Chapter 178

Madara's voice had not yet fallen when Inbeier·Yula, clad in a blue long robe, walked out slowly, his head of silver short hair fluttering lightly in the cold wind, his whole person emitting a kind of icy temperament.

"Ice Flower Heavenly Burial!"

Inbeier·Yula's hands rapidly formed Hand Seals before his chest, the temperature in the air plummeting sharply, large amounts of water vapor condensing into crystalline ice flowers at a speed visible to the naked eye. These ice flowers flashed with cold light, like a deadly sea of flowers enveloping Madara.

Madara's hand swept the blade horizontally, vibration ripples exploding in the air, smashing all the oncoming ice flowers.

Tsk! The ice flowers instantly burst open, turning into countless tiny ice needles. Every ice needle emitted a bone-piercing cold air, wherever they passed, even the air was frozen.

"Freeze!" A cold light flashed in Inbeier's eyes, he violently pushed out with both hands.

Ice needles poured down like a violent rain, striking the surface of Susanoo with dense crisp sounds, that layer of blue chakra armor instantly covered in a thick layer of frost white, ice crystals spreading at an astonishing speed, in the blink of an eye covering half of Susanoo.

"Just this level?" Madara coldly snorted, the vibration power inside his body instantly erupting, the ice shattering inch by inch under this violent force, turning into sky-full crystalline ice debris.

At this moment, a black shadow silently appeared behind him. Bradman's body had completely turned into dark shadows, even his aura becoming difficult to capture.

"Tianxia Wu See·Guwan!"

Bradman's figure flew past like a ghost, the long sword in his hand drawing a strange arc, a huge cross-shaped slash emerging in the air.

"Good timing!" Battle intent burst forth in Madara's eyes, Susanoo's hand swept out the long sword with the momentum of thunder, colliding head-on with the cross slash.

Boom! A terrifying shockwave expanded in all directions with the collision point as the center, the ground instantly cracking, cracks spreading like a spider web. Even the huge Susanoo was forced back half a step by the power of this strike!

Madara had just steadied his figure when a cold mechanical sound suddenly rang out from afar: "Shulianshu!"

Only to see a silver figure standing on the ruins, crimson mechanical prosthetic eyes flashing with cold light, his whole body covered in complex mechanical armor, it was precisely the Spriggan 12's mechanic, Val·Yishite.

"Heavenly Enlightenment Cannon Platform!"

The voice just fell, the earth violently trembled, ten huge magic cannons burst out of the ground, each cannon platform surface densely covered with profound magic runes, emitting heart-palpitating energy waves.

"Go die for me!"

Val roared, the muzzles of ten magic cannons simultaneously lighting up with dazzling blue light. The next instant, countless missiles dragging long flame trails whistled out, a dense barrage covering the sky.

Madara's eyes narrowed slightly, Susanoo was about to move when he suddenly felt his feet sink, he lowered his head to look, a huge skull head condensed from black magic power had bitten onto Susanoo's legs at some unknown time.

"Want to run? No way!" Bradman's gloomy laughter came from the shadows.

"Since it's like this." Madara raised both hands simultaneously, a trace of coldness flashing in his eyes: "Shinra Tensei!"

An invisible gravitational field erupted suddenly with Madara as the center. All incoming missiles suddenly seemed grabbed by an invisible giant hand, trajectories violently changing.

Not only that, even Bradman's illusory figure was pulled by this force, uncontrollably converging toward a single point.

"What power is this?!" Bradman's pupils sharply contracted.

Boom! Amidst violent explosion sounds, fire light rushed to the sky. However when the smoke and dust dispersed, Bradman's figure still floated in the air perfectly intact.

"Wasted effort." Bradman coldly laughed, "My body is composed of Mo Li Li Zi, this level of physical attack fundamentally cannot hurt me."

He violently waved his right hand: "Explosion Spiral!"

A spiral energy ripple instantly exploded before Susanoo's chest, the terrifying impact force blasting a huge hole in the blue chakra armor on the spot. Madara along with Susanoo flew backwards like a kite with a broken string.

"Such strong explosion..."

Madara continuously flipped in mid-air to steady his figure, but the corner of his mouth suddenly hooked into a cold smile, "Limbo!"

Bradman hadn't reacted yet when two illusory figures had already silently appeared at his side. These two figures' fists were entangled with pitch-black Armament Haki, blasting onto his body like shells out of a cannon.

Boom!

Bradman's body fell toward the ground like a meteor, smashing a huge pit in the hard rock.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Madara's figure had already disappeared from the spot like a ghost. When he appeared again, he had already quietly appeared behind Val·Yishite.

"When——!" Val violently turned, mechanical armor emitting a piercing friction sound. The magic runes on his arm instantly lit up, hurriedly condensing an energy shield before him.

