I'm in Konoha, and I started with Ashura Chakra.

Chapter 62 Phantom Instantaneous Movement Technique

"This seems to be our first encounter since we met."

Yagyu looked at Nara Shikamaru across from him and smiled as he raised his index and middle fingers.

"Ah... my score was too bad, I'm so sorry I couldn't match you." Nara Shikamaru scratched his head with one hand and raised his index and middle fingers with the other.

If you look closely, you'll notice that his eyes are no longer dead fish eyes, but serious ones.

Yagyu is an invincible demon king!

This is a consensus among all students of the 60th graduating class of the Ninja Academy.

If it were anyone else, Sasuke and Naruto would definitely feel very resentful if they lost.

But even Uchiha Sasuke and Naruto had gotten used to losing to Yagyu over the past six years.

As the first person to see that Yagyu was hiding his true strength, Nara Shikamaru knew very well that he was no match for Yagyu.

However, his brain told him that if Yagyu only had these abilities, then he might still have a chance to win.

After all, the Nara clan's shadow imitation technique is not to be underestimated.

Even if Yagyu had a huge amount of chakra and was highly skilled in water release techniques, he couldn't possibly flood this place.

As long as the shadow can control Yagyu, he's guaranteed to win.

So these days, Nara Shikamaru has been thinking about how to control Yagyu and has prepared more than a dozen plans.

Now is the time to put it into practice!

Seeing that both of them had formed opposing hand seals, Genma Shiranui raised his arm again and shouted, "The second round of the duel, Yagyu VS Nara Shikamaru... Begin!"

Whoosh whoosh—

Nara Shikamaru immediately leaped backward, creating distance between himself and Yagyu.

While his body was still in the air, he reached into his ninja tool pouch and took out three black bullets, which he then threw at Yagyu.

The three bullets landed in front of Yagyu and on his left and right sides respectively, then exploded into three clouds of smoke that enveloped him.

After landing, Nara Shikamaru formed hand seals, and black shadows spread out from his feet, then forked at the tips, forming several long black snakes that quickly crawled towards the smoke.

No one saw that within the white smoke, red powder appeared and disappeared faintly.

Immediately, three Yagyu emerged from the smoke, hands behind their backs, and charged towards Nara Shikamaru in a ninja running style.

Seeing the approaching shadows, the three Yagyu immediately fanned out and surrounded Nara Shikamaru, showing no intention of using Water Release for ranged attacks.

Nara Shikamaru didn't have time to think about why Yagyu didn't use ranged attacks. Seeing the three Yagyu separate, he immediately controlled his shadow to attack the closest Yagyu, who was also facing him.

The next second, his pupils contracted.

I thought Yagyu would dodge the shadows with a teleportation, but to my surprise, he ignored the approaching shadows and continued to charge towards Nara Shikamaru.

Just as Nara Shikamaru thought that this Yagyu was a shadow clone, and was about to glance at both Yagyu clones out of the corner of his eye, analyzing in his mind who the real Yagyu was,

The shadow touched Yagyu in front of him, but the imagined scene of his body freezing or turning into white smoke did not appear.

Instead, the shadow passed through Yagyu's body, but Yagyu still charged towards him.

"It's a clone technique?"

Nara Shikamaru raised an eyebrow, surprised that Yagyu would use such a low-level technique.

But the next second, Nara Shikamaru seemed to realize something, his expression changing as he exclaimed, "No, this isn't a clone technique, it's... a genjutsu!"

The Clone Technique is very similar to the Shadow Clone Technique. Unless you encounter a sensory eye like the Byakugan or some special sensory techniques, the naked eye simply cannot distinguish which is the Clone Technique and which is the Shadow Clone Technique.

To find out whether it's a clone technique or a shadow clone technique, you only need to touch the other person.

The Shadow Clone Technique is merely an illusion created with chakra, like a mirage in the desert; it will disappear if touched.

Shadow clones, on the other hand, are physical clones that even the Byakugan cannot see through.

