Chapter 238: Mastery-level Water Release: Water Severing Wave
Yuka and Kaicho Uzumaki faced five Root Ninjas, putting them at a great disadvantage.
The fierce battle continued, and Yoru discovered that Geng was a Fire Release Ninja.
Xin summoned a large scroll, which contained ninja tools of various shapes.
Chain whip, scythe, great sword, Fuma Shuriken—it seemed Xin specialized in ninja tools.
For Ji, Geng, Xin, and Ren, their general abilities were now guessed.
What Yoru had to do was return to a few days ago on the full moon night through the System’s death, use Reverse Summoning Jutsu to arrive beside Yuka, and help Yuka deal with the four Root Ninjas.
He scanned the several Root Ninjas—this death, who to draw from?
His eyes slowly turned, looking toward Orochimaru.
Or perhaps, try with Orochimaru?
The current Orochimaru had not yet mastered the Eight-Branched Serpent and Reanimation Jutsu—could he touch some Ryūchi Cave snake abilities?
Orochimaru slightly turned his head, vertical pupils staring at Yoru.
“Fox, did you just direct killing intent at me?”
Yoru was startled inside.
Yoru had merely just formed the thought and glanced at Orochimaru, yet Orochimaru sensed the malice?
Orochimaru raised his hand, and dozens of long snakes instantly drilled out from his wide sleeve.
Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!
Yoru hurriedly jumped backward.
If caught and bound by the snakes, it would be bad.
While mid-air, Yoru quickly formed hand seals.
After five seals, a water beam shot out at high speed, severing the dozens of pursuing long snakes.
On the hillside below, Yuka anxiously looked up—she had long seen the Fox and had always wanted to quickly flee to a distant place, to somewhere else, to avoid exposing the Fox.
But the Fox, to save them, took the initiative to attack and fought against Orochimaru, one of the Sannin as rumored.
Yuka could no longer care about hiding anything—the Fox was exposed, so they had no need to hide either.
After biting her finger, Yuka Uzumaki used Summoning Jutsu.
Yatagarasu screeched and burst out of the white smoke.
Split Dog roared as it charged toward the Root Ninjas.
The battle on the mountain reversed instantly.
On the mountain, the long snakes’ bodies thudded to the ground.
The severed ends of the long snakes exposed tender red snake flesh—seeing his long snakes severed, Orochimaru felt no distress.
He glanced at the several giant summoning beasts and said:
“So they are Uzumaki remnants— no wonder they couldn’t assassinate Root Ninjas; they came for revenge.”
Orochimaru turned to Yoru again: “Then, Fox, whose person are you exactly? Now it seems you’re not simply Kiiroinu’s person.
Interesting, truly interesting—Kiiroinu’s first confidant seems to have some other ideas.”
Yoru ignored Orochimaru’s verbal probing; in his mind, he thought he must force out Orochimaru’s abilities and draw the best things possible.
He didn’t dare approach Orochimaru and formed hand seals from afar again, using Water Style: Water Severing Wave.
The next instant, he suddenly looked at Orochimaru in surprise.
Orochimaru’s hand seal speed was extremely fast, hands flying—later than Yoru in sealing, yet he used the exact same ninjutsu at the same time!
Orochimaru also knew Water Style: Water Severing Wave?
Two water beams shot out, colliding mid-air.
The splashing water turned to mist, falling on Yoru’s mask.
Orochimaru’s Water Severing Wave was slightly stronger than his own.
Yoru thought, Orochimaru knowing Water Style: Water Severing Wave wasn’t strange.
Yoru’s identity was Anbu Captain, with extremely high clearance—Anbu’s collected ninjutsu and sealing jutsu, he could all learn.
Orochimaru, with his status as Third Hokage’s disciple and battlefield deputy commander, accessing top Water Style ninjutsu was no surprise.
The current Orochimaru was more like a venomous snake toying with prey, deliberately using the same ninjutsu as Yoru.
