Chapter 289: Probing
In the next instant, Obito's figure appeared like a ghost slightly below and behind Naruto's side. His flame war fan whistled through the air, carrying a majestic amount of Chakra as it swept toward Naruto's waist.
Naruto turned his head slightly, glancing out of the corner of his eye at the sweeping flame war fan and Obito's face—half hideous, half resolute.
Letting him and Hikari fight together?
Had a guy who relied on Kamui's intangibility to stay alive become this arrogant?
Naruto found it somewhat laughable, even a bit... boring.
He raised his left hand, letting the gold dust form a Flying Thunder God Mark nearby, while his right hand, covered in a layer of golden Chakra, blocked Obito's attack. After Obito phased through, Naruto used the Flying Thunder God to teleport himself and Hikari to the mark.
Countless amounts of gold dust quickly condensed into Flying Thunder God Marks in the vicinity.
Naruto's gaze then calmly swept over the forest below, which appeared deep and quiet under the moonlight.
Then, he lightly clapped his hands together in front of his chest.
There were no complex hand seals or lengthy incantations; the movement was as simple as dusting off his hands.
But it was this seemingly casual clap that triggered a cataclysmic upheaval in the forest below!
Wood Release: Wood Soldier Technique.
In an instant, all the massive trees within a radius of hundreds of meters below seemed to be endowed with violent life and a unified will, twisting, deforming, and rising sharply in unison!
Thick trunks intertwined and fused like giant pythons coming to life; countless branches grew wildly and wove together, turning into solid wooden structures; roots burst from the ground like giant feet, supporting massive bodies...
In just a few breaths, the originally quiet forest had vanished.
In its place were over a dozen giant wooden figures, over thirty meters tall, composed entirely of hard ancient wood and clad in heavy wooden armor.
They stood on the earth like forest guardians stepped out of myth, silent and majestic, their hollow "faces" all "looking" toward the uninvited guest in the sky who had tried to attack their master.
Once these wooden soldiers were formed, they didn't hesitate for a moment and immediately launched an attack on Obito.
The nearest wooden soldiers swung wooden fists larger than houses or raised giant feet like battering rams, smashing toward Obito with the power to crush everything.
Even more chillingly, amidst the roar of the wooden soldiers' attacks, there were faint, shrill, and short "screams."
The sounds were distorted, yet one could vaguely distinguish the tone of White Zetsu.
It turned out that the White Zetsu Clones, who had previously infiltrated for reconnaissance and had been using the Mayfly Technique to lurk in the nearby forest, ready to assist or observe, were also within the range of the Wood Release: Wood Soldier Technique.
The essence of Naruto's Wood Release power was the manipulation and creation of plant life, while White Zetsu's Mayfly Technique involved merging oneself with vegetation.
Under the sweep of Naruto's overwhelming Wood Release Chakra, which contained immense vitality and will, the fragile bodies and shallow Wood Release mastery of these White Zetsu Clones simply could not resist.
They were directly judged by Naruto's Wood Release as part of the "controllable plant Materials." During the process of the giant trees merging and deforming into wooden soldiers, they were forcibly incorporated into the wooden soldiers' body structures, emitting their final wails before death!
Obito's pupils shrank.
He never expected Naruto would start with such a large-scale and powerful Wood Release.
Moreover, the scale and control of this Wood Release far exceeded his estimates.
According to Zetsu's intelligence, Naruto could only produce a single thirty-meter wooden man back then; was he producing them wholesale now?
Facing the siege of several wooden soldiers that felt like mountains pressing down, Obito had no time to make any other reaction and could only immediately activate Kamui to enter a state of complete intangibility!
"Shuu—!"
The massive wooden fists and feet passed directly through Obito's intangible body as if moving through an airy phantom, failing to cause any damage.
A sharp wooden spike, comparable to a siege crossbow bolt, that suddenly thrust out from the side also only left a brief "hollow" phantom in Obito's intangible chest before returning unsuccessfully.
Intangibility successfully evaded the first wave of fatal physical siege.
But Obito also knew that intangibility was not invincible; it had a time limit and would consume a large amount of ocular power.
Although having Hashirama cells prevented him from going blind, his ocular power recovered very slowly.
He had to counterattack!
While the intangible state had not yet ended, Obito quickly formed hand seals. The Kamui ocular power of his right eye was activated again, but this time it wasn't for himself; instead, it distorted a small area of space around him, creating a powerful vortex-like storm!
"Fire Release: Blast Wave Wild Dance!"
The moment the storm formed, Obito spat out incredibly intense high-pressure flames from his mouth.
The flames did not attack directly; instead, they accurately merged into the vortex storm created by Kamui.
In an instant, a massive fire vortex over forty meters in diameter, composed entirely of high-speed rotating storms and flames, appeared out of thin air! (According to the information the author found, Obito's Blast Wave Wild Dance can even envelop the Ten-Tails.)
