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**Chapter 970: Fierce Battle Situation!**
Im and Shimotsuki Ryuma's battle was filled with a fierce aura.
The dark purple blade light and dazzling purple-gold blade light were like bright light beams, constantly shooting out in all directions.
Some landed among the spider lilies, plowing out crisscrossing, brutal cuts.
Some flew towards the distance but were blocked by the golden light barrier at the edge, stirring up a deafening rumble.
Their afterimages were simply too numerous.
It looked like hundreds of swordsmen were clashing at high speed.
You couldn't tell at all exactly where their main bodies were colliding now.
One could only vaguely see streaks of afterimages as fast as lightning, weaving back and forth amidst the thick blade light and sword qi.
The ground was cracking apart in vast stretches.
Large patches of spider lilies were also constantly turning into scattered petals and broken leaves scattered everywhere.
Even the ancient manor backed against that Underworld River had long since turned into ruins in the torrent of blade light.
Time was passing bit by bit.
Indeed,
Even if it was a domain belonging to the Soul River, the River of Time still had a place.
However, the momentum of this intense Sword Saint battle seemed to be gradually subsiding?
Yet, only a little over four hours had passed.
The next second,
A streak of blade light a thousand meters high, truly worthy of being called heaven-piercing and earth-shattering, gold with a hint of noble purple, suddenly appeared out of thin air.
At the same time, a streak of blade light almost half the size, purple light with black mist swirling around, immediately followed, appearing in a posture of slashing upwards from below, directly confronting the purple-gold blade light vertically cleaving down like divine punishment.
"Shimotsuki Ryuma, your end is here. To be able to have your soul erased under Im's blade, this is the glory granted to you!"
"Under Mount Fuji Ridge, cascading water flows, how much yearning goes to Flower Capital... I only wish you can treat Wano Country kindly, Im, Sword Saint..."
[BOOM!!!!!]
The two almost ridiculously large, terrifying blade lights fiercely collided together.
In an instant, it was like the might of a thousand thunderbolts.
The black curtain overhead the Netherworld was completely enveloped by extreme white light.
Like a massive light pillar piercing straight into the deepest part of the sky.
Attracting the terrified gaze of all undead monsters within a radius of nearly a thousand kilometers.
Among them, countless underworld soldiers and generals, underworld officials and clerks inside Enma Castle, as well as scythe death gods wandering in the air, likewise looked in unison towards the vast white sky.
Among them, quite a few recognized that was the direction where the Far Shore Garden, where Shimotsuki Ryuma resided, was located.
It's just that now King Yama was absent, and they also scrupled the prestige Shimotsuki Ryuma had accumulated over these past few hundred years, so none dared to have the thought of running over to take a look.
They were undead, that's right, but that didn't mean they had no brains at all.
With such a big commotion, who would dare to easily take risks?
Wait until the situation over there stabilizes, then at that time, they could find time to go and check it out again.
At the same time, on the Far Shore Garden side.
The blade in Im's hand had already disappeared, because it had turned back into Enma, but it wasn't the Little Enma, but rather the Great Enma.
"Father, you are too amazing, you actually really killed this Shimotsuki Ryuma..."
Great Enma said with emotion, half covering her lips.
Even though she was involved in the previous battle the whole time.
But she also understood clearly in her heart, even if there wasn't this blade of hers, the current result would still be the same.
"The matter of the Netherworld will be like this for now. Next, it still depends on King Yama's situation."
Im likewise wasn't particularly happy about the victory of this battle.
At most, he had the feeling of rarely having fought an interesting opponent.
After all, he was a Sword Saint...
"All right, I'll send you back now, Father!"
Great Enma hurriedly responded. To be honest, she was actually somewhat frightened by Im in her heart.
Previously, she knew Father was very strong, but she didn't have a specific concept of exactly how strong.
This battle can be considered to have opened her eyes.
The crucial thing was, in the battle with Shimotsuki Ryuma, Im really didn't use Haki much to overpower the opponent.
Let alone things like space-type abilities, Stigma Alchemy, and the various superpowers awakened through his Sixth Sense...
Seriously, if comparing comprehensive strength, this Shimotsuki Ryuma was still far behind!
