Kaguya Noboru was angry.
He had spent so much effort and successfully ambushed the Konoha shinobi, scattering the enemy formation and dragging the battle into the chaotic close combat the Kaguya clan loved most right from the start.
But his subordinates were too useless.
With such an advantageous opening, they had actually failed to take down even a single enemy.
Instead, nineteen of their own shinobi had been killed.
The most infuriating thing was that a mere nineteen casualties had stunned the Kaguya shinobi, allowing the Konoha shinobi to seize the opportunity and break out successfully.
They had even taken all of their wounded with them.
Humiliating.
Truly too humiliating.
Kirigakure shinobi, on the sea, with more people against fewer, had been counter-killed and broken through by the enemy, who finally succeeded in escaping.
How could Kaguya Noboru not be angry?
"Search! Search for me!"
"The Konoha shinobi are carrying wounded. They definitely can't have run far. Find them nearby. I'm going to kill them all!"
Kaguya Noboru roared in anger, driving his clansmen and the nearby Kirigakure shinobi to search everywhere for the Konoha shinobi.
The most annoying thing about the sea was that it left no traces.
Even blood would quickly dissolve.
Only a sharp sense of smell could achieve limited tracking.
But among Kirigakure shinobi, there were no scent-specialist shinobi like the Inuzuka.
The long-lasting Bloody Mist policy could only produce shinobi skilled in combat. Any support-type shinobi could not survive until the day they became a shinobi.
Without professional tracking shinobi, the Kirigakure shinobi could only land on one island after another to inspect them, using an extremely inefficient method to search.
The search had no progress for a long time, making Kaguya Noboru burn with anger.
He worried that if too much time dragged on, the enemy he had finally defeated with great difficulty would flee with their injuries.
Then all his efforts would be wasted.
Just as Kaguya Noboru desperately urged his subordinates and clansmen, a thundercloud gathered on the horizon at some unknown point.
The thundercloud flashing with lightning moved rapidly across the sky.
Suddenly, the thundercloud seemed to discover the Kirigakure shinobi led by Kaguya Noboru.
It immediately changed direction and pounced toward this group of Kirigakure shinobi.
The thundercloud moved very quickly.
However, because it was high above, from the ground it felt as if it was moving slowly, not eye-catching at all.
As the distance continuously closed, the Kirigakure shinobi finally noticed the thundercloud's abnormality and judged that it was being controlled by human power.
Because the thundercloud's movement direction was inconsistent with the surrounding clouds.
The angular deviation was at least sixty degrees.
Kaguya Noboru restrained his temper and loudly called the Kirigakure shinobi to climb onto the nearest reef island with him, using it as a foothold while waiting for the unknown figure, enemy or ally, to show themselves.
…
Yoru's lightning spirit connected with heaven and earth.
The lightning-spirit natural energy that quickly gathered around him soon formed a thundercloud with Yoru as the center.
As the thundercloud continuously grew stronger, the lightning-spirit natural energy inside his meridians formed a wonderful resonance with the natural energy forming the thundercloud.
The electromagnetic force lifted his body upward, continuously offsetting the burden of his weight.
At one point, after Yoru stepped forward, he actually did not fall back down.
His weight had been completely offset by the thundercloud's pulling force.
Like a pilot dragged by a parachute, he flew.
No, it should be said that like the String-String Fruit pulling clouds to fly, Yoru was using invisible electromagnetic force to pull the thundercloud and achieve gliding.
Although it was not true flight, the speed was still extremely fast.
And it felt so good.
[Heh. As expected, lightning-spirit natural energy has the most future. As long as it can keep growing stronger like this, I'll be able to directly bind myself to the shinobi world and perform relative displacement. This is also a proper planetary-ring flight method.]
Yoru's mood suddenly improved.
The gloom caused by ordering Uchiha Goro's execution dispersed a lot.
It seemed that even without killing those Kirigakure shinobi, he could easily suppress the heart-shapes.
Just as he hesitated over whether to return and simply treat this as coming out to relax, he sensed Kirigakure shinobi.
And there was more than one.
Yoru was speechless.
[…Alright. This is Heaven borrowing my hand to send them to death.]
Since Heaven's will was so, then kill.
Killing them would feel even better.