Yoru felt indignant inside—his treasured Water Style: Water Severing Wave turned out to be just one of Orochimaru’s rarely used dusty ninjutsu…
Yoru formed a seal, using mastery-level Earth Release: Earth Spear.
Dozens of meters ahead on the mountainous ground, sharp stone spears suddenly thrust out.
Orochimaru’s raised hand dropped halfway—he hadn’t expected the Fox’s Earth Release to be so fast, so powerful.
He jumped backward, dodging all the Earth Spears.
Yoru thought, Ryūchi Cave snake ninjutsu—even if drawn, couldn’t be used openly; better to try for Orochimaru’s Water Style: Water Severing Wave.
With that thought, Yoru formed seals again, using Water Severing Wave.
Orochimaru did the same, wanting to see the shocked look in the Fox’s eyes.
Seeing Orochimaru’s flying hand seals, Yoru grew more satisfied inside.
Perhaps he could draw mastery-level Water Severing Wave—that would be wonderful.
After the two water beams collided, Yoru immediately raised his own water beam a few centimeters.
Yoru’s water beam rushed toward Orochimaru, and Orochimaru’s toward him.
Orochimaru was stunned, not expecting the Fox to trade injury for injury.
Water Severing Wave pierced Orochimaru’s shoulder blade, lifting upward and slicing off his shoulder.
One of Orochimaru’s arms was crippled—not only unangry, he looked at the Fox with great interest.
“Not bad, trading injury for injury, fearless of death—worthy of an Anbu elite.”
He wasn’t panicked either, tilting his head back and opening his mouth.
Two hands drilled out from Orochimaru’s mouth, stretching it to its maximum.
A brand-new Orochimaru emerged from the old one’s mouth.
The classic “I spit myself out.”
After landing, yellowish-white mucus slid off Orochimaru’s legs.
He looked at the Fox, discovering his Water Severing Wave had pierced the Fox’s heart?
“Hm? Where’s your absolute defense?”
From the hillside below came Yuka’s shrill wail.
“No! Fox!”
—
Yoru’s vision went black, returning several days prior.
He was together with Orochimaru in the valley, waiting for Bing to bring back intelligence.
In two more days, Bing would return to find Orochimaru.
In five more days, they would encounter the extremely ragged Yuka and others being pursued.
Yoru didn’t care about drawing yet and first said to Orochimaru:
“Lord Orochimaru, I’ll go scout near Hidden Cloud Village too—this mission is so important, I feel uneasy without checking ahead.”
Orochimaru glanced at the Fox, slightly puzzled, but didn’t refuse.
“Go then—return before the evening after tomorrow. Bing will bring Yakushi Nonou’s intelligence at latest then.”
“Understood, Lord Orochimaru.”
Yoru continuously used Body Flicker Technique, exerting full effort to distance from Orochimaru.
On the road, he had time to select this rebirth reward.
【Moon Arc activated!
Host has only one resurrection opportunity per month, resurrecting on the previous full moon night after death.
Reward: one lucky draw opportunity:
1- Ryūchi Cave holy land summoning contract;
2- Elite Jonin Level Chakra Amount（stackable）;
3- Water Style: Water Severing Wave（mastery）.】
The first option was Ryūchi Cave holy land summoning contract.
With this contract, he could also summon Ryūchi Cave great snakes, even meet White Snake Sage, and access Ryūchi Cave Sage Mode.
But summoning Ryūchi Cave great snake—Orochimaru would know immediately.
Ryūchi Cave would likely be puzzled too, why suddenly an extra contracted ninja.
Better skip it—Sage Mode issue to plan long-term; the other two holy lands seemed far milder than Ryūchi Cave.
The second option was chakra amount—temporarily useless.
The third option lit up Yoru’s eyes.
Luck was truly good—he actually got mastery-level Water Style: Water Severing Wave from Orochimaru.
He immediately selected the third option, and suddenly insights into Water Severing Wave filled Yoru’s mind.
