Chapter 354: The Strike of Yama (4k)

【Blue】!

The space let out a mournful cry as it compressed; the thousand-meter blade aura slashed out by Hongchen suddenly collapsed into a point of light the size of a ping-pong ball. But the frosty cold air did not dissipate; instead, it spread in reverse along the folds of space. The ice silkworm silk tassels on the hilt of the blade moved without wind, and the temperature of the entire fracture layer instantly plummeted below absolute zero.

Bai Cangshu's body vanished in an instant, pulling back in the form of Instant Movement, but he stumbled into view after moving only a few dozen meters. Instead, intense Chakra erupted from his body; the ghostly blue Chakra rose like flames, and individual ribs appeared, though they were fully encased in an instant.

Boom!

The blade aura fragments and the cold air collided with the surface of the 【Susanoo】 and instantly dissipated.

Within the Sharingan belonging to Uchiha Madara, there was nothing but disdain for the way Gojo Satoru fought with such gimmicks; the enemy was wide open, as if he already held an absolute advantage.

He let out a cold snort, and the Susanoo had already appeared. Thanks to the half of the Nine-Tails within this body, he was able to obtain such massive Chakra so quickly, even though he had yet to reach the state of his prime Complete Body Susanoo.

But it was already enough for a head-on confrontation.

At this moment, the Susanoo was clad in Tengu armor, its hands drawing a massive Chakra Tachi; its form was already quite close to a Complete Body Susanoo.

Hongchen also realized that the situation inside Tao Baibai's body seemed more complex than he had imagined, as if multiple souls were simultaneously controlling that body. This made the opponent's fighting style bizarre and unpredictable, but at the same time, it lacked continuity.

His figure was elusive, and driven by his powerful Wuji, the speed of his 【Water Shifting Steps】 had become so fast that it was completely imperceptible to the naked eye.

He could move hundreds of meters in a single second; he maintained this high-speed maneuverability and kept slashing from all directions.

At this moment, he had not yet mastered high-level techniques like the 【Heart of the Saint Art】 and 【Seven No-Despair Realm】 that were truly suited to his realm, so his means of output appeared somewhat singular.

But this speed was enough to make it difficult for the opponent to employ 【Infinite Void】 to capture and defeat him.

A massive Susanoo nearly two hundred meters tall appeared. Hongchen did not dodge or evade; looking at the Chakra flames burning on that terrifying Tachi, his fighting spirit grew even stronger.

He gripped his blade with both hands, stepped forward, and slashed at the Susanoo!

Compared to Tao Baibai, who possessed both the powerful defenses of 【Susanoo】 and 【Limitless】, he knew very well where his own advantages lay.

That was the power of his energy and the precision of his control.

Half a Dragon Origin combined with the terrifying amplification of the first turn of Reverse Universe meant that most Reincarnators of the Second Tier could not compare to him in terms of energy attributes.

He believed that Tao Baibai, who only had one set of Six Eyes, would definitely exhaust his Cursed Energy faster than he would.

Perhaps he wouldn't need to wait for his Cursed Energy to be completely exhausted; as long as the opponent's energy dropped to a certain level, this special state of possession and transformation would become difficult to maintain.

And...

Under the infusion of his tyrannical internal energy, his slashes began to cause ripples in space. He noticed that under the previous Limitless, his blade aura had successfully closed in on Tao Baibai.

"Ha!"

【Sixth Form: Cold Blade Icy Heart】!

This was the strongest move of the Six Decisive Cold Blade Arts, but because Hongchen had never been able to grasp that state of absolute icy cold, he had never been able to master it. But today, driven by his overly powerful Wuji, he forcibly unleashed this move.

In an instant, the rolling clouds in the sky turned pitch black, the temperature instantly dropped to freezing, and as the powerful blade aura slashed down, the sky became deathly cold and silent.

Uchiha Madara couldn't help but laugh wildly as he watched this scene; in the era of ninjas, only he and Senju Hashirama could achieve such an offensive, but the attack of the person before him was far more unbridled than any ninja.

He could even taste a completely different feeling from the opponent's blade-swinging movements.

In the slow-motion view of his Sharingan, it was as if there were a heavy snow filling the heavens and earth during those swings.

He couldn't clearly say what that thing was; it was a power that had never existed in the Renweishijie. The opponent held a blade, and he held a blade—they were powers of two completely different dimensions.

"Interesting, I acknowledge you~"

Uchiha Madara spread his arms; the overly robust muscles of this body made his blade-swinging movements far more terrifying than they had been in his former body.

But he had never before thought that the act of swinging a blade should rely on strength.

Ninja combat was always about precision over force.

The point was not how heavy your blade was, but whether the opponent could block it.

But at this very moment, watching that blade of his that froze the heavens and earth, he also had some new pursuits. The Susanoo also gripped that hundred-meter Tachi with both hands, and the Chakra flames on the Tachi instantly exploded into a blaze.

