I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 300 When encountering a defeated opponent, people often underestimate them.

The fiery slash, resembling the slash of a vulcan, struck the sand fortress, which resembled a tortoise shell. Instantly, several chasm-like wounds appeared on the fortress, and the intense heat melted the sand.

Even after the flames burned out, the sand fortress remained unconquered. Chenma frowned and looked at the figure approaching from afar.

I've heard of the old man coming after the young man was beaten, but this is the first time I've ever seen the woman come after the man was beaten.

Upon seeing the girl with light brown hair and a gentle face, Tatsuma quickly guessed her identity: Karura.

Karura traveled at full speed and soon arrived at the fortress. She looked warily at Tatsuma opposite her, and when she saw the age Tatsuma's appearance conveyed, Karura was obviously stunned for a moment.

Although the person next to him was wearing a mask, judging from his build, he wouldn't be much older than the white-haired boy who had his face showing.

When Karura first saw the combination of Fire Release and Wind Release ninjutsu, he thought it was the Hokage and the legendary Dark Lord of Konoha teaming up. But now he realized that they were just two boys who were even younger than him.

"What are you doing here?!"

The sand fortress was completely destroyed by the gold dust from the inside out. Rasa walked out with a sullen face. Even though it was Garura who saved him, Rasa's tone was as if Garura had made a mistake.

"I... I just... the sand on you told me you were in danger, so I..."

Karura hurriedly explained, but Rasa's face remained ashen. He stepped in front of Karura, slightly turning his head, and gritted his teeth as he spoke to Karura behind him:

"Do you know how dangerous this place is?! What if you get hurt coming here all by yourself?!"

Karura, having been scolded, lowered her head and dared not speak. When Yashamaru, who had been excited to see his sister when he came out of the fortress, saw Rasa's expression, he didn't dare to greet his sister.

"Slap~ Slap~ Slap~"

Tatsuma clapped his hands and said, "Rasa and Karura, you truly are a model couple in Sunagakure."

Rasa was stunned, glaring at Tatsuma. How did that damned Sakamoto Tatsuma know about Karura's existence? Her level of secrecy was clearly higher than his own.

Wait, what did he say? A model couple? Almost simultaneously, Rasa and Karura realized what he meant, and their ears turned red at the same instant.

How did you learn who we are?

Rasa, with his more extensive experience in fieldwork, quickly regained his composure and questioned Tatsuma. Tatsuma shrugged and said:

"You two have a very high level of secrecy; people from other villages have no way of knowing your information, but people from your own village can."

As he spoke, Chenma revealed a smug smile. He knew about these two people, not through any intelligence means, but because he had once had a god-like perspective.

But how could Tatsuma possibly let go of an opportunity to sow suspicion among the enemy? Rasa wouldn't let it slip by either; his face contorted with rage, he demanded, "Who is it?!"

"Could excessive contact with gold lead to symptoms of heavy metal poisoning? How could I possibly tell you who trained a ninja from an enemy village and made him a high-ranking member? How many resources would that require?"

Upon hearing this, Rasa's face grew even more gloomy, and he began to mentally recount the identities of those high-ranking officials in Sunagakure. He decided that when he returned, he would definitely tell his teacher about this matter and thoroughly investigate the entire high-ranking officials!

Tatsuma was just making things up, but Tenka looked at him with genuine curiosity, as if he would have asked a question if the occasion hadn't been inappropriate.

Given Tianfeng's personality, he might actually ask.

Tatsuma glanced at Minato out of the corner of his eye and saw him teaming up with Earwig, along with Gamabunta and Ueyuu, to deal with the other rogue ninja. Tatsuma pursed his lips and said:

"Anakusa, go help Minato and the others."

"What about here?"

Looking at Rasa, who was staring intently at them like a demon, Tenka was still a little uneasy. Tatsuma said, "It's alright. Only after we deal with that can we take further steps to win."

If things remain at this stalemate, they won't be able to take down the rogue ninja, and things will be difficult with Rasa as well. This is not what Tatsuma wants.

Upon hearing this, Tianfeng nodded, said no more, drew his ninja sword from the ground, turned and ran towards Minato, the head of the Sunagakure ANBU member at his waist swaying back and forth.

Seeing his teammate's body treated this way, Rasa's anger was reignited. Having had a short rest, his chakra and condition had recovered somewhat, so he mobilized his chakra again.

With a clasp of his hands, the gold dust condensed once more, and the gold dust spear, resembling a double-spiral drill bit, reappeared.

"Magnetic Escape! Placer Gold Spear!"

The spear thrust towards Tianfeng, but Chenma instantly blocked its path. Luosha frowned, looking at the hand seals of Chenma's summoning technique, a disdainful smile appearing on his face.

He had already pierced through that strange door. Could Chenma summon it again? Even if he could, so what?

It should be noted that the amount of chakra he output this time far exceeded that before, but Rasa still used a portion more chakra. He was prepared, even if Tatsuma summoned the same gate.

He was determined to crush them in one fell swoop, without being delayed even for a millisecond!

"A triple Rashomon!"

But Rasa knew how to output more chakra, and so could Tatsuma. Feeling his chakra being drawn out in large quantities by the summoning jutsu, Tatsuma bit the soldier pill he had in his mouth and swallowed it.

"Bang!"

