Naruto: Starting with Creating a Genius Persona

Chapter 177 One Against a Thousand

Rumble!

Just as the Third Raikage charged forward with two hundred elite Kumogakure soldiers as the spearhead, hundreds of elite support troops thousands of meters behind him, serving as the shafts of the spear, were about to follow closely behind.

An overwhelming and domineering aura of slaughter suddenly descended, locking onto the Cloud Hidden Army!

"Um!?"

The commander of this Cloud Village support force, Deja, felt his heart clench suddenly, and a warning sign arose!

Before he could even figure out what was happening, he felt a fierce gust of wind carrying ice, snow and gravel rushing towards him!

Suddenly, a figure darted out from the flank amidst the snowstorm! Its speed was so great that it left a blurry afterimage on my retina.

Even more terrifying was that each heavy step the newcomer took caused the surrounding air to tremble violently, exploding into visible white shockwaves. These shockwaves overlapped, like a raging tide, surging out in all directions with each step, carving trenches into the ground in their path!

"Enemy attack! Form ranks!"

Commander Di Jia shouted, and the moment the order was given, the man and woman beside him, the team's vice commanders Diana and Gaia, immediately formed hand seals.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of Cloud Village ninjas behind them also displayed amazing tactical skills and synchronization, moving as if by reflex!

"Lightning Release: Lightning Serpent!"

"Lightning Release: Earth Walk!"

"Thunder Release: Flurry!"

"Lightning Release: Lightning Spear!"

In an instant, dozens or even hundreds of different lightning ninjutsu lights appeared, thick lightning snakes snaked and pounced, blue-white electricity spread rapidly across the ground like a spider web, and sharp lightning spears tore through the air!

Various lightning attacks intertwined to form a destructive lightning storm, which swept over the location of the approaching person!

At the same time, countless kunai swords imbued with lightning chakra shot out like a torrential rain!

However, the figure rushing towards him—Shinichi Higashino—ignored everything else!

His momentum only increased, and as he continued to accelerate, his fierce and incomparable fighting spirit and killing intent seemed to materialize. Even before he arrived, his aura was like a peerless, deadly blade drawn from its sheath, piercing into the Cloud Hidden camp with its all-pervading sharpness.

What a terrifying aura!

Diga's eyes narrowed slightly. If these people weren't all well-trained and battle-hardened elites...

Otherwise, the terrifying aura of the newcomers alone would be enough to throw an ordinary team into disarray and shake their will!

"drink!"

With a fierce shout, Zhenyi leaped high into the air, holding the Vajra Ruyi Staff, and faced the deadly lightning that intertwined across the sky. In the most primal and ferocious manner, he swung his arms in a wide arc and smashed them down hard towards the densest center of the Cloud Hidden Array!

The moment it struck, the Vajra Ruyi Cudgel transformed into a giant pillar tens of meters long, its entire body shimmering with a crimson golden luster!

Rumble!

The staff collided with the first few thick bolts of lightning, unleashing a deafening roar! The terrifying power and condensed fire-attribute chakra contained within the Vajra Ruyi Staff actually managed to smash the raging lightning energy into an explosion!

A massive shockwave, mixed with countless blue and white crackling sparks, swept wildly in all directions like an out-of-control hurricane!

The billowing dust and snow instantly obscured the area.

And in the heart of this chaotic dust storm that obscures our view!

"roar!

""

A giant, white-haired, humanoid ape, over two meters tall with muscles bulging like cast iron, burst forth from the dust storm like a meteorite falling from the sky!

It crashed down from above the billowing smoke and dust, striking with perfect accuracy right in the center of the hundreds of elite Cloud Hidden troops' formation!

The moment it landed, a visible ring of shockwaves spread out from its point of impact, causing the ground to tremble violently. Several Cloud Village ninjas who couldn't dodge in time were directly shocked, spitting out blood and flying backward!

at the same time!

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

Amidst the continuous whooshing sounds, more than a dozen figures identical to Shinichi burst forth from the still-lingering smoke and lightning.

The leader, Shinichi, raised his leg high like a battle axe, like another humanoid meteorite, and with a power no less than that of the Ape Demon King, followed closely behind the Ape Demon King and stomped heavily down towards the Cloud Hidden Formation.

