Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 300 The Fall of the Thunder Shadow
Having caught a tiny opening in Dou Guang's body where his old strength had just dissipated and his new strength had not yet been generated, Mifune, who was skilled in Iaijutsu, suddenly drew his sword. A streak of cold light flashed out, extremely fast, and silently slashed toward Dou Guang's neck!
Uchiha Touko didn't even turn his head completely. His body leaned back in a near-twisted posture that defied the laws of physics. At the same time, his left hand shot out with lightning speed, and his chakra-wrapped fingers accurately struck the weakest point on the side of Mifune's katana!
"Clang!" A crisp metallic clang rang out! Mifune felt a strange and powerful shockwave emanating from the blade, causing his sure-fire Iai Slash to deflect instantly. The blade grazed Uchiha Touko's Hokage robe. Then, Uchiha Touko used the force to spin around, his lightning-wrapped palm slashing fiercely at his opponent, forcing Mifune to quickly retreat and block.

The entire battle was swift and decisive, taking only a fraction of a second!
The dust has settled slightly.

The banquet hall was in complete disarray, with tables and chairs shattered, the floor cracked, and terrifying traces of lightning and dust escape techniques remaining. The elite ninjas from the two villages, disguised as civil officials, lay dead amidst the collapsed palace, their fates unknown.

In the arena, Uchiha Touko stood proudly, his Hokage robes fluttering slightly under the surge of chakra, his scarlet Mangekyou Sharingan coldly sweeping across the entire arena.

Uchiha Touko's aura was incredibly calm, as if the intense battle just now was merely a warm-up.

The Fourth Raikage, A, clutched his mechanical prosthetic arm, which had been nearly destroyed by lightning. His bronze skin was covered with charred marks, and his breathing was slightly heavy. His eyes were filled with shock and anger. Compared to their last encounter, Uchiha Touko had become even stronger.

The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, hovered in the air, his face ashen and panting heavily. Maintaining and releasing Dust Release was extremely taxing, and what frustrated him even more was that his most prized technique had been dodged by his opponent with almost premonition, and he had even suffered a precise counterattack.

Mifune, who had barely managed to join this level of combat, knelt on one knee, his katana planted in the ground for support. His hand holding the katana was split open, blood seeping out. His face was pale, and he looked at Uchiha Touko with a complicated expression. His signature sword-drawing technique had been broken by the opponent with just two fingers! The pride of the samurai had been dealt an unprecedented blow.

"It seems that Lord Mifune is considering reconsidering the neutral stance of your Land of Iron," Uchiha Touko said calmly, looking coldly at the three people in front of him.

"Hmph, stop pretending. I don't think you have any ambition to keep our Land of Iron neutral. If I don't join forces with them, it won't be long before our Land of Iron becomes a mere shell of its former self, just like the Land of Water."

“That’s right.” Uchiha Touko nodded, openly admitting his ambition, and then said, “However, if you don’t choose to get involved in the war between the ninja villages, you will still be able to obtain a title in the future.”

"You want me to surrender? Dream on! There are no samurai born on their knees in the Land of Iron!" Mifune stood up, then stood beside Onoki and Ai, sword in hand.

Ai took a deep breath and took out another metal prosthetic limb from the sealing scroll on his body, replacing the one that had been destroyed by Uchiha Touko. Then, the three of them stood ready.

"Are you planning a three-on-one battle?" Uchiha Touko asked with a light laugh.

“Even if it’s a three-on-one fight that goes against the samurai spirit, we have to win. Don’t call us despicable; you’re the strongest ninja in the world right now.” Mifune said with some difficulty, gripping his sword.

"How could that be?" Uchiha Touko suddenly laughed, then formed a hand seal. After a large cloud of smoke flashed by, three shadow clones of Uchiha Touko instantly appeared beside each of the three. The Mangekyou Sharingan swirled in the eyes of the shadow clones, and their jet-black skeletons slowly formed.

"After all, it's three against one. Don't accuse me of being despicable. You should know that you are the Kage of the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth, as well as the strongest samurai in the world."

"You!" Mifune hadn't expected that his careless remark would have such consequences. The three shadow clones of Uchiha Touko beside him had locked onto him firmly, and an overwhelming pressure surged towards him. Meanwhile, Uchiha Touko's main body walked straight to where Mifune had been sitting, sat down, propped his cheek on his hand, and looked at the group with great interest.