Certain chakra meridians were unblocked, making Water Severing Wave’s chakra flow smoother—now usable with one seal.
As his current strongest attack, Water Severing Wave’s casting speed increased, greatly boosting combat power.
Yoru found a cave and set up Earth Movement Barrier inside.
Then, using Byakugan to observe surroundings and confirm Orochimaru hadn’t followed, he summoned Stone Panda Hakuji and Bai You.
Bai You was already familiar with this process; he used contract chakra to notify Yuka Uzumaki.
Yuka Uzumaki, raggedly fleeing in the Land of Iron woods, suddenly sensed the contract chakra and was startled.
If no urgent matters, the Fox rarely contacted her.
She hurriedly summoned Bai You.
Bai You reverse summoned Yoru beside Yuka Uzumaki.
Seeing the Fox wearing the White Demon Mask, Yuka Uzumaki suddenly felt long-lost safety.
Yoru looked to Yuka’s sides—Kaicho Uzumaki and Gencho Uzumaki were both alive.
Alive was good—he made it in time. Every Jonin of the Uzumaki Clan was invaluable.
Yoru said: “You’ve been discovered and pursued by Root Ninjas—turn around first; I suspect you have Root tracking methods on you.”
Among the four trackers, Ji was from Aburame Clan, Geng specialized in Fire Release, Xin in ninja tools, Ren mastered Super Beast Imitation Drawing secret jutsu.
This was intelligence from his previous life.
The three Yuka Uzumakis hurriedly turned.
Yoru formed seals, then Byakugan!
For observing chakra, Sharingan was inferior to Byakugan.
Under Byakugan’s view, chakra flow on the three Yuka Uzumakis was fully visible.
Yuka’s exquisite curves under her clothes were displayed in a see-through style, oddly erotic.
Yoru hurriedly shook his head—not time to appreciate that.
But… damn Hyuga Ninjas, had Byakugan long ago—didn’t enjoy it earlier?
Yoru discovered parasitic insects on the three.
Ji had marked them with parasitic insects, allowing relentless pursuit.
“You have parasitic insects on you!”
Kaicho Uzumaki said: “We’ve been possessed by parasitic insects? When? We knew nothing.”
Yoru gathered his observation onto his finger, quickly tapping the three to crush the parasitic insects. Then he said:
“Go—parasitic insects relay intelligence with delay; bugs need to fly back to the Aburame Ninja.
Use this brief time window to go back and deal with those Root Ninjas.
My time is tight; can’t linger here.”
The three Yuka Uzumakis stopped fleeing and turned to charge at the Root Ninjas behind.
A few minutes later, they spotted their pursuers.
One Root Ninja rode a Super Beast Imitation Drawing: Bird Between Clouds, three Root Ninjas on the ground.
Simple tactic assignment: Yoru took Kaicho Uzumaki and Gencho Uzumaki for frontal assault, Yuka Uzumaki stealth for ambush opportunity.
Ren on the Bird Between Clouds saw an extra White Demon Mask wearer, missing the Kappa Demon Mask one, and hurriedly lowered altitude to warn the three below.
Kaicho Uzumaki struck first, taking out a scroll and flinging it skyward.
White smoke burst from the scroll; after dissipating, over a hundred kunai, shuriken, and Fuma Shuriken flew toward the secret jutsu ink Bird Between Clouds in the sky.
In the original, Tenten’s ninja tool scrolls required strong sealing jutsu, those from Uzumaki Clan.
Ren thought, by the time those fancy ninja tools reach high altitude, they’d be spent.
At that moment, Yoru formed a seal, adding Wind Release: Great Breakthrough.
A massive hurricane rushed diagonally upward, carrying the hundred varied ninja tools toward the Bird Between Clouds.
Kaicho Uzumaki nearly lost balance.
The Fox’s ninjutsu was too strong—a single seal for such powerful Wind Release ninjutsu.
