Yama’s Strike (4K)

Cang!

Space let out a mournful cry as it compressed. The thousand-meter blade light Red Dust had unleashed suddenly collapsed into a ping-pong-ball-sized point of light. Yet the frost-white chill did not disperse. Instead, it spread backward along the folds of space. The ice silkworm tassel on the hilt stirred without wind, and the temperature throughout the entire fractured layer instantly dropped below absolute zero.

Bai Cangshu’s body vanished in an instant, pulling back through Teleportation. Yet after moving only a few dozen meters, he staggered into view again. Instead, intense Chakra burst from his body. Deep-blue Chakra surged like flames, ribs emerging one after another before the armor wrapped around him in an instant.

Boom!

Fragments of blade force and freezing air struck Susanoo’s surface and instantly dissipated.

Uchiha Madara’s Sharingan was filled with disdain for Satoru Gojo’s opportunistic style of combat. The enemy fought openly and forcefully, as though he had already claimed an absolute advantage.

He snorted coldly as Susanoo appeared. Thanks to the half Nine-Tails within this body, he had gained an enormous amount of Chakra so quickly. Though it had not yet reached the form of his prime, Complete Body Susanoo—

It was already enough for a head-on confrontation.

At this moment, Susanoo wore Crow Tengu armor and drew an enormous Chakra tachi with both hands. Its form was already remarkably close to that of a Complete Body Susanoo.

Red Dust also realized that Mercenary Tao’s condition was more complicated than he had imagined. It seemed as though several souls were controlling that body at once, making the opponent’s fighting style strange and ever-changing. At the same time, however, it lacked continuity.

His figure flickered unpredictably. Driven by his powerful Inner Force, his Water Shifting Steps had become so fast that the naked eye could no longer perceive them.

He could move several hundred meters in a second, maintaining this high-speed mobility while continuously striking from every direction.

At present, he had yet to master high-level techniques truly suited to his realm, such as the Sacred Heart Art and the Seven Absolutes of Despair. As a result, his offensive methods were somewhat limited.

But at this speed, it would be difficult for the opponent to use Unlimited Void to catch and defeat him.

The enormous Susanoo, nearly two hundred meters tall, appeared. Red Dust neither dodged nor retreated. Looking at the Chakra flames burning upon that terrifying tachi, his fighting spirit only intensified.

Gripping his blade with both hands, he stepped forward and slashed at Susanoo!

Compared to Mercenary Tao, who possessed both Susanoo and the Limitless Cursed Technique as powerful defenses, he knew exactly where his own advantage lay.

It lay in the sheer strength of his energy and the precision of his control.

The terrifying amplification of half a Dragon Origin combined with one cycle of Reverse Universe meant that even most Reincarnators of the Third Tier could not compare to him in terms of energy attributes.

He believed that Mercenary Tao, with only one pair of Six Eyes, would certainly exhaust his cursed energy faster than he would.

Perhaps he would not even need to wait for the opponent’s cursed energy to be entirely depleted. Once the opponent’s energy fell below a certain threshold, this peculiar possession-and-transformation state would become difficult to maintain.

Moreover…

Empowered by his overwhelming Inner Force, his slash began to cause ripples in space. He had noticed earlier that beneath the Limitless Cursed Technique, his blade force had successfully drawn close to Mercenary Tao.

"Ha!"

Sixth Form: Cold Blade, Ice Heart!

This was the strongest move of the Six Forms of Arrogant Cold. Yet because Red Dust had never been able to comprehend that state of absolute coldness, he had never properly grasped it. But today, driven by excessively powerful Inner Force, he forcibly unleashed this move.

In an instant, the rolling clouds overhead turned pitch-black, and the temperature plunged below freezing. As the powerful blade force came down, the sky became a desolate expanse of cold, deathly silence.

Uchiha Madara could not help but laugh wildly at the sight. In the age of ninjas, only Senju Hashirama and he could have achieved an assault of this caliber. Yet the attack before him was far more unrestrained than any ninja’s.

He could even taste something completely different in the opponent’s sword-swinging motion.

Within the slow-motion vision of his Sharingan, it seemed that a vast snowfall was spreading between heaven and earth with every swing.

He could not explain what it was. It was a power that had never existed in the Ninja World. The other man held a blade, and he held a blade, yet they wielded powers from entirely different dimensions~

"Interesting. I acknowledge you~"

Uchiha Madara spread his hands. The excessively powerful muscles of this body made its sword-swinging movements far more terrifying than those of his former body.

But he had never imagined that wielding a sword could depend on strength.

In ninja combat, precision always outweighed force.