When Yoru set out this time, he had not deliberately disguised himself.
His plan was to commit a perfect crime.
Kill all targets and witnesses.
Burn all the corpses.
Leave no guiding evidence behind.
But now, he was closely connected with the thundercloud in the sky.
Dense electron exchange caused lightning to flicker between his body and the thundercloud, forming a thunder pillar.
Every pore on his body, even his eyes, sprayed lightning outward.
Behind him, lightning intertwined with each other, forming a radiating thunder disc.
It was like the golden halo of merit behind the head of a god or Buddha.
It also resembled an angel's halo.
This was the Thunder God's thunder-pool halo.
The red Sharingan was lit by thunder and lightning, dyed into pure blue like the Thunder God's eyes.
One glance was enough to make people feel the terror of divine might like a prison.
With this change in appearance, even Miwa Masayo would not recognize him as Uchiha Yoru if she saw him.
This was a natural skin brought by power.
Ten thousand times better than any makeup technique.
When the Kirigakure shinobi saw Yoru wearing the Thunder God skin, more than a hundred shinobi were stunned.
It felt as if a real god had descended into the world.
Kaguya Noboru was still an elite jonin after all.
His slaughter and experience were richer, and his mentality was far stronger than the Kirigakure shinobi beside him.
He swallowed a mouthful of air and asked,
"May I ask, what kind of existence are you, and why have you appeared before us?"
Yoru spoke.
Under the effect of lightning, his voice carried an obvious electric tone.
"You do not have the qualifications to know my name."
"In truth, you do not need to know too much."
"Because I came here under the guidance of fate, precisely to bury you."
Kaguya Noboru and the Kirigakure shinobi understood.
He had come to kill them.
Immediately, the ferocity of the Kirigakure shinobi was stirred.
Their lives had been spent in bloody slaughter.
Everyone's hands were stained with blood, and the blood of Kirigakure Village stained them the most.
If one said most Uchiha clan Sharingan shinobi were perverts, then in Kirigakure Village, perhaps only a few people were not perverts.
These Kirigakure shinobi had just been frightened by Yoru's Thunder God skin, showing a timid appearance.
But once their ferocity was stirred, there was no longer the slightest trace of fear.
In life, other than death, nothing is a major matter.
No one can terrify a shinobi who does not fear death.
Not even a god.
Kaguya Noboru roared,
"Kill! Even if he's a god, kill him!"
He did not even have time to take off the clothes on his upper body.
He let pale white bones tear through his skin and clothes, forming a thick suit of bone armor over his body.
Countless bone spikes grew on the bone armor.
They twisted and coiled, forming twelve enormous sharp horns.
The bones on his legs grew even faster and more fiercely.
Starting from his ankles, they extended more than a meter outward, becoming long, slender reverse-jointed feet shaped like dog legs.
This leg structure was very similar to the prosthetic blades used by disabled athletes, the once-popular Blade Runner feet.
It could greatly enhance human running speed and jumping height.
When the bones on Kaguya Noboru's body stabilized, he had already become a monster standing two meters and sixty centimeters tall.
His image was extremely close to the legendary war god Asura.
Shikotsumyaku — Dance of Asura.
Roar——!
Kaguya Noboru, who had completed his transformation, seemed to truly become an Asura.
He released an inhuman roar that made the seawater jump endlessly.
Then both feet exerted strength, and he charged toward the Thunder God floating in midair.
When Kaguya Noboru's clansmen saw the Asura form, their eyes turned red with excitement one by one.
They also liberated the power of Shikotsumyaku, waving all kinds of bone weapons and shouting,
"Follow Lord Noboru to the death! Kill!"
Driven by the Kaguya clansmen, the ferocity of the Kirigakure shinobi was completely ignited.
Some formed hand seals on the spot to prepare ninjutsu.
Some directly took out kunai, tied explosive tags to them, and fired them at the lightning-wreathed "god."
More Kirigakure shinobi followed the Kaguya clansmen, waving weapons as they charged forward.
Facing the attacks of more than a hundred shinobi, Yoru had no fear at all.
At this moment, he and the thundercloud above were one.
How vast was the natural energy between heaven and earth?
Compared with it, human beings were merely the difference between fireflies and the bright moon.
