You’re Right, but This Is Susanoo

The sudden turn of events drew the attention of every Master Grade fighter present. They had all been watching Tempest closely, because once she dealt with Lu Su’s remaining two cards, the situation on their side would change.

"Who was that?!" The same thought flashed through everyone’s minds. "There’s another expert?!"

But they soon realized that the newcomer was merely a Diamond Grade card.

However, Fang Wenlong and several other Card Masters spotted something unusual. The newly appeared card was very familiar with one of Lu Su’s last two cards, which meant…

"Xiao Luo?!" they thought in astonishment. To be honest, they had truly believed Lu Su had already slipped away. "So he went to make cards just now?!"

"This…"

Though it sounded utterly absurd, it seemed to be the explanation that best fit the current situation.

With that thought, Catherine could not help letting out a long breath. The gloom on her face eased somewhat. "Looks like the battle isn’t over yet…"

Hearing her words, an Army Lord curled his lip disdainfully. "It’s only a Diamond Grade card. Crazy Woman, surely you don’t think it can hold Tempest back for long?"

"It’s enough!"

Catherine naturally did not think the newly appeared Diamond Grade card could stop Tempest. But as long as it possessed the strength of that Great Ming young man’s previous Diamond Grade card, it would be enough.

Meanwhile, Tempest did not slow her movements in the face of Madara Uchiha’s sudden appearance. Instead, her attacks became even fiercer.

As a battle-hardened powerhouse, she would not make mistakes at a time like this.

Seeing this, Madara Uchiha curled his lip and vanished from where he stood.

Screech—!

Accompanied by a piercing howl, the earth was instantly torn open with countless scars.

Tempest hovered high in the sky, a colossal tornado that reached from heaven to earth behind her, along with clouds flashing with terrifying lightning.

Incomparably sharp air currents swirled through her hands. Even with her white armor shattered, she remained the sovereign of endless storms, the Lord of the End.

Yet just as Tempest’s killing attack was about to fall upon Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and Hashirama Senju, an enormous azure skeleton suddenly rose from the ground, rapidly filling out with flesh and blood.

In only a few breaths, a gigantic energy warrior god larger than a mountain appeared before everyone’s eyes, with wings on its back and a long blade in hand.

The Third Power, Susanoo!

Clang—!

Amid the sharp cry of a blade, the long sword in Susanoo’s hand left its sheath in an instant. The immense Sword Pressure collided head-on with Tempest’s attack.

As the two attacks met, terrifying turbulence blasted away everything around them.

The earth at that moment was as laughably malleable as clay, its terrain effortlessly rewritten.

At last, a hint of emotion appeared on Tempest’s face. Her brows furrowed slightly as she murmured, "This level of strength…"

"Another one from the same series?"

The strength of that Diamond Grade card was somewhat beyond her expectations.

Yet just as Tempest prepared to attack Madara Uchiha again, she suddenly turned toward her side in confusion.

Slash—!

An inexplicable cutting sound rang out. She tilted slightly aside, evading the invisible attack.

"Someone?"

The disturbances in the surrounding air currents told Tempest that four invisible figures were attacking her.

Although Limbo: Border Jail had seemed rather overpowered in the original work, in Blue Star’s hodgepodge world, it was still somewhat lacking.

Still, merely delaying Tempest’s movements for a short time was possible.

At that moment, Hashirama Senju stood in midair inside Susanoo’s ribcage. Looking at his old friend beside him, he grinned foolishly. "Hahaha, so it really is you, Madara."

Madara Uchiha folded his arms and glanced at Hashirama Senju with his Rinnegan. A trace of pride colored his voice. "Hashirama, you’re still the same, but I’m no longer who I used to be."

There it was, the unique tsundere attitude of the Uchiha clan.

"Hahahaha."

Faced with his old friend’s mockery, Hashirama Senju merely scratched his head and laughed without arguing back.

Beside them, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto looked Susanoo up and down.

This technique reminded him of Big Dog’s Bankai, Black Rope Heavenly Scourge King, though the gap between the two was truly enormous.

At the same time, several Master Grade fighters battling in the distance all paused when they saw Susanoo.

Fang Wenlong especially so.

Long ago, during the National Tournament, he had seen Uchiha Sasuke’s Susanoo.

