"Awakened Skill: Activate."
A blue sphere rapidly expanded outward, enveloping everyone nearby inside the blue barrier.
Munashi Jinpachi gripped the Explosion Blade: Shibuki with both hands and charged straight at Arin, smashing downward violently.
BOOM!!
Yet Arin suddenly appeared behind him, both legs kicking toward Jinpachi's back.
Threads instantly appeared and tightened rapidly around Arin.
Although they pierced through his body, blue-black flames erupted from the wounds, restoring the missing portions immediately instead of severing his limbs.
Still, that brief moment gave Jinpachi enough time to retreat.
He quickly pulled away and roared furiously at Kushimaru Kuriarare:
"Are you trying to kill me too?!"
"Trash doesn't deserve to live," Kushimaru sneered coldly.
The Seven Ninja Swordsmen did not exactly have good coworker relationships.
"How rude."
Flaming wings spread from Arin's back as he slowly floated into the sky, looking down upon the Seven Ninja Swordsmen below.
"People of Kirigakure."
"Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Tornado!"
"Hiramekarei Release!"
Without any manners whatsoever, the wielder of the Lightning Blades, Kurotsuchi Raiga, and the Hiramekarei user attacked Arin in the sky simultaneously.
A tornado of lightning and a massive blue energy sphere shot upward toward him.
Yet both attacks simply passed through Arin's body and dissipated into the sky.
Where his body had been pierced, blue-black flames burned and rapidly regenerated the damaged areas.
"What the hell is wrong with this guy?" Fuguki Suikazan, wielder of Samehada, asked heavily.
"All attacks are completely ineffective," Akebino Jinin, wielder of the Blunt Blade, frowned.
"It resembles the Hōzuki Clan's Hydrification Technique," Juzo Biwa, wielder of the Executioner's Blade, said gravely.
"Perhaps only Water Release can counter him."
As natives of Kirigakure, they fully understood how troublesome the Hydrification Technique was.
Arin looked at the first generation of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
The origins of the blades themselves were unknown, but this group had been Kirigakure's first official Seven Swordsmen squad.
They genuinely possessed the power to contend against a Kage.
Unfortunately—
That only applied against Kage who fought on the ground.
"These guys really are mini-bosses of Kirigakure."
The drops from defeating them were naturally the Seven Ninja Blades themselves.
Nothing else.
"So now I can obtain two full sets of the Seven Ninja Swords?"
Arin wondered whether Kirigakure would completely lose its mind afterward.
"First," Arin's voice echoed from high above, "let me explain the rules."
He directly explained the Monster Arena rules aloud.
As he spoke, glowing circles appeared beneath everyone's feet.
"So only one side survives…" the Seven Ninja Swordsmen's expressions changed.
The Mist ANBU remained masked, making their expressions impossible to see.
Behind Arin, chakra rapidly condensed into countless flaming arrows that soon filled the sky.
This method of using Fire Release was only possible within a Domain Skill.
The entire area was saturated with his chakra.
Outside the domain, he could never create this many fire arrows simultaneously.
The surrounding environment shifted rapidly.
The landscape transformed into a desert.
"You've got to be kidding!!"
Akebino Jinin's pupils contracted as he stared at the endless flaming arrows overhead.
"This quantity alone is terrifying."
The Seven Ninja Swordsmen were shocked by Arin's firepower—
But not truly afraid.
Because according to the rules, attacks within the domain would not kill them immediately.
Instead, damage would merely remove their restrictions.
Arin waved a hand.
Countless flaming arrows rained from the heavens.
The instant the first volley removed their restrictions—
Everyone immediately unleashed ninjutsu.
"Water Release: Water Wall Formation!!"
Massive torrents of water erupted outward, rapidly forming towering walls around the group.
The flaming arrows continuously slammed into the water barrier, generating immense steam and white mist that gradually engulfed the desert.
Unfortunately for them—
The mist could not block Arin's vision.
He slowly raised one arm.
A fireball rapidly condensed in his palm and expanded larger and larger.
Violent wind currents formed inside the flames, increasing its size even further.
It resembled a blue-black miniature sun.
"Wind-Fire Release: Dark Gaia Energy Cannon!!"
"Let's see if you can survive THIS!!"
The miniature sun descended from the sky and smashed heavily into the water wall.
This time, the Water Wall Formation could no longer hold.
The barrier shattered completely beneath the miniature sun.
BOOM!!!
The blue-black sun exploded instantly.
Blinding white light erupted from within, swallowing everything nearby.
Experience +11678 / +11175 / +11547 / +10587 / +10487...
Large amounts of experience notifications flooded before Arin's eyes.
However—
None reached fifty thousand experience points.
That amount belonged to elite jonin-level opponents.
And every one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen qualified as elite jonin.
Arin looked toward the opposite side of the mist.
As expected—
The Seven Ninja Swordsmen had regrouped together.
"Hey, hey… this is ridiculous. There's no way we can fight this monster."
Munashi Jinpachi stared upward through the mist toward Arin's silhouette.
"He's already troublesome enough," Juzo Biwa gritted his teeth, "and now he can fly while using something similar to Hydrification."
"Forget fighting him."
"We can't even touch him."
Flight itself was already an overwhelming advantage.
Not to mention—
Even successfully hitting him accomplished absolutely nothing.
"Your reactions were pretty fast."
Arin praised them lightly before raising his hand.
Nothing appeared in his palm.
Yet he still made a throwing motion downward.
"Let's see how you defend against this one."
In reality—
An invisible Gaia Energy Cannon had already been thrown downward.
This was the effect of Wind Release: Invisible Air Barrier.
Feeling intense heat approaching, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen immediately looked upward.
The dense mist warped and formed into a massive hemispherical shape.
BOOM!!!
Only after the explosion erupted did the true heat and destructive force burst outward.
Everything was instantly consumed.
Experience +50025 / +50011 / +50007...
The experience notifications for seven elite jonin continuously refreshed before him.
At the same time, giant words appeared across the sky:
"Victor: Hyuga Arin!"
…
The barrier disappeared.
Arin stood quietly in place while looking into the distance.
"So there really were only this many people."
He glanced toward his experience pool.
[Experience Pool: 858188]
Combined with today's harvest, the monsters he farmed casually over time, and his previous savings—
He was only about one hundred fifty thousand away from reaching one million experience.
"Feels like Black Zetsu and the others seriously misjudged my strength."
Arin rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
The Seven Ninja Swordsmen were not weak.
Elite jonin could never truly be considered weak.
The problem was that they did not realize his strength had increased considerably again after mastering Wind Release.
And now—
He genuinely possessed true Kage-level combat power.
"Now then…"
"Let's see what I got this time."
Seven Ninja Blades:
[Blunt Blade: Kabutowari]×2
[Lightning Blade: Kiba]×2
[Great Blade: Samehada]×2
[Broken Blade: Executioner's Blade]×2
[Explosion Blade: Shibuki]×2
[Twin Blades: Hiramekarei]×2
[Long Blade: Nuibari]×2
The first set belonged to Kirigakure.
They could likely summon those back eventually.
Taking them permanently would be difficult.
The second set belonged to player equipment drops.
"I remember these seven can be fused into a top-tier weapon."
Arin silently took out the furnace while staring at the seven blades.
These seven weapons could be combined into one of the Naruto server's top Six Paths-tier weapons.
✨ Bonus Chapter Goals ✨
10 Reviews = 1 Bonus Chapter
100 Power Stones = 1 Bonus Chapter
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