Behind him were two shadow clones, one wielding the Thunder God Sword, its golden lightning blade crackling and flashing with destructive sharpness, and the other holding the Cloth Flowing Cloud Sword upside down, its blade as red as blood, radiating scorching heat and sharpness!

It transformed into two sword lights, one gold and one red, one on the left and one on the right, following closely behind!

As Shinichi stomped down with his powerful Painful Kick, which combined his immense strength and chakra, the earth caved in violently. The violent impact and gusts of wind exploded outwards from the point of impact, further shattering the Cloud Village formation that was already in disarray due to the Monkey King's attack!

The moment he landed, without even needing any eye contact or words, the Ape Demon King, not far away, understood immediately. Its massive body suddenly pushed off the spot, like a cannonball launched in reverse, leaping towards the direction where Shinichi was!

It spun rapidly in mid-air, its shape changing rapidly as it spun. In a flash of light, it transformed from a fierce white-haired giant ape back into a pitch-black Vajra Ruyi Cudgel with two dark gold tips!

The Vajra Ruyi Cudgel traced a precise arc and landed squarely in Shinichi's outstretched right palm!

Almost at the same instant his five fingers gripped the staff, Shinichi used the momentum from his landing and the strength of his waist as he turned around to suddenly swing the staff. Driven by his thoughts, the staff in his palm seemed to come alive, and its length suddenly increased!

From its original length of about two meters, it instantly extended to more than twenty meters!

The thick, jet-black staff, with a piercing whistle that tore through the air, swept across the waist of a dozen elite Cloud Village ninjas who were trying to regroup and launch a counterattack from the side and rear with overwhelming force, like the tail of a giant dragon sweeping across a thousand armies!

The dozen or so Cloud Village ninjas were horrified. Some raised their swords to block, while others tried to retreat in a flash, but the speed and power of the Vajra Staff's sweeping attack were simply too terrifying!

boom!boom!boom!boom!

A series of extremely dull thuds of flesh impact and bones shattering exploded out!

The seven or eight Cloud Village ninjas who were hit head-on by the giant club that was over twenty meters long had their weapons broken instantly. They were hit as if they had been hit by a train at full speed. They spat out blood mixed with fragments of internal organs and were thrown far away like rag bags. They landed and were silent.

The few people who were grazed by the edge of the stick a little further away on both sides were also broken by the violent impact, and were sent flying backward and rolling on the ground with screams, completely losing their fighting ability!

With a single blow, more than a dozen elite Cloud Hidden warriors were either killed or seriously injured by this brutal and unreasonable strike!

At the same time, the two shadow clones behind Shinichi, each wielding the Thunder God Sword and the Cloth Flowing Cloud Sword respectively, had already followed closely behind, transforming into two deadly streams of light, one gold and one red, following the trajectory of the Vajra Ruyi Staff's sweeping attack, instantly cutting into the group of Cloud Hidden Beings who had been swept away!

The sword light either explodes like thunder or sweeps like flames, carrying out the brutal finishing blows with precision and efficiency!

"It's Shinichi Higashino! Kill him!"

A roar of shock and rage erupted from the Hidden Cloud Formation. The leading commander, Deja, instantly recognized this Konoha genius who had recently been marked as the highest priority for elimination in the village's intelligence reports.

The moment the order was given, all the remaining elite Cloud Hidden troops displayed extremely high military skills. Despite being attacked, they were able to reorganize their defensive and counter-attack formations in a very short time!

Chakra surged, and a series of ear-piercing electric hissing sounds rang out. Dangerous lightning ninjutsu quickly condensed in their hands, and various lightning balls, lightning spears, and lightning nets were ready to be unleashed. Their target was locked on the boy holding the stick, determined to kill him on the spot!

However, Shinichi's movements were faster than their ninjutsu releases!

Countless tiny lightning bolts suddenly exploded around him, and his speed increased dramatically in an instant, transforming him into a blurry bolt of lightning that tore through the air, charging towards the small Cloud Village squad that was closest to him and hurriedly forming hand seals!

As he charged forward, the Vajra Ruyi Cudgel in his hand swung up, transforming into a howling, swirling whirlwind!

The shadows of the staffs were numerous, and the wind pressure they generated emitted a shrill whistle like the howling of ghosts and gods. It was as if a monstrous wave had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and it slammed towards the Cloud Shadow Squad in the most brutal and direct physical way!