But compared to the towering figure appearing in the distance now, it was on an entirely different level.

"Had he already planned such a far-reaching card-making strategy back then?"

Fang Wenlong sighed inwardly, feeling sorry for Hu Lai.

He vaguely remembered that after the National Tournament ended, his disciple had still wanted to catch up to Lu Su. But judging by the current situation, Hu Lai was likely already far beyond his reach.

The several Army Lords, meanwhile, could not help feeling a surge of frustration.

Once, twice, three times.

They had not expected Tempest to truly be hindered again and again by a Diamond Grade Card Master.

If this continued, their previous strategy of teleporting Ji Weirui away would become completely meaningless.

After all, Ji Weirui had merely been trapped, not killed outright.

If they won, they could naturally deal with her at their leisure. But if they lost, they might not even have a chance to turn things around.

Finally, an Army Lord could not help shouting toward the woman in the distance, "Tempest!"

"End this quickly!"

Unfortunately, the person being addressed ignored the voice reaching her ears.

In that brief span of time, she had already dealt with the four shadows Madara Uchiha had summoned using Limbo: Border Jail.

Tempest let out a soft breath and carefully sensed the changes in the surrounding airflow.

She wanted to find Lu Su’s true body and eliminate him directly.

It was at this moment that she truly began to regard the Youth as a powerhouse equal to herself.

Tempest decided to stop holding back. She had done so before because she wanted to support the other four Army Lords, but now that she faced someone she recognized as a powerful opponent, there was no need for that anymore.

Yet just as she tried to locate Lu Su, she suddenly looked sharply up at the sky.

Rumble—!

A massive shadow fell over the ground as howling winds drove aside the heavy clouds.

An enormous meteor descended from the heavens, crashing straight down toward Tempest.

This was naturally Madara Uchiha’s doing. While ordering the shadows produced by Limbo: Border Jail to restrain her, he had already used Meteors.

Unfortunately, despite its tremendous spectacle, the rapidly falling meteor was little more than a somewhat larger rock to Tempest.

Fortunately, Madara’s goal had never been to injure her, but to divide her attention.

Seeing this, Hashirama Senju forcibly drew in a breath, pressed his palms together, and shouted, "Wood Style: Wood Golem Technique!"

The next moment, a gigantic wooden giant appeared upon the earth, identical in size to the complete Susanoo.

But it was not over yet.

Madara Uchiha then voluntarily dismissed Susanoo and descended onto the wooden giant’s head alongside Hashirama Senju. Immediately afterward, azure armor gradually wrapped around the wooden giant’s body.

Armored Wood Golem Mode!

It was not that they did not want to put Susanoo armor on the Buddha, but True Several Thousand Hands was actually a prerequisite skill for Buddha Manifestation. At its core, it was merely a battery of cannons.

At this point, Tempest casually smashed apart the Meteors about to fall onto her head.

Looking at the combined technique in the distance, her gaze flickered. "So there really is a Bond…"

She had realized this as soon as Madara Uchiha appeared, since he had seemed very familiar with the other card.

As Tempest thought, she gathered the storm in the sky into her hand.

Screeech—!

With a shrill wail, a storm tornado formed beneath the Armored Wooden Giant’s feet and swallowed it whole in one bite.

The heaven-reaching tornado twisted its body, its terrifying turbulence endlessly cutting into the Armored Wooden Giant.

However…

Nothing happened.

You’re right, but this is Susanoo, the Third Power that combined offense and defense. It had absurdly high attack power, absurdly strong defense, could fly, and could even combine with other creatures. One slash split mountains, two slashes severed seas, three slashes sent the Five Kage to the banquet table.

Seeing this, Tempest’s expression remained unchanged, but she could not help murmuring, "This kind of defense…"

Before she could finish marveling, Madara and Hashirama controlled the Armored Wooden Giant and charged toward her in great strides.

Boom! Boom! Boom—!

The Armored Wooden Giant took tremendously heavy steps, forcibly ignoring the storm dragging at its feet. In three strides, it crossed the distance and arrived before Tempest.

Then it threw a punch.

From the force of the wind striking her face alone, Tempest could tell just how terrifyingly powerful that punch was.

