Chapter 212 The Final Battle
"I knew you wouldn't be so honest. After all, the reputation of the Iwagakure ninja isn't even good enough to qualify for a deposit-free exchange in an underground money exchange." Sasuke said calmly, looking at the gathering mud.
"That's true, but what are you going to do now, young man?" Kurotsuchi didn't care about Sasuke's words, instead smiling as she looked at Sasuke, who was now only able to stand on a small piece of ground. "Your speed is fast, but in this environment, you can only be slaughtered."
"Hehe, Hokage, it seems that my granddaughter has won this battle." In the VIP room, Onoki said with a smile.
"That's hard to say, Tsuchikage." Uchiha Touka smiled as he looked at the calm Sasuke on the screen. Knowing his disciple as he did, Sasuke knew from the beginning that Kurotsuchi had bad intentions, so since he dared to jump into this trap, he must have been prepared.
"Hmph, two despicable bastards, do you really want to settle this?" A sneered from the side. In this Chunin Exams, the ninjas of Kumogakure were arguably the most disgraceful among the major ninja villages. Leaving aside their display of infighting in front of the leaders of various ninja powers, even in a clash of high-level combat, their village's strongest ninja of this generation, Omoi, was completely defeated by Uchiha Sasuke. What's even more unacceptable is that Sasuke defeated them using Kumogakure's prized Lightning Release and swordsmanship. At that moment
, Kurotsuchi released a signal flare, and the Iwagakure team, who had been lying in ambush, emerged from the dense forest, unleashing a large-scale Earth Release ninjutsu aimed directly at Sasuke.
"Bye-bye, Uchiha, little brother?" Kurotsuchi waved to Sasuke with a wicked grin.
At this moment, Sasuke, whose feet were stuck to the cement of the Lava Release technique, smiled. Facing the whistling Earth Dragon Bullet, he twisted his body and threw the long sword behind him, then disappeared into a cloud of smoke with a bang.
"What? A Shadow Clone?" After the huge Earth Dragon Bullet landed in empty air, Kurotsuchi looked at everything that had happened in disbelief. So the one who had been fighting so fiercely with the genius genin from Kumogakure was just a shadow clone?
Boom!
A colorful flare exploded in the air, and Sasuke's real body appeared together with Neji and Naruto who had arrived from the other side. They caught the ninja sword thrown by their shadow clone. The hidden Konoha genin team also appeared, coming behind Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji.
"As expected, you never intended to cooperate with us properly from the start." Seeing this, Kurotsuchi took a deep breath and said.
"Likewise," Sasuke replied.
"Looks like we'll have to settle this with our skills." As Kurotsuchi spoke, a layer of black rock appeared on her hands. "
Belonging to Iwagakure, the Will of Stone is with us!"
Sasuke drew his sword and pointed it at the enemy formation, "The Will of Fire will never be extinguished!" As
their words fell, everyone in the arena shouted and charged towards the enemy lines.
"Watch out! Something's moving underground!" Hinata shouted.
As soon as Hinata finished speaking, a wave of earth suddenly rose from the ground, and Kurotsuchi leaped high into the air, slamming her black rock fist into the ground.
Behind her, the Iwagakure ninja simultaneously formed hand seals, and eighteen rock pillars burst from the ground, forming a ferocious wolf head totem in the air.
"Earth Release: Rock Iron Wolf Fang Formation!"
"Scatter!" Lightning flashed around Sasuke, a thousand birds cried out, and viscous purple lightning clung to the longsword in his hand, cleaving through the first wave of rock spikes with a single strike.
"Neji! Hinata!" Shikamaru shouted from among the Konoha members who were forced to scatter by the rock spikes bursting from the ground.
Neji and Hinata reunited in the chaotic formation, their feet moving in the Eight Trigrams stance, striking the rock walls with punches and palms. Where their hands landed, the chakra from their Gentle Fist technique created spiderweb-like cracks in the rock walls.
"Konosuke, prepare your Sarutobi clan's combined Fire Release techniques. Goro, prepare your Water Release ninjutsu as well!" Shikamaru's voice rang in everyone's ears through Ino's secret technique.
"Naruto, the most troublesome one is yours. Be careful not to get stuck in his Molten Lime Release!"
"Understood!" A golden figure charged out from the formation, heading straight for Kurotsuchi.
"Kurotsuchi, your opponent is me!" Naruto's rapidly moving body was constantly being slashed by sharp wind-style chakra, but the result was unimaginable speed.
Kurotsuchi had barely reacted when a fist the size of a sandbag was already upon her.
"So fast?" Kurotsuchi gritted her teeth and raised her arms to block, black rocks blocking Naruto's fist.
Boom!
Both were thrown back by the impact of the collision. After regaining her balance, Kurotsuchi shook her slightly sore arms; the solidified rock attached to her arms had shattered completely from the previous attack.
