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He recalled what Obito had said earlier.

Is blurring ineffective here?

This is a huge advantage for Kakashi.

The principle of etherealization is to move the physical entity into the Divine Might Space, leaving only a phantom image outside. However, since we are currently in the Divine Might Space, we naturally cannot perform etherealization again.

However, the reverse is possible—transferring oneself to reality to achieve a virtualization effect in the Kamui space.

However, Obito would never allow the masked man to succeed so easily, especially since he was facing Kakashi head-on here.

If the masked man attempts to use intangibility to escape, Obito will immediately reappear in reality and strike his true form.

Clearly, the masked man was well aware of this and had no choice but to temporarily abandon his idea of ​​becoming invisible.

In the blink of an eye, the two had already fought dozens of rounds, with neither able to gain the upper hand.

Their weapons clashed again. Kakashi, suppressing his breath, stared intently at the masked man and questioned him:

"You...are you Obito?"

Even he himself didn't understand why he had such doubts about the other party's identity.

Even though Obito had already died in the Battle of Kannabi Bridge in Konoha in 48.

Perhaps it was the words of the young Obito behind him that were causing the trouble, or perhaps it was because the masked man had denigrated the young Obito as an imposter.

Regardless, Kakashi had great doubts about the masked man's true identity, especially since the eye technique he used was exactly the same as that of a young Obito.

However, Kakashi's question seemed to have touched a nerve with the masked man.

His power suddenly erupted, defeating Kakashi in one fell swoop. The terrifying force sent Kakashi flying, and then a long black staff pierced Kakashi's chest like lightning, pinning him firmly to the ground.

Kakashi's eyes widened, and he instinctively grabbed the black rod in front of his chest.

"You're still a useless piece of trash, Kakashi."

The masked man's cold voice rang in my ears.

"You... really are Obito."

Kakashi weakly but stubbornly called out the other person's name.

You are not worthy to utter my name.

Although these words were a rebuke, they indirectly confirmed his identity.

The masked man approached Kakashi, gripped the black rod on Kakashi's chest, and slowly pressed it down, intending to end everything.

Just then, a powerful electric current suddenly erupted!

Kakashi vanished instantly, replaced by a surge of electricity.

It instantly swept across the masked man's entire body along his arm!

"Lightning Release Clone Technique?!"

By the time they realized it, it was too late.

The high-frequency current had already spread throughout his body, paralyzing the masked man and rendering him unable to move.

At that moment, a kunai was quietly pressed against his throat, and Kakashi's figure appeared mysteriously behind him.

"You lost, Obito. How does it feel to lose to a piece of trash?"

The masked man trembled uncontrollably, his body enveloped in electric current.

But his gaze remained stubborn, fixed intently on Kakashi.

"Sigh, come back with me, don't make any more mistakes."

Kakashi patiently and earnestly persuaded him.

The masked man, however, refused to surrender, his eyes gleaming with mockery.

Left with no other option, Kakashi could only knock him unconscious with a hand chop and intend to take him away by force.

Chapter 42 The Masked Man

"Well done, Kakashi."

Obito gave a thumbs up, his efforts of switching back and forth between reality and illusion, watching the masked man's ethereal transformation, were worthwhile.

Having lost his intangibility ability, the masked man's fighting power is greatly reduced. Relying solely on his combat experience to fight Kakashi, he will inevitably be at a disadvantage.

"Okay, let's go back..."

Kakashi was about to respond when he was suddenly struck hard on the head, as if hit by a heavy hammer!

The masked man had regained consciousness at some point, not only shaking off the paralysis but also taking the opportunity to attack the unsuspecting Kakashi!

With a single blow, Kakashi collapsed to the ground, his consciousness fading.

In his dazed state, a heart-wrenching pain shot through his eye sockets—his Sharingan had been brutally stolen by the masked boy!

"Ugh..." Kakashi covered his empty eye sockets and let out a painful groan.

The masked man did not stop, and delivered a powerful punch to Kakashi's chest. The astonishing force even caused the ground to crack like a spider web.

A loud bang! was followed by a dull thud!

Blood splattered everywhere, and Kakashi suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. Then everything went black, and he fainted.

