From undercover in Konoha, to I am the Hokage!

Chapter 279 The end of the battle
Great sounds are soundless; great images are invisible.

If all the strange visions created by Otsutsuki Shibaai's full strength only made people feel that the earth was shaking and there was endless chaos, then the knife swung by Sawara Kiri, in the eyes of others, only left a tranquility that penetrated the soul.

The ultimate silence.

The scene before their eyes turned into a blank, and the mighty shock wave reached their ears and quickly exceeded the limit of what everyone could bear. Even people like Hashirama Senju, who were reborn from the Impure World Reincarnation, could only feel their bodies like grave soil being peeled off piece by piece, and they seemed to be reduced to ashes under the almost endlessly rising temperature and aftermath.

But when the sword actually fell on the surface of Otsutsuki Shibaui's body in the center of the earth, all the senses of destruction became illusions.

"Om-"

The sound of belated realization is like an echo.

Suddenly, the traces that spanned thousands of miles suddenly bloomed, and with an unstoppable momentum, they surged straight towards the front of the earth, like a storm torrent.

Not only the ground, but also the sky was split into two by this knife, and at the end of the field of vision, a canyon abyss as far as the eye can see was split open, and endless aftermath surged away.

Uchiha Yayoi, whose whole body was covered by Susanoo, stared at the scene in front of him in a daze.

It was not until the sound reached her ears that she suddenly realized that the surface of the pitch-black Susanoo, which covered her entire body like a statue of a god, was now covered with spider-web-like cracks, and it cracked as brittlely as glass with a broken corner. The light and air waves alone were enough to make this "absolute defense" unable to bear it. Most of the chakra in her body that was used to support Susanoo disappeared as if it had been pumped out by a water pump. Fatigue and fatigue suddenly hit her mind, making her legs feel weak and she almost couldn't stand.

Immediately afterwards, with a "bang", the Susanoo that was barely maintained exploded and turned into tiny specks of chakra residual fire.

However, Tsunade, Minato Namikaze and others who were behind her seemed to be completely unaware of the situation in front of them, and stared at the battlefield in the distance in a trance.

In the center of the battlefield in the distance, Otsutsuki Shibaai, who had expanded countless times in one breath under the support of the earth, as if he had merged with the entire ninja world, had completely disappeared.

The hundreds-meter-tall earth statue turned into flying ash, which was then blown away by the subsequent storm, exposing the scene in the center of the battlefield.

The high ground, which was generally convex, was split into two by the knife just now. In the center of the originally complete hemispherical hill, a crack was left that stretched to the extreme of the horizon. The width alone was at least hundreds of meters. Both ends of the incision showed smooth charred cross-sections. The heat emitted faintly appeared as floating and twisted high-temperature steam in the field of vision, floating up to the sky.

Those who can survive this battlefield until now can be regarded as the elite among the elites even if they are counted in the entire ninja world. Many of them have fought against various tailed beasts and monsters. Among them is even a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki like Uzumaki Kushina, and many of them have seen the power of the Tailed Beast Balls.

However, even if all the scenes of destruction they had ever witnessed were superimposed together, they could not compare to the shock they felt at this moment.

"This kid is a monster."

Senju Hashirama seemed to be completely unaware of the trace of a layer of skin on the surface of his cheek being peeled off by the aftermath. He stared at the scene in front of him with wide eyes and murmured subconsciously.

Senju Tobirama glanced at him, as if he was smiling, but also as if he was feeling a little emotional.

I didn’t expect that I would still be able to hear my elder brother say such words after I died.

But compared to that kid, even the eldest brother is just an ordinary person, right?

Uchiha Madara beside them clenched his fists involuntarily, staring at Sawara Kiri who was still standing at the top of the sky, overlooking the earth, with extremely complicated feelings in his heart.

Even if he exhausted the limits of his imagination, the best he could do was to reach the level of Otsutsuki Shibai, or even be inferior to him.

After all, that was the power of 'All Things' that was fused together from Hashirama and his bloodline.

However, Otsutsuki Shibai, who had advanced more than one level beyond that level, was cut down by the opponent with just one sword.

I'm afraid no one can know what it feels like to have your ideals shattered.

However, he himself did not realize that he actually felt a vague sense of relief in his heart.

Only Sawara Kiri remained silent, looking down at the figure on the ground.

Although the severed clay statue had been shattered, it still broke into countless pieces and fell to the ground, distributed at both ends of the trace that ran across the earth.

The pair of deep blue eyes with rings inside were now looking at one of them.

"Crack."

Large pale hands tore through the rocks and crawled out from underneath, covered in scarlet blood.

Otsutsuki Shibaui's thin figure was lying on the ground.

At this time, he only had one arm and the upper part of his body left. Even one of the ferocious horns on his head was broken off. His clothes were torn and he looked extremely miserable.

