Naruto: I'm in Konoha, my name is Uzumaki Menma

Chapter 182 Breakthrough! Great Spiral Wheel!

The artificial sun, suspended high in the center of the moon's inner dome, emits constant light and heat, but its core is not lava, but a strange space constructed of pure energy.

Deep within the magnificent castle floating in the air, countless servant puppets stand on both sides of the corridor.

Inside a hall, the decaying Ōtsutsuki Sakuto is guiding the young Toneri to sense the stellar power of the giant Tenseigan and teaching him how to use it.

Suddenly, on the star map floating in the center of the hall, the node representing the entrance to the passage, the "Cancer Puppet," dimmed abruptly, turning into a deathly gray-white.

The Shuo Ren, his face wrapped in rune bandages, turned to the star map, a chilling rage silently spreading through him.

"You filthy scoundrels... how dare you desecrate the sacred ground of Hamura's ancestors!" The hoarse voice was like the rubbing of withered leaves.

Om-!
The piercing alarm instantly shattered the castle's silence!
Beneath the castle, countless hidden hatches opened simultaneously!

Hundreds of combat puppets leaped out in unison!
They were dressed in simple brown robes, their faces were tightly wrapped in layers of bandages, and a cloth band was tied around their foreheads, with the distinctive clan emblem of the Otsutsuki branch family prominently displayed among them.

These combat puppets moved with precision and speed, like wound-up killing machines, landing steadily on the backs of the giant puppet eagles that had been hovering and waiting.

These puppet eagles had dark red masks covering their heads, and their huge wings suddenly spread out, stirring up a silent gust of air!

Phew——!
The combination of hundreds of puppet eagles and combat puppets, like a rain of black arrows released from a bow, swooped down fiercely towards the exit of the barrier of the artificial sun below!
Meanwhile, in the vast sky below the artificial sun.

Mianma's figure floated in the void, his black robe fluttering in the slight gravity. The levitation power brought by the Nine-Faced Beast Jade Celestial Maiden allowed him to fly freely without the aid of external forces.

Behind them, two enormous spirit beasts exuded immense pressure.

On the left, Suzaku gracefully spread his wings, with Uchiha Hikaru and Uzumaki Kaoru standing on his back. Hikaru's deep blue clan robes fluttered in the wind, and Kaoru's red hair was like fire.

On the right, the Azure Dragon meandered and coiled, with Uchiha Shisui, Hyuga Hizashi, and Kaguya Kimimaro standing steadily on its spine.

Shisui looked solemn, Hizashi's Byakugan scanned the dome warily, and Kimimaro's Byakugan also observed the sun in the sky.

The team is heading towards the "sun" in the center of the dome!
"Above! Enemy attack!" Hizashi's Byakugan was the first to detect the disturbance, and he shouted a warning, his voice sounding muffled and suppressed in the vacuum of space.

Before the words were even finished, pale yellow specks of light were already approaching like a meteor shower!

The puppet eagle knights raised their arms in unison, and their palms instantly burst forth with dazzling light!

call out!call out!call out!call out!
Dense orbs of chakra ripped through the sky, weaving together into a deadly net of light that covered the heavens, pouring down on the team!

"Scatter! Counterattack!" Mianma's voice remained calm, yet it was crystal clear to everyone.

The Azure Dragon roared, its body crackling with lightning, transforming into a winding azure bolt of lightning that narrowly avoided several thick energy beams. The lightning collided with the passing spheres of light, exploding into silent sparks.

With a sudden flap of its crimson wings, the Vermilion Bird unleashed a violent heatwave that formed a shield, detonating several incoming orbs of light prematurely and transforming them into dazzling yet dangerous energy fireworks!
On Suzaku's back, Uchiha Hikaru's eyes were sharp as knives.

His hands formed hand seals so fast they were just afterimages: "Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Claw Red!"

With her cherry lips slightly parted, dozens of blazing orange-red fireballs, like wildly blooming flowers of death, roared towards the swooping horde of puppets!

