Chapter 117: Arrogant Asura
“Wood Release: Thorn Killing Technique!” At the other end of the battlefield, Yamato rapidly formed hand seals with both hands, and thick wooden spikes suddenly burst from the ground, wrapping toward the White Tiger, who was fiercely battling Kakashi, like venomous snakes.
However, just as his Wood Release wrapped around one of the White Tiger’s legs, the Azure Dragon pounced over, forcing Yamato to hurriedly retreat.
During the retreat, the Golden Snake’s tail whipped over, striking Yamato hard.
“Substitution Jutsu!”
In the instant he was hit, Yamato turned into a wooden log doll.
The struck log instantly exploded into splinters, and Yamato’s real body had already flashed to Kakashi’s side, sweat beading on his forehead: “Captain! These guys are really tough!”
Yamato looked at the several summoned beasts on the battlefield, panting heavily.
Looking around, each of these summoned beasts possessed the strength of an elite jonin, and their combined combat power in pairs far exceeded that of ordinary elite jonin.
In just a few short minutes of combat, several Hyuga ninjas and Anbu ninjas who came as support had already fallen.
The jonin support troops brought by Hokage-sama were also restricted in large-scale ninjutsu during hasty combat, and even Choza Akimichi was knocked flying by one of the opponent’s summoned beasts.
These summoned beasts summoned by Shura, in their individual domains, were probably comparable to Tails already.
“Five Elements: Great Combined Bullet Technique!”
At this moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi and his shadow clones together unleashed five elements ninjutsu—fire, wind, lightning, earth, water—the five-colored ninjutsu techniques roared like a flood toward the Shinigami and Celestial Maiden in mid-air.
The Shinigami and Celestial Maiden had no corresponding ninjutsu to hard-counter this move and could only retreat in haste.
The five-attribute ninjutsu attacks pursued the Shinigami and Celestial Maiden, crashing onto the purple barrier, where the massive explosions and shockwaves only rippled across the barrier.
“This kind of barrier is unheard of!” Shikaku Nara’s brows furrowed slightly, his gaze fixed intently on the attacked purple barrier.
He discovered that the opponent’s barrier was very similar to the ‘Four Violet Flames Formation’ and ‘Four Violet Flames Formation’.
But only two humanoid summons were maintaining this barrier.
Although Enma could also use ninjutsu, and the summoned beasts from the Three Great Sage Regions could use ninjutsu and Sage Jutsu.
The ‘Four Violet Flames Formation’ didn’t have such high requirements for the caster—Orochimaru’s Sound Ninja Four could perform it, though with limited power.
The ‘Four Violet Flames Formation’ had higher requirements for the caster, needing four top ninjas with chakra amounts at Kage level to perform it simultaneously, and the same Four Violet Flames Formation had great power, even able to bind Tails.
During the Fourth Great Ninja War, the Four Violet Flames Formation performed jointly by four Hokage could even briefly bind the Ten-Tails.
“Ninja Art: Mind Body Switch Technique!” Inoichi Yamanaka formed a special seal with both hands, thumbs and index fingers overlapping into a frame, framing Shura within it.
This was the Yamanaka Clan’s secret technique, invading the enemy’s brain with one’s own mental power to control the opponent’s body for a short time.
Seeing that Shura’s mysterious barrier couldn’t be broken through, Inoichi Yamanaka could only use this ninjutsu to attack.
In an instant, Inoichi Yamanaka’s spirit invaded Shura’s brain.
But before Inoichi Yamanaka could gain control of the body, he felt his spirit being pulled into an endless abyss!
A pungent smell of blood and gunpowder smoke rushed into his brain from his nostrils, startling him awake.
Opening his eyes, what entered his vision was a battlefield of mountains of corpses and seas of blood!
A battlefield far more brutal than any campaign he had experienced during the Third Great Ninja War!
Ninja corpses wearing headbands from various ninja villages lay scattered across the battlefield, the residual moonlight blood-red, corpses piled into mountains.
