Konoha: You're letting me build up my bonds, but you're offending the entire ninja world.

That's... amazing.

What are they rushing up there for? Do they feel a greater sense of accomplishment watching the battle up close?

After wiping out the rabble, Shimura Gengetsu didn't waste a second. He bypassed the corpses scattered on the ground and rushed into Hyuga Hizashi's battlefield.

"Hizashi-sensei, I'm leaving Ishigaki to you!"

Knowing the nature of his system, Shimura Gengetsu did his homework in advance, frequently visiting Root to browse information on other ninja villages and gaining an understanding of their core strength.

He had seen the two Jonin sent by Iwagakure this time in the files, so he naturally knew their names.

"Ishigaki, remember this: the one who killed you was Shimura Gengetsu!"

Rishi took the opportunity to move aside, focusing on dealing with Chongtu, which relieved a lot of pressure on him.

The Hyuga clan's Gentle Fist style is more suited to close-quarters combat and one-on-one fighting. It would be quite difficult for Hizashi to handle two Jonin at the same time.

"You brat, you're going to die today!"

"Ishigaki, he must be killed!"

Both Iwagakure Jonin unleashed fierce killing intent, along with hatred for Konoha.

Why!

Why is it that Konoha has so many geniuses? He's still a child and he already has such strong fighting power. If he grows up, he might become another Fourth Hokage!

For the sake of the village, even if they die here, they must kill Shimura Gengetsu!

[The host has established a mortal enemy bond with Ishigaki, and is rewarded with Earth Release Chakra (Excellent) and 0.5 standard unit Jonin Chakra.]

[The host has formed a mortal enemy bond with Chongtu, and is rewarded with Earth Release Chakra (Excellent) and Earth Release Ninjutsu Earthquake Core]

The fact that they received two stages of bond rewards at once shows just how deep their murderous intent was towards Shimura Gengetsu.

clang!

The Kusanagi sword was blocked by a light kunai. Ishigaki tried to use his physical and strength advantage to quickly kill Shimura Gengetsu, but he soon found that although he had the advantage in strength, Shimura Gengetsu's speed and body-flickering technique were too fast, and he ended up with several more wounds on his body.

If he hadn't relied on experience and instinctive reflexes to avoid vital organs, he would be seriously injured now.

So they quickly changed their strategy to attrition!

"Earth escape, earth flow, great river!"

The hard ground turned into a sticky swamp, forcing Xuan Yue to jump onto a large tree, which also affected her ability to use the Instantaneous Movement Technique.

As expected of a veteran Jonin, he neutralized his speed advantage with a single ninjutsu.

After releasing the ninjutsu, Ishigaki continued to form hand seals and soon unleashed a second ninjutsu.

"Earth Escape: Earth Dragon Technique!"

Countless mud projectiles shot out from the swamp. Shimura Gengetsu quickly formed hand seals and pushed his palms forward, unleashing "Wind Release: Suppression!"

The strong, dense wind converged into an indestructible wall of air, blocking all the mud projectiles.

Then several more wind blades were unleashed, and a fierce wind swept through the forest.

Water overcomes fire, fire overcomes wind, wind overcomes thunder, thunder overcomes earth, and earth overcomes water.

There is no inherent advantage or disadvantage between Earth Release and Wind Release; the competition comes down to who has the stronger nature transformation and whose ninjutsu is more powerful.

Shimura Gengetsu was like a ninja machine gun, constantly unleashing wind-style ninjutsu, forcing Ishigaki to cower behind the stone wall and frantically create new walls to defend himself, cursing wildly in his mind.

"Where does this brat get so much chakra?! He's practically a young tailed beast!"

Fortunately, while Earth Release ninjas may not be particularly good at offense, most of them are masters of defense.

"Wind Release: Thousand Faces of Wind!"

"Wind Style Vacuum Wave!"

"Wind Release... Whirlwind Slash!"

Ok?

Kurenai Yuhi was stunned.

She had just finished preparing to use illusion magic to completely annihilate her opponent when a wind blade flew in from nowhere and sliced ​​her in two.

"Xuan Yue! Don't steal kills!" Kurenai Yuhi shouted frantically!

Keshimura Gengetsu was completely having a blast, his hand seals moving so fast they left afterimages. There wasn't a target this tough in the village.

Suddenly, he landed on the ground, pressing his hands into the muddy swamp.

"Thunder escape false dark!"

In an instant, a dazzling arc of electricity lit up, then transformed into a long spear of lightning that rushed toward the stone wall.

