Start with the Mangekyo Sharingan: Follow Lord Madara out of Konoha

Chapter 172: Chapter 65: Battle Under the Moon



At the Village Gate of Konoha, a stream of orange light fell from the sky, crashing into the ground just outside the main gate and sending up a towering cloud of dust.

As the smoke slowly cleared, a pair of scarlet, crystalline eyes shone brightly. Uchiha Nian wiped the blood from his cheek, looked up at the village, his gaze as calm as still water.

Soon, Hiruzen Sarutobi led a group of Konoha ninjas out of Konohagakure. The aura of these people was not weak, all jonin level, and Sarutobi himself was dressed in combat gear, carrying the Adamantine Staff that Enma had transformed into on his shoulder, his momentum fierce.

"Uchiha Nian, you have committed unforgivable crimes by slaughtering comrades and destroying the village. Surrender obediently!" Sarutobi said coldly.

"Me? Slaughtering comrades?" Nian looked like he had heard something funny, pointed at himself, and raised an eyebrow. "Lord Sarutobi, did you get the position of Hokage by being so good at shifting the blame?"

Sarutobi's face darkened, and before he could respond, a jonin next to him immediately rebuked:

"Bold! How dare you be disrespectful to the Hokage-sama! Who do you think you are!"

"That's right, Uchiha Nian, the Hokage-sama allowed you to graduate from the Ninja Academy early and promoted you to Chunin, an unprecedented act of kindness. You didn't have to be grateful, but now you dare to insult the Hokage-sama!"

"Hmph, desertion from the village and slaughtering comrades, simply unforgivable!"

"There's no point in talking nonsense with him, let's attack together and kill him!"

Nian ignored these people's shouts, his expression remaining cold and aloof. His eyes were only on Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Hiruzen Sarutobi, I'm just curious, why did you attack me so quickly, labeling me as a rogue ninja? Are you afraid I will retaliate against Konohagakure in the future?"

Sarutobi's eyes were shrouded in gloom, his low tone seeming to brew a storm. "I don't care where you learned about your father, but my actions back then were not wrong! And... you must die here today!"

"Hahahaha!" Nian burst out laughing, his laughter filled with a sense of desolation. "Five years ago, when I entered the academy, you stood on the podium of the Ninja Academy in your fine clothes, talking about all that bullshit about the Will of Fire. I couldn't understand a single word at the time. Now I know why..."

"What?" Sarutobi frowned.

"Because... I've hated you since the first time I saw you!" Nian stretched his neck. "Hiruzen Sarutobi, I'll tell you a secret, I never intended to avenge my father from the start. It's you, you forced me to do this!"

He suddenly flung his hand, and countless wooden vines crazily spread out along his arm, growing inch by inch in mid-air, transforming into thrashing tentacles that grabbed towards the crowd.

"Adamantine Staff: Gale!" Sarutobi waved his hands continuously. At extremely fast speed, the Adamantine Staff turned into a blur, stirring up a heavy sound of wind.

The wooden vines came, but seemed to fall into a meat grinder. Under the tearing of the gale and staff shadows, continuous "crack crack" sounds rang out, turning into countless pieces of splintered wood that scattered in all directions.

"Attack!" Sarutobi ordered in a deep voice.

Three ninjas from the Sarutobi clan immediately jumped out and completed hand seals at the same time: "Fire Release: Great Blaze Technique!" (fan-made)

They puffed out their mouths, and three streams of crimson flames merged into one, transforming into a raging sea of fire, accompanied by distorted heat waves, rushing in.

Nian sneered, and an orange halo flowed around his body. The Susanoo reappeared, but this time it had changed from the original skeleton to a huge half-body skeleton, wielding a majestic light hammer, directly ignoring the fire attack.

The huge skeleton bathed in the sea of fire, splitting the sea of ​​fire into two with its body alone. It raised the giant hammer and slammed it down on the ground.

The ninjas only felt their eardrums shake, as if thunder had exploded close to their ears. A clear, golden lightning bolt traveled along the ground, quickly illuminating the earth.

