Konoha's Mission Master

A dozen seconds later, Kushina Uzumaki exposed Yakumo's plan once again. Although she was rather blind in matters of the heart and rather oblivious most of the time, it did not mean that she was not smart!

"You're still lying to me!" Kushina Uzumaki said coldly, then cut off Yakumo's idea of ​​continuing the plan with her words.

"Only by killing me will the key appear."

Yakumo can use tactics like empathy, consideration for you, and unwavering support to turn a love-struck person into a friend, but she can't persuade a love-struck person to willingly sacrifice their life.

Ding.

As the claws clashed with the blade, Yakumo gripped the hilt with his left hand, switching to a two-handed grip.

"Finally getting serious?" Kushina Uzumaki said, then pounced on Yakumo like a tiger, using her claws, long tail, and all the killing weapons on her body at the same time.

"Breaking Army Mode".

"Ultimate Skill - Extinction of all life force".

"Mark of Prayer, open!"

Yakumo unleashed a circular blade aura, temporarily countering Kushina Uzumaki's attack. At this moment, he exuded a majestic and awe-inspiring presence, but the gradually forming crimson armor on his body added a touch of madness and chilling evil. A contradictory aura emanated from Yakumo at this moment.

He was like an angel, yet also like a devil; like a savior, yet also like a plunderer.

The contradictory aura caused Kushina Uzumaki to be momentarily surprised. It was an aura that she was extremely familiar with. Then, an even more terrifying wave of ethereal energy spread out, and her combat level instantly increased.

Yakumo couldn't understand why Kushina Uzumaki had suddenly become so crazy.

The sound of blades clashing with claws echoed through the heavens.

However, a cunning glint flashed in Kushina's eyes. With a burst of power from her legs, her body danced gracefully like a sheet of paper. Her sharp claws, accompanied by a whistling sound, reached for Yakumo's shoulder, carrying a force like a raging torrent.

Yakumo leaped lightly, retreating once more to evade Kushina Uzumaki's attack, just as the intelligence indicated... the enemy was more adept at close combat.

Immediately, Yakumo gripped the hilt of the sword, and the energy within his body rapidly circulated and gathered on the blade.

With a series of swift, powerful strikes, the sword perfectly blocked the enemy's three attacks. The strikes appeared precise and efficient, without wasting any energy. The golden sword marks in the air slowly dissipated.

After her attack was blocked, Kushina Uzumaki was not discouraged. Instead, she immediately organized a new attack. Her tail suddenly lashed out, and she pounced on Yakumo again like a hungry tiger.

Yakumo took a step forward, closing the distance between them, and now faced Kushina Uzumaki head-on. The two clashed fiercely, with Kushina's claws and tail possessing immense power, seemingly about to smash Yakumo's entire body.

“This won’t do.” Yakumo knew he needed to break the current deadlock.

Even now, he still has several trump cards up his sleeve, such as the Arena Core that constantly releases golden energy from his heart, the Glory Sword Box that can be summoned and used at any time, and the Wood Release ninjutsu at the Dao level.

These trump cards are what give him the confidence to challenge the final boss.

Now facing the combination of Kushina and the Ten-Tails, Yakumo must consider revealing some of his trump cards.

Or...and those props.

The thought process in his mind lasted less than half a second before Yakumo made a judgment.

With Wood Release and Glory Sword Box, he's about to reveal two trump cards.

An ancient box appeared on Yakumo's back, and the sound of its mechanism turning rang out. Fuma trembled slightly in his hand as if it were yearning for something. Yakumo seized the opportunity to distance himself from Kushina Uzumaki, and then thrust Fuma into the Glory Sword Box with a backhand.

The next second, the sunlight disappeared, and the surroundings were plunged into complete darkness.

The world was dark except for a beam of light about a meter long that shone on the surface of the sword case. The Glory Sword Case emitted a blinding white light, as if in response to the beam of light.

Yakumo sensed a longing emanating from the sword case; the treasure of the former Sword Saint was also anticipating the great battle that was about to erupt.

In an instant, the Demon-Subduing Blade sprang out of its sheath, its blade ablaze with pure white flames.

At the same time, Yakumo created a wood clone to support the group in the distance.

“At least during the battle, I risked everything,” Yakumo whispered in the sky.

