Konoha: This Uchiha is extremely sneaky

Chapter 488 Battle 1

puff!

The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh rang out.

Immediately, a streak of crimson blood sprayed from the Heavenly Dao's body.

The Kusanagi sword had already pierced through the opponent's body, leaving a clear wound on his chest.

"Yahiko..."

Nagato, who was hiding in the tree hole, couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"What's wrong?"

Konan, who had been closely watching Nagato's condition, also spoke up to ask after seeing Nagato's exclamation.

"It's nothing..." Nagato opened his mouth, his expression twisted slightly, "It's just... the Fifth Hokage gave me a hard time."

Nagato never expected that Yahiko's body would be destroyed in just one exchange.

Although it was just a corpse, the other person was, after all, his close friend. To him, desecrating Yahiko's corpse was an almost unforgivable sin.

"Oh! There's nothing unusual at all~"

Seeing that Tendo had been pierced through the chest by the Kusanagi sword, but was still floating in the air, Toshiro was not surprised.

In the end, the other party was nothing more than a corpse. The only reason it could move was because of the Rinnegan's power and the chakra transmitted from its body.

Just as Toshiro was observing the Heavenly Path, Itachi Uchiha, who had been standing behind Toshiro with a blank expression, suddenly moved.

He reached into his ninja tool pouch with both hands, pulled out several kunai, and threw them into the sky.

Moreover, as he threw it, a crackling sound of thunder came from his hand.

Chidori was a ninjutsu developed by Toshiro, and Itachi, as the son of the clan leader, had naturally seen the training scrolls.

However, he hasn't started specifically training in Lightning Release ninjutsu yet, and since he doesn't have Lightning Release himself, learning this ninjutsu isn't very cost-effective.

However, he could still manage to infuse some lightning-attribute chakra into his own weapon.

Ding Ding Ding!

With a series of clanging sounds, a large number of white clay birds were attacked by these kunai.

Itachi's attack angles are very precise and skillful.

He knew that if he directly attacked the bodies of these white birds with his kunai...

With the size of a bird, his kunai could only destroy a single target, but there were too many explosives in the sky.

His only option was to use kunai to attack the wings of these birds.

This requires exceptional skill, precise throwing, and superhuman eyesight, all of which he possesses.

As these kunai collided and changed trajectories in the air, they destroyed the wings of more clay birds before shooting them toward the next target.

He himself stood on the back of the mountain eagle, his crimson Sharingan eyes wide open, blue lightning constantly crackling in his hands, occasionally throwing out several kunai.

Maintaining the balance of the kunai in the air.

Meanwhile, Yamato wasn't idle either. He took off his ninja tool pouch from behind him, threw the shuriken and kunai to Itachi, and then formed hand seals.

Water Release: Rain Scatter Shot

As he completed his spell, crystal-clear water droplets formed around him, and then, under his control, shot towards the white clay in the sky.

"You've got some skills, haven't you?"

Upon seeing this, Deidara, high in the sky, couldn't help but exclaim in praise.

Especially Itachi, whose shurikenjutsu was truly breathtaking.

He could make his shuriken constantly change shape in the air, continuously shooting down the chakra birds he created.

The other ANBU ninja, although his response was somewhat lacking, rendered the clay figures, which lacked wings and relied on sheer numbers to break through the enemy's defenses, ineffective.

"Let's see how long you can hold out!"

Deidara, flying through the air, laughed loudly. While the opponent's response was practically flawless, however…

Those kunai imbued with lightning release techniques cannot last long.

"Let me add some extra ingredients for you..."

Holding a large lump of small, white clay in his hands as if it were a precious treasure, Deidara smiled smugly.

"Go...my darling..."

With a shovel, the white clay in his hand grew larger and larger in a puff of white smoke.

Or it could be a flock of winged birds flapping their wings, flying towards the mountain eagle, or a round little pig free-falling using gravity.

Toshiro merely glanced at it and didn't pay much attention.

As for Deidara... leaving him to Itachi is definitely the right choice.

"They can even turn around and attack!"

Having just been pierced by the Kusanagi Sword, Tendou only paused slightly before acting as if nothing had happened, completely unconcerned about the open wound in his chest.

But before he could make any further moves...

The sound of something cutting through the air behind him made him frown.

Ding!

With a slight upward flick of the right arm, the attack trajectory of the Kusanagi sword was altered.

brush!

Before Tendou could even feel relieved that he had finally blocked Toshiro's attack and was about to settle accounts with him for the sin of destroying Yahiko's body, he realized that he had done it.

brush!

A soft, fleeting sound rang out.

"How could you..."

The pair of reincarnation eyes stared wide open, and the Heavenly Dao almost thought it was seeing things.

Suddenly, a somewhat familiar figure appeared in the sky and caught the Kusanagi sword that had been knocked away by him.

'Isn't this guy still on that summoning beast's back?'