These people were all jonin who had experienced many battles, and some were even veterans who had participated in the Ninja World War, so their sense of danger was extremely sharp. Therefore, at the moment the giant hammer landed, everyone jumped away, letting the lightning bolt run rampant across the ground. Not a single person was hit by this move.

At this moment, Nian in the Susanoo suddenly raised his eyes, scarlet pupils with black patterns flowing, quickly locking onto the ninjas in front of him, fine blood vessels blooming in his eyeballs.

This was the moment he had been waiting for!

"Amaterasu!"

In the blink of an eye, a jet-black flame ignited everyone, including Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Hokage, who couldn't avoid this sudden move.

Black flames spread and danced wildly!

These flames were extremely hot, possessing a temperature far exceeding ordinary Fire Release, and had a strong stickiness. Screams quickly spread in the crowd.

Sarutobi had a wealth of combat experience, and immediately saw the difficulty of these flames. Seeing the black flames crawling along his armguards towards his whole body, he threw out the Adamantine Staff and immediately tore off his top, not daring to let his skin touch even a spark of the flame.

Even so, his entire arm was a fiery red, the skin instantly burned, and a piercing pain shot through him as the wind blew.

The clothes fluttered and fell, and turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared into the air before they even hit the ground.

However, not all ninjas were as quick-witted as him. Apart from Sarutobi and two Hyuga clan ninjas who used Rotation in time, all those who were entangled by the black flames were burned to ashes in a few breaths, and even their screams were abruptly cut off.

Among them was a jonin from the Akimichi clan who tried to activate Multi-Size Technique to put out the flames, but the flames actually grew wildly along with his body. Other than turning into a larger black flame, his ending was no different from the others.

The air was heated to thousands of degrees, turning into twisted evil spirits, and just taking a breath would burn the respiratory tract to ashes.

Nian rotated his pupils, wanting to take the opportunity to bring more ninjas into the range of Amaterasu.

But his body suddenly shook, and a furry fist landed on the face of the half-body skeleton. A huge force came, causing Nian to stagger.

It was because of this brief interval that he successfully prevented the release of Amaterasu. Nian couldn't help but kneel on one knee, the excruciating pain causing him to tightly cover his right eye, as if it was about to explode. Blood gurgled, constantly pouring out through his fingers.

"Is this Amaterasu? It really is a technique that hurts the enemy by a thousand and yourself by eight hundred!"

He panted heavily. Because of the unstable dojutsu, the initial Susanoo also swayed, almost collapsing.

The offensive continued to come, and then he saw the attacker clearly, it was the Monkey King, Enma, who had transformed into his original form!

Just now, Sarutobi had thrown the Adamantine Staff out of the range of Amaterasu, and Enma had taken advantage of the blind spot in his vision to turn into his ape form and launch a counterattack quickly.

His dojutsu became unstable due to the violent input of power from Amaterasu, so Nian simply deactivated the Susanoo to relieve the pressure on his eyes, but it was precisely this move that completely exposed him to Enma's pair of iron fists.

Under the moonlight, Enma's huge body completely shrouded his thin body, and just as he was about to be smashed into a meat paste, he calmly raised his palm.

"Multi-Size Technique!"

In an instant, Nian's entire arm became incredibly huge, his palm the size of a millstone, and he actually caught Enma's fist!

But this wasn't over yet. Not just his arm, Nian's body was still expanding inch by inch, surpassing the size of his half-body Susanoo in the astonished eyes of everyone, as if a giant, he pressed Enma firmly to the ground!

In an instant, the advantage was reversed!

He swung his huge fist and slammed it into Enma's head, the ground continuing to crack amidst the powerful explosions.

"Lightning Release: Thunder Dragon Bullet!" (fan-made)

Hiruzen Sarutobi jumped high, and a speeding thunder dragon went straight towards Nian's head, seemingly wanting to force Nian back with this move.

Nian just raised his hand slightly and easily crushed the thunder dragon. Countless electric currents crawled along his fingertips, but apart from bringing a slight tingling sensation, there was no effect.

He slammed a few more punches to relieve the paralysis in his right hand, but more people used ninjutsu to bombard him, forcing him to retreat.

The disadvantage of being huge is that you have to take all the attacks.

Thinking so, he quickly shrunk, returning to his original size.

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