Chapter 160: Illusion Technique

Fuma Huitailang widened his eyes in disbelief, staring at the massive Susanoo before him.

This colossus emitted a suffocating pressure, as if a war god had stepped out of myth and legend.

"How... how is this possible?" Fuma Huitailang muttered to himself, with a trace of barely perceptible fear.

In their Dongying myths and legends, Susanoo is a supreme existence; how could it appear here?

However, as the heir of the First Eastern Ninja family, Huitailang quickly suppressed the fear in his heart.

"Hmph! No matter your background, my Fuma Clan's secret techniques aren't vegetarian!" Huitailang said through gritted teeth.

Before his voice fell, Susanoo had already launched its attack.

The massive Ame-no-Nuboko pressed down like a mountain; the air shrieked under the terrifying pressure.

Fuma Huitailang's hands rapidly formed Hand Seals, whispering: "Rin Pyo Tou Sha Kai Jin Retsu Zai Zen!"

As the incantation chanted, a strange energy surged around him; the air seemed to have countless tiny currents jumping.

"Ninja Forbidden Jutsu: Fuma Thunder Evil Wheel!"

With a low shout, two huge green thunder wheels formed out of thin air in Fuma Huitailang's hands. These wheels emitted blinding green light, the energy within making one's heart palpitate.

Fuma Huitailang flipped his wrists; the two thunder wheels instantly elongated and deformed, turning into two greatswords wreathed in lightning.

Violent lightning coiled around the blades, emitting a teeth-aching crackling sound.

"Come! Let me see how powerful this so-called Susanoo of yours is!" Fuma Huitailang roared, kicking off the ground; his whole body shot toward Fugaku's Susanoo like a green lightning bolt.

"Clang!"

Blade met staff; the crisp sound of metal collision reverberated through the entire barrier.

Fuma Huitailang felt a massive force strike instantly; his whole body flew backward.

"Damn... such power."

Fuma Huitailang borrowed the force to backflip, landing steadily on both feet.

He paused not at all; his figure flashed, instantly appearing at Susanoo's left side.

Fuma Style: Gale Consecutive Slashes! Fuma Huitailang's figure seemed to become a spinning tornado.

Susanoo's surroundings were instantly shrouded in dense blade light; the air filled with a pungent ozone smell.

However, Fugaku's Sharingan took in everything. Susanoo's movements seemed slow, yet always precisely blocked every attack.

Ame-no-Nuboko traced perfect arcs in the air, erupting in dazzling sparks when colliding with the lightning blades.

Fuma Huitailang gritted his teeth, inwardly anxious: "Why? Why were all my attacks blocked?"

At this moment, an inexplicable chill suddenly spread from his spine.

Fuma Huitailang subconsciously looked up, only to see Fugaku's gaze piercing through Susanoo's massive skeletal structure, shooting straight at him.

Their gazes met; Fuma Huitailang felt his body stiffen: "What?!"

In those scarlet eyes, strange patterns slowly rotated, as if to suck his soul inside.

Fuma Huitailang only felt a wave of dizziness in his brain; his consciousness began to blur.

However, years of training let him keep a sliver of clarity at this critical moment; he bit his tongue tip, fresh blood flowing down his mouth corner.

"Blood Escape: Body Flicker Technique!" With a low shout, Fuma Huitailang's figure suddenly blurred, dissolving into a cloud of blood mist in the air.

Fugaku warily scanned the surroundings, Sharingan spinning rapidly, trying to catch the enemy's trace. At this moment, he suddenly felt something off, abruptly looking up.

He saw Fuma Huitailang's figure suddenly appear in midair, hands gripping lightning blades, descending from the heavens.

A glint flashed in Fugaku's eyes; Susanoo swiftly raised Ame-no-Nuboko to intercept.

However, just as both sides were about to make contact, Fuma Huitailang's figure suddenly dissipated — it was a blood mist clone.

"What?!" Fugaku's pupils shrank slightly, realizing he had fallen for a trick.

At this instant, the real Fuma Huitailang suddenly burst from the shadow beneath Susanoo's feet, lightning blade pointing straight at Susanoo's abdomen.

"Fuma Style: Earth Splitting Lightning Slash!"

Fugaku reacted extremely fast; Susanoo immediately retreated half a step, simultaneously slamming its left hand down.

Seeing this, Fuma Huitailang advanced instead of retreating; his figure turned, dodging Susanoo's palm, while his left-hand lightning blade drew a graceful arc, slashing at Susanoo's wrist.

"Clang!"