The thought had barely formed in Nagato's mind when a bright, sharp blade of light slashed towards Tendou's neck.

clang!

Ignoring the question of why the other party had suddenly appeared here, the black rod in Tendou's hand once again blocked the sharpness of the Kusanagi sword.

This time, however, it was no longer the crisp sound of metal colliding, but a deep, resonant sound like a grand bell.

The powerful slash was successfully blocked by the opponent, and Toshiro fell to the ground due to the reaction force and gravity.

However, he was not discouraged at all.

A bluish-green light flashed across the Kusanagi Sword.

Brush brush!

Five or six crescent-shaped streaks of blue light detached from the longsword in his hand and slashed toward the location of the Heavenly Dao.

Toshiro, who had just unleashed his slash, did not stop. Instead, he used his strength to throw the Kusanagi sword out of his hand again and towards Tendo.

"It's too late..."

Looking at these obviously difficult-to-defend slashes, and the Kusanagi sword following closely behind them.

In the distance, Nagato silently counted in his mind: the cooldown time for Shinra Tensei... hadn't come yet.

Water Release: Water Pillar

Although it was too late to use Shinra Tensei, he still had other options.

He clasped his hands together and summoned a stream of water that submerged Yahiko's body.

Yahiko's body, propelled by the force of the water flow, shifted sideways by about ten meters, dodging Toshiro's subsequent slashes and casually submerging the Kusanagi Sword as well.

"It wasn't that easy to succeed after all..."

Seeing Nagato's response, Toshiro couldn't help but praise him.

By doing this, Nagato could not only change his position and dodge the slash and subsequent Kusanagi sword strikes.

It can also, to some extent, prevent oneself from using the Flying Thunder God Technique. After all, with that Water Release ninjutsu existing, one cannot possibly fly into the ninjutsu with the Kusanagi Sword.

As for the opponent using Water Release, Toshiro wasn't surprised, since Yahiko's attribute in the original work seemed to be water.

Splash!

As the water splashed, the sound of a metal chain echoed high in the air.

Ignoring the Kusanagi sword bearing the Flying Thunder God mark, Toshiro opened his mouth and spat out a fireball twenty or thirty meters in diameter, radiating astonishing heat and obscuring the view of the Heavenly Dao.

"What is it?"

Having just dodged Toshiro's attack, Tendo was on high alert as he stared at the fireball that blocked his entire field of vision.

If it were just a fireball, its power would be negligible, but he knew that the opponent's attack would definitely not be that simple...

That metallic scraping sound is the key point.

呲!

As the Heavenly Dao manipulated the water around him, a wisp of white steam spread out in the air.

"Here it comes~"

At the same time, just as he finished using his Water Release ninjutsu, a golden light caught his eye.

It's... chains!

Using the power of his Rinnegan, Nagato saw several golden chains following closely behind the fireball.

Using the impact of the fireball, it broke through his defenses in one fell swoop and pounced on him like a group of predators who had spotted their prey.

brush!

Without hesitation, Tiandao threw out the black iron rod in his hand, slightly disrupting the chains' attack.

He reached out and grasped, and two more black iron rods appeared in his hands.

Ding Ding Ding!

A bright spark was followed by a crisp sound like hammering iron.

At this moment, the Heavenly Dao, with its pair of pale purple Rinnegan, stared intently at the chaotic chains before it.

He twirled the two black sticks in his hands into a windmill shape.

At this moment, Nagato was extremely grateful that he possessed the legendary Rinnegan, which allowed him to clearly discern the attack trajectories of these chains.

Otherwise, Yahiko's body would definitely be damaged again.

This is something he simply cannot accept.

With his arm outstretched and fingers spread wide, a golden light shone faintly from his palm, from which six golden chains, each as thick as an arm, emerged.

Like vicious pythons beginning their hunt, they either coil around or pierce through.

The source of this ninjutsu is naturally Kushina. As the Hokage of Konoha, she used her position and her own eye techniques to learn this ninjutsu.

Using it now is incredibly convenient.

"Rinnegan..."

Seeing that Tendou had blocked the chains in his hands with just two iron rods, Toshiro couldn't help but feel a little impressed.

The Rinnegan's insight should be even greater than that of the Eternal Eye.

Otherwise, the opponent wouldn't have been able to block my ninjutsu.

"Dragonfire Technique"

Upon seeing this, Toshiro opened his mouth again.

He spat out a line of fire, which landed on the golden chain in his hand, forming a giant dragon head.

Judging by the size of the dragon's head alone, someone unfamiliar with the situation might think that Toshiro was using some high-level fire-style ninjutsu, such as A-rank or S-rank.

hold head high!

As the dragon's head opened in fury, an orange-red fire dragon, following the chain, opened its mouth to swallow the Heavenly Dao on the other side.

Meanwhile, the opponent was wielding a black rod, struggling to defend against the attacks of the chains, and had no way to spare any strength to intercept the ninjutsu he casually unleashed.

(End of this chapter)