Looking at the lava giant who suddenly pressed Susanoo to the ground, even Uchiha Sasuke, who was so arrogant, couldn't help but be surprised.

Not only because of the change in the battle situation, but also because of the sudden appearance of Lava Release, Sasuke was caught off guard.

Susanoo is very powerful, but not indestructible.

As a bloodline limit, it's not surprising that Lava Release can damage Susanoo, but...

"This form seems somewhat familiar."

Even if it is the same bloodline limit, the external manifestation may be completely different.

For example, the Wood Release of Tenzo and the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, are completely different things.

The bloodline limit formed by the fusion of two chakra properties may have different effects when used by different people.

Although Dodai, the Jounin of the Hidden Cloud Village in the Land of Lightning, can also perform Lava Release, his unique ninjutsu, Lava Release: Humo Wall and Lava Release: Humo Jade, do not show any signs of high temperature or heat. Instead, they are more like tough rubber-like shield-like defensive ninjutsu.

Kurotsuchi, the granddaughter of the Sandaime Tsuchikage of Iwagakure Village in the Land of Earth, can also use Lava Release, but her unique ninjutsu, Lava Release: Lime Solidification Technique, is a secret technique that mainly releases fast-acting cement, which then quickly solidifies to restrict the enemy's movements.

The above two are very different from the Lava Release used by the Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumi and Mizuki.

The Lava Release of Mei Terumi and Mizuki is somewhat similar, but Mei Terumi's Lava Release is more inclined to corrosive ability, while Mizuki's is more inclined to high temperature and heat.

These differences are obviously caused by the deviation in everyone's understanding of the changes in the properties of fire attribute chakra and earth attribute chakra. After the fusion to form the Bloodline Limit - Lava Release, this difference is concentratedly reflected.

But the Lava Release combat form used by Kakuzu in front of Uchiha Sasuke was too similar to the Lava Release used by Mizuki.

Although Mizuki did not show a giant incarnation of this Lava Release Chakra mode, more than one person saw Mizuki using Lava Release Thousand Conquest Order.

"Is it a coincidence?"

A trace of doubt flashed through his mind, but the real danger forced Uchiha Sasuke to suppress his thoughts in his heart. At this time, defeating the powerful enemy was the most important thing.

Only when you get close to it can you realize how terrifying the extreme high temperature is. If it weren't for the isolation of Susanoo, you would probably have been roasted.

Even so, the purple Susanoo could not last long.

If no solution is found, once Susanoo collapses, Uchiha Sasuke's body will be turned into ashes under the close-range scorching heat of the high-temperature lava.

The lava giant stuck to Susanoo like taffy, making it impossible for Uchiha Sasuke to break free by changing his form. Once he relaxed for a moment, the complete form of Susanoo would not be able to maintain its defense, and everything would be over.

At this critical moment, the Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumi, realizing that Uchiha Sasuke was in danger, took action.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet!"

Although she sensed the direction of the chakra explosion, her vision was poor and she was unable to accurately judge the situation. So she simply used powerful water jutsu to create more than ten powerful water dragons, attacking Kakuzu and Uchiha Sasuke indiscriminately.

"Well?"

Kakuzu was startled and thought to himself that this was not good.

Although the lava giant transformed by the secret technique, the Heaven and Earth Fire, was able to knock down Susanoo, that was an unexpected result. In addition, the lava escape technique was indeed very effective against Susanoo, causing Uchiha Sasuke to lose the initiative.

However, the defensive power of Lava Release is not as good as that of Susanoo, nor is it as comprehensive as the Mangekyō Sharingan secret technique.

In particular, Kakuzu's Lava Style has the same weakness as Fire Style, which is that it is severely restrained by Water Style.

Although absolute power can break all shackles, the body of Kakuzu controlled by Mizuki does not have such strength.

More than ten ferocious water dragons collided heavily, knocking the purple Susanoo and the lava giant away.

When the extremely high temperature collides with water at room temperature, the water evaporates at an extremely fast rate, and its volume expands rapidly in an instant, forming an explosion with astonishing power.

The shock wave produced by the head-on collision of the two extremely powerful ninjutsu was like a tornado, sweeping away the surrounding fog, and even the camp where the Daimyo of the Land of Fire was located in the distance was blown to the ground.

