And that single spiraling light wheel, at the flash of completing the cutting, had its speed slow down near-not-a-single-fraction; it penetrated through the magatama remaining shadows, its target pointing straight at the massive Susanoo!
This was precisely where the essence of "Spiraling Light Wheel: Void Severing Third Style" lay.
It abandoned that kind of explosive area damage of the Rasenshuriken, compressing all power to the ultimate limit; what it pursued was absolute cutting that was unbreakable toward anything!
Speaking according to game terminology, the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken possessed a terrifying total damage, but its armor-penetration line was not high; while this strand of light wheel's total damage was not high, it conversely possessed an extremely high armor-penetration line.
Facing the magatama explosion whose remaining momentum was not yet extinguished, Minato's form flashed, having already utilized the Flying Thunder God Technique to calmly evade past.
The Sage Mode's golden eye shadow and horizontal pupils rapidly faded away; this powerful state was a no-small burden toward him, and was unable to be kept continuously.
He landed steadily at a far place, slightly worn out but his gaze remaining sharp as before.
However, the massive Susanoo was unable to perform instantaneous movement evasion like the "Yellow Flash"!
That fatal spiraling light wheel, bearing the destruction power endowed by senjutsu chakra together with the ultimate sharpness of the Wind Release nature transformation, mercilessly chopped upon the emerald-green energy titan!
Chih, hum!!!
An eye-blinding strong light instantly exploded, and closely following behind it was a high-frequency cutting sound sharp enough to pierce ear-membranes and cause the soul to tremble!
That voice was like countless diamond electric saws rotating at high speed, crazily cutting the hardest alloy armor!
The strong light and noise were like a material shockwave, sweeping across the entire battlefield!
The battle-watching Uchiha clan members, even if being elites possessing the Sharingan, also had no choice but to painfully narrow their eyes, even subconsciously using their arms to screen that overly dazzling light, simultaneously covering their ears tightly, difficult to endure that torture of noise directly boring into the brain-marrow.
Only an extremely small number of powerhouses possessing the three-tomoe Sharingan and above could barely see clearly the core of the collision within that patch of destructive light!
They saw that Susanoo, which symbolized absolute defense, burst forth with intense energy sparks before the spiraling light wheel!
The emerald energy armor violently fluctuated and dented, stubbornly resisting that merciless cutting.
However, that light wheel harboring senjutsu and ultimate Wind Release—its cutting power was truly too tyrannical!
The tough Susanoo armor merely supported for a brief moment before emitting an unable-to-bear-the-weight wailing, a clear crack appearing at the place where the light wheel cut in, and expanding rapidly like a spiderweb!
Crack, boom!
Ultimately, accompanied by an earth-shaking loud sound of crisp energy fracturing, the spiraling light wheel thoroughly penetrated through Susanoo's defense!
That towering green titan, starting from the part that was hit, was forcefully, cleanly, and agilely cut into two halves!
The massive energy lost its shackle, crashing into a ruined dispersal, transforming into sky-drifting-and-scattering green light-dots.
At Susanoo's core position, Shisui's figure fiercely trembled, coughing violently, his face instantly becoming pale like paper, clearly having received a massive backlash from the pupil technique being broken.
The light gradually extinguished, and the ear-piercing cutting sound finally ceased.
Upon the battlefield diffused the scorched flavor subsequent to energy burning and sky-filling smoke-dust.
When everything calmed down, that vanished Susanoo let the answer already be clearly revealed.
The ultimate collision—Minato's "Sage Art: Wind Release: Spiraling Light Wheel Void Severing Third Style" was one cut better!
"Unbefitting less of Minato."
The three-tomoe Sharingan beneath Takuno's mask also clearly watched all of this.
After the step-further Susanoo was once more smashed open, he could not help but lament with praise.
Just as he anticipated, at the final critical juncture, Minato ultimately still mobilized Sage Mode!
Even though that state was brief like a fleeting night-blooming cactus, Takuno, who was already extremely familiar with Sage Mode now, still distinguished it out.
What caused Takuno to look sideways even more was that strand of ninjutsu within Minato's hand, clearly being an advanced form of the Rasengan, which should be a new technique Minato single-handedly drilled into and developed.
Even if his inner heart also guessed that the other party would boundingly research out a nature transformation fitting himself, when truly seeing it, he also ate a shock.
He looked at this spiraling light wheel, his three-tomoe Sharingan also analyzing its concrete information.
Its power was boundingly inferior to that Wind Release: Rasenshuriken whose destruction power was shocking yet its backlash was also massive, but the key lay in that its chakra consumption was heavily reduced.
The Wind Release: Rasenshuriken's burden toward the caster was too heavy; although Minato's chakra amount did not count as small, it was also impossible for him to use the Rasenshuriken several times.
If a single strike failed to take effect, the follow-up would unavoidably fall into passivity.
