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

Chapter 241 Framing the blame
If it weren't for caution, and the deployment of three layers of sticky protective barriers for full-force defense, we would probably have already capsized in the gutter.

The ninja profession is truly unpredictable; one must never be careless.

Seeing that his attack had not been successful, the Third Hokage tried to continue his assault with a fist, but Sasuke Umino did not give him the chance and directly used an A-rank genjutsu.

"The Art of Darkness!"

The Third Hoshikage immediately lost his visual perception and became somewhat panicked.

At this moment, Umino Sasuke stepped onto the air barrier, pushed off with his feet, and used the Light-Heavy Rock Technique to adjust his position and take the opportunity to approach the Third Hoshikage.

"Peacock's Wonderful Method: Guard!"

The Third Hoshikage had excellent combat instincts and immediately sensed the danger. He gathered and condensed the Bear-Type Peacock Technique, forming a defense similar to the Tailed Beast Cloak.

"Strange power!"

Umino Sasuke delivered a powerful punch, easily breaking through the defenses of the Peacock Mystic Technique.

Faced with a purely physical, superhuman attack, the Peacock Mystic Art defense, composed entirely of chakra, was completely countered and easily destroyed in a single blow.

Even disregarding the physical counter-effects, with the added weight of the Rock Technique, this punch's monstrous strength was enough to easily defeat it.

call out!
The Third Hoshikage was immediately sent flying by a punch, turning into a streak of light and crashing into the poisonous valley below.

A white vacuum column remained above the poisonous gas valley.

There was a loud bang.

The Third Star Shadow crashed to the ground, cracking the earth and creating a large crater.

"Cough cough cough!" Although the Third Hoshikage was old, his vitality was quite vigorous. He spat out a lot of internal organ fragments and blood. Even a tailed beast might not be able to withstand such an attack. It was quite remarkable that the Third Hoshikage did not die on the spot.

At this moment, the Third Hoshikage lay in the cracked crater, spitting out mouthfuls of blood, his life hanging by a thread.

However, before he died, something strange happened to the Third Hokage; he began to decay, starting from his heart.

"Natural energy? Immortal arts!"

Sasuke Umino's gaze sharpened, his heart filled with surprise and uncertainty.

"Samehada Chakra Healing!"

He quickly asked Samehada to help heal him, but it was completely unable to stop the corruption trend on the Third Hoshikage's body.

Seeing that the corruption had begun to spread to the Third Hoshikage's neck, Umino Sasuke finally gave up and conjured a chakra blade in his hand.

There was a pop.

With a swift stroke, he severed the Third Hoshikage's head.

Just as they had managed to preserve the Third Hoshikage's head, the Hoshigakure ninja finally caught up with them.

"That scoundrel from Iwagakure dared to ambush Lord Hoshikage!"

"Release Lord Hoshikage immediately, or my Hoshigakure will fight you to the death!"

"Don't think you can escape by hiding in the Poisonous Gas Valley. Come out now and hand over Lord Xingying, and I might consider sparing your life."

A large number of Star Ninjas surrounded the Poison Gas Valley, and those wearing gas masks guarded the narrowest part of the valley.

"Iwa nin?"

Upon hearing this, Umino Sasuke was taken aback, but then he realized what was happening and his eyes lit up.

Clearly, these Star Ninja had heard the Third Hoshikage's angry shout and witnessed the aerial battle between the two from afar. While the Rock Fist Technique wasn't unique to Iwagakure, the ability to levitate without any equipment was rare in the ninja world. It was obviously the Iwagakure's Light and Heavy Rock Technique. Coupled with the Third Hoshikage's personal confirmation, these Star Ninja had seen and heard it all, and immediately became convinced that the ninja invading Star Ninja Village were Iwagakure ninja.

The Star Hidden Weapon Squad finally brought a large number of gas masks. As soon as the Star Ninjas put them on, they jumped into the Poisonous Gas Valley and began searching the entire valley.

"Kirigakure no Jutsu!"

In an instant, a large amount of mist spread out, almost covering the entire poisonous gas valley.

These Star Ninjas were quite weak, not even a single one was a decent Jonin. Faced with the Silent Killing Technique, they were completely powerless to fight back and were easily knocked unconscious one by one.

The Star Ninjas finally realized something was wrong and used the Peacock Technique to fly out of the poisonous valley or step on the rock walls to get away from this dangerous place.

In just a few minutes, the Star Ninja suffered heavy losses, with less than half of them escaping the Poison Gas Valley.

This was only because Umino Sasuke wasn't very interested in those genin upstarts. If he had gone all out and used his shadow clones to help, these star ninjas would probably have been wiped out long ago.

These Star Ninjas should be thankful that they misunderstood him and mistook him for an Iwa Ninja, otherwise they would have had no chance of escaping this poisonous valley.

Hoshino also realized Umino Sasuke's strength, but did not give up, showing the composure of a great ninja village. If it were another small ninja village, having lost most of its ninjas and only having some genin left, it would probably have collapsed long ago.

Not only have they not suffered a complete rout, but they've even managed to launch a counterattack, demonstrating remarkable ninja willpower.

Some Star Ninjas flew above the Poisonous Gas Valley, unleashing their long-range Peacock Technique and launching a barrage of attacks at the valley below.

Those Hoshigakure genin who couldn't fly were haphazardly throwing kunai and shuriken on the cliff face.

Earth Release: Iron Stone Bullet!

Umino Sasuke spat out a large number of stone projectiles, like a cannon, and unleashed a barrage of attacks on the Hoshi ninja in the air.

One by one, the Star Ninjas were unable to dodge and were hit, falling to the ground.

"Secret Technique: Empty Candy Sticks to the Wall!"

To prevent these unconscious Star Ninjas from falling from the sky and being crushed to death, Umino Sasuke kindly controlled Nyanko-sensei and caught them.

These Star Ninjas have enormous amounts of chakra, making them excellent chakra harvesters. Wouldn't it be a pity if they died like this?
"As expected, it's an Iwa ninja!"

"hateful!"

Seeing the heavy casualties and the near annihilation of the village, the Star Ninjas finally stopped their attack and began arguing. In the end, they all had no choice but to leave the cliff of the Poisonous Gas Valley and return to Star Ninja Village.

They even started packing their bags, preparing to abandon Xingren Village and leave their homeland.

Umino Sasuke quickly used the Transformation Technique to transform himself into the appearance of an Iwa ninja and change his body shape, making him look somewhat like Akatsuchi's brother.

"Water Release: Water Healing Technique!"

Then, he used medical ninjutsu to heal and awaken a Chunin of decent rank.

"We've already obtained the star, so let's hurry up and clean up the battlefield and leave here as soon as possible."

Umino Sasuke muttered to himself, pretending to start cleaning up the battlefield, as if he was about to leave.

The awakened Star Ninja, upon seeing Sasuke Umino's transformed appearance, proved to be quite poor at feigning unconsciousness, failing even to calm his racing heartbeat. Fortunately, Sasuke Umino eventually went to the other side to clean up the battlefield, allowing the Star Ninja to sneak away from the Poisonous Gas Valley and return to Star Ninja Village to relay the information back.

Seeing that the Star Ninja Village was still packing their luggage, Umino Sasuke didn't pay any more attention to it. He simply teleported the Star Ninjas one by one to the Angkor Fortress prison and imprisoned them.

After spending some time cleaning up the battlefield, Umino Sasuke finally left and teleported back to the underground secret chamber of the Land of Waves.

(End of this chapter)