I, Uchiha Yu, am solely focused on cultivating immortality

Chapter 76 If the young one is beaten, how can the old one be spared?

The battle preparations of the two elite Jonin from Sunagakure did not attract the attention of Uchiha Yu, who was "affectionately" gazing at his Cat Sage.

"I didn't realize we were already this strong." x2

"Some plans need to be changed." x2

"Kill Keisuke Umino first..." x2

After exchanging three sentences in unison, Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo laughed happily.

As for the two elite Jonin from Sunagakure, Tomb of the Bone, they are no longer of any concern.

All the previous trepidation and scheming were due to Uchiha Yu's failure to do his job properly, making a complete mess of "knowing himself and his enemy".

He not only overestimated the enemy, but also seriously underestimated himself.

In reality, Uchiha Yu's combat strength is already very strong. Although he still can't defeat the Third Hokage and may not be able to kill Shimura Danzo, his killing efficiency against ordinary Jonin and elite Jonin definitely surpasses those two.

As a time traveler, the ninja combat system he understands best is not the current one, but the future system nearly twenty years from now. It is the ultimate summary of the Third Shinobi World War and the culmination of fifteen years of peaceful development.

It wasn't that Uchiha Yu's raw strength overwhelmed the Jonin, but rather that his ninjutsu system and combat philosophy completely crushed the Jonin, even the elite Jonin.

Just like the French team facing the German team in World War II, the French team's raw strength far surpassed that of the German team, but under the blitzkrieg, its powerful strength could not be exerted, and its soft weaknesses could not be defended.

In less than two months, the title of the best army in Europe, which France had fought for for four hundred years, was completely crushed by Germany, whose stats were weaker in every way.

Despite the impressive battle preparations of the two elite Jonin, they were no match for Uchiha Yu's fighting system.

Whether it's a large-scale sealing ninjutsu or eight puppets, they all rely on brute force to achieve miraculous results. However, because the manipulators are not powerful enough, they consume more chakra and focus, which causes their reaction speed to decrease.

For Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo, who relied on high speed to crush their enemies, the enemy's displayed power posed no threat, but the fatal flaws exposed were even more obvious.

Uchiha Yu activated his chakra using natural energy, releasing excessive chakra and continuously raising the temperature of the fire until the poison would ignite once it left Fusa's vicinity.

Using such a clearly characteristic biological toxin against a ninja skilled in Fire Release is utterly absurd.

Uchiha Yu didn't know what those toxins were, nor did he care how much time it took to collect and refine them, but he was certain that the toxins left nothing behind in the bright blue-green flames except for a smell similar to burning hair.

After much effort, the Jonin Fusa's trump card, the deadly poison, was neutralized, and the large-scale sealing ninjutsu was reduced to a simple Wind Release: Kamaitachi Festival.

However, Wind Release is countered by Fire Release.

Uchiha Yu was enveloped in flames, casually using a fire jutsu without hand seals, effortlessly destroying Fusa's wind jutsu.

Elite Jonin Fusa was in despair. His despair, as well as the inevitable chakra shock after unleashing a large-scale ninjutsu, were all accurately captured by Uchiha Yu.

Uchiha Yu used eye contact to amplify Fukusa's despair with Sharingan genjutsu, taking the opportunity to plant layers of negative emotions in Fukusa's heart.

Meanwhile, in close combat, Fusa's chakra fluctuations intensified, rendering all his efforts to save himself futile, and his eyes repeatedly switched between blankness and despair.

Fusha's movements grew slower and slower, the light in his eyes gradually faded, and finally, his spirit sank into a state of utter despair. When humans reach the depths of despair, their instinct for self-preservation shuts down, preventing them from committing suicide in the face of utter hopelessness.

This instinct for self-preservation was also exploited by Uchiha Yu, who fueled it and solidified Fusa's closed-off mind, turning him from an autistic patient into a mental prisoner.

After his heart was completely sealed off, Fusha became nothing more than a breathing, heart-beating doll.

His blank, lifeless eyes watched as Uchiha Yu approached, and he watched without reacting as the enemy casually pierced his heart with a sword, calmly walking towards death.

Keisuke Unno's eight puppets performed even worse in battle than Fusa's ninjutsu was broken.

The experience gained by puppeteers in the two previous large-scale wars led the Sand Village ninjas to conclude that a puppeteer's combat strength depended only on the quality and quantity of the puppets he controlled, and that the burden of controlling the puppets was not a factor.

This is of course wrong.

When a puppeteer can manipulate multiple puppets with ease, each puppet can exert its maximum combat power. However, when a puppeteer can only barely manipulate multiple puppets, none of the puppets can exert their combat power, and they may even cause serious interference with each other.

The strongest puppeteer of this era was Sasori of the Red Sand. He was the first to recognize this path thanks to his talent, so he began to focus on creating stronger, easier-to-control, and even more cooperative puppets.

Without a doubt, the human puppet that Shamon abandoned halfway through development best suited Sasori's needs, but Chiyo resolutely stopped it.

Sasori of the Red Sand, who was forbidden from researching human puppets, turned to seeking better and more effective ways to manipulate puppets, attempting to break the limits of a puppeteer's control.

Although Sasori of the Red Sand led himself down the dead end of turning himself into a human puppet, he proved that his ideals were correct and represent the strongest and most powerful direction for the development of puppeteers.

But in Sunagakure today, no puppeteer accepts Sasori's ideology.

The old folks stubbornly believed that Sasori of the Red Sand was mistaken, arguing that he had never experienced war and lacked the necessary experience, which was why he had such an unreliable idea.

Most novice puppeteers are poor, so increasing the number of puppets is obviously more effective than pursuing higher quality puppets.

Now, Keisuke Umino is paying the price for this mistake.

Miwa Masayo's speed was already so fast that Unno Keisuke couldn't keep up. Now, with eight puppets at the same time, his attention was severely distracted. In addition, the defensive puppets' interference with his eyesight and hearing caused him to completely lose control of the raccoon cat's location.

Miwa Masayo casually strolled among the six puppets, and Umino Keisuke's random attacks posed no threat whatsoever, not even hindering the raccoon cat's destruction of the defensive puppets.

Keisuke Umino, hidden among the puppets, felt utterly unsafe.

He had no idea where the enemy was, and the sounds of the enemy attacking the puppets came from all directions, his ears filled with the crisp sounds of attacks and the tearing sounds of damaged moving structures.

The threat of death is not just that the puppets are being dismantled.

As the puppet was continuously attacked by the enemy, its outer shell was heated to a red-hot temperature. As the temperature was conducted into the puppet's interior, Keisuke Umino felt like a chicken being roasted in a sweltering oven, about to be cooked by the scorching air.

Because Uchiha Yu had tried every means possible but failed to open the defensive puppet, he could only use flames to envelop the puppet and suffocate Unno Keisuke inside the iron canister.

While cleaning up the battlefield, Uchiha Yu suddenly said, "This is really strange."

"What's strange, meow?"

"I hit the younger one, so why isn't any of the older ones jumping out to fight me?"

"Meow?"

"Isn't Keisuke Umino Ebizo's son? I thought Ebizo would suddenly appear to save his son."

"Why did Ebizo have to appear, meow? He can't fly, meow."

"Isn't that how it's always written in stories...?"

"Is there such a story? Tell me about it, meow."

(End of this chapter)