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Chapter 537 The Shadow Lurking in the Darkness of the Moon

Chapter 537 The Shadow Lurking in the Darkness of the Moon

In the pitch-black expanse of space, on the crater-strewn wasteland of the moon, the battle continues.

The remains of the Asura Path were scattered, with several metal fragments half-buried in the moon dust.

Nagato did not choose to restore it.

The moon is not the ninja world, and the enemies we face are not the ninjas of the past who, despite possessing various secret techniques, were still easily countered by the Rinnegan.

Those invincible tactics and ninjutsu had no room to be used.

Among the summoned beasts, the Hellhound still plays a significant role, continuing to tear at the Hamura statue.

The Heavenly Dao remained steadfast, occasionally striking with pure repulsive force, or providing Xiu Si with black rods to assist in attacks during lulls.

His true form, relying on the chameleon, concealed his location and waited for an opportunity to provide support with the Five Escape Techniques to deal with the Hamura statue.

The camouflage was obviously not fooled by the servant's eyes, but he was too busy to deal with it for the time being.

His fighting skills were all learned from the puppet. Facing the most elite ninja in the ninja world, who was extremely flexible in tactical methods, the boy was overwhelmed.

The Flying Thunder God Technique and the Wood Clone Technique alternated positions, and the five Sage Mode-infused escape techniques swept in from all directions. These were not light effects that could be completely ignored, but the truly deadly attacks were always hidden among those conspicuous special effects.

Nagato seized the moment when Toneri was agitated.

A black sphere silently floated up, taking advantage of the camouflage of space.

The debris and meteorites surrounding the moon were captured by the black sphere's gravity and gathered on top of the Hamura statue's head.

He intends to use the Earth Explosion Star technique to completely seal this enormous, constantly regenerating stone statue in one go.

The unusual gravitational phenomenon was observed by Toneri.

"Don't even think about it!"

The chakra rosary was covered in chakra, turning into a stream of emerald light, which shattered the not-yet-fully-formed Chibaku Tensei.

The Ōtsutsuki descendant's attention inevitably turned to Nagato, and by the time he realized it was a mistake, Shuji had already arrived behind him.

Sheren only had time to conjure a black shield on his back before he was slammed into the lunar surface by the hard vortex water blade.

As the water blades spun wildly, the boy's handsome face pressed against the earth and rocks, his hard skin crushing the moon rock under the constant pressure from behind.

Grayish-white debris seeped into his collar, scraping against his skin. He closed his eyes tightly, clenched his teeth, and felt a surge of humiliation explode in his chest.

He has never been pressed into the ground and rubbed since birth.

The black shield cracked inch by inch, and Shiren felt the pressure on his back loosen slightly. Without thinking, he immediately chose to break free.

The chakra cloak trailed a trail of emerald light behind him, but as soon as he rose halfway up, the Heavenly Dao had already hovered in front of him.

The black rod, propelled by repulsive force, shot out silently.

The prayer beads in front of Toneri reassembled, knocking away all the black rods. However, that repulsive chakra emanated from behind him once again.

He already had a premonition of what was about to happen. Before he could even turn his body around, Shuji's fist pierced through the hastily formed shield.

The Sage Chakra erupted with a blinding white light at the point of contact.

Sheren fell again, and at the same moment, the familiar spinning sensation pressed against his back.

It's another hard vortex water blade.

The boy was driven into the lunar soil for the second time, and the water-blade drill pressed down, carving out an ever-deepening spiral crater on the lunar surface.

Sheren's vision was filled with churning gray-black earth and stones, and a thought popped into his head uncontrollably.

Press that guy behind me down into the ground too, grind his face into the moon rock, and let him taste this feeling too.

Just as anger surged into his brain, he sensed it.

Someone is approaching the Tenseigan.

In an instant, his anger was doused with cold water.

The Tenseigan has a cursed spell; anyone who doesn't belong to Hamura's lineage will have all their chakra drained if they touch it.

However, he has already seen Hyuga Himon, who has completely betrayed the moon, and Hyuga Hiashi, who has gone blind, also seems to be approaching.

The man's mind immediately cleared.

The thief and the descendant of the Feather Robe were provoking him, from the very beginning; all their actions were aimed at diverting his attention from the Tenseigan.

With the chakra of an enormous Tenseigan and the power of the Byakugan of all the Moon Clan, Toneri's desire to fulfill his ancestral vow of destroying the world finally overwhelmed his hesitation to preserve his clan's bloodline and his expectations for his future wife.

He is the last of his kind, and he bears the mission of cleaning this defiled world.

He no longer hesitated.

