Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Fortunately, although the range of perception was a bit small, it was enough for her to find the opponent's location in the thick fog and to detect the opponent's ninjutsu in advance.

"boom!"

A loud gunshot suddenly rang out.

In an instant, Chizuru picked up her longsword and slashed forward, deflecting a highly condensed wind-style chakra bullet.

"It's so heavy."

Chizuru felt the power emanating from the famous sword, Lightning Clash, and while marveling at it, she quickly completed a hand seal with her left hand.

Fireballs shot out from her mouth, flying towards the mist-shrouded sky ahead.

Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Technique!

At the same time, above the thick fog, Kaname flew through the air with a pair of green chakra wings, wearing an exquisite chakra kimono.

Chakra Robe.

This is the ninjutsu that Kirito taught to Hana Rei. Now, Hana Rei has perfectly mastered this ninjutsu, which requires super strong chakra control to learn. She has even made more detailed modifications to its design, making its defensive capabilities even better.

Because of her mastery of the Chakra Cloak, Karen is now also proficient in using chakra threads, to the point that she can weave a pair of powerful chakra wings.

When she infused wind-style chakra into those chakra wings, she fulfilled the dream of flight that most ninjas could never achieve in their entire lives.

"It's no use. My Byakugan's perception is far superior to your Sharingan's."

Seeing the barrage of fire-style attacks, she narrowed her eyes and immediately manipulated her chakra wings to make slight movements in the air, perfectly dodging Chizuru's Phoenix Flower Technique.

At the same time, her hands, which were making a gun gesture, fired bullets of highly concentrated Wind Release chakra from her two index fingers.

Dual-wielding technique!

This ninjutsu was invented by Hana-Ren, inspired by a weapon called a pistol invented by ordinary people. The principle is very simple: chakra is highly condensed into bullets, and then the chakra bullets are released from her index finger by combining the release principle of Bagua Empty Palm.

The essence of this ninjutsu is a miniature Bagua Empty Palm.

However, because chakra bullets are small in size, if the power of wind release is added, the firing speed of chakra bullets is far greater than the chakra shockwave released by the Eight Trigrams Palm, and their destructive power is no less than, and may even surpass, that of the Eight Trigrams Palm.

Furthermore, Hua Lian can use chakra bullets as long-range pressure point strikes with her Byakugan, but she generally only uses this long-range pressure point strike technique on large targets.

To deal with ninjas, all she needs to do is send bullets into the enemy's head or heart.

But she made an exception today. She didn't intend to kill this annoying red-eyed woman. Instead, she planned to use a weaker chakra bullet to seal all of the red-eyed woman's chakra points and defeat her completely.

She had long disliked this red-eyed woman who kept pestering Kirito.

However, her status at school was vastly different from that of the red-eyed woman, and she had no ability to compete with her.

If she dares to confront the red-eyed woman directly, the red-eyed woman won't even need to lift a finger; someone from her disgusting family will jump out to warn and punish her.

Things are different now. Kirito has become a powerful Kage-level shinobi. With him backing her up, she no longer has to worry about her family daring to boss her around. She can confidently compete with this red-eyed woman.

She wanted to prove to Kirito that she was the one most suitable to stand by his side.

"Die!"

Hinata Karen shouted in her heart, and a large number of highly condensed wind-style chakra bullets were accurately fired at Chizuru, who was trapped in the thick fog.

"Bang bang bang~"

A series of loud gunshots rang out.

"Damn it, that idiot woman's tactics are really annoying."

Chizuru kept using her lightning strikes to block the incoming chakra bullets, gritting her teeth as she thought to herself.

With the help of her Sharingan enhanced by the Cursed Seal Chakra, blocking these incredibly fast chakra bullets was no problem for her, but being constantly on the defensive made her feel extremely frustrated.

She had discovered that her opponent was not on the battlefield, or at least not on the ground.

The only possibility is that the opponent is in the air.

Using the Hidden Mist Technique to seal her Sharingan abilities, and then using flying ninjutsu to seal her proud close-combat Lightning Release swordsmanship, this Byakugan woman may not be very strong, but the tactics she uses are enough to give her a headache.

If you keep it for a long time, you will lose it.

If this continues, once her hands can no longer withstand the pressure from the longsword, she may very well be defeated by this annoying, glaring woman.

what can we do about it?

A question that had been troubling her for a long time resurfaced in her mind.

How do you deal with a flying ninja?

"Flying ninjas are too troublesome. Combined with the Byakugan and excellent ranged attacks, they are simply shameless."

In the stands, Minato Namikaze watched as Karen continuously fired chakra bullets at the fog-shrouded battlefield and said with a bitter face.

He was sure Chizuru was feeling incredibly frustrated. The feeling of being hit but not being able to fight back was absolutely awful, but there was nothing he could do. It was simply too difficult for a ninja who couldn't fly to target a ninja who could.

Especially since this flying ninja also possesses the Byakugan, a bloodline limit that is almost impossible to attack, making it even more difficult to target them.

