Chapter 287: The So-Called Legendary Ninja
Uchiha Obito appeared behind Mercenary Tao in an instant, thrusting his right hand. The Cutting Sprigs Technique in his palm exploded instantly.
How rich was Uchiha Madara's combat experience? His three-tomoe Sharingan trembled once, and he took a step to the left, while his left hand followed the momentum and slashed back towards Obito's neck.
His movements didn't pursue extreme speed but were almost exactly the same speed as the Cutting Sprigs Technique stabbing towards his body.
Madara fully knew Obito's abilities, and likewise, he understood the weakness of Obito's Kamui intangibility.
Uchiha Obito seemed to have been overwhelmed by anger, disregarding everything as he thrust the wood spikes violently.
Uchiha Madara's expression also remained unchanged. The speed of his left hand's horizontal slash was even undergoing subtle adjustments constantly.
The wood spikes quietly disappeared when passing through Mercenary Tao's body. At the same time, the opponent's hand chop also passed through Obito's neck. The angry look on his face dissipated slightly; Obito hadn't completely lost his reason.
Uchiha Madara's Sharingan rotated slightly, taking in Obito's movements completely. As long as Obito made any attack movement, he would counterattack simultaneously.
The current body was stronger than almost anyone Madara knew in the ninja world. Even Hashirama's physique could absolutely not be this tough.
With this body, he only needed one exchange of injuries to kill Obito instantly.
"Is your hatred only to this extent?"
Uchiha Madara's movement froze instantly. He turned his head. The Sharingan was still constantly attacking Obito with genjutsu, but Obito, under the powerful pupil power of the Rinnegan, wouldn't be easily affected. The Wood Release in Obito's palm disappeared, and suddenly he pulled with his right hand.
Intense gravity appeared.
Uchiha Madara's center of gravity also changed, leaning backward. Uchiha Obito remained silent, attacking again from behind. He pressed his right hand towards Mercenary Tao's back.
Uchiha Madara exerted force with his waist, while chakra condensed under his feet. His body froze while leaning backward at an angle exceeding forty-five degrees, and his left hand grabbed at Obito's eyes.
The right arm destroyed by the Truth-Seeking Ball in one hit still hadn't regenerated. The substance of Truth-Seeking Balls possessed extremely high restraining ability against regeneration-type abilities.
Obito looked indifferent, watching the hand grabbing at his eyes approaching at exactly the same speed as his hand touching the opponent's back.
Vmm!
At the moment of imminent touch, the space in front of Obito's right hand distorted instantly.
Kamui!
Even with the suppression of the Rinnegan over the three-tomoe Sharingan, Obito still couldn't gain an advantage in taijutsu combat. In fact, Obito never intended to use the Cutting Sprigs Technique to kill the opponent. He still intended to absorb this strange Mercenary Tao into the Kamui dimension.
Amidst the distortion of his figure, Obito's Rinnegan indeed discovered that the current Mercenary Tao didn't use that ability of clasping hands and then teleporting.
In other words, his guess was correct. There were multiple souls inside Mercenary Tao, including Uchiha Madara, and when different souls dominated, their combat abilities and habits were completely different.
The Mercenary Tao who appeared first favored taijutsu combat, with wide and wild movements. Facing attacks, he usually didn't dodge at all, using that invincible defense to take attacks head-on.
The subsequent consciousness with a frivolous tone possessed some strange Space-Time ability. Clasping hands allowed teleportation, and attacks were also linked to spatial abilities. Facing attacks other than Kamui, the opponent also wouldn't dodge but used that near-invincible defense ability to block directly.
Now, under Uchiha Madara's control, Mercenary Tao fought more precisely, utilizing the Sharingan's characteristics extremely well. Moreover, every movement was luring him to attack.
Madara knew his weaknesses very well. He was waiting for him to reveal a flaw...
"What a pity. Without those eyes, you really are the weakest Mercenary Tao!"
Uchiha Obito suddenly pulled his right hand back, while [Banshō Ten'in] activated again. The intense gravity instantly destroyed the distance Uchiha Madara intentionally controlled.
Kaito Shirogane's body fell towards Uchiha Obito's right hand, where space was already completely distorted. Kamui seemed to have been activated in advance.
In just an instant, Kaito Shirogane's body began to distort. Seeing this, Obito rejoiced in his heart, but the next moment...
Bang!
Smoke exploded, and the Mercenary Tao distorted by space turned into a piece of crushed rock.
Uchiha Madara appeared from behind Obito. It was as if he had never moved at all, just looking indifferently at Obito, who completely lost reverence for him because of obtaining the Eyes of God.
