20demayo Chapter 441 Menma vs. Jigen Urashiki
Chapter 441 Menma vs. Jigen Urashiki
Urashiki's anger was completely ignited by Menma's casual wave.
That indifference that humans show to insects at their feet is just like their attitude towards humans.
But now it has appeared on a planet inhabited by natives who are not Otsutsuki people!
It's as if it's saying: Come on, come at me all at once, let me crush you all, so I don't have to worry about you.
"Arrogant brat!"
Pu Shi's lips were pressed into a thin line, and on his fair face, the already prominent veins now writhed and bulged under his skin like earthworms, making his face look somewhat ferocious.
"You will pay the price for your arrogance!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already swung the red fishing rod in his hand in a wide arc!
Using his waist as an axis and chakra as a string, he poured the power of his entire arm and body into that seemingly slender fishing rod.
"Amazing meteor destiny!"
Om-! ! !
The red light at the tip of the fishing rod suddenly surged, like an exploding firework, turning into dozens or even hundreds of fine red streaks that poured down like a torrential rain towards the direction where Mianma was!
Each streak of red light is a fishhook compressed to its limit, containing Urashiki's unique Rinnegan power, a bizarre ability to forcibly extract chakra from the hooked person.
Throughout Pu Shi's long tree-planting career, this tactic has caused countless "indigenous strongmen" from various planets to suffer defeat.
They might be able to block physical attacks or withstand ninjutsu bombardment, but when faced with this ability that ignores defenses, penetrates the body directly, and affects the body's energy, most people don't even have a chance to react before their chakra or life energy is drained in an instant.
However, faced with this overwhelming red light, Menma did not even make any "response" action.
He simply stood there quietly, as if what was happening before him was just a dazzling fireworks display.
Then, the ten dark red chakra tails behind him moved.
The ten tails seemed to possess independent will, silently rising and then drawing several arcs in the air.
Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
The crackling sounds, so dense they resembled popping beans, blended together in the air.
The hundreds of sharp, incoming red streaks of light were all pulverized and scattered by the sweeping chakra tail, turning into specks of red light that slowly drifted away in the air.
The whole process was so fast it was dazzling.
"Tsk." Urashi curled his lip, but there was little surprise or astonishment on his face. Instead, a strange smile appeared on his face.
"Got it!"
He suddenly yanked the fishing rod in his hand!
At the end of the fishing line on the fishing rod, a red hook, amidst the many streaks of light, silently struck Menma's chakra tail.
When Urashiki reeled in the hook, a small, dark red ball of chakra was clearly visible on it, constantly wriggling slightly.
It was a small clump of dark red chakra that was "scraped" off from Menma's tail by a fishhook.
"Hahaha! Kid, you're still too green!" Urashiki laughed triumphantly, carefully pinching the red fishing line, bringing the hook close to his eyes, and carefully observing the dark red chakra energy on the hook tip.
"Let me see what this strange chakra of yours is all about..."
His laughter abruptly stopped.
The smugness and greed in those white eyes were quickly replaced by an indescribable look of astonishment.
"What...is this?"
Pu Shi frowned, bringing the fishhook even closer. The blood vessels around his eyes throbbed more violently, clearly indicating that he had pushed his perception to its limit.
He saw it.
That dark red chakra, in appearance, was not much different from ordinary tailed beast chakra, or even the chakra of the God Tree planted by the Otsutsuki clan. It was a chakra aggregate transformed from high-concentration natural energy.
but……
"Something feels... off."
Pu muttered to himself, his fingers unconsciously twisting the fishing rod.
"There's something inside... that I've never seen before."
That wasn't a change in the nature of chakra, nor was it simply malice or negative emotion.
Rather, it was something deeper, darker, as if it came from the "other side" of the world.
Like light and darkness, although they are opposites, they belong to two sides of the same world.
The dark red chakra before him gave Urashiki the feeling of the "dark side" of chakra.
"How is this possible..." Urashiki's forehead was covered in cold sweat.
He has traversed the universe for thousands of years, harvesting countless life-bearing planets and witnessing all sorts of strange and wonderful chakra properties, but he has never... never seen chakra of this nature.
Just as Urashiki was filled with surprise and doubt.
call out!
A sharp, piercing sound suddenly rang out.
A jet-black chakra rod, like a meteor tearing through the night sky, shot straight toward Urashiki's face!
It was Mianma who casually tossed out the black chakra rod he had been playing with.
But the speed and power of that casual throw sent chills down Urashiki's spine!
"Danger!"
Driven by instinct, Urashiki's body darted to one side at lightning speed!
