Chapter 276: I’ll Cover The Rear
His vision went black, and Yoru returned to the previous full moon night.
He was in Yakushi Nonou’s cramped office in the orphanage.
The Pelvic Shrink Secret Technique is great. Disguise requires hip shrinking to completely change the body shape; hip shrinking needs practice.
Half an hour later, listening to Yakushi Nonou panting delicately in his arms, Yoru began to study this system’s lottery.
【Moon Arc activated!
The host has only one resurrection opportunity per month, resurrecting on the previous full moon night after death.
Reward: one lucky draw opportunity:
1- Secret Jutsu · Spore Technique;
2- Elite Jonin Level Chakra Amount（Stackable）;
3- Secret Jutsu · Mayfly Technique.】
Option one, Spore Technique.
Spores are undetectable before activation. When activated, the spores turn into white swelling masses that envelop the possessed target, absorbing the possessed’s chakra, and can transfer the chakra to supplement others.
Yoru’s chakra amount is sufficient for now; he doesn’t need this jutsu.
Option two is chakra amount, directly eliminated.
Looking at option three, Yoru felt his luck was good.
Mayfly Technique, a top-tier infiltration secret jutsu.
It fuses one’s body with the earth’s plants and trees, making it extremely hard to detect.
Integrating with the earth, then moving at high speed to any location through the network of organic matter like plant roots and underground water flows in the earth, completely severing all presence during the ninjutsu activation.
This is the divine technique for killing and looting—no, for upholding justice in the ninja world.
Having obtained the Mayfly Technique, Yoru couldn’t wait to experiment with it.
However, Yoru wouldn’t use this jutsu in front of Yakushi Nonou.
Leave a line in life, even for a pillow companion, even for the latest little… Yoru counted; Yakushi Nonou was the scorching tight new favorite little six, but Yoru still wouldn’t tell him his true trump card.
After leaving the orphanage in the normal way, Yoru appeared deep in a dense forest of Konoha.
After creating a shadow clone, Yoru placed his hand on the tree trunk and used the Mayfly Technique.
His body quickly merged into the tree trunk and completely disappeared.
Inside the tree trunk, Yoru perfectly replaced the fibrous tissue within the tree trunk, hiding inside it.
The shadow clone outside activated the Byakugan, but only saw the tree trunk and didn’t see Yoru hiding inside it.
Perfect, now he didn’t have to fear reconnaissance and tracking from Konoha’s Hyuga Clan.
Yoru tried moving underground.
He could sense all organic matter underground: tree roots, insect eggs, microorganisms, humus fragments and leaves.
These organic matters formed the vast network to which the Mayfly Technique adhered.
Yoru moved quickly underground, about over a hundred meters per second, not sure if it would be faster once proficient.
This speed was already very fast, faster than ordinary Body Flicker Technique, and silent underground.
Yoru followed a pillar of a wooden structure building and appeared on the second floor balcony.
In the second-floor room, a couple was arguing over 20,000 ryo missing, completely unaware that an extra person had appeared on the balcony.
Yoru looked toward the distant Hokage Building.
How about going for a big one?
What if he stole the Scroll of Seals like Naruto?
After a slight hesitation, he decided against it; he’d died once this month, no need to court death.
Next month, he definitely had to try in the Hokage Building; the Scroll of Seals, Orochimaru wanted it, why wouldn’t he?
Life was only one; he had to ensure it was foolproof, no rush at this moment.
The plot developed the same as in his previous life; Yoru arrived at the Land of Rain border, replaced Orochimaru, and using Yuka’s previous reconnaissance intel, found Nagato Uzumaki’s approximate location.
Two Root Ninjas and three Lynx Squad Anbu Ninjas were killed by Uchiha Madara’s first move.
Facing Uchiha Madara again, Yoru used the Ten Seals’ chakra to release a large-scale Earth Spear Thorns, blocking Uchiha Madara’s Wood Dragon Technique.
