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The Gedo Statue was pinned under a giant wooden fist. Clad in his Susano'o, Sasuke charged forward, a force of absolute fury.
Retreating swiftly, Obito's mind raced beneath the white mask.
Calm down. Driving that Wood Human to fight the Gedo Statue must be draining Sasuke's chakra heavily. Besides, the statue is just pinned, not incapacitated…
Obito's fingers formed a seal.
CRACK!
The Gedo Statue twisted its massive head. Its maw opened. A Tailed Beast Bomb gathered into a calamity and roared forth, blasting toward the white-clad youth shrouded in dark purple energy!!!
Sasuke's Byakugan saw it all from behind. His charge toward Obito didn't falter. His hands flew into a sequence of seals before his chest.
—Water Style: Whale Devourer!
WHOOSH!!
The earth revolted. A tsunami-scale torrent of water erupted, flooding the landscape in an instant. It swallowed the Tailed Beast Bomb whole, then churned and morphed—taking the form of a colossal, soaring whale!!!
On Azure Moon Island, Suigetsu gasped. "That move! It's the 'Whale Fall Water Style' Lord Sasuke and Grandfather used in the Eighth Bout!"
Orochimaru's lips curled into a smile. "It seems Lord Sasuke did not discard it, but refined it further. This 'Whale Devourer' is powerful enough to neutralize the Gedo Statue's full-power Tailed Beast Bomb… and even turn its power to fuel the 'Whale Fall'!"
BOOM…!!!
Having devoured the bomb, the watery whale ascended hundreds of meters into the sky. Then, it fell—a 'Whale Fall' shrieking down with the force to blot out the sun…!!!
Obito stared up at the descending mountain of water and shadow, his expression twisting into something ugly.
A water bullet of that magnitude, amplified by a Tailed Beast Bomb's power… It could easily flatten everything for miles. It shouldn't harm me while I'm intangible, but…
The final moments of the Seventh Bout flashed in his mind. The Raijin Arts: Ame no Murakumo. The Kirin splitting into a thousand lightning needles. That attack had forced him to sacrifice his left eye, to activate Izanagi.
The falling whale itself isn't the threat. The threat is what he might do with all that water afterward. I won't stumble over the same stone twice.
Decision made, Obito countered.
—Kamui Shuriken!!!
SWISH!
A pitch-black shuriken sliced through the air, striking the descending whale.
BOOM…!!
A spiraling vortex of Kamui's absorption tore into the construct, wrenching the whale's head apart. Torrents of water surged, swallowed into another dimension.
But by the time the Kamui Shuriken's effect faded, it had only consumed about thirty percent of the colossal mass. It hadn't even touched the Tailed Beast Bomb energy trapped inside.
It can't take it all?!
Obito watched, helpless, as the titanic form above him churned and reshaped mid-fall. Even reduced, its remaining bulk was a cataclysm plummeting toward him.
Ah… Right. I almost forgot. A manic laugh bubbled in his throat. Hahahaha! The Rinnegan is all-powerful! Sasuke, no matter how impressive this jutsu is, as long as its essence is chakra, it's meaningless against me!!!
He dispelled his Susano'o. Leaping up to meet the falling whale, he raised both hands. A barrier with no blind spots unfolded.
—Preta Path: Sealing Technique Absorption!
SHOOOOOM…!!
The cascading water violently funneled into the absorption barrier. The whale's body visibly shrank, consumed at a frantic rate.
But Obito's gaze was severe. To absorb a water bullet of this scale, even with the Preta Path at full power, will take at least ten seconds. For those ten seconds, I cannot phase. I could forcibly stop the absorption to phase… but then who knows what follow-up he has prepared. No. I have to weather his attack during these ten seconds. At least while the Preta Path is active, ninjutsu is useless. So his only options are close-quarters taijutsu… or his sword.
CLANG CLANG CLANG…!!
Sasuke watched the turbulent sky. Just as I predicted. He's using the Preta Path to handle it. But based on my past… 'experience'… when first awakening the Rinnegan, using the Preta Path to absorb ninjutsu or chakra limits the use of other ninjutsu or dojutsu. So…
He dismissed his Susano'o. White curse-mark wings unfurled from his back. Grasping the Kusanagi Sword, Sasuke shot forward in a blitz.
Therefore, the only resistance he can muster mid-absorption is purely physical…!!!