While this new technique before his eyes perfectly evaded this class of defect; it possessed an outstanding armor-penetration penetration power, simultaneously maintaining a relatively minor chakra expenditure, capable of being hailed as a perfect ninjutsu tailored-made for Minato that took care of both power and endurance.
The dust settled, and at the center of the battlefield, Shisui's figure staggered, the intense sense of weakness brought by the overdrawn chakra and pupil power causing him to be near-incapable of standing steadily.
That pair of Mangekyō Sharingan that once shined with Susanoo was also dim at this moment.
This time, it was impossible for Shisui to rise again; even if he were of the Uchiha clan and possessed that kind of unreasonable outbreak, he also had to follow some basic rules.
What was boundingly brought subsequent to an outbreak was weakness.
This single battle also finally drew a full stop here.
Takuno shrugged his shoulders; Minato previously had specially mobilized the Anbu, and had even invited the Ino-Shika-Cho three clans as back-up support.
Looking at it now, this turn of arrangement appeared overly cautious; it was feared the sole matter needing them subsequently was letting the Anbu come to handle this messy battlefield wreckage.
However, precisely within the flash when his thoughts traveled, a mutation abruptly rose!
Takuno's crimson pupils abruptly shrunk! One could only see that next to Shisui's shaking-and-desiring-to-fall figure, space without any warning underwent a bizarre distortion and wrinkle.
In the next instant, a figure clad in a pitch-black long robe with its face covered by a bizarre vortex-shaped mask manifested out of thin air, stepping out from nothingness—precisely the mastermind who schemed all of this, Obito!
Takuno toward Obito's appearance itself did not feel surprised.
What truly caused him surprise was the timing the other party selected, actually boldly manifesting at the flash when the battle had just ended and everyone's mind-spirit slightly slacked!
And furthermore, even with his Sage Mode perception plus Mind's Eye of Kagura, he completely did not perceive the other party's location.
The sole explanation was that the other party near-entirely through the course maintained that kind of space-intangibility state, only materializing and lurking here within an extremely brief instant.
Therefore, even if it were his current perception, it was also very difficult to lock onto the other party within a single instant.
And he at this moment did not yet know that at Obito's side there also lurked an even more ancient and mysterious existence, Black Zetsu.
The other party did not possess Obito's intangibility, yet had also still not been discovered by him.
But even if knowing, Takuno would also not because of this self-doubt.
After all, that was an existence that even the Sage of Six Paths had once been blinded by; for its concealment capability to be able to easily cheat past his own perception, was it not something that was matchlessly "matter-of-course"?
Upon the battlefield where the gunfire and smoke had not yet completely dispersed, Minato witnessed Shisui's Susanoo thoroughly collapse into pieces, transforming into sky-filling dispersing energy light-dots.
He gazed upon the other party's staggering-and-desiring-to-fall figure that was near-oil-exhausted-and-lamp-dry; his heart tightened, wishing to go forward to support him, taking him to break away from this danger-land to emergency-rescue that broken body.
However, precisely when his form minutely moved and his distance toward the other party still possessed several paces of distance, a figure appeared at Shisui's flank!
That orange spiral-pattern mask, that familiar black robe—precisely that mysterious person who back in the year manufactured the Nine-Tails Incident, who called himself and was also suspected to be "Uchiha Madara"!
"It's him?!" Minato's pupils abruptly shrunk to the size of a needle-point, and his heart fiercely sank downward.
This enemy who left a blood-debt within Konoha—for what reason did he manifest at this moment?
A strand of intense ominous premonition seized him.
Near-simultaneously with his thought flashing past, he was lost to striking alarm to see that mysterious mask man's hand had already straightly stretched toward Shisui who at this time already completely lacked resistance capability!
He actually was going to execute a killing hand toward Shisui?!
Lacking any hesitation, Minato's figure instantly vanished at the original place.
"Hmm?!"
Minato's sudden disappearance caused alarm bells to masterfully ring within Obito's heart; that strand of wariness dominated by the Flying Thunder God once more surged onto his heart.
But at this moment, his finger-tips possessed merely a hairsbreadth of difference toward Shisui! As long as he touched him, as long as a single flash, he could suck the other party into his own Kamui space.
Once entering that distinct space dominated by him, the severely injured and dying Shisui could only allow himself to be butchered!
This obsession covered over his fear toward Minato; and furthermore, he previously also saw that within Shisui's surroundings there did not exist the specialized kunai needed by the Flying Thunder God Technique!
Therefore his hand not only did not pause, but conversely accelerated to search forward, his finger-tips near-desiring to touch Shisui's garment-corner.
However, he completely did not expect Minato would actually directly instantaneous-move to his behind.
Minato's figure clearly manifested out, his azure eyes filled with ice-coldness, and that group of high-speed rotating trademark ninjutsu Rasengan within his hand was pressed with matchless precision upon Obito's vest!