At the end of his line of sight, atop a mountain of countless piled corpses, a spiky-haired boy leaned against a Nine-Tails Fox Demon, like a king overlooking his domain.
He merely slightly raised his lowered eyes, and Inoichi Yamanaka’s spirit was shaken out of that world!
Cough cough—
Returning to reality, Inoichi Yamanaka spat out blood, his body collapsing to the ground, his eyes vacant and unfocused.
“Inoichi!” Shikaku hurriedly supported Inoichi, having never seen his friend in such a wretched state.
Inside the barrier.
Shura casually toyed with a glass tube, inside which a pair of Byakugan floated in pale green liquid.
Although they were ordinary Byakugan with low purity, they were still from the main family without the Caged Bird restriction, qualifying them as test subjects.
“I’ve got the goods, and I’ve had my fun,” Shura said in a light tone, snapping his fingers: “So, until we meet again.”
Outside the house, the Black Tortoise, who was using its body to ram Choza Akimichi and wrestle with him, suddenly rippled across its body, then its entire form abruptly phased!
Choza Akimichi looked up in confusion, and the Vermilion Bird circling in the air also rippled before vanishing into the night sky.
Inside the house, the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Golden Snake battling Kakashi, Yamato, and others also dissipated like bubbles with a ripple.
In the air, after dodging Hiruzen Sarutobi’s combined ninjutsu attack, the Shinigami and Celestial Maiden floated, their fox masks seemingly mocking the incompetence of Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others, gradually turning transparent under the shocked gazes of the Konoha ninjas.
“What?!” Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others were greatly shocked by the way these summoned beasts disappeared.
You know, whether ninja cats, ninja hounds, the Enma clan, or the summoned beasts from the Three Great Sage Regions, they all disappeared in a puff of smoke, just as they had arrived.
Such a summoning jutsu had exceeded their cognition.
Watching the summoned beasts disappear one by one, Hiashi Hyuga clenched his fists, knuckles turning white, feeling an unprecedented sense of humiliation.
As one of Konoha’s two great ninja clans, the Hyuga Clan had been invaded by the enemy right to their doorstep, in front of their clan head, and four pairs of main family Byakugan had been taken!
And the Hyuga Clan could only watch helplessly as the enemy departed so leisurely—what humiliation!
“You won’t escape!” Seeing Shura about to leave, treating Konoha like a public toilet to come and go as he pleased again, Hiruzen Sarutobi shouted loudly, and four shadow clones quickly leaped out of the house.
These four shadow clones took positions at the four corners of the Hyuga Clan’s assembly hall, rapidly forming hand seals.
Ten-Shen-Si-Mao-Yin!
“Four Violet Flames Formation!”
A purple fire curtain shot into the sky, enveloping the entire building housing the assembly hall.
“Hmph! See how you escape now!” Hiruzen Sarutobi shouted: “Enma! Transformation: Adamantine Staff!”
Enma instantly transformed into a thick staff, gripped in Hiruzen Sarutobi’s hand.
Now, as long as they found a way to break Shura’s barrier and attack him together, they could—
Before Hiruzen Sarutobi could make tactical arrangements, Shura and those two humanoid summoned beasts suddenly vanished, and even the purple unknown barrier jutsu inside disappeared into thin air.
Only the night wind blew in through the large hole smashed by the summoned beasts earlier, rustling the empty eaves.
“What?!” Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shikaku Nara, and the other Konoha ninjas’ pupils contracted slightly.
Shura had escaped right under their noses?
“This is? Space-Time Ninjutsu?” The knowledgeable Shikaku Nara immediately stepped forward to investigate, his voice hoarse.
Hearing that Shura might have used space-time ninjutsu, Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others finally understood why Konoha’s village protection barrier was useless against Shura.
If that was the case, it really couldn’t be blamed on the Barrier Division for neglecting their duties.
“Immediately notify the Barrier Division to come investigate!” Confirming the enemy had left, Hiruzen Sarutobi planted the Adamantine Staff on the ground, gritting his teeth and ordering.
“Yes!”
