Chapter 259: Yu Yi Xuan Yue Formally Enters His Peak State
Chapter 259: Yu Yi Xuan Yue Formally Enters His Peak State
The Great Toad Sage never expected that Yu Yi Xuan Yue still had the Seeking Path Jade as a killing move.
There was no room for further contemplation.
The distance was too close, and with no time to dodge, the giant toad inhaled deeply, causing its massive body to deflate instantly, elongating the distance while emitting a peculiar frog croak from its abdomen.
"Mystical Toad Technique: Frog Call!"
The unique auditory genjutsu of Mount Myoboku was unleashed at full force by the Great Toad Sage, aiming to stall Yu Yi Xuan Yue for a moment or two.
Yu Yi Xuan Yue faltered for a fleeting moment, but quickly regained his composure. With a spread of his fingers, the Seeking Path Jade continued its forward trajectory.
Compared to the power that far surpassed Kekkei Genkai and Kekkei Tota, the Seeking Path Jade held no advantage in speed. However, with the target right before it, there was no reason for it to miss.
Under the influence of the genjutsu, the Great Toad Sage could only manage to shift its body slightly, positioning its left arm horizontally in front of it as the best defense it could muster.
The next instant.
The Seeking Path Jade collided with the Great Toad Sage's left arm, which was held up in defense.
Everything seemed calm.
There was no explosion, no tearing, and no sound of impact.
The moment the Seeking Path Jade made contact with the Great Toad Sage's arm, which was tougher than steel, it was like a gust of wind scattering sand.
Visibly, the part of the Great Toad Sage's left arm that the Seeking Path Jade touched instantly turned to nothingness.
It resembled the effect of Dust Release.
Even Dust Release, when used against the Great Toad Sage with its extraordinarily high magical resistance, would at most inflict some damage. To disintegrate it into an atomic state, as had been done in the past, was impossible.
The Seeking Path Jade was different.
While it couldn't dispel ninjutsu or senjutsu like before,
Physical contact was another matter.
Unless one possessed the power of the Six Paths, any lifeform that came into contact with the Seeking Path Jade would face complete disintegration—a fate that couldn't be avoided.
At this moment.
The Great Toad Sage's body, forged and refined over millennia, seemed as fragile as thin paper.
With a gentle touch from the Seeking Path Jade, a gaping hole appeared.
Then, as the Seeking Path Jade continued to fly forward without losing speed, the Great Toad Sage's left arm crumbled like a collapsing sand castle, inch by inch, turning into nothingness.
The Seeking Path Jade obliterated half of the Great Toad Sage's left shoulder and, following its inertia, shot backward.
The Great Toad Sage, with all its might and wit, had finally traded an arm for its life.
Ignoring the pain, it prepared to leap backward to get out of the effective range of the Seeking Path Jade.
Witnessing this, Yu Yi Xuan Yue softly uttered a single word.
"Explode!"
Boom! A dazzling white light erupted from the Seeking Path Jade, followed by a massive blast.
The power to annihilate an entire forest burst forth instantly.
A surge of endless heat washed over the area.
The Great Toad Sage, with only its right arm left, could only hold it up in a futile attempt to shield itself from the overwhelming explosion.
Even the owner of the Seeking Path Jade,
Yu Yi Xuan Yue, had to retreat swiftly backward to avoid the full brunt of the explosion's radiance.
Only when he reached the edge of Mount Myoboku did he stop and turn back to observe the aftermath of the explosion, which, though slightly smaller in range than Super: Shinra Tensei, was far more powerful and had now transformed into an unprecedented giant mushroom cloud.
It took a full minute for the dust to settle.
Yu Yi Xuan Yue stepped forward, flashing forward a few times to return to the center of the explosion. After a sweep of his Rinnegan, he let out a soft sound of surprise:
"It's not dead yet?"
Yu Yi Xuan Yue waved his hand, sending a gust of wind to blow away the last traces of smoke.
He looked again.
There, he saw an orange toad, about the same size as him, drenched in blood, its left arm missing from the shoulder, looking pathetic as it desperately gasped for air.
Drawing on its robust physique and senjutsu, it gritted its teeth and persevered until the end, surviving the explosion of the Seeking Path Jade.
At this moment, upon seeing Yu Yi Xuan Yue, the Great Toad Sage suppressed its fatigue, straightened its body, and allowed its numerous wounds to heal at a visible rate under the influence of senjutsu chakra, which was significantly less than before.
Except for the left arm and half of the shoulder that had been struck by the Seeking Path Jade.
Even with its ability to regenerate lost limbs, the Great Toad Sage would never be able to restore them.
"You're truly tenacious," Yu Yi Xuan Yue commented.
He had assumed that the Great Toad Sage's fate was sealed after he unleashed the Seeking Path Jade as a killing move.
Yet, his opponent had stubbornly held on.
"But... how much longer can you last?" Yu Yi Xuan Yue asked.
He spread his hands, and two black rods slowly extended from his palms.
The Great Toad Sage, now with only one arm, did not revert to its original form.
Maintaining its human-sized form, it first glanced at its empty left shoulder and then looked at Yu Yi Xuan Yue, saying solemnly:
"I take back what I said before. You, as you are now, are no less formidable than, and in some ways even surpass, the Yu Yi of old."
Yu Yi Xuan Yue smiled faintly. "The Yu Yi of old? My true goal is to surpass the Sage of the Six Paths. But by then, you would no longer be around to give such an evaluation."
"Is that so?" The Great Toad Sage exhaled and calmly replied, "The Seeking Path Jade has given you quite a boost in confidence. Now, show me a newly created Seeking Path Jade."
"If you only had one Seeking Path Jade, you wouldn't have detonated it so readily just now," Yu Yi Xuan Yue pointed out.
After the explosion, the Seeking Path Jade didn't completely disappear.
For beings below the Six Paths, it would take a long cooling-off period before it could be summoned again.
During this confrontation, the Great Toad Sage had come to understand Yu Yi Xuan Yue thoroughly.
He was a formidable opponent—bold, meticulous, never rash, and always maintaining his calm.
The fact that he had used the Seeking Path Jade so decisively suggested that he likely had more up his sleeve.
And indeed he did.
Upon hearing the Great Toad Sage's words, Yu Yi Xuan Yue shrugged and said, "I intended to give you a little surprise."
As his words trailed off, Yu Yi Xuan Yue lowered his left hand, holding the shorter black rod, while raising his right hand, resting the longer black rod, akin to a samurai sword, on his shoulder.
Simultaneously, two newly formed Seeking Path Jade orbs condensed and floated automatically around him.
Complementing this were the fully unsealed Yin Seal, his unique blue sage mode, and the Rinnegan.
At this moment, Yu Yi Xuan Yue officially entered his peak state.
With the acquisition of the Rinnegan, he was able to cross-reference the knowledge of yin-yang and the five natures that the Rinnegan possessed with his own mastery of these elements, filling in the final piece of the puzzle.
Yu Yi Xuan Yue had become the third person, after Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki, to create the Seeking Path Jade using only his own seven types of chakra.
Given his prowess and foundation, it was only natural that he could create more than one Seeking Path Jade at a time.
Conversely, the Great Toad Sage, in stark contrast to its initial state, had significantly less senjutsu chakra, coupled with the loss of its left arm.
Evidently, the Great Toad Sage had been pushed to its lowest point.
(End of Chapter)
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