Click!

The weapons of the Cloud Ninja were instantly shattered, their bones crushed, and they were blown away like ants, flying everywhere.

The Cloud Ninja behind them were also violently struck by their companions, resulting in the sound of bones breaking and cracking, interspersed with unexpected groans and screams.

The previously relatively stable back line was also thrown into chaos by this chain reaction!

At this moment, the lightning attacks that had been prepared and released by the Cloud Village members, who were slightly further away and had been organized by Commander Dega, finally roared through the air and rushed towards Shinichi from all directions like dense blue lightning spears!

Meanwhile, another twenty elite Cloud Village soldiers, whose auras were exceptionally fierce and who were clearly skilled in taijutsu and swordsmanship and adept at close combat, were personally led by the deputy commander, the elite Jonin Gaia. Like a swarm of sharks that had smelled blood, they pounced on Shinichi from multiple directions, including the flanks and the rear!

Shinichi's expression remained unchanged. He swung his Vajra Ruyi Staff around again, creating an impenetrable barrier that smashed and knocked away a large number of incoming lightning ninjutsu, exploding them into sparks that scattered everywhere!

He then moved with ghostly speed, flashing and retreating to the side, narrowly avoiding the remaining few tricky lightning ninjutsu attacks.

Just as he dodged the last lightning spear and paused slightly, two Cloud Village ninjas who pounced from the side and rear swung their swords at him!

Without even turning his head, Zhen used the momentum of the attack to deliver a superb backhand thrust!

"long!"

The tip of the Vajra Ruyi Staff suddenly swelled in the wind, like a venomous dragon emerging from its cave. With terrifying spiraling penetrating force, it pierced through the chests of the two Cloud Hidden elites who were trying to attack him with astonishing speed and two soft "poof" sounds!

The staff pierced through their bodies, bringing with it a shower of blood. The eyes of the two Cloud Hidden Ones dimmed instantly, and they hung limply on the staff.

But just as Shinichi finished his swift counterattack and before the long baton had been fully retracted, in that tiny gap...

"die!!"

Vice Commander Gaia, a Jonin renowned for his swordsmanship, lightning release, and body-flicker technique, had already used his terrifying speed to quickly reach Shinichi's blind spot behind him!

The thick Cloud Hidden Blade in his hand was now infused with a massive amount of Lightning Release chakra. The blade was completely enveloped in dazzling blue-white lightning, crackling loudly. With all his might, he slashed down fiercely towards Shinichi's unsuspecting nape of the neck!

Timing! Angle! Power! All were perfect!

Shinichi's senses had already detected the threat behind him, and he caught a glimpse of the blazing lightning blade out of the corner of his eye. He was about to make a move...

At that moment, the Flying Thunder God kunai at his waist suddenly trembled very slightly, emitting a faint glow.

The next moment...

Swish!

A golden figure appeared out of nothingness and appeared behind Shinichi without warning, positioned precisely between Shinichi and Gaia who was slashing down with his sword!

Minato Namikaze!

His timing was so precise it was chilling, as if he had anticipated Gaia's every move. He held a Flying Thunder God kunai in his hand, the tip of which was now condensed with highly compressed, sharp-screeching blue wind attribute chakra!

As Minato appeared, his attack was launched simultaneously. The kunai in his hand had become a blur that was difficult to see with the naked eye. It swept across Gaia's throat, who was unable to stop his full-force slash and was unable to make an effective dodge!

"Varied...?!"

Gaia's eyes narrowed sharply. In his final moments, he only had time to make out the newcomer's distinctive blond hair and cold blue eyes, and then...

A head flew into the air, and scalding blood gushed out of the neck cavity like a fountain!

The headless body remained in the posture of charging forward and swinging a knife, then staggered forward two more steps before collapsing to the ground with a thud.

"Well done, Shinichi!"

Minato's attack was successful, and he didn't even pause, not even glancing at the corpse again.

As soon as he finished speaking, chakra erupted beneath his feet, and his figure rapidly retreated like a golden phantom, effortlessly dodging several lightning releases and ninja tool attacks that came from other directions, fueled by the commander's shock and anger at being killed.