Two of the three eyeballs embedded in his face had exploded, leaving only the Samsara Eye in the center of his brows still open, but blood was oozing out from the area around the eye sockets and flowing continuously.

"Huhu."

Heavy breathing sounds came out from the huge wounds in his mouth and waist. Looking from the back, one could even vaguely see his internal organs being dragged out of his body. Only his strong vitality still supported his body, allowing him to move for the time being.

However, anyone can see that at this moment, Otsutsuki Shibai is already at the end of his strength.

Sawara Kiri landed on the ground and slowly walked towards him, with a look of detached indifference, just like when Otsutsuki Shibaui first appeared in front of him:

"The vitality is not commensurate with the strength, but it is a defect."

"I advise you not to be stubborn. It's better to just die like this."

"Or maybe"

He stretched out the "Zhidianzana" in his hand, as if asking.

"I will grant you this death?"

"vomit--"

Bright red blood spurted out from the body on the ground, splashing onto the ground, and ignited a tiny flame.

At this moment, in Sawara Kiri's eyes, there were no secrets in the ninja world. He could see at a glance that it was the chakra fire that was caused by the excessive natural energy absorbed into the body but was unable to bear the degeneration.

For energy creatures like the Otsutsuki clan, that means that his current body is no longer able to bear the power he possesses.

Similarly, this also means that Otsutsuki Shibai has reached the end of his life.

However, even though it had come to this, Otsutsuki Shibaai still struggled to use his only remaining hand to support his body, raised his head, and tried to look Sawara Kiri in the eye. His face was so pale that there was not the slightest fear of facing death.

"How did you do that?"

"I should have told you from the beginning - "Omniscience and Omnipotence"."

Sawara Kiri patiently leaned over and explained to him: "Whether it's a ninja or an Otsutsuki, they are actually just different creatures that use chakra to fight."

"Our battle is essentially a battle of chakra."

"Oh, omniscient and omnipotent."

Otsutsuki Shibaui grinned with difficulty, blood dripping from the corners of his mouth: "What an arrogant inferior creature."

"In that case."

"Snapped!"

Before he finished speaking, the remaining hand suddenly grabbed Sahara Kiri's ankle, and the expression on his face suddenly became crazy. The eyes of Samsara between his eyebrows were bloodshot and he shouted:

"You should have seen what I was going to do next!"

Sawara Kiri's expression seemed to be still for a moment. He looked down at the hand holding his ankle and the bloodstains on his clothes, without saying a word.

The surface of half of Otsutsuki Shibai's body suddenly showed messy strokes that ran through the whole body like ink. All the chakra in the body burned at this moment. No matter whether it was the skin, muscles, bones or internal organs, they all swelled several times at this moment, and there was a tendency to continue expanding. The whole body swelled like a balloon, and the hideous blood vessels protruded from the skin like pipes, covering every part of the body.

His expression became increasingly distorted, and his voice became increasingly frantic and shrill:
"This death is just another reincarnation!"

"Sahara Kiri!"

"As long as you, the anomaly, still exist in this world, there will be countless me and countless people with Otsutsuki bloodline in countless timelines, constantly coming to the world where you exist!"

"Until you are completely wiped out!" "It doesn't matter even if I can't kill you this time!"

"Even the remaining power in this body is enough to plow the entire surface flat!"

"See for yourself!"

"This world, and all the people you care about, die in front of you"

The crazy voice suddenly fell silent before it could finish its words.

Sawara Kiri's voice sounded again, but the answer was irrelevant:
"Of course I saw it."

The distorted expression on Otsutsuki Shibaui's face suddenly turned into confusion.

The world in his eyes seemed to suddenly rise a few degrees from the state when he was lying on the ground just now. The illusory world showed a mirror-like sense of fragmentation, and even time seemed to be stolen for a few seconds.

Blood dripped along the smooth cut onto the charred ground, leaving behind circles of dark marks.

The long gray hair was held in Sawara Kiri's hand, but the weight seemed so light that it seemed to be shaking.

The last Samsara Eye glanced down and saw a headless corpse lying on the ground. Even the "wedge" that tried to cling to Sawara Kiri's body before death seemed to be cut off out of thin air and solidified on his shriveled skin.

"Mirror Flower Water Moon"

As if he finally understood something, Otsutsuki Shibai looked at him unwillingly, but could no longer make a sound.

Until the end, even the Rinnegan closed heavily.

No more sound.

Almost the moment he closed his eyes.

Be it Otsutsuki Momoshiki and Kinshiki who remained in the bodies of several Kumogakure in the form of "wedges" waiting for their arrival, or Otsutsuki Urashiki who was lingering on in a laboratory somewhere underground in the Land of Lightning, or Otsutsuki Isshiki who had just appeared on the battlefield and was caught by his own boss, the marks left on several people, all burned at the same time, and those who they depended on were turned into charred ashes, lying on the ground wailing.