In the instant the flames erupted, she flicked her wrist, and a dozen steel shurikens shot out, precisely concealing themselves behind the churning waves of fire!

*Pfft!* *Boom!*

Flames and shurikens create a symphony of death!

Several puppet eagles charging at the forefront were precisely pierced by shuriken wrapped in flames, which then engulfed them and exploded into fragments in mid-air!
The puppet knight on his back, along with his mount, turned into scrap.

"Corpse Bone Vein·Ten-finger piercing bullet!"

Kaguya Kimimaro raised her arms out to the sides, and the skin on her fingertips instantly cracked. Ten pale finger bones, gleaming with a cold, eerie light, shot out like a powerful crossbow bolt, accompanied by a piercing shriek!

The bone bullets were moving faster than the limits of visual perception, leaving ten nearly straight white afterimages in the air!

Puff puff puff!

Precise point-kill!

The dense, explosive sounds of impacts rang out like popping beans!

The puppet eagle hit by the bone bullet, whether it was its tough skeleton or the "flesh" covering it, was easily pierced and torn apart like rotten wood!
More than a dozen puppet eagles, along with their controllers, were destroyed by Kimimaro's precise and ruthless attacks, turning into countless fragments and debris!
Menma glanced at Kimimaro's actions with satisfaction. With the Byakugan combined with the Shikotsumyaku, he could even carry out high-precision sniping at mid-to-long range.

"King Kong Blockade!"

Vanilla Uzumaki's voice resonated with the unique chakra of the Uzumaki clan.

She raised her right hand and thrust it forward with a jolt!

Several chakra chains, each as thick as an adult's arm and covered with golden sealing runes, materialized behind her.

The chains did not attack a single target, but rather lashed out like a giant whip at the densest flank of the puppet eagle flock!

boom!
Crack!
The immense power, imbued with the characteristics of sealing techniques, caused the puppet eagle's sturdy skeleton to snap and twist like rotten wood wherever it passed. The dark material covering it was easily torn apart, and the puppet on its back was directly whipped apart by the immense force contained in the chains!
With a single blow, more than ten puppet eagles, along with their puppets, were reduced to dust!
The team rapidly ascended during the fierce counterattack, quickly approaching the outer wall of the artificial sun that radiated powerful energy fluctuations.

However, the puppet army showed no fear, instantly changing its formation like a well-trained swarm of bees, and once again attacked fearlessly.

More chakra orbs poured down like a torrential rain, completely enveloping Suzaku and Seiryu!
"Lord Shura! How do we break through?!" Shisui attacked the artificial sun with Fire Release ninjutsu but found its defense to be astonishing, leaving him with no way to attack.

The faceless figure, standing in the void, did not answer.

He simply raised his right hand slowly.

Above his palm, the air suddenly twisted and collapsed!
A terrifyingly destructive energy is rapidly converging and compressing!
In the blink of an eye, a pitch-black energy sphere, no bigger than an apple and as deep as an abyss, condensed and took shape!

It floated silently in Shura's palm, its surface wrapped in rapidly spinning wind chakra, cutting through the surrounding space and creating tiny spatial ripples.

The extreme compression brought about an extreme stillness, as if it had swallowed up even the surrounding light!
"Great Spiral Wheel!" Mianma's voice was calm and undisturbed.

There were no earth-shattering signs, just a gentle flick of the wrist.

The tiny, jet-black ball drifted silently toward the impregnable solar barrier.

A fleeting moment of contact!
boom! ! ! ! ! !

An indescribable light of destruction erupted on the surface of the artificial sun!

First, it was an extremely white dot, which instantly expanded into a pure white that devoured everything! The intensity of that white light instantly robbed everyone of their sight!
What followed was a terrifyingly loud bang that could tear eardrums apart, as if the entire lunar space was screaming in agony from this blow!
The blinding light instantly engulfed everyone's vision!
boom! boom! boom!
The devastating shockwave, centered on the sphere of light, spread wildly in all directions in a perfect sphere!
Wherever it passed, space trembled violently, groaning as if it could not bear the weight!

