Chapter 264: You’re A Bit Too Flashy
Several days later, news came from the Right Scroll that Yoru was holding.
After obtaining crucial intelligence from Yakushi Nonou, Yoru returned to the Konoha camp and found Sakumo Hatake.
“Lord Sakumo, I just interrogated the location of the Cloud Ninja Main Camp during patrol! I’m not sure if the intelligence is true or false, and need Lord Sakumo and the Staff Ninja to judge.”
The conflict in the Land of Hot Water had lasted nearly two months, and Sakumo Hatake had rallied a new group of followers.
Sakumo Hatake, Yamashiro Aoba, Gekko Shizuma, and others had deliberately befriended and mentored over 50 Special Jonin, Chunin, and Genin after screening, and the vast majority of these people would become Sakumo Hatake’s followers.
It was time to end it, otherwise Konoha’s White Fang would seem incompetent.
Hearing this, Sakumo Hatake’s eyes lit up: “Good! The prolonged stalemate has caused many casualties; it should have ended long ago!”
He studied with several strategists by the map for a long time, and the location brought back by the Fox was indeed like the Cloud Ninja’s nearest Command Center.
Yoru said: “I’ll take people to reconnoiter first.”
Sakumo Hatake said: “Good, go and come back quickly.”
Yoru led the Aries Squad out of the Konoha camp in the darkness of night.
Aries and the others were unusually excited. They had mastered a new trump card and vowed to test it on the Cloud Ninja.
Entering the Land of Moon, the surrounding mountains quickly became steep.
Bypassing several high mountains, Yoru found a hidden valley.
Cloud mist swirled above this valley, making it impossible for Ninja Hawk or high-altitude reconnaissance to see inside.
Reaching the opposite side of the valley, Yoru signaled the squad to stop.
They observed the valley with a telescope and patiently waited an hour, but saw no one entering or exiting.
In the intelligence from Yakushi Nonou, the Cloud Ninja Main Camp was roughly in this direction.
Yoru stood at the forefront of the Aries Squad and secretly activated his Byakugan.
To his surprise, this valley was extremely long; even at the 3-kilometer limit of his Byakugan vision, he couldn’t see the end.
No wonder no one was entering or exiting the front of the valley; the Cloud Ninja could jump into the valley from anywhere.
Yoru said: “Let’s go! We’ll climb the mountain on the west side of the valley first!”
Without rashly entering the cloud mist-shrouded valley, Yoru and the others climbed the mountain.
The mountaintop was barren white stone without a blade of grass, full of tall and short cliff walls, making it hard to traverse.
Chakra adhered to their feet as they stepped on the stones.
These stones were severely weathered, often causing unstable footing due to falling rocks.
Aries listened to the crackling sound of stones falling and worried the noise was too loud and would be heard.
As they walked, Yoru’s Byakugan spotted a squad coming down from the mountaintop.
Yoru signaled everyone to stop.
The mountain peak was engulfed in cloud layers.
Aries and the others, like the Fox Captain, stared intently at the cloud layer.
The cloud layer quickly turned from thin mist into thick, impenetrable pure white.
Aries turned to check; all team members were slightly crouched, ready to fight or dodge at any moment.
“Scatter!”
Yoru shouted and instantly leaped up.
The others dodged to the left and right.
A dazzling laser pierced through the cloud layer.
That unique glow was the Storm Release Laser from combining Water Style and Lightning Release.
The Aries Squad members were all strong and weren’t killed by the Storm Release strike.
In the cloud mist, Gari was somewhat surprised.
The renowned Anbu Copper Fox dodging Storm Release was one thing, but all four Anbu actually dodged it.
Thanks to the Copper Fox’s advance warning, these four showed no hesitation at the first moment of the order, no thinking—even though they saw nothing—they still firmly executed the Copper Fox’s command.
This could only be achieved with absolute obedience and absolute trust.
The Storm Release Laser missed and immediately curved in mid-air, looping around to continue shooting at the Copper Fox in mid-air.
This laser could turn like water, retaining certain traits of Water Style.
In mid-air, Yoru had multiple ways to dodge.
One was purely twisting his body with taijutsu, two was using Wind Release for lateral force, three was tanking it to test Storm Release’s power.
A true man would of course choose the third option: tank it.
Yoru instantly condensed Water Style Chakra, and a spiral Ring Snake appeared around his body.
The Storm Release crashed into the Semi Absolute Defense Copper Light: Ring Snake and met massive resistance.
The Ring Snake hovered outside his body, forming a Faraday cage immune to lightning strikes.
Water splashed in the air; unexpectedly, that thin Ring Snake contained so much water.
The Storm Release Laser’s energy was dissipated, and Yoru landed steadily.
Gari led his subordinates out of the cloud mist.
“You’re the Konoha Copper Fox who blocked a strike from Lord Third Raikage?”
Sakumo Hatake had long wanted to strike and crush the Cloud Ninja Command Center, best if he could directly kill Gari.
He hadn’t expected Gari to appear right in front of him.
A great battle between both sides erupted instantly.
Yoru’s surprised pupils trembled.
So fast!
Gari body flickered in front of Yoru, his ninja sword slashing at Yoru’s head.
The Semi Absolute Defense Ring Snake appeared again, blocking Gari’s ninja sword at the critical moment.
Gari’s ninja sword met strong resistance.
Lightning appeared on the ninja sword, slicing through the special water ring, but the Copper Fox had already retreated far away.
Yoru mentally assessed Gari’s strength.
Storm Release Bloodline Limit, ultra-fast body flicker technique, combining Lightning Release and sword technique, similar to the Chidori Blade sword technique in the original work.
All these abilities were top-tier.
Yoru raised his hand to form hand seals, and after one seal, Water Severing Wave shot out.
A high-speed water line rushed straight at Gari’s chest.
However, Gari dodged the Water Severing Wave with his ultra-fast body flicker.
Yoru noticed electric arcs shooting from Gari’s calves.
Lightning Body Flicker?
Yoru smiled.
Gari, you’re a bit too flashy; I don’t even know what to pick from you.
He had already gathered enough intelligence.
The Cloud Ninja Command Center was indeed in the valley, and Gari was here.
Gari’s abilities included Storm Release Bloodline, Lightning Body Flicker, Lightning sword technique, etc.
Storm Release’s attack power was very strong.
The Lightning Body Flicker ability was also top-tier, one of the fastest ninja Yoru had seen.
Seeing the Copper Fox sluggish for a few seconds, Gari body flickered over again.
This time Yoru didn’t use Ring Snake but used Bronze Light.
The lightning sword clashed against Bronze Light, producing a crisp metallic impact.
The powerful Lightning Release caused cracks in the crystallized Earth Release Chakra.
Lightning Release indeed countered Earth Release, destroying the internal structure of the Earth Release crystallization.
Even with elemental disadvantage, Absolute Defense Copper Light could still withstand two strikes.
Yoru tested the limit of Bronze Light.
On the third strike, Gari surprisingly saw the Copper Fox bisected by his slash.
His sword angled downward at the end, his body stiffening in disbelief.
What happened? No Shadow Clone? No Earth Clone?
He remembered the intelligence said Copper Fox was skilled in Earth Release and had Earth Clone technique.
【Host Death detected, Moon Arc System activating···】