Sheren directly activated an even more powerful force within the Great Reincarnation Eye, and the green light on his body became increasingly scorching.

The water blade pressing him down slowed its rotation drastically, and the Sage Chakra gradually disintegrated under the excessive Tenseigan Chakra.

Xiu Si immediately stopped.

His figure had already dissipated into a blur before the others could counterattack, landing back beside the chameleon where Nagato was hiding.

Meanwhile, the Hamura statue, which had been playing whack-a-mole with the multiplying hellhounds, also sensed the call from the Tenseigan, ignored the hellhounds' presence, and walked towards Shuji and Nagato's location.

Nagato's voice came from inside the chameleon's belly: "You've exposed my location."

Shuji patted the chameleon's skin: "Compared to this, can you stall a little longer? Say something painful or something to provoke him."

The person in question had already floated into the air.

The chakra cloak burned more intensely on his body than ever before, and the horns on his forehead became even more prominent under the green light.

His once handsome face was now cold, and the whites of his eyes had been tinged with the sapphire blue light of the Tenseigan.

Nagato asked, "Don't you know how to say those things?"

Shuji looked up at the increasingly dangerous light emanating from Toneri: "I don't feel that way when I say it."

Unsure if Shuji was implying something, Nagato retorted, "Haven't you ever experienced pain?"

Shuji casually replied, "Life is already painful enough for me, especially now that I'm getting further and further away from my ideal life."

The attendant did not give the two any time to continue their conversation.

"Destroy them—" he whispered, "the ninja world, and you."

Driven by the Great Tenseigan, the moon beneath their feet began to accelerate its approach to the Shinobi World.

What were originally just scattered meteorites falling toward the ninja world are now breaking away from the meteorite belt in large swaths and falling toward the blue planet.

This scale is no longer what Toneri initially intended—to use the meteor to distract the ninjas and take Hinata and Hanabi away.

This is the end.

Sensing a completely different change, Nagato finally stepped out of the chameleon's mouth.

Facing the approaching Hamura statue and Toneri on the other side, he remained calm.

"Summoning Jutsu: Gedo Statue!"

At the call of the Rinnegan user, the giant humanoid figure, the color of withered wood, returned to the moon.

As it stood up, the shackles binding its hands and feet broke, and the heretical statue roared to the sky.

Shuji glanced at it.

This was the first time he had seen the heretical statue in person, and it was completely different from the mother plant he had cultivated.

"Perfect," the hermit said coldly, watching the scene unfold. "Return what belongs to our clan as well."

Nagato did not reply. His main body rushed forward in sync with the Heavenly Dao, and the black rod in the Asura Path's remains also flew up, pointing towards the location of Toneri.

Shuji clapped his hands together, and the wooden figure rose again. The wooden dragon coiled on its shoulder twisted its body, its mouth opening to its limit as it aimed at Shiren.

Behind them, the Gedo Mazo and the Hamura statue collided with a deafening crash.

The clash between the two colossal creatures stirred up a cloud of lunar dust, and debris rose high into the sky amidst the shockwave.

The prayer beads in the attendant's hand coalesced and transformed into a golden longsword.

The Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion swept out.

Perhaps because he looked down on Nagato and Tendou's attacks, or perhaps because he still resented Shuji for burying him in the ground twice, the first target of the golden sword was the wooden man and the wooden dragon, as well as the person standing on the wooden man's shoulder.

A flash of golden light. The wooden figure was destroyed, and the wooden dragon vanished.

Just as the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion was unleashed, Xiu Si's figure reappeared.

"The Birth of the Tree Kingdom!"

A forest immediately appeared on the surface of the moon, blocking the path of the Sheren.

The boy's sword swept across once more, cleaving the entire forest in two.

At the same moment that new branches sprouted from the broken end, the black sphere of the Earth-Exploding Star rose into the void.

This time, Nagato's target was not Toneri, nor the Hamura statue, but the meteorites that were falling towards the ninja world under the power of the Tenseigan.

The stones were pulled off course by gravity and forcibly dragged toward the black sphere.

Nagato pushed his chakra to its limit, his eyes blazing with fury, guiding most of the meteorites away from falling into that blue world.

The super-long-range summoning of the Outer Path Demon Statue, coupled with this additional technique of this scale, was too much for his current body to bear, causing him to cough up blood.

On the severed tree stump, new branches continue to grow tirelessly, surging towards the person.

Sheren watched all this and flew upwards. The Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion spun around him, tearing away the forest on the moon's surface along with the soil below.

The world inside the moon, and the floating castle complex, appeared before his eyes.

Just as the attendant was about to rush inside, he discovered that the annoying figure on the lunar surface had completely disappeared.

