Chapter 315 – The Strongest Buddha
On the battlefield, ten gigantic wooden humanoids charged toward Hatake Yusuke at the same time. Fist after massive fist came crashing down toward him.
But the Armed-Layered Susanoo swung its leg, unleashing a violent storm in an instant, blasting the wooden giants backward as if they were nothing more than leaves in the wind.
"Tailed Beast Ball Shuriken!"
Sasuke and Naruto, who were controlling the layered Susanoo, launched several Tailed Beast Ball Shuriken at once. The spinning spheres of compressed chakra tore through the air, howling as they flew.
"Lightning Bagua!" Yusuke didn't hesitate for even a moment.
He immediately controlled the spiked club in Susanoo's hand and slammed it into Naruto's attack, shattering the incoming Tailed Beast Ball Shuriken into scattered fragments of chakra that dissolved into the air.
"Super, Taikyoku Truth-Seeking Orbs Reincarnation Explosion!"
At that moment, Madara helped Toneri compress a massive cluster of Truth-Seeking Orbs, then hurled the attack straight toward Hatake Yusuke.
"Shockwave!"
Yusuke raised Susanoo's right hand, and a powerful shockwave burst forth, forcibly stopping the enormous golden blade of energy in its tracks.
Meanwhile, Kakashi instantly coated the sword in his hands with both Armament Haki and chakra, gripping the hilt tightly with both hands.
"The Secret of One Sword Style, Great Dark Heaven!"
The moment those words left his mouth, darkness swallowed the surroundings. From within that black void, a single sword slash glowing with pure white light surged forward, racing toward the giant Susanoo.
Hatake Yusuke stared at Kakashi's slash and silently nodded.
Kakashi's power had truly reached the Six Paths level. Even though his endurance wasn't particularly high, the explosive force he could unleash was something even Naruto and Sasuke—who had only just stepped into the realm of the Six Paths themselves—would not dare to underestimate.
Yet when the storm of attacks finally ended, the towering Susanoo didn't show a single crack. Even Kakashi's razor-sharp strike only left a faint scratch across the layer of Armament Haki surrounding Hatake Yusuke's Susanoo, and that scratch sealed itself almost instantly.
"…So hard," Kakashi muttered, staring at the giant before him in disbelief.
At that moment, the Truth-Seeking Orbs in Madara's hand shot toward Kakashi.
Kakashi looked at Madara in surprise, only to see the orbs wrap themselves around the Habakiri in his hand, forming an entirely new sword. As he gazed at the weapon he now held, a confident smile spread across his face.
"Think you can do it?" Madara asked calmly, his eyes fixed on Kakashi.
"With this sword, I might be able to try. But if the opponent is Nii-san, that's another story," Kakashi replied.
"That's fine. Just create a single opening. Leave the rest to me," Madara said.
Kakashi nodded and held his sword horizontally in front of his chest.
"Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!"
Madara rose into the air. The Rinne Sharingan on his forehead flared with terrifying ocular power as he unleashed a devastating attack toward Hatake Yusuke's massive Susanoo.
"It's useless," Hatake Yusuke said calmly as he once again swung his spiked club to block Madara's overwhelming assault.
At the same time, Senju Hashirama commanded the surrounding trees to surge forward, wrapping around Yusuke's Susanoo like a living cage.
But because of the Armament Haki layer, only a tiny amount of chakra was actually absorbed. Yusuke glanced downward, and Susanoo's legs suddenly transformed into searing magma, instantly melting the wooden bindings into smoldering ash.
"Six Paths, Ashura!"
At that moment, Kakashi unleashed another massive slash toward the giant Susanoo.
"What—?" Yusuke was still holding off Madara's attack when he suddenly felt an overwhelming, terrifying sword intent.
Among everyone present, only Kakashi could possibly possess a power like that. What shocked Yusuke even more was the fact that the force Kakashi had just released was actually capable of piercing through Susanoo itself.
This wasn't Madara's Susanoo. It wasn't even the Susanoo of the Sage of Six Paths.
The enormous blade of light cleaved through the outer layer of Armament Haki as easily as slicing through tofu, heading straight for the waist of the towering Susanoo.
