From the night of genocide, marching towards the strongest.

Sasuke was not surprised but rather pleased, and he showed no anger or embarrassment at being beaten.

"As expected of the Third Raikage, hailed as the strongest in the history of Kumogakure, and a hero of the ninja world who single-handedly fought against ten thousand ninjas, it was worth all the effort I put into summoning you! Hahahahahahahaha!"

Sasuke felt very excited; the blood in his veins was boiling rapidly.

How long has it been since he experienced the thrill and excitement of such visceral, close-quarters combat?

Moreover, Sasuke could clearly feel that in this kind of hand-to-hand combat, his own taijutsu and lightning release skills were also rapidly improving.

The speed of his progress was something Sasuke had never experienced before!

Looking at the boy laughing wildly in the distance, the Third Raikage's face was extremely cold, his eyes were sharp as lightning, the lightning crackling around his body was even more dazzling, his voice was as vast as the rolling thunder of war drums, and his aura was even more violent and domineering.

At that moment, the laughter stopped, and the boy in the Third Raikage's eyes took out the Lightning Release sword again and spoke.

"In terms of taijutsu, among all those I've fought, no one is better than you. I, Uchiha Sasuke, am willing... um."

Before Sasuke could finish speaking, he was interrupted. The Third Raikage transformed into a bolt of lightning, moving with such speed that it seemed to transcend space, and delivered a perfectly accurate punch to Sasuke's abdomen, forcibly silencing him.

Raito Ninja encountered Suzuki Riki's sword!

This is a lightning-style ninjutsu technique known for its speed. His son, the Fourth Raikage, used it during the Third Shinobi World War against Minato Namikaze, but unfortunately, the Fourth Hokage, who had mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, narrowly dodged it.

Although the Fourth Hokage dodged this move, it doesn't mean that the move was ineffective. Rather, it demonstrates how fast the Fourth Hokage's reflexes were and how powerful the Flying Thunder God Technique was!

"You talk too much, you Uchiha brat!"

After striking Sasuke in the abdomen, the Third Raikage sneered, his body flashing with lightning as he swept his leg across Sasuke's leg, causing him to lose his balance.

At the same time, his body didn't stop moving. His left hand, wrapped in lightning, shot out and grabbed Sasuke's thigh. The lightning spread rapidly at the same time.

Then, with a sudden pull and a jolt, Sasuke's body was lifted high into the air, before being slammed down onto the ground with the force and speed of a thunderbolt.

With a loud bang!

The ground seemed to have been detonated by a bomb, creating a huge crater nearly two meters deep and twenty meters wide. The violent tremors continued to spread further and further away!

Thunderous Bomb!

As the name suggests, it lifts the enemy up and slams them to the ground with super heavy weight, then combines it with a lightning-style explosion to kill the enemy, creating a destructive force like detonating a bomb on the ground.

It is a sudden and powerful blow that leads to Nirvana, like a thunderous strike!

Amidst the massive explosion, several extremely crisp sounds of bones shattering, like withered branches exploding, and flesh being torn into a large, scattered mass of blood and flesh were heard.

Depend on!

Sasuke cursed inwardly. He felt as if all the bones in his body were shattered, the pain was excruciating, and some parts of his body had even lost sensation, feeling like a lump of mud.

Sasuke was severely injured by the attack and could barely move.

Actually, this is not bad. Although the Lightning Bomb is only a B-rank ninjutsu, only the Raikage, who has honed his ninjutsu to the extreme, can use this kind of ninjutsu.

Anyone who takes this attack head-on will die.

In the original timeline, Sasuke, who was hit by the Fourth Raikage's attack, only managed to withstand it while in Susanoo form.

While the Third Raikage may not be as fast as the Fourth Raikage, his strength is unmatched among all the Raikages.

The reason Sasuke was not killed but only seriously injured after being hit by this attack was because of the power of his third Sharingan.

Even though Sasuke never used Yin Release during his battle with the Third Raikage.

But that Yin Release chakra, which is almost half the size of a Tailed Beast, will remain as long as his Sharingan between his eyebrows is still there.

So Yin Release chakra has always been there. Since it is chakra, it must be a combination of physical energy and mental energy.

To some extent, Sasuke's physical defense has now surpassed that of most people in the ninja world.

Once it enters the "Enlightenment" state, which is the form with wings on its back and a snake tail growing behind it, it can even directly confront Kisame Hoshigaki, a humanoid tailed beast.

That's a physical defense that can withstand seven daytime tigers head-on without dying, only suffering serious injuries!

"Cough cough cough,"

Seeing the boy cough up blood, the Third Raikage narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing a dangerous and sharp killing intent. He then grabbed the boy's leg again and lifted him high up.

Again?!

"enough!"

Upon seeing this, Sasuke's eyes narrowed, and for some reason, he suddenly felt a surge of rage.

"I've said enough!"

His clear black and white eyes suddenly turned crimson, and a vast, majestic, and chilling Yin Release chakra swept out, instantly forming a half-body black giant on his body. The overwhelming force blasted the Third Raikage away.

"You've angered me, you ungrateful brute!"

Faced with the frenzied and fierce killing intent emanating from the boy, the Third Raikage remained expressionless, his fist forming a finger, but for some reason, he lowered it again.