The black chakra rods grazed his cheek, leaving a thin, bloody trail on his fair skin.
However, the attack did not end there.
At the end of the trajectory of the black chakra rods, Menma's figure followed closely behind!
"Wow...so fast!" Boruto exclaimed from the rooftop, staring in disbelief at the battle in the air, his blue pupils trembling slightly.
Menma's speed was so fast that it exceeded Boruto's visual retention limit, giving Boruto the illusion of "teleportation".
Menma clenched his right fist, which was covered with thick, blood-red tailed beast chakra. There were no fancy techniques or unnecessary movements; it was just the simplest, most direct, and most violent straight punch!
A blast aimed straight at Urashiki's face!
"Oh no!" Urashiki's pupils contracted sharply.
The punch was too fast and the distance was too close; he simply didn't have time to dodge!
There wasn't even time to switch to the Six-Tomoe Ring Eye to unleash the time reversal ability.
The only option is to block it head-on!
Pu Shi instinctively raised the red fishing rod in his hand and held it horizontally in front of him.
"Don't even think about it!"
A low growl came from the side.
It is Cixian.
The moment Menma threw the black stick, he had already moved.
The black chakra rod he had gathered in his hand pierced with unparalleled precision toward Menma's right fist, attempting to intercept the punch midway.
bite--!!!
The fist, enveloped in dark red chakra, collided violently with the black chakra rod!
There was no loud noise.
There was only a dull groan, as if metal were being twisted by a tremendous force.
Sizzle sizzle—!!!
The dark red chakra clashed and eroded the black rods of Yin-Yang Release power, causing dazzling sparks to erupt on the surface of the black rods and emitting a teeth-grinding "sizzling" sound.
"What?!" Cixian's expression changed.
He could clearly feel that the black rod in his hand, formed from the purest Yin-Yang Release power, was humming under the corrosive influence of the dark red chakra on the opponent's fist!
It looked as if it would snap in two at any moment!
Just where does this guy's chakra come from?!
It can even corrupt creations created using Yin-Yang Release?!
"Ura-shiki!" Ji-gen growled through gritted teeth, "Stop spacing out!"
It was only then that Pu Shi came to his senses from the shock.
He looked at the fist that was so close to him, barely blocked by Jigen's black rod, and then at the dark red chakra that was still wriggling slightly on the fishhook in his hand. His expression became extremely solemn.
"This guy's chakra...something's wrong!"
He said in a low voice, his voice trembling slightly.
Having traversed the universe for thousands of years, he has harvested countless life-bearing planets and witnessed all sorts of "indigenous power systems," but he has never seen chakra of this nature.
Fierce, yet orderly.
It was full of malice, but not simply hatred.
It seemed to belong to no source of chakra he knew.
You must know that all the chakra in this world was formed by the Otsutsuki clan planting the Divine Tree and absorbing and refining the natural energy of the life-bearing planet!
Even more bizarrely...
Pu Shi subconsciously glanced at the red fish basket at his waist.
That was a treasure he used to store his "harvest," which could temporarily seal the extracted chakra within it for him to slowly digest and absorb.
But at this moment, the red fish basket is trembling and resisting!
When Urashiki tried to put the dark red chakra on the hook into the fish basket, a strong repulsive force came from inside the basket, as if saying: No! This thing... is dangerous! It's "dirty"!
"Even the 'fish basket' is resisting..." A bead of cold sweat slid down Pu Shi's forehead.
"What the hell is this thing?!"
Mianma's right fist was blocked by Cixian's black stick, but his movements did not stop at all.
It was as if all of this was within his expectations.
No, it wasn't expected.
Rather, they simply don't care.
His right fist was blocked?
Then let's switch sides and attack!
The moment the attack was blocked, Mianma's left leg suddenly bent like a spring, and his left knee, like a cannonball, slammed into Cixian's unsuspecting side!
Fast! Ruthless! Accurate!
Cixian's pupils suddenly contracted.
There's no escaping it!
We have no choice but to tough it out!
He suddenly raised his left leg, his calf blocking the trajectory of the knee strike.
boom--! ! !
After a dull thud, Cixian's body jolted violently. The terrifying force from his left leg made his entire leg go numb, and his body slid uncontrollably to the side for several meters.
Meanwhile, Menma, using the reaction force of the knee strike, lightly spun in the air, and his right leg lashed out like a whip, sweeping towards Urashiki who had just regained his footing!
Pu cursed under his breath and hastily parried with his red fishing rod.
Snapped!
