Chapter 266: Don’t Be Greedy For Credit
“Lava Style: Rubber Wall!”
The Cloud Ninja front line still had experts, and it was actually the Raikage Assistant Tsuchi who mastered Lava Style.
A long yellow rubber wall surged between Konoha and the Cloud Ninja, providing an escape opportunity for the Cloud Ninja.
Yoru saw Gari trying to run, and unease rose in his heart.
He couldn’t die twice in one person’s hands; if Gari ambushed him on the battlefield later, wouldn’t that truly kill him?
He absolutely could not let him escape.
Yoru used Water Severing Wave.
The high-speed water line rushed onto the Lava Style rubber, and to Yoru’s surprise, his Water Style couldn’t cut through the rubber.
The rubber was extremely elastic; the Water Severing Wave made the rubber writhe continuously but couldn’t cut it open.
In the face of top-tier defense in the Ninja World, plain Water Style was somewhat insufficient; he would need to find a way to strengthen Water Severing Wave later.
Even if Water Severing Wave was ineffective, Yoru still wanted to kill Gari.
He jumped over the rubber wall and chased after Gari.
Sakumo Hatake saw the fox so anxious that he couldn’t worry about anything else and led his team to follow.
Among all the Leaf Ninja, the one with the most resolute battle will became Yoru.
The distance was a bit far; Yoru used Water Severing Wave repeatedly, forcing Tsuchi to stop repeatedly to block with Lava Style rubber.
Seizing a certain opportunity, Yoru suddenly changed his ninjutsu.
Before the rubber Rubber Wall had fallen, Yoru used Earth Release: Earth Spear.
After one hand seal, dense Earth Spears stabbed out from the ground.
The rubber Rubber Wall was lifted by the Earth Spears and couldn’t land.
Yoru switched back to Water Severing Wave, with the high-speed water line heading straight for Tsuchi.
Tsuchi thought it was bad.
He hurriedly formed hand seals, wanting to create a second Rubber Wall in front of him; however, the Konoha Anbu’s Water Style was too fast—he was going to be pierced by the Water Style!
At that moment, Gari’s Storm Release Laser arrived.
Storm Release: Laser something—previously, Tsuchi thought this name was given by some idiot ancestor of the Storm Release clan, too hard to remember and meaningless.
However, at this moment, Tsuchi only wanted to sincerely thank the predecessors of the Storm Release clan.
This technique was too useful.
The laser formed by combining Water Style and Lightning Release had extremely high speed and collided with the Water Severing Wave.
Yoru felt his mouth go slightly numb.
The lightning followed the Water Severing Wave rushing toward Yoru, forcing Yoru to stop the Water Severing Wave.
At that moment, a brilliant white Blade Aura slashed down at Tsuchi from above.
Yoru had delayed enough time, and Sakumo Hatake had arrived.
White Fang’s arc-shaped Blade Aura, several meters long, headed straight for Tsuchi.
Tsuchi used Rubber Ball, and a hollow rubber ball appeared around him.
Yoru’s eyes were expectant; Rubber Ball was a top-tier defensive ninjutsu that could block the Third Raikage— he wondered whether White Fang’s spear was sharper or Rubber Ball’s shield was sturdier.
When struck by White Fang’s Blade Aura, a crack instantly appeared on the Rubber Ball.
In the crack, Tsuchi’s eyes were filled with terror!
His own Lava Style was actually no match for Konoha’s White Fang?
However, White Fang couldn’t completely cut open the Rubber Ball.
The second function of the Rubber Ball rubber ball appeared: upon encountering a powerful attack, the rubber ball would compress and then bounce backward.
Tsuchi clung tightly to the back wall of the rubber ball; White Fang’s Blade Aura cut through nearly three-quarters of the rubber ball, but ultimately its energy was exhausted by the rubber ball.
The nearly split-open rubber ball shot backward, disengaged the battle.
Gari breathed a sigh of relief; Tsuchi wasn’t dead.
However, he immediately witnessed the tacit understanding between Sakumo Hatake and Copper Fox.
