Chapter 186: Ninja World War, It’s Always Been This Way
Gekko Shizuma led his battalion away to support the Yamashiroji Battalion on the other side.
“Water Style: Snake Mouth!”
The Mist Ninja Captain saw this and hurriedly used Water Style to block.
If the Leaf Ninja here were allowed to escape, the other Mist Ninja Captain would complain harshly upon returning.
A Water Style giant serpent several meters thick charged toward Gekko Shizuma.
Gekko Shizuma knew the Water Style: Snake Mouth technique; this jutsu reinforced the biting force of the Water Style giant serpent, and once bitten, even the spine could be snapped.
“Water Style: Water Severing Wave!”
Gekko Shizuma lowered his raised hand; Copper Fox made his move.
A high-speed water beam sliced through, severing the head of the Mist Ninja Jonin’s Water Style Snake Mouth; the entire Water Style could not maintain integrity and shattered instantly.
Yoru blocked the Mist Ninja Jonin: “Your opponent is me.”
The Mist Ninja Jonin’s expression was grim; Konoha Anbu Copper Fox, this ninja who earned a title through feats, was stronger than him.
“Water Style: Snake Mouth!”
Another Water Style giant serpent charged out.
Kurozaru and three other Anbu rushed out, using an improved version of Earth Flow Wall.
Three Earth Flow Walls rose, all wider at the base and narrower at the top, with an improved version featuring several wall pillars set behind the Earth Flow Wall.
The three Earth Flow Walls blocked the Mist Ninja Jonin’s Water Style.
The Mist Ninja Jonin was stunned; his Water Style was actually blocked by three Earth Flow Walls.
Were these normal Anbu Ninja’s Earth Release Ninjutsu this powerful? Stronger than estimated.
Unable to see Copper Fox, the Mist Ninja Jonin hurriedly waved his hand, ordering his Mist Ninja subordinates to charge forward, to tie down the Konoha Anbu and buy time to find Copper Fox.
A few seconds later, a sound of breaking earth suddenly came from behind the Mist Ninja Jonin.
Copper Fox emerged from behind him!
The Mist Ninja Jonin hurriedly swung his arm, holding a kunai in reverse grip, stabbing viciously backward.
However, his kunai stopped just a few centimeters from Copper Fox’s throat.
He hadn’t even forced out Copper Fox’s legendary Absolute Defense Secret Jutsu.
All his joints were locked by Sealing Runes, unable to move.
Yoru reached out and snatched the Mist Ninja Jonin’s kunai, then stabbed it into the Mist Ninja Jonin’s throat.
“Your Water Style is good, but unfortunately, you have no Earth Release Chakra; you couldn’t even detect my stealth.”
Five Elements ninja are very strong, strong precisely because they have few weaknesses.
In ninja duels, attack power is one aspect, but having fewer weaknesses is even more important.
Most ninja are glass cannons; once closed in on, they die.
With the Mist Ninja Captain dead, the remaining Mist Ninja quickly lost organization.
Yoru weaved through the Mist Ninja, using powerful Taijutsu to tank their kunai or ninja swords, then counterattacking to kill the Mist Ninja.
The last three Mist Ninja huddled back-to-back, trembling.
They held exploding tags, looking ready to go down with the Konoha Anbu.
A Water Severing Wave rushed in, severing the three at the waist.
The six segments of corpses flew out; Ninja World wars were always this cruel.
Corpses of Mist Ninja littered the surroundings; Yoru glanced over, noting several of his subordinates’ corpses among them.
Even as the superior side, certain Mist Ninja’s trump cards hidden before death would still take out their own Anbu in mutual destruction.
The battle here ended; Yoru led his squad to the next battlefield.
A hundred meters away nearby, the Yamashiroji Battalion was fiercely battling another Mist Ninja battalion.
They were shrouded in mist, with only the sounds of metal clashing and various explosions audible.
Yoru said: “All Wind Release ninja, step forward and use Wind Release: Great Breakthrough together!”
Using a joint Wind Release Ninjutsu to announce the reinforcements’ arrival was far more useful than rushing in hastily.
Including Yoru, seven Anbu stepped forward and used Wind Release: Great Breakthrough together.
A great wind howled, pushing the bank of mist to disperse rapidly, revealing the ninja inside.
The outermost Mist Ninja suddenly found the surrounding mist gone, feeling exposed like naked running.
Many of the Mist Ninja’s silent killing techniques relied on mist to obscure line of sight.
With the mist blown away, Yamashiro Aoba saw the flanking Anbu squad and breathed a sigh of relief.
At the start, his one battalion had run into two Mist Ninja battalions, instantly suffering many casualties.