Normally, the Armament Haki layer would have immediately sealed the split. But Yusuke was simultaneously resisting Madara, Toneri, and Naruto and Sasuke's combined pressure. Most of his Armament Haki was concentrated on the spiked club in his hand, causing the defensive layer around Susanoo to weaken rapidly.
And there was another, even bigger reason.
Hatake Yusuke hadn't been continuously supplying Armament Haki at all.
He had underestimated everyone. He genuinely believed that no one present could break through his defense.
But just as Yusuke was about to reinforce the Armament Haki again, Senju Hashirama immediately activated Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique. The massive wooden dragon wrapped tightly around Susanoo and began absorbing its chakra.
"Toneri!" Kakashi roared.
At that instant, Toneri summoned the Truth-Seeking Orbs and linked them together in midair.
"Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"
A terrifying repulsive force blasted straight toward the giant Susanoo.
"Limbo: Border Jail, Strangulation!"
Madara stared at Hatake Yusuke, and a shadowy presence instantly appeared at his side.
Yusuke activated an absolute defense around his body to block the incoming attack, but the price he paid was losing the chance to keep supplying Armament Haki.
At the same moment, Naruto and Sasuke condensed enormous chakra blades and slashed down toward Hatake Yusuke's body.
"Sage Art: Super Truth-Seeking Orbs, Light Fang!"
In an instant, the Truth-Seeking Orbs transformed into a streak of aurora-like light and cut straight toward the crystal core of Hatake Yusuke's Susanoo.
The crystal shattered into countless pieces.
"Hashirama, Naruto," Madara called out as he looked toward them.
Naruto's shadow clone instantly appeared beside Hashirama. He pressed both hands against Hashirama's body, and two streams of chakra began to merge as one.
"Sage Art, Super Wood Release: True Thousand Hands!"
A colossal Buddha statue rose from the earth.
Its height towered several times over Hatake Yusuke's Susanoo. Sasuke and the others instantly appeared before the giant Buddha.
Kurama's chakra from Naruto flowed over the Buddha's body like a blazing cloak, while Sasuke's Susanoo began wrapping around it as well.
Toneri's chakra surged violently into the Buddha, and Madara activated his own Susanoo as an outer layer of reinforcement.
"Don't even think about it!" Yusuke shouted as he released his control over Susanoo.
"Punishment of the Thunder Ring, Nine Dragons Lightning Seal!"
High in the sky, several massive lightning dragons appeared, roaring furiously as arcs of thunder rippled across their bodies.
"Yomotsu Hirasaka!"
A space-time rift opened above Madara, and the nine lightning dragons were instantly swallowed into the void.
But at the same time, Madara spat out a mouthful of blood. The lightning dragons had detonated the moment the space was forcibly sealed shut.
"Magma Prison, Crimson Lotus!"
Around Hatake Yusuke, a blazing sea of crimson magma erupted from the ground.
Madara once again unleashed the ocular power of his nine-tomoe Rinne Sharingan.
"Expanded Truth-Seeking Ball, Encase!"
The Truth-Seeking Ball instantly enveloped everyone.
The scorching magma surged toward it. Although it slowly eroded the surface of the Truth-Seeking Ball, it couldn't break through in such a short time. The two forces locked each other in a deadlock.
Hatake Yusuke raised his hand, and a transparent shield of light formed before him. He punched into empty space.
The space in front of him cracked like shattered glass, spreading outward in all directions. The fractured surface collapsed piece by piece, and both the magma and the Truth-Seeking Ball were torn apart and destroyed.
As he looked at the scene before him, Hatake Yusuke's face showed both shock and admiration.
A colossal Buddha stood towering in front of everyone.
Its body was wrapped in Kurama's chakra and two massive Susanoo—no, three, because Obito was also standing inside the Buddha alongside Kakashi, both of them pouring their power into it. The Buddha's enormous hands were even coated in black energy, along with power that resembled blooming petals of light.
Although Kakashi couldn't coat the entire Buddha the way Yusuke could, he was still able to reinforce the two largest hands.
Seeing all of this, even Hatake Yusuke couldn't help but admire it.
The pattern was still the same as before.
But this time, the power being used had clearly reached a completely different level.
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