The Final Kotoamatsukami (3K Second Update)

Scarlet motes spiraled before Bai Cangshu, quickly condensing into a Drop Card.

With a casual swipe, the Drop Card fell into his hand, and he crushed it.

You have opened a Scarlet Drop Card

Opening drop...

Calculating target's kill points. Target kill points: 7. No reward increase.

Calculating your kill points...

Ex051 possesses Karma Points. You will receive 1 additional reward selection.

Calculation complete. For this opening, you may select 2 rewards from the following options.

A: 50% of Dimensional Points

B: 3 items from the Backpack

C: Extract an additional 10% of the target's primary attributes and add them to your own

D: Randomly extract 1 specialization, retaining up to Lv3

E: Randomly obtain 1 ability, retaining only Lv1

F: 5% chance to extract a Bloodline Item, with no retained bloodline optimization

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You have selected C: Attribute Extraction. Extracting...

Your Agility +1. Current: 29 (Wind Demon)

Your Spirit +1. Current: 24 (Active Spirit)

You have selected D: Specialization Extraction. Extracting...

You have obtained Dual Wielding Specialization Lv3

Bai Cangshu flicked a finger, and scarlet radiance shot into the ground with a soft puff, leaving behind a palm-sized crater.

"Weak. So weak. Too weak…"

Bai Cangshu could barely feel any improvement after killing this reincarnator. He had neither a powerful, ruthless nature nor the strength to support that naïveté. He was so weak that Bai Cangshu found him boring.

Scarlet Satsui no Hado spread continuously from the individual known as Mercenary Tao like a bone-piercing gale. It could no longer be described by mountains of corpses and seas of blood. His killing intent had become tangible, relentlessly battering their bodies.

Jiraiya and Tsunade exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with indescribable shock. Tsunade in particular, this powerful ninja of the Senju Clan, had heard from Jiraiya and the other ninjas about Mercenary Tao’s strength.

Yet facing this scene now still shook her to the core.

That was no longer human. Whether it was his abnormal posture or that killing intent that seemed ready to pierce her skin and corrode her flesh and bones, it had completely surpassed the realm of ninjas.

Even though she had seen her grandfather’s terrifying Chakra eruption in her youth, the sight of scarlet killing intent billowing from this man’s back like flames still made her tremble.

Whoosh!

An almost inaudible Body Flicker Jutsu sounded. Tsunade and Jiraiya stiffened, lowering their centers of gravity with their hands hanging by their waists. Their pupils alone shifted as they caught sight of the newcomer from the corners of their eyes—it was Uchiha Shisui.

"Lord Jiraiya, Lady Tsunade, don’t attack!"

Facing Mercenary Tao directly, Uchiha Shisui fully felt the terrifying pressure emanating from him.

No wonder two top-tier ninjas among the Sannin had been frozen in place by his presence. Even though Mercenary Tao showed no defensive stance whatsoever, neither of them dared attack.

"This is all my fault, and I must be the one to make up for it…"

As Uchiha Shisui spoke, powerful Chakra began surging from within him.

Green Chakra rose like flames around him. In an instant, his powerful aura surpassed both Sannin, and Jiraiya and Tsunade realized something.

This renowned strongest Uchiha of the current generation had mastered the legendary Susanoo!

Uchiha Shisui actually blamed himself deeply. In his view, a considerable part of the world’s present catastrophe had been caused by him.

Had he not been careless during his first attack, how could Mercenary Tao have defeated him in an instant before he even had the chance to use Kotoamatsukami?

Afterward, because Itachi had fallen into the enemy’s hands, he became Mercenary Tao’s accomplice, attacking Kirigakure to capture the tailed beasts. He had also indirectly led Akatsuki into contact with Mercenary Tao, ultimately causing the Konoha Crush.

Then, after the Erdtree appeared, he had been drawn in by the ideals of the Golden Order and used Kotoamatsukami to send this beast to the Golden Order’s side.

That caused the Erdtree to grow explosively, leaving the ninjas of every nation powerless to resist.

Now, it was time for him to end this tragedy himself.

Boom!

The violent impact refocused Uchiha Shisui’s mind. Blazing-white fragments of cloud trails sprayed outward like waves before his eyes.

Under the insight of his Mangekyō Sharingan, Mercenary Tao’s figure seemed to drag dozens of afterimages behind it, appearing before him almost instantly.

Behind him, scarlet energy spiraled like fluttering ribbons.

Burst!

His right hand came together like a blade and thrust forward like a great spear.

Crack!

The massive form of Susanoo had only just taken shape when it let out a sharp cracking sound.

Scarlet Satsui no Hado passed through Susanoo and struck Uchiha Shisui directly in the face.

He instantly came to his senses.

I actually got distracted while fighting Mercenary Tao?!

Bang!

Under the violent impact, Susanoo’s lower half shattered outright. Mercenary Tao’s current strength and speed completely surpassed even the Fourth Raikage’s Strongest Lightning Release Armor.

Even Susanoo could not withstand it.

Crack!

The hand blade wrapped in intense energy pierced Susanoo and drove straight toward Shisui’s face.

