Chiyu operated Susanoo, wielding its two exclusive spirit weapons, mowing down the Edo Tensei reanimated strong foes as though he were casually cutting grass.
This scene not only stunned Shimura Danzō to the core, even Kakashi and the others were utterly shaken!
Akimichi Shito stared with wide eyes.
"Those Edo Tensei reanimations, though weaker than they were at their peaks in life, are still absolute elites!
How can they seem so powerless against Uchiha Chiyu?!
Torifu-sama may not have shown his full power, but the strength he did display definitely surpasses mine—and still, Uchiha Chiyu severed both arms with a single slash, then sealed his soul with that chain?!"
Hatake Kakashi likewise found himself overwhelmed.
He had experienced Chiyu's prowess before.
But compared to now, it simply could not compare!
In just a short time, Chiyu's power had advanced beyond imagination.
If he had fought Shisui at this level, the battle might have ended in just a few moves!
Speaking of Uchiha Shisui…
At this moment, driven by Danzō's rage and desperation, Shisui's Edo Tensei body tried to manifest Susanoo.
He couldn't bring it forth at all.
Right now, Danzō's Edo Tensei lacked the necessary refinement.
Shisui's strength was simply nowhere near his living self.
Of course, even if Shisui had somehow been able to use Susanoo, it wouldn't matter.
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Now that he had awakened it, Shisui's power would pose even less of a threat.
Enraged, Danzō continued to force Shisui's movements, unleashing Shisui's signature Fire Release…
"Fire Release! Dragon Fire Technique!"
With a roar, a fiery dragon spewed forth in a show of fangs and claws, raging toward Chiyu's Susanoo.
Naturally, it had no effect whatsoever.
At the same time, the reanimated White Fang, Hatake Sakumo, infused his sword with Lightning Release, slashing Susanoo mercilessly.
Danzō gnashed his teeth.
His Edo Tensei force was nearly wiped out by Chiyu, and they couldn't so much as dent Susanoo's defenses.
Elsewhere, the few Root operatives left were being pushed back by Kakashi and the Ino-Shika-Cho group.
Danzō's fists clenched.
He had planned on exhausting Chiyu's Mangekyō with the reanimated dead, but it all collapsed.
He wasn't sure what to do next.
"If taijutsu and ninjutsu don't work—"
Danzō sneered, simultaneously commanding Shisui and Yūhi Shinku's body to cast genjutsu upon Chiyu!
"Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes!"
"Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death!"
Uchiha Shisui's Sharingan illusions combined with Shinku's illusions.
A double-layered genjutsu aura rippled out, engulfing Chiyu.
Chiyu merely gave a cold laugh:
"Using illusions on a Mangekyō Sharingan user?
Danzō, you're more foolish than I thought…"
Chiyu was indeed "less skilled" at illusions—but that was only relative to his other strengths.
In the end, a Sharingan is still a Sharingan. It can cast illusions and likewise break them.
Much less a Mangekyō!
A piercing hum tore through the air.
The brutal force of Chiyu's Mangekyō Sharingan flared out, shattering both illusions from Shisui and Shinku.
Then it reflected back in retaliation!
Those two Edo Tensei bodies froze.
Chiyu immediately followed up with his Susanoo's exclusive weapon, the Chiibiki Zai-Bakusō Chain, snapping out like a blackish-red whip, blazing with infernal flames.
It caught the two reanimated bodies in a fierce bind, their souls suppressed by the sealing power carried within!
Inside that sealing power—drawn into a place called "Sin's Domain"—Shisui's soul abruptly regained clarity.
He looked back once more at Danzō, then at Chiyu, sighing heavily.
"Chiyu, it's just as you foresaw…
I never expected that even after death, I would be used and manipulated …
In the end, I have no one to blame but myself. I was too naive, too foolish…"
Chiyu had no interest in chatting sentimentally.
"They'll all be dead soon."
Shisui's soul smiled faintly.
After those words, his spirit became fully sealed once more.
[Ding! You have successfully sealed Yūhi Shinku's soul, freeing them from torment. Good, +200 Virtue!]
[Ding! You have successfully sealed Uchiha Shisui's soul, freeing him from torment. Good, +500 Virtue!]
Chiyu felt somewhat indifferent.
Indeed, sealing a reanimated Shisui was nowhere near the huge virtue reward for having killed him in the flesh.
And presumably, Danzō couldn't just resurrect Shisui over and over to farm virtue.
As Shisui and Shinku were sealed in turn, Danzō's so-called Edo Tensei army now had just a few left—Hatake Sakumo, Uchiha Setsuna, etc. Hardly an "army."
Seeing them on the verge of annihilation, Danzō clenched his fists in fury.
His final plan—to rely solely on Edo Tensei—could not overcome Chiyu.
If Chiyu sealed them all, leaving Danzō alone to face him, Danzō's chances of victory would be slim to none.
Better, then, to act while a few reanimations remained to assist him.
With that, Danzō let out a snarl, issuing a command to the four Root members maintaining the Four Violet Flames Formation so they'd open a gap in the barrier—he slipped in, and they closed it behind him.
Outside, everyone—including Kakashi and Shito—halted, watching inside the barrier.
…was finally unable to hold back and was personally stepping in!
"Uchiha Chiyu, did you think Susanoo makes you invincible?!"
No sooner had he entered than he bit his thumb, forming seals before slamming the ground.
"Summoning Technique!"
Amid swirling white smoke, a colossal beast manifested on the battlefield.
Kakashi and the others were startled.
It was enormous, seemingly combining a mammoth's bulky form and a tiger-lion's sharp claws, plus tusks jutting from its jaws.
It roared, spraying thick white vapor from its trunk, shaking the earth:
Baku—Danzō's personal summon!
The instant Baku emerged, it roared and opened its huge maw behind Chiyu, inhaling fiercely!
An intense suction force formed a vortex-like wind, voraciously pulling in air—and even stripping fragments of Susanoo's chakra armor layer by layer.
Seizing that window, Danzō launched a powerful Wind Release:
"Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!"
Suddenly, wind blades shot out like scythes, superimposing and fusing together, slamming mercilessly into Chiyu's Susanoo!
Baku's suction dramatically magnified their destructive capacity.
He simultaneously commanded the Edo Tensei of Hatake Sakumo, Uchiha Setsuna, and the few remaining undead to strike as well.
In that moment, violent storms erupted inside the Four Violet Flames barrier, wind blades tearing down, gradually ripping off layers of Susanoo's chakra armor, pulverizing it…
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