"Calm down, this is just a shadow clone; it can't unleash even a fraction of his true power," Onoki said in a deep voice.

"Then you lot should give it a try," Uchiha Touko said with a light laugh.

In the next instant, the three shadow clones beside each person attacked almost simultaneously, and three three-on-one battlefields instantly formed, causing chaos in the scene. Uchiha Touko then reached out and summoned a bottle of precious sake that had survived the previous collision. Under the influence of Ryuchi Cave's Sage Art of Manipulating Inorganic Matter, the bottle flew directly into his hand.

Uchiha Touko tilted his head back and took a sip of water, then slowly observed the battle between the group and his shadow clone.

However, even the weakest of the three, Mifune, was considered to be of average strength within the Kage level. The other two were even less of a threat. After all, Uchiha Tokō's shadow clones were not wood clones that were immune to physical attacks. A few minutes later, the last shadow clone beside the three was destroyed.

However, Uchiha Tokō himself did not intend to defeat his opponent with just a few shadow clones. He only did this on a whim after hearing what Mifune said.

However, even though they had dealt with Uchiha Tokō's shadow clones, it didn't look easy for them. Mifune, who was already in a sorry state from the previous clash, had his chakra blades covered in cracks. Onoki, whose chakra reserves were already declining due to old age, had used up more than half of his chakra. Of the three, only the Raikage looked a little better, but he also had several black scorch marks from lightning burns on his body.

Uchiha Touko drank the last sip of sake from the bottle, then stood up with a smile and clapped his hands.

“It doesn’t seem like a three-on-one situation is that difficult. Let me test your strength.” Uchiha Touko said, his eye power and chakra surged outside his body, and the complete Susanoo slowly took shape. In an instant, the ceiling of the lord’s mansion in this border city of the Land of Iron was pierced and collapsed, and most of the ninjas buried in the collapsed walls were instantly killed.

Onoki used his flying technique to carry Mifune and the Raikage away from the danger zone. Looking at the Susanoo that was nearly a hundred meters tall in front of him, he swallowed hard. Before this, all his understanding of Uchiha Touko's strength came from intelligence reports. To be honest, he had greatly overestimated Uchiha Touko's strength. When preparing for this ambush, he treated Uchiha Touko as if he were Uchiha Madara, whom he had met before. However, now that he was actually facing him, Onoki realized that he was terribly wrong.

However, at this moment, the arrow was already on the bowstring, and there was no room for retreat.

"Raikage! Lord Mifune! Cover me!" Onoki roared after taking a deep breath, his hands laboriously forming hand seals, veins bulging on his forehead, as he frantically poured all the remaining chakra he had in reserve into his power. "Dust Release: Particle Style!"

A tiny cube, radiating a destructive white light, coalesced between his palms and rapidly expanded.

Ai roared, transforming into a blue lightning bolt that tore through space, hurtling towards Susanoo's leg at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. The metal prosthetic limb, crackling with lightning, slammed down, attempting to draw Dou Guang's attention and buy time for Dust Release. Mifune, meanwhile, merged with his sword, instantly unleashing dozens of perfectly condensed vacuum sword energies, precisely slicing towards Susanoo's sword-wielding arm joints and wing roots, disrupting its movements and balance.

Uchiha Touko stood in the crystal on the forehead of Susanoo, watching the three's attacks with indifferent eyes.

“A cornered beast’s struggle.” Uchiha Touko spoke coldly, then with a thought, Susanoo’s giant katana swept across, easily deflecting Mifune’s sword energy. At the same time, he raised his foot and stomped, trying to crush the Raikage A, who moved like lightning.

At that very moment, Onoki's Dust Release cube finally expanded to its limit, carrying an aura that could annihilate all matter, and accurately and silently struck the head armor of Susanoo!

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There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a sickeningly loud decomposition sound.

The Susanoo chest armor, touted as an absolute defense, was quickly melted and decomposed like ice being thrown into strong acid in the face of Dust Release's power to disintegrate everything at the atomic level, revealing its internal structure and the true form of Uchiha Touko standing in the core crystal!

