I, Uchiha Yu, am solely focused on cultivating immortality

Chapter 84 The scorching escape of the immortal was merely a casual wave of his hand.

Compared to Rasa's plea for help, Yoko's reaction was unexpected, as she was closer, felt more directly, and was more shocked.

She screamed, gathering her chakra and condensing it into an even larger orange fireball.

Such a large fireball, once it explodes, would not be able to escape the fate of being evaporated, even Yekura would not be able to escape the fate of being evaporated, so she actually launched an attack that would destroy everyone else.

Who would have thought that Ye Cang, with her beautiful face, graceful figure, and sexy and glamorous attire, would have such a violent personality, ready to fight to the death at the slightest provocation?

Especially Uchiha Yu, he remembered that when this woman appeared in the Fourth Shinobi World War, she knew that she was betrayed and killed by Sunagakure, but she still deliberately limited her revenge to the Hidden Mist Ninja. Moreover, under the persuasion of her apprentice, Maki, she switched sides and helped the ninja control the Explosion Release Ninja, Gari.

What could have caused this violent girl to transform into a gentle older sister in the future, even though she never dated or had children?

But even the most sudden changes, as long as they occur at close enough distance, are not unexpected for Uchiha Yu. He calmly assessed the amount of Scorching Release chakra, and then mobilized appropriate natural energy to dismantle the huge fireball, even faster than when dealing with a small fireball.

Uchiha Yu even had time to think whether a true hermit old monster would feel offended by a girl's reckless attack.

That's for sure. The more skilled someone is, the bigger their temper should be.

Then he wondered, how would the old monster react to his words? Would he kill Yekura? Or...?

It seems like he can do whatever he wants, after all, he's an old monster. As long as he acts a little neurotic and does unexpected things, his character won't be a problem.

Then it depends on whether we can kill her, and which approach is most advantageous to us and easiest to buy time.

Uchiha Yu thought about it carefully and realized that killing was certainly possible.

Yecang rashly entered the area covered by his omniscient divine power, and gathered chakra within this area, giving him the opportunity and time to dismantle the Scorching Release by using the high combination of natural energy and chakra.

She lost all her advantages on her own.

If this female ninja had stood fifty or sixty meters away and launched the fireball from a distance, Uchiha Yu wouldn't have had time to dismantle the Scorching Release fireball. He would have had to obediently dodge it or intercept it halfway with his own ninjutsu.

Without the enhancement of the Scorching Release technique, Pakura was merely a Jonin with excellent taijutsu skills. Moreover, being so close to Uchiha Yu, she could be killed with a simple gesture.

But killing her would be detrimental to Uchiha Yu.

Faced with a monster whose strength is beyond estimation, the ninjas of Sunagakure will make the most conservative choice and will not easily launch an attack.

But if he could kill even the beautiful girl Yekura so easily, it would prove that he was a bloodthirsty monster. The Sand Village ninjas would then feel that they were doomed anyway, so they might as well fight the monster with all their might.

As for running away to save their lives, the Sand Village ninjas would never do such a thing.

The current Sand Village ninjas haven't had their spines broken yet. They only turn and run away when faced with an enemy that is insurmountable and for whom even fighting desperately is pointless.

For example, even the Third Kazekage of Sunagakure publicly acknowledged that abandoning a mission after encountering the White Fang of Konoha would not result in any punishment, which is why the Sunagakure ninja chose to turn around and run away.

But only White Fang has that qualification; no matter how strong others are, they can only force the Sand Village ninjas to fight desperately.

Therefore, for his own benefit, Uchiha Yu could not kill Pakura, but for the sake of his fabricated persona, he could not easily let her go.

Just as he was struggling with how to punish Ye Cang, a flash of inspiration struck him. He thought of the phrase "old child," which describes how old people become willful and unpredictable, just like children.

So what would a little boy do if he encountered a girl who provoked him?

Lifting up a skirt... well, it's fine for kids to do it, but it's really vulgar for old men to do it.

Furthermore, Yekura is currently wearing a bodysuit and shorts, not the more revealing skirts she wore later, and there's no skirt to lift up.

Oh, and there's another classic example of a little boy bullying a little girl.

Uchiha Yu chuckled. Although his expression couldn't be seen through the mask, his wicked humor was still conveyed, and Yekura couldn't help but feel a chill.

Then she saw Uchiha Yuuki arrive. Was he enraged by her attack and thus launched a counterattack?

Yekura's fear intensified, but her proud nature prevented her from backing down. Instead, she pulled out a kunai and stabbed it into Uchiha Yu's lower back.

Although Pakura's movements were not slow, her reaction speed was only that of a normal Jonin, far inferior to that of Uchiha Yuu, who had activated the All-Seeing Eye.

Uchiha Yu easily dodged the attack, circled around behind Yekura, reached out and grabbed her... ponytail, then yanked it hard.

