Chapter 277: Obito’s Countermeasure

Whoosh!

Two more kunai passed straight through Obito Uchiha’s body.

Under Tobirama Senju’s relentless barrage of Flying Thunder God kunai, even Obito’s evasive movements were beginning to look somewhat strained.

However, Yakushi Kabuto didn’t press the attack recklessly.

Instead, he maintained a constant barrage of Flying Thunder God assaults, ensuring that Obito never had the opportunity to materialize.

Obito could do nothing except remain within the Kamui dimension to avoid being hit.

The moment Obito attempted to become tangible, Kabuto would immediately have Tobirama teleport to one of the Flying Thunder God markers already positioned around the edge of the water prison.

At the same time, the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags would be activated.

Such concentrated and continuous detonations would instantly swallow Obito’s position.

It was an extremely shameless fighting style.

One that was only possible through the combination of Flying Thunder God and Edo Tensei.

Naturally, Obito recognized this as well.

He could only continue luring Tobirama’s body toward the edges of the water prison.

Inside this battlefield, he was completely being led around by the nose.

If he didn’t come up with another solution, he would soon find himself facing a two-on-one assault from both Madara and Tobirama.

At this point in time, Obito had yet to accumulate extensive combat experience.

Although he possessed a powerful body and exceptional eyes, he hadn’t gone through enough battles to fully adapt to them.

As a result, his taijutsu still lagged behind his physical abilities.

"So you’ve really decided to drag this out."

Obito’s gaze turned cold as he looked toward Madara, who was still recovering his chakra outside the water prison.

Then he shifted his attention to the distant battle between Ning Feng and Hashirama.

What surprised him was that the fight had changed dramatically.

Hashirama was no longer suppressing Ning Feng.

The two were now evenly matched!

Which meant...

Ning Feng’s taijutsu had improved again!

"This guy... is he even human?"

Obito couldn’t hide his shock beneath the mask.

The person fighting Ning Feng was Hashirama Senju!

Most shinobi weren’t familiar with Hashirama’s taijutsu abilities.

But Madara, who had guided Obito, frequently spoke about Hashirama’s terrifying skill in close combat.

And yet someone could actually match Hashirama in taijutsu?

"This guy got distracted?"

Kabuto immediately noticed the momentary lapse in Obito’s concentration while he was using Kamui.

Following Obito’s gaze, he looked toward Ning Feng and Hashirama.

Only then did he realize that the battle had somehow become evenly matched.

"What... what’s going on?"

Kabuto looked as though he’d seen a ghost.

Earlier, when he was controlling Hashirama during the taijutsu exchange, Hashirama’s own combat instincts had gradually awakened.

By the end, Hashirama had begun suppressing Ning Feng on his own.

After that, Kabuto had shifted most of his attention toward controlling Tobirama.

But he never expected that the same Hashirama who had been dominating Ning Feng moments ago...

Would be fighting him on equal footing now!

At this rate...

Wouldn’t Ning Feng start suppressing Hashirama before long?

He was...

Using the First Hokage as a sparring partner!

Almost simultaneously, both Obito and Kabuto arrived at the same conclusion.

Watching the exchanges between the two, Hashirama almost always initiated the attack.

And every time, Ning Feng countered it.

More importantly, every counter carried a strong resemblance to Hashirama’s own style.

Which meant...

Ning Feng was learning Hashirama’s combat style!

"Truly terrifying."

Obito let out a long breath.

He hadn’t expected Ning Feng to reverse the situation so quickly.

Nor had he expected Ning Feng to eliminate his greatest weakness—close-combat taijutsu—in such a short period.

If this continued, Ning Feng would soon begin suppressing Hashirama instead.

His Sharingan continuously copied Hashirama’s fighting methods.

Then he integrated them into his own style, creating an entirely new combat system unique to himself.

"This guy..."

Madara naturally noticed what was happening as well.

But there was nothing he could do to stop it.

Aside from Hashirama, he couldn’t think of a single shinobi capable of slowing Ning Feng’s growth.

Yet Hashirama was inadvertently helping Ning Feng perfect his combat style and eliminate his final weakness.

Even before fully adapting to his Sage Body, Ning Feng had already caused Madara endless trouble.

If Ning Feng mastered a proper combat style and integrated Hashirama’s methods into it...

Madara would stand even less of a chance.

"I need to deal with that traitor Obito as quickly as possible..."

With that thought, Madara accelerated his chakra recovery.

His previous clash with Ning Feng had been so intense that even gathering chakra had become difficult.

At times like this, the advantage of Tailed Beast chakra became obvious.

Ning Feng’s eight Tailed Beasts constantly generated chakra within him at an astonishing rate.

He didn’t even need to consciously focus on recovery.

Madara, on the other hand, had to manually restore his chakra.

And his efficiency was painfully slow.

"Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags!"

Seizing a brief opening during one of Obito’s close-range attacks, Tobirama suddenly sneered and slapped an explosive tag directly onto Obito’s body!

The Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags technique worked by attaching a single tag to the target.

That tag would then continuously summon additional explosive tags, creating an endless chain of explosions!

Obito’s heart skipped a beat.

He wanted to retreat into the Kamui dimension.

But it was already too late!

A scorching sensation instantly engulfed him.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

One explosive tag after another was summoned by the previous tag.

The concentrated detonations became so violent that even Tobirama himself was caught within the blast radius!

There wasn’t enough time to use Flying Thunder God to escape.

Tobirama’s body was swallowed by the flames as well.

Inside the water prison, explosions flashed endlessly.

The thunderous detonations echoed without pause.

Even Madara was surprised by what he saw.

He had only asked Kabuto to stall for five minutes.

Yet it looked as though Obito had been eliminated outright.

As he sensed Obito’s chakra signature rapidly weakening, a strange expression appeared on his face.

Who would’ve thought...

His chosen successor would die like this?

A master of space-time ninjutsu...

Ultimately dying to a fixed-point bombardment technique?

"Susanoo!"

Suddenly, the fading chakra within the water prison transformed into something cold and violent.

A gigantic azure chakra warrior appeared inside the water prison!

The warrior manifested only as an upper body.

It was already the third stage of Susanoo!

"This is... Obito’s Susanoo?"

Madara’s eyes widened slightly.

Wave after wave of explosions continued to detonate.

Yet the azure giant stood unmoving.

It endured every single blast head-on.

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