Naruto put away the scroll, then found a relatively intact open space and stood still.
His brown pupils turned scarlet, and the hollow circular serrated Mangekyo pattern appeared.
Susanoo!
A surge of golden Chakra erupted from his body, taking shape.
The first to appear was the rib-like skeleton. Thick golden bones rose from the ground, wrapping Naruto entirely within them.
Then came the muscles and tendons, followed by the armor and helmet, and finally the arms and legs.
A golden Complete Body Susanoo stood in the center of the deserted island.
It's not over yet.
Naruto could feel that there was still a large amount of ocular power within his body that had not been released. He continued to pour Chakra into the Susanoo, and the golden giant expanded once again.
The appearance of the Susanoo began to undergo significant changes. It was no longer a simple armored samurai form. Behind the armor, a pair of huge wings condensed from golden Chakra unfolded.
Naruto stood inside the Chakra shield at the center of the Susanoo's forehead, looking down.
From his current perspective, the entire island was spread out beneath his feet like a miniature model. The clouds in the sky drifted not far above his head.
"Is this the Complete Body Susanoo?"
With a thought from Naruto, the Susanoo raised its right hand, and a sword condensed from golden Chakra formed in its palm.
He controlled the Susanoo to swing the sword toward the sea surface.
Swish!
The sea surface was split open. The seawater roared as it retreated to both sides, revealing the seabed reefs below.
The crack extended for hundreds of meters before being filled in by the rushing seawater.
The power of this sword strike was much stronger than the Susanoo in its previous Mangekyo form.
Naruto nodded with satisfaction.
Then he thought of something. Since the essence of Susanoo is the manifestation of Chakra, what would happen if such a massive amount of Chakra were compressed into a smaller volume?
Others might not be able to do it, but he had Absolute Control.
Thinking of this, he began to manipulate Susanoo. Under the precise regulation of Absolute Control, Susanoo's massive body began to slowly shrink inward, while the density of its Chakra increased exponentially during the compression process.
A moment later, the originally towering Susanoo was compressed to the size of Naruto's body, and he was wrapped tightly and seamlessly by Susanoo. It was as if Susanoo was no longer a giant's shell, but a set of form-fitting, high-density Chakra armor.
Helmet, breastplate, arm guards, leg guards...
Every piece of armor clung tightly to the curves of his body, not affecting his joint movement in the slightest, and the pair of golden wings on his back also shrank proportionally into two wing-like armors.
Naruto moved his arms and performed a few quick changes of direction and kicking motions on the spot.
His physical movement was completely unaffected. In fact, his flexibility and agility had improved even further due to the feedback from the Chakra armor.
He looked down at the armor plates on his arms and tapped them with his fingers, producing a crisp sound.
The original Susanoo's defense was already very strong. Now, because the Chakra density of the compressed Susanoo had increased more than tenfold, its defensive power had also increased more than tenfold.
His current state was equivalent to wearing a Chakra shell at all times that was stronger than any armor. Ordinary Ninjutsu hitting it probably wouldn't even leave a scratch.
With a thought, the wings on his back unfurled, and he transformed into a streak of golden light, speeding toward the sea surface.
He flew back and forth over the sea several times, sometimes coming to a sharp stop, sometimes diving at high speed, and sometimes skimming low over the surface of the sea, dragging a long, white wake behind him.
Naruto quickly adapted to the power and speed of the compressed Susanoo. Then, he superimposed Kurama Mode onto Susanoo.
A golden Chakra cloak unfurled from his back, intertwining and fusing with Susanoo's Chakra armor. A moment later, a brand-new form appeared.
His entire body was wrapped in a golden Chakra cloak, with a layer of golden Susanoo armor worn over it, and the wings on his back were inlaid with the black tomoe patterns from the Chakra cloak.
In this state, he simultaneously possessed the extreme speed and perception of Kurama Mode, the absolute defense and attack power of Susanoo, plus the mobility added by Light Release.
He looked down at the island beneath his feet, which had already been scouted by White Zetsu, and decided to use it as an experimental target.
He began to ascend into the high sky, stopping at an altitude of about fifty meters from the ground. He looked down at the island below, then raised his right foot.
The golden Chakra of Kurama Mode and the Chakra armor of Susanoo superimposed at the sole of his foot, along with the white light film of Light Release.
Chakra continued to be injected, and the brightness of the light became increasingly blinding.
Just at the moment he stomped down, a spatial vortex suddenly appeared on the island below.
"Hmm?"
Naruto was taken aback, but his foot had already descended. The unformed spatial vortex was right within his attack range.
Boom!
The sensation from the sole of his foot told Naruto that besides crushing this vortex, he had also incidentally stomped something behind the vortex. This feeling was like crushing a somewhat hard walnut.
Following that, his foot continued with unabated momentum, stomping onto the center of the island.
Rumble!
The entire island shattered under Naruto's foot, and a massive crack spread wildly from the center in all directions. Rocks turned into powder, seawater was displaced and the entire structure of the island was torn to pieces under this single blow.
The shockwave pushed the island wreckage, which had shattered into several large pieces, outward, and seawater poured in, while a huge vortex formed and then dissipated on the sea surface.
A moment later, all that remained where the island had stood was an empty expanse of sea and a few pieces of reef slowly sinking.
Naruto hovered in mid-air, looking down at the sea surface below.
He deactivated Kurama Mode and Susanoo, then activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, his body vanishing from above the sea.
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Meanwhile, deep in a dark cave.
A spatial vortex tore open, and Obito's figure tumbled out of it, looking disheveled. Half of his body had been blown to pieces, revealing his true self underneath, covered in burns and lacerations, and his left eye socket was empty.
The Three-Tomoe Sharingan in his left eye had just been used to activate Izanagi. If he hadn't rewritten the fact of his death using Izanagi at the critical moment, he wouldn't have even been able to save this half-life of his.
"Obito, what happened to you?"
Seeing Obito in such a miserable state, Tobi hurriedly wrapped him with his own body, and White Zetsu cells began to be injected into Obito's body, accelerating the healing of his wounds.
Wrapped by Tobi, Obito's injuries recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his shattered half-body was filled in and restored by White Zetsu cells.
Fortunately, his Mangekyo was still there. His left eye had just been an ordinary Sharingan used as a consumable for Izanagi, so losing it didn't affect his core combat power.
"Damn it, what exactly was that just now? How could there be such a coincidence? I had just activated Kamui, and the attack landed right in the center of the spatial vortex. Moreover, with that level of power, a single blow crushed the space-time channel."
Obito raised his hand to touch his empty left eye, his face gloomy.
He had originally received news that a large number of White Zetsu had disappeared at the same location, leading him to judge that a powerful ninja had appeared on that island.
He immediately activated Kamui to teleport over, wanting to see with his own eyes who this mysterious powerhouse was. As a result, before he had even finished teleporting, while the space-time channel was still in the process of expanding, a terrifying power he had never seen before smashed into the unformed spatial vortex, and nearly killed him along with it, while half of his body was still in the Kamui dimension.
If he hadn't had a spare Sharingan on hand to use for activating Izanagi, he wouldn't have even had time to leave a final testament from that blow.
If Naruto knew about Obito's state, he would probably be unable to help but laugh out loud.
The kick he had just delivered was originally meant to test his destructive power. Who knew that Obito would happen to teleport at that exact moment, and right in the center of his attack range, no less.
At this moment, Naruto had already used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to his villa's training room.
As for the weird feeling under his foot when he crushed the spatial vortex, he didn't take it too much to heart.