"What kind of dōjutsu is this? There was no sign of it activating!"
Lin Yu clutched his chest, which was bleeding profusely. A clear knife mark ran across it. If he hadn't moved at the last second, that blade would have split him in two.
This dōjutsu was unheard of. Whose Mangekyō Sharingan was this? The attack seemed to pierce through space. Was this a spatial dōjutsu? Or a rare offensive type?
Lin Yu's interest was suddenly piqued by the eyes on Madara Uchiha. Every pair of Mangekyō Sharingan was a valuable experimental subject. If he could successfully clone them later for Orochimaru's experiments...
Lin Yu pushed these thoughts aside and pondered how to deal with Madara Uchiha's strange dōjutsu. As for Kurama, it was just solidified chakra and would heal automatically. He needed to find a solution before the next attack!
Not far away, Madara Uchiha, encased in his Susanoo, felt a drop of sweat trickle down his forehead. His eyes trembled uncontrollably. This damned, trashy eye had consumed so much ocular power with just one strike!
And this damned pain. How many years had it been since he had felt it?
Madara Uchiha resisted the urge to support his eyes and, while Lin Yu was still trying to understand his dōjutsu, activated it again.
Silently, without any warning, another blade of light shattered the just-formed golden Kurama. Lin Yu's body bore another savage knife mark.
"Cough! Spit."
Lin Yu couldn't help but cough up a mouthful of blood, but a smile played on his lips. He had found the flaw in Madara Uchiha's dōjutsu!
The attack, which seemed to pierce space, and the slow retraction of the chakra blade from Susanoo. This wasn't space; it was a time-controlling dōjutsu!
Madara Uchiha had usurped his own future milliseconds to deliver that blow. This explained why Madara's Susanoo hadn't shown the action of swinging the blade, only retracting it!
Because he had already swung it in the future!
The deeper reasoning behind this might be complex, but if it was understood as Madara Uchiha using his dōjutsu to claim a few milliseconds of Lin Yu's future, thereby creating a pocket dimension where everything was forbidden except for Madara's actions, and then striking Lin Yu.
This would explain the sudden tearing of the golden Kurama by a chakra blade, while no such action occurred in the real world.
Nagato, riding a summoning beast in the sky, was bewildered by the battle unfolding below. Why did Lin Yu suddenly have two wounds? Why was Madara Uchiha sweating profusely? Weren't they hundreds of meters apart?
Nagato felt like he was just tagging along for the ride.
The knife wounds on Lin Yu's body slowly emitted smoke. The healing ability of the Advanced Sage Body was terrifying.
Lin Yu had completely shed his condescending attitude towards "Old Madara." Who knew what other bizarre dōjutsu he possessed? This Mangekyō Sharingan was truly a broken bloodline limit!
However, cracking Madara Uchiha's dōjutsu was simple: speed! Extreme speed, attacking him just before Madara Uchiha could activate his dōjutsu to prevent him from casting it. This was the most effective and convenient method.
Lin Yu could tell that this time-controlling dōjutsu had a long casting time. Otherwise, Madara Uchiha wouldn't have waited a moment before delivering the second blow, but would have struck him a dozen times consecutively.
But... Lin Yu wanted to try another method!
"Armored Susanoo!"
Lin Yu opened his异样的 Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Layers of armor marked with white and blue flames covered Kurama. Kurama stood upright, its claws clenched. A pitch-black demon blade instantly appeared in its palm. The black flames coiled around the blade spread to Kurama's entire body, as if inlaid with a layer of black-gold armor, majestic and imposing!
Roar!
The roar of the Armored Kurama swept across the entire arena. The fox's face, adorned with armor, held a hint of coldness. Gripping the pitch-black katana, it sprinted across the water towards Madara Uchiha.
Madara Uchiha, having just finished casting his dōjutsu, had no time to catch his breath before he saw his own past self. Wasn't this a move he specialized in during his prime?
I, Madara Uchiha, being attacked by my own move? How ridiculous!
A trickle of blood flowed from his left eye. Madara Uchiha pushed his ocular power to its limit!
"Time Skip: Slash!"
A chakra blade appeared before the Armored Kurama and brutally struck the black-gold armor. The blade's power was immense. Kurama's body carved a ripple across the water, retreating dozens of meters before the blade dissipated.
The chakra blade vanished, but the Armored Kurama bore not a single scratch. The black-gold armor shone dazzlingly under the sun!
Lin Yu's eyes flickered. This blade strike hadn't appeared instantaneously on Armored Kurama, but had a slight distance. Was it because my state had grown stronger?
Regardless, Lin Yu's other method had worked: "taking a beating"!
Stacking the final layer of armor to endure the harshest blows!
No matter what dōjutsu it was, the ultimate target was Lin Yu. So, Lin Yu would clad himself in thick armor. To hit him, one had to break through this armor. And what defense could compare to Susanoo?
Wood Style could also work. Perhaps next time he could try combining Wood Style with the Nine-Tails!
However, this was all contingent on Madara Uchiha still being able to fight after this battle.
Inside his Susanoo, Madara Uchiha couldn't help but support his eyes. The side effects of excessive ocular power consumption had arrived. His eyes throbbed with pain, and his Susanoo almost faltered. How could this trashy eye have so little ocular power!
Clang!
The sound of a sword being unsheathed reached Madara Uchiha's ears. Looking up, he saw a pitch-black demon blade descending towards him. Black flames that sent shivers down his spine emanated from the blade. He absolutely could not take this blow head-on!
But it was too late. The excessive consumption of his left eye's ocular power caused Madara Uchiha's vision to double. Although he could quickly suppress it, the pitch-black demon blade was already upon him, unavoidable!
Swish!
The human-form Susanoo attempted to block with its twin blades, but it was sliced in two by the demon blade and then heavily struck the Susanoo's armor.
Crack!
A crisp cracking sound echoed. The Susanoo, weakened by excessive ocular power consumption, could not withstand the ultimate strike from the Armored Kurama. After a slight resistance, it was cleaved downwards, aimed at Madara Uchiha within the Susanoo's body.
Splash!
In the critical moment, a tortoise covered in spikes and possessing three tails emerged from beneath the water. Its heavy shell met the demon blade.
Howl!
The Three-Tails Isobu let out a mournful cry. A deep sword mark was left on its heavy shell, but it managed to block the blow.
Madara Uchiha deactivated his Susanoo and landed on Isobu's back. Even he let out a sigh of relief. If he hadn't long ago controlled the Three-Tails as a backup in the sea, this blow would have been truly difficult to evade.
Madara Uchiha looked up at Nagato in the sky in the distance and sighed inwardly. Did he really have to take back his eyes?
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