If the Yagyu in front of him was just an illusion, then he should have disappeared the moment he was touched by the Shadow Imitation Technique.

But he didn't; he kept running this way.

Therefore, Nara Shikamaru quickly disrupted the flow of chakra within his body in an attempt to break Yagyu's genjutsu.

However, Yagyu still hadn't disappeared and had already rushed in front of Nara Shikamaru, throwing a punch at his face.

Nara Shikamaru subconsciously deactivated the Shadow Imitation Technique, took out a kunai from his ninja tool pouch, and swung it at Yagyu with a backhand grip.

As expected, the kunai and his arm passed right through his body.

But the phantom clone in front of him still didn't disappear, and its fist had already landed on Nara Shikamaru's face.

boom!

The powerful force contorted Nara Shikamaru's expression, his entire face trembling in a wave-like motion, demonstrating just how strong Yagyu's punch was.

The next second, Nara Shikamaru's feet left the ground, and he flew more than ten meters away.

Nara Shikamaru landed, completely bewildered, his mind blank.

Upon seeing this, many ninjas in the audience involuntarily stood up.

Even Hiruzen Sarutobi and Orochimaru, who were in the VIP seats, were visibly shocked and almost stood up in excitement.

"Illusion... Illusionary Body Flicker Technique!"

"Is this for real? Is this a true Phantom Instantaneous Movement Technique? This... how is this possible?!"

"He doesn't have the Sharingan, so how did he master the Phantom Body Flicker Technique?"

"Incredible! Just how skilled is he in teleportation and illusion techniques to master this unique technique, 'Teleportation Still Water'?"

"..."

The ninja community in the audience was in an uproar.

Many young ninjas, as well as the civilians from the neighboring village, were completely bewildered.

It's no wonder they reacted this way, after all, the Uchiha clan had been extinct for several years.

As is well known, two supernovas emerged on the Konoha side during the Third Shinobi World War.

These two supernovas are none other than the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, who made great achievements with his Flying Thunder God Technique and was known as the "Yellow Flash".

The other supernova, Uchiha Shisui, was able to instantly kill his enemy from an extremely long distance, even through the Byakugan, immersing them in a world of illusion.

However, Uchiha Shisui, whose genjutsu was ridiculously strong, was known as—Shisui of the Body Flicker.

Just as Minato Namikaze was known as the "Yellow Flash" because of his Flying Thunder God Technique, Shisui Uchiha's title of "Shisui of the Body Flicker" came from the Phantom Body Flicker Technique he developed.

The principle behind this technique is very simple: it's just a fusion of the Sharingan's genjutsu and the Body Flicker Technique and Shadow Clone Technique taught at the Ninja Academy.

However, apart from Uchiha Shisui, no one else in the entire Uchiha clan or the vast ninja world could master this technique.

The effect of this technique is to use an E-rank clone technique to create one or more phantom clones, and then the main body and the clones attack the enemy together.

The clones created by the Shadow Clone Technique dissipate upon contact, but the clones created by Uchiha Shisui by fusing with the Sharingan's genjutsu do not dissipate.

When the enemy attacks Uchiha Shisui's clone and discovers it's just an illusion, thus lowering their guard, Uchiha Shisui will instantly appear at the clone's location, turning the illusion into a physical entity.

Then, in the next second, this entity might turn into a phantom.

That is why Uchiha Shisui's enemies had no idea which one was Uchiha Shisui's real body, and they had to defend against every attack from Uchiha Shisui, otherwise the phantom clones' attacks would become physical attacks.

Countless people have died at the hands of Uchiha Shisui's Phantom Body Flicker Technique.

That technique, which was in some ways as powerful and terrifying as the Flying Thunder God Technique, made Uchiha Shisui famous throughout the ninja world, and he became the strongest member of the Uchiha clan in his teens.

However, after Uchiha Shisui's death, this technique, which is essentially a Sharingan genjutsu, became a legend, just like the Flying Thunder God Technique.

And now, this technique has actually reappeared, no wonder those ninjas who know Uchiha Shisui are so shocked!

(End of this chapter)