Naruto: Starting as the Third Hokage with Tears in His Eyes

Chapter 566 Erasing the Light of All Things! The Paper-thin Moment of the Triple Rashomon

Huang Tu clasped his hands together and poured most of his chakra into the ground beneath his feet.

"Earth Release: Fish Reflected in the Earth Technique!"

This is not an offensive ninjutsu, nor even a conventional defensive ninjutsu, but an advanced Earth Release movement technique.

But at this moment, in the hands of Huang Tu, the master of earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of martial arts technique), it was used to achieve miraculous results.

Rumble...

The earth cracked violently, and a huge ravine, tens of meters wide and bottomless, was forcibly torn out of the ground by the loess, lying between the sea of ​​fire and the surviving troops behind it, creating a barrier that barely stopped the spread of the fire.

After doing all this, Huang Tu coughed up a mouthful of blood, knelt down on one knee, and gasped for breath.

He raised his head and looked at the battlefield.

Of the elite force that arrived with thousands of men, less than 30% are still standing after being rammed by Manda, broken through by Tsunade, and burned by this infernal sea of ​​fire.

The morale of the troops completely collapsed.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Looking at the hellish scene before him, Huang Tu let out a bitter laugh that was difficult to decipher.

High in the sky.

Onoki's wrinkled old face lost all color, leaving only a livid bluish hue caused by extreme anger.

The elite troops they were so proud of, those warriors who inherited the will of the rock, were like ants poured into boiling oil, burned, crushed, and devoured...

"Ahhhhh—"

He was so angry that his beard and hair stood on end, and his aged body trembled violently with rage.

"Those wretched Konoha brats!!!!"

The roar echoed through the clouds, but could not reach the chaotic battlefield below.

shame!

An unprecedented shame!

Onoki took a deep breath, and an astonishing aura suddenly erupted from his short body.

The flames seemed to pause for a moment, and all the surviving ninjas below, whether from Iwagakure or the three from Konoha in the distance, subconsciously raised their heads and looked at the sky.

In Onoki's cloudy old eyes burned a fury powerful enough to consume everything.

"It seems..."

"I must personally deal with you ignorant brats, along with your laughable arrogance..."

"Let's turn to dust together..."

Before he finished speaking, his short figure swiftly flew towards the center of the battlefield.

Onoki's short body hovered in mid-air.

The once bustling battlefield suddenly fell silent.

The chakra fluctuations emanating from that body, which was less than 1.3 meters tall, were quite alarming.

Gamabunta was about to spit out the next mouthful of toad oil.

The massive body suddenly stiffened.

Its fingers, holding the enormous pipe, froze in mid-air, its previously casual posture instantly becoming serious. Its thigh muscles were taut, ready to spring back at any moment.

Ten thousand snakes were coiled on a pile of rubble.

The enormous snake's head suddenly jerked up, its tongue flicking in and out wildly.

Its cold, vertical pupils stared intently at the little old man high in the sky. Its scales involuntarily bristled, and its massive body shrank back, shielding Gamabunta in front of it. The instincts of a wild beast were frantically alarming.

Onoki didn't even glance at the two summoned beasts, which were as large as mountains.

He looked down at the scorched earth below.

His gaze swept over the severed limbs and over the yellow earth where people knelt on the ground, panting heavily.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, you have indeed taught three excellent disciples.

Given time, these three will surely become the new pillars of Konoha, and may even surpass the older generation.

Since they've been sent to the Land of Earth, they'll all stay here. The dignity of Iwagakure must be washed away with the lives of these three geniuses.

"Lord Tsuchikage!" Huang Tu gritted his teeth and shouted those four words.

Onoki raised his hand and interrupted the yellow earth.

The surviving Iwagakure ninjas' already collapsed defenses were miraculously stabilized by the appearance of this short figure.

They helped each other and desperately retreated, their eyes filled with fervent worship as they looked at Onoki's retreating figure. He was the pillar of strength for Iwagakure.

Onoki stared at the three Konoha youths in front of him.

"Kids, your farce ends here."

As soon as he finished speaking, he clasped his hands together in front of his chest.

With the thumb and index finger interlocked and the middle and ring fingers bent, an extremely complex mark is instantly created.

Orochimaru did not lower his guard just because the other party was an old man.

The scientist's keen intuition told him that the chakra of the three elements—wind, fire, and earth—was rapidly merging.

A flash of white light appeared between Onoki's hands.

It was a pure, extreme white, devoid of any temperature. The white light stretched and expanded rapidly, forming a translucent white cube.

The cube slowly rotated in mid-air, enveloping Onoki's hands. The space around the cube began to distort strangely.

The goal is yourself.

Orochimaru confirmed this the instant the white light appeared.

Onoki's strategy was clear: of the three, the one who wielded poisonous snakes and used unorthodox ninjutsu was the most lethal to lower-ranking ninjas. Kill the most dangerous one first.

Earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique that can be used to block earth-flowing water) and walls.

The Orochi technique is too large, which would make the user a sitting duck.

All the defense options flashed through my mind, and were rejected one by one.

"Spiritual communication!"

"—Triple Rashomon!"

The ground suddenly collapsed.

Three enormous, menacing steel gates rose from the ground.

The first gate, with its bronze facade carved with grotesque demons and monsters.

The second door was covered with thick white bone chains, which slammed onto the ground and caused a violent tremor.

The third door was covered with irregularly shaped human faces protruding from its surface.

Triple Rashomon.

This is the strongest physical defense that Orochimaru can mobilize instantly.

After doing all this, Orochimaru's body shot backward.

Onoki pushed the white cube in his hand out through the air.

"Dust Release: Particle Style Detachment Technique".

The white cube swelled in the wind, instantly transforming into a massive pillar of light that pierced through the heavens and the earth.

The trajectory of the beam of light remained completely still.

The air, dust, and burning flames along the way all disappeared the moment they came into contact with the beam of light.

The beam of light collided with the first Rashomon.

The area covered by the white light of that massive, several-meter-thick steel gate with its demonic face vanished into nothingness.

The cut was so smooth it reflected light; the Asura demon was reduced to half its original body, and the time delay was zero seconds.

Next, the second door.

The white bone chains, along with the door panels, vanished into thin air.

The third door.

The wailing faces vanished into thin air, and the other half, along with the door frame, was completely erased.

These three absolute defenses, which instilled despair in countless people in the ninja world, did not even delay the situation by a fraction of a second.

The beam of light pierced through the three gates without any hesitation, heading straight for Orochimaru.

Orochimaru turned around and looked back.

The white light filled his entire field of vision.

That was true death, being completely erased from this world.

Unstoppable.