"Success!" Onoki's spirits lifted, but the intense exertion caused him to sway and almost fall from the sky.

The moment the breastplate breaks open is the perfect opportunity for a decisive blow!
"Success!" A light flashed in A's eyes like never before. The lightning chakra in his body was instantly compressed to its limit, gathering at the tip of his metal prosthetic finger, which had become a spike, forming a point of extreme lightning that pierced the sky!

"Hell Thrust·Ipponsen Hand!"

Abandoning all defense, he concentrated speed, power, and destructive force into a single point! This was A's strongest technique, which had pierced through the strongest shield in his father's hands! He transformed into a blue lightning spear that pierced through the heavens and earth, aiming directly at the breach, at Uchiha Touko's heart within the crystal! The speed was so fast that it surpassed sound, surpassed sight, and even distorted space itself!
This strike embodied Ai Bisheng's beliefs and strength, carrying the determination to eliminate the threat to the Hidden Cloud Village!

Onoki and Mifune were on tenterhooks; this was the only and best chance they had created to win!

However, Uchiha Touko, standing in the crystal, faced with this fierce attack, curled his lips into a cold smile, and his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan instantly shone with a deep and eerie light.

Countless branches flowed before Uchiha Touko's eyes, and he easily anchored the most suitable one.

Uchiha Touko slightly turned his body, then gently touched the weak spot on Ai's metal prosthetic arm with his right index finger.

The next instant, A's spear pierced his own right chest. In the clash between the strongest spear and the strongest shield of Kumogakure, it seemed that the Lightning Release Armor was at a disadvantage. At this moment, A finally understood how his father, the Third Raikage, had gotten that deep-seated wound on his chest.

However, unexpectedly, Uchiha Touko's next attack did not take advantage of the momentum to target his other vital points, but instead punched a metal device at his waist.

It was at this moment that an incredulous look appeared in Ai's eyes.

“You know what? I could have blocked that old man’s Dust Release just now,” Uchiha Touko said with a light laugh, “but I deliberately lowered my defense, just for this chance to catch you.”

"This thing is a device that can trigger a one-time Heaven's Delivery Technique, right? The craftsmanship is quite good. Coupled with those chakra armors you showed off on the battlefield earlier, it seems there are some experts in your Cloud Village. But unfortunately, my eyes have already seen the future." Uchiha Touko picked up the scientific ninja tool he had taken from A's waist and laughed, "Triggering the Heaven's Delivery Technique to escape in a critical moment, and then betraying your allies here? No wonder Kakashi said your credibility is so low that you can't even lend a lighter."

"You!" Ai Gang was about to say something, but the next moment he was grabbed by the throat by Uchiha Touko.

“They can survive in my hands because I need their banners to appease their respective people and end the war as soon as possible. But you are different. You have repeatedly provoked Konoha and me. If I let you live, it would make me, the Hokage, look too incompetent.”

With that, azure lightning burst forth in Uchiha Touko's hand, and violent lightning instantly surged into A's body. Although his body had been tempered by lightning for many years, the lightning released by Uchiha Touko far exceeded his ability to withstand it. A burnt smell rose up. After throwing the heavily injured A away, Uchiha Touko's main body also jumped out of Susanoo and slammed his knee into A's body in mid-air.

Then, Uchiha Touko, carrying A, plummeted like a meteor, landing on his knees and using his knees to brace against the Raikage's body, carving a deep trench dozens of meters forward.

After stopping, Uchiha Touko stood up again. Beneath him, Raikage A, who was already half-dead, was now a bloody mess and soon breathed his last.

"Ah!!" Onoki's eyes widened in horror, and Mifune's hand holding the sword trembled slightly with extreme shock and anger, his eyes revealing a deep despair for the first time.

The fall of the Raikage not only meant the disappearance of their strongest attack point, but also completely shattered their last remaining hope of victory.

Uchiha Touko slowly withdrew his blood-stained chakra blade, not even glancing at the fallen A. His cold gaze swept over Onoki, who was teetering in the air, and Mifune, who was poised to attack but could not hide his grief and indignation on the ground.

"Will you surrender or continue to resist? What is your choice?" Dou Guang's voice was completely calm.

(End of this chapter)