Chapter 201 : Lightning Style Thunder Prisoner
But he couldn’t do anything like that—not now. His current strength wasn’t even close to that of this clone.
After the valley was destroyed, the barrier surrounding it also collapsed.
Naturally, nothing remained to restrict the chakra of the two combatants.
Riku’s clone was powered by Sage Chakra, giving it overwhelming strength. Even though the ghostly figure—Ghost Shadow—could now utilize chakra and had grown significantly stronger, he still couldn’t match Riku’s clone.
The battle raged on for over an hour. Ghost Shadow’s body had been seriously wounded, yet his recovery abilities were formidable. Each time he was injured, his body would start healing again.
The same applied to Riku’s clone.
After just an hour, Ghost Shadow began to feel his end approaching.
But even so, he couldn’t defeat Riku’s clone. Enraged, he launched one final desperate assault.
"Damn it! Why is he so strong? I’ve already sacrificed my soul power, and I still can’t do anything to his clone? What kind of joke is this?"
Clenching his fists, his body soaked in blood, Ghost Shadow cursed under his breath. His ability to fully spiritualize was useless against Riku’s clone—because it had been formed from Sage Chakra, it could still strike physical and spiritual forms alike.
That was why Ghost Shadow didn’t fully commit to spiritualization—doing so would only weaken his combat abilities.
Had he been up against someone who didn’t understand senjutsu, he could’ve cut them down easily.
But his opponent was a clone composed entirely of Sage Chakra.
Every strike from the clone impacted Ghost Shadow with devastating force.
His spiritualization had no effect.
Eventually, Ghost Shadow formed a series of hand seals. All around them, the land had been blasted into utter ruin. The mountains had crumbled.
The ground bore craters hundreds of meters wide, with over a hundred such pits stretching in all directions.
The terrain across several kilometers had been completely altered.
Both Riku’s clone and Ghost Shadow were launching large-scale techniques.
The smallest of Riku’s jutsu was a Rasenshuriken.
As for Ghost Shadow—empowered by the Shinigami—his chakra resembled that of a Tailed Beast. Every strike could create craters hundreds of meters wide.
This was a battle on a super-Kage-level scale.
The devastation rivaled the legendary clash between Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju.
As Ghost Shadow began to form seals, Riku’s clone also moved, his expression calm.
"Ghost Style: Soul-Devouring Maw."
"Sage Art: Thunder Warden."
The moment they completed their seals, an enormous Shinigami head—tens of meters tall—manifested behind Ghost Shadow.
Simultaneously, countless bolts of violet-gold lightning crackled around Riku’s clone.
Nature energy from the surroundings poured madly into his body.
ROAR—!
A violet-gold bolt of lightning surged between heaven and earth, tearing open space itself.
CRACK!
From the torn sky emerged a massive figure clad in lightning. A colossal titan, over seventy meters tall—equal in size to the Nine Tails.
His entire form radiated lightning. Three serpentine lightning dragons coiled around his body.
Clenching his massive fists, his glowing golden eyes locked onto his foe. A black prison uniform emblazoned with the kanji for "Prison" adorned him.
This being—Thunder Warden—was the physical manifestation of a super-S-rank Lightning Style technique.
It wasn’t merely a jutsu. It was a fusion technique that incorporated Sage Chakra and Yang Release.
Thunder Warden possessed sentience—similar to a Tailed Beast.
ROAAAR!
Thunder Warden let out a beastly roar and raised his titanic arms, preparing to strike.
Ghost Shadow was frozen in disbelief. "What...? How does he know this kind of jutsu? Is he even human?"
He couldn’t comprehend how a human could wield such a devastating power. It was completely absurd.
But despite his shock, Ghost Shadow refused to give up.
With a sweep of his arm, the Shinigami’s massive head lunged toward Riku’s clone, mouth open wide.
The Soul-Devouring Maw could consume souls.
Once devoured, a soul would be imprisoned within the Shinigami itself—trapped forever.
It was far more sinister than the Reaper Death Seal.
As the maw lunged toward Riku’s clone, Thunder Warden clapped his hands. One hand formed a lightning-forged longsword, while the other raised a series of ten circular lightning shields in front of him.
BOOM!
In a few steps, Thunder Warden surged forward and slashed downward at the oncoming Shinigami.
The impact unleashed an explosion of thunder and lightning. The shockwave alone destroyed everything within several hundred meters.
The ground sank by more than ten meters. A nearby mountain—once littered with corpses—was instantly reduced to dust.
Tremors shook the surrounding land for kilometers.
The Shinigami roared, glaring at Thunder Warden.
Thunder Warden didn’t falter. Roaring back, he hurled one of his shields directly at the Shinigami’s head.
The next moment, the battle between Thunder Warden and the Shinigami erupted.
It was fierce. But Ghost Shadow’s body was weakening rapidly under the overwhelming pressure.
"Damn it... how can a clone use a technique of this level? Is this guy even human?"
From the beginning, Ghost Shadow had grossly underestimated Riku’s strength. In truth, the entire shinobi world had.
They had assumed he was just another Kage-level ninja.
Only Tsunade and Jiraiya knew the truth—that Riku had long surpassed the Kage level.
And now, he was inching ever closer to the power of the Sage of Six Paths.
Every strike from Thunder Warden was a super-S-rank attack. The destruction it left behind was terrifying.
Each blow could leave a canyon hundreds of meters long.
The sheer force rivaled—and perhaps even surpassed—that of Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo.
Shattering mountains was the baseline of Thunder Warden’s power.
The only reason Riku’s clone had unleashed this level of ninjutsu was because Ghost Shadow’s Soul-Devouring Maw truly posed a threat.
However, with the power of Thunder Warden continually suppressing the attack, the Maw’s strength began to wane.
It couldn’t even land a bite on Thunder Warden—his shield blocked every attempt.
Then, with a sweeping slash of his lightning sword, Thunder Warden struck the Maw directly.
Though it bore a fragment of the Shinigami’s power, it wasn’t enough to hurt Riku’s clone.
Gradually, Ghost Shadow’s body began to disintegrate, his face twisted in rage and unwillingness.
At the final moment, Thunder Warden transformed his shield and sword into a long bow and arrow—both forged entirely of lightning.
Drawing the bowstring, he loosed the thunderbolt arrow just as the Soul-Devouring Maw began to fade.
The bolt struck it dead center.
ROAAAR—!
A blood-curdling scream erupted from Ghost Shadow as the Shinigami phantom behind him howled at Riku’s clone.
But the Shinigami in this world wasn’t a true living entity—it was a manifestation of spiritual law from the underworld.
Even so, Thunder Warden’s arrow had damaged the projection.
It was a wound dealt to the concept itself.
And although the Shinigami wouldn’t retaliate directly—it wasn’t a creature bound by instinct or emotion—it had clearly been affected.
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