Regardless of whether Shinichi had borrowed nature's fury or relied upon the power of a weapon, his achievements were right here in plain sight.
After this battle, his name would once again shake the entire Shinobi World.
Both the Wind Style trait and Lightning Style talent advancing to purple quality were already a certainty, and they would even provide significant progress toward advancing to Level 2 in the future.
Therefore, even though his consumption had already become extremely severe, he still gritted his teeth and continued pouring the golden sword rain downward.
Wind Style was already secured.
Now, what he needed to do was ensure that Lightning Style could advance as well.
Boom! Boom!! Boom!!! Boom!!!!
The bombardment between both sides continued.
During the exchange, the corner of Shinichi's vision swept over the Kirigakure ninjas fiercely fighting the Konoha troops below.
A thought suddenly arose in his mind, and he was about to act, but at that very moment, an intense sense of danger that was absolutely real completely enveloped him.
Without even thinking, Shinichi's body reacted before his consciousness.
The endless winds around him suddenly shoved him violently to the side, and his entire body rapidly shifted horizontally along the edge of the clouds.
The next moment…
Boom!!!
A heaven-shaking roar tore through the entire sky as an enormous dark-black chakra ball carrying destructive chakra fluctuations burst forth from the distant mountains, charging toward the position where Shinichi had just been.
A Tailed Beast Bomb!
The Three-Tails Jinchuriki had finally acted!
On this battlefield, the Village Hidden in the Mist side had almost nobody capable of threatening Shinichi at such an altitude and could only defend passively.
But the Three-Tails Jinchuriki was different; his Tailed Beast Bomb could still reach this height.
And before an attack of this level, even the current Shinichi would die instantly if struck directly, while merely being grazed would leave him severely injured.
Fortunately, Shinichi's reaction speed had reached an extreme level.
The moment before the Three-Tails Jinchuriki launched the attack, he had already begun evading.
The Tailed Beast Bomb, carrying destructive energy, passed several hundred meters beside him and ultimately slammed deep into the rolling thunderclouds behind him.
Accompanied by a world-shaking explosion, the entire sky seemed as though a ferocious beast had violently barged into it and viciously torn it apart from within.
A gigantic hole was blasted through the thunderclouds.
Countless lightning bolts intertwined and scattered wildly within the explosion's shockwave, turning half the sky into a chaotic sea of rolling purple and white.
Shinichi's continuous offensive immediately came to a halt.
Above the sky, the chaotic thunderclouds created by the exploded Tailed Beast Bomb rolled like an ocean of ink, swallowing Shinichi's figure into their depths.
It was as though his entire body had merged into that chaos of lightning and smoke.
Yagura's group finally gained a chance to breathe, but they did not rest even for a moment.
The instant Hyakume Sosuke acted, Yagura immediately shifted his gaze toward the Konoha ninjas.
At this time, the Village Hidden in the Mist reinforcements numbered less than a thousand, and facing Konoha's force, which was nearly twice their size, they were heavily outnumbered.
Without hesitation, he immediately led the surrounding Kirigakure ninjas and charged toward that battlefield.
Meanwhile, Hyakume Sosuke's enormous body paused for a moment.
He raised his head and glanced toward the sky, but the sky was filled with endlessly churning chaos, making it impossible to locate Shinichi Higashino.
After a moment of thought, he stopped hesitating, and his mountain-like body suddenly turned and charged toward the Konoha forces.
Although the Three-Tails appeared heavy and sluggish, beneath that mountain-sized body, every step caused the earth to quake, and the entire ruin trembled beneath its feet.
"Elder Koharu! The Three-Tails Jinchuriki is coming toward us!"
Seeing this, En no Gyoja's pupils contracted as he urgently warned her.
"No need to concern ourselves with him!"
Without even turning her head, Koharu Utatane swung her blade backward and cleanly killed a Kirigakure ninja blocking her path.
Blood splashed across her cold face.
Her movements contained not the slightest hesitation.
Even though she had not personally fought on the front lines for many years, her combat prowess remained frighteningly fierce.
No need to concern ourselves with him?!
En no Gyoja felt anxious and wanted to say more, but Koharu Utatane had already met Yagura head-on.
Her katana collided violently with Yagura's coral staff, sparks and shockwaves exploding simultaneously.
One old and one young, two frontline commanders from different villages clashed directly amidst the ruins in brutal combat.
En no Gyoja could only swallow his words and quickly move forward to assist.
Yet his peripheral vision continued glancing toward the colossal beast crushing its way over, his anxiety growing ever stronger.
And just as the Three-Tails Jinchuriki's massive, sky-blocking body entered within five hundred meters of the battlefield's edge… Boom!!!
A pillar that seemed capable of supporting the heavens descended from the sky, carrying overwhelming force; it slammed mercilessly into the Three-Tails' gigantic body!
In an instant, a visible shockwave erupted from the point of impact.
Hyakume Sosuke's enormous body and the earth beneath him both sank violently downward.
Broken stones and dust shot into the sky like a reversed waterfall as a gigantic crater was forcibly smashed into the ground.
Seeing this, En no Gyoja's heart filled with joy, and he suddenly looked up at the still-roaring, towering pillar.
There, above the center point at the top of the pillar, stood a tall young man with his arms crossed while his robes whipped wildly in the wind.
It was Shinichi Higashino!
Or rather, Isshin disguised as the original body.
Meanwhile, deep within the thunderclouds that had become completely chaotic from the Tailed Beast Bomb's explosion, hundreds of Blade of the Thunder Spirits floated amidst the rolling lightning.
The blades were connected to one another by dense electric arcs, forming a constantly pulsating golden web.
Arranged in a dense formation, they surrounded Shinichi's true body.
Upon every sword, increasingly dazzling golden lightning flickered.
Standing at the center of the sword formation with his eyes closed, Shinichi continuously traced patterns through the air with his fingertips.
Streams of pure lightning were drawn from all directions and precisely injected into every sword.
As the light on the blades grew increasingly dazzling and oppressive, a deep, heavy hum began to emerge between the swords, as though hundreds or thousands of bronze bells were being struck simultaneously.
The humming grew denser and more unified.
They were resonating!
They were vibrating!
They were… dancing together!