Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 164 Sea Sacrifice
"Ultrasonic insect repellent technique!"

Sasuke Umino unleashed a disruptive ninjutsu at the sunken ship, continuously increasing its power.

Umibozu quickly felt unwell; although the injury wasn't severe, it was extremely uncomfortable.

Finally, unable to endure it any longer, they finally emerged from the sunken ship.

Samehada: Chakra Absorption!

Umino Sasuke immediately gave chase and unleashed a barrage of powerful attacks on Umibozu.

As Samehada absorbed a large amount of chakra, Umibozu's body continued to shrink.

"Huh? It actually has such high intelligence."

When Umibozu sensed the threat of death, he actually begged for mercy and knelt down, displaying extremely high intelligence.

It's no wonder that the Sea Monk allows merchant ships to pass by offering sacrifices, and he even sets minimum sacrifice amounts based on the size of the fleet. Moreover, he enjoys collecting gold offerings.

The sunken ship at the bottom of the sea contains not only antique goods, but also gold that is not very old, which must have been collected by Umibozu.

"Use the intermediate-level spirit scroll as a transition first, and then find an opportunity to use the advanced-level spirit scroll to re-sign a more solid blood pact later."

Sunagakure is relatively poor. The military supplies that can be exchanged for the mission merit points of their logistics department are very few, far less complete than those of Konoha. It is already rare to be able to capture a few intermediate summoning scrolls. As for advanced summoning scrolls, given Sunagakure's military expenditure, they are probably more precious than A-rank ninjutsu. However, since it is just a coastal fortress, it naturally does not have such precious items.

After the fortress was breached by the Mist Ninja, these military supplies remained relatively intact. After Umino Sasuke defeated the Mist Ninja army, all of these spoils of war fell into his possession.

With the strength of the sealing technique on the intermediate summoning scroll, the binding force of the contract with Umibozu is very weak, and it is impossible to summon Umibozu remotely. However, it is extremely effective for positioning and marking to prevent Umibozu from escaping.

After forming a contract with Umibozu using a mid-level summoning beast, Umino Sasuke took Umibozu back to the shipwreck. He took some of the more valuable jewelry from the shipwreck, but because there were too many other antiques and goods, he had to leave them there for the time being and retrieve them later.

There was no other way. Although they had purchased a lot of large-capacity sealing scrolls to stockpile weapons and supplies, and had the Konoha Hundred Puppet Army clear out their inventory, they had still managed to capture a large amount of high-value spoils of war along the way, and the scrolls were now completely full.

Especially those gold and silver treasures and high-level puppets, it just doesn't feel safe to put them on the ship without sealing them with scrolls.

Especially those gold and silver jewels, which the Konoha Hundred had never handled, were considered his personal hoard. If he were to take them out, and the news got back to Konoha, he probably wouldn't get any benefit at all.

Instead, they can hide it and pretend that it was taken away by the fleeing Mist Ninja.

Even if the Mist Ninja denies it, it's a problem within the Mist Ninja, and it's Suigetsu Hozuki and his gang who embezzled it. The Konoha 100 can testify that they never saw the gold and silver jewelry. It's just that Suigetsu Hozuki and his gang are crying wolf.

With a bountiful harvest, Umino Sasuke intended to return to the fleet and continue his journey, but he discovered that a riot had broken out on the ship. Many crew members were actually defying the pressure from the ninjas and demanding sacrifices, and many were even kneeling on the deck praying.

"Yeah, why didn't I think of that?"

Sasuke Umino's eyes lit up. He had finally come up with a good idea. There were still a lot of spoils on the ship. If they were just transported back like this, who knows who would end up in their pockets? Why not send some of the valuable spoils into his own pocket through a sacrifice?

"Samehada, transfer chakra to Umibozu."

In an instant, a large amount of chakra flowed in, and Umibozu's body rapidly grew larger, not only returning to its original size but also becoming several times larger.

This enormous Umibozu, in terms of size alone, is no less than Gamabunta.

After giving some instructions to Umibozu, Umino Sasuke returned to the ship.

"roar~"

Umibozu seemed impatient and angry, and its enormous body appeared on the sea surface.

"Oh no! The immortal sea monster is enraged!"

"The immortal sea monster is so huge."

"The Konoha ninjas are no match for us; we're doomed." The sailors on the ship were terrified when they saw the full appearance of Umibozu.

Umino Sasuke feigned a look of terror and immediately gave the Water Release squad the order to unleash a combination ninjutsu.

"Water Style: Water Chaos and Heavy Waves!"

Instantly, towering waves swept towards Chairman Haifang.

With the added advantage of the sea, this combination of water-style ninjutsu achieved the terrifying power of an S-rank ninjutsu.

"This combination of ninjutsu is completely ineffective."

"Oh no, the immortal sea monster is completely immune to water-style ninjutsu! Not only is it not injured, it has actually grown bigger."

"That's right, it has indeed grown bigger. It seems to have absorbed the energy from the Water Release technique and become even more powerful."

The people on the ship were shocked by what they saw, and then became increasingly panicked.

"Release the combined Wind Release technique."

Sasuke Umino immediately gave the Wind Release squadron the order to unleash a combination ninjutsu, and several of his shadow clones joined in as well.

"Wind Release: Ten Thousand Ren Storm!"

In an instant, a large number of wind blades swept across the sea surface and attacked the immortal sea monster.

"Great, the immortal sea monster has been cut into pieces."

"The Konoha ninjas are indeed powerful; they can actually unleash such a strong ninjutsu."

"Thank you to the Konoha ninjas for ridding us of a scourge..."

When the crew members on the ship saw the sea monster being cut into pieces, they felt like they had escaped death and cheered.

Unfortunately, their joy was short-lived. The undead sea monster's shattered body reassembled, clearly indicating that the incredibly powerful combination of wind techniques had done no damage whatsoever.

"Release the combined Fire Release technique."

Umino Sasuke then gave the Fire Release Chunin the order to unleash a combination ninjutsu.

Fire Release: Continuous Flames Burn the City!

A massive amount of flame swept towards the immortal sea monster. Although the fire-style techniques were greatly reduced due to the terrain at sea, the combined fire-style techniques released by nearly ten Chunin were still far more powerful than a regular A-rank fire-style technique.

This time, however, the immortal sea monster did not continue to resist, but instead actively merged into the seawater below, easily dodging the fire-style ninjutsu combination.

"There's really no other way; it seems we have no choice but to offer a sacrifice."

Umino Sasuke pretended to have used all his tricks, and then quickly unsealed a scroll, throwing corpses one by one into the sea. Moreover, these were all high-quality corpses, many of which were the corpses of bloodline limit ninjas.

Upon seeing these corpse offerings, the immortal sea monster, which had initially been about to fly into a rage, immediately calmed down and absorbed each corpse into its body.

The ship's steward immediately reminded him, "Lord Sasuke, we still need to offer gold as a sacrifice, otherwise we may not be able to leave safely."

"Then what are we waiting for? Quickly offer up all the gold and silver treasures in the warehouse of ship number two."

Umino Sasuke immediately gave the order to continue the sacrifice. Everyone on the ship agreed. It was just a matter of money; life was more important. As long as they could escape, they could earn money later, but they only had one life.

(End of this chapter)