Chapter 330: Crimson Maple Fox
Uchiha Kane lay on the ground, eyes full of despair.
The rainwater was filled with poisonous pollen. The toxic powder soaked into his body, flowed into his ears, seeped into his skin, and more importantly, flowed into his eyes.
His eyes were sore, swollen, and painful, the tomoe rotating abnormally sluggishly and slowly.
As expected of the old clan head Uchiha Madara, who understood their Sharingan so well.
He couldn’t move, watching helplessly as Uchiha Michi and several special jonin were crushed to death by tree trunks.
Those who hadn’t died were like him, about to be buried by the tree trunks.
Three tree trunks coiled around him like venomous snakes.
The pressure from the tree trunks grew heavier and heavier…
Uchiha Kane suddenly remembered his first mission outside the village.
Just after graduating from the ninja academy, he had encountered a forest python over twenty meters long in the Land of Waves.
That giant snake would coil around its prey, slowly tightening, crushing bones, strangling until suffocation.
Uchiha Kane heard the creaking of his own bones under unbearable strain, making his scalp tingle.
It turned out that when bones fractured, the vibration reached his head before the pain.
At that moment, he heard more tree trunks bursting out of the ground.
It’s over… completely over…
Half of the Uchiha clan elites he had brought out were going to die here…
What would happen to the clan afterward?
Could it be that the Uchiha clan would follow in the footsteps of the Senju clan so soon?
The three tree trunks alone had his body on the verge of collapse, and now more than a dozen new tree trunks appeared nearby—he was about to be crushed into mashed meat…
Touka would also die here, Fugaku wasn’t a jonin yet—who would be the clan’s next clan head?
The clan had lost 4 jonin and 12 special jonin in battle, half of their elites gone—how would the village treat the clan afterward?
Just as Uchiha Kane felt despair, he suddenly noticed his body felt a bit looser.
Looking down, the newly appeared tree trunks had drilled into the gaps of the old ones, prying them apart?
A thin branch drilled into the old tree trunk, and the thin branch quickly grew, turning into a thick tree trunk.
The Wood Style tree trunks created by Uchiha Madara had common green leaves.
The new tree trunks bore red maple leaves!
It seemed… like two kinds of Wood Style?
Whose were these red maple tree trunks? Why were they opposing the old tree trunks?
Not only him, but Uchiha Touka nearby also broke free from the tree trunks and fell down.
From Uchiha Touka’s condition, his left leg had just been twisted off.
“Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!”
A voice rang out nearby.
It wasn’t Uchiha Madara’s voice—it was… the Fox’s voice?
The red maple Wood Style pried open the gaps, and Uchiha Kane broke free from the tree trunks’ strangling, falling from a height of four meters.
As he fell through the air, he saw the Anbu Fox charging into the depths of the Deep Forest Emergence.
The Fox clapped his hands together, surrounded by red maple tree trunks bursting from the ground.
The red maple tree trunks pushed apart the old ones, and the surrounding environment instantly loosened.
The newborn tree trunks bore red maple leaves, a fiery red expanse.
This was specially designed by Yoru. Both were Wood Style, but Uchiha Madara’s Wood Style had green broadleaves, while Yoru’s had red maple leaves, matching Yoru’s Copper Fox title.
Such leaves would consume a little chakra, but it didn’t matter.
Aura was a form of strength.
In this situation, he had to have aura.
Winning or losing was temporary; being cool was for life.
The red maple tree trunks formed a vast maple woods, pushing apart the tree trunks created by Uchiha Madara and revealing the tree hollow where Uchiha Madara stood!
Uchiha Madara stood in front of a tree hollow halfway up a big tree, his eyes slightly surprised—why did someone here also master Wood Style?
Yoru formed hand seals again.
Maple tree trunks sprouted spikes.
All the spikes pointed toward Uchiha Madara.
Wood Style: Thorn Technique!
Hundreds of spikes shot out, stabbing toward Uchiha Madara from different angles.
Susanoo instantly appeared around Uchiha Madara.
The wooden spears of the Thorn Technique were all blocked by Susanoo.
Susanoo’s strength was very high; the Thorn Technique couldn’t break through the defense.
Yoru frowned and turned his head to look at the approaching wood dragon.
The wood dragon had quickly defeated the Aries Squad and Flower Deer Squad and was charging toward him.