Yekura let out a muffled groan from the tearing pain in her scalp. Then, her high ponytail was pulled even harder, and the girl was swung around violently.

The rapid spinning caused the girl intense scalp pain and severe dizziness, and her vision became blurred as she spun rapidly.

Before she could get used to the high-speed rotation, she felt her scalp suddenly loosen, and she was sent flying through the air.

She vaguely saw her long hair floating in the air, and she also heard a deep and magnetic voice saying, "You naughty little girl, you deserve to be taught a lesson."

Then Yekura was thrown around and rolled several times before she regained her balance. When she stood up, she felt something was wrong with the weight on her head. She reached out and touched it, and sure enough, most of her ponytail had been cut off, leaving only a short section.

Unlike the little girl from Konoha Village twenty years later, she wasn't angry. Instead, she felt lucky that the other party had no intention of killing her. Otherwise, the wind blade that cut off her ponytail could have severed her neck if it had moved even forty centimeters.

But in the next instant, Yekura and all the Sand Village ninjas discovered that a towering wall of fire was rushing towards them.

Uchiha Yu dismantled the condensed Scorching Release fireballs twice, and the combined amount of Sage Chakra was enormous.

Because the chakra came from Pakura, Uchiha Yu had very poor control over this power and could not control it like he could control his own. So, while throwing Pakura away, he put his hands together and activated two Sage Techniques.

Immortal Technique: Fire Release - Spreading Fire

Sage Art: Wind Release: Critical Strike Build

The fire spreads evenly along the ground, while the wind comes down from the sky and spreads in all directions. The combination of the two forms a ring-shaped, forty-meter-high wall of fire and wind.

The storm whipped up the yellow sand, creating a fiery sandstorm that swept towards all the Sand Village ninjas in the vicinity.

The Sand Village ninjas were terrified, just like the Allied Shinobi Forces ninjas of the future. However, unlike their descendants twenty years later, none of them were dumbfounded or at a loss. Instead, they made the most appropriate responses based on their respective abilities.

Some were fast enough to turn and run, while others were skilled in ninjutsu and hand seals to fight back. But most ninjas dug down and burrowed into the sand to avoid attacks.

Unlike the Allied Shinobi Forces, the Sand Village ninjas did not have a single qualified Water Release ninja, and were unable to recreate the large-scale, head-to-head ninjutsu confrontation.

After the flames reached a distance of over a thousand meters, a tornado-like gust of wind blew from the direction of Sunagakure, tearing a large gap in the ring-shaped firestorm.

This is a Wind Tornado unleashed by a Kage-level ninja skilled in Wind Release; a true master has arrived to provide support.

As the tornado erupted, a rotating chakra tide appeared not far away, absorbing, suppressing, and destroying a section of the fiery sandstorm.

Uchiha Yu's Sharingan was very sharp. With the help of the flames, he saw that the technique was not being performed by a ninja, but by three puppets.

This appears to be the prototype of Chiyo's signature puppet technique, the Three Treasures Absorption Technique, but the puppeteer who manipulated the three puppets was a tall, thin man, not the Chiyo from Uchiha Yu's memories.

Immediately afterwards, one powerful ninjutsu or puppet technique after another erupted, and the fire and sandstorm was actually forced open with a wide gap, allowing six ninjas and fourteen puppets to walk in amidst the flames.

Uchiha Yu couldn't help but marvel at the remarkable quality of the Sand Village ninjas during the Third Shinobi World War; their reaction speed was astonishing.

These ninjas were able to make the right judgments and put them into practice without even needing to ask for help from other ninjas.

Uchiha Yu looked towards the distant, faintly visible Sunagakure village, where a huge tornado appeared on the high cliff, enveloping the entire village.

Tornadoes have extremely wide columns of wind, but their height is quite average, and their wind speed is only around level seven to eight.

For Sunagakure, which is constantly plagued by sandstorms, such storms have no real destructive power, but they can suck up the foul dust spread by Uchiha Yuubo like a vacuum cleaner.

Faced with unexpected changes, Sunagakure's response was far superior to that of Konoha.

This is not to say that the ninjas of Konoha are less skilled than those of Sunagakure, but rather that Konoha's power structure is more stable, and the authority established by the Third Hokage and Danzo Shimura is stronger, resulting in most ninjas having no autonomy and only being able to obey orders.

Of course, the aftermath of Sakumo Hatake's suicide cannot be ignored. If a dignified Jonin squad leader could be scolded to death for abandoning his mission for the life of his comrades, then who would dare to abandon their current mission to save other villagers without orders?

It just smells a bit bad, it won't kill you.

The Sand Village's proactive approach allows them to seize fleeting opportunities and react in the most timely manner. However, this also means that the Sand Village is prone to conflicting orders during wartime, and may even disregard the Kazekage's commands and act independently.

