Chapter 289: The Death of Uchiha Madara [67]
Chapter 289: The Death of Uchiha Madara [67]
Uchiha Madara's words and the scene unfolding in the sky caused a tight knot to form in Minato Namikaze's chest. If Madara killed Feng Ye, this world would fall completely into Madara's hands, becoming a fantastical dream world.
Minato clutched the Flying Thunder God kunai in his hand and suddenly threw it in Feng Ye's direction, hoping to save him.
But.
Almost at the same time.
A hand suddenly extended from the twisted mass, and with a simple flick, Madara's approaching Chibaku Tensei was sent flying away.
Immediately, the twisted mass quickly recovered, and in the blink of an eye, it reverted to Feng Ye's original form, bathed in a soft golden light, floating in the air.
"This..."
Seeing this, Minato was stunned for a moment.
Even Madara's expression changed, his pupils contracting sharply as he revealed a look of disbelief. Through his Rinnegan, he could clearly see that not only had Feng Ye's body returned to its original state, but his chakra had also completely recovered to its previous level!
And the way this recovery happened was extremely bizarre. It wasn't that Feng Ye had absorbed power from anywhere; it was as if he had simply reconstituted himself out of thin air, as if the power had spontaneously emerged from nothingness!
"Among the ninja I've encountered, you are also the strongest."
"But it's about time to end this."
Feng Ye, bathed in a soft golden light, spoke calmly to Madara as he flew toward him.
Seeing Feng Ye fly toward him, a tinge of heart palpitations that Madara hadn't felt in countless years emerged in his heart. Due to overexerting his eye techniques and chakra, Madara now had at most one-third of his strength left, and even maintaining the four Shadow Clone technique clones was becoming difficult!
Madara gritted his teeth and forcibly created another Shadow Clone, rushing toward Feng Ye while the Chibaku Tensei in his hand slashed at Feng Ye.
But.
This time, Feng Ye made no move to dodge or deflect the attack. He didn't even swing his sword; he just flew straight toward Madara.
As the Shadow Clones made contact with Feng Ye's body, they instantly froze in the air, wobbled, and then disintegrated into illusory white specks of light.
"How could this be..."
Madara's expression was one of sheer disbelief.
Before his disbelieving eyes, Feng Ye flew past, causing the four Shadow Clones to crumble one after another. The Chibaku Tensei that Madara had slashed toward Feng Ye's body also swiftly vanished upon touching Feng Ye, dissipating into nothingness in the air.
Pap!
Feng Ye extended his hand and pushed it against Madara's chest, sending him flying backward.
Feng Ye had not used the Six Paths power nor the power of the Reincarnation Eye in this entire process. The only ability he had employed was God Corrosion—time retrogression.
Once this ability could affect the outside world and others, it became an extremely powerful offensive means.
However.
For older ninja, simply regressing one or two years, or even four or five years, did not have a significant effect. The maximum limit of the temporal power stored in the Illusionary Clock was to turn back time by about thirty years.
If used on Hiruzen Sarutobi, it would instead restore him to his prime, which wasn't very useful. And using up all the stored power at once would also mean that Feng Ye's other temporal abilities would be limited in the short term.
But this time, he did, because this ability to turn back time was the perfect counter to Uchiha Madara, and he didn't even need to regress very far back.
"What is this...?"
As Madara Uchiha was pushed back by Feng Ye's palm on his chest, he immediately felt the massively depleted Six Paths power within him recover in a bizarre manner.
Even the power of his Rinnegan eyes returned to their peak state in an instant.
But.
He did not show any signs of joy, because the change was still ongoing, and his body continued to revert to an even earlier time, cracks appearing on his skin.
This was the state of Edo Tensei! Could he become the jinchuriki of the Ten-Tails in this state? The answer was, of course, no. The Ten-Tails within him burst out like a chick breaking free of its shell and flew out of his splitting body, crashing to the ground below.
As the Ten-Tails detached from his body, Madara's aura quickly weakened.
Pap! Feng Ye approached Madara again, gripped his neck, and lifted him up, channeling the Six Paths power into Madara's body to completely suppress him in his reanimated state.
"You... what did you... do..."
Madara stared at Feng Ye, his eyes filled with disbelief.
A suspicion had already formed in his mind.
That ability to restore his body to its pristine state, even restoring his eye powers and chakra to their full potential—this ability to reverse time!
"Haven't you already guessed?"
Feng Ye looked at Madara and spoke calmly, then reached out his left hand toward Madara's eyes and gently plucked out the Rinnegan.
As the Rinnegan was removed, Madara being in the Edo Tensei state, the eye shards immediately began to gather in his eye sockets, attempting to form a pair of false Rinnegan.
But.
In Feng Ye's palm, the Six Paths power transformed into a Seeking Path Orb, piercing through Madara's skull and completely shattering his entire body.
"Did... I lose...?"
In the last moment before his consciousness faded, Madara's mind was filled with bewilderment. He had never imagined that he would lose, much less that he would lose everything after obtaining the power of the Sage of Six Paths.
This bewildered thought finally faded into nothingness.
Along with his consciousness, he fell into eternal darkness.
Feng Ye released his right hand.
The powdery shards slipped out of his hand and flew away, vanishing into the air.
He looked at the Rinnegan in his left hand, sensed the power within, and then calmly pressed the eyes against his own eye sockets.
The Rinnegan came into contact with his Transmigration Eyes, and the Rinnegan quickly withered, the power within flowing into Feng Ye's Transmigration Eyes before finally turning to dust and disappearing.
Below.
There was silence.
Minato Namikaze, the First and Fourth Raikage, and the others were all stunned, unable to process what they had just witnessed.
Even the surviving Cloud Hidden Village ninjas stared blankly, their minds blank.
What...
Just happened?
(End of Chapter)
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