Faced with a Byakugan ninja like Hana-ren who can fly, the only thing Minato Namikaze could think of at the moment was to stay as far away as possible.

On the other side, in a corner of the audience, Kirito controlled a lifelike humanoid puppet as he watched Chizuru and Karen fight.

He always left a puppet here in the arena, naturally to ensure that no one on his side would actually die, and also to see if there were any talented people he could find.

Before they could even find the right talent, they witnessed an internal power struggle.

To be honest, Hua Lian's current performance is quite amazing. Not only did he successfully learn the Chakra Feather Robe that he was given, but he also used it to develop a flying ninjutsu. That's really impressive.

In just over a year, this caged bird, yearning for freedom, has grown a sharp beak, claws, and powerful wings, proving that his initial investment was correct.

"It's just that the amount of chakra is a bit insufficient."

Kirito, watching Karen continuously firing shots from the sky, pointed out a weakness of Karen's that wasn't exactly a weakness.

Both flying ninjutsu and dual-gun technique are ninjutsu that consume a lot of chakra. In addition, with the Byakugan activated, she estimated that with Karen's chakra level which is close to that of an elite Jonin, she could only last for a minute at most.

In other words, if Karen cannot defeat Chizuru within one minute, then she will be the one to lose.

"But with your pride, you certainly wouldn't want to defeat your opponent in such a frustrating way."

A few seconds later, on the towering sand tower outside the oasis, Kirito himself looked towards the oasis and smiled.

As soon as the words were spoken, a powerful chakra fluctuation suddenly appeared on the arena battlefield shrouded in thick fog. The powerful fluctuation stirred up a strong wind, dispelling the surrounding fog, and a huge black ninja cat appeared in everyone's sight.

Chapter 202: Father, You've Grown Old

"Ninja Beast!"

Hua Lian saw the giant black cat appear below and immediately realized something was wrong. He quickly flapped his chakra wings and flew to a higher altitude.

At the same time, she stopped shooting and quickly formed hand seals.

A massive air slash shot out from her mouth.

Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!

"Meow!"

Faced with the massive air blast, the giant black cat's reaction was to extend its sharp claws to fight it off.

"Clang!"

A sudden sound of clashing knife hilts rang out.

Hua Lian's massive air slash, created by Wind Release: Vacuum Wave, was torn apart by a single claw from the giant black cat.

Not only that, three huge chakra slashes appeared as the giant black cat shattered the air slash and swung its claws, shooting towards Hua Lian at high speed. During the process, they even split into a large number of fine chakra slashes.

This sudden change of tactics startled Hua Lian, who hurriedly dodged in mid-air.

However, her flying skills were clearly not as agile as those of a real bird, and she could not completely avoid the dense barrage of chakra slash attacks.

In an instant, numerous chakra slashes struck her one after another.

However, Hua Lian was not injured. Her chakra feather robe had amazing defensive power, blocking all the chakra slashes. She was only hit so hard that her blood and qi surged, and she suffered some internal injuries.

But her crisis did not disappear.

Chizuru's attack has begun.

A wave of black fire erupted from her mouth.

By this time, she was truly enraged and seized the opportunity to strike, decisively using cursed seal chakra to enhance her ninjutsu.

Incantation: Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!

The black fire wave covered a very large area and was fast and intense. Hua Lian had no way to dodge the attack, and all they could do was defend and withstand it.

Hua Lian chose to confront him head-on.

Although she was unwilling, she knew that she was already close to losing when Chizuru summoned the powerful summoning beast in front of her.

She was very annoyed by this, regretting that she should have begged Orochimaru to grant her the contract to summon the Ryuchi Cave scroll.

If she can summon the giant serpent from Ryuchi Cave, this battle will still be a long one.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing.

She did not give up, and decisively gathered the little chakra she had left in her body into her right hand.

The next moment, a high-density chakra was rapidly released from her right palm, and a powerful spiral chakra shockwave suddenly appeared, punching a huge hole in the incoming black fire wave, and then continuing to point directly at Chizuru on the cat's head.

Soft Fist, Bagua Empty Palm, Spiral!

Although the chakra shockwave was invisible, it was clearly visible in Chizuru's Sharingan. Upon seeing this, Chizuru coldly said, "Hmph, a death throes."

As she spoke, she placed her right hand on the hilt of the famous sword, Thunderclap, at her waist.

Black lightning flashed instantly on the scabbard, radiating a violent aura.

Sword Skill: Lightning Flash!

Then, a black blade of light appeared in Hua Lian's eyes, seemingly cutting space in two.

The high-speed spiraling chakra shockwave was cut in two.

Hua Lian's chakra cloak was also cut open, and a lot of blood splattered out as he began to fall from the sky.

"Hua Lian!"

In the audience, Minato Namikaze's expression changed drastically when he saw Karen being hit by Chizuru's chakra wave. He shouted anxiously and immediately threw a specially made kunai at Karen, who was falling.