Shin'yu manipulated the Susanoo to retract its fist, only to discover that a section of golden rope had somehow wrapped around the wrist of the bone hand.
"What's this?" Shin'yu's eyes widened in surprise.
Immediately afterward, Ginkaku flew out of the dust-filled hole, clutching the other end of the golden rope, swinging like a gibbon onto the rocky cliff.
His robes and soft armor were tattered, and there were several bruises on his forehead and arms, but otherwise, he was unharmed.
That fist, powerful enough to split mountains and rocks, had only made him look a little disheveled; an ordinary Ninja would have been smashed into mincemeat long ago.
Being caught by that golden rope, Shin'yu felt a faint sense of foreboding and immediately dispelled the Susanoo's bone arm, regenerating another one.
"Sharingan, Uchiha? Are you people from the Hidden Leaf Village?" Ginkaku, with the Seven Star Sword on his shoulder, looked down at them from above, the thick golden rope automatically coiling around his arm.
"Light, is there a chance?" Shin'yu asked in a low voice without turning his head.
Uchiha Hikari shook her head, "No, this guy keeps avoiding my gaze."
Shin'yu also frowned slightly. Ginkaku was very cunning, whether in battle or confrontation, he didn't make eye contact with them, giving them no chance to launch a genjutsu.
"Be careful, that rope is strange. It should be the Purifying Rope I told you about. It's best not to be touched by it," he warned cautiously.
Light nodded carefully.
The Purifying Rope, when touched, would cause a person to spit out the spirit of their most frequently used words. The so-called spirit of words refers to the words spoken most often since birth.
The Seven Star Sword was not born for slashing; its true purpose was to sever the opponent's spirit of words and cast a curse.
And that Crimson Gourd could record and seal the spirit of words. When the person involved said a keyword, didn't speak for a long time, or said a word with a similar pronunciation to the keyword, they would be sucked into the gourd and completely sealed.
This three-piece set was a proper weapon of causality.
As for the other two Six Paths Ninja Tools, the Amber Purifying Pot was a super-sized jar. As long as one responded to the holder's words, they would be taken into the pot, even the rampaging Eight-Tails could be suppressed and sealed; the Basho Fan was a great weapon that could release the five nature transformations of fire, water, lightning, wind, and earth at once, regardless of one's own Chakra nature.
Thinking about it carefully, these brothers were strong enough to reach the Kage level, both in terms of hard power and weapons!
At this moment, Ginkaku grinned, "No answer means you admit it..."
His expression gradually became manic, slightly ferocious under the enhancement of the Tailed Beast Chakra, "To dare attack us brothers, it's unforgivable. No matter who you are, obediently come into my Crimson Gourd!"
A three-inch-sized gourd was thrown into the air, growing in the wind, and in the blink of an eye, it became more than half a person tall, held by Ginkaku around his waist.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
Light took the lead in launching an attack. After five years of training, her Fire Style ninjutsu was already familiar. The huge fireball shot out, but it was split in half by Ginkaku with a sword.
"What a joke, how could a technique of this level hurt this great one!" Ginkaku descended from the sky, the Seven Star Sword pointing directly at Uchiha Hikari's head, a beam of silver light tearing through the air.
Light immediately dodged, but Ginkaku used a feint, rushing to another place, which was where Kinkaku was!
"He wants to undo Kinkaku's genjutsu!"
Shin'yu's eyes were cold, he teleported in front of Kinkaku, and drove the initial stage Susanoo to meet him with a punch, the dark bone fist was as fast as lightning, bringing a heavy wind.
"Draw it out, Purifying Rope!" Ginkaku suddenly said.
Without the expected strong collision, Shin'yu suddenly widened his eyes, his stomach churning like waves. Due to temporary loss of control of his body, his Susanoo's skeleton suddenly faded, and the ribs and arms collapsed into black gas.
He uncontrollably opened his mouth, spitting out a milky blue halo.
"This is... my soul word??" His eyes were filled with disbelief, "How is it possible? I wasn't even touched by the Purifying Rope!"
"Curse it, Seven Star Sword!" Ginkaku said in a low voice, a hint of smugness flashing across his lips as he vertically slashed down with the sword!
"Shin'yu!" Uchiha Hikari hurriedly shouted.
At the critical moment, Shin'yu instead calmed down, leaning back slightly to avoid the fatal edge, but the emitted aura was still cut off by the Seven Star Sword!
Shin'yu's expression turned grim. He thought he understood the Sage of Six Paths' treasures well enough, but he didn't expect to still fall victim to it.
Ginkaku suddenly spun his body, the Seven Star Sword slashing horizontally in a semicircle, forcing the two back.