Later, Gekko Shizuma’s battalion arrived, blocking one Mist Ninja battalion.
His own battalion was still struggling hard.
Now the Anbu squad had arrived; Copper Fox was an Anbu Jonin, stronger than Konoha’s normal Jonin.
The battle rapidly turned after the Fox Squad entered.
The Fox Squad formed a conical formation, with Yoru at the front, using Water Severing Wave to cleanse large groups of enemies and Earth Flow Wall to block the Mist Ninja’s joint Water Style.
Ever since improving Earth Flow Wall with Earth Release knowledge, Yoru found Earth Flow Wall far more useful than Water Wall Jutsu.
Earth Flow Wall wouldn’t disappear like Water Wall Jutsu, and it could block enemy line of sight, allowing many tactics to be set up around it.
Yoru was busy when he suddenly spotted a petite figure on the battlefield.
Wasn’t that Zhen Li?
The female ninja who once raided Suna Harbor with Yoru on the Land of Rivers Battlefield.
Zhen Li was struggling against a Mist Ninja.
The ground was mud from Water Style, and this Mist Ninja mastered quick sliding in the mud, while the mud slowed Zhen Li’s movements.
Just as Zhen Li was at a loss, a water line suddenly sliced through her vision.
That tricky Mist Ninja no longer had room to dodge and weave, severed at the waist by the water line.
Zhen Li had seen this jutsu before!
At Suna Harbor, Tengbei—no, Anbu Fox, later heard to be called Anbu Copper Fox—had used it.
Zhen Li turned her head and sure enough saw an Anbu wearing a fox mask.
After nodding to Zhen Li, Yoru hurried to other fights.
The Fox Squad quickly divided the battlefield.
After Yamashiro Aoba killed the Mist Ninja Captain, the Mist Ninja rapidly collapsed.
Yoru said to Yamashiro Aoba: “Jonin Yamashiro, finish the battle here and hurry to help Kiiroinu Captain and Uchiha Touka and the others!”
Yamashiro Aoba nodded; that side was the main battlefield.
Ten minutes later, Yoru and Yamashiro Aoba together helped Gekko Shizuma defeat the Mist Ninja battalion; the three units proceeded together toward the mountainous terrain south of the hillside.
The area south of the hillside was also ringed by mist.
Gathering all Wind Release ninja, they used Wind Release: Great Breakthrough on the combat zone.
A typhoon-force gale blew away the bank of mist, revealing the battlefield.
Uchiha Touka, Uchiha Michi, and 8 Special Jonin were clashing with Hozuki Murgetsu.
Kiiroinu Captain was entangled in combat with Suikazan Fuguya.
Yamashiro Aoba said: “Go help Kiiroinu Captain?”
The Uchiha Clan controlled the Konoha Military Police Force like a small kingdom.
If not for the War of the Land of Whirlpools, most Leaf Ninja were unwilling to tangle with the Uchiha Clan’s enforcers.
But Yoru said: “No! We deal with Hozuki Murgetsu! Hozuki Murgetsu is the Sword Seizing Unit’s Commander-in-Chief; his value is higher.”
Yamashiro Aoba and Gekko Shizuma exchanged a glance, both feeling their preconceptions had interfered; they hadn’t thought to help the Uchiha Clan first.
Copper Fox’s judgment was more correct.
Yoru said: “Have all squads find their own targets, best to annihilate all three Mist Ninja battalions. We three deal with Hozuki Murgetsu!”
Yamashiro Aoba, Gekko Shizuma, and Yoru left the group, successively Body Flickering to land around Hozuki Murgetsu.
Uchiha Touka saw the three strong reinforcements and felt surging emotion.
Hozuki Murgetsu’s abilities extremely countered the Uchiha Clan; Uchiha Ninja struggled too much against him.
Yoru glanced at Suikazan Fuguya; the great sword Samehada would later belong to Suikazan Fuguya, even called by Hidden Mist Village as the first wielder of great sword Samehada.
Hidden Mist Village was unwilling to admit great sword Samehada once belonged to the Hozuki Clan.
Yoru thought to himself, Hozuki Murgetsu had Water Transformation Secret Jutsu and Water Transformation Healing Technique, making him hard to kill.
If Hozuki Murgetsu was injured, Suikazan Fuguya might even help Konoha deal with this strong enemy himself.
Hozuki Murgetsu saw three Konoha Jonin suddenly appear nearby and shouted urgently: “Hurry and go! Retreat!”
Yoru blocked Hozuki Murgetsu’s retreat: “You won’t escape today; you’ll leave horizontally!”
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