Slash!

He wanted to pursue weight, he wanted to pursue power. Facing Hongchen's Six Decisive Cold Blade Arts, Uchiha Madara understood for no reason that he had to shatter the opponent's blade momentum head-on to interrupt his increasingly powerful aura.

On one side was the terrifying Chakra drawn by a hundred-meter giant blade; on the other was a thousand-meter blade aura that seemed to condense the clouds of heaven and earth as it descended from above.

The two collided in mid-air; ice crystals, flames, blade aura, and explosions—two completely disparate energies collided in the center, and space was instantly thrown into chaos.

A destructive shockwave scattered indiscriminately from the center toward the surroundings.

Hongchen protected his body with aura, but he still kept retreating in the face of the repeated shocks. The intense explosions made his internal energy churn incessantly. The next moment, a surging spatial wave appeared.

Hongchen could not spare the time to regulate his breath; in an instant, his figure twisted and vanished like a phantom.

Amidst the terrifying waves, Uchiha Madara relied on the Susanoo's powerful defense and charged over brazenly. His state was not good either, but he was a pure combatant, skilled at utilizing every advantage he possessed.

He knew that with his Susanoo + that white-haired brat's peculiar technique, and the almost immortal flesh of this host himself, ordinary attacks would find it hard to kill him.

Therefore, he charged directly into the terrifying windstorm, his giant blade slashing horizontally.

Boom!

The gale shattered, and the Chakra slash extended for thousands of meters, crashing toward the direction of the Spirit World Infestation Zone.

The sonic boom of Hongchen's high-speed movement had not yet traveled out.

The Six Eyes, combined with the Sharingan's superior insight, had already captured Hongchen's position in an instant.

The next moment, the massive Susanoo actually discarded the Tachi; in its left hand appeared a Magatama-like Chakra energy bomb, while in its right hand, two opposing spatial waves—the blue 【Limitless Technique Lapse: Blue】 and the red 【Limitless Technique Reversal: Red】—began to draw close.

"You guy..."

Uchiha Madara was also somewhat surprised at this moment that the white-haired brat could actually control the power within this body simultaneously with him in such a state.

This was almost the same body operating two powers of different natures using two different modes of thinking at the same time.

Both of their souls, because they were too focused on control, began to cooperate unconsciously; pitch-black Cursed Energy covered the surface of the ghostly blue Susanoo, like burning black flames.

Both terrifying powers were thrown by the Susanoo simultaneously. In just an instant, the surroundings fell silent. Hongchen, who had appeared two thousand meters away, felt the sensation of being locked on, and his heart felt a slight chill.

The explosive power of Tao Baibai's bizarre state was actually this high; it had completely entered the category of the 【Ghost】 tier. If this strike landed in a city, it would almost certainly cause a small city to suffer a devastating blow.

What was even more chilling was that he had not detected any weakening in the opponent's energy at all.

A Reincarnator who had likely only just stepped into the Second Tier—how could their energy attributes be above his own?!

Absurd.

Hongchen took a deep breath, gripped his blade with both hands held high, and closed his eyes, sensing that strike which shook space tear through all the air in between, making space appear as if a pitch-black empty hole had emerged; the atmosphere was already in complete chaos, and hurricanes rose from all sides.

His heart was at peace.

At this moment, he completely merged himself into his own Blade Dao.

Blade Dao is Tyrant Dao.

The blade is to kill!

The moment his eyes opened, he slashed out, his body following the blade, crossing a distance of two thousand meters in an instant to appear behind the giant Susanoo.

The next moment, the Susanoo shattered with a boom.

But Hongchen's heart tightened instead; that strike just now had been empty and hollow, with no real sensation of cutting into flesh at all.

He looked back, only to see Uchiha Madara, whose long hair covered his face, also looking at his own Spirit Body in surprise.

Spirit Body?

That wasn't a physical body?!

Where is Tao Baibai?!

Hongchen instinctively erupted with Inner Qi, and the surroundings plunged into darkness in an instant.

"Domain Expansion: Infinite Void~"

The pitch-black domain completely enveloped him, and Hongchen felt a jolt in his heart.

Oh no!

He turned his head, only to see Gojo Satoru, who was also left with only a translucent Spirit Body, smiling with his Six Eyes, his hands slowly releasing the seal.

On the other side, Bai Cangshu looked at the resurrected Demi-human, as well as the green-haired girl standing beside the opponent, reeking of alcohol and wearing a look of surprise, his hands held one high and one low.

【Instant】 activated instantly.

The violent killing intent enveloped all the surrounding space in an instant, and the resurrected Millennium Worm also formed hand seals.

"Domain Expansion, Sound Kill..."

Pfft pfft pfft pfft...

