Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

It resembles a hideous wound that can never be healed.

At the end of the canyon, all was deathly silent.

"ah--!"

A short, cute, mournful cry came from the relatively safe area in the distance.

Nilu, who had been curiously craning her neck to watch the battle, trembled violently when she saw the pitch-black rift that seemed to split the earth in two. She instinctively covered her mouth with her hands, her big eyes filled with horror.

She couldn't even see what had just happened; she only felt that the whole world had lost its sound and light in that instant.

Immediately afterwards, the huge crack appeared before their eyes.

Pessie and Dondechaka, who were standing next to Nilu, were already paralyzed with fear, making incomprehensible "gurgling" sounds.

Just as she was still bewildered by the extraordinary scene before her, a golden figure arrived in an instant.

Heribel picked up the still-dazed little one and, with a few flashes, appeared in a safer area further away.

She didn't stop, but turned to her three subordinates, who were also pale with fright, and gave them a brief order.

"You may all step back."

After she finished speaking, she turned her gaze back to the center of the ruins.

At the other end of the canyon, Stark's figure reappeared.

He brushed the dust off his black fur cloak, looking somewhat disheveled, his eyes filled with seriousness.

He gazed at the figure in the distance, still bathed in the blood moon and engulfed in black flames, and let out a long sigh.

"Sigh." Stark raised his head and carefully examined Sasuke in front of him.

"Really..."

He gave a wry smile, his voice a little hoarse, but his tone was no longer as casual as before. "I thought it would end easily."

He slowly raised the two guns in his hands, and an unprecedentedly powerful spiritual pressure began to awaken from his body.

"If we keep fighting like this, I don't know how long it will last. It's too tiring and troublesome."

Stark shrugged, his face showing genuine helplessness, and said in a consultative tone, "How about this, let's decide the outcome with our last move."

"How about it?"

Faced with this suggestion, Sasuke did not answer immediately, but instead raised his heterochromatic eyes and quietly gazed at Stark.

After a long while, he slowly grinned, revealing a crazed smile beneath the half-pale mask.

"can."

This answer made Stark breathe a sigh of relief, and the corners of his mouth curved into a wider smile.

He said no more nonsense and slowly closed the two black pistols in his hands.

The moment the gun barrels made contact, they merged together like a living fluid in a dazzling blue light.

"Clang!"

With a soft click, the two separate weapons merged silently into one, like two perfect puzzle pieces, forming a gun with an even larger muzzle.

"—The howl of the wolves, never-ending." Stark murmured softly, as if chanting some ancient prayer.

He raised the combined spear high above his head, and at that moment, all the spiritual particles in the entire Hueco Mundo seemed to hear his call, transforming into visible blue torrents that frantically converged towards the dark muzzle of the spear.

At the muzzle, a dazzling golden energy sphere, constantly compressing inward, was slowly taking shape, its radiance even completely overshadowing the brilliance of the blood moon in the sky.

Under this oppressive force that could make the heavens and earth pale in comparison, Sasuke also made a move at the other end of the canyon.

He slowly raised his left hand, and the primordial black flames that had been wrapped around his right arm began to swirl in the palm of his left hand.

Immediately afterwards, the wisp of black flame began to extend and deform wildly outward.

It is no longer in the form of a knife.

It was an ancient, massive longbow, its body ablaze with an inextinguishable flame of annihilation.

Immediately afterwards, Sasuke slowly raised the longbow made of black flames, extended his right hand, and drew back the bowstring with an extremely standard posture.

"Click...click..."

As he moved, the pale, exoskeleton-like armor on his body began to disintegrate, turning into pure black and red energy particles that poured into his right hand as he drew the bowstring.

The half of the hideous bone mask also shattered inch by inch, turning into a golden stream of light that merged into the fingertips of his right hand.

Then, all the black flame embers scattered in this area, as well as the ominous radiance cast by the blood moon hanging high in the sky, all turned into streaks of black and red light as if by imperial decree, and frantically swept back!

