Chapter 56: Nine-faced Beast Vs Grass Ninja Village
The fierce battle lasted only a few short minutes, but Kusanagi Village’s ninjas suffered heavy casualties.
The Nine-Faced Beast, with overwhelming strength, cleared out a large area around the hospital of Kusanagi Village ninjas.
Kusanagi Village Anbu Ninjas, led by Captain Ryusei, desperately guarded their village leader Kusanagi Koji, unleashing various ninjutsu that intertwined into a net, barely blocking the combined assault of the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird.
Meanwhile, the brothers Mui and Mujo relied on their family’s Fire Release Secret Technique, fighting while retreating.
“Fire Style: Ghost Lantern!” Mujo dodged the Azure Dragon’s pursuit, his body rapidly retreating as his hands quickly formed hand seals.
In an instant, countless fiery red ghost faces appeared around Mujo, emitting shrill wails as they pounced toward the pursuing Azure Dragon!
“Fire Style: Heavenly Prison Fire Sword!” Mui gathered Fire Release chakra in his right hand, solidifying it into a blazing long sword, thrusting it toward the oncoming White Tiger.
The Azure Dragon’s body withstood Mujo’s Ghost Lantern, gathering Lightning Release chakra in its mouth before abruptly firing a lightning orb!
“What!” Mujo’s pupils contracted sharply. This strange summoned beast was not only enormous and tough-skinned, but it could also use Lightning Release Ninjutsu.
On the other side, just as Mui’s Heavenly Prison Fire Sword was about to reach the masked white tiger, the opponent suddenly turned into a flickering shadow.
“Not good!” Mui hurriedly recalled his Heavenly Prison Fire Sword to defend, swinging the fiery sword to the left following his combat instinct.
The Heavenly Prison Fire Sword sliced over the White Tiger’s head, but the White Tiger had already closed in right in front of Mui!
A massive tiger claw slapped toward Mui’s chest.
Pfft!
Mui flew backward like a severed kite, blood tracing an arc in the air.
“Brother!” Mujo’s expression changed drastically. He hurriedly disengaged from the fight with the Azure Dragon and used Body Flicker to reach his injured brother.
At the same time.
The Southern Dipper Immortal and Northern Dipper Immortal cast Binding Jutsu on Kusanagi Village’s leader, Kusanagi Koji, and the Anbu Ninjas around him.
A purple magic array rose from beneath Kusanagi Koji, Ryusei, and the others, directly binding them in place.
Kusanagi Koji felt his entire body stiffen as his chakra became as sluggish as mud.
“Damn it! What is this!” Kusanagi Koji roared in fury while battling the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird, yet he couldn’t break free.
The Black Tortoise’s steel-like body charged again!
Like a hundred-ton king, it solidly crashed into Kusanagi Koji’s body.
Kusanagi Koji was sent flying, then struck mid-air by the Vermilion Bird’s Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique.
The smell of scorched flesh spread.
“Lord Kusanagi!” Kusanagi Village’s Anbu Captain Ryusei was filled with rage, but he could only watch helplessly as his leader was knocked flying and hit by ninjutsu.
Whoosh—
Several wind blades assaulted them, whistling as they arrived. The bound Ryusei and other Anbu Ninjas fell one after another, and the battle line completely collapsed.
Moments later, around Kusanagi Village’s hospital building, corpses littered the ground.
Even their leader Kusanagi Koji and Anbu Captain were uncertain if they lived or died. Without organization or leadership, the other Kusanagi ninjas fled outward in droves.
Soon, around the hospital building, only a portion of Kusanagi ninjas led by the brothers Mui and Mujo remained in difficult resistance.
More Kusanagi ninjas retreated to the outskirts, while commoners in the village panicked and fled for their lives, plunging the entire village into chaos.
“Is that all?” Menma held Uzumaki Kushina in his arms without even lifting a hand—merely the Nine-Faced Beast was on the verge of destroying this small village.
The brothers Mui and Mujo were indeed worthy of being the future two Castle Lords of Ghost Lantern City. Even after their leader Kusanagi Koji, Anbu Captain, and other elite ninjas suffered heavy casualties, they could still organize some ninjas to fight the enemy.