Don't be fooled by the fact that these old guys have selected candidates for the Wind Shadow. Can a single Wind Shadow really keep these big shots in check?

After all, there are only six powerful figures who have chosen the Wind Shadow, not sixty or even six hundred. The Wind Shadow has no room to maneuver.

But that's all in the future. For Uchiha Yu, Sunagakure is now a truly dangerous place.

His original plan didn't require any fighting; he simply wanted to set off some fireworks and then run away. Even if he was unfortunately ambushed along the way, he would only run into young Kage-level ninjas like Yekura and Rasa.

Who knew that something would go wrong with Miwa Masayo, his escape plan would fail, and he would be caught up by the flying Rasa, leaving him no choice but to step forward and fight.

Who knew that just as they had suppressed Yekura, and before they even knew whether they had deterred Rasa from pursuing them, the old guys from Sunagakure surrounded them. Their actions were incredibly swift.

Why is this happening?

The younger ones hadn't even been defeated yet, and they hadn't even had a chance to call for help, so why did the old guys jump out first? It really doesn't make sense.

While Uchiha Yu was filled with doubt and uncertainty, the old folks of Sunagakure were also stunned.

In such a short time, the elite Jonin, Yekura, who was qualified to compete for the Kazekage position, was defeated. The battle was fought as if an adult was bullying a child. Not everyone among them can do it so easily.

Moreover, Yekura did not underestimate her opponent; she used her bloodline limit, Scorching Release.

However, the extremely dangerous Scorching Release fireball was easily extinguished by the enemy, a situation that was beyond the comprehension of the old guys.

This is a bloodline limit in ninjutsu, a scorching fireball that is said to turn anyone who touches it into a dried-up corpse. How could it be destroyed with just one tap?

Moreover, let alone a scorching fireball, even an ordinary fireball could never be dispersed by a ninja's hand.

If ninjutsu is so easy to deal with, how did ninjas manage to send samurai into the dustbin of history, just with half a foot long kunai?

The masked man's strength must be beyond imagination; he must be a terrifying old monster.

These Sand Village ninjas, who had fought in two wars, couldn't help but think of a question: Who in the ninja world could ignore ninjutsu?

Their first thought was of the Third Raikage of Kumogakure, the "strongest shield," and then almost simultaneously they thought of a terrifying title—the Asura of the Shinobi World.

Yes, it is said that Madara Uchiha could ignore ninjutsu and the attacks of thousands of ninjas, and wipe out all of them by himself.

The reason they all came up with this answer at the same time was because the thousands of ninjas who besieged Madara Uchiha were their predecessors from Sunagakure.

Although this masked man is also very strong, he is definitely not comparable to Madara Uchiha back then. He doesn't have that kind of imposing aura that makes people think of death at first glance.

Strangely, he didn't emit any chakra fluctuations. Even when he activated that terrifying fire technique, the chakra fluctuations felt were those of Pakura.

This strange phenomenon made all the old guys very cautious.

But one old man with a turban couldn't remain calm. He rushed to the front of the group and angrily demanded, "Keisuke Umino, what have you done to my son?"

Is this Ebizo?

How did he recognize his son inside?

Using feigned confusion, Uchiha Yu asked, "Who is Unno Keisuke?"

Ebizo reached out and picked up an inconspicuous crystal bead. This bead, which was not much bigger than a millet seed, was now glowing and emitting a fairly strong chakra fluctuation.

"This is the puppet bead I gave to my son, Keisuke Umino, to prove his identity. I usually hide it under his fingernails so that he can prove himself when he's on a mission, and also so that I can find his body from the bloody battlefield."

"But just now, this bead fell from the sky."

[Puppet masters are something else entirely; I've learned something new.]

[I knew it! Neither Yekura nor Rasa had even gone to bed yet, so how did these old fogies suddenly appear? Ah, I see.]

"So his name is Keisuke Umino. So he's your son. Haha."

"What are you laughing at? What did you do to my son?"

Uchiha Yu found the feeling of an old monster, and his laughter gradually became distorted.

"Hehehehe... Of course, I killed him. I just arranged a magnificent funeral for him. You must have seen it, there's no way you couldn't have missed it, right?"

Ebizo was taken aback, but then he understood.

His eyes blazed with fury, and six puppets suddenly appeared around him, ready to rush forward and fight Uchiha Yu to the death.

But a not-so-strong hand grabbed Ebizo's shoulder, stopping his charge: "Little brother, don't be impulsive!"

"Sister, he killed Keisuke Umino! He killed my son!!"

"You can't act impulsively. I've already lost my son, daughter-in-law, and grandson, and just now I lost my nephew. You can't go and die. If anyone's going to be killed, it'll be us all ganging up on him."

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