A shallow crack appeared on Susanoo's wrist, but Fuma Huitailang's offensive did not stop there.

Borrowing the rebound force, he backflipped in midair, feet stepping on Susanoo's arm, shooting toward Susanoo's head like an arrow off the string.

Fugaku coldly snorted; Susanoo's other hand suddenly grabbed at Fuma Huitailang.

However, Fuma Huitailang had anticipated this; his body twisted strangely in midair, slipping right through the gaps of Susanoo's fingers.

"Fuma Style: Lightning Spiral Slash!" Fuma Huitailang shouted loudly; his whole body became a spinning bolt of lightning, charging straight at Susanoo's face.

"What?!" Fugaku's pupils violently contracted; alarm bells rang in his heart.

Susanoo's movements suddenly became incomparably swift; it violently leaned back, both hands rapidly closing, intending to trap Fuma Huitailang in its palm.

Fuma Huitailang was startled. At the critical moment, he poured out all his Internal Force: "Fuma Clan Ultimate Mystery: Fuma Extreme Ninja Demon Walk!"

In an instant, Fuma Huitailang's body was wrapped in blinding lightning, charging at Susanoo's closing palms like a meteor.

"Right now!" Fuma Huitailang shouted in his heart.

"Boom!"

A deafening explosion; Fuma Huitailang became a thick lightning bolt, rushing at Susanoo at supersonic speed.

The air was instantly torn, forming a huge vacuum passage. The temperature inside the barrier sharply rose; even the ground began to melt.

Where the blade edge passed, space itself seemed torn, leaving two pitch-black cracks.

Boom! The two figures instantly crossed past each other.

"Crack! Crack!"

Susanoo's body began to show cracks, like shattered porcelain; the fractures rapidly spread across its whole body.

Fugaku's figure emerged from the shattered Susanoo, at this moment a deep wound visible to the bone was on his chest, fresh blood gushing out.

"Im... impossible." Fugaku spat out these words with difficulty, then his body fell backward. The form of Susanoo began to collapse, turning into countless black chakra fragments dissipating in the air.

Fugaku's body smashed onto the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Fengmo Huitailang slowly descended from the air, looking at Fugaku who had already lost all breath, lightly shaking the bloodstains off his blade.

"Heh, nothing much." Fengmo Huitailang coldly laughed, a trace of disdain and a trace of regret flashing in his eyes, "What a pity for those ninjutsu."

Just as his voice fell, Fengmo Huitailang suddenly felt a trace of strangeness.

His smile froze on his face, his brow unconsciously furrowed. The surrounding air seemed to become viscous, breathing also becoming difficult.

Alarm bells rang loudly in Fengmo Huitailang's heart, instinctively he looked around.

At this moment, the originally fiercely battling battlefield suddenly became terrifyingly quiet, everyone stopped their movements, all turning their heads to look at him in unison.

Those pairs of blood-red eyes, like countless ghosts, stared at him, devoid of life.

Fengmo Huitailang only felt the hairs all over his body stand on end, a chill rushing straight from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

"What ninjutsu is this? Genjutsu?" He frantically pondered in his heart, while quickly forming hand seals with both hands: "Unseal!"

However, nothing happened.

Just at this moment, the surrounding scenery suddenly shattered like a mirror. Amidst the flying fragments, the entire world fell into darkness. Fengmo Huitailang felt as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss.

"Unseal! Unseal! Unseal!" Fengmo Huitailang's face was full of terror, he hurriedly formed hand seals, trying to dispel the genjutsu, but it was all to no avail.

Suddenly, a huge figure emerged in the darkness. Fengmo Huitailang looked up, only to see Fugaku's face enlarged countless times looking down at him.

Those Mangekyou Sharingan at this moment hung in the sky like two blood moons, emitting a heart-palpitating light.

Fugaku looked down at Fengmo Huitailang, tiny as an ant, the three tomoe in his eyes slowly rotating, transforming into the pattern of Mangekyou Sharingan. His voice was like it came from the hell of the Nine Serenities: "You think that with ninjutsu of this level you can defeat the Uchiha Clan?"

Fengmo Huitailang trembled all over, his legs going soft uncontrollably. He wanted to move, but found his body had completely frozen.

He suddenly felt a violent tremor under his feet. He looked down, only to see the space under his feet like a torn canvas cracking open, a huge hand reaching out from the crack, grabbing him in its palm.

"Impossible!" Fengmo Huitailang let out a desperate scream, he struggled desperately, but that hand was like cast from steel, motionless.