No matter what, Yakumo will eventually defeat the enemy before him, even if it costs him everything.

The clang of metal rang out.

Using golden flames as a medium, black and white energies are clearly mixed together. Three terrifying energies are wrapped around the Yakumo Blade, and these three energies are intertwining and dancing like musical notes.

In an instant, Yakumo arrived in front of Kushina Uzumaki, his three-colored blade slashing down!

Swish! !

A flash of light.

Kushina's hard claws were severed, and her tough exoskeleton could no longer stop Yakumo's blade. Yakumo continued his attack, swinging his sword a thousand times in a single second.

Immediately afterwards, a series of blood-red figures flashed by. It seemed that Kushina Uzumaki had the ability to create clones. Countless afterimages lingered in the air for a long time, and the blood-red light and the three-colored sword light fought continuously.

The deafening roar spread, and the Fire Shadow Rock began to crumble inch by inch, directly evaporated into nothingness by the shockwave. At the point where the two were fighting, everything else was excluded, forming an absolute void.

In the distance, the three tried their best to keep the Ten-Tails away from the battlefield between the two, reducing the mutual influence between the two sides.

Yukotsu Chiyuki took on the role of main attacker and damage absorber, while her Wood Release clones began to suppress the Ten-Tails. However, Wood Release conflicted with Mori Masako's fighting style, so at this time she could only use her Susanoo, which was about six meters long, to fight the Ten-Tails hand-to-hand.

Reiko Aoyama manipulated the airflow to assist the three, increasing their movement speed and attack power.

The Heavenly Emperor's Lament and the Void Emperor's Ring can be used in combination in terms of attack methods, with the wind assisting the fire power to increase Mori Masako's output power, but they are mutually restrained by Yakumo's Wood Release, so they can only be restrained.

With everyone working together, they have now suppressed the Ten-Tails. Colorful plants are growing outward from the cracked and broken earth, adding a little bit of life to the land. However, this life that lasts for a short time is quickly vanished in the aftermath of the battle.

The world was shrouded in darkness, and all life was extinguished.

Elsewhere, Kushina Uzumaki split into countless phantoms, attacking from all directions, but Yakumo, at full power, was striking with a speed of a thousand blows per second.

Countless phantoms vanished into nothingness beneath the blade.

The three mixed energies were incredibly domineering, and combined with the incredibly precise slash, Kushina Uzumaki was struck by Yakumo again. Feeling the excruciating pain emanating from both her soul and body, Kushina Uzumaki became even angrier, especially as she sensed an almost identical yet unfamiliar aura emanating from Yakumo.

"Traitor, die!" Kushina Uzumaki understood that some of the energy that once belonged to that person had been marked with someone else's mark, and this behavior... was utter betrayal in her eyes!

"Die! Die! Die!!!" Kushina shrieked, her claws clenching tightly. The scattered crimson mist gathered in front of her, eventually forming a double-edged sword about a meter long.

The blood-red light clashed with the three-colored energy, and the two separated instantly, facing each other dozens of meters apart.

Through their exchange, Yakumo discovered that Kushina Uzumaki possessed extremely high-level swordsmanship, and her foundation was also very solid, as if she had spent tens of thousands of years studying and learning, developing her own unique system.

The two men's eyes were solemn, the atmosphere became tense, and the sound of swords clashing was silent, as if a thousand troops were about to be unleashed.

The clouds high in the sky intertwine and entwine to form a pattern resembling a sheep.

"Ugh."

Yakumo gazed at the completely mutated enemy before him and let out a sigh.

A duel between sword masters is, in general, a contest of wisdom and skill, as well as strength and will. After a brief exchange, Yakumo had largely figured out Kushina Uzumaki's swordsmanship.

Her swordsmanship was imbued with the influence of others, possessing an unparalleled domineering and transcendent quality.

But that was someone else's swordsmanship after all. Even if he tried his best to learn it, he still couldn't master it. That's why Yakumo came up with a way to defeat Kushina Uzumaki.

"Star Slash." Kushina Uzumaki spoke softly, the crimson energy on the blade continuously compressing to form a pure sword light. The power of each move was extremely condensed, as if it could cut through everything.

Each time they clashed, Yakumo could feel an incredibly heavy force surging into his body along the Demon-Subduing Blade, causing vibrations and even damage to his internal organs.