But as Kusanagi Koji, Ryusei, and other Kusanagi ninjas fell or retreated, only the small group they led remained in resistance on site.
After dealing with the others, the Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise, White Tiger, and Golden Snake—the five Nine-Faced Beasts—began closing in to surround the brothers Mui and Mujo.
“Brother! Use that move!” Mujo saw the dire situation and gritted his teeth in a low shout, preparing to use the Binding Jutsu he had yet to fully master.
“Cough… Let me do it!” Mui’s injuries were severe; his chest bore three deep gashes from the White Tiger’s claw, exposing bone and bleeding profusely.
After coughing up blood, he struggled to stand but staggered and fell.
“Brother!” Mujo hesitated no longer. His right hand formed hand seals, beginning to gather Fire Release chakra.
As his right palm was fully enveloped in Fire Release chakra, a scorching surge of chakra erupted from it. The chakra writhed and danced in the air, transforming into five fiery red chains that flew toward the five Nine-Faced Beasts ahead.
“Fire Style: Great Fire Heavenly Prison!” Mujo felt his chakra draining rapidly but endured his body’s discomfort to unleash this Binding Jutsu mastered by only a few in the ‘Mu’ clan!
It was said that Great Fire Heavenly Prison was powerful enough to bind Tails!
And in the Ghost Lantern City theater version, Naruto and others suppressed the monster ‘Satori’ that emerged from the Bliss Box.
Ghost Lantern City’s Castle Lord Mui used Great Fire Heavenly Prison to bind it, coordinating with Naruto’s Wind Release: Rasenshuriken to slay it.
This showed its power.
The five flame-like chakra chains bound the Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise, White Tiger, and Golden Snake. Fiery red chain marks appeared on the five Nine-Faced Beasts’ bodies, restricting their movements.
“Great!”
“As expected of Lord Mujo!”
The other Kusanagi ninjas cheered upon seeing the terrifying enemies bound, preparing to counterattack.
But the next moment.
The five bound Nine-Faced Beasts’ bodies rippled like lake waves, vanishing in an instant.
“What!” Mujo sensed the Great Fire Heavenly Prison’s chakra disappear, utterly shocked.
When he focused on the battlefield center, he realized the mysterious masked man from before had also vanished.
“When!” Mujo broke out in cold sweat, having completely failed to notice when the enemy disappeared.
With his subordinate genin’s support, Mui slowly stood and walked toward the battlefield center, toward Kusanagi Koji’s corpse.
Kusanagi Village had suffered severe destruction in this great battle, with even its leader Kusanagi Koji dying in the fight.
In the billowing smoke, Mui knelt before Kusanagi Koji’s charred corpse, gazing at the devastated village and bitterly murmuring: “Lord Kusanagi, we shouldn’t have taken in the Uzumaki Clan’s scourge back then…”
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Uzu Village Ruins.
The wandering ninjas’ hideout had now become Menma’s base.
He gently placed the awakened Uzumaki Kushina on the bed.
“Mother…” Karin knelt before the bed, tightly gripping her mother’s hand as tears fell.
The extremely weakened Uzumaki Kushina gave her daughter a strained smile, then looked up at the masked man close by and pleaded: “Lord… please take this child in…”
Uzumaki Kushina’s voice was faint, but she still struggled to lift her head: “She can do anything… as long as she can live…”
She could clearly sense her life force was nearly gone and knew that once she died, Kusanagi Village would surely make Karin continue serving them, eventually draining her chakra and life force alive just like her.
As a mother, Uzumaki Kushina only wanted to seize this last hope for her daughter to live.
“Who allowed you to die.” The voice under the White Three-Eyed Fox Mask was cold and authoritative.
Though Menma had yet to master Yin-Yang Release Jutsu and couldn’t transmit chakra or life force to Uzumaki Kushina.
But don’t forget, he was also of the Uzumaki Clan!
Menma unwrapped the red cloth from his wrist and extended it toward Uzumaki Kushina.
“Bite.” The voice under the mask brooked no refusal.
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