Chapter 211 Cloud Village Eliminated
"Super Giant Rasengan!"
With Naruto's roar, the Cloud Village members, who were already overwhelmed by the series of exploding tags, suddenly felt a massive chakra surge above their heads. Looking up, they saw a blond-haired figure wielding a gigantic Rasengan slamming down on each of them through the thick smoke.
The next instant, spatial fluctuations appeared on their summoning bracelets. After the Rasengan dispersed the smoke and dust from the explosions, only one of the nine Cloud Village members remained standing.
He survived not because of his strength, but because he had previously collected a scroll containing a Jonin-level defensive ninjutsu. When attacked, it could be activated to create a solid earthen wall.
However, this defense, which even the caster himself struggled to break, shattered under the Rasengan's attack.
"This is... Rasengan? You must be kidding me." The only remaining Cloud Village ninja gripped his sword, his hands trembling slightly. This Rasengan was completely different from the evil Yellow Flash's ninjutsu from the Cloud Village's stories.
Indeed, the Rasengan was originally developed by Minato Namikaze to break through the defenses of ninjas that kunai couldn't kill. Even the research direction after the Fourth Hokage never strayed from this original intention. But after Naruto passed it on, it completely went astray. In Naruto's mind, bigger equals stronger. So, the Rasengan, an instant assassination ninjutsu, had become a powerful move in his hands. But this guy's chakra reserves were so vast that he could use a powerful move like a basic attack.
"Is there only one left?" Naruto looked up at his enemy, stomped the ground forcefully, and his entire figure burst towards the opponent, simultaneously throwing a powerful punch.
"How could such an attack, full of openings, possibly hit me!" The remaining Cloud Village ninja gritted his teeth, drew his sword, and met the charging Naruto.
However, in the instant the two clashed, the Cloud Village ninja realized that while Naruto's attacks were indeed full of flaws in his eyes, Naruto's speed was simply too fast—so fast that he couldn't find any openings in his opponent's seemingly flawed defenses.
Boom! The next instant, the Cloud Village ninja was struck by a heavy punch to the face, but instinctively, he swung his sword, slashing at Naruto's waist. The feeling of flesh being cut filled the Cloud Village ninja with a surge of joy, ignoring the pain on his face.
[Are Konoha's genin really this bad at taijutsu?]
However, before he could rejoice for long, Naruto's next roundhouse kick, accompanied by a powerful gust of wind, struck his side. Following the right roundhouse kick was a left front kick, and then came Naruto's wave-like attacks.
"This is impossible! Does this injury have absolutely no effect on him? And… this chakra fluctuation… is this a Wind Release taijutsu?"
The Cloud Village genin, struggling to defend himself, was furious. In the brief lull between his attacks, he could vaguely see through the tear in Naruto's clothes that the skin beneath was smooth and clean. Yet, the sensation from the blade clearly told him that it had sliced through flesh.
"He actually dares to challenge Naruto in taijutsu?" Choji, hidden in the shadows, twitched slightly, admiring the Cloud Village genin's audacity.
Naruto's fighting style was actually quite illogical. To anyone with even a little taijutsu training, Naruto's attacks and defenses were riddled with flaws. However, in the face of absolute power, seeing flaws and exploiting them are two completely different things.
In Konoha right now, among ninjas below the Kage level, aside from Sasuke and Neji with his ninja tools, no one can keep up with Naruto's speed. And even if they could, their abnormal regenerative abilities would make it difficult to inflict any effective damage. After all, the damage you do to him by stabbing him might not even be as great as the damage he does to himself with his own Wind Release ninjutsu.
"Hah!" With a roar, Naruto kicked the enemy far away. In the direction the enemy was sent flying, two shadow clones had already prepared Rasengan and were waiting for a long time.
As the last enemy was escorted out of the examination hall, Naruto turned to look in the direction where Shikamaru was hiding, and said in the channel, "Two minutes and fifty-seven seconds, not more than three minutes, right?"
"Shino, Kiba, replenish the explosive tags in the traps. Naruto, you go and wait for Hinata." Shikamaru, who was pondering the battle situation, didn't have time to joke with Naruto. He calmly issued orders, while being extremely puzzled, "If they were just the vanguard, the time just now was more than enough for the enemy's follow-up teams to support them. Does Kumogakure really only have three squads left?"
"The others are over here," Neji's voice sounded in the channel at this moment, "There are four squads here. They seem to have found the intersection between our defenses and Iwagakure's, and they plan to break out from here."
"Why would they do this? If they combine their forces, the current defensive configuration will be under great pressure with the strength of seven squads." Shikamaru was extremely puzzled.
"It must be infighting. That Kumogakure squad just now was all white, right?" Sasuke said with a smile at this moment.
