Chapter 51: A-rank Earth Release: Earth Clone
Yoru’s vision in front of him suddenly changed, and he returned to the previous full moon night.
At this time, he was hiding in the canopy of a big tree, monitoring the Senju Compound.
Damn it, Anbu is too dangerous. He hadn’t even seen the scene of the Nine-Tails transfer seal before he died first in reconnaissance intelligence.
Every month he was extremely cautious, never having one month pass safely to the next full moon before. Since transmigrating, he hadn’t even actively drawn a lottery yet.
【Moon Arc activated!
The host has only one resurrection opportunity per month and will resurrect on the previous full moon night after death.
Reward: one lucky draw opportunity:
1-B-rank Earth Release: Earth Spear（Beginner）;
2-Physique: Giant Rock Body（Strength Enhancement）;
3-A-rank Earth Release: Earth Clone（Beginner）.】
His first Chakra nature was Earth, and unexpectedly three rewards so fitting for him appeared. It was so hard to choose.
B-rank Earth Release: Earth Spear creates hard rock spikes to attack the enemy.
Yoru now had one Earth Release Ninjutsu for escape, Earth Style: Fish in Water Reflection Jutsu. Earth Spear was exactly the attack-type Ninjutsu that Yoru desperately needed.
If he chose this Ninjutsu, he could launch mid-range attacks and enrich his combat system.
The second option, Physique: Giant Rock Body（Strength Enhancement）, looked pretty good too.
Many Stone Ninja were tall and burly with bulging muscles and immense strength, clearly from frequent strength training.
If he chose this reward, his physique would be enhanced.
The third option, A-rank Earth Release: Earth Clone.
Recalling carefully the battle before death in the previous life.
When he jumped at the Stone Ninja Jonin, the Stone Ninja Jonin was still maintaining the dense Earth Spears at that time—it was definitely the real body, not a clone.
The ninja sword slashed toward the Stone Ninja Jonin, who raised his hand and blocked with the iron armor on his arm.
The Stone Ninja Jonin had silently used Earth Clone, giving a somewhat mysterious and unpredictable feeling.
After a slight hesitation, Yoru chose the third option.
Only by surviving could he output; defense was the best offense. Enhancing his survival ability was more crucial.
Up to now, Yoru had always died before the full moon.
He really wanted to die on the fourteenth, wanted to decide his own manner of death.
If he safely survived a whole month, he could proactively provoke the target on the fourteenth and draw rewards.
Senju Clan Head, Uchiha Clan Head, Third Hokage—which one couldn’t yield powerful abilities?
Unfortunately, he always died on missions.
Yoru was extremely cautious. After dying each month, he became even more cautious, avoiding danger and waiting bitterly for the full moon.
A-rank Earth Release: Earth Clone was a top-tier Substitution Jutsu among Substitution Jutsus.
After choosing this technique, Yoru’s eyelids drooped.
Information about the Earth Clone entered his brain.
Uh… he profited! He profited big time!
The Earth Clone was actually so powerful!
Earth Clone sends Chakra into the ground beneath one’s feet. When danger arises, it swaps the user with the earth below, thereby evading harm and dodging attacks.
Among the Substitution Jutsu series, Earth Clone was indeed a top-tier one.
D-rank Substitution Jutsu requires using Transformation Jutsu when the enemy isn’t paying attention to turn a log into one’s likeness, hiding the real body in the shadows.
The key to D-rank Substitution Jutsu is exploiting the brief window when the enemy loses sight of you.
But Earth Clone requires no cumbersome preparation—like flipping over, it can instantly swap the body with the soil beneath at any time.
It only needs a single hand forming half the Boar seal to complete the Earth Clone.
Concealed, swift, hard to predict, and low consumption.
Paired with Earth Style: Earth Submergence, it would allow Yoru to smoothly execute a full set of lure enemy-infiltrate-flank tactics.
Just like the previous life, in the following days, Fox Squad used the Senju female ninja to send out intelligence on Mito Uzumaki’s funeral date.
Purple Cat had long secretly fallen for Yoru, and Yoru repeatedly admired the shy, blushing face of the Purple Cat girl.
Men always tire of the old and crave the new; Yoru lingered on Purple Cat’s innocence and rarely went to Tsuruzuki Izakaya to find Boss’s Wife Qiao Yi these past few days.
Fox Squad was still sent to chase and kill the Yamanaka Clan Traitor. This time Yoru didn’t use expensive exploding tags; after Earth Style: Earth Submergence, he killed four naked Yamanaka Clan Ninjas.
