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Chapter 267: Hatake Sakumo: Fighting is awesome! (4K4)

Immortality is a curse, which is a classic setting in Japanese stories.

Unlike China, which has a strong culture of immortality, the various immortalities in Japanese stories all come with huge costs and may even bring catastrophe and disaster.

The immortal in "Sekiro" is a typical example. It was originally an injured cherry dragon that escaped from the continent west of Japan. The blood that flowed out of it carried the power of immortality, thus creating the first immortality, and also making the people who obtained the power of immortality the first immortals. They believed that they had transcended the mundane world and became a superior being.

However, this kind of immortality is like the twisted transformation of the flesh. It will gradually pollute the earth, absorb other lives, and over time, the undead will gradually be twisted into horrible monsters.

Throughout the whole story, anyone who wanted to research and obtain immortality all had a bad ending. The so-called immortality was ultimately just a poison that led to destruction.

Kuro Hirata, who possesses the power of dragon's heritage, wants to end this curse of immortality. As his servant and contractor, the wolf, who obtained the power of immortality from Kuro Hirata, wants to help his master end the curse of immortality.

This is the story of the second half of "Sekiro", and it is also the ongoing story of Sakumo Hatake.

In fact, there are multiple endings for the game, the most extreme of which is the Shura ending, which is to kill everything, take the power of Dragon's Heritage for yourself, and make yourself the immortal Asura.

Of course, it is impossible for Hatake Sakumo to take this ruthless and unrighteous path. This Konoha White Fang has always been a man of affection and righteousness.

Uchiha Qi saw all this and seemed to have discovered something. He raised his eyebrows and then smiled: "I see, you are worthy of being the White Fang of Konoha. You actually have such awareness and ideas. This is indeed what you would do..."

Saying these words, Uchiha Kai was looking forward to the time when Hatake Sakumo would complete the game.

In the game, Hatake Sakumo's journey is gradually coming to the final moment.

This speed is much faster than that of Tobirama Senju completing Dark Souls 3.

However, it is also natural that Sekiro's worldview cannot be compared with Dark Souls in any way. Although Uchiha Kei also gave Sekiro's world a great degree of freedom, it is far inferior to the world of Dark Souls.

Moreover, when it comes to treating Hatake Sakumo, Uchiha Kei did not have the same ancestral malice towards Hatake Sakumo like he did towards Senju Tobirama, and Hatake Sakumo also did not offend Uchiha Kei, so the world that Uchiha Kei arranged for Hatake Sakumo was still quite "humane".

At least, there is not so much chaos and despair, so that Hatake Sakumo has a clear goal from the beginning, and the subsequent story development also has a clear main task.

Although the enemies in the game have been strengthened, their intelligence far exceeds that of the original characters, and their combat routines are not so rigid, you will not be able to fight with your eyes closed after adapting.

However, Konoha White Fang is not an ordinary player. He really fought his way out of the battlefield. Moreover, in the game, he does not need to follow the established combat routines to fight the enemy with swords. Hatake Sakumo can use his own experience and skills to fight.

So, even though the enemy was greatly strengthened, Hatake Sakumo was still able to chop them down like a pro.

Moreover, the protagonist in the game is not without strength improvement. Just like Tobirama Senju can gain soul power by killing monsters in the Dark Souls world, after Hatake Sakumo kills enemies with the "immortal" attribute or those infected with "immortal" energy in the game, he will naturally absorb this power and use it to strengthen himself.

In the later stages, except for being unable to use ninjutsu, Hatake Sakumo is no weaker than his original self in terms of strength. He even borrows the power of the super weapon "Immortality Slash" in the game and even surpasses his former self.

So, when Hatake Sakumo faced the hidden super boss Sakura Ryu in the game in order to fulfill his master's desire to cut off immortality, a battle that could be called a super war in the ninja world began.

The Sakura Dragon is undoubtedly a mythical creature. It has the appearance of a dragon, is extremely strong, has a tyrannical body, and the power to control thunder and storms. It has also absorbed the attributes of various native myths of Ashina Country, gained divinity, and is the source of immortal power.

In the original game, there is no way to actually kill the Sakura Dragon. You can only knock it out and take the Sakura Dragon's Tears, an important item for passing the level.

However, since it is a modified game, Uchiha Kai will naturally not let the situation be that simple. Besides, the wolf now is not a real wolf, but Hatake Sakumo, the top powerful man who intimidates the three ninjas.

At this point, except for the inability to use chakra, Hatake Sakumo is already stronger than he used to be in all aspects. He even possesses the power of immortality and can be resurrected even after death.

With so many buffs on his body, Hatake Sakumo's mission is naturally to kill the Sakura Dragon completely and cut off the source of immortality completely, thus achieving the possibility of eliminating immortality.