After a moment of silence, the Third Raikage said coldly, "Uchiha brat, you broke your promise. Now that you've used the Sharingan, according to our previous agreement, you've already lost!"

Upon hearing this, Sasuke's sinister and crazed expression froze for a moment. After a brief silence, he spat out a curse.

"cut!"

"If I hadn't used my Sharingan, you would have killed me just now."

Sasuke offered a forced explanation.

The Third Raikage ignored Sasuke's words and said calmly, "Every training match a warrior must be prepared to fight to the death. Only in this way can a person's potential be brought out to its fullest."

Upon hearing this, Sasuke looked somewhat embarrassed, but still snorted coldly.

"Humph!"

Chapter 243 Conditional Trade: Learning Lightning Release Chakra Mode

Sasuke opened his third eye between his eyebrows, and the three jet-black tomoe slowly rotated.

A surge of foul and chilling Yin Release chakra erupted, and Sasuke's body, which had been smashed to pieces and was even showing its white bones in some places, was now exposed.

Enveloped by this Yin Release chakra, Sasuke's body was restored to perfect condition in just a moment.

Apart from his tattered clothes, there was no other evidence to prove that he had just suffered a severe injury that even a taijutsu ninja could not withstand.

This is the advantage that Izanagi's eye technique is far superior to Izanagi's.

Izanagi can only record the user's own state with the Sharingan. In other words, the user's state when Izanagi is activated is the same state after recovery.

When it is activated, it is in a state of being missing an arm or a leg, severely injured and on the verge of death; when it recovers, it is still in a state of being missing an arm or a leg, severely injured and on the verge of death.

Therefore, the best time to use Izanagi is when your body is intact and you are not injured.

However, this also brings a problem: using Izanagi comes at a high cost and has a limited lifespan.

If the damage suffered during the duration of Izanagi is less than the cost of damaging one Sharingan.

That would be a losing proposition.

Therefore, unless one has a large number of Sharingan as reserves, one must be extremely careful when using Izanagi and have a clear understanding of the battle situation.

However, Izanami doesn't need to. As long as this Sharingan is still there, his body still has the Yin Release chakra that can activate Izanami.

Therefore, even if one is seriously injured and on the verge of death, one can recover in an instant without having to activate the technique prematurely like Izanagi.

"........"

Seeing that the boy's body had recovered in the blink of an eye, the Third Raikage's eyes turned cold, and his heart felt extremely heavy.

The Third Raikage had seen the boy's bizarre, demonic regenerative power before.

When he was first summoned by this guy using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, the boy bluntly asked to be his training opponent and directly removed the cursed seal binding him.

The Third Raikage, whose body was desecrated and whose soul was toyed with, and who could not even rest in peace after death, naturally harbored murderous intent towards this guy.

Therefore, after being freed from the cursed seal, the Third Raikage immediately launched an attack on Sasuke.

Unfortunately, the Third Raikage discovered that no matter how much he attacked, how many injuries he inflicted, or even how he killed the boy, the boy would recover completely in the next instant.

Sometimes, the Third Raikage couldn't help but wonder if this Uchiha brat was a demon disguised as a human.

Otherwise, how could there be people in the world who are impossible to kill or destroy?

Thus, the Third Raikage, being controlled by others and unable to defeat them, could only remain in this situation for the time being.

"You are indeed very strong, worthy of being the strongest Raikage. I have learned a lot from you."

After stretching his muscles and bones, Sasuke chuckled.

Perhaps in the other four ninja villages, the so-called strongest Third Kage has some degree of exaggeration.

But the Third Raikage in front of us is definitely not one of them.

After achieving fame, the Third Raikage became known throughout the ninja world for his "strongest spear" and "strongest shield".

How strong is the Third Raikage's defense?

To put it simply, the Third Raikage went through countless battles, both large and small, throughout his life, but he was never once injured by an enemy.

That was the time he single-handedly fought against ten thousand ninjas for three days and three nights.

During this time, he was not injured at all, and he eventually died from exhaustion, rather than being wounded and killed.

The only injury he ever suffered was when he accidentally injured himself during his battle with the fully-formed Eight-Tails.

During that period, he broke off all eight of the Eight-Tailed Gyūki's tails, but he himself was not injured at all.

The battle between the man and the beast ended in a draw, with both sides exhausted.

Although it was a draw, all eight tails of the Eight-Tailed Gyūki were broken, while the Third Raikage was completely unharmed.

It is clear that the Third Raikage ultimately prevailed in this battle.

Moreover, he was able to exhaust the stamina of the Eight-Tails, which ranked second among the nine tailed beasts in chakra, with his human body, causing it to collapse and fall unconscious.

It is evident that, in addition to his offensive and defensive capabilities, the Third Raikage also possessed an inhuman amount of chakra.

Furthermore, according to the Eight-Tails' later recollections, it itself said that if they hadn't all been unconscious at the time, it wouldn't have been confident that it could have withstood the Third Raikage's strongest ninjutsu, Hell Thrust: One-Shot Hand.

Therefore, the Third Raikage is truly the strongest Raikage, without any exaggeration.

Before him stood the reanimated body of the Third Raikage, and Sasuke aimed to maximize his fighting power and restore his former strength to the greatest extent possible.

He also used enhanced Yamato cells as a sacrifice, along with White Zetsu cells that he had previously obtained in the Land of Swamps.