He grabbed his right shoulder with his left hand and tore forcefully. The residual stump was completely torn off.
But the next moment, blood stopped flowing from the severed shoulder. Then, a large amount of granulation tissue sprang up, and a new arm began to grow.
"I am the weakest Mercenary Tao?"
Uchiha Madara felt he had never suffered such an insult, so much so that he couldn't even feel anger at this moment. He only felt absurdity.
When he just took over this body, there was no chakra in it, and he also lost his Sharingan. Basically, only pure taijutsu could be used.
Then, when he was condensing chakra, that frivolous guy tried to insta-kill Obito but had an arm shattered by a Truth-Seeking Ball from a Six Paths Level existence hiding in the dark, who also saved Uchiha Obito and forcibly opened the Rinnegan for him.
He already guessed in his heart that the Six Paths Level guy was probably the legendary Sage of Six Paths.
When he took over this body again, he was already missing an arm and couldn't even form seals to release some complex jutsu.
It could be said that so far, Uchiha Madara had no chance to display his strength. Yet, because of this, this Uchiha junior he personally cultivated concluded that he was currently the weakest Mercenary Tao.
"Ha~"
That frivolous laughter couldn't be avoided at all. The other party's soul was squeezed into the same shell with him at this moment. Gojo Satoru and Uchiha Madara seemed to maintain a minimum level of tacit understanding.
Just now when he acted wantonly, Uchiha Madara didn't interfere. Now he also completely handed over control of the body to Uchiha Madara.
It was just that hearing the other party being mocked like this, Gojo Satoru still laughed out loud.
Not only him, but Kaito Shirogane himself, who was pressing one hand on the Throne of the Heart while casually swatting away flying spirits one by one, also had a smile on his face at this time.
Nothing was more comical than seeing someone as proud as Madara being evaluated in such a nearly humiliating way.
As his right hand finally grew back, powerful Nine-Tails chakra also spread over his body surface.
Uchiha Madara clasped his hands in front of him, looking indifferently at Obito.
"I am the weakest Mercenary Tao?"
"I don't recall... when you ever saw my strength."
[Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation]!
A terrifying torrent of flames erupted on a scale that didn't look like a single ninja could release.
But Uchiha Obito just stood in place, letting the flames pass through his body.
"What effect does this kind of jutsu have?"
Inside the flames, intense water currents suddenly erupted again. Water and fire clashed, and a large amount of steam rose, completely submerging everything around.
Obito frowned slightly. He realized a shortcoming of the Rinnegan at this moment. Like the Sharingan, this eye didn't possess X-ray vision or complete field of view and could still be blocked by this kind of smoke.
A large number of figures ran extremely fast in the steam.
Pfft pfft pfft~
From time to time, crushed rocks or attacks penetrated his body. Obito felt the massive number of shadow clones around him. Each shadow clone seemed very skilled in taijutsu.
He frowned, realizing that Madara was deliberately using this kind of attack, wanting to consume the time of his Kamui intangibility.
He couldn't keep himself in an intangible state forever. Even with his current chakra combined with the evolved Rinnegan, it couldn't exceed ten minutes.
Obito sensed the difference between Uchiha Madara and the previous two Mercenary Taos. Uchiha Madara was a true ninja, a legendary ninja who fought his way out of the most dangerous and cruel Warring States Period.
His combat style was extremely cold and efficient. Everything centered on making decisions based on intelligence.
Because he knew the weakness of his Kamui and the Rinnegan's lack of X-ray vision, he devised this tactic...
Suddenly, hundreds of Uchiha Madaras rushed from the steam, surrounding him in the middle. With this number of shadow clones, Uchiha Madara's current chakra volume must be equally astounding.
As his pupils moved, the three-tomoe Sharingan in the eyes of every shadow clone seemed to be rotating.
Obito suddenly felt a touch of irritability.
"Facing the power of God, what can these shadow clones do, no matter how many there are!"
Intense repulsion erupted from in front of him.
[Shinra Tensei]!
Boom!
A terrifying shockwave swept the surroundings. Shadow clones shattered one by one. But amidst this intense impact, the ground under Uchiha Obito's feet suddenly exploded. A fire dragon engulfed Uchiha Obito's figure almost at the moment Shinra Tensei erupted.
This scene made Otsutsuki Hagoromo in the distant void look somewhat astonished. He didn't expect that with absolute superiority in ability, the person he chose was actually countered by Uchiha Madara, who controlled Mercenary Tao's body, with such ordinary jutsu?!
(End of Chapter)
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