——
Just as Im successfully killed Shimotsuki Ryuma, the most significant remnant in Wano Country's history, in the Sea Star Underworld.
The situation on the Ninja World side was still caught in a tense battle situation.
The number of demons was getting more and more, the number of Explosive Tags was getting less and less, and the ninjas' Chakra started to be hard to sustain.
Coupled with the heavy casualties caused by many middle demons breaking into the formation through various unimaginable magic, all of which were straining the nerves of all ninjas, adding insult to injury.
The only good news was that Uchiha Fugaku, Rasa, Jiraiya, Ōnoki, and others unexpectedly successfully killed the 'Underworld River Demon' Aketos.
Even though everyone contributed throughout the entire coordination process.
For example, Rasa provided Gold Dust, provided flying ability for Fugaku and Jiraiya, and also used large-scale Gold Dust to block many of the Underworld Water's attacks.
But in the end, when completing the kill, it mainly relied on Uchiha Fugaku's Mangekyo Sharingan Dojutsu, Uzume!
He unexpectedly, in the nick of time, with the strange time acceleration ability.
When Ōnoki activated Dust Release, he pulled Aketos, who was attempting to dodge again, in front of the Dust Release's radiance.
While Fugaku himself activated Susanoo, he desperately dodged outwards.
The result was that Aketos disappeared in the Dust Release's radiance, and at the same time, a large section of the Susanoo in front of Uchiha Fugaku's body also disappeared!
This made him feel lingering fear even now in his heart!
And this is one major characteristic of Dust Release. Even though it has a period of condensation process when activating.
But once it is fired, that speed can actually be said to be the speed of light.
Because that's just a mass of white light shining. At this time, trying to dodge it is basically impossible...
In fact, Uchiha Fugaku was able to survive.
Not only should he thank the protection provided by Susanoo, but he should also thank Ōnoki's mercy.
Because it was precisely because he timely dispersed the Dust Release that he narrowly didn't injure Uchiha Fugaku.
However, killing Aketos doesn't mean the matter is over.
They also still need to immediately rush back to the Ninja Alliance Army and resist the demon tide's invasion together with them.
It's just that there is a very serious problem, which is that the Chakra inside their bodies is also running low...
On the other side,
As for the situation for Uchiha Fugaku, Ōnoki, and others, it was severe.
Then the situation for Crocodile, Esdeath, and Hong Lian on this side was brutal...
On Crocodile's body, now only a pair of tattered black pants remained, struggling to hold on, guarding his last dignity.
Other overcoats, jackets, and coats, and even leather shoes, were either destroyed by burning or frozen and shattered.
Even those jewelry rings on his ten fingers were all gone.
And on the exposed skin all over his body, everywhere were burn injuries and piercing frostbite.
His originally neat and tidy slicked-back hair had also become disheveled at this moment.
From head to toe, he truly embodied the word 'battered'.
Actually, with Crocodile's injuries, if it were other Vice Admirals, and even most Admirals, they would most likely have already lost combat ability.
He is now just barely holding on with his last breath, dodging the sea of fire and frost that are still continuously attacking.
Hong Lian not far away was even worse off.
The massive Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox already found it hard to stand up. She could only use her own tail to wrap around herself and Esdeath, then with full strength create ice to seal them, thereby continuously resist the overwhelming black fire and surging black ice from the outside...
Hong Lian actually felt very helpless in her heart.
Who could have thought that her various ice-type attacks actually had no effect against those two demons.
Only when she charged up for melee combat or used Haki attached to her tail to strike did it have a certain effect.
Hong Lian thought about it carefully. It was very likely because what she ate was the Human-Human Fruit, Animal Type.
So her body inexplicably possessed the ability to easily injure demons.
As for Haki, she didn't understand it, but in any case, it was indeed useful.
But she had also only recently mastered this Haki.
Because of her abundant stamina, her reserves were considerable.
Unfortunately, it had not undergone sufficient training, so its quality was insufficient, which means its defense power and attack power were lacking.
Coupled with the fact that she herself was not used to melee combat, since she gained consciousness, she had always been relying on ice-type abilities.
At most, she used up to nine tails to whip them, but she truly had no close combat experience in human form...