Yoru shouted: “Ki! Take Nagato Uzumaki! Retreat! I’ll cover the rear!”
With this order, Ki was deeply moved; he didn’t expect the Fox Captain to care about him so much.
He hurriedly rushed toward Nagato Uzumaki with the two Root Ninjas.
Spores appeared on Nagato’s body, invisible to the naked eye as they floated around, soon drifting onto all the Anbu Ninjas.
Ki, who had just arrived, and the two Root Ninjas also had spores appear on them.
The spores absorbed their chakra, causing the Anbu and Root Ninjas to collapse weakly on the ground.
Uchiha Madara stood atop the wood dragon ahead, looking down disdainfully at Konoha’s trash.
White Zetsu caused chaos from behind, draining the chakra of several Anbu and Root Ninjas completely.
Uchiha Madara’s sense of oppression was too strong!
Yoru didn’t want to tangle with Uchiha Madara and shouted to Hanashika and the others: “Mission failure! Escape!”
The Flower Deer Squad heard the Fox Captain’s order and left without looking back.
Jiraiya saw Nagato protected by the white monster and finally believed that Nagato was truly Uchiha Madara’s man.
Uchiha Madara wanted to save Nagato, so he probably wouldn’t kill him; thinking this, Jiraiya turned and fled.
Ki also made a decision: “Abandon the Uzumaki Remnants! Retreat!”
After leaving Nagato Uzumaki, White Zetsu no longer bothered the surviving three Root Ninjas, allowing Ki to escape.
But his chakra had been absorbed a lot, and his legs felt weak.
The group had just retreated dozens of meters when they heard the whistling sound behind them; the wood dragon charged ferociously toward the Fox Captain.
Facing the massive wood dragon, with Uchiha Madara leaning on his scythe, Yoru formed a hand seal.
Water Style · Water Severing Wave!
Seeing the Water Severing Wave, surprise appeared on Uchiha Madara’s aged face, quickly turning to excitement, then disgust.
This was a ninjutsu created by Tobirama Senju.
The Water Severing Wave easily sliced through the tree trunks created by Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, then cut into the wood dragon’s neck.
Everyone stared at the wood dragon.
However, the Water Severing Wave was just an elemental ninjutsu; after cutting one-third into the wood dragon’s neck, it lost momentum and stopped.
The wood dragon paused slightly, the severed part of its neck rapidly regrew, and without slowing, it smashed fiercely toward Yoru.
Yoru’s body glowed with red copper light, got smashed into the ground by the dragon head, and was crushed and dragged backward dozens of meters on the ground.
Wood chips flew across the battlefield, mud splashed everywhere.
The Konoha Shinobi in the distance could no longer see the Fox Captain’s figure.
Hanashika was terrified, but even if he went back, he’d just be a burden to the Fox Captain, utterly helpless.
Jiraiya looked at the large mound of mud and soil around the wood dragon’s head, like a small crater; his previous disgust for the Fox Captain turned to admiration.
This Anbu had ordered the attack on Nagato and others, yet ended up covering the rear alone. Evil as he was, he was still a ninja with resolve.
Uchiha Madara manipulated the dragon head to lift slightly and was surprised to see a red copper figure deep in the pit.
“Not dead?”
The Wood Dragon Technique’s full-force strike hadn’t killed the Konoha Anbu; the Konoha Anbu was like a small pebble in the soil, exceptionally hard.
Yoru looked down; the copper light chakra on his chest had been absorbed quite a bit, defense reduced, several ribs broken.
As expected of Wood Style; absorbing chakra was a divine skill.
Yoru glanced at the direction Ki fled, thinking you can’t leave like that; if you do, I worked for nothing?
He obediently formed hand seals in front of Uchiha Madara.
“Earth Release · Earth Style: Fish in Water Reflection Jutsu!”
Yoru’s figure disappeared into the earth.
Seconds later, Uchiha Madara’s expression changed; this was Earth Style: Fish in Water Reflection Jutsu? So fast?