The rising cyclone formed by the violent collision quickly formed a dark cloud in the air. The water vapor evaporated and quickly condensed. Under the strong convection, bright silver arcs began to flash between the wind and the clouds.

“It’s really thrilling!”

Uchiha Sasuke wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Although he could think of some ways just now, they were all extremely risky. Just like using Amaterasu's Black Flame, at such a close distance, if it was not handled properly, even with a Kagutsuchi-no-Mikoto, he might easily get burned.

Susanoo, who was knocked away by Mei Terumi's water jutsu and then fell heavily to the ground, stood up quickly. His vision around him was much clearer than before. He saw that the lava giant, who was so aggressive a moment ago, now had much dimmer red lotus fire around his body, and several cracks appeared on his body due to sudden cooling due to high temperature. The black lines were so obvious that although he still maintained a fighting posture, it was obvious that Kakuzu was really uncomfortable with the blow from Mei Terumi.

"It's not over yet, you fool. Even if you are immortal, you will die here today."

Looking at the long sword of Susanoo coming towards him, Kakutsu crossed his hands in front of him. He heard a dull tearing sound, the sword flashed, and a pair of lava arms were ruthlessly chopped off.

Taking advantage of a moment's buffer, Kakuzu controlled the Lava Giant and advanced again, intending to embrace Susanoo in his arms and pin it down again.

"You want to do the same old trick again? So naive..."

Every failure makes one wiser. With Uchiha Sasuke's talent, the possibility of him making the same mistake again is very small.

A ball of lightning suddenly emerged from Susanoo, and it flew backwards using the speed and flexibility granted by Thunder Release.

At the same time, the energy of the weapon in his right hand suddenly turned into a pitch-black flame and spread out into countless small flames. Using the unique eye technique of the Mangekyō Sharingan - the fire escape formed by Kagutsuchi No Mikoto, he controlled the Amaterasu's black flames and covered the entire body of the lava giant in an instant.

The fiery red giant turned into a black torch in the blink of an eye.

Kakuzu, who seemed to have expected this move, did not slow down. Under Uchiha Sasuke's surprised eyes, the black flame split in the middle like a layer of taken-off clothes, and the black flame of Amaterasu fell. A red lava giant that was obviously smaller but had all four limbs rushed to Uchiha Sasuke again at a faster speed.

Uchiha Sasuke was surprised that Amaterasu had such a way to deal with the situation. The Mangekyō Sharingan's eye technique, which was originally indestructible and would surely kill anyone hit by it, actually had such a weakness.

"Now you know who is naive!"

As long as the body is not ignited by Amaterasu, ordinary ninjas can isolate Amaterasu by discarding burning clothes and armor or injured arms.

Kakuzu couldn't do what Uchiha Madara did, directly suppress Amaterasu with his powerful chakra, but it wasn't too difficult for him to abandon the outer shell of the Lava Giant and continue to put pressure on Uchiha Sasuke with a smaller and more agile Lava Giant.

"No matter how powerful your ninjutsu is, it's useless if you can't hit someone!"

After being taught a humiliating lesson by the guy he originally looked down upon, Uchiha Sasuke felt a little annoyed. The black flame of Amaterasu in his right hand once again turned into a huge silver sword and slashed across the lava giant.

Unfortunately, this ordinary powerful attack is not enough in front of the tough lava.

The slash was not without effect. It directly cut off the lava giant's left arm, penetrated into the shoulder, and stopped at the heart.

However, this is not a good thing for Uchiha Sasuke. The lava giant is just the incarnation of chakra mode and has no weakness like the heart. If Kakuzu's body is not killed, no matter how serious the damage is, as long as Kakuzu is still alive and has enough chakra, it can be replenished quickly.

What's worse is that the weapon got stuck in the lava giant's body and couldn't be pulled out.

A moment's pause put Uchiha Sasuke in danger.

A red lava arm, like a giant pair of pliers, pinched Susanoo's throat, making it creak. Kakuzu exerted his strength with all his might and simply lifted Susanoo up.

"It looks like I won. Your allies seem to be running out of chakra."

After performing several high-level ninjutsu in succession, Mei Terumi needed to take a breather and could only watch Uchiha Sasuke being captured again.

"How can you still have such power, you bastard?"

