Chapter 498

I slightly sensed the Flying Thunder God seal.

Dong Shilang shifted his gaze downward to a giant tree covered in heavy snow.

If I'm not mistaken, that guy Obito is hiding there.

"…That guy, how did he discover me?"

Also wearing a red cloud robe, Obito's eyes behind the mask were somewhat doubtful.

I merely used the corner of my eye to observe the battle in the sky; how did the other party discover my trail?

If it were only the corner of my eye, the other party shouldn't have been able to detect my spying, but…

As for the uniform on my body, I have Dong Shilang to thank for it.

Because of his butterfly, the Dawn Organization now lacks two important members, so he has to come out to work and become an official member of the Dawn Organization.

"That guy, he's getting more and more dangerous!"

"Where there is Daitsu, there is always a presence of Jue."

"Seeing their traces discovered, Jue no longer concealed himself, but openly began observing Dong Shilang."

"Especially the aura emanating from the other."

"It's only been a few days since we last met? Sensitive as he is, he discovered that the other's aura had undergone some changes."

"We should have brought all the organization's members over~"

"Jue, having only brought some of the organization's members over to Changmen, still felt uneasy and couldn't help but start complaining."

"Especially Orochimaru, Jiadou, and that Hidan~"

"When fighting against Yuzhibo Dongshilang, they might actually have a surprising effect."

"In response, Daitsu's voice, leaking from beneath his mask, was low and grave."

"Changmen doesn't trust them at all!"

"Daitsu also had no choice; Orochimaru this guy harbors ulterior motives, and Jiadou this old slicker only joined the organization due to Changmen's strength."

"As for Feiduan, this guy is basically a lunatic; aside from the evil god, his mind is filled with nothing but killing."

"Changmen summoned them into the organization simply to make use of their own strength."

"As for trust, it simply doesn't exist."

"When fighting experts like Yuzhibo Dongshilang, one brings along a few teammates they don't trust."

"He also has to keep some of his mind ready to guard against his subordinates possibly betraying him in battle."

"Nobody would do that."

"But…"

"Looking up at Dong Shilang in the sky, Jue also had no good solution."

"The aura emanating from that guy gave him a feeling of growing familiarity."

"It made him start to wonder whether his older brother had truly been reincarnated."

"Otherwise, even if Yuzhibo Dongshilang had Hashirama's cells, he'd be no stronger than Daitsu."

"The Eternal Eye is his limit."

"But now it looks like the other side is progressing toward a higher level."

"This is very unreasonable."

"This is also because Dong Shilang only recently fused with the Item, and the chakra in his body is undergoing drastic changes, which is what allowed Heijue to notice the clue."

"On the other side."

"Soaring to a height of four to five hundred meters above the ground, the Heavenly Path looked at the mountain eagle that was about to enter within his ability's range."

"He extended a single hand forward, palm loosely grasping."

"All Phenomena Heavenly Pull"

"He had absolute confidence in his own ability."

"To maximize the effect of his ability, he even ascended into the sky, just to close the distance with his opponent."

"This can maximize his ability."

"This way he could in one go pull the Fifth Hokage down from the sky."

"As for letting the opponent fall to his death… such a naïve thought, he never had."

"Dong Shilang~"

"Feeling a tremendous suction, the mountain eagle cried out loudly, then frantically flapped its wings."

"It seemed that this still wasn't enough; a layer of light‑blue chakra appeared on its broad, heavy wings."

"This caused each flap of its wings to whip up gusts of wind."

"But all of this was in vain; it still couldn't control itself and began to fall toward the ground."

"You, that guy up there is yours and his to handle."

"Hearing the mountain eagle's cry for help, Dong Shilang furrowed his brows; this is really becoming a bit troublesome."

"If I wholeheartedly deal with the Heavenly Path below, the Didala above will surely come out to cause trouble."

"That guy's Ninjutsu weakness, I suppose you've also seen it."

"Although one could use the Super Beast Imitation Drawing to carry a portion of Lightning Release chakra to harass Didala, this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause."

"Moreover, Lightning Release is too violent; the Super Beast Imitation Drawing alone can hardly carry much Lightning Release chakra."

"Another thing is, Didala may seem a bit simple-minded, but he still possesses tactical acumen."

"His main body never gets close to Dong Shilang; after using a clone to probe, he's become even more cautious."

"Yes! Yes!"

"Hearing Dong Shilang's words, His face turned somewhat bitter."

In order to better develop Wood Release, he simply did not involve any chakra attributes besides water and earth; as for lightning…

He completely can't do it.

Not only him, but even Itachi beside him is somewhat troublesome.

He is a genius cultivated by Fugaku as a focus; it cannot be said that he completely doesn't know lightning affinity.

But it is not his main focus.

His main focus is Genjutsu and Fire Release; as for Lightning Release, he can only barely use it.

However, at this point, even if it's not possible, he must make it possible.