All that remained was Nagato, who was still struggling to maintain the Planetary Devastation and prevent the meteorite from falling into the ninja world, and Yahiko's body, which had lost its chakra support and lay on the ground.

Shuji isn't here; he went to the Tenseigan area!

Without hesitation, the boy swooped down directly in the direction of the Tenseigan.

At this moment, Shuji's last wooden clone had already entered the interior of the Great Tenseigan with Hiashi Hyuga and Hinata Hyuga.

As his main body landed, his wooden clone fell as a piece of wood, and Shuji quickly suppressed the fatigue accumulated from the battle.

This battle with Sheren was, in all accounts, the most arduous battle he had ever fought since he came into this world.

Before the three of them lay the supreme treasure belonging to the Otsutsuki clan of the moon: the enormous Tenseigan.

Faced with the golden divine object, Hyuga Himon was awestruck, and the strength in his hand supporting Hiashi loosened slightly.

Shuji wrapped his vines around Hiashi and said, "You try it first. If your chakra is absorbed, I'll pull you back."

"Prepare for the attack."

Hiashi Hyuga immediately made preparations.

Hinata Himon suggested that he try it first. Shuji did not object.

But the moment the Fire Gate attacked the super-large Tenseigan, his movements became noticeably sluggish, and his whole body went limp.

Shuji shot a tree branch from his sleeve, wrapped it around Hinata, and flung him aside. Hinata rolled to the ground, unconscious.

At the same time, he used his other hand to fling Hiashi Hyuga towards the Tenseigan. Hiashi's palm struck the giant eye, and his chakra was not absorbed.

But it cannot cause any harm.

Shuji channeled more chakra into the vines. Feeling the growing power within him, Hiashi exerted his strength again, channeling the Gentle Fist chakra into the surface of the Tenseigan.

It's still like throwing a stone into the sea.

The power of the attendant is rapidly approaching.

Shuji pulled Hiashi Hyuga back, absorbing the chakra that had just been transferred, and also absorbing Hiashi Hyuga's chakra.

"It's too late, I'll do it."

Then he bit his finger and used his spirit to summon the mother plant that should have been in the underground laboratory in the western suburbs.

The mother plant landed directly above the giant reincarnation eye.

The Tenseigan unleashed a powerful repulsive force. The mother plant sensed the power of the eye and chakra within that giant eye and instinctively wanted to absorb it.

However, having been confined to a tiny space for too long, it was powerless in the face of this level of confrontation. The power of the Tenseigan overwhelmed it, repelling and destroying the roots covering its body one by one.

Shuji's eye meridians bulged, and in his vision, the originally flawless giant Tenseigan actually showed some weak points when it countered the mother plant.

In his hands, the Hard Vortex Water Blade, the Wind Blade, and Hiashi's chakra converged to form a new water gun.

The composite water blade pierced straight down. Amidst the shrill sound of high-speed friction, cracks appeared on the surface of the Tenseigan.

While the two sides were locked in a stalemate, the servant rushed in.

The next moment, the enormous Reincarnation Eye suddenly flashed, and the cracks spread from the points to the surface, covering the entire surface.

A cracking sound rang out, and countless white eyes flew out from the sphere of light, scattering like stardust in the dark space.

As Shuji flew backward, he released the mother plant's spiritual connection.

It dissipated into white smoke, carrying its resentment, and returned to a place it did not want to return to.

The green light on Shiren faded, and without the support of his ancestral treasure, he could no longer maintain the Tenseigan mode.

Having lost his powerful chakra, Toneri could only stare blankly at the Byakugan that were still glowing in the dark space.

The boy swayed and fell to his knees.

The Byakugan that originally belonged to Hiashi Hyuga was now stinging intensely in its sockets, and organs that didn't belong to him began to protest wildly.

Shuji stepped forward, and several branches rose from the ground, binding the limbs of the attendant: "Taketori Yoichi, what happened?"

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There are some questions the other party won't answer before taking action. After the fight, he needs to confirm the truth.

"My father—is Otsutsuki Yoichi!"

The servant growled.

"He was attacked in the ninja world!"

"That corrupt world, after spying on us—"

"He—only a part of him remains—"

"Your world—the ninja world—is hopeless."

"I must----"

Sheren raised his face, his expression contorting. As his destructive will intensified to the extreme, the scattered white eyes began to converge on him.

Shuji directly absorbed the chakra from Toneri. The boy fainted. The scene of numerous Byakugan riots also subsided.

Only a portion of the bamboo plucker remains—this is hardly a good way to describe it.

Do Orochimaru and his group really have that ability?

Therefore, it's another possibility.

"There are still people hiding—"