Chapter 103: Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion

Chapter 103: Chapter 103: Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion

"Oura!"

Seeing his companion shattered in a single blow by the black Truth-Seeking Ball, the Sunagakure jonin Nosuke was overwhelmed with grief and rage.

The surrounding Sunagakure chunin were equally terrified. One by one, they seemed to have completely lost their will to fight, and the gazes they directed at the Truth-Seeking Balls were filled with fear!

They simply couldn’t imagine how such an ordinary-looking black sphere could possess such terrifying power!

Hyuga Kagami slowly raised his hand and recalled the Truth-Seeking Ball, his expression remaining perfectly calm.

Trying to block a Truth-Seeking Ball with a kunai was practically the same as courting death. So Kagami wasn’t surprised in the slightest by the Sunagakure jonin’s death. It was entirely within his expectations.

However, that attack had revealed a problem.

That Sunagakure jonin had already been completely terrified, yet after Kagami launched the Truth-Seeking Ball at him, he still had enough time to pull out his kunai and execute a complete blocking motion.

What did that mean?

It meant that the Truth-Seeking Ball’s attack speed wasn’t particularly fast.

At the very least, it was far, far slower than Kagami had expected.

The Truth-Seeking Balls were virtually indestructible, and their unique property of being untouchable by anyone without Six Paths power undoubtedly made them extraordinarily formidable. But if they couldn’t accurately hit their target, then no matter how destructive they were, all that power would be meaningless.

After all, there was no shortage of devastating techniques in the shinobi world.

The Third Tsuchikage’s Dust Release, Konoha’s forbidden technique, the Reaper Death Seal, and Amaterasu, the Mangekyo Sharingan’s ocular technique—all of them were techniques that would leave anyone struck by them either dead or severely wounded.

Even slightly weaker techniques, such as Sasori’s poison or Kakashi’s Chidori, were powerful enough to decide a battle the moment they landed.

"It’s probably because my control isn’t good enough yet."

Kagami felt that the speed of the Truth-Seeking Balls should be capable of increasing. The reason his Truth-Seeking Balls were currently so slow might simply be because his ability to control them was still lacking.

At that moment, Nosuke, the sole remaining Sunagakure jonin, shouted to the six Sunagakure chunin beside him, "I’ll hold him off! Split up and run! No matter what, you have to get this intel back to the village!"

The six Sunagakure chunin had already been scared out of their wits and had completely lost their will to fight. They also understood that staying behind wouldn’t be of any help, so they immediately scattered in different directions.

Kagami had already consumed a considerable amount of chakra by this point, so he had no intention of dragging the fight out any longer.

Still in Tenseigan Chakra Mode, he flew straight after the fleeing Sunagakure chunin.

With the Truth-Seeking Ball transformed into a long black blade, he cut them down one after another.

One slash, one kill.

In mere moments, all six Sunagakure chunin who had scattered in different directions were slain.

Seeing this, Nosuke roared, "I’LL TAKE YOU DOWN WITH ME!"

With that shout, he gathered every last bit of chakra in his body and rapidly formed a series of hand seals.

Kagami frowned. Just as he was about to move forward and finish off the Sunagakure jonin—

Boom...

Suddenly, with a muffled explosion, an enormous wave of sand erupted from underground, blocking Kagami’s path!

Immediately afterward, the giant sandworm that had been hiding beneath the dunes revealed half of its massive body. Its enormous maw, lined with rows of razor-sharp mouthparts, aimed directly at Kagami in midair.

By this point, the Sunagakure jonin Nosuke had already completed an extremely complicated sequence of hand seals.

"Secret Technique: Sand-Earth Adhesion!"

At his shout, an incredibly thick, glue-like mud sprayed from his mouth. At the same time, the giant sandworm spewed out a huge torrent of viscous fluid from its maw.

The two gelatinous substances merged together in midair, transforming into an enormous net that seemed to blot out the sky.

With the wind howling around it, the massive net descended upon Kagami!

Kagami had no idea whether this sticky substance was poisonous or corrosive, so he immediately activated five Truth-Seeking Balls.

The five Truth-Seeking Balls transformed into a black sphere, completely enclosing and protecting him within.

The moment the adhesive net wrapped around the Truth-Seeking Ball sphere, it rapidly hardened like cement, layer after layer caking over the black sphere until it was completely encased.

Inside the Truth-Seeking Ball sphere, Kagami’s gaze sharpened.

Because within the vision of his Tenseigan, he could clearly see that while he had been occupied defending against the adhesive net, Nosuke had slipped inside the sandworm’s belly.

The sandworm then burrowed straight into the dunes.

He was trying to escape by fleeing underground.

There was no doubt about it—Nosuke had planned from the very beginning to use the sandworm to escape.

His earlier declaration that he would stay behind while the other Sunagakure shinobi carried the intelligence back to the village had been nothing more than an excuse. He had simply intended to use his comrades as bait to keep Kagami occupied while he looked for an opportunity to escape.

What he hadn’t expected was just how fast Kagami was in Tenseigan Chakra Mode. Killing all six Sunagakure chunin had barely taken him any time at all, forcing Nosuke to use his secret technique in a desperate attempt to get away.

"Tch!"

Kagami clicked his tongue in disdain.

With a wave of his hand, the Truth-Seeking Ball sphere instantly shattered the hardened adhesive net around it, effortlessly breaking free from the Sunagakure jonin’s restraining technique.

He then swiftly flew above the sandworm as it tunneled through the dunes.

The giant sandworm was traveling more than ten meters beneath the surface, and it wasn’t moving slowly either. If it had been anyone else, forget intercepting it—even detecting it in the first place would have been questionable.

But for Kagami in Tenseigan Chakra Mode, it posed no real difficulty.

After a brief moment of consideration, Kagami made his decision.

He slowly extended his right hand, assuming the posture of someone gripping a sword, and coldly declared—

"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"

In an instant, five Truth-Seeking Balls converged into his right hand.

They began spinning at tremendous speed before finally coalescing into a dazzling golden sword—

radiant as the sun itself!

"What incredible power!"

Even though he had already expected it to be powerful, the moment Kagami truly held the golden sword in his hand, he still couldn’t help but marvel at its might.

At this moment, he felt as though there was nothing he couldn’t do!

Casting an indifferent glance at the dunes below, Kagami confirmed the sandworm’s position once more.

Without the slightest hesitation, he swung the dazzling golden sword—over a hundred meters long—downward!

Whoosh—!

It was as though heaven and earth themselves had been split apart by that single slash!

A thin fissure appeared across the entire stretch of sand dunes, and an enormous torrent of blood erupted from the crack.

Hovering in the sky like a god, Kagami swept his gaze over the dunes once more.

The giant sandworm, which had been hiding more than ten meters beneath the surface, had been sliced cleanly in half from head to tail by the golden sword.

And all the blood spraying from the fissure in the dunes belonged to the giant sandworm.

Without a doubt, no matter how powerful a ninja beast might be, it couldn’t withstand the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion unleashed in Tenseigan Chakra Mode.

After all, Otsutsuki Toneri had once used this very technique to slice the moon apart!

Just as Kagami was about to deactivate the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, he suddenly noticed something.

The chakra signature beneath the dunes hadn’t completely disappeared.

His gaze sharpened.

Pouring chakra into his Tenseigan, Kagami carefully scanned beneath the sand. Only then did he discover that the Sunagakure jonin hiding inside the sandworm’s belly had actually been lucky enough to avoid the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!

Both impressed and chastened by the realization, Kagami murmured to himself,

"Sure enough... you can never underestimate any opponent."