As for Dong Shilang, after informing Itachi, he felt his own weightlessness and did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.

He raised the Grass-Cutting Sword in his hand.

As chakra surged in his hand, the Grass-Cutting Sword, which originally only had a silver-white metallic sheen, began to emit a bright white light.

Moreover, beside Dong Shilang, a large number of identical Grass-Cutting Swords appeared.

They formed a large circle, surrounding Dong Shilang and the others in the middle, densely packed, numbering several hundred.

"Go!"

He swung the Grass-Cutting Sword in his hand toward the direction of the Heavenly Path.

Those Grass-Cutting Swords formed from his chakra, like a swarm of bees receiving a signal, shot toward the Heavenly Path.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

As these long swords tore through the air, the sharp, high-speed slicing sounds of the blades swished together into a dense sheet.

It was like a large swarm of bees rushing toward the target, the buzzing of their wings flapping at high speed, and also like a large ballista firing a volley of arrows, the tearing-through-air sound.

"Really… troublesome~"

Watching those long swords shooting toward himself, the Heavenly Path spoke under Nagato's control.

He had already given the opponent enough regard; right from the start he used one of his strongest abilities, 'Universal Attraction'.

He intended to use it to pull the opponent to the ground, but Dong Shilang of the Uchiha clan's response truly hit the weak point of his ability.

These long swords were originally manipulated by the opponent, shooting toward him, and were also accelerated by gravity from above, plus his own Universal Attraction.

If struck by these long swords, not to mention Yahiko's corpse, even a whole block of granite could not withstand the blades' cutting devastation.

"That Orochimaru, incapable of success but excess in failure!"

After complaining about Orochimaru, who actually gave such a dangerous weapon to Uchiha Dong Shilang, the Heavenly Path's hand movement remained unchanged.

Looking at the faint air ripples emanating from the tips of those long swords, he let out a loud shout.

"Heavenly Subjugation"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As violent repulsive force appeared around the Heavenly Path, those Grass-Cutting Swords attacking him each turned into puffs of white smoke and dissipated in the air.

"Really… sharp!"

Even Nagato couldn't help but exclaim, these Grass-Cutting Swords are truly extraordinary.

If what he used were not this intangible repulsive-force field but some other defensive ninjutsu, he probably couldn't block them at all.

Indeed, this is the case; this ninjutsu derives from the Third Hokage's Hand Sword Shadow Clone technique.

And for the Hand Sword Shadow Clone to be able to injure people, part of the Indestructible Diamond characteristic of the Ape Demon Clan was added.

Otherwise, the Hand Sword Shadow Clone ninjutsu, even if it could hit an enemy, would be unable to pierce the enemy's armor, let alone injure them.

In the original work, that Orochimaru is even more the master of this ninjutsu.

A single Grass-Cutting Sword, extending and retracting, manifesting as hundreds or thousands, can even wound Naruto in his tailed-beast transformation.

To say it lacks the Ape Demon Clan and the Hand Sword Shadow Clone technique's factors is utterly impossible.

That is, only because the Heavenly Path's ability is special can it, in one strike, completely crush those astonishingly numerous Grass-Cutting Sword clones.

If it were anyone else, they probably couldn't even block it.

Swish!

Just as Nagato let out a breath, preparing to launch his next wave of attack,

a familiar tearing-through-air sound passed through the smoke around him and reached his ears.

"Uh-oh, it's a decoy~"

Upon hearing that familiar tearing-through-air sound again, Nagato still didn't realize that those previous Grass-Cutting Swords were all meant to cover the surprise attack of this final Grass-Cutting Sword.

"On… the left side~"

Caught off guard by Dong Shilang, but Nagato did not panic.

Chakra surged in his hand, and a black chakra iron rod instantly appeared in his grasp.

"What?"

Having just manifested the black iron rod, the Heavenly Path dared not delay in the slightest, directly sweeping outward toward the direction the tearing sound came from.

But soon he felt something abnormal.

His defense this time actually failed~

This is almost impossible to happen.

Although his view was blocked by a lot of white smoke, for a ninja, judging position by sound is almost a basic skill.

How could he possibly have missed the target?

His eyeballs turned; the Heavenly Path's light-purple Rinnegan looked toward the smoke on his right side.

At this very moment, aside from moving his eyeballs, he simply didn't have time to make any other action.

He could only watch helplessly as a white-light-emitting long sword protruded from the smoke ahead to his right and shot toward him.

"So… this sword can be manually controlled?"

In an instant, Chang Men roughly figured out what was special about this long sword.

It should have been when it approached Chang Men that the flight trajectory changed.

And the speed of the long sword, due to the opponent, gravity, and one's own ability, etc., has already in an extremely short time.

Reaching the speed of sound, or approaching it, the sound of one's trajectory change almost arrives together with the long sword in front of oneself.

This then caused Chang Men to not react in time.