This time Yoru was prepared in advance, and Black Bull didn’t die.
Being able to relive each month once was pretty good; the teammates’ survival rate would also improve.
On the night of the fourth, Mito Uzumaki and Kushina Uzumaki left late at night in a carriage.
Kurozaru Squad was sent for reconnaissance intelligence.
The difference was that this time Yoru had foreseen many things in advance.
The Earth Dragon Surge came, charging toward Kurozaru Squad.
Fox Squad and Aries Squad were separated on one side, while Kurozaru Squad Leader and Yagura Squad were separated on the other side.
Aries used Rotation three times, plus the life of one team member, finally buying Fox Squad one chance to strike.
Yoru still used Cloud Style Sword Technique, slashing the Stone Ninja Jonin’s throat.
The Stone Ninja Jonin turned into mud, having used Earth Clone.
Everything went very smoothly, without the slightest deviation.
Yoru arched his back forcefully, half-turning, using his superior reaction speed to dodge the Stone Ninja Jonin’s kunai.
The Stone Ninja Jonin was very surprised; this Konoha Anbu had decent strength.
However, an Earth Spear thrust out from behind, piercing Yoru’s lower back.
Two more Anbu charged fearlessly at the Stone Ninja Jonin.
The Stone Ninja Jonin heard the whooshing air from behind and quickly turned to respond.
At that moment, the originally dead Fox collapsed limply into mud.
His real body emerged from the soil behind the Stone Ninja Jonin, stabbing a sword into the Stone Ninja Jonin’s lower back.
The Stone Ninja Jonin was forming hand seals, his eyes filled with terror.
What was going on?
When he turned his head, he saw the mud on the Earth Spear, and the Konoha Anbu who had just worn the Fox Mask.
This Anbu actually mastered an A-rank Ninjutsu like Earth Clone?
When did Konoha’s Earth Release become this strong?
Even in Hidden Stone Village, Earth Clone was a rare Substitution Jutsu—high difficulty and extremely hard to acquire.
Yoru landed a successful hit and wanted to press the advantage, but he saw the Stone Ninja Jonin finish forming seals.
Earth Spears burst out of the ground one after another!
If Yoru delayed one more second, he would be turned into a porcupine.
Without hesitation, Yoru formed half the Boar seal with one hand, swapping his real body with the soil beneath again.
After submerging into the earth, Yoru escaped underground.
He had excellently completed the mission, severely injuring the Stone Ninja Jonin.
When he emerged from the earth again, he saw that aside from Aries and Purple Cat supporting each other, everyone else had died under the dense piercing of the Earth Spears.
Five Earth Spears thrust toward Purple Cat and Aries from different directions.
Terror filled the eyes behind their masks.
Byakugan was already as frightening as pathological cataracts; now filled with terror, it was even more chilling.
Purple Cat felt grief in her heart; she was destined to die after all.
When Danzo Advisor went to the clan, he demanded that the Yamanaka Clan provide people to serve in Anbu.
The village high-ranking officials and various clan heads all knew Anbu’s exaggerated casualty rate.
They didn’t know what missions Anbu was executing, only that batches of chunin who entered died off one after another.
Yamanaka Riko, as the oldest sister among this generation’s Yamanaka young boys, stepped forward voluntarily, willing to enter Anbu for the clan.
Her mother cried until her eyes were red.
After her father sacrificed for the village, her mother raised her and her sister.
For her sister’s sake, Yamanaka Riko had to enter Anbu voluntarily.
She never expected that less than half a year after entering Anbu, she would die on a mission.
The Stone Ninja Jonin was too strong, with one Ninjutsu after another, endless Chakra.
Even with a ninja sword stuck in his abdomen, he could still kill her and Aries.
At Purple Cat’s most desperate moment, the Fox Squad Leader arrived just in time!
The silhouette of Fox made Purple Cat want to cry a little.
Was she not going to die?
Yoru thought to himself that Aries’s Byakugan was extremely crucial, an important reconnaissance ninja for the squad.
With Byakugan in the squad, they could detect enemies in advance, greatly improving survival rate—Aries couldn’t die.
“Water Style: Water Wall Jutsu!”
A water wall encircled Purple Cat and Aries, blocking the Earth Spears.
Yoru slightly raised an eyebrow; the Earth Spears’ intensity had weakened, proving the Stone Ninja Jonin had become much frailer after being stabbed.