However, Naruto's next attack arrived at that moment.
Suddenly, the ground in front of Kurotsuchi turned into mud. From within the mud, a hand reached out, attempting to grab Naruto's ankle. However, as the hand approached Naruto's body, sharp wind-style chakra left several fine cuts on his palm. This was already the result of the attacker withdrawing his hand extremely quickly; if it had delayed even a moment longer, the man's hand would probably have been finely sliced into minced meat by the wind-style chakra.
"Don't worry about me! Go support with the combination ninjutsu!" Kurotsuchi said to her companions who wanted to come to her aid, while forming hand seals to summon an earthen wall in front of her.
The makeshift earthen wall in front of them didn't last long before Naruto shattered it. Kurotsuchi, watching the raging wind-style chakra surrounding the blond-haired man, couldn't help but curse under her breath, "Does anyone in this ninja world actually have wind-style ninjutsu? What kind of beast is Deidara's little brother?!"
Both sides were preparing their combined ninjutsu, but clearly, neither Iwagakure nor Konoha wanted to see the other's combined ninjutsu successfully unleash. The assault teams and the remaining defensive squads clashed in close combat beside their respective artillery ninja.
"Third Gate - Gate of Life Open! Reverse Lotus!" Lee, his body radiating green steam, charged into the enemy ranks. Iwagakure's defensive squad immediately surrounded him, intending to teach this reckless guy a lesson.
A giant rock burst from the ground, forming a cage that enveloped Lee. Trapped within, Lee didn't hesitate, punching the wall in front of him.
No matter the situation, he had his iron fists to break through.
However, before Lee's fist could even land on the rock wall, the ground beneath his feet suddenly turned into mud, and Lee instantly lost his balance.
From the mud beneath his feet, a deadly aura emerged; several hands wielding kunai reached out from beside him, aiming for his vitals.
At this critical moment, a swarm of insects, blotting out the sky, surged towards the rock cage, gnawing a small hole in the rock wall that bound Lee. From behind, a golden chain entered through the opening created by the insects, binding the already wounded Lee and dragging him out of the encirclement.
"Don't be so reckless!" Karin complained as she manipulated the chains of the Adamantine Sealing Chains to throw Lee to Sakura.
Sakura caught Lee, and green light emanated from her palm as she immediately began healing his injuries.
Such conspicuous behavior naturally attracted the attention of Iwagakure. After all, for a medical ninja to heal her teammates in the midst of enemy lines was rather disrespectful. Legend had it that only Tsunade, the legendary healer of the ninja world, possessed the skill to do such a thing. Did this woman really think she was Tsunade?
One of the Iwagakure members roared and charged at Sakura, his kunai aimed straight for her back.
"Shut up!" Sakura turned and punched the attacker's head into the ground. The attacker's summoning bracelet instantly activated, scattering supplies everywhere.
Damn it, this woman really does seem to resemble the legendary Tsunade!
The remaining Iwagakure members were alarmed, but at that moment, Neji, wielding a long staff, descended from the sky, filling the gap behind Sakura.
Sarutobi Kounosuke and two other clansmen were rapidly forming complex hand seals, while a squad led by a genin named Yamagami Goro was preparing a combination water-style ninjutsu.
At this moment, two Iwagakure ninja emerged from underground, intending to interrupt the process. However, as soon as they appeared, two dark shadows clung to their bodies like leeches.
"Partial Expansion Technique!" Two enormous hands descended from the sky, striking the attackers who were controlled by the Shadow Binding Technique from the left and right.
Seeing this, the other Iwagakure ninja no longer hid and could only emerge from the ground to try to help their bound teammates escape danger. However, when they all appeared, many strange runes suddenly appeared under their feet, and in no time, their chakra was completely out of their control.
"Miss Kurotsuchi! We can't hold on much longer!" At this moment, the Iwagakure ninja guarding the one who was charging up a combination of ninjutsu was finally unable to hold back after being pushed back by the Konoha assault team. They shouted to Kurotsuchi.
"Just release it!" Kurotsuchi was completely overwhelmed by Naruto's wave after wave of attacks.
"But, if we release it now, the power..."
"I said, just release it!" Kurotsuchi said through gritted teeth after struggling to withstand Naruto's barrage of attacks.
"Yes! Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet Technique!" Upon receiving the order, the artillery team released their ninjutsu, which was less than half-charged. A several-meter-high earth dragon rose into the air, spewing a massive chakra ball towards the Konoha ninja's gathering place.
"Konosuke!" Shikamaru, seeing this, turned to look at Sarutobi Konosuke beside him.
"Fire Release: Great Fire Dragon Technique!"
The three Sarutobi clan ninja, their chakra linked together, simultaneously opened their mouths, spewing out blazing flames. The flames surged and converged, forming a gigantic fire dragon that roared towards the enemy's Earth Dragon Bullet.
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