It wasn't just the battle between Feather and Soul that was white-hot. In the vast Kienju Province's second battlefield, a frenzied battle scene was also playing out!
Zatoichi vs Otsutsuki Li Form!
The two swordsmen pushed their respective Chakra to the limit, expressing their understanding of the 'sword'!
The clash of sword intents created a domain that only the two of them could set foot in!
In the meantime, their swords had already clashed no less than a hundred times!
Zatoichi's purple cloak, which had accompanied him all year round, was already in tatters. His head, shoulders, chest, back, and even the hand that held his blade was bleeding!
Yes, this man known as the God of Warriors was at a disadvantage in the decisive battle with the Li Form!
"Huff, huff, huff …" Since his battle with Feather over ten years ago, this was the first time Zatoichi's breathing had been disordered in battle!
Hum! Hum! The black blade in his hand trembled, and Zatoichi lowered his head. "Are you the one crying?"
The Li Form came with his sword, completely unscathed!
Zatoichi raised his head. His slightly terrifying white eyes were divided by scars, releasing an astonishing murderous aura!
— Insight of the Mind's Eye, Black Blade Sect Profundity, Mitagawa!
Zatoichi suddenly disappeared, and a chop came down from above with great force!
"..." The Li Form indifferently raised his sword and blocked the back of his neck!
Clang!
The flowing sword energy solidified into a black aura. After it exploded … the black aura that spread forward pushed the Li Form back a hundred meters before it was exhausted!
The Li Form crouched down. His snow-white swordsman's robes were stained with blood on his left shoulder.
After he got up, the Li Form held his sword at his side. "Including the move just now, you've released a total of eighteen sword techniques."
Zatoichi used his black blade to support himself on the ground and stood with great difficulty. "But only the last technique was truly effective against you."
The Li Form looked all around and said meaningfully, "Not necessarily … the trajectories of the eighteen sword intents you left in the void coincide with the number of sword techniques released. You're really lucky to have set up such a contingency in the midst of an intense battle."
Zatoichi's brows furrowed deeply. "Since you've seen through it, I'll show you my incompetence!"
His palm forcefully grasped the hilt of his blade!
Yan Gui!
Every time Zatoichi used a powerful sword technique, it was enough to carve a sword will mark in the void. And Swallow Return was able to shuttle between any two marks and create a powerful slash along the path!
The eighteen traces of the Swallow Return would shuttle back and forth in pairs, and in an instant, 5,832 traces of Revolving Slashes would burst forth!
Crack! The Parting Style Fierce Sword stabbed into the ground, and a crimson sword aura burst out from the ground, spinning to form an all-around sword aura tornado, resisting Swallow Return's sword aura!
Clang clang clang clang!
After the curtain fell, there were nearly a hundred wounds on the Li Shi's body. Unfortunately, the wounds were too shallow!
Li Shi stood up and said, "Your swordsmanship is exquisite beyond compare. Unfortunately … your slashing power isn't strong enough. It's your foundation as a mortal that limits your height. If you were born in Takamagahara, perhaps you would become just like that person!"
"That person …"
"You don't need to know more." Li Shi coldly looked at the sword in his hand. "Do you know why this sword is called 'Heaven's Destruction Blade'?"
"No idea."
"Because it was born to destroy the enemy's weapons!"
Li Shi held the sword with both hands and slashed at Chu Feng!
Zuo Tou stood up and blocked the attack with his saber!
Clang!
Their bodies intersected, and their postures froze.
Crack! Crack!
Black Saber · Orthodox School of the View of Famous Things, collapsed!
"…" Zuo Tou held the broken saber in his hand, and he was momentarily dazed.
Li Shi's back was facing Zuo Tou, and he said with a disappointed expression, "When I was young, I hid my identity and wandered around Reed Plain Country. I fought with many arrogant swordsmen, and I only destroyed their weapons, not their lives. The Black Saber with 'Death God Fu' had also shattered more than one of them. I've always hoped that one day, those defeated swordsmen would break through their limits and come back to challenge me. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to fulfill this wish."
Zuo Tou said, "The lifespan of a mortal is no more than a hundred years. Even if one's skills are at the peak, it can't make up for the huge gap in their foundation."