This is the characteristic of Star Slayer: it is not only condensed but also possesses powerful penetrating force.

Yakumo also possesses similar swordsmanship, but unfortunately... Kushina Uzumaki's entire body is constructed from ethereal energy, so her internal organs are no longer a weakness. The only way to kill her is to completely obliterate her.

The terrifying aspect of the Void is its immunity to weaknesses, making it virtually immortal at a lower level.

It can also replenish itself by absorbing other energies. It may be weak in attack, but it is extremely difficult to erase. Only by severing its connection with the outside world and completely obliterating the ethereal energy with countless slashes can Kushina Uzumaki be defeated.

Before completely defeating the enemy, Yakumo needs to deplete Kushina Uzumaki's fighting spirit and weaken it as much as possible before triggering Kushina Uzumaki's kill threshold.

Elsewhere, the Ten-Tails' appearance changed, transforming into a giant about twenty meters tall. Its arms, each over ten meters long, seemed to disrupt the overall harmony, and then a dark, blood-red sphere continuously gathered in its hands.

"Hollowfication: Tailed Beast Ball".

You Gu Qianxue rushed forward to meet the attack, but was pierced by bone spikes growing from the ground. Before the blood could flow, it was absorbed by the bone spikes, and the skin around the wound turned pale.

Bloodstains appeared, and the aura of death immediately enveloped the area, eroding the bone spurs into ashes.

His steps did not falter at all, and the enormous phantom of the Grim Reaper behind him swung his giant axe, crashing down with an aura that seemed to split the heavens and the earth.

boom!!

The phantom of the Grim Reaper was almost tangible. The Ten-Tails raised its arm to resist, while hundreds of blood-red hands grew from its back, grabbing at the ever-approaching Yukotsu Chiyuki.

Yakumo's wood clone naturally wouldn't just stand by and watch. Blood-red tree roots climbed up the Ten-Tails' body, and the same kind of ethereal energy was injected into it. The two began to devour each other, diverting most of the Ten-Tails' attention.

At the same moment, Yukotsu Chiyuki transformed into a gray straight line, pointing towards the Rinnegan between the eyebrows of the Ten-Tails.

"Death God - Gyokusai!"

The Nile's Sorrow struck the Rinnegan between the Ten-Tails' foreheads, and with a sudden burst of power, shattered it.

Before Yougu Qianxue could even feel happy, her shattered Rinnegan had already healed rapidly. The Ten-Tails raised its head and roared angrily, without even being able to sense the process of gathering power. A terrifying repulsive force erupted from its eye, like an invisible air cannon piercing through Yougu Qianxue's chest.

In less than a second, the potentially fatal wounds on You Gu Qianxue's body had healed.

When he is in Death's Protection mode, he is immune to all death.

The price is a long period of slumber to recover from the damage sustained in battle, so in a sense, Yougu Qianxue is also a trump card.

"Prepare to retreat," Yakumo's wooden clone whispered to the group.

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately moved away from the battlefield.

The Ten-Tails broke free from the Wood Release's restraints, grabbed a boulder about two meters in diameter, and hurled it forcefully at Yakumo's main body in the distance. The two began to encircle Yakumo.

Hundreds of pale bone spikes split off from the Ten-Tails' body and flew toward Yakumo.

At the same time, the boulder flew towards Yakumo like a cannonball, and was shattered by the blade the instant it approached his body. The fragments fell in all directions like hailstones.

With a flash of blood, Yakumo appeared on the shoulder of the Ten-Tails, with its enormous head to her right. Yakumo could sense the terrifying energy contained within the Ten-Tails.

This energy even surpassed that of Kushina Uzumaki in quantity.

But the Ten-Tails had no idea how to use it.

"Compression, mixing."

Yakumo manipulated the three energies to converge on the blade as much as possible, and then Fumo slashed horizontally, unleashing a huge blade aura about ten meters long, which completed the decapitation with almost no resistance.

The Ten-Tails' aura showed no signs of waning. It caught the fallen head with its hand, pressed it against its chest, and began to merge with it. At the same time, a blood-red bulge on its neck began to grow rapidly.

The other three have already traveled more than a hundred miles away, which is a sufficient distance.

Swish swish!

Countless explosive tags were affixed to the surface of the Ten-Tails, numbering approximately tens of billions.