If the competition is simply about the power of ninjutsu, Mei Terumi and Uchiha Sasuke are not necessarily weaker than Kakuzu, but the reality is cruel. The Mist Ninja and Uchiha Sasuke, who need to protect the daimyo and nobles, are afraid to use their full strength and waste most of their chakra and stamina on protecting their friendly forces.

Defense is always more passive than offense, and consumes much more chakra and physical strength.

"The last Uchiha, please don't let anyone down!"

If this side suffers a heavy defeat in just a preliminary battle of the Akatsuki organization, it will be a huge blow to morale.

Not long ago, he was so stubborn as not to ask for reinforcements, but now it seems that it was a mistake. The strong men who can survive war after war all have unknown trump cards.

Moreover, ordinary ninjas cannot intervene in such a battle. The high temperature is unbearable even from such a distance. Ordinary people may not even be able to get close to the battlefield and will be burned to death.

Apart from Mei Terumi herself who can serve as a combat force, only Chojuro, who is holding the double swords Aoi, has the ability to participate, but the situation on the side of the Fire Country Daimyo makes it impossible to leave.

When a ninja becomes powerful enough, he can ignore the threat posed by numbers to a certain extent.

Without crossing that threshold, you can't even gain a foothold, let alone provide help.

Forced into a desperate situation once again, Uchiha Sasuke finally realized that he was not sure enough to survive. If he did not use all his strength, he might really die here.

"That's it, even though I still can't fully control and understand it, it's time to give it a try."

The purple Susanoo moved as Uchiha Sasuke's mind moved. The lightning that originally played only an auxiliary role became more and more dense, and the color changed from silver to black.

"What's this?"

Kakuzu watched in doubt as the heart-pounding black lightning spread. Once it hit the lava giant, the area would immediately go out of control.

The red lotus fire on the surface of the originally solid lava giant began to dim.

"Is this Yin Yang Escape? It's a bit like... but it's not right, it's something even more bizarre."

Shuimu, who has been exposed to Yin-Yang Escape for some time, is no stranger to it. Although the effects are somewhat similar, the principles are different.

Yin-Yang Release is used to restrain Chakra, while Uchiha Sasuke's power seems to directly expel... No, it should be the power to destroy the will that controls Chakra.

Without control and without any will, chakra is naturally a purposeless and ownerless thing, so it is reasonable for it to collapse and dissipate.

The already formed ninjutsu is like a person driving a car. Yin-Yang Release is like blowing up the car's fuel tank. The car without power will naturally stop, but Uchiha Sasuke is more like directly killing the person driving the car.

The result of paralyzing a jutsu is the same, but the principle is completely different.

The fact that it was able to restrain ninjutsu was just an illusion, because Kakuzu behaved so poorly because of his incarnation of Lava Release: Heavenly Fire, which required constant mental control.

If it was an ordinary Five Elements escape technique, even if it was Fire escape technique: Great Fireball Technique, a magical Lightning escape technique like Uchiha Sasuke's would not be able to have such a good restraining effect.

"Speaking of which, spiritual things like Susanoo or Black Zetsu are more suppressed, and they are also quite effective against the tailed beasts. Of course, it is even easier to deal with Orochimaru's most powerful life-saving ninjutsu, the Eight-Headed Ninjutsu. Pure spiritual obsession is like a knife for such a weird lightning escape technique..."

If we infer this way, then the Sleeping Town, which was developed based on the forbidden technique - the Eight-Headed Technique, would be strictly restrained in terms of both its essence and its spiritual attributes.

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"So, you were waiting for me here!"

In the Konoha Village Security Department, Mizuki, who was resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes and muttered to himself, ignoring the strange expressions of the assistants around him.

When the pitch-black lightning spread to the crimson lava giant, Mizuki knew that he was doomed.

Uchiha Sasuke controlled Susanoo and pulled out a divine weapon flashing with lightning - the Butsu-mimori - from the wings behind him. He dismembered the lava giant in a few strokes and then slashed at Kakuzu's body.

Mizuki had already ordered the Lightning Heart Monster to rush towards Susanoo, and at the same time, he attracted the natural lightning in the sky and released a Lightning Release: Kirin, using himself as a sacrifice to injure Uchiha Sasuke.

Taking advantage of a moment's opportunity, the water heart monster escaped from the battlefield at the fastest speed.

"The Ninja World has already become so fearful of me..."

Mizuki shook his head unconsciously and sighed.