(End of this chapter)
Im and Shimotsuki Ryuma's battle was filled with a fierce aura.
The dark purple blade light and dazzling purple-gold blade light were like bright light beams, constantly shooting out in all directions.
Some landed among the spider lilies, plowing out crisscrossing, brutal cuts.
Some flew towards the distance but were blocked by the golden light barrier at the edge, stirring up a deafening rumble.
Their afterimages were simply too numerous.
It looked like hundreds of swordsmen were clashing at high speed.
You couldn't tell at all exactly where their main bodies were colliding now.
One could only vaguely see streaks of afterimages as fast as lightning, weaving back and forth amidst the thick blade light and sword qi.
The ground was cracking apart in vast stretches.
Large patches of spider lilies were also constantly turning into scattered petals and broken leaves scattered everywhere.
Even the ancient manor backed against that Underworld River had long since turned into ruins in the torrent of blade light.
Time was passing bit by bit.
Indeed,
Even if it was a domain belonging to the Soul River, the River of Time still had a place.
However, the momentum of this intense Sword Saint battle seemed to be gradually subsiding?
Yet, only a little over four hours had passed.
The next second,
A streak of blade light a thousand meters high, truly worthy of being called heaven-piercing and earth-shattering, gold with a hint of noble purple, suddenly appeared out of thin air.
At the same time, a streak of blade light almost half the size, purple light with black mist swirling around, immediately followed, appearing in a posture of slashing upwards from below, directly confronting the purple-gold blade light vertically cleaving down like divine punishment.
"Shimotsuki Ryuma, your end is here. To be able to have your soul erased under Im's blade, this is the glory granted to you!"
"Under Mount Fuji Ridge, cascading water flows, how much yearning goes to Flower Capital... I only wish you can treat Wano Country kindly, Im, Sword Saint..."
[BOOM!!!!!]
The two almost ridiculously large, terrifying blade lights fiercely collided together.
In an instant, it was like the might of a thousand thunderbolts.
The black curtain overhead the Netherworld was completely enveloped by extreme white light.
Like a massive light pillar piercing straight into the deepest part of the sky.
Attracting the terrified gaze of all undead monsters within a radius of nearly a thousand kilometers.
Among them, countless underworld soldiers and generals, underworld officials and clerks inside Enma Castle, as well as scythe death gods wandering in the air, likewise looked in unison towards the vast white sky.
Among them, quite a few recognized that was the direction where the Far Shore Garden, where Shimotsuki Ryuma resided, was located.
It's just that now King Yama was absent, and they also scrupled the prestige Shimotsuki Ryuma had accumulated over these past few hundred years, so none dared to have the thought of running over to take a look.
They were undead, that's right, but that didn't mean they had no brains at all.
With such a big commotion, who would dare to easily take risks?
Wait until the situation over there stabilizes, then at that time, they could find time to go and check it out again.
At the same time, on the Far Shore Garden side.
The blade in Im's hand had already disappeared, because it had turned back into Enma, but it wasn't the Little Enma, but rather the Great Enma.
"Father, you are too amazing, you actually really killed this Shimotsuki Ryuma..."
Great Enma said with emotion, half covering her lips.
Even though she was involved in the previous battle the whole time.
But she also understood clearly in her heart, even if there wasn't this blade of hers, the current result would still be the same.
"The matter of the Netherworld will be like this for now. Next, it still depends on King Yama's situation."
Im likewise wasn't particularly happy about the victory of this battle.
At most, he had the feeling of rarely having fought an interesting opponent.
After all, he was a Sword Saint...
"All right, I'll send you back now, Father!"
Great Enma hurriedly responded. To be honest, she was actually somewhat frightened by Im in her heart.
Previously, she knew Father was very strong, but she didn't have a specific concept of exactly how strong.
This battle can be considered to have opened her eyes.
The crucial thing was, in the battle with Shimotsuki Ryuma, Im really didn't use Haki much to overpower the opponent.
Let alone things like space-type abilities, Stigma Alchemy, and the various superpowers awakened through his Sixth Sense...
Seriously, if comparing comprehensive strength, this Shimotsuki Ryuma was still far behind!
