The domineering Uchiha drove the Third Hokage mad!

Chapter 455 First Kill of the Otsutsuki High-Ranking Officials

Behind the Ōtsutsuki Shrine, two figures landed silently.

The golden nine-tomoe Sharingan of Uchiha Sanfeng quietly rotated in his eye socket, scanning the surroundings like a searchlight.

This is the core of the Otsutsuki clan's lair, surrounded by various sophisticated spacetime detection and sealing barriers.

The space here is meticulously designed, sometimes overlapping and intertwining, sometimes tearing apart. Every spatial fluctuation harbors hidden danger; the slightest carelessness will result in being swept into the spatial turbulence and instantly ripped to pieces.

Fortunately, both Uchiha Mitsunori and Otsutsuki Kaguya possessed extremely powerful sensory abilities, and both had Otsutsuki bloodlines, so the barrier's scrutiny was much weaker.

He enveloped himself and Kaguya within a barrier, isolating them from external spatial interference.

"Kaguya, there's a barrier ahead."

Kaguya Otsutsuki immediately stopped, her silver-gray Byakugan shining brightly in the dim light.

Having grown up in this palace, she naturally understood what triggering the alert barrier meant.

Once triggered, it will not only attract countless guards, but also activate the sealing barrier within the divine palace, at which point escape will be impossible.

She quietly turned to the side, glancing at the corridor behind her out of the corner of her eye, a look of seriousness flashing in her eyes.

Not far away, a camouflaged dust particle was covered with fine black runes.

This is a unique "space-time warning barrier" of the Otsutsuki clan. Even a slight breeze can trigger an alarm throughout the entire shrine.

Before setting off, he used the divine magic Ten Directions Hundreds of times to trace back the future trajectory, so he was very familiar with the barrier and guards here.

With a slight turn of his wrist, golden chakra threads silently pierced the energy core of the dust barrier.

In an instant, the pale purple barrier trembled violently, and the runes on its surface flickered twice, then caved inward like a punctured bubble.

"Okay, let's go."

Uchiha Mitsunori took the opportunity to put his arm around Kaguya Otsutsuki's waist, causing her tense body to relax slightly.

After passing through the barrier, the corridor ahead was fraught with danger, but the three Uchiha peaks were as calm as if they were in their own backyard.

Soon, the two were getting closer and closer to the core of the shrine, and a sense of panic gradually rose in Kaguya Otsutsuki's heart.

She was well aware of the terror of the ten core high-ranking members of the Otsutsuki clan. They possessed cosmic-level divine arts, and their names were an inescapable nightmare in countless civilizations.

Otsutsuki Tokien, who wields the divine art of time, has a flowing river of time hidden in his pupils. He can manipulate the flow of time at will, making his opponents move as slowly as a tortoise, and can also compress his own attacks into an instant. He once froze the time of a star by himself, plunging the entire galaxy into eternal darkness.

Otsutsuki Insaku, who has a keen understanding of cause and effect, is surrounded by invisible threads of cause and effect. He can see through the predetermined future with just a glance, and can even manipulate the chain of cause and effect to rewrite what has already happened. He has played with the rise and fall of countless civilizations, and some planets have turned to dust because of his single thought.

Otsutsuki Jugen, a master of curse techniques, can materialize malice into a black curse shadow. Once it touches someone, it will devour their life force until their soul dissipates, and even their chakra cannot be purified.

Otsutsuki Sakura, who controls the origin of life, can condense the flame of life in his palm. He can both plunder the life force of others for his own use and reshape a broken body...

The terrifying deeds of each high-ranking official are circulated throughout the universe, becoming a nightmare for countless lives.

Their goal for this trip was to remove the two most troublesome obstacles.

Uchiha Mitsunori sensed Kaguya's emotional fluctuations and instantly spread out a transparent barrier, isolating her from external chakra detection.

"Let's deal with Otsutsuki Tokiyo first. His time manipulation will disrupt all our plans, so we need to finish this quickly. Don't worry, I'm also skilled in time-related laws. You just need to play your part."

He gently patted Kaguya's hand, signaling her to relax.

Kaguya Otsutsuki nodded slightly, her silver-gray eyes filled with trust: "Don't worry, I understand!"

The two exchanged a glance, a tacit understanding flashing in their eyes.

Immediately, their figures disappeared into the shadows of the corridor, silently flying towards the palace where Otsutsuki Tokihiko was located.

The gates of the Temple of Kalachakra are made from a single piece of spacetime crystal, with intricate time runes engraved on their surface.

The moment the door was pushed open, a strong wave of time distortion rushed towards them, causing both of them to pause slightly.

Countless tiny fragments of time floated in the air inside the hall, like flowing mirrors reflecting scenes from different periods within the hall.

Sometimes he appears as Otsutsuki Tokien meditating in contemplation; sometimes he is practicing time magic, freezing objects in the hall into ice; and sometimes he is tearing through space and time with a wave of his hand, extracting energy from other planets.

The stone seat in the center of the hall is carved from a single piece of spacetime crystal, and six ring-shaped time magic arrays surround the stone seat.

Otsutsuki Tokiyo sat upright on it, with a golden nine-tomoe Rinnegan between his eyebrows, radiating strong spatial fluctuations.