What mattered was not how heavy your strike was, but whether the opponent could block it.

Yet at this moment, as he watched the blade that froze heaven and earth, he found himself pursuing something new. Susanoo likewise gripped that hundred-meter tachi with both hands, and the Chakra flames upon it erupted in an instant.

Slash!

He sought weight. He sought power. Facing Red Dust’s Six Forms of Arrogant Cold, Uchiha Madara somehow understood that he had to shatter the opponent’s blade momentum head-on to interrupt his increasingly powerful aura.

On one side was terrifying Chakra drawn forth by a hundred-meter giant blade. On the other was a thousand-meter blade force, as though it had condensed the clouds of heaven and earth before crashing down from above.

The two collided in midair. Ice crystals, flames, blade force, explosions—two utterly different energies clashed at the center, throwing space into chaos in an instant.

The destructive impact spread indiscriminately in all directions from the collision point.

Red Dust protected himself with force energy, but he was still driven backward again and again by the impacts. The fierce explosions sent his Internal Qi churning wildly. The next moment, a surging spatial fluctuation appeared.

Red Dust had no time to regulate his breathing. His body twisted in an instant, vanishing like an afterimage.

Within the terrifying fluctuations, Uchiha Madara relied on Susanoo’s formidable defense and charged straight in. His condition was not good either, but he was a true battle fanatic, skilled at exploiting every advantage he possessed.

He knew that with Susanoo, the strange technique of that white-haired brat, and this host’s nearly immortal body, ordinary attacks would have great difficulty killing him.

So he charged directly into the terrifying storm blast and swept his giant blade across.

Boom!

The gale of force shattered. The Chakra slash extended for several thousand meters, crashing toward the Spirit World Infested Zone.

The sonic boom from Red Dust’s supersonic movement had yet to spread.

The extraordinary perception of the Six Eyes combined with the Sharingan instantly captured Red Dust’s location.

The next moment, the gigantic Susanoo actually cast aside its tachi. A tomoe-shaped Chakra energy sphere appeared in its left hand, while blue Limitless Cursed Technique: Blue and red Limitless Cursed Technique: Red, two opposing spatial fluctuations, began converging in its right.

"You…"

Uchiha Madara was somewhat astonished that the white-haired brat could actually control the powers within this body alongside him in such a state.

It was practically as though one body was operating two powers of different natures with two separate ways of thinking.

Both souls, overly focused on controlling their power, unconsciously began cooperating. Black cursed energy covered the surface of the deep-blue Susanoo like burning black flames.

The two incomparably terrifying powers were hurled out by Susanoo at the same time. In that instant, the surroundings fell utterly silent. Red Dust, appearing two thousand meters away, felt the sense of being locked onto and shivered inwardly.

The explosive power of Mercenary Tao’s bizarre state was actually this high. It had fully entered the Fierce-tier. If this strike landed in an urban district, it could almost certainly inflict devastating damage upon a small city.

More terrifying still, he could not sense any weakening in the opponent’s energy at all.

A Reincarnator who had likely only just entered the Second Tier had energy attributes above his own?!

Absurd.

Red Dust took a deep breath, raised his blade overhead with both hands, and closed his eyes. He sensed that space-shaking strike tearing apart all the air between them, leaving what seemed like black holes in space itself. The atmosphere had been completely thrown into disorder, and hurricanes rose from all around.

His heart was utterly calm.

At this moment, he completely merged himself into his own path of the blade.

The blade’s path was the path of dominance.

A blade was for killing!

The instant his eyes opened, he slashed. His body followed the blade, crossing two thousand meters in a moment and appearing behind the enormous Susanoo.

The next moment, Susanoo split apart with a thunderous crash.

Yet Red Dust’s heart tightened instead. That slash had felt hollow. There had been no sensation whatsoever of cutting into flesh.

He looked back and saw Uchiha Madara, his long hair covering his face, staring at his own spirit body in astonishment.

A spirit body?

That was not the physical body?!

Where was Mercenary Tao?!

Red Dust instinctively erupted with Internal Qi, and darkness descended upon the surroundings in an instant.

"Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void~"

The pitch-black domain completely enveloped him, and Red Dust’s heart lurched.

This is bad!

He turned around and saw Satoru Gojo, likewise reduced to a translucent spirit body, smiling with his Six Eyes as he slowly released his hand seal.

Elsewhere, Bai Cangshu faced the Ajin that had revived once more, as well as the green-haired girl standing at its side, reeking of alcohol and wearing a surprised expression. One of his hands was raised while the other hung low.

Instant was activated.

Rampaging killing intent instantly blanketed all surrounding space. The revived Millennium Worm formed a hand seal as well.