When Hatake Sakumo arrived at the abode of Sakura Dragon, what he saw was a misty cloud, as if he was stepping on clouds. In the center of this divine domain, there was an incredibly huge cherry tree, and the immortal god, the source of all gods of Ashina, Sakura Dragon, was perched on the cherry tree.

It was a dragon that was all white, with a strange beauty, and its beautiful body was wrapped around the cherry tree like a work of art, filled with indescribable divinity.

However, after taking a closer look, one can discover that this dragon has a strange incoordination, because it has multiple claws on its body, and some are big, some are small, some are long, and some are short, which is full of incoordination.

There was a huge, difficult-to-heal wound on the suspected chest, which was still bleeding. On the other side of the wound, symmetrically, was a long and powerful dragon arm.

In that hand, there was a huge seven-branch sword that flashed with golden thunder.

Overall, it is a strange combination of divinity and weirdness, as if an originally holy dragon has suffered some kind of pollution, causing its flesh and blood to be deformed, and some body tissues that should not have existed have grown on its body.

Regarding this situation, Hatake Sakumo was only slightly surprised, and then he accepted it all without being surprised, and even felt a sense of naturalness.

Because Hatake Sakumo has seen too many things that can obtain immortality along the way, some of them are human and some are inhuman.

But without exception, each and every one of them had their flesh and blood twisted and distorted. The only creature that was not deformed due to the power of immortality was a snake, but that snake was also extremely huge and was a creature that normally should not exist in Japan.

When he saw the giant snake, Hatake Sakumo thought it had run back to the ninja world, but the giant snake was actually a super summoning beast or even a tailed beast.

Although Hatake Sakumo successfully used the power of the 'Immortal Slash' to kill the giant snake in the end, the impression the giant snake left on him was unforgettable.

Therefore, Hatake Sakumo was not surprised to see that the source of the immortal power was actually a distorted creature.

In contrast, there is extremely heavy pressure and unstoppable fighting spirit.

Because Sakura Dragon is really strong, he is the strongest enemy Hatake Sakumo has ever encountered in this world. Even the strongest man in Ashina Country, Ashina Isshin, cannot compare with Sakura Dragon.

It was the pressure from a divine being, as well as the twisted terror from a weird monster. It was something that could make a 'mortal' like Hatake Sakumo instinctively fear.

Very strong, very strong, Hatake Sakumo even had the illusion that he was facing a tailed beast, and a top-level tailed beast like the Nine-Tails. Well, it must be said that this Sakura Dragon was strengthened a little too much by Uchiha Kei. After all, although the Sakura Dragon in the original work is very strong, it is compared with the game Sekiro, and if it is placed in the world view of Naruto, it is actually nothing.

However, with Uchiha Kai's deliberate adjustment, the strength of Sakura Dragon directly became that of the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Of course, its actual strength is definitely not as strong as the Nine-Tailed Fox, but its power has reached that level.

The main reason is that the Sakura Dragon, who is known as the God among Gods, is injured and has not been able to recover. His body is also connected to the cherry tree that he is entangled with, making it unable to move at will. This is actually the Sakura Dragon's way of absorbing the power of the land to heal itself, and it is also the condition for it to seize the divinity of the entire Ashina.

Once forcibly separated from the cherry tree, the life of the Sakura Dragon would be severely damaged, so this "god" was greatly restricted.

Under such circumstances, the pressure that Hatake Sakumo had to bear was not as exaggerated as imagined, at least not to the point of despair.

The battle began amidst thunder and lightning.

This was undoubtedly a test for Hatake Sakumo, a feat of killing gods with a mortal body, and also the ultimate blasphemy in a sense.

Faced with the incredibly powerful force that could easily bring down overwhelming divine punishment with golden thunder, and the seven-branched sword in his hand that could easily slash out like a complete Susanoo that could cut through the power of all things in the universe, as well as the power that could form a storm with just a wave of his hand, Hatake Sakumo was swaying like a lone boat in the wind and rain, and could be torn to pieces at any time.

However, the former White Fang of Konoha, now the Severed Undying Wolf, held on.

Although he would inevitably die several times, with his immortal power, Hatake Sakumo would always be able to stand up again and again and continue fighting with Sakura Dragon.

Judging from this performance, although the Sakura Dragon is the source of immortality, it has no way to deprive others of their immortality. Otherwise, it only needs to deprive the Wolf of his immortality and it can directly win.

Of course, this is actually the gameplay, but for Hatake Sakumo, the feeling is that "the so-called god is actually just a monster that fled here after failing in the struggle in the west."

So, after experiencing many deaths, Hatake Sakumo has learned the skills to control the Sakura Dragon's thunder to a certain extent. The main thing is to use special techniques to strike back the thunder released by the Sakura Dragon, so that the Sakura Dragon can bear his own thunder attack.