However it was too late, the long sword in Madara's hand had already chopped down with the momentum of thunder. Vibration ripples frantically jumped on the blade edge, the air emitting a wail under this force.

Boom! The energy shield shattered in response, turning into points of light dissipating, Val who took the full-force strike flew backwards like a shell out of a cannon, plowing a deep trench on the ground.

"Good timing!" An ice long spear condensed in Inbeier's hand, the spear tip pressing with cold air, wherever it passed even the air was frozen.

Madara was just about to turn when he suddenly felt a chill on his back, at some unknown time a dark shadow had quietly emerged, Bradman's death scythe directly chopping at Madara.

"Limbo!" Madara lowly shouted, two illusory shadows instantly condensing.

Clang! The sound of metal collision sharp and piercing.

A chakra blade condensed in one Limbo's hand fiercely collided with Bradman's death scythe, sparks flying everywhere. Simultaneously, the other Limbo blocked Inbeier's stabbing ice spear, biting cold air condensing into frost around the illusory shadow.

At this moment the ground suddenly transmitted a wave, Madara's peripheral vision swept, only to see Val had already climbed up from the ruins, hands forming Hand Seals, dozens of magic cannon platforms floating into existence before him.

Each cannon platform surface was covered with complex magic runes, blue energy light frantically surging in the muzzles.

"Magic Cannon Array·Heaven Strike!" Val roared.

Boom boom boom! Dense beams poured down like a violent rain, weaving into a deadly firepower net. The air began to distort under this energy impact, surrounding buildings turning into ruins under the artillery bombardment.

Madara's eyes narrowed slightly, chakra under his feet suddenly erupting, the huge Susanoo soared into the air, the blue chakra armor leaving trails of afterimages in the air, narrowly avoiding this death zone.

At this moment, a strange wave transmitted from overhead.

Madara violently raised his head, only to see a woman in battle robes had appeared overhead at some unknown time, a strange light condensing between her slender fingers.

"Shiguang Benshu!"

Timaileya's voice was clear and cold as ice, the voice not yet fallen, the light at her fingertip had turned into a silver-white beam, arriving in an instant.

The air rippled with layers of ripples on the trajectory the beam flew past, as if too fast to see clearly, yet also as if static in place, as if even time was distorted.

Clang! Susanoo's proud chakra armor, before this beam, was actually like thin paper easily torn open, a huge cavity continuously drifting with blue chakra fragments.

"This kind of power." Madara's pupils sharply contracted, this was the first time since crossing over that someone could so easily break open Susanoo's defense.

The body instinctively wanted to dodge, but with the beam's speed, plus the already limited movement space in mid-air, it was already too late. Madara at the critical moment slightly turned his body, trying to avoid vital points.

"Puchi!"

Dazzling silver light pierced through the shoulder, a wave of intense pain instantly spreading through the whole body, warm fresh blood spraying out, turning into dots of blood mist in the air.

This was still the first time since Madara crossed over that he suffered such heavy injury. Fresh blood gurgled from the penetrating wound on his left shoulder, the bloody smell permeating the air. Madara pressed one hand on the wound, just wanting to temporarily evacuate and pull away distance, when he suddenly felt a chill attack from behind.

"Ice Ultimate Boundary·Frost Cold God Bow!"

Magic power surged in Invel's hand, countless ice crystals condensed in midair, and in the blink of an eye they formed a gigantic ice longbow; he drew the bowstring, and a crystalline ice arrow took shape on the string.

Whoosh! The bowstring trembled, an arrow condensed from pure cold air shot forth, breaking through the sky. Where the arrow passed, even the air was frozen into a clearly visible trajectory.

A sharp glint flashed in Madara's eyes, the long blade in his hand swept out horizontally, vibration ripples jumping wildly on the blade edge. However, the instant the blade touched the ice arrow, that terrifying cold air actually flowed upstream along the trajectory of the vibration ripples, directly invading the blade body! "Crack! Crack!"

Ice crystals spread at an astonishing speed, growing wildly as if alive, covering most of the Susanoo in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, just as Madara was trapped in the ice seal, a gloomy cold breath suddenly welled up from underground.

"Opportunity has come!" Bradman's hideous laughter rang out.

A pitch-black shadow expanded across the ground like a tide, Bradman's figure suddenly burst forth from the shadow, the Death Scythe in his hand drawing a bizarre arc.

Where the scythe passed, the void was forcibly torn open into a crack, countless hideous skulls drilled out from the crack, emitting hair-raising screams.

At the same time, the ten Magic Cannons before Wall on the ground suddenly began to deform, mechanical parts meshing together, finally combining into a gigantic super-cannon.

Blue light blazed from the cannon mouth, terrifying energy fluctuations distorting even the air.

"Magic Convergence Cannon!"

Blue light flourished from the cannon mouth, terrifying energy fluctuations distorting even the air; the power of this strike was enough to raze an ordinary city to the ground!