The puppet eagles that tried to pursue were like pieces of paper thrown into a shredder. The moment the shockwave arrived, they were silently decomposed, vaporized, and completely disappeared, along with the puppets on their backs!

Even through the protection of the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird, Shisui, Hizashi, Kimimaro, and the others were so shocked by this earth-shattering power that their hearts trembled violently!
Vanilla instinctively gripped Suzaku's feathers, and Hikaru's Sharingan squinted slightly due to the bright light.

As the blindingly bright light dimmed slightly, an apocalyptic scene unfolded before everyone's eyes.

On the seemingly indestructible pale yellow barrier of the artificial sun, a huge hole with a diameter of over 100 meters was blasted open!

Soft golden light shone through the hole.

Even more terrifying, the turbulence created by the explosion vaguely outlined a slowly rising mushroom cloud in the air, composed of dust and dissipated energy!

For the first time, undisguised astonishment appeared on Uchiha Hikaru's usually cold face, and the destructive light was reflected in his Mangekyou Sharingan.

He didn't use this move when he fought Menma last time.

'Damn it, this guy... he didn't even go all out against me!' Uchiha Hikaru looked at Menma with a hint of resentment.

"Go!" The cold voice of the masked man broke the silence, and his figure turned into a black line, shooting into the hideous wound first!

Suzaku, carrying Uchiha Hikaru and Vanilla, rushed in right behind!

The Azure Dragon, carrying Shisui, Hizashi, and Kimimaro, plunged headlong into the passage that had been violently torn open!

After passing through the brief golden passage, the scene before us brought an even deeper sense of awe!
The interior of the artificial sun is not the molten lava sea of ​​fire that was expected.

Before me lay a vast, boundless void.

The space was a deep, dark blue, with countless tiny, luminous dust particles suspended like stars.

In the center of this void, the most striking thing is a huge, crescent moon!

Above the waning moon, further away from everyone, a majestic castle with an exotic atmosphere floated silently!

It is constructed entirely of massive, neatly cut gray-white boulders, with cold and sharp lines, towering spires that pierce the void, and huge arched windows that are tightly closed. Its style is unlike any other building in the ninja world, carrying an ancient and aloof European style.

Countless meteorite fragments of varying sizes, like loyal guards, surround the crescent moon and the solitary castle, forming a huge, slowly rotating meteorite belt.

The meteorite belt, like a star ring, silently protects the core of this space.

“That is…” Whirlpool Vanilla murmured softly, her pupils reflecting the cold, lonely castle.

"The castle of the Otsutsuki clan on the moon." Menma's voice came through the mask, cold and certain.

The team immediately changed direction, and Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird accelerated again, charging towards the castle!

However, as soon as they entered the meteorite belt, a sudden change occurred!
hum!hum!hum!
Countless blinding beams of light instantly shone from the back of those seemingly lifeless meteorites, locking onto the intruders!
Immediately afterwards, the surface of the meteorite cracked open, and rows of menacing-looking quadruple anti-aircraft gun emplacements quickly rose and were calibrated!
The combat puppets manipulated these anti-aircraft cannons, and the dark muzzles instantly gathered a terrifyingly bright chakra light!

laugh! laugh! laugh! laugh!
A barrage of firepower, ten times more intense than that of the puppet eagle knights, suddenly erupted!
Dense and incredibly powerful chakra orbs, like a metallic storm, shot in from all directions, up, down, left, and right, leaving no blind spots!

It sealed off all space for dodging! The scorching trail left by the light sphere tearing through the void intertwined into a net that stretched from heaven to earth!
"Breakthrough!" Mianma shouted in a low voice, his body surging with dark red chakra.

But a crimson figure was faster than him!