"This...it can't be that bad," Shikamaru said incredulously. "I only heard that the racial conflicts within Kumogakure were a bit serious, but has it really gotten this bad?"
"This is nothing. Reality doesn't care about logic," Sasuke said with a smile.
"In that case, you guys wait for the Iwagakure people to make their move," Shikamaru said.
"Lava Release: Lime Condensation Technique!" As soon as Shikamaru finished speaking, Kurotsuchi, who was hidden at the edge of the circle, made her move first. A large amount of lime sprayed from her mouth and landed at the feet of the four Kumogakure teams led by Omoi.
"It's a bloodline limit ninja! Everyone, scatter!" Omoi shouted, and then quickly formed hand seals.
"Cloud Flow: Crescent Moon Slash!" Omoi drew his long sword from his back and unleashed three chakra-infused sword energies in succession. The sword energies instantly cleaved through the water-style ninjutsu that followed the lime, preventing Kurotsuchi's control combination technique from succeeding. However, the other two teams he brought were hit because they couldn't dodge in time.
The sticky cement immobilized those affected, rendering them completely immobile. The next instant, the signature combination ninjutsu of Iwagakure, Earth Dragon Bullet, roared in, sending those controlled by the Lime Condensation Technique out of the arena.
"Uchiha, are you just going to watch like this?" At this moment, Kurotsuchi appeared on a tree not far from where Sasuke was hiding and spoke loudly to him.
"I'll handle the strongest one. You guys deal with the rest yourselves, okay?" Sasuke said with a smile.
"Alright, then we'll take a slight loss." Kurotsuchi nodded. "Lava Release: Lime Condensation Technique!"
After speaking, Kurotsuchi used the Lime Condensation Technique to draw a large circle twenty meters in diameter around Omoi, then followed up with an Earth Release attack.
"Hehe, the arena is all set up for you. This time he can't escape like last time. Pretty thoughtful of me, right?"
"Thanks a lot then." Sasuke raised an eyebrow, glanced at the thick layer of sticky cement outside the twenty-meter diameter circle, smiled meaningfully, then drew his sword and jumped into the battle.
"We meet again." Sasuke twirled his sword and spoke slowly to Omoi.
"Iwagakure isn't a village that keeps its word. Aren't you afraid they'll discard you after you've served your purpose?" Omoi stood with his sword drawn, looking at Sasuke.
"That's none of your concern, because I'll be sending you away soon." Sasuke chuckled. "You've acquired another sword? Then let me see the swordsmanship of Kumogakure."
"I might not be your match in Lightning Release ninjutsu, but when it comes to swordsmanship, as Killer Bee's disciple, I won't lose to you."
The next instant, two bolts of lightning flashed, followed by the soft clang of metal clashing.
In the area enclosed by limestone, two bolts of lightning, one blue and one purple, collided repeatedly, the area crackling with electric light.
"Such speed!" Omoi was forced to retreat repeatedly by Sasuke's fierce attacks. After several rounds, he had to admit that Sasuke's speed was still superior to his. "Then, try this move!"
Omoi suddenly changed the rhythm of his attack, stepping forward on lightning, but his broadsword remained in a charged pose.
Sasuke realized at this moment that he couldn't predict where Omoi's next strike would be in this posture. Due to some special reasons, he couldn't currently adopt a strategy of trading blows, so he could only temporarily avoid the attack.
"My Style: Reverse Mist Slash!" Omoi had been waiting for this moment, and his broadsword slashed at Sasuke, who had taken a half-step back, at an incredible angle.
"Lightning Flash!" Although Omoi's sword was fast, Sasuke's three-tomoe Sharingan still caught a glimpse of that cold light at the last moment.
Sasuke's left hand flicked, his body leaned back at an incredible angle, and then he retreated rapidly.
After dodging the attack, Sasuke twisted his body to regain his balance, transforming into lightning once more as he slashed at Omoi.
Only then did Omoi finally see the extremely thin steel wire connected to Sasuke's waist, reflecting the sunlight.
"A steel wire? When?" Omoi, before triggering the summoning jutsu on his bracelet after being cleaved in the chest and abdomen by Sasuke's attack, still didn't understand how Sasuke had done it.
"Uchiha-style shurikenjutsu, kid." After seeing Omoi off, Sasuke sheathed his sword. By then, Kurotsuchi had led her team to eliminate the remaining Cloud Village members.
"Miss Kurotsuchi, you can take down the arena now," Sasuke said loudly.
"Is that so? But I don't think it's necessary." Kurotsuchi chuckled as she approached Sasuke. "Young man, your swordsmanship is strong, and your speed is fast. You might cause us quite a bit of trouble later."
With that, Kurotsuchi formed hand seals, and the viscous cement surrounding Sasuke began to converge towards the center at an extremely fast speed.
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