Copper Fox used Body Flicker to appear in front of him and used Water Style: Water Severing Wave again.
White Fang’s blade momentum didn’t weaken; he forcibly turned and took a large step forward, with the Blade Aura that had just slashed away the Rubber Ball continuing toward Gari.
Gari’s first reaction was to use Lightning Body Flicker to dodge.
To his terror, he discovered that the Water Severing Wave was cutting toward his escape direction.
Why did Copper Fox understand Lightning Body Flicker so well?
Gari’s next move was predicted, forcing him to forcibly change direction, deforming his action.
The Water Severing Wave sliced horizontally through the air, severing Gari’s two calves!
No matter how strong Gari was, he couldn’t withstand the joint attack of White Fang and Copper Fox.
Gari’s calves disappeared from the knees, and two spurting blood trails appeared on the ground.
Seeing this, Gari supported himself with his hands and pushed backward.
Yoru saw Gari’s miserable state and didn’t make a move, fearing Gari had some trump card technique hidden.
He couldn’t take the risk; dying again would be real death.
Sakumo Hatake saw this and thought the fox was giving him a chance to make a name for himself.
The battlefield situation changed instantly.
Sakumo Hatake rapidly charged forward and unleashed a ten-meter-long White Fang Blade Aura at close range.
Yoru thought to himself, “A thousand days of raising soldiers for one day of use— Hatake Zhaoda, I’ve treated you well; it’s time for you to clear the way for me!”
At such a close distance, with such a long Blade Aura, no one could dodge.
Gari simply didn’t dodge; after forming hand seals, lightning appeared all over his body.
Using his blood as water, unleashing the strongest power of Storm Release Lightning Water!
Storm Release actually took on a somewhat blood-red hue.
Gari self-detonated!
Yoru felt lingering fear; luckily he hadn’t gone up.
Sakumo Hatake slowly landed; Gari was still dead.
“Gari!”
Tsuchi in the distance let out a miserable shout, then turned and fled without looking back.
Shinma and the others hurriedly chased after him.
Sakumo Hatake thought to himself, the fox was truly a ninja with a pure heart; he wasn’t swayed by great merit in front of him.
Killing the Cloud Ninja commander—this achievement was enormous.
The fox had the unique aura of the Anbu from the Second Hokage era.
Not greedy for merit, only seeking to achieve the goal, hiding away all personal distractions, solely for Konoha.
If he became Hokage, Sakumo Hatake could confidently hand Anbu over to the fox.
Whether in ability or ninja mindset, the fox was an excellent person in charge for Anbu.
Yoru said, “Lord Sakumo, let’s go expand the victory.”
Sakumo Hatake nodded, and the two quickly chased after.
The Tsuchi ahead led his people into a mist-shrouded gorge.
Shinma also jumped down.
Exploding Tag sounds came from the mist.
A kunai shot toward the stone wall, followed by Shinma climbing up via steel wire.
Shinma said with lingering fear, “There are many traps below!”
He created shadow clones and had the shadow clones go down to probe.
Various explosion sounds and flying kunai sounds emerged from the mist.
Sakumo Hatake formed hand seals: “Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!”
Dozens of shadow clones jumped off the cliff.
Explosions in the gorge continued one after another.
To protect the headquarters, the Cloud Ninja had spared no expense.
Multiple Shadow Clone could be called the most underwhelming S-rank forbidden jutsu; as long as one knew Shadow Clone Jutsu, one could do Multiple Shadow Clone.
The problem was that most people’s chakra couldn’t support it; the nervous system would be destroyed by the simultaneous feedback of pain from the multiple shadow clones being destroyed.
After clearing the traps, when everyone descended into the gorge, they found the Cloud Ninja main camp left in a wreckage: empty tents, dropped shoes.
The Konoha side continued the pursuit and discovered many forks in the valley.
Six gorges intersected, forming a labyrinth of gorges full of fake clues everywhere, making tracking impossible.
Sakumo Hatake said, “Return to the main camp! While the Cloud Ninja’s Gari is killed, organize an offensive! Completely end the conflict!”
