Trinity, the Final Battle (Part 2)

You consumed a simply prepared piece of grilled Tailed Beast meat. Ingredient Grade: Medium. Deliciousness Grade: Average.

Gourmet Cell gained a slight amount of growth. Current: Lv1 (13/100)

Bai Cangshu was bathed head to toe in golden blood. He raised his left hand, his entire body covered in Armament Haki, and drove himself into the Elden Beast like a spike.

Bai Cangshu swallowed the grilled "Gyūki octopus tentacle" meat in his mouth, then relinquished control once more.

Satoru Gojo and Uchiha Madara were both quite displeased by their host’s reckless behavior. Neither was willing to be used by another.

With control of the body now in his hands, Uchiha Madara snorted coldly and had no intention of continuing the fight. Though he did not know Bai Cangshu’s intentions, he figured that as long as he did nothing, Bai Cangshu’s plans would naturally come to nothing.

The three of them now shared one body. In theory, if they worked together with one heart, their power would be terrifying—the Rinnegan and Chakra, the Limitless Cursed Technique and cursed energy, along with this fearsome body. It was power enough to rule this world entirely.

It could even prevent Six Paths-level beings from ever being born.

But clearly, all three were proud and willful individuals, utterly incapable of tolerating being controlled by another. Until Bai Cangshu’s abilities developed further and completely overwhelmed the other two, any battle between them would look like this.

Bai Cangshu held the dominant position, but he still had to scheme against the other two.

Bai Cangshu’s soul merely smiled coldly. He was neither a kind man who would communicate properly nor a coward who could be restrained by Madara and Satoru Gojo.

He would only employ crueler means, calculating both of their reactions into his plans.

Moo!

The Elden Beast had not been crushed to death by the meteor. It had originally been sent here in the form of a meteor, and its body possessed extremely high resistance to such physical damage.

As it struggled violently, Madara felt dense blood energy enveloping him.

The immense vitality the Elden Beast had received from the Erdtree transformed into vast amounts of blood energy as its wounds moved.

That rich stench of blood, mixed with a divine scent, gradually awakened the surging killing intent within Bai Cangshu’s body.

The Satsui no Hado had already approached its critical point after Bai Cangshu had smashed through a large number of shinobi and brutally killed Ōnoki.

Now, it could no longer be suppressed.

Whoosh!

Purple Satsui no Hado shot into the sky, blazing like flames.

Uchiha Madara felt a stabbing pain in his back. The scorching killing intent seemed to creep across his spine, while an even more powerful force brewed within him.

But before that power could emerge, his reason began to be suppressed.

"Ha…"

Madara began to pant. Through the vision granted by the Byakugan, all he could see was flesh and blood—everywhere, that dense vitality so overwhelming it made him sick.

Such powerful life deserved to be snuffed out by his own hands!

Feeling the sticky flesh enveloping him, Uchiha Madara spread his hands to either side. Intense killing intent flooded into his palms. That unfamiliar power was extraordinarily destructive, and he could even feel the pleasure of flesh being ground away and melted within his hands.

Shinra Tensei!

Unable to restrain the killing intent in his heart, he abandoned his previous plan to do nothing.

Amid the cruel smile of Bai Cangshu’s spiritual body, Uchiha Madara unleashed a Shinra Tensei from within the Elden Beast’s flesh!

A violent repulsive force erupted in an instant.

Pfft!

Flesh exploded through the air.

It was like a torrential rain of blood, like golden radiance pouring down in a shower.

Moo!

As the Elden Beast let out a pained scream, Hiranaka Minoru also seemed to cry out in agony. The terrifying repulsive shockwave instantly blasted apart the entire back of the Elden Beast, a creature over a hundred meters long.

Meanwhile, the Chibaku Tensei on the other side had fully condensed into a massive stone sphere over a hundred meters in diameter, floating in the air.

Uchiha Madara still intended to continue attacking, but Satoru Gojo seized control of the body.

"How could we let our host be so pleased with himself…"

The instant Satoru Gojo took control, he understood why that arrogant shinobi had gone on such a slaughter.

His spirit form only had time to turn slightly and look toward the madman at the center of the Throne of the Heart.

"You… you’ve really gone completely insane…"

Satsui no Hado of this intensity entering the body could indeed make both him and that shinobi unable to resist, allowing them to slaughter freely.

But at the same time, killing intent of this magnitude far exceeded Bai Cangshu’s own tolerance.

He knew full well that his host had previously been deliberately immersing himself in massive amounts of killing intent, but that had been more like desensitization therapy.

By keeping himself within a threshold where he would not completely lose control, yet could still be affected by killing intent, he could gradually increase his resistance to the corrosive power of Satsui no Hado.

But the killing intent at this intensity was far beyond that sort of "desensitization therapy." It was a terrifying level sufficient to drown everyone’s reason.

Was this madman truly willing to disregard everything to achieve his goal, or had he… actually already gone mad?!

Satoru Gojo soon could no longer think. That blazing killing intent surged over him and swallowed him as well.

Satoru Gojo clutched his forehead, as though he had returned to the streets of Hidden Inventory. He saw that girl die before his eyes, saw Toji Fushiguro’s savage battle, saw… the unbearable stupidity of those monkeys.

"Ha~"

As Satoru Gojo breathed, crimson cursed energy began to flow out. New eyes started opening across Bai Cangshu’s body.

It was as though he had returned to the state of being soaked in the Yellow Springs, nearly falling into becoming the King of Curses.

One eye after another opened, and the sinister nature of his cursed energy completely surpassed its previous level.

Satoru Gojo pointed into the air at the Elden Beast. Wounded, the giant beast flickered in and out of sight in the sky, seemingly attempting to evade him.

Bzzz!

Hollow Purple!

Chaotic techniques fused in an instant, then erupted with a bang. The light in space twisted under the intense attraction and repulsion, taking on a black-red hue.

Boom!

The air was blasted apart in an instant. The Elden Beast happened to slip into the void, and the attack struck empty space, flying into the distance.

But Satoru Gojo, controlling Bai Cangshu’s body, did not notice at all. He merely smiled cruelly.

"Run, monkey. Attacks at this level cost me nothing—I can unleash as many as I want…"

He pointed into the air repeatedly again, then pushed off with both feet and flew upward as well.

Bzzz! Bzzz! Bzzz!

As though he did not care about cursed energy consumption in the slightest, nor consider a more efficient way to kill his target, Satoru Gojo immersed himself in the pleasure of unleashing terrifying violence.

As a human, constantly suppressing the instinct to massacre those stupid monkeys had been exhausting…

Bai Cangshu seemed to lean against the deepest recesses of his own body, watching Satoru Gojo begin to "go mad" as well. The smile on his face grew more delighted.

His perspective was unique. He could sense that the stabbing pain in his back after the Satsui no Hado reached its critical point was likely a sign that the Satsui no Hado was penetrating further into his body.

Very soon, perhaps after he killed the Elden Beast and Hiranaka Minoru, the characters "Heavenly Being" would appear upon his back as well.

"Hiranaka Minoru, the Golden Order has no right to crown me. Let me mercifully grant you release, then let me step onto the path of a true powerhouse amid the blood of your god-man…"