedly dead, but even Ino couldn't tell if he had been crushed to death by the Planetary Devastation or if his genes had collapsed first. It was unclear. The Chimera Technique was more resilient than she had expected.
Speaking of which, the final stage of Hiruko was no longer him. At most, it was a new consciousness born from the memories copied from his body by the Chimera Technique.
Hiruko's combat ability was very average, and the black water produced by the Chimera Technique stank. Ino was really a bit disgusted.
As a fighter, Izuna Uchiha was undoubtedly much stronger than Hiruko.
There was no need to replace him for now.
She burned the remains with fire and then scattered the ashes. That was the end of it.
The group's mission was completed. After regrouping with Kakashi and the others, they returned to the village together.
On the way back to the village, Sasuke left the main group and went to find Nekobaa.
The original Senju and Uchiha clans were on equal footing, and both had their own intelligence networks.
After the Senju clan turned their family into a village and successfully established Konoha, the intelligence personnel belonging to the Senju clan slowly merged with the Yamanaka clan. Many ninja were nominally part of the village, but in reality, they had been turned into retainers by the Yamanaka clan.
For example, Aoba Yamashiro had served two generations of the Yamanaka clan head. You say he has no connection to the Yamanaka clan and is loyal to the village? Who would believe that!
The Senju clan had turned their family's things into the village's things, while the Yamanaka clan had turned the village's things into their family's things. The former was for ideals, the latter for survival. You couldn't say who was stupid and who was smart. You could only say that everyone got what they needed...
The Uchiha clan had always had their own intelligence personnel, and that was Nekobaa.
After becoming a jonin, Sasuke had reconnected with Nekobaa. It was just that before, Nekobaa was a subordinate of the Uchiha clan, and now they had become allies.
In order to buy back the Uchiha clan's flame fan as soon as possible, Sasuke took the initiative to come to Nekobaa to take on missions.
Nekobaa smoked her pipe and looked through the various mission records in her hand. "Sasuke-kun, there might be a mission that is suitable for you, but I must say in advance, this mission is very dangerous."
"Let me see it." Sasuke didn't agree rashly.
Nekobaa handed him the mission document.
"A bounty on Deidara? The reward is very high..." Sasuke read it carefully.
He found that this was a joint wanted notice for Deidara from twenty-five temples in the Land of Fire, the Land of Wind, and the Land of Lightning!
Ninja started killing from the age of four or five. By the time they were thirty, most people would have had a mental breakdown.
Finding inner peace, gaining strength from religion, and entrusting their thoughts to gods and Buddhas was a necessary path for many ninja.
These old ninja who had put down their butcher knives would leave their ninjutsu to the temples. Over time, the major temples also had some ninjutsu inheritance, and they would then train their own ninja monks with it.
Some ninja monks were very strong. For example, the abbot of the Fire Temple, Chiriku, was no weaker than Asuma.
Now these guys had joined forces to offer a large sum of money to hunt down "Deidara." They had truly reached their limit...
Sasuke thought for a moment. Deidara doesn't have a Rinnegan too, does he?
He finally looked at the reward amount funded by the numerous temples and was quite tempted. "Alright, I'll take this mission."
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