Chapter 174: Selling Out Zetsu
Where there's smoke, there's no harm.
When the dust settled, Yasushi still stood there smiling. Otsutsuki Yukio's attacks were all wasted.
"What kind of jutsu is this?"
Otsutsuki Yukio's gaze flickered. Before he could think carefully, amid rumbling sounds, the earth trembled as Nagato urged the Gedo Statue to charge forward again.
"Don't think having the Gedo Statue lets you act recklessly!"
He formed hand seals and slapped the ground.
"Summoning Jutsu: Super Massive Stone Statue!"
Diamond-shaped runes instantly spread several hundred meters, forming a massive summoning array on the ground.
A tremendous roar sounded. A super-massive stone statue slowly rose from beneath the surface, colliding head-on with the Gedo Statue.
The statue had horns on its forehead—Otsutsuki Hamura's appearance. Its rising posture resembled continental plate uplift. Falling rock and soil cascaded down like an earthen rain.
Two behemoths collided head-on like two mountains crashing together. The impact shockwave instantly cleared clouds within a thousand meters.
The contact point burst with blinding white light. Flying rock fragments shot outward at supersonic speed, impacting the ground like exploding artillery shells.
But slight damage to the massive stone statue's enormous body was negligible, completely unaffecting any movement.
Seizing this opportunity, Yasushi leaped forward, charging along the massive stone statue's body toward Otsutsuki Yukio.
Otsutsuki Yukio raised both hands. Chakra orbs once again filled the space before him, shooting out like artillery shells, forming a dense barrage before Yasushi.
Yasushi's Mangekyo spun, seeing everything clearly. He immediately dodged left and right, dancing through the barrage like avoiding raindrops, evading all chakra orb explosions and rushing before Otsutsuki Yukio, thrusting his blade forward.
"Wood Release: Cutting Technique!"
Seeing this familiar move, Otsutsuki Yukio immediately felt phantom pain in his left arm, growing furious again.
"The same technique won't work on me!"
Relying on his chakra cloak for defense, knowing this move couldn't harm him, he didn't dodge. Instead, raising his arm, a light sphere shot forth toward Yasushi's body.
Yasushi smiled faintly, not dodging either. The hardened wooden spike in his hand suddenly softened like vines, wrapping around Otsutsuki Yukio's body and constricting inward, binding him.
The light sphere passed through Yasushi's intangible body—once again futile.
But the Wood Release vines began extracting chakra from Otsutsuki Yukio's body.
"Hmph, you think only you can absorb chakra?"
Otsutsuki Yukio raised his eyebrow, roaring angrily. He grabbed the wood without tearing it, instead also activating chakra absorption ability.
Wood Release's chakra absorption was merely jutsu characteristics, but Otsutsuki Yukio's chakra absorption was ocular ability.
The efficiency difference between them was vast—like heaven and earth.
Instantly, chakra flow reversed, flowing from Yasushi's body toward Otsutsuki Yukio.
"Hehe..." Yasushi smiled, eye corners suddenly showing faint eye shadow.
He'd entered Sage Mode!
But in just an instant, the Sage chakra he'd just synthesized was completely absorbed by Otsutsuki Yukio. The eye shadow flickered once and vanished.
"That's exactly what I wanted you to absorb!"
Yasushi shouted loudly, eyes flashing as he finally activated the jutsu Kamui.
Space beside Otsutsuki Yukio fluctuated. Surrounding air immediately manifested glass-crack-like spatial fissures.
Otsutsuki Yukio startled, hastily tearing off the vines binding his body to retreat. But the natural energy he'd previously absorbed suddenly fluctuated, making his body suddenly stiffen.
Though that thread of natural energy was immediately dispersed by Tenseigan chakra, it ultimately affected his movements. His retreat speed inexplicably slowed half a beat.
Just one instant was enough to be fatal.
The spatial vortex immediately formed. Smooth space twisted into bizarre shapes, twisting and crushing everything at that location, sucking it into the dimension.
Otsutsuki Yukio's proud chakra cloak played no role before spatial attacks—like thin paper, easily torn apart.
When the spatial vortex vanished again, Otsutsuki Yukio's right shoulder and arm had already disappeared at shoulder level. His right hand fell to the ground, still twitching.
His entire right side was missing a chunk, revealing a massive hole. Right chest and ribs severely damaged. The cut surface was smooth and flat without even bone fragments.
Bloody organs exposed outside, jagged like being gnawed by beasts, slightly trembling, clearly visible to the naked eye.
That cavity of blood sprayed outward like a fountain, splashing a rain of blood in midair.
Otsutsuki Yukio screamed miserably, his body staggering backward several steps before falling from atop the massive stone statue.
Yasushi moved swiftly. His body leaned forward, easily gouging out that pair of Tenseigan.
"So beautiful!"
He carefully held this pair of blue eyes in his palm, examining them closely. The more he looked, the more he liked them.
Just sent away a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan, immediately received a pair of Tenseigan in return—this was heaven's will!
Otsutsuki Yukio's body crashed heavily into the ground. The chakra cloak on his body had dissipated. Both eyes were blood-filled cavities—utterly miserable.
"You, you..."
His left hand pointed at Yasushi, mouth opening to say something. But blood continuously gushed from his mouth, blocking all sound in his throat.
"Don't worry. I won't kill Otsutsuki Toneri the Great One."
Yasushi smiled cheerfully at him. "Not only won't I kill him—considering you gave me a pair of Tenseigan, I'll even find him a pair of eyes."
Death's aura on Otsutsuki Yukio's face finally eased slightly. But before he could die peacefully, he heard Yasushi's voice again.
"But whether they're Byakugan—that's hard to say!"
"You... you..." Otsutsuki Yukio's body convulsed, heart shocked and angry. His legs kicked once. He immediately expired.
Without Tenseigan maintaining "Puppet Reincarnation," the massive stone statue immediately lost power, freezing in place. Those puppets in the sky all clattered and fell down.
Nagato signaled Konan to lead people beginning rescue operations. He dismissed the Gedo Statue and approached Yasushi.
Looking at the corpse on the ground, Nagato questioned with a dark expression:
"What's going on with this person?"
"You'd better give me an explanation!"
Without a word, Yasushi sold out Zetsu.
"Reporting, Leader. This person is a Hyuga clansman from the moon."
"Zetsu probably stole the Hyuga clan's little princess Hyuga Hanabi, enraging him enough to come down pursuing revenge."
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