Obito, still absorbing, tracked Sasuke's movement closely. He took the bait. But seven seconds is enough!!
Maintaining the absorption with one hand, he gripped his fan with the other.
Sasuke's eyes narrowed. That fan was once Madara's weapon. Its toughness is on par with the Kusanagi. But in the end, it's just an object…
CLANG…!!!
Sword met fan. And the fan suddenly became impossibly, crushingly heavy…!!
Obito's mind reeled. Super Weighted Rock Technique? He made his own sword heavier? No… this sensation… It's my fan that's heavier! How did he apply Super Weighted Rock to my weapon just through contact?!
Simple, Sasuke thought. I magnetized the effect of the 'Super Weighted Rock Technique' using Magnet Release and layered it onto the Kusanagi. Upon clashing, the magnetization naturally transfers the weight-enhancing effect to your fan. You can't see this magnetization. Therefore, you cannot absorb it.
Sasuke channeled 'Wood Style: Adamantine Strength' into his limbs.
CLANG…!!
Obito's wrist buckled under the unbearable weight. The fan was torn from his grasp, sent spinning away…!!
And just like that, his defenseless torso lay exposed before Sasuke's blade!!!
"This time… I won't hold back!!!"
The gleaming edge shot straight for Obito's neck.
"!!" Obito instantly severed the absorption link and phased.
SWOOSH!
The sword passed right through him.
Above them, the Whale Fall—now reduced to a mere twenty percent of its original size, but still rivaling a small-scale Chibaku Tensei—crashed down with a final, deafening roar…!!
SNAP!
Sasuke's curse-mark wings beat, propelling him in a sharp arc above the deluge.
KABOOOOOOM…!!!
The Tailed Beast Bomb energy trapped within the water detonated. The explosion shredded the remaining mass into a billion razor-sharp water blades that filled the sky…!!
Obito held his phased state, a ghost in the storm, until the last of the lethal spray subsided.
GLOOP GLOOP GLOOP…!
The dispersed water didn't fall to the earth. It flowed, coalesced, and rose back toward Sasuke. It formed a sea of floating orbs, blanketing the sky. Each orb contained a miniature, water-formed 'Ten-Tails'. There were millions of them.
Obito clenched his numb hand, a matching numbness spreading over his scalp. So those secondary water orbs are the follow-up to the falling whale technique. I can feel 'Explosion Release' energy within them. Probably an unlimited bombing attack. I knew it… If I hadn't weakened that initial attack at all costs, the scale would have been…
Enough. A grim resolve settled over him. It's time to deploy my hidden army. The troops I prepared for the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Obito raised a hand, forming a seal.
GURGLE GURGLE… From the surface of the Gedo Statue, countless white protrusions bulged and detached. White Zetsus. A sea of them.
"The White Zetsu army I cultivated using the Gedo Statue's power," Obito's voice echoed, cold and triumphant. "Total number: one hundred thousand. That's twenty thousand more than all the active-duty chunin and above in the current shinobi world combined. After I transplanted the Hashirama clone cells from the statue, I enhanced their overall power. The result? Now, every single one of them can use the most basic form of 'Wood Release'. One hundred thousand White Zetsu, all capable of Wood Release. Do you understand what that means?"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The White Zetsu army pouring from the statue formed ranks. As one, a hundred thousand pairs of hands moved into an identical seal.
RUMBLEEEEE…!!
Giant trees and thick vines erupted from the earth like monstrous bamboo shoots. The colossal wooden fist—the 'Adamantine Seat' pinning the Gedo Statue—was forcibly pried upwards!!
GROOOOAR!!
The Gedo Statue braced a hand against the ground and rose into a low crouch.
With a unified, wordless roar, the hundred thousand White Zetsu launched their attack—a living, churning tidal wave of white!!!
On Azure Moon Island, Kabuto paled. "This is bad! The situation has escalated far beyond a Tenth Bout! Lord Orochimaru, we must stop this fight, now!!!"
Orochimaru considered for a moment, then nodded. "Very well…"
He was about to move, to retrieve Sasuke from the battlefield, when he saw it. On the crystal ball, Sasuke's gaze seemed to turn toward him. Then, ever so slightly, Sasuke shook his head.
Orochimaru froze. Understanding—and a profound, fierce admiration—flooded him.
—Even in the face of this… Lord Sasuke's resolve is to see it through to the end!
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