Uchiha Mitsunori raised his hand and pressed it on Kaguya Otsutsuki's shoulder. Golden chakra condensed beneath his feet and then silently seeped into the foundation of the palace, setting up a "time shielding anchor point".

This anchor point acts like a hidden shield, capable of intercepting or creating false images of the future, thereby blocking Ōtsutsuki Tokien's predictions about the future.

Time passed second by second, and the only sound inside the hall was the collision of fragments of time.

Soon, the time was ripe, and the light of the time mark between Otsutsuki Tokien's eyebrows dimmed slightly. This was because he was observing the future, resulting in a brief "momentary delay".

At that moment, Uchiha Mitsufumi burst forth like a golden streak of light, piercing towards the false trajectory he had set up, aiming straight for Otsutsuki Tokiyo's neck.

At the same time, his shadow clone, which he had hidden in the most chaotic part of the fragments of time, also concealed all his aura at the same instant, and even the flow of time synchronized with the surrounding fragments, like dust that blended into them.

This was a disguise created by Sanfeng using the rules of time, allowing the shadow clones to completely detach from the normal timeline and become "non-existent" in the long river of time.

This shadow clone will act like a waiting assassin, quietly awaiting the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

Just as the sharp blade was about to touch him, Otsutsuki Tokihime suddenly opened his eyes!

In the golden Rinnegan between his brows, a flowing river of time and space appeared, clearly reflecting the assassination trajectory. He could even see the victim's "aftermath," trapped by his time magic and struggling desperately.

"Hmph, a clumsy assassination attempt. Every step you took was under my control!"

He thought he had seen through everything and was filled with a sense of superiority in controlling the whole situation, but he didn't know that the "future" he saw was nothing more than a trap carefully woven by the Uchiha Mitsunaga.

Otsutsuki Tokihime possessed an arrogance that suggested he controlled everything, like a god looking down on ants on the ground.

He didn't even launch an attack immediately, but deliberately slowed down his movements, wanting to enjoy watching his opponent fall into despair.

This is an absolute confidence in one's own abilities, which is precisely the weakness that Uchiha Mitsuru exploited.

In an instant, an invisible spacetime barrier suddenly unfolded, centered on Otsutsuki Tokien, covering the entire Time Wheel Palace like ripples on water, instantly trapping the Uchiha Tri-Peaks and Otsutsuki Kaguya who was about to step into the palace.

Uchiha Mitsunori deliberately feigned a struggle, attacking the spacetime barrier with all his might, but it was as if he were stuck in a quagmire and had no effect whatsoever.

Seeing this, Otsutsuki Tokihime's arrogance intensified, but he failed to notice that Uchiha Mikado had already activated the "Time Reversal Anchor Point".

The anchor point exploded instantly, briefly disrupting the flow of time within the barrier and creating a "time rift" of one-thousandth of a second. That one-thousandth of a second was enough for his shadow clone to deliver a fatal blow.

"Struggling is futile; in my time and space, everything is under my control."

Otsutsuki Tokihime sneered, his eyes full of mockery, and raised his hand to aim at Uchiha Mikado, condensing a blade of time that slowly slashed down.

He deliberately slowed down his attack speed so that the two would feel the approach of death in despair and enjoy the thrill of controlling the life and death of others.

Just as the Blade of Time was about to touch the Three Peaks, the shadow clone disguised by the rules of time suddenly burst out from the fragments of time!

The shadow clone was unaffected by the space-time barrier and moved with lightning speed, attacking Otsutsuki Tokien from behind and slashing at his neck.

At this moment, all of Shi Yan's attention was focused on Uchiha Mitsurugi, and with the interference of the time gap, his consciousness went blank for a brief period, leaving him no time to react.

"Pfft... Sizzle..."

Golden chakra, imbued with the power of annihilation, precisely severed Otsutsuki Tokien's neck. Golden blood gushed out, splashing onto the stone seat with a sizzling sound.

The spacetime barrier collapsed and scattered into countless points of light, disappearing into the air.

Otsutsuki Tokihime's head was spinning and flying around. He stared in disbelief at his fallen body, his arrogance instantly replaced by terror. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but only a mouthful of golden blood flowed out.

Seeing the astonishment in his eyes, Uchiha Mitsunori's expression remained calm and composed, as if he had only done something insignificant.

"The future you just saw was only what I wanted you to see. From the moment you saw that false vision of the future, your death was already inevitable."

Otsutsuki Tokihiko was both the most difficult and the easiest high-ranking member of the Otsutsuki clan to kill.

Because he possesses the power of time and can communicate with his past self, he is never afraid of being ambushed or killed. He even has the ability to summon other high-ranking Otsutsuki members from the past timeline to his side to surround and kill his target.

Unfortunately, he encountered Uchiha Sanfeng, who possessed the divine technique Ten Directions, which allowed him to directly see countless possibilities for the future and analyze the best battle plan.

He even created a weapon that could sever timelines, rendering Otsutsuki Tokien's prepared backup plan ineffective.

Upon hearing this, Otsutsuki Tokihime felt his vision growing increasingly dark...

"Am I going to die?... I'm so unwilling to accept this..."