Ebizo had no choice but to endure. Uchiha Shin's four wood clones were not as powerful as his shadow clones, but they were still enough to overwhelm him.
He had exhausted every technique in his arsenal, barely managing to hold his ground against the four clones at best.
"How dare you let your mind wander in the middle of battle?!"
"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"
Uchiha Shin, floating in the sky, raised his palm and condensed a sphere of Dust Release energy. The destructive force of the technique manifested instantly, vaporizing most of the Third Kazekage's body along with his colossal Iron Sand construct, reducing them to atomic dust.
As the battle raged on, Uchiha Shin became more adept at wielding Dust Release. The power was exhilarating.
Each released beam of Dust Release slashed through the battlefield like a divine blade, carving through the Third Kazekage's defenses without mercy. Below, the legendary Kazekage was nothing more than an insect struggling against an unstoppable force, trying to retaliate but being obliterated with the flick of a finger.
From the start of this fight until now, the Third Kazekage had become numb to the pain.
Had it not been for his puppetized body and the immense chakra reserves granted by the Ryūmyaku, he would have perished at least thirty or forty times by now.
Yet here he was, struggling to stay alive, only to see Ebizo getting torn apart by a mere wooden clone?!
"Fuck! I can't fight like this anymore!"
Frustrated and on the brink of mental collapse, the Third Kazekage abandoned the thought of continuing this fruitless battle.
Who in their right mind would willingly subject themselves to getting slaughtered over and over, only to be resurrected each time like a damn lab rat?
Instead, he abandoned his broken body and activated the soul core hidden deep within an underground facility, reconstructing his physical form from scratch.
His priorities shifted. He needed to stop Sasha and the others from sealing the Ryūmyaku. That "monster" in the sky had to wait.
Without the Ryūmyaku's chakra supply, the Third Kazekage couldn't fathom how he would even begin to fight Uchiha Shin.
Uchiha Shin, watching the Kazekage's retreat, turned his gaze towards the underground factory.
"Tch, too far to reach in time. Guess I'll have to rely on my wood clones."
His body surged forward at high speed, all while diverting most of his attention to his clones below.
The Third Kazekage's reconstructed body arrived at the barrier enclosing Ebizo.
"A Four Purple Flame Formation… Makes sense now."
Realizing what had happened, the Kazekage scoffed. Ebizo had been trapped by barrier ninjutsu—not that he had any interest in saving him. Instead, he flew straight toward the Ryūmyaku's core.
But Uchiha Shin had no intention of allowing that. The wood clones maintaining the barrier abruptly dispelled the technique, lowering the flaming walls.
Ebizo, seeing this, looked at Uchiha Shin like he had lost his damn mind.
"The seal is down?! You think four wood clones can stop both the Kazekage and me? What a joke!"
Ebizo's centipede puppet lunged at the wood clones, while the Third Kazekage manipulated Iron Sand to crush anything in his way.
Then, in an instant, golden chakra surged from the four wood clones.
The Third Kazekage and Ebizo froze as golden skeletal figures formed in the air. The bones rapidly developed into muscle and flesh before being shrouded in a thick, glowing layer of chakra armor.
Four fully-formed Susanoo emerged before them.
"Are you fucking kidding me?! That's the Uchiha clan's Susanoo?!"
Both men shouted in disbelief. It felt unreal, like a genjutsu-induced nightmare.
But this was no illusion.
Uchiha Shin's clones weren't interested in conversation. Every second they maintained these constructs, their chakra reserves and ocular energy were being drained at an absurd rate.
"Training my ocular power like this is effective, but the chakra cost is insane."
If not for the slaughter he planned later—wiping out the remaining Sand Shinobi in Roran to replenish his reserves—he wouldn't have dared to use Susanoo so recklessly.
Each Susanoo held a massive blade in one hand and an ethereal chain in the other.
This weapon combination was a result of Uchiha Shin refining his left-eye ability, [Soul Transmutation], and integrating an evolved form of the Adamantine Sealing Chains into Susanoo.
Two Susanoo warriors swung their blades down toward the Third Kazekage and Ebizo, while the other two lashed out with their chakra-forged chains.
Faced with the overwhelming attack, the two finally snapped back to their senses.
They had no time to ponder how or why Uchiha Shin could summon multiple Susanoo. Their survival instincts kicked in.
"Secret Puppet Art: Ryūmyaku Hellfire Barrage!"
"Iron Sand World Spear!"
Explosions rocked the battlefield as their attacks clashed against the Susanoo constructs, shattering two of the avatars.
But amidst the smoke, the remaining two Susanoo struck.
The golden chains wrapped around the Kazekage and Ebizo at lightning speed, binding them in an unbreakable grip.
Their attempts to struggle were in vain. The chains weren't just durable—they actively suppressed chakra flow.
With two-thirds of their chakra sealed, even the limitless Ryūmyaku energy couldn't free them immediately.
"Ahhhhhh!"
The Third Kazekage howled in rage and despair.
Defeated by a fucking shadow clone. The humiliation was unbearable.
Meanwhile, Mikoto and Kanako had successfully escorted Sasha to the Ryūmyaku's core chamber.
The structure was a massive, suspended tower, with a single bridge leading to the glowing center. Below, a swirling abyss of purple-black chakra churned violently.
Even after being exploited by the Kazekage and Ebizo, and previously drained by the Sand Village, the Ryūmyaku's power remained seemingly infinite.
"Adamantine Sealing Chains!"
Five chains erupted from Kanako Uzumaki's back, instantly entangling the remaining puppet troops pursuing them.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire!"
Uchiha Mikoto unleashed a barrage of flame-coated shuriken, setting the battlefield ablaze with crimson fireballs that tore through the enemy lines.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The puppet forces were incinerated in the ensuing inferno.
"Hurry!"
Mikoto and Kanako shouted in unison.
Sasha, already sprinting at full speed, called back, "I'm moving as fast as I can!"
The markings of the Sage Seal on her hand glowed faintly, enhancing her physical capabilities. She dashed forward at a speed no ordinary person could match.
Reaching the central platform, Sasha slammed both hands onto the sealing array inscribed on the Ryūmyaku's core.
As her fingers made contact, the eye-shaped vortex at the center of the energy source pulsed with an eerie purple light.
Sweat dripped down Sasha's forehead as she activated her bloodline ability, manipulating the Ryūmyaku's flow to initiate the shutdown sequence.
A low hum resonated throughout the chamber as the Ryūmyaku's chakra began retracting into the earth.
On the battlefield above, the Third Kazekage and Ebizo weakened instantly as their power source was severed.
Seeing this, Uchiha Shin dispelled his Susanoo.
He wasn't an Eternal Mangekyō wielder—wasting ocular power unnecessarily wasn't an option.
For now, his work was done.
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