At this moment, the position where Rengoku was located was not very far from Fugaku and Itachi.
But since Onoki had yet to appear, he could only stay put and quietly wait for the moment to strike.
The battlefield was filled with surging, chaotic chakra fluctuations.
Finding Onoki in such an environment was no easy task. Especially when he was not mobilizing large amounts of chakra, it was even more difficult, like looking for a needle in the ocean.
Rengoku focused all his attention on scanning the sky, yet still did not see any trace of Onoki.
Just then, a furious roar rang out. Itachi's orange-red Susanoo rose from the ground like a towering mountain.
At this moment, Itachi, who was controlling this powerful force, was only sixteen years old. Compared to when he was twenty-one, his control over Susanoo was still somewhat unskilled and immature.
Susanoo swung its massive fist, carrying overwhelming force, and smashed straight toward Roshi.
Faced with such a fierce attack, Roshi showed no fear at all.
In an instant, rolling magma rose around his body, waves of heat pressing in.
"Lava Release, Granite!"
With Roshi's angry shout, the blazing magma instantly condensed into solid rock.
It collided violently with Susanoo's fist.
Amid the thunderous explosion, Itachi immediately felt a huge rebound force transmit back.
At the same time, his own chakra began to drain rapidly.
Even more shocking was that Susanoo's seemingly indestructible fist began to glow red and heat up, faintly showing signs of melting.
Roshi was battle-hardened, with extremely rich combat experience. Seeing Itachi fall into difficulty, he immediately seized the opportunity and suddenly burst out with dazzling light.
In the blink of an eye, his entire body transformed into a scorching magma state.
In his hand, ultra-high-temperature energy gathered, forming into a sharp long spear that stabbed fiercely toward Susanoo.
"Lava Release, Seabed Needle!"
This strike was astonishingly powerful and incredibly fast.
Itachi's expression changed sharply. Knowing he could not take it head-on, he immediately controlled Susanoo to shatter apart and used the recoil to retreat rapidly backward.
But at that moment, an unexpected change occurred.
The previously calm ground suddenly exploded open, and a black shadow shot out like a ghost.
Dragging a long trail of afterimages, it lunged toward Itachi's back at lightning speed.
Looking closely, it was actually Hiruko.
He simultaneously activated two bloodline limits, Steel Release and Swift Release.
Then he leapt up and fiercely kicked straight at Itachi.
If this kick landed, Itachi would likely die on the spot.
However, how could Itachi be someone so easy to deal with?
He was someone who liked to leave himself backup plans and possessed very high combat intelligence.
He would never casually place himself in such a dangerous situation.
In the blink of an eye, just as Hiruko's foot was about to touch Itachi's body, something completely unexpected happened.
Itachi's body suddenly exploded with a bang, turning into countless pitch-black crows that scattered and flew in all directions, blotting out the sky.
This sudden turn of events left everyone present stunned. Even Roshi froze for a moment.
'He actually prepared a substitution technique this early.'
And at that moment, a figure suddenly leapt out from the shadows on the ground like a ghost, facing Roshi head-on.
Looking closely, it was none other than Uchiha Rengoku.
"Uchiha Rengoku?", Seeing this, Roshi was instantly shocked.
No matter how he thought about it, he could not understand why Uchiha Rengoku would appear here?
Before he could figure it out, a violent pain suddenly struck, like a heavy hammer smashing hard against his head.
The pupil power possessed by Rengoku was on a completely different level compared to Fugaku and Itachi.
Roshi did not even have time to make any reaction before his vision went completely black, his entire body instantly bound tightly by an invisible force.
But only a moment later, a burst of dazzling light suddenly flashed from Roshi's body. The Molten Lock Seal had activated on its own.
Broken chains slowly emerged over his body, like vicious venomous snakes tightly coiling around him.
The sensation was like being stabbed hard with sharp needles while fast asleep.
The pain made Roshi shudder violently, forcibly waking him from his unconscious state.
A heavy cold snort came from Rengoku's nostrils.
At the same time, far away, the main body continuously transmitted even more vast and surging pupil power.
In an instant, a wave of pupil power erupted violently, surging like a volcanic eruption.
Roshi, who had just woken from unconsciousness, did not have the slightest chance to react.
He was struck hard once again by this overwhelming power and plunged straight into deep unconsciousness.
Rengoku's face was calm as still water, his gaze cold as ice. He extended one hand and, as easily as reaching into a bag, grabbed toward Roshi.
In the next moment, Roshi's massive body was seized tightly by Rengoku without any resistance and lifted into midair.
"What? Iwagakure's jinchuriki was actually captured!"
The surrounding Iwagakure ninja were instantly dumbfounded, disbelief written all over their faces.
They never imagined that right before everyone's eyes, their village's jinchuriki would fall into the enemy's hands so easily.
However, before they could recover from this shocking scene, the nearby ground suddenly trembled violently, and then a figure shot out from the earth like lightning.
Looking closely, it was a short, small-framed Onoki.
Onoki held a mass of dazzling white light tightly in both hands and fired it straight at Rengoku without hesitation.
Clearly, he intended to seize this opportunity to rescue the captured Roshi.
Facing this sudden attack, Rengoku did not move at all.
He merely curled the corner of his mouth slightly, revealing a disdainful cold smile.
Then he swung his arm and directly used the Roshi he was holding as a shield, meeting the incoming white beam head-on.
Seeing this, Onoki frowned slightly.
But he was a battle-hardened powerhouse after all, and his reaction was extremely fast.
He quickly adjusted the technique in his hands. The originally cylindrical Dust Release instantly changed form, turning into an extremely sharp cone.
Even though Onoki changed the form of Dust Release in time, the distance was too close and the speed too fast.
With a dull "thud," the sharp conical Dust Release slammed hard into Roshi's body and pierced straight through.
The unfortunate Roshi had a hole the size of a fist blown straight through his entire abdomen.
The wound went clean through from front to back, making it possible to clearly see what lay on the other side.
In fact, Onoki also had the intention of killing Roshi on purpose.
The main reason was that at this moment, Roshi was already firmly in Rengoku's grasp.
If Rengoku were allowed to leave with the jinchuriki, it would undoubtedly be a devastating blow to Iwagakure.
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