Because he was closely connected to this vast power, Yoru's heart also seemed to merge into it and gain an incomparably grand feeling.
At this time, in his eyes, those hundred-plus shinobi were like strong ants, madly charging toward the dump truck he was driving.
The difference in power between the two sides was so great.
The enemy's attacks were so tiny, insane, and laughable that even the phrase "a mantis trying to stop a chariot" was not enough to describe it.
Yoru's heart was unknowingly infected by the power of heaven and earth.
He was like a true god as he opened his mouth and lightly said,
"Ants."
"Those who offend a god shall die by thunder."
Through the lightning-spirit natural energy in his meridians, Yoru constructed several hundred zero-resistance lightning-guiding lines within thirty meters around him.
The instant the lightning-guiding lines connected to the thundercloud, Yoru felt that the world seemed to brighten.
Immediately after, everything before his eyes became a vast expanse of white.
He could see nothing.
Not only could he not see, he also discovered that the world had become quiet.
Forget the thunder and battle cries, he could not even hear the faint wind or the never-stopping sound of waves.
Was the world actually this clean?
[No, it isn't. My ears are deaf. My eyes are blind!]
Yoru had gone through multiple Foundation Establishment breakthroughs.
His body had indeed pulled far away from ordinary human beings.
But he was not truly a god after all.
His physical strength still had limits.
When several hundred bolts of lightning were simultaneously triggered within a range of a dozen to fifty meters around him, this was the instant eruption of hundreds of billions of joules of energy.
Forget direct electric shock.
The intense light, deafening roar, and even the derivative electromagnetic field all possessed substantial destructive power.
The instantaneous brightness of the lightning reached several thousand times that of sunlight.
Although it only lasted 0.03 seconds, it was no less than staring directly at the noon sun for two minutes.
Yoru's eyes were blinded by the intense lightning flash.
The eyes of the Kirigakure shinobi were the same.
The thunderous roar reached 120 decibels.
Within a few dozen meters, no one's eardrums could remain intact.
The instantly generated electromagnetic field was like a powerful EMP.
The intense electromagnetic waves swept across the bodies of the shinobi and disrupted their nerve signals, making their bodies numb and wooden.
In the worst cases, it could even cause neurogenic paralysis.
Of course, the greatest damage was still being directly struck by lightning.
Those shinobi charging at the very front were hit by lightning.
Their entire bodies instantly went rigid, and their body fluids boiled at extreme speed.
Organs with abundant water content like the brain and eyes reached ninety degrees in just a few seconds.
The properties of their proteins changed.
And this was an absolutely fatal injury.
Yoru's body possessed powerful self-healing ability.
Within a few minutes, his retina and eardrums completed self-repair, and his sight and hearing recovered.
But he discovered that his body still could not move.
Clearly, the recovery speed of nerve damage was significantly slower.
It still needed more time to heal.
The instant his vision recovered, Yoru opened his eyes and saw the effect of his strike.
The Kirigakure shinobi who had charged the fastest had obviously been directly hit by lightning.
They maintained their postures of brandishing claws and baring fangs as they half-floated and half-sank in the seawater.
The parts exposed above the sea even had flames burning on them.
The biggest and most conspicuous one was naturally Kaguya Noboru, covered in spikes.
He was the only guy directly hit by lightning who was still alive.
Farther away were even more Kirigakure shinobi covering their eyes or ears, wailing and struggling on the sea.
[In the future, I can't use this move around myself.]
Very clearly, during the lightning tribulation in his previous breakthrough, the lightning strikes Yoru had suffered, though dense, had triggered in sequence.
They were not like today, where several hundred bolts were triggered at the same time, exceeding the upper limit he could endure in one stroke.
This made him understand one point.
His body's resistance to thunder had an upper limit.
He would need to continue paying attention to this in the future.
To be honest, Yoru was now somewhat frightened afterward.
His state of mind just now had been too dangerous.
He had actually completely ignored the danger of lightning and used terrifying lightning guidance right next to his own body, knocking down all enemies, including Uchiha Yoru himself, in one stroke.
If Yoru did not have powerful self-healing ability and had not become the first person on the scene to recover, he would have been the loser of this battle.
Because quite a few Kirigakure shinobi had still been fairly far away.
Especially those over a hundred meters away.
They could still maintain a combat stance.