This proved to be very effective. Under the thunder strike released by Sakura Dragon himself, the God of Gods of Ashina suffered severe damage, which also gave Hatake Sakumo an opportunity.

The Undead Slash, which originally had no effect on the Sakura Dragon, finally succeeded in tearing apart the Sakura Dragon's body, which was harder than steel, after the Sakura Dragon was injured by thunder, causing a horrific wound.

Moreover, the attribute of Immortal Severance that cuts off deathlessness also took effect on Sakura Dragon. Although it failed to directly destroy Sakura Dragon's immortality, it suppressed Sakura Dragon's immortality to a great extent, greatly reducing its recovery speed.

This gave Hatake Sakumo a real chance to kill him.

Even though the Sakura Dragon was roaring in anger and pain, even though the power of thunder and storm was even more terrifying, even though the Sakura Dragon could still summon servants to besiege Hatake Sakumo.

But just as you must never show the health bar in the game, when Sakura Dragon is injured by Hatake Sakumo, it means that its health bar has been shown.

Finally, after a mythical battle that lasted for seven days and seven nights, the Sakura Dragon fell to Hatake Sakumo's Immortal Slash. The immortal power contained in it also collapsed under the influence of the Immortal Slash's undead power, turning into pure energy and merging into the earth, allowing the earth, which had been corrupted and distorted and entered a state of withered death due to the existence of the Sakura Dragon, to gradually recover its vitality.

As for Hatake Sakumo, even though he was immortal, he was covered in wounds after fighting for seven days and seven nights, and he needed to rest well.

However, the most important step in cutting off immortality has been completed, and the important props have been obtained. What he has to do next is to return to his master and help his master completely complete the mission of cutting off immortality.

But when Hatake Sakumo returned, he was shocked and angry to find that the master he was loyal to had been captured again, and the one who captured him was Ashina Isshin's grandson, Ashina Genichirō.

This heir who was adopted and raised wholeheartedly by Ashina is extremely obsessed with Ashina. He is willing to do anything to save Ashina.

In fact, the person who really hopes to use the power of immortality to save Ashina is Ashina Genichirō, and Ashina Isshin does not actually approve of this approach, but the will shown by the heir he has cultivated with all his heart makes Ashina Isshin unable to say no, so he acquiesces to everything Ashina Genichirō does.

During this period, Isshin Ashina's aging body also came to an end and he died of illness. Isshin Ashina's death further stimulated Genichirō Ashina, causing him to completely transform into Ashina Madman.

So, at the last moment of the story, Ashina Genichirō, who still did not give up, once again attacked the wolf's master Hirata Kuro, preparing to sacrifice Hirata Kuro to obtain complete immortal power to save Ashina Country.

Naturally, Hatake Sakumo would not allow this to happen, and he went straight to Ashina Genichirō and arrived before Hirata Kuro was sacrificed. Then, under the moon, he had the Nth battle with Ashina Genichirō.

This time, Ashina Genichirō lost again.

However, this lunatic once again showed his extreme side. Thinking that his power was not enough to protect Ashina Country, he decided to hand over the mission of protecting Ashina to someone who was capable of doing so.

This person is his grandfather, Ashina Isshin!
Thus, a fantastic scene that caused a great loss of SAN value happened. Ashina Genichirō sacrificed himself and allowed Ashina Isshin to be resurrected in his body.

Hatake Sakumo and Hirata Kuro saw with their own eyes that Ashina Isshin, in his prime at the age of 40, broke through Ashina Genichirō's body and appeared wearing a full set of general armor.

The powerful aura of the Sword Master and the magical power brought by immortality descended upon this world accompanied by flashes of golden thunder.

Although Isshin Ashina does not approve of Genichirō Ashina's extreme behavior, because it is his grandson's last wish and obsession, Genichirō Ashina is willing to fulfill it.

Next, it’s the final battle.

Ashina is determined to have a decisive battle with the "Wolf". If he wins, he will sacrifice Hirata Kuro to obtain complete immortality, and then use this extraordinary power to save Ashina Country.

If he lost, then that would be the end of it, and the story of Ashina Province and Ashina Isshin would end there.

Hatake Sakumo knew that this battle was unavoidable because both sides had reasons not to retreat, and for him, this would undoubtedly be a thrilling battle that would make his blood boil.

Even though Isshin Ashina is definitely not as powerful as Sakura Ryu, but as a warrior and as a human, Isshin Ashina's martial arts skills that have reached the pinnacle are the ultimate experience for Hatake Sakumo, who is also a human.

Thus, amidst the sounds of thunder, lightning, and the clashing of metal, the battle between the most powerful warriors begins!
(End of this chapter)