The fishing rod collided with the instep enveloped in dark red chakra. Urashiki felt a numbness in his hand, the fishing rod almost slipped from his grasp, and his body was thrown backward by the force.
However, Mianma's attacks were like a raging storm, showing no sign of stopping.
As soon as Mianma regained his position, his left fist came out from another tricky angle, aiming straight for Cixian's face.
Cixian gritted his teeth, and the black stick in his hand turned into black afterimages as he desperately blocked and parried.
Ding!Ding!Ding!
The sounds of impact, so dense they were almost suffocating, echoed through the air.
On the rooftop, Jiraiya, young Sasuke, Boruto, and Orochimaru all held their breath, their eyes fixed on the battle in the air.
"Too fast..." Boruto muttered to himself, his eyes wide open, trying to capture every movement of the three figures in the air.
"I can't see it at all..." Perhaps thanks to these eyes, he could only see a blurry afterimage and the dark red and black light that burst out when the afterimage collided, but his body couldn't keep up with that reaction speed at all.
Young Sasuke's Rinnegan was fixed on the battle in the air, and he felt unprecedented pressure.
The speed is not the only thing that Mianma (面麻) demonstrates.
There is also the absolute control over the rhythm of battle, the accurate prediction of the enemy's psychology, and the perfect use of every muscle and every bit of strength in the body.
"His taijutsu..." the young Sasuke asked in confusion.
"It combines more than one genre."
Jiraiya nodded slowly, his expression solemn.
"The power and speed of Konoha Fluid Technique... the Gentle Fist of the Hyuga clan, which uses softness to overcome hardness and attack the enemy's vital points... and some other techniques that I have never seen before."
Some of those techniques are like variations of Steel Fist, but with an added touch of uncanny flexibility; others are like stances never seen before, but simplified and modified to be more suitable for actual combat.
Some even defy common sense, as if they are using their joints and muscles in some unbelievable way.
"Moreover, his combat experience... is terrifyingly rich."
Jiraiya narrowed his eyes, his gaze following Menma's every subtle movement.
"That's not experience that can be gained through cultivation; it's instinct that can only be acquired through life-or-death battles, through blood and pain."
Orochimaru stood atop the giant wooden rooftop, his golden vertical pupils flashing with fanatical light. He licked his lips and muttered to himself:
"Perfect body coordination... ultimate control over strength... and the creativity to seamlessly integrate multiple martial arts styles..."
"Shura... After knowing you for so long, this is the first time I've seen you display your strength..."
The battle continues in the air.
The attack of the facial pockmarked face was like a never-ending tsunami, with one wave higher than the next.
His fists, feet, knees, elbows—every part of his body—became a deadly weapon.
The attacks were unpredictable and erratic, with varying speeds and strengths, leaving Cixian and Urashiki struggling to cope and in a sorry state.
Cixian's expression grew increasingly grim.
He has entered the second stage of "Wedge", and his physical abilities have been enhanced in all aspects. Logically speaking, he should not be at a disadvantage in a pure physical combat.
But in reality, he was repeatedly defeated.
Five years ago, in Amegakure, he could at least use the power of the second stage of the "Karma" to barely suppress his opponent in taijutsu.
but now……
This guy's physical skills are more than one level better than they were five years ago!
No, it's not just about getting stronger.
Five years ago, although this guy was strong in physical combat and his physical combat skills were not restricted by any particular school, his fighting style was more "brutal" and he used brute force to overwhelm others.
And now...
When it is fierce, it is like Mount Tai pressing down; when it is gentle, it is like a spring breeze; when it is swift, it is like lightning; when it is heavy, it is like the deep earth.
Various drastically different, even contradictory, traits have been perfectly integrated into him, forming a unique fighting style that is unclassifiable and inimitable!
What's even more terrifying is that Cixian could sense that the other party appeared calm and composed, as if... they hadn't even used their full strength yet.
This guy... is using the two of them... as practice?!
"Unforgivable...unforgivable...unforgivable!" Cixian roared in his heart.
Just then, the numb-faced man's right fist broke through Cixian's dense defensive network and slammed into Cixian's face.
boom--! ! !
A dull, loud bang.
Cixian's face caved in at a visible speed, his skin, muscles, and even bones twisting and deforming under the terrifying force of the punch.
"Ugh—!!"
He let out a short cry of pain, as if he had been hit head-on by a speeding train. He flew backward, tracing an arc in the air, and only managed to regain his balance after flying dozens of meters.
"Now!"
Pu Shi's eyes lit up.
At the moment Jigen was knocked away, Menma's attention would inevitably be momentarily distracted.
This is a golden opportunity!