Their eyes were only tearing up, not completely blind.
It would not take too long before their sight and hearing recovered.
Of course, now they had no chance.
Yoru stretched out a finger and pointed toward a Kirigakure shinobi in the distance.
With the guidance of his finger, he successfully controlled the lightning spirit and established a lightning-guiding line between the target's head and the thundercloud.
Boom——!
The selected Kirigakure shinobi was blasted apart by thunder.
The air filled with the thick smell of blood, the burnt stench of protein, and the dizzying smell of ozone.
Immediately after, Yoru tapped his finger repeatedly.
One bolt of lightning after another struck the Kirigakure shinobi he pointed at, sending them into hell.
In just half a minute, all Kirigakure shinobi on the field had been killed by lightning.
They became corpses burning with flames, floating and sinking in the seawater while emitting green smoke.
Yoru silently floated before the last survivor, Kaguya Noboru.
He silently looked at Kaguya Noboru, who was kneeling on the sea, his body rapidly recovering.
In his heart, he fiercely considered whether to kill him or let him go.
Kill him, and this battle would not be known.
What would remain here was an unsolvable mystery.
Let him go, and Kaguya Noboru would describe what he had experienced.
A legend would be born here.
The legend of the Thunder God's descent.
He would then have a second vest.
But was that necessary?
The previous vest, the Nature Immortal, had been created very successfully, but until now, he had never had the chance to use it.
No.
It should be said that there had been no need to use it.
He simply did not need to put on a vest to do certain important but shameful things.
While he was thinking, Kaguya Noboru's sight and hearing recovered.
In the first instant, he noticed that his side had been wiped out.
His heart immediately felt as if it had been cut by knives.
These Kirigakure civilian shinobi did not matter.
But the Kaguya clansmen who followed him were all his foundation.
They were the basis for him maintaining independence under Clan Leader Kaguya Yoshi.
Having lost these trusted clansmen, Kaguya Noboru could only wholeheartedly attach himself to Kaguya Yoshi and become his loyal dog and thug in order to avoid being abandoned.
But first, he had to survive from the monster before his eyes.
If he died here, no matter how much he thought, it would all be useless.
Kaguya Noboru maintained the Asura form and shakily stood up.
In a hoarse voice, he asked,
"Who exactly are you? Are you human or god?"
"I am the Thunder God."
"Guided by fate, I came to bury you."
"Now only you remain."
Kaguya Noboru's trembling gradually stopped.
His strength gradually recovered.
His heart was full of fear and unwillingness, and also filled with dense killing intent.
God?
Pah.
There were no gods in the shinobi world.
He had to be a powerful Lightning Release shinobi.
If he found an opportunity, he absolutely had to kill him.
Kaguya Noboru secretly withdrew his bone armor.
Chakra and bone substance both gathered toward his right hand, slowly depositing into the radius bone of his right hand, preparing for an extremely powerful technique.
At the same time, both of his hands slipped out of the bone armor wrapped around his arms.
Between his chest and abdomen, he formed hand seals, preparing to use a secret technique.
In a brief moment, Kaguya Noboru completed the preparation of the secret technique.
He did not delay in the slightest and directly activated the jutsu.
Shikotsumyaku — Dance of Heaven-Felling.
An enormous bone spear, like a house beam and pillar, grew from the palm of Kaguya Noboru's right hand.
It struck the Uchiha in midair without the slightest deviation.
But in that instant, Kaguya Noboru also felt enormous resistance.
The Kaguya clan's single-target secret technique with the greatest power could not pierce the defense at the enemy's chest.
And the huge, sharp, and solid bone spear was being wrapped by countless flashes of lightning, slowly breaking down the bones created by Shikotsumyaku at the molecular level.
The final effort had failed.
Kaguya Noboru did not hesitate in the slightest.
He immediately prepared to shed the bones on his upper body, lighten himself, and flee with all his strength.
But in that instant, the lightning at the tip of the bone spear suddenly brightened.
Countless arcs of electricity jumped along the bone spear onto Kaguya Noboru's body, making him release a painful howl.
"Blasphemers shall receive divine punishment."
"Divine grace is like the sea. Divine might is like prison."
"Lowly ant, death is not punishment. Only the living can experience divine punishment."
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