Yoru waved his hand, and over a dozen red maple tree trunks moved, wrapping around Uchiha Madara’s wood dragon.
Wood Style’s flexibility was extremely strong, perfect for dealing with large opponents.
Uchiha Madara, inside Susanoo, looked down at the Konoha Anbu on the ground.
“When did Konoha produce such an Anbu? He actually mastered Wood Style?”
A White Zetsu emerged from the tree trunk beside Uchiha Madara and said:
“Lord Madara, this Anbu’s codename is Fox. People from Hidden Sand Village call him Copper Fox. He has a strange absolute defense secret jutsu—physical attacks are ineffective against him.”
“Physical attacks ineffective? There’s no absolute defense jutsu in the ninja world. Let me test how strong his physical defense is.”
Uchiha Madara exerted force again. Muscles appeared on Susanoo’s skeletal frame, and it gripped a greatsword, slashing fiercely at the Anbu Fox.
One by one, red maple tree trunks formed arches over Yoru’s head.
Each tree trunk was two meters thick.
Susanoo’s greatsword cleaved through over a dozen tree trunks before its kinetic energy was exhausted, smashing onto Wood Style: Wooden Wall without breaking it.
Uchiha Madara was stunned—one sword hadn’t forced out the absolute defense secret jutsu, and it couldn’t even break the Wood Style?
In that instant, Uchiha Madara even felt a moment of daze, as if he were back fighting Hashirama’s Wood Style, unable to break through the defense.
Why did this person have such strong Wood Style talent? Was he from the Senju clan?
In the distance, Hyuga Yue let out a long sigh of relief.
The Fox Captain was too strong. In the terrifying Deep Forest Emergence, he had carved out a safe zone for the Uchiha ninja.
Moreover, Uchiha Madara’s mighty and heavy sword strike had been blocked with just Wood Style.
The Fox Captain hadn’t even used his signature absolute defense yet.
Uchiha Madara looked down at the Konoha Anbu and said:
“Not bad, Red Maple Fox. Your Wood Style has reached one-tenth the level of Hashirama Senju.”
Hyuga Yue in the distance was shocked—this news had to be reported to the village.
The Fox Captain’s Wood Style strength was actually one-tenth of the First Hokage’s?
Even Uchiha Madara called the Fox Captain ‘Red Maple Fox’?
Titles given by enemies were the real deal. Self-proclaimed emperors were forever ‘little emperors,’ fake GOAT.
The Fox Captain had a second title: Red Maple Fox!
Yoru thought to himself, about enough.
He wasn’t here to kill Uchiha Madara; he was here to showcase Wood Style and demonstrate united front value.
This battle had tested Wood Style’s strength. In a fight against a Kage level ninja, Wood Style’s agility and offense-defense were top-tier.
What he lacked now was chakra amount.
If he had super Kage level chakra amount, Wood Style’s power would be even greater.
Forcing out Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo and withstanding a strike from Susanoo was already a dazzling feat.
Showcasing united front value, and while Lynx was killed, aiming for Anbu Vice Minister—that was Yoru’s goal.
He couldn’t keep pretending; overdoing it could lead to pretending to death.
Susanoo’s greatsword lifted, and Yoru’s Wooden Wall dispersed.
He turned his head to glance at the reconnaissance squad. Hyuga Yue was watching here—good, the village would soon know of his performance.
Yoru jumped backward.
Mid-air, he flung out iron vines, wrapping around 8 heavily injured Uchiha.
Yoru carried them away from the combat zone.
When he last looked at Uchiha Madara, Yoru noticed Uchiha Madara wasn’t looking at him.
Following Uchiha Madara’s line of sight, Yoru saw him looking at Uchiha Goka and Uchiha Touka, the pair of brothers—both immobilized by poisoning.
Glancing extra at Uchiha Goka, Yoru felt there was something fishy here.
He had used Wood Style to hard-counter Uchiha Madara, yet Uchiha Madara was looking at others—could these two have more value than him?
The reconnaissance squad, two Anbu squads, and the Uchiha group being dragged behind by Yoru’s iron vines all fled in panic.
Hanashika supported Aries, arriving terrified beside Yoru.
“Captain! Aries’s chest was crushed by Wood Style!”
Yoru had the Aries Squad and Flower Deer Squad hold off the Wood Dragon Technique, but he hadn’t expected Aries to be so severely injured.