He suddenly reached into the red fish basket at his waist with his left hand and pulled out a ball of chakra that crackled and flashed with dazzling lightning.
That was the Lightning Release chakra he had previously "fished" out of young Sasuke with a fishing rod.
"Try this!"
Urashiki growled and suddenly flung out the Lightning Release chakra in his hand!
The ball of chakra rapidly expanded and deformed in the air, transforming into several ferocious lightning snakes as thick as buckets, emitting a piercing hissing sound, baring its fangs, and frantically biting at Menma, who had just withdrawn his fist!
The lightning was dazzling, turning half the sky a ghastly white.
However, faced with this violent lightning release that could vaporize even steel, Menma didn't even make a "defensive" stance.
He simply raised his right hand.
He spread his fingers and aimed his palm at the several lightning snakes that were attacking him.
laugh--! ! !
Before those several ferocious lightning snakes could even touch Mianma, they vanished into Mianma's palm like mud oxen entering the sea, and were instantly absorbed.
It was as if there was an invisible black hole in the palm of his face, swallowing up every last bit of the incoming lightning chakra.
Pu Shi's smile froze on his face.
His eyes widened, his whites filled with disbelief and horror.
"H-How is this possible...?"
"This guy... can absorb chakra too?!"
Moreover, that method of absorption!
They are exactly like the Otsutsuki clan!
Absorbing chakra was like breathing to him, an instinct of his body.
Just as Urashiki was stunned, Menma's figure suddenly disappeared.
By the time Urashiki reacted, Menma had already rushed in front of him again at a terrifying speed.
"Oh no..."
Pu's pupils suddenly contracted.
"The origami cranes instantly appear!"
Urashiki's eyes instantly switched to blue Rinnegan.
Om-! ! !
His body instantly transformed into countless red origami cranes, scattering in all directions.
Menma's fist, enveloped in dark red chakra, pierced through the phantom of the origami cranes and slammed into empty space.
Dozens of meters away, the red origami cranes reassembled, forming Urashiki's body.
"Damn it... this guy..."
Urashiki gritted his teeth, his blue Rinnegan eyes filled with lingering fear and rage.
Almost...
He was just a hair's breadth away from having his head smashed by that punch.
"Ura-shiki!"
Cixian's roar came from the other side.
He had regained his footing, and his sunken cheeks were rapidly repaired by the power of the "Wedge," but the anger in his eyes was even more intense than before.
"Stop dawdling! Attack together! Take him down!"
Before he could finish speaking, Cixian had already rushed forward again.
This time, he did not choose to confront Mianma head-on.
He raised his right hand, and dozens of black chakra rods suddenly appeared around Menma again, attempting to block his movements.
However, it was still blocked by that invisible barrier.
But this time, Jigen's purpose was not to attack with chakra rods.
Rather, it's a restraint.
Just as Menma's attention was drawn to the black rods around him.
The once clear sky suddenly darkened.
It looked like it was covered by something...
Mianma slowly raised his head.
Above his head, a dozen huge black cubes had appeared out of nowhere.
Each of those cubes was the size of a house, with a smooth, mirror-like surface and sharp, angular edges. Each face had three red squares, one inside the other, emitting a faint red glow.
"That is..." On the rooftop, young Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly widened.
He sensed an extremely pure Yin-Yang Release power emanating from those black cubes.
These black cubes are not only incredibly heavy, but they also possess a force that disrupts space.
It was as if the space itself was distorted and frozen where those cubes were located.
"Great Heavenly Box!"
Cixian's cold, low growl echoed in the air.
Om-! ! !
A dozen enormous black cubes, like meteorites, crashed down with terrifying howls towards the direction where Mianma was!
Their impact not only covered the surface of the roof, but also encompassed most of the roof below within their attack range!
"not good!"
Young Sasuke's expression changed drastically. He grabbed Boruto, who hadn't reacted yet, and jumped towards the roof on the other side.
"Quick, let's go! Something's wrong with these blocks!"
Jiraiya reacted extremely quickly, leaping into the air almost the instant the young Sasuke spoke.
Just as the three of them leaped away from their original positions.
Rumble—!!!
The terrifying impact sounded like countless mountains collapsing simultaneously, shaking the entire Hidden Leaf Village.
The dozen or so huge black cubes slammed heavily onto the roof.
The sturdy glazed tile roof was easily smashed and crushed like paper.
The towering trees born from the birth of the tree kingdom are like fragile stalks of wheat in front of these black cubes, crushed, broken, and ground into sawdust in large swathes.
Smoke and dust billowed into the sky, enveloping the entire area.