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However, the gap between the Mangekyou Sharingan and the ordinary Sharingan is not so easy to close!
Itachi's left eye was bloodshot, and a tear of blood rolled down his cheek: "Amaterasu!"
A jet-black flame appeared out of thin air from where Itachi's gaze was focused.
This pitch-black flame could even devour the Great Fireball, which was also a fireball. Amaterasu slowly devoured the Great Fireball released by Sasuke and spread towards Sasuke's direction.
"So that's it. This is Itachi's other eye technique ability. Is it a physical attack using fire?" Sasuke forced Itachi to expend his chakra, finally forcing Itachi to unleash another eye technique.
"That's quite unfortunate, my eye technique happens to be able to counter this ability!" Sasuke's lips curled up slightly.
His right eye technique, Annihilation Returns to Nothingness, can decompose chakra structure into primordial energy particles.
Amaterasu, a physical ninjutsu attack, was perfectly countered by him.
“Tsukuyomi is a visual genjutsu, so as long as I keep my distance and avoid direct eye contact with Itachi, I’m confident I can kill him if I’m attacked by Tsukuyomi.” Sasuke narrowed his eyes.
Aside from eye techniques that are also Mangekyou Sharingan techniques, ordinary genjutsu has absolutely no effect on Mangekyou Sharingan.
Red is the best example.
Her illusions were ineffective even against Itachi's three-tomoe spells.
Sasuke glanced up at the overcast sky, where thunder rumbled faintly.
"It's still a little short of perfect!"
Sasuke interrupted the Great Fireball Technique and dodged Amaterasu, which had absorbed the Great Fireball Technique.
While dodging, Sasuke quickly formed hand seals: "Water Release: Raging Wave Technique!"
A large amount of water on the river surged toward the weasel's location with tremendous force.
"Water Release: Water Wall!" Itachi, who also possessed water-style chakra, immediately used a defensive ninjutsu, simultaneously closing his eyes and deactivating Amaterasu.
While the Mangekyou Sharingan's eye techniques are powerful, the amount of eye power and chakra it consumes is also terrifying.
This was exactly what Sasuke wanted: to use Water Release to block Itachi's vision.
Three Sasukes emerged from the water and launched an attack around Itachi.
Itachi immediately understood Sasuke's intentions: [Using the Shadow Clone Technique to prevent me from recognizing his true form and avoid being attacked by Tsukuyomi?]
Despite the excruciating pain in his right arm and the boiling blood from the physical combat, Itachi's Sharingan rapidly scanned the three water-soaked figures that were closing in.
Multiple shadow clones can indeed effectively disrupt vision and create opportunities for the real body to evade Tsukuyomi, but for Itachi, who is experienced in combat, this is not an unsolvable situation.
What he needs to be more wary of is the immense chakra contained within these shadow clones.
The Sasuke before him was indeed no longer the Sasuke he remembered.
He has completely grown up and can stand on his own now.
Water Release: Water Clone!
Two equally wet water clones instantly materialized and headed towards Sasuke's two shadow clones.
At the same time, Itachi's main body advanced instead of retreating, and his movable left hand transformed into a blade, slashing precisely at the neck of Sasuke's shadow clone in front of him with a shrill sound!
"Bang!" The shadow clone that was hit instantly turned into white smoke and disappeared.
"Tch!" Sasuke's shadow clone on the left snorted coldly, and his arm, wrapped in lightning, stabbed out like lightning.
Although Itachi's water clone barely avoided a fatal blow, it was pierced through the shoulder by Chidori's sharp spear, causing it to suddenly stop moving and disappear as it turned into a stream of water.
In that split second, Itachi's true form caught the only opening!
He slammed his left foot into the ground and leaped into the air with astonishing explosive power!
Instead of fleeing backward, he chose an upward angle, intending to leap over the attack range where Sasuke's true form was located and create distance to buy himself space and time.
"Trying to create some distance?" Sasuke's eyes were as cold as ice.
However, Itachi's leap was also part of his tactical plan.
While Itachi was still moving through the air, Sasuke's hands had already completed an extremely simple hand seal.
Instead of attacking Itachi who was dodging, he suddenly looked up at the gloomy sky formed by the water vapor from his Water Release technique, the embers of the battle, and the natural rain clouds.
Strands of electricity were flickering and converging restlessly deep within the thick clouds.
"Amaterasu!" Itachi suddenly opened his left eye in mid-air, his gaze fixed on Sasuke's body, as Amaterasu's black flames were about to strike Sasuke.
He wanted to force Sasuke to leave and disrupt his next offensive plan!
Sasuke already knows the secret of his Amaterasu, so he definitely won't stay put; that's his thinking.
However, this was the moment Sasuke had been waiting for!
His three-tomoe Sharingan silently transformed into a six-pointed star shape.
It's the same Mangekyou Sharingan!
His right eye was bloodshot, and a line of bloody tears flowed from it.
"Extinction and return to nothingness!"
The Amaterasu black flames that had just appeared were instantly transformed into primordial energy particles by Sasuke's eye technique.
"The Mangekyou Sharingan?!" Itachi's expression went out of control for the first time. He stared in disbelief at Sasuke's six-pointed star-shaped eyes.
"Has he even obtained the Mangekyou Sharingan?" Itachi's mind raced.
If you had such a trump card and held back from using it for so long, then using the Mangekyou Sharingan now is for a one-hit kill?!
Itachi quickly figured out Sasuke's intentions, and alarm bells rang in his mind. However, he was outmatched in terms of intelligence, and at this point, he was powerless to resist.
"Fire Release: Dragon Flame Singing Technique!"
Five thick, condensed golden fire dragons roared towards Itachi.
