Simultaneous travel: invincible from the beginning of the anime!

Chapter 723 The past you is dead, the present you belongs not only to yourself!

Naruto, his body covered in tailed beast chakra and three chakra tails appearing behind him, was launched like a cannonball towards Orochimaru as water splashed beneath his feet.

Seeing Naruto's fierce approach, Guren was about to block Naruto for Orochimaru when Seiya suddenly appeared in front of her and used his bone sword to block Guren's crystal spikes.

"Crystal Release? A rather rare bloodline limit, isn't it? How about switching sides and joining our Hidden Mist Village?"

Faced with Seiya's question, Guren remained silent. After exchanging blows with Seiya, she quickly formed hand seals on the water's surface.

"Crystal Release: Crystal-Breaking Dragon Subduing Technique!"

A giant dragon, its entire body made of pink crystal, roared and flew out from behind Honglian with its mouth wide open in a ferocious manner.

However, facing this imposing crystal dragon, Seiya stood still and did not move. When the crystal dragon flew in front of him, he simply threw a punch straight at him.

"Click——!"

The powerful fist slammed into the lake, creating huge ripples. An invisible shockwave emanated from it, and the once majestic crystal dragon shattered, turning into fragments that fell into the lake like a broken work of art.

Seeing his Crystal Release technique shattered by Seiya's direct attack, Guren's face showed astonishment.

Before she could recover from her shock, Seiya's figure had suddenly vanished from her sight.

"Crystal Release: Emerald Crystal Mirror!"

"Crack——————!"

Just as the mirror-like barrier formed in front of Guren's body, Seiya's figure appeared before her without warning.

And the Crystal Release, which can easily block B-rank ninjutsu, was now as fragile as a piece of paper and was instantly shattered in front of Seiya's elbow strike!
A ring of air formed behind Honglian. As the Emerald Crystal shattered, Shengzai's elbow strike, which had lost much of its momentum, struck Honglian's abdomen, causing her to cough up a mouthful of blood and fly backward like a kite with a broken string.

After just a few rounds, Honglian realized that she was no match for her opponent.

Even though the opponent was only using physical techniques, their speed and strength were unbelievably high!
Its power is enough to shatter a crystal escape formation head-on, and its speed makes it impossible for the user to track the opponent's movements.

To defeat a taijutsu ninja like this, the key is to build a strong enough defense and then engage them with ranged ninjutsu!
"Crystal Release: Crimson Fruit!"

As Honglian formed hand seals, a crystal fruit, resembling a gemstone, enveloped her body.

After taking defensive measures, the Crimson Lotus, encased in the crystal, began to form hand seals again.

"Crystal Release: Divine Transfer Technique!"

A row of crystals crystallized in a straight line beneath the water's surface, then suddenly pierced out from below in a crisscross pattern.

"Corpse Bone Pulse - Eightfold Rosary Dance!"

Seiya, who had extended one arm, began to have bones break through his skin and grow bone spurs, which soon formed a huge drill several meters long on his right arm.

As the crystals, which were constantly thrusting towards him from underwater, approached Seiya in a straight line, Seiya raised the bone drill in his hand and struck out!

"Click——!"

Faced with the most powerful attack, the seemingly hard crystal was instantly pierced and shattered by Seiya, just like glass.

And as he pierced and shattered the first crystal pillar, Seiya didn't stop there. Instead, a burst of red flames suddenly erupted from his body. "Flame Charge—!"

Seiya, his body wreathed in flames, accelerated as he charged forward. The intense heat of the flames distorted the air as he ran, and caused the lake beneath his feet to evaporate, creating a large amount of white mist.

Under this astonishing acceleration, even though Seiya was holding a bone spiral spear several times the size of his body, it was as if it were nothing. He sped across the water at high speed, leaving a red afterimage.

"Snap! Snap! Snap...!"

The enormous crystal pillars in front of him could not stop Seiya's steps at all. They were as fragile as tofu and were shattered one after another in front of his spiral drill spear!

As Seiya charged toward her, sparks flying and lightning streaking across the crystal pillars, Guren, protected within the crystal, realized she had made a grave mistake.

The "Crystal Release: Red Fruit" technique, which protects oneself, has a much stronger defensive power than other Crystal Release ninjutsu. Under the protection of the Red Fruit, one can rest easy against ordinary attacks.

Judging from the strength of the opponent's Corpse Bone Pulse, his Crimson Fruit defense was simply no match for their attack.

In other words, the "Crystal Release: Red Fruit" that was originally meant to protect him has now become a cage that prevents him from escaping!
She could naturally undo the ninjutsu she used, but given the opponent's current sprinting speed, by the time she dispelled the ninjutsu, the bone spear in the opponent's hand would probably have already completely pierced through her body.

Realizing the difference in strength, Honglian ultimately gave up the struggle.

As one of Orochimaru's three potential vessels, he has always wanted to gain Orochimaru's approval and repay his kindness.

In the past, she always followed Orochimaru's beliefs and never hesitated to do anything he asked her to do.

However, since Yukimaru appeared, Guren found herself changing. She could no longer execute all of Orochimaru's orders as decisively as before.

To die for Lord Orochimaru now can be considered a way of repaying his kindness from back then.

I just don't know if Yukimaru will survive...

Encased in crystal, Crimson Lotus watched Seiya approach relentlessly, having already prepared to close her eyes and await death.

However, to his surprise, just as Seiya's spiral bone spear was about to strike the Crimson Fruit enveloping the Crimson Lotus, a figure resolutely ran to the crystal and opened his arms.

"Yukimaru——!"

Upon seeing the figure protecting her from behind, Honglian screamed uncontrollably.

However, just when the boy and Honglian thought they were doomed, the bone spiral spear that had previously been invincible and pierced through a large number of crystals stopped just inches away from the boy.

Guren, who had quickly released "Crystal Release: Crimson Fruit", breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Yukimaru was safe and sound.

The boy, however, showed no remorse for surviving the ordeal. Upon seeing that Honglian was safe and sound, he took out a red crystal from his pocket as if it were a precious treasure.

Inside the crystal was a beautiful camellia, which was something that Honglian had casually given to Yukimaru, but the latter regarded it as his most precious treasure.

“I don’t know what favors Orochimaru did for you before, but just now, you should have died for him in the past. Whatever favors you owed, you should have repaid them.”

Your life now belongs to this young man; I hope you will not easily trample on or abandon it.

(End of this chapter)