I'm in Konoha, and I started with Ashura Chakra.

Chapter 191 Madara Uchiha's Defeat, A New Level

Sizzle sizzle sizzle

As his feet were pulled off the wooden Arhat's head, a dazzling blue aura suddenly erupted from Liu Sheng's body.

Then the materialized chakra immediately transformed into the sound of a thousand birds chirping and the convergence of electric currents.

In a flash, Yagyu transformed into a bolt of lightning and shot into the sky.

As the lightning rapidly enlarged in his vision, the complete Susanoo simply flapped its wings, and its massive body immediately flew hundreds of meters to the side.

Faced with Yagyu's strange attack, Madara Uchiha, though unaware of his intentions, deliberately prevented Yagyu from succeeding and did not use his Complete Body Susanoo to attack him.

However, after the lightning bolt shot into the sky and reached the location where the Complete Susanoo had been, it did not continue to rise. Instead, it paused in the air for a fraction of a second before shooting towards the Complete Susanoo again.

Since the tail flames had not yet disappeared, from God's perspective, Yagyu, who had turned into blue lightning, drew a right angle in the air.

However, in Madara Uchiha's eyes, Yagyu instantly dissipated the force that had propelled him into the sky, hovering in the air.

Then, using unknown means as a propulsion or pedal, the speed was increased from zero to one hundred again.

"Light and Heavy Rock Technique? Or a physical-based flight ability?"

Madara Uchiha muttered to himself with a slight frown, while simultaneously raising his hand to release a repulsive storm.

He did not control the complete Susanoo to release a massive repulsive storm, since that required a certain amount of time to charge up and would not be very effective against someone as fast as Yagyu.

However, when Madara Uchiha unleashed his repulsive storm, his pupils suddenly contracted.

Liu Sheng's figure had already disappeared from sight.

Boom! — Click!

Before Madara Uchiha could release his senses to detect Yagyu's chakra, a loud bang, like thunder, suddenly reached his ears.

At the same time, the massive, mountain-like Susanoo also leaned forward.

As Madara Uchiha looked behind him in the direction the sound came from, a figure had already shattered the back of the Complete Body Susanoo's head and rushed towards him.

Madara Uchiha stared in shock at the lightning-streaked Yagyu, instinctively using Yin-Yang Release to condense a sharp black rod in his hand.

At that moment, Liu Sheng's fist was already at its largest size in front of his eyes.

Madara Uchiha dodged the incredibly powerful punch with a sidestep. It wasn't just a burst of Senju clan chakra; it also contained natural abilities and lightning nature transformation. If it landed on the ground, it would surely cause a cataclysmic earthquake.

At the same time, he prepared to stab Yagyu with the black stick in his hand.

With a loud bang, Madara Uchiha's movements suddenly stopped.

To be precise, his body was in a state of rigidity.

Suddenly, half of his upper body exploded, turning into white dust that filled the sky.

He was just a hair's breadth away from having his head blown off.

With only half of his head remaining, Madara Uchiha's eyes were filled with confusion.

It was also an instinctive reaction born from extensive combat experience that allowed Madara Uchiha to suppress his doubts and immediately deactivate his Complete Susanoo, causing his body to plummet to the ground.

With a whoosh, Madara Uchiha raised his hand and unleashed a repulsive storm with all his might as he watched Yagyu shoot down alongside him.

A dazzling white light burst forth in the night sky, and from a distance, Madara Uchiha looked like a shining star.

Above this star, there is a flash of lightning, but from a distance it looks like a blue shooting star chasing after it.

However, the meteor stopped very quickly, and the blue light disappeared.

While blocking Madara Uchiha's repulsive storm, Yagyu grabbed his right wrist with his left hand, while his right palm faced Madara from a distance, with a black "座" (seat) character appearing on his palm.

"Kuo'an enters with hands hanging down!"

Countless branches immediately shot into the sky, and instead of snakes emerging from their cages, they intertwined to form a huge tree net, attempting to trap Uchiha Madara from below.

Moreover, vines are growing from the holes in this tree net at a visible speed, making up for the defect that people can escape through the holes.

Once trapped in this tree net, not only will your chakra be rapidly drained to strengthen the net, but you will also be instantly sealed. At best, you will lose control of your body; at worst, your consciousness will be plunged into darkness, resulting in immediate defeat.