It was like the opening of a furnace from Hell, emitting terrifying high temperatures and destructive energy, sweeping toward the nearest wooden soldiers below with the power to consume everything!
This move had an extremely wide range, and its method of attack was domineering enough, attempting to use the firestorm and Kamui's power to burn these troublesome wooden soldiers to ashes!
However, at the very moment the "Blast Wave Wild Dance" was about to swallow the wooden soldiers—
Naruto moved.
He didn't even give the terrifying fire vortex a second look, nor did he perform any hand seals.
He simply raised his right hand casually, palm facing the roaring firestorm.
Vacuum Attack: Water Dragon Prison.
A massive water dragon, composed entirely of highly compressed and refined liquid water, emerged out of thin air in front of Naruto's palm.
The water dragon was lifelike, its scales and claws flying, with azure light flowing across its entire body.
The water dragon opened its massive mouth and took the initiative to meet the sweeping fire vortex!
Chiii—!!!
Water and fire clashed—extreme heat and extreme cold, violent and refined—colliding instantly.
There was no world-shaking explosion, only a tooth-aching, violent steaming sound, as if billions of water droplets had been thrown into a furnace.
Under the impact of the water dragon and the heat absorption from the evaporation of the massive amount of water it contained, the fire vortex of the Blast Wave Wild Dance shrank and dimmed at a visible rate! The water dragon itself was also being consumed, but it clearly held the advantage of elemental superiority!
Just as Obito's attention was slightly diverted by this sudden and powerful Water Release, and he simultaneously experienced a very brief moment of physicalization due to releasing the Blast Wave Wild Dance...
Uchiha Hikari, who had been waiting for an opportunity on the side with her Mangekyo Sharingan locked onto Obito, seized this fleeting chance.
Amaterasu!
Black flames ignited on Obito's left shoulder without any warning.
This time, Obito was in a physical state and could not phase through to avoid it.
"Argh!"
Obito let out a muffled groan, a flash of shock, anger, and decisiveness crossing his eyes.
He didn't hesitate for a second!
He violently grabbed his left shoulder, which was burning with black flames, with his right hand, and then...
"Rip!"
Accompanied by a tooth-aching tearing sound, Obito actually tore off his own left arm by force.
The moment the severed arm left his body, it was completely consumed by the black flames of Amaterasu, turning into a rapidly shrinking ball of black fire in the air before finally vanishing, leaving not even ashes behind.
As for Obito himself, at the same time his arm was severed, he activated Kamui without hesitation. His entire figure instantly became blurred and distorted, and in the next moment, he completely vanished from the spot.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
Inside the Kamui Dimension.
Obito's figure staggered and appeared in that wasteland composed of countless gray stone pillars.
He clutched the stump of his left shoulder tightly with his right hand.
After the left arm, made of White Zetsu's body, was torn off, the cross-section showed an unusual wooden fibrous appearance. There was no gushing blood, but the sense of Chakra and vitality loss was still evident.
Although there wasn't much pain, the strange sense of emptiness from having a limb forcibly removed, along with the immense humiliation of being forced to sever his own arm and flee in a single exchange, gnawed at his heart like a poisonous snake.
"Damn it!"
Obito squeezed out a low roar of anger through his teeth, his lone eye bloodshot and filled with fury.
He had thought that with Kamui and his flame war fan, even against two people, he could hold his own or even find an opportunity.
He never expected that not only would he fail to gain the slightest advantage, but he would also suffer a huge loss in the very first round, losing an arm!
Truly impressive... Uzumaki Naruto!
And that... female Uchiha!
Obito gritted his teeth, his heart filled with resentment, anger, and wariness.
That female Uchiha's Amaterasu was different from Itachi's; her controllability seemed to be higher.
A Dōjutsu that can control flames and Amaterasu?
Obito thought about the Dōjutsu that had appeared in history that Madara had told him about, and finally thought of one.
Is it Kagutsuchi?
Very well. Combined with Susanoo, this female Uchiha's Mangekyo Sharingan abilities have basically been figured out.
The border of the Land of Earth.
After sensing that Obito had disappeared, Naruto did not stop.
The steaming water vapor gradually dissipated, and the dozen silent wooden soldiers below still stood tall, as if the intense confrontation just now was merely an illusion. Naruto slowly withdrew his hand, and the water dragon dissipated along with it.
He glanced at the place where Obito had vanished, then at the wisp of black embers belonging to the Amaterasu flames that had not yet completely dispersed in the air.
He simply left a faint sentence: "He certainly runs fast."
Obito possessed strength close to the Super Kage level due to the existence of Kamui, but once Kamui was countered, his actual combat performance was merely that of an Elite Jonin with a Mangekyo.
Furthermore, because he lacked a pair of eyes, he couldn't even use his Susanoo.
He could only rely on Taijutsu and Ninjutsu that were evenly matched with Kakashi to face enemies, barely reaching the threshold of a Kage.
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