In that instant, countless possibilities flashed through Uchiha Shisui’s mind.

Use the Substitution Technique to evade?

Use the Body Flicker Jutsu to open the distance?

Or…

He recalled how, without Susanoo earlier, Mercenary Tao had moved so fast that before he could even react, his entire body had been smashed apart.

He raised his head. The shuriken-like pattern in his eyes spun at once, like a crow taking flight in an instant.

Kotoamatsukami!

At the brink of life and death, Uchiha Shisui realized that no matter what method he used, once he left Susanoo, Mercenary Tao’s next strike would likely grievously injure him before he even had a chance to act.

So he chose to seek life through death and directly unleashed Kotoamatsukami.

Within Bai Cangshu’s world, heaven and earth seemed to freeze in an instant. A strange force turned the world black and white, leaving only that enormous crow flapping its wings as it entered his body.

Creak—

Bai Cangshu’s muscles trembled as scarlet killing intent flowed through them. The pain, as though his body were being torn apart, focused his mind as never before.

You have suffered a special attack: Kotoamatsukami

Performing exemption check...

This differed from last time. During the previous activation of Kotoamatsukami, Bai Cangshu had not even felt himself being struck by the technique before its effects took hold.

Only afterward, through the Space Panel, had he discovered that he had been affected.

But this time, after Satsui no Hado broke through Lv4, the nearly tangible killing intent harmed both others and himself. Yet as an energy, the power of Satsui no Hado was beyond question.

Empowered by Satsui no Hado, Kotoamatsukami began to encounter resistance as well.

Veins bulged one after another across Bai Cangshu’s forehead, as though they might burst through his skin at any moment. Like little snakes, they writhed across his brow.

Uchiha Shisui’s expression also changed in shock. A technique like Kotoamatsukami could actually be resisted?!

Had the signs of his activation been too obvious, allowing Mercenary Tao to concentrate that strange power in his brain to resist it?

No. Looking at Mercenary Tao’s crazed state, he guessed that the red power had already occupied his entire body. Any external force attempting to change him would suffer a counterattack.

Blood began to flow from the corners of Uchiha Shisui’s eyes, and his vision grew increasingly blurred.

The massive consumption of ocular power left his Mangekyō Sharingan unable to continue.

He covered his left eye, which had already used Kotoamatsukami once, and poured all his ocular power into his right eye.

His intention changed as well. Rather than control Mercenary Tao, purge everyone, and return the world to normal, he instead wanted Mercenary Tao to leave—to leave the human world, and go as far away as possible!

The stronger and more precise the objective, the more carefully one had to alter the target’s will and mind.

At this moment, Shisui could clearly feel that he could no longer endure. Kotoamatsukami was about to fail, and he could only use the vaguest will to "drive away" this mad beast.

He could no longer save this world. All he could do was drive this monster, which no one could control, out of humanity’s world.

In the real world, Bai Cangshu’s scarlet hand blade froze in midair half a meter before Uchiha Shisui.

Watching this, Tsunade and Jiraiya relaxed slightly. Though they did not know what exactly had happened, it seemed…

It had worked?

Pfft!

Uchiha Shisui’s eye suddenly burst, spraying blood.

Uchiha Shisui collapsed limply to the ground.

The green Susanoo slowly faded away as well.

Although Bai Cangshu’s thrusting hand blade had frozen in midair, its powerful force still passed through Shisui’s body. Carrying scarlet Satsui no Hado and immense impact, it shattered Uchiha Shisui’s eye through sheer inertia and struck his brain.

Bai Cangshu slowly withdrew his hand.

He turned and glanced at Jiraiya and Tsunade. Their human identities suddenly made him look down on them.

Bai Cangshu looked at the panel and knew he had indeed been affected by Kotoamatsukami, but the pride and disdain rising from his very bones felt completely genuine.

He had lost interest in these weaklings who did not even possess the courage to attack him.

Bai Cangshu turned around, glanced at the vigilant Jiraiya and Tsunade, bent his knees, and suddenly stomped down.

Bang!

As the ground exploded, he leaped more than a hundred meters into the air. His feet kicked off again, and his entire body streaked away in a red trail.

Jiraiya and Tsunade stood silently on the ground, watching that red trail slam into the Erdtree. Amid violent tremors, it smashed through a branch and vanished into the distance.

Only then did Tsunade have the chance to support the unconscious Uchiha Shisui.

His breathing was already extremely weak. His right eye had been completely destroyed, and his brain had suffered damage as well.

Tsunade placed the Katsuyu attached to her back onto Shisui’s face, attempting to save this hero who had, in a sense, saved Konoha and everyone else.

Within the massive Erdtree, Uchiha Itachi looked at the unconscious Shisui lying below, his gaze lowered.

Shisui’s path ultimately could not change this world…

He looked at the Toad Sage within the tree, then at Sasuke, whose hair had already turned golden, and made his decision.

At the same time, on the moon, a Shōnen stared at that enormous planet in the distance, where nearly half had turned golden. He was deeply puzzled about what had happened there.

Perhaps… he should go take a look.