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Chapter 142: A Festival of Illusions
Chapter 142: A Festival of Illusions
Caw! Caw! Caw!
With the unpleasant cawing of a crow on Uchiha Itachi's shoulder, the battle officially began.
Feather-robed Xuanyue waved his hands, shuriken pinched between his fingers, and under the insight of the Kaleidoscope Writing Wheel Eye, he threw them out. They collided in the air first and then poured down on Uchiha Itachi from all directions at bizarre and changing angles.
At the same time, the same movements came from Uchiha Itachi's hands.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
A multitude of shuriken clashed in mid-air.
Dazzling sparks flew, and the sound of metal clashing rang out.
In a short while, the surrounding ground was filled with shuriken.
As the combatants, neither Feather-robed Xuanyue nor Uchiha Itachi had even a strand of hair out of place.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two urgent sounds of piercing air rang out.
The ninja-clad Feather-robed Xuanyue and Uchiha Itachi moved without hesitation towards each other.
Supported by powerful eye techniques, their movements were without the slightest hesitation, and every strike aimed at the other's vital spots.
To Feather-robed Xuanyue's surprise, Uchiha Itachi, whom he had thought to be an invalid, possessed excellent taijutsu to go along with his proficient genjutsu and ninjutsu.
Feather-robed Xuanyue had long forgotten that in the manga, Uchiha Itachi, in his Impure World Reincarnation state, could trade blows with Naruto in his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
Currently, Uchiha Itachi's body was not in the terrible state it had been in during his final battle with Sasuke.
Without testing the waters, Feather-robed Xuanyue had escalated the fight to its highest intensity, yet Uchiha Itachi not only held his ground but also, upon realizing that Feather-robed Xuanyue only had one Kaleidoscope Sharingan, deliberately changed his offensive direction to Feather-robed Xuanyue's left.
Feather-robed Xuanyue's left eye on this clone was a regular eye, and while the right eye's Kaleidoscope Sharingan could also cover the left side, it was a step slower in a true battle of eye techniques.
Thus, a fleeting opportunity was seized by Uchiha Itachi, who took advantage of this moment to sweep out a whip-like leg and viciously sweep forward.
"Bang!" With only enough time to block, Feather-robed Xuanyue's feet slid on the ground, and his entire body retreated.
Uchiha Itachi pursued relentlessly.
"Chidori!"
Allowing his body to continue retreating, Feather-robed Xuanyue calmly extended his right palm, and a piercing lightning bolt instantly enveloped it.
Uchiha Itachi, who had rushed forward, remained unmoved.
Although somewhat surprised, having already experienced this ninjutsu before, he accelerated and, as the Chidori struck, performed a light rotation, dodging the Chidori just in time and intending to rush into Feather-robed Xuanyue's embrace.
Feather-robed Xuanyue horizontally slashed with the Chidori in his hand, turning it into a laser-like beam.
In an instant, Uchiha Itachi was bisected.
"A variation of Chidori?" Uchiha Itachi calmly uttered.
The next second, the bisected body transformed into dozens of crows, cawing as they scattered in all directions.
Feather-robed Xuanyue was about to make a move.
Whoosh!
A powerful palm suddenly pierced through his chest from behind.
Blood splattered in an instant.
Uchiha Itachi appeared behind Feather-robed Xuanyue in the blink of an eye, his hand piercing through the heart of the completely unprepared Feather-robed Xuanyue. His Kaleidoscope Sharingan eyes looked at the white spiral mask up close and said softly, "I'm curious who you really are."
Feather-robed Xuanyue?
Something felt off about that identity.
Another Uchiha clan member? Even with a Kaleidoscope Sharingan, to use it without any shortcomings despite it not being their original eye was not something an ordinary person could achieve.
Knowing that his opponent was now powerless to resist, Itachi turned his head to look.
Whoosh!
A slender palm, carrying condensed lightning, pierced through his heart from behind.
Another Feather-robed Xuanyue appeared behind him, his indifferent gaze fixed on Itachi.
"Genjutsu?" Itachi asked, his expression unchanged as he spat out blood, even as the "Feather-robed Xuanyue" in front of him popped like a bubble and disappeared.
Feather-robed Xuanyue looked at him and said, "If you want to know who I am, then show me your true abilities, criminal of the Uchiha clan."
"I understand," Itachi Uchiha said softly, closing his eyes.
In the next moment, both Itachi and Feather-robed Xuanyue blinked, returning to their original positions.
To be precise, they hadn't moved at all from the start.
In this moment, the cold wind howled as it rushed by.
There were no shuriken embedded in the ground, and not a crease disturbed their clothing. Not to mention, the two, with a heart-pierced Feather-robed Xuanyue and Itachi, shared a silent gaze.
The previous exchange of shuriken, the taijutsu showdown, the crows, and the Chidori—all of it had unfolded within an illusion.
This was the power of the Uchiha.
In the rankings voted on by all of Ninjaworld, they were the opponents that no one wanted to face.
Unlike with other ninjas, when facing a Uchiha, there was a high probability that you would never know how you died, not even at the moment of your death.
This was Feather-robed Xuanyue's first experience with an illusion battle of this caliber.
It had to be said that this silent confrontation was quite interesting.
Fortunately, after implanting the Mangekyo Sharingan into his clone's eye socket, Feather-robed Xuanyue had specifically learned about the Sharingan's applications from the Uchiha clan to better understand the eye technique.
Otherwise, his clone might have been at a significant disadvantage from the start of this engagement.
As for Sasuke, who could allegedly compete with Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan using his three-tomoe Sharingan and even turn the tables on him...
It could be affirmed that Itachi had gone easy on Sasuke to the extent that he might as well have been drowning him in a flood.
Even Feather-robed Xuanyue himself would rather face a straight-tomoe Mangekyo Sharingan than a curved one.
Techniques like Kotoamatsukami, which took effect without the target's knowledge, were incredibly dangerous. Once ensnared, one wouldn't even think to break free from the genjutsu. In his eyes, these abilities were more threatening than Amaterasu or Susanoo.
Caw! Caw! Caw!
The crow on Itachi's shoulder let out another harsh cry.
But unlike before, at Itachi's command, the crow carrying the other Izuna Mangekyo Sharingan cawed once more before exploding into white smoke and returning to its original abode.
The person before him was unlike any enemy he had ever faced.
Even Itachi himself did not dare to be careless in this battle.
Therefore, he must not give his opponent any opportunity to retrieve the other Izuna Mangekyo Sharingan.
The power of dual Mangekyo Sharingan, each with Kotoamatsukami, was something Itachi could fully imagine.
He just didn't know if the Kotoamatsukami in the person's Mangekyo Sharingan was in its cooldown phase.
Given Danzo's character, it was unlikely that he hadn't used it during his battle with Feather-robed Xuanyue.
(End of Chapter)
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