"Let's see how you can use your power now!"
Kisame watched as the massive Water ball completely enveloped him and Li Chuan, then quickly swam a circle in the water, a look of triumph on his face.
This large Water ball had no offensive power and required a large amount of Chakra to form.
However, once formed, it could significantly enhance him while weakening his enemy.
Firstly, his shark form's speed in Water would become extremely fast, while his opponent, even with strong Taijutsu, would find it difficult to exert power without leverage in the Water.
Secondly, in this form, he could breathe freely underwater, while his opponent would need to hold his breath, which also greatly affected combat.
Finally, after fusing with Samehada, his Chakra reserves greatly increased, his physical strength greatly increased, his Ninjutsu power greatly increased, his sensory abilities greatly increased, and he could also absorb his enemy's Chakra by touching their body.
Therefore, if an enemy only had strong Taijutsu, it would be absolutely impossible for them to defeat him.
"Summoning Ninjutsu: Thousand Feeding Sharks!"
To be safe, he clapped his hands together, using a Summoning Jutsu to summon over a thousand physical sharks to attack Li Chuan with him.
"Creating such a large Water ball will definitely be noticed by the rescue Ninja from the Village. It seems I can't play around anymore."
Inside the Water ball, Li Chuan looked at Kisame, who was charging at him accompanied by a thousand sharks, and instantly disappeared from his original spot using Apparition.
"Where is he?"
Kisame, with a cruel expression, saw Li Chuan disappear right before his eyes. He stopped abruptly and immediately began to use his sensory abilities to detect him.
"Impossible!"
The next second, he sensed the location of Li Chuan's Chakra, but what followed was a look of utter disbelief.
Because that location was right behind him, less than half a meter away.
"Goodbye!"
Li Chuan, who appeared behind Kisame, instantly opened all Eight Gates, raised his right hand, and lightly tapped Kisame's back.
"Boom!"
Kisame felt as if he had been struck by a meteor. He was immediately sent flying out of the Water ball, slamming hard into the muddy ground below, his bones shattered, and he fainted like a broken rag doll.
If it weren't for Samehada inside Kisame's body desperately transmitting its Chakra to Kisame to sustain his life, Kisame would have been declared dead from that single blow.
In fact, Li Chuan intentionally held back. If he truly wanted to kill Kisame, he would have released his flying swords from the start, and Kisame wouldn't even have had a chance to fuse with Samehada before his head was sliced off.
With Kisame unconscious, the massive Water ball sustained by his Chakra naturally disappeared, and the summoned sharks were also returned.
Li Chuan also immediately deactivated the Eight Gates mode.
"Kisame actually lost!"
Itachi, observing from a distance, saw Kisame severely injured and unconscious, and his expression changed again.
Kisame's strength was among the best in the entire Akatsuki Organization, yet today he was defeated by an unknown young Ninja.
The key was that it wasn't a narrow victory after a back-and-forth struggle, but an overwhelming display of power from beginning to end, which was terrifying.
"Troublesome."
Seeing Li Chuan appear not far from him again using a space-time Ninjutsu, Itachi inwardly cried out that something was wrong.
He didn't want to harm the Konoha Ninja in front of him, but the opponent's strength was no longer something he could easily handle. If he didn't go all out next, he might also follow in Kisame's footsteps.
"Don't be nervous, I think we can talk first, because I know you are not a true Konoha rogue Ninja."
Li Chuan saw Itachi's Three-Tomoe quickly spinning, about to transform into the Mangekyo, and spoke with a smile.
Upon hearing Li Chuan's words, Itachi's pupils suddenly constricted, and his Sharingan temporarily reverted to the Three-Tomoe:
"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about. If you don't want to fight, then I'm going to take my companion and leave."
Only four people in the entire Konoha knew of his spy identity: the Third Hokage, Danzo, Homura Mitokado, and Utatane Koharu. Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't tell anyone else about his identity.
So he couldn't admit his identity based on a single sentence from Li Chuan.
Li Chuan also knew that Itachi wouldn't admit it so easily, so he directly recounted everything that happened back then:
"The Uchiha Clan massacre back then wasn't actually because of you, but because they wanted to stage a rebellion. You, for the peace of the entire Konoha Village and Sasuke's safety, teamed up with a You-Know-Who calling himself Uchiha Madara to kill the other clan members.
Afterward, you made a deal with the Third Hokage to allow Sasuke to grow up safely in Konoha and re-establish the Uchiha Clan, while you joined that You-Know-Who's Akatsuki Organization as a rogue Ninja to act as an undercover agent and gather intelligence for Konoha.
Am I correct?"
Regarding Itachi, how should I put it, Li Chuan didn't dislike him, but he also didn't approve of his actions back then.
Perhaps he was more selfish. If he were in Itachi's position back then, he would never have compromised with the Konoha higher-ups.
Although if a rebellion truly broke out, the Uchiha Clan would certainly lose, Konoha would also be severely weakened and eventually be annexed by other Ninja Villages.
By threatening rebellion, the Konoha higher-ups might not truly dare to act.
Even if it came down to a fight to the death, if they couldn't win, they could still escape Konoha with some elites and family members to become rogue Ninja.
Afterward, with Konoha's strength greatly diminished and facing attacks from other Ninja Villages, they wouldn't have the energy to pursue them.
It was better than ending up only saving Sasuke, right?
One could only say that the Ninja Academy established by Konoha was too successful in brainwashing the new generation of Ninja.
And Itachi, or rather, the entire Uchiha Clan, were inherently people with extreme personalities, either extremely good or extremely bad.
"Who exactly are you?"
Itachi was momentarily stunned when he heard Li Chuan reveal all the truths from back then.
If the other party had only revealed a few details, it might have been intelligence leaked by the You-Know-Who calling himself Uchiha Madara, but the other party revealed everything, including his agreement with the Third Hokage.
"Me? A Prince of the Land of Fire, the Fourth disciple newly taken in by the Third Hokage of Konoha. You can call me Enkawa. You can easily find out my identity once you go back.
However, the truth about the Uchiha Clan massacre back then wasn't told to me by the Third Hokage."
Li Chuan raised his hand and gave a brief self-introduction.
After a few seconds of silence, Itachi looked at Li Chuan and said seriously:
"What do you want to do now?"
"I want to make a deal with you, a deal that will be very beneficial to both of us."
Li Chuan stopped wasting words and directly stated his purpose:
"I want one of your Mangekyo Sharingan."
"Are you joking with me?"
Upon hearing Li Chuan's words, both of Itachi's eyes immediately transformed into the Mangekyo form.
Regardless of whether Li Chuan's identity was real or not, even if it were true, let alone Li Chuan being the Third Hokage's disciple or a Prince of the Land of Fire, even if Li Chuan were the Third Hokage himself and the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, he would never agree to such a request.
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