It was as if some unspeakable power had crossed the vast distance and wiped out all traces of their existence in one breath.

Sawara Kiri raised his head and looked at the Chakra Divine Tree in the distance that was still standing on the earth.

The giant tree that had condensed countless buds blossomed in an instant.

The people who were wrapped like cocoons on the countless branches were once again given life under the chakra tide. They slowly fell from the air, and the power of the reincarnation pupils in their eyes quickly faded.

People who didn't know what was going on stood up in a daze, and turned to look at the people around them, all with confused looks on their faces.

The remaining members of the Otsutsuki Hamura clan on the moon suddenly discovered that the ancestral sealing scroll used to seal Otsutsuki Kaguya had suddenly lost its power. Even the lunar soil beneath their feet seemed to be radiating unprecedented vitality under the infusion of some abnormal chakra.

In the battle between Sawara Kiri and Otsutsuki Shibai, the land that was torn into endless pits was flattened by an invisible force.

Mountains, valleys, trees, rocks, soil.
Everything was swept flat.

Everything within sight is smoothed out.

Only those former "Jade Ninjas", that is, the ninjas who were the carriers of the Four Souls Jade, were quietly turned into ashes and disappeared in the sudden gale.

Look around.

The sky is clear and the clouds are vast.

Sawara Kiri watched this scene after scene quietly.

Although the ability of "omniscience and omnipotence" brought about by "holiness" is neither omniscience nor omnipotence.

However, within the scope of Chakra, it can still have a certain effect.

Just as he was thinking this, he seemed to suddenly "see" something, and suddenly turned his head towards Uchiha Yayoi and others.

Looking at the girl who was looking directly at him, his originally indifferent expression slowly revealed a familiar smile.

As if she noticed his smile, Yayoi, who had been hesitant just now, suddenly had red eyes and took a step forward immediately.

Sawara Kiri also opened his arms towards her.

But before she could rush forward, she saw a black shadow suddenly leap over her body and slam into Sawara Kiri's arms with a plop, almost making him stumble.

"fog!!!"

When Miss Yayoi, who had just been somewhat moved, saw the man's appearance clearly, her teeth clenched immediately.

"Uchiha Hikaru, the born evil, I will--"

Before she could finish her words, another figure rushed out from beside her and hugged the bewildered Sawara Kiri in his arms.

"You little brat, I thought I was done for!"

Even Sahara Yukie, who was further behind, jumped over like a happy puppy and hung on his neck, howling louder than anyone else:

"That's right! If you have that kind of trump card, you should have used it earlier. It's so scary!"

Veins popped out on Uchiha Yayoi's forehead. He had been using Susanoo for so long just to protect these people, and he was really exhausted. However, he still managed to squeeze into the crowd with his weak legs and feet, grabbed his arm, and shouted:
"The fog is mine!"

However, this loud declaration of sovereignty seemed to further arouse everyone's desire to persecute Miss Yayoi. Even Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina squeezed in, laughed and lifted up Sawara Kiri's body, threw him high into the sky, and cheered loudly with inaudible words.

Only Xiaonan looked at the crowd in front with a complicated expression, as if he was sighing, or as if he had breathed a long sigh of relief.

As long as he is still here, no one will have to go through the same hardships they did when they were young, right?
"I never thought that old things like us who have long died would have the opportunity to see such a battle. It's really worth dying for."

Senju Hashirama crossed his arms, feeling inexplicably emotional.

"You're an old man who died a long time ago, and you're still saying that your death is worth it. What a joke."

Uchiha Madara also stood beside him, raising his hand out of habit, just like he did when they stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the past.

"Speaking of you, Madara, I was so sad about your death back then, but you're still alive, you bastard!"

"Ha? That's because you were stupid! You didn't even notice where my body was! After the funeral, you just left it to your stupid brother and just hid at home crying. In less than two years, you suffocated yourself to death! Don't you think I don't know?"

"What! You, you saw it?!" Senju Hashirama widened his eyes and couldn't help but blushing.

Uchiha Madara's tone froze, and he changed the subject abruptly: "If we had been like that kid earlier, you and I would have joined forces to wipe out the entire ninja world, and there wouldn't have been all those messes later!"

"You were deceived by that black thing. Why did you believe in the universe? That's right! This is obviously your fault!"

"You know nothing about pupil power!"

"What's the matter with pupil power? Didn't I still defeat him in the Valley of the End?"

"You bastard you wanna fight?!"

"I'll hit you if I want! Am I afraid of you?"

As the two old guys were talking, they grabbed each other's collars, and just like before, they glared at each other and started to make a noise like children quarreling.

Senju Tobirama stood aside, feeling inexplicably relieved.

He turned his head and looked at the figure that was thrown into the sky and then fell heavily. A smile inadvertently appeared on his cold face.

Anyway, it's finally over.

(End of this chapter)