Furthermore, Wood Release is a physical attack and one of the few ninjutsu that the Rinnegan cannot absorb. Madara Uchiha could not absorb it with the Preta Path as he did with Dust Release and the combined ninjutsu of the Five Elements.

Madara Uchiha seemed to realize this as well. Even though Shinra Tensei was already on cooldown, he calmly clapped his hands together, condensing a black sphere and throwing it into the sky. At the same time, his body surged with a dazzling blue light, and the massive Perfect Susanoo reappeared in the night sky.

The Earth-Exploding Star, like a black hole, released an astonishing gravitational force, forming a domain that restricted Yagyu's mobility, preventing him from moving as he had before.

At the same time, the complete Susanoo opened its arms, condensing two samurai swords, and unleashed a series of flying slashes, cutting through the surrounding net of trees. Then, it flapped its wings, preparing to escape from the place.

"What?!"

The next second, Madara Uchiha's expression changed.

The severed tree netting suddenly transformed its branches into wooden dragons, roaring in from all directions.

It bound the upper and lower body of the complete Susanoo like a rope.

Whether it was their feet, hands, or wings, they were all bound by the wooden dragon, and for a moment they lost their ability to move and fly, falling to the ground like a blue meteorite.

Moreover, during the fall, the size of the complete Susanoo continued to shrink at a visible rate.

At this rate of shrinkage, by the time the complete Susanoo lands on the ground, it probably won't even be as big as the third form of the complete Susanoo.

More importantly, this time it wasn't that Madara Uchiha automatically deactivated the Complete Body Susanoo, but rather that the Wood Dragon's absorption ability was too strong, so strong that even Madara Uchiha, who possessed unlimited chakra, couldn't supply it in time.

The sight of tree branches instantly transforming into wooden dragons caught Madara Uchiha completely off guard, as he had never seen Hashirama Senju use such a technique and did not believe that Hashirama Senju could achieve such a feat.

Otherwise, in the final battle at the Valley of the End, Hashirama Senju wouldn't have needed to use Sage Art: Wood Release: True Elemental Hands. That combination technique would have easily defeated his complete Susanoo and Kurama.

Just as Madara Uchiha was about to release his Complete Susanoo to break free from the dragons' restraints...

A deafening roar nearly deafened even his resurrected body.

However, the dazzling white light that shone down, turning the night into a pure white world in an instant, still made Madara Uchiha subconsciously squint his eyes.

Looking up, one could see the Earth-Exploding Star, which was about to tear the earth apart and pull the remaining branches of the tree net into the sky, suddenly explode.

To be precise, it was blasted apart by a giant energy ball.

The dazzling white light is formed by the mixing of two energies.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—·

Hunka Mirei ·——

As Madara Uchiha looked up, several streams of chakra, much weaker than the dragons themselves, suddenly split off from the dragons and flashed with lightning as they hurtled toward the head of the Perfect Susanoo. Instantly, they shattered the head of the Perfect Susanoo, which possessed absolute defense, and were about to break through to attack Madara Uchiha.

Gazing at the few streaks of blue light in the pure white world, Madara Uchiha spread his arms and once again unleashed a repulsive storm from all directions.

The terrifying repulsive storm not only instantly shattered several wooden clones, but also caused numerous cracks to appear on the dragons that were hovering around the Complete Susanoo, which had absorbed the Complete Susanoo into a smaller version of the Tengu God of War but had not yet regressed to other forms.

If it weren't for absorbing the chakra of the complete Susanoo, which greatly increased its resilience, the dragons would probably have been instantly obliterated.

As you can see, a huge crater was blasted into the earth around the complete Susanoo in an instant, raising clouds of dust.

..three!

The terrifying repulsive storm even affected Yagyu in the sky.

While Yagyu is in the Light-Heavy Rock Technique state, he can fly, but it is not a true privilege of flight.

In this state, what they fear most is powerful wind-style attacks.

Faced with the soaring repulsive storm, Yagyu was like a leaf caught in a whirlwind, drifting aimlessly through the air.

However, his eyes were fixed on the dust and mist below, which was quite noticeable even in the darkness, as he counted numbers.

Sizzle sizzle...

As he counted, dazzling lightning once again covered his entire body, similar to the Third Raikage's Lightning Chakra Mode, but completely different. Instead, it was Yagyu who, based on stimulating cells with Lightning Release Chakra, fused with natural energy to develop an amplified state similar to Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

If Might Guy and Rock Lee were here, they would find that Yagyu's brain restrictions had been lifted, which was clearly the first gate of the Eight Gates - the Opening Gate.

