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This time, what he spewed out was no longer a single flame, but a highly compressed, blazing white fireball with what looked like molten lava churning inside!
The fireball was several times larger than the Great Fireball, and the temperature it emitted was also several times higher!
The air was scorched and distorted, crackling and popping!
This is a stronger single-target Fire Release technique he created by fusing the high-temperature burst of the Great Fireball with the condensed penetrating power of the Flame Bullet!
boom--! ! !
The blazing white fireballs resembled a falling sun.
With a terrifying force that could incinerate everything, it crashed violently into the rapidly spinning, dark sand wall of Shukaku's Shield!
*Swoosh—Boom—!!!*
An unimaginable heatwave erupted instantly!
The sand at the point of contact was directly vaporized!
Large amounts of sand were melted into reddish-brown lava and flowed down!
The entire giant sand sphere was violently shaken by the impact, and the rotation on its surface even seemed to freeze slightly!
A blinding white light and a scorching heat wave swept across the entire venue, causing the audience to raise their hands to shield their eyes!
However, when the light faded and the smoke cleared, people were shocked to discover...
The massive sand shield was covered with flowing lava and vitrified pits, and even had a huge dent melted into it.
But it still wasn't penetrated!
The innermost layer of dark sand, which contained Shukaku's chakra, stubbornly withstood this terrifying attack!
"Even this..." Sakura's heart sank.
"What a hard shell!" Naruto gritted his teeth.
Sasuke looked at the sand fortress that still stood tall, breathing heavily, his chakra greatly depleted.
But a cold, confident smile slowly curved the corners of his mouth!
"I see…"
Sasuke's Sharingan was fixed on the rotating sand eye at the top of the sand sphere.
I looked again at the lava flowing on the surface of the sand ball and the huge depression.
"The defense... has indeed become stronger. But..."
Sasuke keenly noticed a crucial change!
Previously, the sand that Gaara controlled, especially those close to his body, was incredibly fast and extremely responsive.
But now, in order to maintain this huge and solid absolute defense, Gaara has devoted almost all of his chakra and control to it!
This means that the amount of sand remaining outside the sand ball for warning and harassment is greatly reduced.
Moreover... their reaction speed is much slower than before!
"Without those quick-reacting sands... your true form is a sitting duck!"
Sasuke's eyes flashed with a cold light! He suddenly straightened up, ignoring the excruciating pain and trembling in his legs! He raised his right hand high!
Sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle—!!!!
A violent, ear-piercing noise, like the chorus of a thousand birds, instantly resounded throughout the entire martial arts altar!
A dazzling blue-white lightning bolt gathered and compressed wildly in Sasuke's right palm!
It forms a highly concentrated ball of lightning, radiating a destructive aura—Chidori!
"Go, Sasuke! Show that guy what you're made of!" Naruto shouted from the stands, raising his arm.
"Sasuke! Go for it!!" Sakura shouted as she watched the flashing lightning.
The eye of sand at the top of the sand sphere suddenly turned, staring intently at the dangerous bolt of lightning in Sasuke's hand!
Although Gaara was inside the fortress, he could clearly feel the terrifying, penetrating power through the Eye of Sand!
"It's useless! Uchiha!"
Gaara's hoarse, distorted voice came through the sand sphere, tinged with madness, "Absolute defense, your meager lightning energy can't penetrate it! Release..."
Before he could finish speaking!
"Chidori—!!!"
Sasuke let out a deafening roar!
Driven by the final burst of force from the lightning stimulating his legs, his figure transformed into a blue-white lightning bolt that tore everything apart!
The target was the center of the huge dent that had been melted by the Great Fireball on Shukaku's shield!
That's where the defenses are weakened, and it's also the weakest point in the rotation!
Speed! Extreme speed!
Penetrating! The ultimate penetration!
Sizzle—Pfft—!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a tooth-grinding, tearing sound, like a hot knife cutting through butter!
Sasuke's right hand, which was wrapped around Chidori, was as easy as piercing tofu.
It pierced through the outermost layer of the Shukaku Shield, which had become molten and vitrified sand, without any hindrance.
Then, it tore through the inner layer of condensed dark sand wall with unstoppable force!
The raging lightning chakra was frantically destroying all the sand structures along its path!
Under the horrified "gaze" of the Eye of Sand, the hand wrapped in destructive lightning resembled a spear of judgment from hell.
It instantly broke through the last layer of defense and pierced into the sand sphere with incredible precision.
It pierced through... Gaara's left scapula!
puff--! ! !
Warm, rusty-smelling liquid spurted out.
It stained Sasuke's arm red, and it also stained the sand walls inside!
For a moment, time seemed to freeze.
Chapter 110 An Unexpected Event, the Beginning of Collapse
Although Sasuke's hand pierced through Gaara's shoulder.
Sasuke was certain that the raging lightning of Chidori was already wreaking havoc inside Gaara's body.
But Sasuke showed no joy of victory on his face; instead, his pupils constricted sharply!
Because he saw that Gaara, who had been pierced by my Chidori, showed no pain on his face, but instead…
He revealed an extremely distorted, extremely satisfied, even... ecstatic smile!
"Ho...ho ho..."
Gaara let out a hoarse laugh that was difficult to decipher.
He slowly turned his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Sasuke, who was standing right in front of him.
It was filled with an indescribable excitement and... a morbid desire!
"Blood...this is my blood...I'm bleeding...hahahaha! It hurts...it hurts so much! This feeling...is amazing!"
He stretched out his right hand, which wasn't pierced, dabbed some of the blood gushing from his shoulder, and held it in front of his eyes.
As if admiring the world's most precious work of art, his eyes gleamed with a frenzied light.
"So... this is what pain feels like... this is proof of being alive... How wonderful! Uchiha Sasuke... I want... more! I want your blood! I want your pain!"
An indescribable, a hundred times more terrifying, violent, insane, and bestial chakra than before.
Like an ancient beast that had been sleeping, it burst forth from Gaara's body!
boom--! ! !
The Shukaku shield that enveloped them was instantly shattered from the inside out by this force!
Countless grains of sand shot out in all directions like cannonballs! Sasuke was the first to be hit, and was violently thrown away by this violent force!
Sasuke spat out a mouthful of blood in mid-air and crashed heavily onto the ground dozens of meters away, rolling several times before barely coming to a stop.
He struggled to lift his head, his eyes filled with horror!
In the center of the arena, Gaara was suspended in mid-air!
The wound on his left shoulder was throbbing, and a large amount of sand was rushing towards it, trying to stop the bleeding and repair it.
But the speed seemed unable to keep up with the destructive power of that rampant chakra.
His body began to undergo terrifying mutations!
Half of his body was covered by thick sand armor with eerie violet flower patterns.
Its right arm was swollen and twisted, covered with rough, sandy skin and sharp claws!
His left eye transformed into a huge, bloodshot beastly pupil, just like that of Shukaku!
A dark red chakra, filled with hatred and destruction, burned and churned around him like a tangible flame!
The temperature in the entire arena seemed to plummet, filled with a nauseating stench of blood and a raging, bestial pressure!
"Roar--!!!"
A non-human roar, filled with endless pain and destructive desire, erupted from Gaara, or rather, Gaara in his half-tailed beast form!
The sound waves assaulted everyone's eardrums as if they were real!
"Oh no! Shukaku is about to go berserk!"
In the stands, Orochimaru, disguised as the Kazekage, flashed a hint of excitement at his successful plan.
But he feigned shock and anger on his face.