"Boom!"
A massive impact force accompanied by a muffled explosive sound blasted open!
That familiar severe pain instantly swept across Obito's entire body, the position exactly fitting the place where he was hit back in the year during the Nine-Tails Night!
He saw that single Sharingan exposed alone outside the mask showing disbelief.
"How is it possible?! The Flying Thunder God Technique... clearly needs a formula mark! Behind me there basically is not his specialized kunai!"
This speed and manifestation method that surpassed understanding caused a winter-chill to rise within his heart.
However, beneath the severe pain Obito did not panic; possessing the powerful life force endowed by Hashirama cells, although the Rasengan heavily injured him, it was far from sufficient to be fatal!
An intense obsession supported him; that hand reaching toward Shisui actually still stubbornly clutched forward amidst the severe pain! Seeing that it was about to succeed...
Right at the instant when his finger-tips were about to touch Shisui's garment-front, Shisui, who by right ought to be thoroughly unconscious, had his body actually fiercely and extremely weakly shrink backward a bit!
"What?!"
Obito was lost to striking alarm and extreme dread.
How could this be possible?! Having endured the heavy injury of Susanoo's backlash, and having overdrawn his life potential to forcefully wage a fierce battle until now, this person actually still remained with a wisp of consciousness?! And was furthermore capable of action?!
This minor-to-the-limit evasion was not worth mentioning during common times, but at this single flash, it conversely became a natural chasm!
The massive impact force brought by the Rasengan thoroughly destroyed the balance of the Uchiha body; he could not help but stagger and tilt-fall forward.
Shisui's this outside-of-expectations resistance action, plus his own out-of-control situation state, let him recognize that he could not touch Shisui!
Could it be... the meticulously schemed action was going to have its effort completely lost at this single flash?!
"No!!!" Within Obito's eyes instantly burst forth a causing-people-to-be-alarmed madness.
In a spark-and-flint flash, that outstretched right arm of his actually during the course of falling down mutated at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Tough wood fibers instantly took the place of flesh and blood, transforming into a matchlessly sharp tree trunk, bearing a space-tearing sound, piercing with extreme harshness and fierceness toward Shisui who due to his injury being too heavy was unable to truly dodge!
"Puchi!"
A heart-palpitating penetration sound rang out.
The tree trunk precisely ran through Shisui's body! Fresh blood instantly dyed his garment-front red.
Obito's eyes revealed full fierce-light, intending to immediately manipulate that tree trunk part running through Shisui's body to split and blast open, thoroughly destroying his internal organs!
However, golden light flashed again!
Minato's figure appeared at Shisui's flank.
The specialized kunai within his hand flashed with a cold light, fast like a sickness-lightning, cutting with extreme precision across that wood tree trunk connecting Obito's arm together with Shisui's body!
Crack!
The tough tree trunk broke in response to the sound, its connection toward Obito's main body instantly being cut apart.
Looking at that segment of severed wood that lost life force, Obito knew the optimal opportunity to personally kill Shisui...
Had already, following that strand of golden flash and the fractured tree trunk, faded away before his eyes!
Shisui, who originally had a dying breath and by right should have fallen into absolute unconsciousness, abruptly opened his double eyes!
That pair of eyes that had been dim and without light, within a flash once more burst forth with an alarming power, his pitch-black pupils instantly transforming into the Mangekyō Sharingan!
This pair of pinwheel-shaped blood-colored eyes bore a decisive will, death-lock-targeting Obito's eyes that were close at hand.
The pinwheel pattern began to rotate at high speed, and a strand of terrifying pupil power burst out!
"Damn it!" Obito's heart violently shook, his face lost to striking alarm.
He completely did not anticipate that Shisui, who endured such a heavy injury and was bordering on collapse, could actually still squeeze out potential to forcefully launch the Mangekyō's power!
This completely exceeded his expectations.
The fatal sense of threat caused Obito's entire body's nerves to instantly tense tight.
Near-entirely as a reflex action, the identical powerful Mangekyō Sharingan pupil power within his eye-socket crazily exploded, directly completing intangibility.
And thereafter, a distorted vortex space abruptly manifested, swallowing him up instantly.
Obito's figure, together with that space ripple, thoroughly vanished above the battlefield filled with gunfire and smoke, leaving behind solely a patch of shock.
Shisui stared at the place where Obito vanished, that forcefully ignited Mangekyō Sharingan within his eyes finally thoroughly exhausting out.
The pinwheel pattern stopped its rotation, and the blood-colored light rapidly faded away, ultimately transforming into a patch of dark-gray that lacked a single fraction of life breath.
Minato supported Shisui, lacking a single fraction of hesitation, and subsequently took him to arrive at the battlefield edge, finding Takuno.