As he retreated, his hands seemed to magically produce more than a dozen brand-new Flying Thunder God kunai from nowhere, which he then unleashed in all directions.

The kunai had just been released and was still spinning in mid-air!

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

The golden flash began!

Minato Namikaze's figure began a dazzling series of flashes on the battlefield!

Each flash appeared precisely next to a Flying Thunder God kunai that had just landed or was about to land. Each appearance was accompanied by an extremely swift but absolutely deadly attack, either slicing through the throat or piercing the heart!

His movements were incredibly fast, without any unnecessary frills, just the most concise and efficient killing.

The twenty Cloud Village melee elites who followed Gaia to attack Shinichi were still reeling from the shock of their deputy commander being instantly killed, and had not yet had time to reorganize an effective attack or defense formation.

The golden flash, like the scythe of death, swept back and forth between them.

Pfft!Pfft!Pfft!

The dull thuds of the bodies falling to the ground echoed one after another.

In the blink of an eye, the twenty elite Cloud Hidden warriors who rushed forward, including Gaia, the vice commander, had all turned into corpses, their faces still showing disbelief, shock, and bewilderment.

It was truly an artful act of killing.

Shinichi sighed inwardly. Compared to his own extremely violent and terrifying attack methods, Minato's attack methods were extremely simple but more efficient.

Damn it, it's Minato Namikaze again!

Commander Degas was horrified and immediately shouted, "It's Minato Namikaze! Execute Plan C! Quickly!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the remaining Cloud Hidden forces also quickly moved again, rapidly transforming into a scattered hunting formation that was extremely dispersed, with the groups spaced far apart, and constantly moving rapidly and irregularly.

The Cloud Village ninjas, who have been repeatedly harassed by Minato Namikaze and have paid a heavy price, have been forced to summarize some targeted, or rather, barely effective, countermeasures through blood and tears. These are known as Plan C.

However, this so-called Plan C only made most of the Cloud Village ninja die a little slower and struggle a little longer; it could not truly change the outcome.

"Watch out, Shinichi!" Minato Namikaze left these words behind before disappearing again, his whereabouts unknown.

Shinichi didn't care where Minato went, because his teammates had already arrived.

It sounds like a long story, but it actually takes very little time.

From the moment Shinichi charged into the Cloud Village formation with overwhelming force, to the moment Minato Namikaze appeared and instantly reaped twenty-one Cloud Village members, it all happened in just a few breaths.

Only now did the rest of the Shinichi Battalion finally arrive at the edge of the battlefield!

Three hundred Konoha ninjas witnessed their captain standing alone in the center of the enemy formation, surrounded by corpses, with the Cloud Village's formation in disarray and their morale clearly low.

The veteran team members were fine; they were already used to their captain's fierce fighting style of "taking the lead to smash the enemy's formation and rhythm, creating the best opportunity for the main force to break in." But the newly joined team members were horrified!

Although I already knew from various rumors and battle reports that Captain Shinichi Higashino was young but had extraordinary strength, witnessing him single-handedly charge into hundreds of elite Cloud Village soldiers and wreak havoc on them, causing heavy casualties, still brought a huge shock to me.

"superior!"

"Support Captain!"

The three hundred members of the First Battalion instantly charged towards the already chaotic flank of the Cloud Village forces, and soon they were locked in a fierce battle with the outer forces of the Cloud Village!

At this moment, Shinichi also started moving again!

He raised his Vajra Ruyi Cudgel again, and his figure shot out like a cannonball, with more than a dozen shadow clones around him, especially the two shadow clones holding the Thunder God Sword and the Grass Sword following closely behind.

With the help of external teammates, both sides worked together to severely damage, or even completely destroy, the Third Raikage's spear shaft!

Rumble!

At the same time, the sudden commotion from the rear finally caught the attention of the Third Raikage, who was leading two hundred Cloud Village soldiers in the vanguard.

Looking back, the Third Generation Raiye thought it would be that annoying, slippery Minato Namikaze again, but he didn't expect to see someone who surprised him.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, Shinichi, who had just swept away three Cloud Village ninjas who were trying to form hand seals with a single blow using his Vajra Staff, turned around at the same time.

The two people's eyes met precisely, thousands of meters apart, amidst the vast sea of ​​people and the chaos of war!