His eyes were filled with fear and despair, that Dongying First Ninja who had just been invincible, at this moment was like an ant pinched in the palm of a hand, completely powerless to resist.

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At this moment, outside the barrier, the Onmyoji Captain frowned, staring fixedly at the situation inside the barrier.

From the moment Fengmo Huitailang first clashed with Susanoo and let out a roar, he had stood motionless in place. This abnormal behavior made a trace of unease rise in the Onmyoji Captain's heart.

Just at this moment, Fengmo Huitailang's body suddenly trembled violently, the Onmyoji Captain's pupils contracted sharply, only to see fresh blood spurting from Fengmo Huitailang's seven orifices like a spring.

"Not good!" The Onmyoji Captain's face changed greatly, cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Onmyoji Captain turned around and ran.

His movements were fast as lightning, instantly rushing dozens of meters away.

Other Dongying Ninja saw this, also stopping their movements one after another, looking at their captain in confusion.

Without the maintainer, the barrier enveloping the battlefield began to fluctuate violently, in the blink of an eye, the barrier shattered like broken glass into pieces, turning into specks of light dissipating in the air.

However, just as he had run a few steps, two figures appeared like ghosts in front of him, blocking his path, looking closely, it was Uchiha Fugaku and Tu Shu.

The Mangekyou Sharingan in Fugaku's eyes slowly rotated: "Want to run? I'm afraid it's not that easy."

Tu Shu looked at the Onmyoji Captain with a teasing expression: "What, you want to leave already? We haven't properly 'received' you yet."

The Onmyoji Captain abruptly stopped his steps, looking up to meet those crimson Sharingan. A trace of despair flashed across his face, but was soon replaced by determination.

"If that's the case, don't think you'll have it easy either!" The Onmyoji Captain shouted sternly.

His hand quickly reached into his bosom, taking out a string of ancient prayer beads, the beads flickering with a strange light, a powerful energy wave instantly spreading out.

"Not good!" Tu Shu suddenly widened his eyes, "That is..."

Voice not yet fallen, the Onmyoji Captain's body suddenly burst into dazzling light, a violent energy erupting from within him.

At the critical moment, the Mangekyou Sharingan in Fugaku's eyes spun rapidly, while he shouted in a low voice: "Susanoo."

"Boom!"

A deafening explosion sound shook the heavens. The violent shockwave swept the surroundings, leveling the surrounding buildings to the ground. Smoke and dust spread, obscuring everyone's vision.

When the smoke and dust gradually dispersed, everyone finally saw the situation in the field clearly.

Fugaku's Susanoo still stood firm, only with some cracks appearing on its surface.

And in front of Susanoo, the Onmyoji Captain's figure could no longer be seen, only a pile of ashes slowly drifting down.

Tu Shu let out a long breath, turning to look at Fugaku, his eyes full of curiosity and admiration: "Little brother, your skills really opened my eyes!"

Fugaku nodded, then slowly turned around, his gaze sweeping over everyone present, his voice extremely calm: "Now, are you still not surrendering?"

The remaining ninjas looked at each other, then threw down their weapons one after another, kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, Tu Shu waved his hand, the Five Elements Squad immediately stepped forward to subdue them.

Bai Xiaofei stared dumbfounded at this scene. He swallowed: "Damn, this is too amazing!"

However, before he finished speaking, a violent tremor suddenly came from the ground under his feet.

Bai Xiaofei looked down, only to see the ground collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, a rotten arm reaching out from underground, like lightning grabbing Bai Xiaofei's ankle.

"Careful!" Fugaku shouted, his figure flickering, rushing toward Bai Xiaofei.

However, just as he was about to grab Bai Xiaofei, the ground suddenly collapsed.

"Save me!" Bai Xiaofei let out a terrified scream, the whole person instantly dragged underground.

Fugaku's fingers barely grazed Bai Xiaofei's clothes, but still could not catch him. His face instantly turned gloomy, a flash of anger in his eyes.

At this moment, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. He remembered those strange zombies he had encountered in the city before, they seemed to have an abnormal obsession with Bai Xiaofei.

Fugaku frowned tightly, a trace of uncertainty flashing in his eyes: "Could it be the Corpse King?"

Tu Shu quickly walked over, his face full of worry: "The situation is not good, that kid was captured."

Just at this moment, another violent tremor came from the ground, as if some colossus was moving.

Fugaku quickly scanned the surrounding terrain: "They are moving toward the center, no matter why the Corpse King wants Bai Xiaofei, we absolutely cannot let him succeed."

(Chapter End)