Smoke erupted, and the spear controlled by Rasa pierced into the smoke. The impact he had just experienced was once again fed back to Rasa's body through the long, sand-gold spear.

Rasa, who was well-prepared this time, was obviously much more at ease in dealing with the situation. He suddenly exerted his strength, and his chakra also exploded rapidly, instantly destroying the first Rashomon.

Just as Luo Sha was feeling smug, an even more intense impact came again.

"Thump~"

The gold-plated spear crumbled, and the smoke dissipated, revealing a pile of fragments, a slightly worn gate to hell, and a gate that was as smooth as new.

Luo Sha was taken aback. He hadn't expected that the special summoning "beast" with its powerful defenses could not only be summoned repeatedly, but also that there was more than one door. Moreover, judging from the heaviness of the second door...

These peculiar doors are probably stronger than the last in terms of defense. Even if he managed to break through the second door by sheer luck, he would have no chance against the third.

However, as Menluosha tried to recall, a piece of information he had seen in the library suddenly came to mind: a record of wars during the Warring States period.

The legendary five gates of hell, and the one who used them was Hashirama Senju!

The mere thought of that name sent a shiver down Rasa's spine, even though he had never met Hashirama Senju.

That was a god-like existence. If Hashirama Senju's ambition hadn't been simply to establish a ninja village, the landscape of the ninja world might have been vastly different.

Even though the person standing in front of him wasn't the famous First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, who ushered in the era of the ninja village, Rasa still couldn't help but lose some of his aura when he saw Hashirama's techniques.

Even though this technique is not well-known in the war exploits of Hashirama Senju, and its representativeness, power, and influence are far inferior to the unique Wood Release technique in the ninja world, a person's name is like a tree's shadow.

But why is this kid so stingy? He only summons one door, and even when he was forced to, he only summoned three. Why didn't he just summon all five doors?

If Tatsuma knew what he was thinking, Tatsuma would definitely cry. Did he want to be so stingy? It's like a skilled cook can't make a meal without rice.

He used less chakra to summon the same beast as others, but he still wanted to summon the complete Fivefold Rashomon.

As things stand now, Tatsuma would probably need to find a day when he's in top form and doesn't stay up late or get up early to barely exhaust his chakra enough to summon a spirit.

Rashomon's defensive capabilities are indeed stronger with each layer, and the increase is gradual. However, the amount of chakra required for summoning also increases gradually. The amount of chakra required to summon the first level of Rashomon differs from that required to summon the fifth level of Rashomon by tens or even hundreds of times.

Standing on the Rashomon gate, Tatsuma was unaware of Rasa's thoughts. He only saw that Rasa was distracted, so he quickly formed hand seals, trying to seize the opportunity.

"Ninja Art! Shadow Clone Technique!"

"Bang!"

A cloud of smoke appeared beside him, and a shadow clone also appeared next to him. Tatsuma felt his chakra, which had just recovered a little, being drained of half again, and smacked his lips.

Chakra is like a cat; it looks quite fat and strong, but in reality, once it gets wet, its size shrinks to half of its original size. Especially when encountering one or two techniques that require a large amount of chakra output, it is lost very quickly.

For a moment or two, Chenma even considered whether he should intentionally take some injuries to increase his number of Divine Tree Cells, since at this stage, Divine Tree Cells seemed to be beneficial and harmless to him.

But such thoughts only lasted for a moment, and with his talent for strategic planning, such distracting thoughts did not even affect his ongoing actions.

"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"

"Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!"

The simultaneous use of the main body and shadow clones creates a more refined synergy than the combination of Tatsuma and Tenka, resulting in double the chakra output.

"Boom!"

The already ferocious fire dragon became even more unrestrained and arrogant after being infused with wind-style energy. Its size swelled several times over, and under Tatsuma's control, it pounced on Rasa and his group.

"Secret Technique! Desert Traitor!"

In order to attack Tianfeng, Luosha mobilized too much gold dust, so much so that there is not enough gold dust to defend against it. But that doesn't matter, the other side of the husband-and-wife team acted quickly.

Suddenly, two giant hands appeared in the desert, reaching out to grab the fire dragon. Chenma frowned, sensing a peculiar chakra emanating from these two arms of yellow sand.

The next moment, he finally understood the purpose of this chakra. The fire dragon formed by the combination of fire and wind release was held firmly as if it were alive.

Garu's body trembled slightly, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead and nose. The giant sand hand trembled, but it still stubbornly blocked the fire dragon.

Those chakra were actually able to grasp fire and wind. Tatsuma frowned, instinctively sensing something was wrong. After careful observation, he finally discovered the clue.

The giant hand did not grasp flames, but rather the fire and wind chakra attached to the fire dragon. However, before it could rejoice at discovering the secret, Karura had already made a new move.

The fire dragon was bent in direction by her and came crashing down on Tatsuma. At such an extreme angle, Tatsuma could not control it at all. Even if he managed to change the direction of the fire dragon, it would consume too much unnecessary chakra.

For Tatsuma right now, this is far too unwise.

"I'm going to use that technique."

Tatsuma turned his head and spoke to his shadow clone. The shadow clone nodded and then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to move away.

Chenma looked back at the fire dragon that had arrived in front of him and began to quickly form hand seals.

"Boom!"

The fire dragon bit towards Tatsuma, the one who cast the spell.

(End of this chapter)