Countless kunai, shuriken, and Fuma Shuriken hurtled skyward at exaggerated speed.
Ren’s Bird Between Clouds was struck down; he fell from the sky.
Mid-air, he took out a writing brush, preparing to draw another Bird Between Clouds.
However, Kaicho Uzumaki and Yoru’s second combo attack arrived.
After a miserable scream, Ren mid-air endured a ninja tool rain.
His chest cavity was pierced by four kunai, his arm severed by a one-meter-diameter Fuma Shuriken—dying miserably in the air.
One down, Yoru charged the three Root Ninjas on the ground.
Ji saw Ren’s corpse fall and the menacing three demon-masked ninjas, immediately judging.
“Geng, Xin, cover the rear—I’ll bring intelligence back to Lord Danzo!”
Ji unhesitatingly turned and fled rearward.
Yoru, seeing this, formed the Shadow Clone seal.
Himself using Wind Release, shadow clone Fire Release, each one seal.
Fire Dragon Flame Bullet and Great Breakthrough—Yoru’s White Demon sub-account strongest attack appeared.
The fire dragon bound by a dozen-meter-wide whirlwind charged at extreme speed toward the three Root Ninjas.
Geng and Xin faced the terrifying Wind-Fire Combination Ninjutsu and hurriedly defended with ninjutsu.
Xin used Water Style: Water Wall Jutsu, but under Wind-Fire Combination Ninjutsu, the Water Wall Jutsu seemed fragile and helpless.
The original Root four’s plan was to find the culprits, drive them to Land of Lightning, await A and Bing’s support.
However, the enemies somehow detected the parasitic insects first and returned to counterattack them.
Water Wall Jutsu collapsed rapidly; Geng and Xin couldn’t dodge and were gravely wounded by Wind-Fire Combination Ninjutsu.
Ji glanced back, seeing Geng and Xin defeated miserably by Wind-Fire Combination Ninjutsu, and hurried to keep fleeing.
Damn, none of the four Root Ninjas were a match for the enemy?
As Ji turned back, he suddenly noticed an extra female ninja wearing Kappa Demon Mask on his side.
The female ninja threw a kunai.
Ji hurriedly dodged; the kunai grazed his throat.
A swarm of insects appeared in his hand; Ji directed the insect cloud toward the Kappa Demon Ninja.
The Kappa Demon Ninja’s strength was unexpectedly high—his insect swarm couldn’t catch up.
Moreover, he was locked by sealing jutsu!
Ji was shocked inside—this sealing jutsu level, was the Kappa Demon an Uzumaki remnant?
Yoru had Kaicho Uzumaki duo handle the wounded Geng and Xin, while he body flickered quickly beside Ji.
The sky-full insect cloud was instantly swallowed by flames.
Ji saw yet another strong enemy arrive.
The White Demon Ninja’s Fire Release was too strong—who was he exactly?
Seconds later, Yoru ended the fight, killing Ji.
Watching flames consume Ji, Yoru thought, Wind-Fire Combination Ninjutsu was already this strong—wonder what effect Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Five Elemental Great Exploding Air Bullet had.
In the distant battle, Kaicho Uzumaki and Gencho Uzumaki also ended theirs.
Yoru said to Yuka:
“Danzo’s Root has ten ninjas total—we’ve killed six. Root’s capability drops sharply short-term.
After handling the corpses, you all head back to Land of Rain first—I’ll contact you if new situations arise.”
Yuka lingered on the Fox’s aura, but sadly, white smoke burst around the Fox, and reverse summoning vanished him.
In the Land of Lightning cave, Yoru emerged from white smoke; Stone Panda Hakuji dispelled the summoning jutsu.
As white smoke dissipated, Yoru’s hairs stood on end for an instant!
Orochimaru’s voice sounded behind Yoru:
“Fox, your summoning beast is interesting.
It has such high intelligence, able to use Reverse Summoning Jutsu.”
Two-in-one, next chapter at 8 PM