All the light and fire...

All of it flowed into his right hand, which was slowly drawing back the bowstring!

Under that extreme compression, an arrow is slowly taking shape.

It was an arrow that was entirely black, with eerie patterns resembling blood-red lightning wrapped around its shaft.

The tip of the arrowhead was a point of primordial black flame that seemed capable of burning even the soul to ashes.

"The final arrow."

Sasuke let out a soft cry and slowly released the bowstring.

There was no sound, and time itself seemed to be swallowed up at that moment.

The world fell into absolute silence.

Stark only saw the black arrow, which, the instant it left the bowstring, swallowed everything in his field of vision.

Light, sound, and even space itself were silently annihilated before that arrow.

In the next instant, it appeared in the center of the world, facing the roaring golden beam of light.

Two forces representing ultimate destruction collided directly in this blood-red world.

There was no earth-shattering explosion as expected, only a deathly stillness of pure white.

Within the light, the golden beam of light, upon contact with the black arrow, began to be crushed inch by inch at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the end, the black arrow, carrying the will to crush everything, completely devoured the pillar of light.

Then, it struck Stark's incredulous eyes with a deafening roar.

Boom! Rumble! Rumble!

After a delay of several seconds, the terrifying explosion, powerful enough to shake the entire Hueco Mundo, finally arrived.

A black and red mushroom cloud slowly rose above this white sea of ​​sand.

............

The smoke and dust slowly dissipated.

The massive longbow in Sasuke's hand transformed into a wisp of black flame, reforming into a sword shape and automatically disappearing into the scabbard at his waist with a soft sound.

On the other side of him, the bottomless canyon had long been completely filled in.

Instead, there is a huge crater, several kilometers in diameter, resembling a meteorite impact.

Stark's figure lay in the very center of that pit.

His black fur cloak was long gone, and a huge charred wound was left on his chest. Blood was constantly oozing from the corner of his mouth, clearly indicating that he had suffered serious injuries.

He struggled, trying to prop himself up from the scorched earth.

Watching Sasuke's figure slowly approaching, he looked down at his own miserable state.

Stark finally managed a helpless smile.

He raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

"Seriously, I'm not playing anymore, this is too much trouble."

"If we keep fighting, we'll really have to risk our lives."

The implication was that he hadn't even used his full strength yet, and simply didn't want to fight anymore.

Chapter 153 The Eagle Imprisoned in the Dark

"I'm not fighting anymore, I'm not fighting anymore."

After saying that, Stark's body completely relaxed, and he fell straight down, face up.

A soft sound was heard, and a few wisps of sand were kicked up.

Immediately afterwards, a blue light flashed out from his body.

The petite figure separated again and plopped down on Stark's stomach; it was Lilynette.

Looking at the man beneath her, whose eyes were closed and who seemed to be saying "I'm already dead," she was furious. She jumped up and kicked him hard in the stomach with her little feet.

"You idiot! You almost really died!"

Sasuke was breathing heavily and didn't say anything.

He looked at the noisy couple not far away, and recalled the last scene of the battle just now, his eyes filled with complicated emotions.

After a long while, he walked heavily to Stark's side and sat down wearily.

"You didn't use your full strength just now, did you?" Sasuke's voice was a little hoarse.

Stark stiffened for a moment, but didn't open his eyes. He simply turned his head to the other side and remained silent.

But Lilynette whirled around like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, angrily retorting, "Huh?! What nonsense are you spouting! How could we have just..."

Her words came to an abrupt halt when she saw Stark's face turn slightly to the side.

The man didn't open his eyes or speak; he simply gave Sasuke the most direct answer through silence.

"..."

The reactions of these two people are the best answer.

Sasuke nodded slightly, understanding in his heart.

He knew his guess was correct.

Stark and Lilynette may seem like two separate individuals, but they are essentially souls from the same source.