Yagyu greatly coveted the Eight Gates Formation, but he never coveted the eighth gate.

Even though Yagyu possessed the resurrection coin from Yomijin, he had no intention of using the Eight Gates Formation.

After all, no one knew the side effects of the Eight Gates Formation better than him; it was a life-consuming technique that burned away all one's vital energy and potential.

Liu Sheng didn't know if his energy and blood would return to their peak after his resurrection, or if his potential would be affected.

But he was afraid of the unexpected, so he wasn't willing to take the gamble.

Moreover, while the Eight Gates Formation is indeed powerful, its ultimate power is only about the same as, or slightly better than, the Eighty Gods Void Strike at the Bloodline Limit.

However, Kaguya Otsutsuki in the original work did not unleash all eighty Gods Vacuum Attacks. If she had unleashed all eighty attacks, she might have been able to distort space.

If the complete Eighty Gods Void Strike can also distort space, then the Night Guy of the Eight Gates Formation can only barely threaten beings like Kaguya Otsutsuki and Hagoromo Otsutsuki, who are top-tier beings even at the Six Paths level.

The reason why Yagyu coveted the Eight Gates Formation was because he coveted its first gate.

As we all know, in a series of moves, the first and last moves are often the most unique.

Such as Rasengan and Rokudo Rasenshuriken.

The Eight Gates Formation is one of them.

The first gate of the Eight Gates Formation is called the Opening Gate. Its effect is to remove the limitations of the brain, so as to achieve the goal of exerting 100% of the body's ability, and to overload the body's energy to enhance attack and speed.

Humans are not perfect beings; even the strongest person cannot use their body to perform at 100% of its potential.

In full power mode, the value is basically fixed.

That's why some athletes in Yagyu's previous life were called "explosive talents" once they exceeded this fixed value.

Even in this world where superpowers exist, even the strongest cannot unleash 100% of their physical abilities, including Kage-level beings like Yagyu and Madara Uchiha.

As for the Six Paths level, Yagyu hasn't reached that stage yet, and he doesn't know for the time being whether that other-dimensional creature can unleash 100% of its physical abilities.

But the first gate of the Eight Gates Formation can achieve this level of skill.

More importantly, unlike the other seven gates, the first gate does not cause chakra to go berserk when it is opened, so even when in the first gate state, ninjutsu can still be used.

The only cost is the rapid depletion of the body's energy.

This cost is neither too high nor too low for others.

But for Yagyu, who possessed the body of an immortal, it was insignificant.

Without a doubt, the first gate of the Eight Gates is the most suitable ability for Yagyu.

After mastering the Sage Body, Yagyu had already combined the first gate of the Eight Gates, the cell stimulation from Lightning Release Chakra, and the amplification from Sage Mode, allowing his high-speed movement and flight speed to far exceed Lightning Release Chakra, second only to Might Guy's Eight Gates Formation, which is equivalent to a Six Paths level taijutsu.

Madara Uchiha's ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu were the strongest in terms of ninjutsu and genjutsu, but his taijutsu did not reach the level of the Kage, or even the level of the Five Kage.

so-.

When Yagyu counted to three, his figure suddenly disappeared without warning.

The repulsive storm had just subsided when a deafening roar resounded throughout the area.

The shockwave dispersed the dust and mist, revealing Uchiha Madara, whose upper body had been blasted apart and turned into dust.

Around him were large amounts of broken wood and a figure flashing with lightning.

If you look closely, you'll find those tiny pieces of wood that are inconspicuous in the darkness and could easily be overlooked.

One of the pieces has the character "柳" (willow) on it.

This is clearly the Flying Thunder God Technique!

Madara Uchiha has successfully fallen into Yagyu's trap and been tricked!

Madara Uchiha, whose upper body was blown apart, quickly regenerated.

However, before his body could repair itself up to his head, a large number of branches spread out and quickly bound him up like a dumpling.

Countless black runes spread out, announcing Madara Uchiha's defeat.

Almost the instant the rice dumpling was formed, a tri-colored light, visible only to Liu Sheng, suddenly flashed.

Upon seeing this light, Yagyu seemed to be transported back to the past, his expression momentarily stunned.

This is-.

A new level?!