"Domain Expansion: Sound Kill…"

Puff puff puff puff…

Countless fists struck his body in the air in an instant.

You have been affected by Death Intent Senluo.

Instant death check in progress...

Check passed.

You have been affected by Death Intent Senluo.

Check in progress...

...

In but an instant, countless checks appeared as though flooding the screen. He felt as if his soul were being violently hammered.

Panic grew within him.

Was this Mercenary Tao’s attack?

Instant death?!

Could something like this kill him?!

At this moment, the weakness of his insufficiently sturdy physique became apparent. Under those terrifying attacks that completely exceeded several times the speed of sound, he could not even stabilize his body, much less form that hand seal.

The God’s Right Eye between Bai Cangshu’s brows opened. For the first time, in Tier 5 Instant, he caught sight of himself attacking the opponent—the sensation of his strikes, the degree to which the opponent’s body was shattered, and… the Myriad Death Intent coursing through his bloodline!

Yes, he could feel with incomparable clarity that cold, silent power flowing within him. Yellow Springs began surging from the layers between his bloodline and soul.

He had never encountered a creature that could endure so many blows without dying. Every living thing he had faced before had been killed the very moment Myriad Death Intent appeared.

But this time, the Ajin’s high-level immortality allowed it to continuously resist the instant-death effect of Myriad Death Intent, causing Bai Cangshu to attack without restraint.

The speed of Shun Goku Satsu layered atop the punching speed of Tier 5 Instant began gathering the scattered Myriad Death Intent within Bai Cangshu’s body. Yellow Springs began roaring.

Not enough, still not enough~

Even Bai Cangshu’s frenzied killing intent was suppressed by this death intent. He could not wait to let the surging power within him burst forth.

Faster. I need to go faster!

Tier 6 Instant activated!

Still not enough!

Bai Cangshu’s heart was beating so quickly that its beats blurred into one continuous sound. Lightning began emerging from every acupoint in his body.

Even the drunken Tatsumaki sobered somewhat at this sight. Floating in the air, she had only intended to casually crush a worm that had set its sights on her little sister. She had not expected it to come back to life, much less provoke such a freak.

Tier 7 Instant!

Puff!

Blood sprayed out, and chunks of flesh even began to peel away. Bai Cangshu’s physical constitution was already extremely strong, but Instant was an out-and-out multiplier.

The stronger Bai Cangshu’s physique, the higher his base speed. After activating Instant, the multiplied speed became even more horrifying. Correspondingly, the burden placed upon his body also became greater.

After entering Tier 7 Instant with its 128-fold speed enhancement—

The bones in his fists were exposed, but he no longer cared about his flesh. That surging power was within him, and all he wanted was to unleash it.

Sela, the Title-level Supernatural Ability User hiding far behind Tatsumaki, watched the Millennium Worm, which had been beaten until it could no longer form a human shape. His face turned pale.

No one could have imagined that Mercenary Tao’s true combat power was so terrifying.

And that speed…

His scalp prickled. In his perception, only cold, deathly killing intent remained in the area. He could not sense Mercenary Tao’s presence at all.

In other words, if he were the Millennium Worm, the outcome would not be any different.

No… Since he did not possess Ajin bloodline, even Hyper Regeneration would likely be completely overwhelmed…

In the midst of Bai Cangshu’s savage barrage, a sudden icy sensation burst from his body. He threw a punch, and muddy-yellow deathly power howled out from within him.

Crash!

With a roar like rising tidal waves, the Millennium Worm, whose body had been beaten until it could no longer gather itself together, had no time to react before being struck by the wave-like fist force.

Boom!

The Millennium Worm flew backward. An illusory gate filled with azure deathly intent appeared behind him. Terror filled his eyes, but his body could no longer resist as it flew into it.

Thud.

The sound of a corpse hitting the ground was dull and ordinary. The immortal Ajin had become a silent corpse.

Tatsumaki tossed aside her wine bottle, her drunkenness instantly gone. As she looked at Bai Cangshu, a rare trace of seriousness appeared in her eyes.

For that instant just now, she had actually felt an icy chill, as though something dangerous had appeared. Yet she could not sense it.

You have killed Reincarnator LQ72165844.

You killed a Reincarnator in a Team Survival Mode world. This kill cannot generate a Scarlet Drop Card.

Due to the effect of Omen of the Evil God: Cocoon of Greed, this kill grants Karma Points x1, forcibly generates a Scarlet Drop Card, and increases rewards by 50%.

Reincarnator EX051, your bloodline power has been sublimated. You have awakened the trait: Yama (Hidden, Unique, World's Rare Treasure).