"You thought you'd be fine as long as your body wasn't touched? If your Chakra is touched by the Purifying Rope, your soul word will be extracted! Brat!" Ginkaku laughed wildly, raising the Crimson Gourd, "Record it, Crimson Gourd!"
With a "poof," the blue aura floating in the air was immediately sucked into the gourd's mouth. Ginkaku raised the Seven Star Sword, and Shin'yu's soul word was revealed on the mirror-like sword surface:
"Lord Madara."
"Oh?" Ginkaku raised his eyebrows, revealing an interested expression.
"You saw my soul word?" Shin'yu raised his eyes, two scarlet Mangekyo spinning eerily, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be... 'Lord Madara', right?"
At this moment, both Ginkaku and Uchiha Hikari widened their eyes, the former in surprise, immediately raising the Crimson Gourd, while the latter was in shock.
Earlier, Shin'yu had introduced Kinkaku and Ginkaku's Six Paths Ninja Tools to Uchiha Hikari one by one. What she didn't expect was that Shin'yu would actually take the risk himself, as if he had forgotten about it.
Sure enough, a look of panic appeared on Shin'yu's face, and his body shot towards Ginkaku as if he had lost control.
However, just as he approached the gourd's mouth, a sharp blue light suddenly emerged from his left hand, slashing towards Ginkaku's neck!
"Autumn Dew on Leaves!"
"What!" Ginkaku couldn't believe his eyes, hurriedly blocking with his sword, and with a "sizzle," Autumn Dew on Leaves scraped a series of sparks on the Seven Star Sword.
Shin'yu took the opportunity to grab the sword's spine, somersaulting behind Ginkaku. A blue aura gathered in his palm, the airflow violently stirring, accompanied by a buzzing sound, and a high-speed rotating Chakra ball appeared in his hand!
"Rasengan."
Shin'yu held the Rasengan in one hand, and in Ginkaku's panicked gaze, he slammed it hard into his back.
The swirling wind expanded, and Ginkaku's body was blasted away by a huge twisting force, smashing into the stone wall behind him.
"A bit interesting, the destructive power is not bad." Shin'yu nodded in satisfaction.
Mahoraga endowed him with a powerful learning ability. Moreover, the Rasengan, an A-rank Ninjutsu, was not difficult to learn as long as he knew the principle and training method. In the original timeline, Jiraiya had mastered it in just three days.
Its difficulty lies in the extreme manipulation of the Chakra's form, causing the Chakra to flow continuously in different directions and compressing it to form a high-rotation density "Chakra ball."
As for the degree of research on Chakra form transformation, Shin'yu was far more profound than Jiraiya. The Autumn Dew on Leaves that made Tobirama's heart palpitate explained everything.
Therefore, he had completely mastered this signature Ninjutsu of the protagonist in the original timeline in just one day.
"Why? I clearly cut off your soul word!" Ginkaku was a little frantic, scrambling out of the rubble.
"Is that so? I don't remember that happening." Shin'yu smiled contemptuously.
After the soul word was taken into the Crimson Gourd, he activated his eye technique. Mahoraga and Ame no Tokotachi were activated simultaneously, adapting to the Purifying Rope while reverting his state to before he was touched by the Purifying Rope.
Judging from the perspective of the entire space-time, he was "complete" at that moment, unaffected by any external force. Therefore, this operation was equivalent to covering up the fact that his soul word had been cut.
His choice was wise. The Purifying Rope, Seven Star Sword, and Crimson Gourd—the prerequisite for activating these three causal Ninja Tools was to have their word souls extracted by the Purifying Rope. Therefore, by simply releasing the influence of the Purifying Rope, the latter two would collapse without even being attacked.
"Damn it, what the hell is going on!" Ginkaku was still ranting, but no one would explain it to him.
This is the world of Naruto, where information is extremely important. There's no such thing as "technique disclosure" here, and Shin'yu has no interest in explaining his own eye technique abilities.
"Amaterasu!"
Light seized the opportunity to attack, and a mass of jet-black flames struck Ginkaku's chest!
"Not good!" Sensing the strange temperature, Ginkaku's pupils shrank sharply, and the deep red Tailed Beast Chakra cloak writhed wildly, converging towards his chest.
To Light's astonishment, this guy actually took the initiative to peel off the Tailed Beast Chakra from his body, letting it fall to the ground along with the black flames of Amaterasu, burning into nothingness.
"He actually used this method to block the burning of Amaterasu?" Shin'yu was also surprised, after all, this was the method Naruto used to resolve Amaterasu in the original timeline.
"So this is the flame that's said to never extinguish? It's indeed dangerous." Ginkaku chuckled in a low voice, his fierce gaze turning to Uchiha Hikari. "It seems you're the enemy who should be taken down first!"
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