"Hmm?" Li Shi turned around. "Are you giving up on yourself, human swordsman?"
Zuo Tou smiled and shook his head. "The gap between a mortal and a god is determined from birth. In order to make up for or even surpass this gap … one must know how to 'leverage'."
Crack! His powerful hand slowly but firmly pulled out the 'new saber' from the scabbard at his waist. This saber had been on the scene for a long time, but had yet to be revealed.
Buzz!
A dazzling white light shone on Li Shi's face, and his pupils shrank. "What saber is that?!"
As I've said before, the use of swords and sabers in the ninja world is divided into several stages.
The first stage is to wrap Chakra around the surface of the weapon to increase its power. Once the Chakra is removed, the weapon will return to its original characteristics, and there will be no changes. Most samurai and ninjas are stuck at this stage in their mastery of this technique.
The second stage is to integrate Chakra into the weapon itself, changing the nature of the weapon. In the field of swordsmen, this process is called 'Saber Forging'.
The birth of a famous saber is not just the completion of the quenching process after it comes out of the furnace, but in the hands of a swordsman, 'Saber Forging' over the years, it can become a world-shocking famous saber.
The treasured sabers sleeping in the Land of Iron's Saber Hall, including the famous saber 'Heizawa' of the samurai leader Mifune, all originated from this process. The demon sabers that Naruto and Sasuke each held were also variants of this type of famous saber.
In the face of a god-like opponent, famous sabers are useless.
Only the God of Samurai, Zuo Tou's black saber … still has the power to fight.
The black saber is the saber that hosts Fu Zaishin!
Fu Zaishin refers to a weapon that has been left unattended for 100 years, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, accumulating resentment, or feeling Buddha nature and spiritual power to obtain a soul that transformed into a demon god. It has unpredictable power!
But in addition to settling down for 100 years, there is also the method of artificially concocting the black saber.
This is the third stage of saber forging, beyond the realm of using Chakra to forge the saber. The samurai will integrate obsession and the power of the soul into the saber, and when it is forged to the extreme, it will give birth to Fu Zaishin, turning into a black saber!
This is how the Black Saber – Orthodox School of the View of Famous Things came to be.
But just now … it has been destroyed by the Li Style's Blade of Heaven.
It can be seen that although the black saber can fight against a god … it can't defeat a god.
He has long known this result, so all these years, Zuo Tou has been scheming to forge a saber that can 'kill a god'!
However, the third stage of the Knife Forging Method was to use one's obsession and soul. What else could surpass it?
He thought hard, but no matter how hard he thought, he seemed to have entered a dead end.
Finally, one day, Zuo Tou was enlightened!
In order to defeat an undefeatable enemy, one must first accept one's own insignificance and powerlessness!
On this basis, to borrow power is to borrow and control external objects, turning them into one's own strength!
What power should I borrow? What is it that can make people in the sky fear power?
With the development of the era and the expansion of combat power, even the mysterious veil of the moon has been removed, and it has become a plaything of the strong.
But there is an eternal thing, until now … it still maintains supreme loftiness and mystery!
Yes, before all life was born, even before the gods on Takamagahara were born, there was an ancient existence that resided in outer space.
— The sun!
Cha!
The moment the saber was unsheathed, the sword intent turned into a bright sun hanging high in the sky, melting the wind and snow all over the sky!
Otsutsuki Li Style's eyes were bloodshot. "How did you forge this saber, and how did you comprehend this sword intent?"
Zuo Tou recalled, "A year ago, I was lucky enough to see the strongest person of the Moon Nation, Mr. Uchiha Takeshi, explore the sun with us. Although we almost lost our lives when we were halfway to the sun, it was that experience that allowed me to forge this' God-Slaying Saber – Chasing the Sun '!"
"Chasing the sun, chasing the sun … God-Slaying Saber, hahahaha!" Li Style looked up to the sky and laughed. "Good, good! Then let me see … the God-Slaying Saber that is forged with a non-god body! "
"I'm sorry …"
Swish! Zuo Tou swung the saber down.
— Light Flame Slash – Judgment of the Burning Sun!
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