Before he could fall to the ground, the masked man coldly kicked him dozens of meters away, sending him tumbling several times on the ground like a kite with a broken string before finally stopping.

Under the continuous heavy blows, Kakashi's life force was rapidly draining away.

Obito's gaze swept over Kakashi's body, and seeing that he still had a breath left, he immediately turned to the mysterious masked man.

"Izanagi?"

Obito narrowed his eyes. Clearly, the masked man couldn't have recovered so quickly on his own. The only explanation was that he had used that forbidden technique to transfer the damage.

"You do have some knowledge, but..."

The masked man smirked coldly, deftly prying open a corner of his mask with his fingers. With lightning speed, he removed the Sharingan from his blind left eye, replacing it with the Mangekyou Sharingan he had stolen from Kakashi.

He casually tossed the discarded Sharingan aside, then stomped on it hard, turning it into dust.

"It doesn't matter whether a dead person knows or not."

Obito easily caught the kunai on the ground with a flick of his wrist. "You seem quite confident you can keep me here?"

The masked man did not answer, but slowly approached; silence was the greatest contempt.

Obito Uchiha stared at him, his eyes calm, only his Sharingan slowly turning, as if holding a thousand unspoken words.

"Space-time extinction," Obito murmured.

As soon as he finished speaking, a strange wave surged from Dai Tu's body, and space seemed to be paused, everything froze, including the approaching masked man.

"Time-Space Annihilation" allows users to manipulate the boundaries of time, space, and reality, traversing the river of time.

In layman's terms, it means time has stopped.

This is the eye technique that Obito mastered after awakening the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, and its power is astonishing.

Once activated, everything around him, except for himself, will be forcibly frozen in time.

Although it's not strictly a true time stop, but more like an advanced version of a freeze spell, it's an overwhelming force for the opponent in front of them.

At this moment, only Obito was able to move freely in the entire space.

He slowly walked towards the masked man and gently removed the mask that concealed the truth.

A face that bore a striking resemblance to his own, but was covered in scars, was revealed.

"Tsk, it's hard to imagine I'll end up like this, not even as good as Kakashi."

Obito said with a self-deprecating laugh, then put the mask back on the masked man.

The masked man's eyes were filled with terror. He was fully conscious, but he couldn't control his body at all.

Even though he was willing to sacrifice the Kaleidoscope to use Izanagi to escape this predicament, he discovered that even this ability was sealed.

Everything was at Obito's mercy.

"That's enough. It's time to end all this." Obito gripped the kunai in his hand, preparing to subdue the other party and take him away.

However, at that very moment, a weak yet resolute voice came from behind: "Wait, don't kill him..."

Obito turned around in surprise and saw that Kakashi had woken up with difficulty at some point, his heavily injured body dragging a long trail of blood as he moved step by step toward them.

Facing Obito's gaze, Kakashi reluctantly raised his hand, pleading, "Don't kill him..."

Obito raised an eyebrow, surprised that he was so important to Kakashi.

This stirred a strange sense of emotion within him.

"Don't worry, I never intended to kill him," Obito reassured him.

Hearing this, Kakashi seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but his tense body finally gave way and he collapsed to the ground, his life force flickering and about to be extinguished.

"Kakashi!"

Obito's heart clenched, and he rushed over to check the injuries. His fingers gently touched the pulse; the weak but still present signs of life brought him some relief.

But this momentary emotional fluctuation caused subtle cracks to appear in the stillness field that Obito had just constructed.

The masked man was equally skilled in spacetime ninjutsu; this mere momentary lapse was enough for him to catch it.

He suddenly activated his divine power, and space and time seemed to be kneaded and distorted by him, disappearing from the scene in the blink of an eye.

In single-eye mode, the Sharingan's power is reduced to one-quarter, yet the masked man can still quickly unleash Kamui even under such limitations.

Now that he has both eyes, his spellcasting speed has increased several times over.

Seeing this, Obito was too late to stop it and could only sigh helplessly, watching as the cooked duck flew away.

But the most important thing right now is to save Kakashi; as for the masked man's escape, let's leave that aside for now.

He picked up Kakashi and was about to leave when a message from Shinomiya Yuzuki arrived.

After a quick glance, he gave a brief reply and then used teleportation to leave.

"That's it, the whole story," Obito Uchiha recounted.