Uchiha Hikaru, standing on the back of Suzaku, had his deep blue clan robes fluttering wildly in the torrent.

Her three-tomoe Sharingan eyes instantly transformed into eerie kaleidoscope patterns!
"Hmph! You're in the way!" A cold, murderous shout rang out.

Without the slightest hesitation, she took a step forward and leaped away from the Vermilion Bird!

"Light!" Vanilla's exclamation was drowned out by the silent explosion.

The instant the light detached from Suzaku, a torrent of crimson chakra powerful enough to shake space erupted from her petite body!
A surge of chakra, as if it were tangible, shot into the sky and instantly coalesced into the outline of a massive, half-skeleton-like red giant!
But this is just the beginning!
The skeleton was quickly enveloped, filled, and shaped by the flowing red chakra!
In the blink of an eye, a fully formed red giant, tens of meters tall, stood proudly in the void!
Behind the giant, a pair of enormous wings made of pure chakra suddenly spread open!

Like a fire demon god in mythology who wields destruction descending to the mortal realm!

In the giant's hand, a massive katana formed from dark red chakra gleamed with a cold light that could cleave stars!
"Susanoh!"

The giant's enormous body moved with terrifying speed completely disproportionate to its size, transforming into a red lightning bolt that tore through the void, charging headlong into the oncoming beam of light and the dense meteorite belt!

The crimson giant spread its wings and tore a gap in the dense rain of light bullets!
Facing the artillery positions on the meteorite ahead, which were spewing flames, the giant raised the colossal blade in his hand high, and with the supreme power to sever cause and effect and annihilate all things, he slashed down fiercely!
"Give it to me...break it!"

Uchiha Hikaru's cold voice, like a judgment, resounded through the void via Susanoo.

The massive chakra katana was raised high, its blade emitting a blinding red light!

Cut it down with one knife!

There are no fancy techniques, only pure, extreme violence!

Rumble——! ! !
The enormous dark red blade of light, like a giant axe splitting the heavens and earth, slashed fiercely at the dense beam of light and the meteorites blocking its path!

Wherever the blade passed, dozens of tracking beams were easily severed and annihilated like fragile threads! Those incredibly hard meteorites were neatly sliced ​​and pulverized like tofu the moment they came into contact with the blade!
Boom boom boom boom!
A series of deafening explosions echoed through the asteroid belt! The asteroids struck, along with the anti-aircraft gun emplacements mounted on them, were completely reduced to dust in the violent sword energy and chakra storm!

Countless shattered rocks and metal debris shot out in all directions like a storm!
The massive meteorite, along with the numerous anti-aircraft gun emplacements and crystal bunkers on it, was like rotten wood and withered grass in the face of absolute power!

In an instant, it was torn apart, shattered, and turned into dust!
The silent explosions transformed into clusters of energy fireballs that expanded violently in the void, dazzling yet deadly!
This crimson Susanoo transformed into the most indestructible spearhead, forcibly paving a path of blood and fire for the team!
Each swing of the giant blade was accompanied by the mournful cry of meteorites and the complete annihilation of the puppet turrets!

The group followed closely behind the crimson giant, speeding through the flashes of explosions and torrents of metal fragments, constantly approaching the pale castle that floated in the void and exuded a chilling aura.

Uchiha Shisui looked at the Susanoo with a complicated expression. He could sense that Uchiha Hikaru's strength seemed to have improved even further, while he...

Hyuga Hizashi, standing on the back of the Azure Dragon, kept his Byakugan active the entire time, staring intently at the magnificent castle that was getting closer and closer.

Beneath the bulging veins on his forehead, his pure white pupils held not only a highly vigilant solemnity, but also an extremely complex and indescribable emotion.

He rolled his eyes and saw through the puppets, only to be horrified to discover that these humanoid puppets seemed to have once been living people!

Is this the aftermath of the war between the Otsutsuki main family and branch family on the moon?

(End of this chapter)