Itachi immediately used Shadow Clone Jutsu. The newly formed Shadow Clone Jutsu grabbed the original's hand and flung it away, throwing the original far out of the attack range of the ninjutsu.
Although Itachi tried his best to dodge, one of the fire dragons still grazed past him, instantly burning his arm.
"Hiss—Boom!!!"
The intensely hot flames instantly pierced through the cold thunderclouds!
Like boiling oil poured onto snow, the violent clash between high temperatures and freezing temperatures triggered a catastrophic chain reaction!
The immense lightning-attribute natural energy that had been accumulating deep within the clouds was completely detonated by this violent fire jutsu!
The entire sky expanded violently, churned, and roared, and countless thick, blue-purple lightning bolts became incredibly clear and ferocious in an instant.
They were no longer faintly visible, but rather surged and collided violently in the leaden-gray sea of clouds as if they were real, emitting a deafening "rumbling" roar!
The entire battlefield, including the area where Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai, and Kisame were engaged in fierce combat in the distance, was shocked by this sudden, apocalyptic phenomenon!
A strong wind rose, carrying the smell of rain and burnt food.
"What?!" Itachi was shocked, and a look of astonishment flashed in his eyes again. With the insight of his Mangekyou Sharingan, he naturally knew very well that Sasuke's ninjutsu attack was not aimed at him.
Sasuke landed steadily on the water's surface, tilting his head slightly back. His dark eyes reflected the raging, destructive sea of lightning in the sky.
Sensing the vast energy contained within the clouds, a cold smile curled at the corner of his lips.
"The Heavenly Thunder... has finally matured." He muttered to himself, his six-star pupils finally locking onto Itachi, who had just landed on the distant riverbank and was slightly disoriented from shock.
Chapter 91 Sasuke VS Itachi (The End)
"Uchiha Itachi, prepare to pay the price for your arrogance!"
"I will not give you another chance to dodge. This ninjutsu will vaporize you in an instant!"
Sasuke raised his lightning hand like a divine spear piercing the sky, precisely guiding the raging lightning!
"Now the heavens are mine to wield, Qilin!"
"Boom——!!!"
The Qilin, piercing through the heavens and earth, carries the power of nature and tears through the clouds at a speed beyond the limits of vision!
The unicorn formed from lightning opened its massive maw, and a destructive torrent of energy completely enveloped the riverbank where the weasel was!
A blinding white light enveloped everything around it.
The intense energy fluctuations alarmed the entire Hidden Leaf Village, sounding the alarm and drawing a large number of ninjas towards the scene.
After the effect of the Qilin dissipates.
The riverbank has been reduced to ruins.
Itachi lay quietly amidst the ruins.
It remained motionless, seemingly completely dead.
"Ugh!!!" Sasuke covered his right eye, which was throbbing with pain, his body trembling as he knelt on one knee, panting.
The backlash from the Eight Gates technique caused excruciating pain throughout his body. Coupled with the numerous ninjutsu attacks, his chakra was nearly depleted, and his stamina was almost exhausted as well.
"Finally, finally I've killed you, Itachi!" Sasuke looked at the fallen Itachi with one eye, and a weight was lifted from his heart.
He finally avenged the Uchiha clan.
But he felt no joy.
Because that person was his brother.
When brothers kill each other, no one can feel joy; they only feel the utter absurdity and sorrow of the world.
"Go to hell and atone for the sins of the Uchiha clan!"
Sasuke, panting, spoke to Itachi's corpse.
"You almost killed me, Sasuke!" Itachi's voice slowly rang out.
Sasuke's pupils suddenly contracted.
Looking in Itachi's direction with an incredulous expression, how could he have survived such a ninjutsu?
He's a human, not a tailed beast!
Itachi slowly rose to his feet, and dark red chakra erupted around him like a volcano!
A broken ribcage has burst out of the body!
It covered the upper half of Itachi's body.
He stood up, looked at Sasuke, and said with a hint of relief, "You've really gotten stronger, Sasuke!"
"Then my value ends here, Sasuke. Let me demonstrate the Mangekyou Sharingan's abilities to you one last time, and then I can hand over my eyes to you."
"This is the third power that is born after the Mangekyou Sharingan is awakened: the divine power Susanoo!"
"If it weren't for this move, I would have been killed by you just now!"
Sasuke gritted his teeth and stared at Itachi, a kunai in his hand that looked different from ordinary kunai, with a small inscription on it: "I was here."
He wasn't without a final trump card: Naruto's Summoning Jutsu.
He looked up at the sky. The Qilin had used up all the power stored up in the thunderclouds, and now the sky had cleared.
[He could even withstand the Kirin, so other ninjutsu probably wouldn't have much effect on him.] Sasuke panted, looking at Itachi with resentment.
He hasn't had enough time to activate his Mangekyou Sharingan.
He could sense that there were still undeveloped abilities within the Mangekyou Sharingan, but he lacked the time to develop them.
The dark red chakra skeleton, like burning bones, enveloped Itachi's broken body.
He held his forehead with one hand, the blood and tears seeping through his fingers starkly against his pale cheeks, yet his voice carried a hoarse tone of almost relief:
"See that, Sasuke? This is the ultimate 'divine power' of the Sharingan, Susanoo!"
Despite his severe injuries, Itachi manipulated the Susanoo skeleton to slowly raise a giant skeletal arm.
The skeletal arm swung down suddenly—
The riverbank rock strata were pierced through like tofu, creating a huge crater several meters in diameter!
The flying pebbles struck the Susanoo skeleton and were instantly crushed into dust.
"Susanoo is the embodiment of the user's chakra, combining offense and defense. With each evolution, its power increases exponentially."
As Itachi thought, the Susanoo, which was originally made of ribs, transformed into a humanoid skull, and then its body was covered with muscles and meridians, wrapped in an outer garment of chakra.