In the air, countless fists slammed into his body in an instant.

【You have encountered the influence of Death Intent Senra】

【Performing instant death check...】

【Check passed】

【You have encountered the influence of Death Intent Senra】

【Performing check...】

In just an instant, a large number of checks appeared like a scrolling screen; he felt as if his Soul were suffering intense hammering.

Panic grew in his heart.

Is this Tao Baibai's attack?

Instant death?!

Can this kind of thing kill me?!

At this time, the disadvantage of his physique not being tough enough manifested; under that terrifying attack that completely exceeded several times the speed of sound, he couldn't even stabilize his figure, let alone form that hand seal.

Bai Cangshu's God's Artificial Eye opened between his brows; for the first time during the 5th Stage 【Instant】, he captured his own posture while attacking the opponent, the tactile sensation of the strikes, the degree to which the opponent's body was shattering, and... the Senluo Death Intent surging within his own Bloodline!

Yes, he felt with absolute clarity that cold, deathly silent power surging within his body; Yellow Springs began to well up from the layers between his Bloodline and Soul.

He had never encountered a creature that could be struck so many times without dying; all previous living things were killed directly the moment the Senluo Death Intent appeared.

But this time, the Demi-human's high-level Immortality Tese allowed it to continuously exempt itself from the instant death of the Senluo Death Intent, causing Bai Cangshu to attack continuously and madly.

The speed of 【Instant Prison Kill】 superimposed with the fist speed of the 5th Stage Instant began to make the sporadic Senluo Death Intent within Bai Cangshu gather together, and Yellow Springs began to howl.

Not enough, still not enough~

Bai Cangshu's mad killing intent was suppressed by this death intent; he couldn't wait for that surging power within his body to break through the ground.

Faster, I want to be faster!

Sixth Stage Instant activated!

Still not enough!

Bai Cangshu's heart rate was already so fast it had blurred into one, and lightning began to manifest from all his Apertures.

This scene made even the drunken Tatsumaki sober up a bit; she floated in the air, having originally just casually crushed a Worm that had designs on her sister, never expecting the opponent to return from the dead and even provoke such a freak.

Seventh Stage Instant!

Pfft!

Fresh blood sprayed out, and skin and flesh even began to fall off; Bai Cangshu's own physical fitness was quite powerful, but 【Instant】 was an out-and-out multiplier enhancer.

The stronger Bai Cangshu's physical fitness, the higher his base speed, and the speed after being multiplied by activating Instant became even more terrifying; correspondingly, the load suffered by the body would also become greater.

After entering the 128-fold speed boost of the Seventh Stage Instant.

His fists were already exposing white bone, but he no longer cared about his own physical body; that surging power was within him, and he only wanted to let it erupt.

The Title-level Ability User 【Sera】, hiding far behind Tatsumaki, looked at the Millennium Worm, which had been beaten until it could no longer maintain a human shape, and her face turned somewhat pale.

No one could have imagined that Tao Baibai's true combat power was this terrifying.

And, this kind of speed...

Her scalp tingled; in her perception, only cold, deathly silent killing intent remained in the surroundings, and she couldn't feel Tao Baibai's presence at all.

In other words, if she were the Millennium Worm, the outcome would not be any different.

No... because she didn't have the Demi-human Bloodline, that Super-Speed Regeneration would likely be completely crushed as well...

As Bai Cangshu struck violently, suddenly, a cold sensation burst forth from his body; he threw a punch, and a murky yellow power of deathly stillness whistled out from within him.

Whoosh!

With a roar like a surging giant wave, the Millennium Worm, whose form was completely unable to coalesce after being struck, had no reaction before being hit head-on by the fist momentum that resembled a tidal wave.

Boom!

The Millennium Worm flew backward, and a phantom gate filled with the intent of dark, deathly stillness appeared behind him; terror appeared in his eyes, but his body flew into it, unable to resist.

Thud.

The sound of the corpse hitting the ground was dull and ordinary; the immortal Demi-human had turned into a deathly, still corpse.

Tatsumaki threw away the wine bottle, the drunken haze instantly dissipating, and a rare trace of seriousness appeared in her eyes as she looked at Bai Cangshu.

Just a moment ago, she had actually felt a bone-chilling sensation, as if something dangerous had appeared, yet she was unable to perceive it.

【You have killed Reincarnator lq72165844】

【You have killed a Reincarnator in the Team Survival Mode world; this kill cannot generate a Scarlet Drop Card】

【Based on the effect of Evil God Omen: Cocoon of Greed, you have gained 1 Sin Point from this kill, a Scarlet Drop Card is forcibly generated, and rewards are increased by 50%】

【Reincarnator ex051, your bloodline power has sublimated; you have awakened the Tese: Yama (Hidden, Unique, World's Rare Treasure)】

(End of chapter)