But as the calamity sovereign who controlled storms, she would not be struck by such a sluggish attack.

Tempest rode the wind and soared into the sky.

But how could Madara and Hashirama possibly let her go so easily?

Within moments, a pair of azure wings spread from the Armored Wooden Giant’s back.

At the sight, Tempest’s brows furrowed as she continuously dodged the massive fists covered in azure armor.

For a moment, the situation had completely reversed.

Seeing this, the hearts of the other four Army Lords in the distance sank halfway. "No way…"

"A Diamond Grade Card Master can actually do this?!"

They never could have imagined that someone could suppress a Master Grade opponent with Diamond Grade cards alone.

More importantly, Tempest was no weakling. The four Army Lords knew that if they were facing these Diamond Grade cards themselves, they would not fare much better.

Looking at the enormous yet remarkably agile Armored Wooden Giant, they could not help twitching their lips.

"If every Diamond Grade card had this kind of strength, we would have lost long ago."

In the eyes of the four Army Lords, neither the blond teenage card that had genuinely injured Tempest nor the card before them, which had become as tough as a turtle shell after using some unknown technique, should have been in the possession of a Diamond Grade Card Master.

Even with Trait and Bond bonuses, it was still far too outrageous.

But compared with the demons whose minds were in turmoil, Catherine and the others felt nothing but shock and delight.

The empress of the Tsardom of Russia had never expected Lu Su to accomplish this much.

Especially after that immense blue energy construct appeared, she even felt that Lu Su could fight Tempest until the end of time.

Without question, this benefited the situation on the battlefield.

Tempest had clearly realized this as well.

She took a deep breath and began forcibly restraining the surrounding air currents.

She was preparing to use her trump card.

Only an attack of that level could break through the defenses of those two cards.

No, not merely break through them. It would be enough to annihilate them.

Unlike Tempest’s first release, when she loosened her restraint in pursuit of wide-range destruction to kill Lu Su, this time she intended to gather every storm together.

Of course, she knew that repeatedly using attacks of this level would weaken her condition. Even if she successfully defeated those two Diamond Grade cards, she would only be able to provide support afterward.

But even that was better than continuing to drag things out.

The winds howled as endless currents converged into Tempest’s hand from the vast heavens and earth.

At the peak of their rotation, not even the slightest sound escaped.

Seeing this, Madara Uchiha’s gaze immediately sharpened.

As a ninja who had clawed his way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he could already smell an extremely dangerous aura coming from the woman before him.

It was several times more dangerous than Hashirama’s Buddha Manifestation.

With that thought, Madara Uchiha immediately raised his right hand toward Tempest and roared, "Planetary Devastation!"

As his words fell, a tiny black sphere flew to the woman’s side.

The next moment, countless huge boulders were pulled into the sky and began wrapping around Tempest layer by layer.

Madara only hoped that this sealing Ninjutsu could delay her slightly, allowing the Armored Wooden Giant to move away.

Unfortunately, Tempest had long since locked onto the two of them.

"At this moment, welcome the end."

Her cold voice came from within the stone sphere.

Then came—

Boom—!

The stone sphere created by Planetary Devastation suddenly shattered. A pale beam, too fast for the naked eye to perceive, instantly struck the Armored Wooden Giant’s body.

Only then did Madara and Hashirama realize that this was not a beam of light at all, but wind compressed to its absolute limit.

Rather than the Storm Sword, this attack was more like the Spear of the End.

Crack—!

Facing Tempest’s strongest killing move, the armor on the Armored Wooden Giant was covered in cracks in the blink of an eye.

Yet no panic appeared on Madara Uchiha’s face.

He merely formed the Snake hand seal and revealed a mocking smile. "Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique."

The green radiance had only just emerged before it was instantly swallowed by the Spear of the End.

Under everyone’s gaze, Tempest’s attack struck its target head-on, then effortlessly erased it from the world.

There was no doubt that Lu Su had lost all ability to fight.

Both the demons and the Card Masters thought so.

But as the price, Tempest’s combat strength had also fallen to less than a tenth of its peak.

Yet unlike the people in the distance, who could not see the details clearly, Tempest had just seen the expression on the black-haired man’s face.

"…Was he mocking me?"

The thought emerged uncontrollably in her heart.