"He can use Lightning Release?!"

Ishigaki was shocked. He hadn't expected Shimura Gengetsu to be able to counter Earth Release's Lightning Release. Faced with this disadvantage, his excellent experience as a Jonin allowed him to quickly devise a countermeasure. He slammed his hands on the ground and shouted:

"Earth-burrowing Earthquake Core!"

The earthen wall on which the stone wall stood rose rapidly, dodging the lightning spears, but also sending itself out of layers of protection.

"Turtle, you've finally shown your face!"

"not good!"

Ishigaki looked up and saw Shimura Gengetsu leap high into the sky, arriving in front of him with absolute speed, the Kusanagi sword enveloped in a strong aura of wind.

"A fleeting scene!"

A blade of light, interwoven with countless tiny wind blades, fell down, cleaving Ishigaki in two. The intense blade energy tore a trench in the ground dozens of meters behind him!

[The host has forged a bond of life and death with Ishigaki, and is rewarded with Earth Escape Technique: Opening and Digging]

"Ishigaki!"

While fighting Hizashi, Shigeto witnessed the tragic death of his companion, which threw him into a state of mental confusion, and he was struck on two pressure points by Hizashi.

"Don't shout, you're next. The two of you can keep each other company, so you won't be lonely on the road to the underworld."

Whoosh!

Gengetsu Shimura's figure disappeared again.

A beam of blue light swiftly traversed a distance of tens of meters, and wherever it passed, the sharp wind shredded all obstacles to dust.

In a short while, they arrived in front of Chongtu.

"In a moment, I will stop thinking!"

With a powerful surge of energy, Shimura Gengetsu's strike was virtually unmatched. The kunai in Shigeto's hand was severed as if it were rotten wood, and with a flick of the blade, his throat was cut open, causing a large amount of blood to spurt out.

"Well--!"

Chongtu let out a weak groan, his eyes fixed on Xuan Yue, before finally collapsing to the ground in resentment, dying with his eyes wide open.

At this point, the only remaining opponent for the Iwagakure ninja lying in ambush here was Uzuki Yugao.

Knowing he had no way out, the special Jonin tried to take down Uzuki Yugao by exchanging his life for hers.

However, Kurenai Yuhi, who had her head stolen, seized the opportunity to cast a genjutsu on him, and then ended his life without feeling any pain, which can be considered a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

boom!

Xuan Yue kicked Chong Tu's corpse aside, slowly sheathed her sword, and calmed the boiling chakra within her body.

"If someone of this level can become a Jonin, Iwagakure really doesn't discriminate."

Hyuga Hizashi awkwardly tried to save face for Shigetsuchi, "Ahem, Gengetsu, don't underestimate your opponent. Have you ever considered that it's because you're too strong?"

What could he say, that the soil and the stone walls were weak?

If he failed to defeat those two weaklings, doesn't that mean he's also a weakling?

At the same time, Hyuga Hizashi looked at Gengetsu as if he were looking at a monster.

He thought he knew enough about Shimura Gengetsu's strength before, but now, Hizashi felt like a complete fool.

You call that understanding?

He doesn't even know that Gengetsu Shimura has mastered Lightning Release, so what kind of understanding is that?

And that chakra nature transformation, even more terrifying than that of a Jonin, was completely beyond his imagination.

Hyuga Hizashi had no doubt that if he were to fight Shimura Gengetsu one-on-one, he would most likely end up like Shigeto and Ishigaki—falling asleep immediately and never waking up again.

“Rishashi-sensei…” Xuan Yue suddenly said quietly, “Your gaze makes me very uncomfortable. Are you thinking about something bad?”

"No, no." Hyuga Hizashi jumped up and quickly denied it, his mind racing to find a suitable excuse for himself: "I was just thinking that the students who took the Chunin Exams with you this time are really unlucky."

This statement from Ri Zai was also from the bottom of his heart.

Having the strength to kill a Jonin, yet he has to participate in the Chunin Exams, which are for beginners; it's practically bullying children.

At this moment, Kurenai Yuhi and Yugao Uzuki also arrived, instructing the other three Jonin to clean up the battlefield. Upon hearing their conversation, Kurenai Yuhi's expression turned strange:

“Chunin? Xuan Yue, since you have a good relationship with the Third Hokage, why don’t you talk to him and let him make you a Jonin directly? I’m afraid you’ll discourage those kids from becoming ninjas.”

Genjuro Shimura looked at her speechlessly, "Compared to them, I'm the child, okay?"

Kurenai Yuhi: "..."