——
Just as Im successfully killed Shimotsuki Ryuma, the most significant remnant in Wano Country's history, in the Sea Star Underworld.
The situation on the Ninja World side was still caught in a tense battle situation.
The number of demons was getting more and more, the number of Explosive Tags was getting less and less, and the ninjas' Chakra started to be hard to sustain.
Coupled with the heavy casualties caused by many middle demons breaking into the formation through various unimaginable magic, all of which were straining the nerves of all ninjas, adding insult to injury.
The only good news was that Uchiha Fugaku, Rasa, Jiraiya, Ōnoki, and others unexpectedly successfully killed the 'Underworld River Demon' Aketos.
Even though everyone contributed throughout the entire coordination process.
For example, Rasa provided Gold Dust, provided flying ability for Fugaku and Jiraiya, and also used large-scale Gold Dust to block many of the Underworld Water's attacks.
But in the end, when completing the kill, it mainly relied on Uchiha Fugaku's Mangekyo Sharingan Dojutsu, Uzume!
He unexpectedly, in the nick of time, with the strange time acceleration ability.
When Ōnoki activated Dust Release, he pulled Aketos, who was attempting to dodge again, in front of the Dust Release's radiance.
While Fugaku himself activated Susanoo, he desperately dodged outwards.
The result was that Aketos disappeared in the Dust Release's radiance, and at the same time, a large section of the Susanoo in front of Uchiha Fugaku's body also disappeared!
This made him feel lingering fear even now in his heart!
And this is one major characteristic of Dust Release. Even though it has a period of condensation process when activating.
But once it is fired, that speed can actually be said to be the speed of light.
Because that's just a mass of white light shining. At this time, trying to dodge it is basically impossible...
In fact, Uchiha Fugaku was able to survive.
Not only should he thank the protection provided by Susanoo, but he should also thank Ōnoki's mercy.
Because it was precisely because he timely dispersed the Dust Release that he narrowly didn't injure Uchiha Fugaku.
However, killing Aketos doesn't mean the matter is over.
They also still need to immediately rush back to the Ninja Alliance Army and resist the demon tide's invasion together with them.
It's just that there is a very serious problem, which is that the Chakra inside their bodies is also running low...
On the other side,
As for the situation for Uchiha Fugaku, Ōnoki, and others, it was severe.
Then the situation for Crocodile, Esdeath, and Hong Lian on this side was brutal...
On Crocodile's body, now only a pair of tattered black pants remained, struggling to hold on, guarding his last dignity.
Other overcoats, jackets, and coats, and even leather shoes, were either destroyed by burning or frozen and shattered.
Even those jewelry rings on his ten fingers were all gone.
And on the exposed skin all over his body, everywhere were burn injuries and piercing frostbite.
His originally neat and tidy slicked-back hair had also become disheveled at this moment.
From head to toe, he truly embodied the word 'battered'.
Actually, with Crocodile's injuries, if it were other Vice Admirals, and even most Admirals, they would most likely have already lost combat ability.
He is now just barely holding on with his last breath, dodging the sea of fire and frost that are still continuously attacking.
Hong Lian not far away was even worse off.
The massive Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox already found it hard to stand up. She could only use her own tail to wrap around herself and Esdeath, then with full strength create ice to seal them, thereby continuously resist the overwhelming black fire and surging black ice from the outside...
Hong Lian actually felt very helpless in her heart.
Who could have thought that her various ice-type attacks actually had no effect against those two demons.
Only when she charged up for melee combat or used Haki attached to her tail to strike did it have a certain effect.
Hong Lian thought about it carefully. It was very likely because what she ate was the Human-Human Fruit, Animal Type.
So her body inexplicably possessed the ability to easily injure demons.
As for Haki, she didn't understand it, but in any case, it was indeed useful.
But she had also only recently mastered this Haki.
Because of her abundant stamina, her reserves were considerable.
Unfortunately, it had not undergone sufficient training, so its quality was insufficient, which means its defense power and attack power were lacking.
Coupled with the fact that she herself was not used to melee combat, since she gained consciousness, she had always been relying on ice-type abilities.
At most, she used up to nine tails to whip them, but she truly had no close combat experience in human form...
(End of this chapter)