Three sure-kill attacks, striking simultaneously from three different directions! Boom! The terrifying energy beam and countless skulls attacked at the same time, the Susanoo's frozen armor shattered inch by inch, blue chakra fragments drifting in the air, Madara's figure exposed beneath everyone's attacks.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Madara could clearly see ice crystals continuing to spread on the Susanoo's ruined armor, could see every hideous fang on each skull, could even count the pulsing magic power arcs in the super-convergence cannon; the breath of death rushed at his face.

But Madara's face showed not the slightest fear, instead revealing a fanatical smile,

"Super·Shinra Tensei!"

Madara shouted violently, the next instant, terrifying chakra fluctuations erupted with Madara as the center, a blue energy vortex surging wildly around him, even space trembling for it.

Boom!!! An unimaginable repulsive force swept out in all directions with Madara as the center, the frozen ice layer instantly pulverized, turning into sky-full ice debris.

Countless skulls disintegrated and dissipated under this force, even Bradman's body composed of Magic Barrier Particles was torn to shreds by this force.

The shockwave expanded outward at astonishing speed, enveloping a radius of dozens of kilometers in the blink of an eye; the entire Royal Capital seemed to have been rolled over by an invisible giant hand, forming a huge circular deep pit.

Bradman, Invel, and Wall's figures flew backward like kites with cut strings, even Timaileya had to retreat several hundred meters to barely stabilize her figure.

However, just at this time, a barely perceptible fluctuation came from behind Madara. The void there suddenly split open a silent slit, a human figure quietly emerged like a ghost.

It was Jack·Leixiu, who had been hiding in a different dimension since the battle began. At this moment, the terror of space-type assassination magic was revealed beyond doubt.

Years of battle instinct made Madara instantly sense danger; that fluctuation was extremely subtle, if not for his intuition honed from years of walking the edge of life and death, it would have been impossible to detect.

Cold light suddenly appeared!

Madara abruptly turned, a dagger gleaming with ghostly light already stabbing at his chest; Madara's right hand shot up like lightning, gripping Jack·Leixiu's wrist.

However, the opponent's strength far exceeded expectations, the sharp blade tip still broke through the defense, stabbing deep into his left chest.

Puchi!

Blood splattered; fortunately Madara deflected the dagger's trajectory in time, avoiding the heart's vital point.

But the blade still carved a wound deep to the bone on his chest, blood gushing out along the wound.

"Close..." Jack·Leixiu smiled coldly.

Voice not yet fallen, Jack·Leixiu's left leg suddenly rose, slamming into Madara's chest.

Crack!

Amid the crisp sound of sternum shattering, Madara's body flew backward.

Just at this moment, a cold female voice rang out in the air: "Time Trace!"

Timaileya's figure floated in midair, a golden Magic Circle slowly expanding before her. Countless beams fine as spider silk shot out from the Magic Circle, instantly enveloping Madara's whole body.

"Ugh ah!"

The moment the beams touched his body, Madara felt a heart-rending agony. As if ten million steel needles pierced into his body simultaneously, every cell undergoing unimaginable torture.

"This is the power of Time Trace." Timaileya's voice came: "Every severe wound you have ever suffered, every scar, will reappear at this moment. The more battles experienced, the deeper the accumulated pain."

At this moment, Madara's countless remembered pains revived: every wound on the battlefield, the agony of being pierced through by Hashirama Senju at the Valley of the End battle, the despair when death arrived.

All pain superimposed together, nearly devouring his consciousness.

"How is it? Tasted the flavor of pain?" Bradman walked out from the shadow, the Death Scythe in his hand gleaming with grim cold light.

Invel walked on air, each step condensing crystalline frost in the air: "Must admit, your strength indeed exceeds expectations. One-on-one, none of us is your match, even three together couldn't do anything to you, but"

"The combined force of seven Spriggan 12 is enough to bury you completely." Wall's cold mechanical voice sounded, over a dozen Magic Cannons forming before him.

"Hahahaha."

Madara, originally full of pain, suddenly laughed, his laughter carrying a trace of mockery.

Bradman's eyes narrowed: "What are you laughing at?"

"Laughing at your naivety."

Madara slowly stood up, the chakra in his body churning like boiling magma, under the effect of Hashirama Cells the wound on his chest healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"With just this degree of pain, you want to make me submit?"

"Impossible!" Timaileya's brows furrowed slightly, the magic power fluctuations in her hand more violent, Time Trace's power increasing again, but Madara seemed completely unable to feel pain.

But Madara seemed unable to feel pain, black long hair dancing in the violent chakra: "Pain? I'm long used to it! I should even thank you for letting me recall past battles."

"Moreover." A fanatical glint flashed in Madara's eyes, "Isn't this precisely the most interesting part of battle? The stronger the opponent, the more perilous the environment, the more they let me feel true pleasure!"

(Chapter End)