Thousands of lights flickered in Rengoku's Mangekyo eyes as they spun rapidly, and a streak of black light flashed past.
"AMATERASU!"
Ominous black flames smashed directly onto Rasa's body.
But Rasa did not panic. He reacted instantly, leaving behind a solid shell formed from golden sand grains where he stood.
His real body had already appeared behind the golden sand shell. Clearly, he had long been prepared for the possibility that Rengoku might use Amaterasu.
Not only that, once he reappeared, streams of golden sand quickly gathered again.
They clung tightly to his body, and in the blink of an eye formed an even thicker shell of golden sand.
Not far from Rasa, Chiyo watched everything unfolding before her, the expression on her face growing heavier and more serious.
She could not help but think to herself why, when she had fought Rengoku earlier, he had not used Amaterasu against her.
Although she had made some preparations back then, compared to the level of defense Rasa was displaying now, it was clearly far inferior.
'Did he deliberately spare my life?'
Thinking of this, Chiyo felt an inexplicable heaviness settle over her heart.
Now that things had reached this point, and the two sides had officially come to blows, Rasa naturally no longer hesitated in the slightest.
He bit his finger and rapidly formed hand seals.
At the same time, the Sand Village ninja nearby moved into action. One of them quickly took out a huge scroll and spread it flat on the ground.
Rasa swung his arm, slashing across the scroll like lightning.
In an instant, a loud "BANG" rang out, thick smoke billowing up as it filled the entire area.
At the same time, the ground began to shake violently, letting out terrifying cracking sounds.
When the smoke gradually dissipated, everyone focused their eyes forward, only to discover in shock that two bottomless, enormous holes had appeared out of thin air in what had been flat ground.
Rengoku's eyesight was extremely sharp. Even though thick smoke filled the surroundings and severely obstructed his vision, he still clearly caught the fleeting outline of a massive figure.
It was actually two enormous long worms that swiftly burrowed into the ground and vanished without a trace.
'What the hell is that thing?'
Rengoku was secretly astonished.
'How could the Sand Village have summoning beasts like this?'
Although he had not seen the full form of the creatures, just from the rough shadow they cast on the ground, Rengoku had already roughly inferred what kind of creature they were.
At the same time, the ground began to continuously emit dull, booming sounds.
It was as if the entire earth was shaking violently, like a powerful earthquake.
Faced with this situation, Rengoku did not hesitate in the slightest. His Mangekyo Sharingan spun rapidly once more.
In an instant, four Susanoo, each thirty meters tall, erupted from the ground.
Three of the Susanoo clones held Yasaka Magatama that gleamed with dazzling light, and the powerful energy fluctuations immediately caused a major disturbance among the Sand Village forces.
A sharp whistling sound tore through the air.
Whoosh!
Rengoku did not hesitate as he hurled the Yasaka Magatama with all his strength, without even checking the result of the attack afterward.
Instead, he controlled his four thirty-meter-tall Susanoo, like four unstoppable giant bulldozers.
Wielding black light swords, they crushed forward toward the Sand Village formation.
However, at that very moment, a sudden change occurred.
The ground, which had been calm, exploded without warning as a massive sand worm spinning at high speed burst out from below.
This sand worm was over a hundred meters long. By comparison, Rengoku's thirty-meter-tall Susanoo looked far smaller.
Relying on its absolute size advantage, the sand worm slammed into Rengoku's Susanoo with thunderous force.
It easily smashed them aside.
In the brief instant when the sand worm emerged from the ground, Rengoku finally managed to clearly see the full appearance of this mysterious creature.
It looked like an infinitely magnified lamprey, so enormous it made one gape in shock.
Its entire body was covered in a thick leathery hide, as tough and unyielding as solid armor.
Its ferocious, serrated head was tightly wrapped in heavy iron plating. It was presumably thanks to such powerful protection that it could freely burrow and move through this iron-hard land.
And there were actually two of these terrifying monsters.
Faced with such a sudden and powerful enemy, the four Susanoo summoned by Rengoku instantly fell into a disadvantage.
At the same time, Rasa, standing not far away, suddenly swung his arm. The previously calm golden sand beside him shot up into the air.
It rapidly gathered into a raging, sky-covering golden tide that surged toward Rengoku with overwhelming force.
Seeing this, Rengoku remained calm under pressure and decisively controlled one of the Susanoo clones to leap up with all its strength.
The thirty-meter-tall giant soared into the air, heading straight toward the direction of the Sand Village.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Deafening explosions rang out.
Cries of alarm echoed through the sky. The Sand Village troops that had been in tight formation were instantly thrown into chaos, people and horses tumbling everywhere.
However, those Sand Village ninja holding nets and ropes did not panic. They swiftly threw their weapons, trying to stop Rengoku's advance.
Meanwhile, most of the other Sand Village ninja wisely chose to avoid the battlefield where Rasa and Rengoku were fiercely clashing.
They detoured from both the left and right flanks, continuing their ferocious assault toward the direction of Konoha Village.
Seeing that the troops he commanded were being firmly entangled by such troublesome enemies, Rengoku increased the output of his ocular power. Several of the Susanoo began to visibly evolve and expand at a rapid pace.
In the end, this colossal figure reached a staggering height of fifty meters.
Rasa, standing not far away, felt his heart tighten at the sight, his face filled with vigilance as he stared at the fifty-meter-tall giant Susanoo.
However, what slightly reassured him was that Rengoku's Susanoo seemed to stop growing once it reached this size.
Rasa thought to himself, 'Could this be Rengoku's ultimate trump card?'
At this thought, he narrowed his eyes slightly, silently pouring chakra from within his body into the golden sand he controlled.
Without a sound, countless fine streams of golden sand spread across the entire ground like a tide.
Looking again at the fifty-meter-tall humanoid Susanoo, compared to the terrifying sand worm that was a full hundred meters long, it did seem somewhat smaller.
However, relying on Susanoo's massive size and indestructible power, defeating that sand worm would surely be more than enough.
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