Itachi's sharingan were now fully active and he stepped into the forest, moving at a fast speed using the body flicker technique to search for suitable prey to test his full strength.
"Jasmine where about's are the strongest creatures in this area."
Assuming that Itachi wanted to stay away from these danger areas Jasmine said,"In the centre of the mountain range there is an Emperor profound realm Flame Dragon, however it is pretending to be at the 10th rank of the Sky profound realm, which is the strongest creature in this mountain, which presumably gives this area its name, Scarlet Dragon Mountain Range."
Having said these words Jasmine went back to sleep within the Sky Poison Pearl.
Itachi immediately began moving towards the Flame Dragon's lair hoping to test the upper limits of his strength, believing that if he pulled out his Susanoo and went at full strength using the power of the {{Evil God Arts}} to strengthen his Susanoo specifically then he would be able to win.
As long as he didn't use the gate to strengthen his own body he would be fine, that was what Itachi was thinking, since although his sharingan was now linked with his body and profound energy, it was still its own entity in terms of the power it possessed as it was far stronger than his actual profound energy, and therefore he could use his {{Evil God Arts}} to only strengthen his sharingan abilities rather than his entire body and that wouldn't cause his eyes or body any harm.
With these thoughts in mind Itachi felt content going to fight with the Flame Dragon, not fearing it at all, even holding it slightly in contempt, and with incredible excitement to find out the extent of his powers.
In the next 30 minutes Itachi finally arrived at the centre of the mountain, attracting the attention of the Flame Dragon, which in turn awakened Jasmine, who was frightened and angry.
"You idiot I told you that the Flame Dragon was at the centre of the mountain range, why would you come here anyway?!"
Itachi merely smiled and said,"Jasmine would you like to see the full capabilities of my abilities?"
Hearing these words Jasmine thought that she had unknowingly given her life to a complete idiot who would inevitably cause her downfall.
"I guess I'll have to act." Jasmine thought to herself, bemoaning her fate as it would take her even longer to heal herself every-time she acted and used up energy.
However this thought was trapped within her throat as she saw Itachi suddenly cover himself with an incredibly large amount of profound energy, which seemed to have been mysteriously strengthened in a way that turned it red, and this large amount of energy had been formed into a large armoured humanoid.
This humanoid was only composed of its features from the waist upward, however it was still incredibly large, and was heavily armoured, with its only visible facial feature being its eyes, the rest being covered by a coiling piece of armour and a helmet which left a slit for the eyes, with the armour continuing to coil all the way around the entire upper torso that was visible of the humanoid.
This humanoid figure also seemed to hold a powerful shield in its left hand, and an ethereal sword, seemingly made out of liquid, in its right hand.
After Itachi fully formed this humanoid figure he shouted loudly.
"Susanoo!"
Jasmine was unbelievably shocked, as not only did this figure appear imposing but also it had the aura of a 10th realm Sky profound realm cultivator, peak Sky profound realm!
And the aura it seemed to exude seemed even stronger than that, as if it could fight Emperor profound realm cultivators.
The sword and shield it wielded as well were definitely divine weapons.
Itachi himself knew that these were the Totsuka sword and the Yata Mirror respectively which allowed his Susanoo to be even stronger than usual.
Itachi himself was standing at the base of this mighty construct, seemingly able to control it.
The Flame Dragon opposite Itachi was shocked for a second before shocking battle intent appeared in its eyes.
Although it was 1st rank Emperor profound realm, it felt a sense of danger from the black clothed youth in front of it.
"You have disturbed me and come to attack me, therefore you will perish here, despite your talent."
Having said this the dragon rushed forwards, attacking Itachi.
Fully focused, Itachi commaned his Susanoo to raise his Yata Mirror, using it to completely neutralise the claw attack of the Flame Dragon.
The Flame Dragon was so shocked by its attack being completely blocked, by a Sky profound realm cultivator that it was unable to react for a second when Itachi's sword sliced upwards with incredible speed towards it underbelly.
It raised its claw but the ethereal sword seemingly curved around its claw piercing its underbelly.
As soon as it was pierced the dragon felt a clear attack on its soul, sending it into a drunken dreamland, where it felt as if it would be trapped forever if it didn't break out soon.
As it struggled to break out Itachi raised his Totsuka Sword to behead it.
As Itachi sliced down the dragon managed to break free from the drunken dreamland, moving slightly causing the sword attack to merely cleave deeply into its front claw, severing it.
The dragon roared in agony, backing up from Itachi.
It felt angry that it had been trapped in that strange dreamland where it was seemingly in a drunken state, unable to react to Itachi cleaving him with a sword.
Meanwhile Jasmine was incredibly shocked at Itachi's sudden surge in power.
"Even with the Evil God's veins you shouldn't be this strong. You... you, how did you do it?!"
Shocked and almost fearful Jasmine asked this question, wondering if she had found an absolute cultivation monster.
Little did she know she'd found someone even more fearsome.
The dragon prepared itself this time, unwilling to be caught offguard by the youth's strange abilities.
Itachi smiled upon seeing this.
"It was fun playing around Flame Dragon, however I have to go all out now. Goodbye."
This statement caused the dragon to become unbelievably angry, letting out a loud roar to the heavens before charging forwards at full speed, albeit with it's claw missing.
Itachi opened the first gate, Heretic Soul, allowing the power to seep into soley his Susanoo.
It instantly doubled in size and the crimson colour became even deeper, terrifying the dragon, however it was too late for it to back out now.
At the same time Itachi shouted in a low voice,"{{Falling Moon Sinking Star}}"
As he said these words the enlarged Totsuka Sword suddenly became resplendent, as if a star had exploded within it, and as if he was cleaving the heavens, Itachi smote down the dragon, completely obliterating it, body and soul.
An incredible path of destruction was wrought by this attack, causing the 5 kilometres behind the dragon to have been filled with a massive line directly in line with where the sword attack had struck down, showing the might of Itachi's attack.
Even Itachi himself was shocked at the power he had displayed, with just the first gate applied to his Susanoo.
He suddenly felt incredibly happy.
"Even in my past life I was never this strong, I truly am on the path to becoming the strongest now."
Retracting his Susanoo Itachi laughed freely to the heavens, looking every bit an incredible hero and warrior.