Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 328 My pain goes far beyond this.

Judging from its outline, it has a humanoid figure, only revealing the upper half of its body, but even so, its size is an exaggerated seven or eight meters.

As the smoke dissipated, everyone could finally see the full appearance of the thing in front of them. It was dark blue all over, with a slender waist, a broad chest, and red lines on its body that resembled flowing blood. It was shaped like an inverted triangle, and its arms and upper limbs were extremely thick, which reminded them of crab claws.

With the soul fire protecting him, Aokiji was unharmed.

However, he was not satisfied with this.

With his current control over the Soul Flame, he can only barely create half a body for it.

To further shape a complete body and even evolve the soul fire, one must continuously devour souls.

Madara Uchiha watched the Soul Flame with great interest, thinking to himself that Aokiji's eye technique was very similar to Susanoo...

It's only the upper body now; there should be a lower body as well, so it's probably not the complete form yet.

Considering that Aokiji could later activate Susanoo, Madara Uchiha suddenly had a brilliant idea: he could put Susanoo's armor on this creature.

It should be a very interesting sight when it's there.

I wonder how it compares to when he used the Susanoo Armor on Kurama back then. I imagine it wouldn't be much worse.

However, considering that Aokiji had no siblings, and that even with the best maintenance, the Mangekyou Sharingan would inevitably lead to blindness, Madara Uchiha couldn't help but feel a little regretful...

The Four-Tails Jinchuriki mistook it for Susanoo and quickly formed a Lava Release ninjutsu. Black smoke billowed from his arms as he unleashed a massive amount of magma fists forward in a molten lava form.

Legend has it that Susanoo has an amazing defense, and there has never been a chance to fight it.

Today he was going to have a good look at whether his magma fist had higher attack power or Susanoo's defense was higher.

When the Four-Tails Jinchuriki unleashed his attack, the ninjas around him didn't just watch. They formed a fan shape around Aokiji. Through analysis, they realized that while Susanoo's defensive power was astonishing, its master's might not be so formidable. Aokiji planned to attack Aokiji from behind with ninjutsu while Aokiji used Susanoo to defend against the magma fist.

Aokiji saw through his enemy's thoughts, leaped into the palm of the Soul Flame, gathered chakra in his narrowed eyes, and after a moment of preparation, suddenly opened his crimson eyes and roared, "Spirit fire, freeze everything!"

The Soulfire opened its eyes, and blue flames shot out from the ground around it, surging away.

Even if it's as hot as molten lava, it will immediately sizzle when touched, then turn black, and then freeze into an ice block.

Even if the magma was touched by the blue flame, let alone rashly approaching the ninja who was attacked.

I saw them holding their heads and screaming. The areas burned by the flames did not feel hot, but felt cold. In the blink of an eye, they all turned into ice sculptures.

Such flames, capable of freezing a person instantly, were unprecedented among those present, including Madara Uchiha: "How can there be such flames..."

Aokiji stood in the palm of the Soul Flame, like a monarch leaning on a throne, his gaze sweeping over the astonished crowd.

After a while, he withdrew his gaze and turned it to the ninjas who had turned into ice sculptures.

The next second, a ball of blue flame shot out from the lower half of Soulfire's body, propelling Soulfire into a straight punch. Wherever it went, these immobile ninjas were all blown apart, turning into shards of ice that scattered on the ground.

The next second, wispy shadows floated out from the shards of ice.

"This is..."

Seeing the faces of these phantoms, the ninjas were surprised to find that these people, without exception, were all the companions who had been burned to death by Aokiji with blue flames just now.

All of these people had blank stares, as if they were standing in a state of unconsciousness.

"Are all of these souls?"

The ninjas looked grim, vaguely sensing that something bad was about to happen.

He instinctively tried to stop Aokiji, but it was too late.

Aokiji's gaze was icy as he issued the order, which literally meant "to seize the initiative": "Spirit fire, devour these souls."

The Soul Fire reached out and grabbed, sweeping its arm to gather all the souls in its palm, bundled together, and put them into its mouth to devour them.

Aokiji's Soul Flame has two ways of devouring souls: the first is by eating them alive, and the second is by directly consuming them.

In this world, after a person dies, there exists a soul, and ordinary people can see this soul.

However, under normal circumstances, after a person dies, their soul goes directly to the Pure Land, so the person cannot see the soul.

Soulfire kills targets by unleashing special flames. The souls of the killed units do not immediately enter the Pure Land, but remain in the real world for a few seconds.

Its principle is somewhat similar to the scene after the Edo Tensei is dispelled.

Since the Soul Flame is essentially born from Aokiji's soul and is a type of soul, it possesses the ability to touch souls, which creates the innate conditions for devouring souls.

Upon seeing this, the ninjas felt a chill run down their spines: "This monster is devouring their souls..."

Many of these ninjas who were killed were comrades and friends of the surviving ninjas. It was not that they could not accept that their comrades lost their lives because of a mission, but they could not accept that their comrades' souls could not rest in peace after death and became food for others.

Danzo, mingling among the crowd and disguised as one of them, was a sight to behold, even if he was just going through the motions.

It can even devour souls directly.

What an evil force!

No wonder their teacher Tobirama once said that they were a naturally evil race and that they should be wary of them day and night.

Danzo glanced at the Iwagakure and Kirigakure ninjas around him, and sneered inwardly, "You can fight Aokiji to the death then..."

Danzo had many ideas. In this way, he could weaken the strength of the two villages and eliminate Aokiji, a major threat.

Although Tsunade tragically sacrificed herself along the way, it was all worth it if we could defeat Aokiji, that evil Uchiha.

What's done is done. Danzo could only keep comforting himself, and then wait for Aokiji to die so he could figure out how to explain it to Hiruzen...

Seeing Aokiji frantically devouring souls with his Soul Flame, committing such an inhuman act,

At that moment, a ninja, for some inexplicable reason, charged out like a typical hot-blooded protagonist.

Then, five claws were stretched out by the soul fire, ruthlessly piercing the heart.

Some people cried heartbrokenly because of this, and Qing Zhi gave them a cold look.

It was a woman, and it seemed that she and the guy she had just defeated were not in a romantic relationship or married.

Aokiji smirked, "Hmph, what a pained expression."

At this moment, the soul fire that had absorbed enough souls underwent further changes under the enhancement of Aokiji's eye power. It became a whole size larger than before and even grew legs. Interestingly, its heels were wheels.

He glanced around, his expression turning completely grim. He clenched his fists, his face contorted in pain: "But my pain goes far beyond that—!"

With a furious roar, Aokiji clenched his fist and slammed it into the ground.

(End of this chapter)