Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

Before Kirito became the One-Tailed Jinchuriki, with his normal chakra reserves, he would have run out of chakra after releasing it five times.

Kirito watched as the Third Kazekage's head was easily pierced by his newly invented Storm Release ninjutsu. There was little joy on his face. He sighed and said, "Kagakage, I think you, as the Kage of a village, should be braver. Don't you like fighting me face to face? I'm only 11 years old. I'm still a child."

The next moment, the Third Kazekage, whose head had been pierced by the laser, spoke up: "Konoha brat, stop showing off your talent. I admit you're very strong, and I'm ashamed of myself, but if you want to kill me, you're still a bit short."

As soon as he finished speaking, a large amount of iron sand suddenly emerged, and then a large number of shuriken formed from the iron sand shot towards Kirito at high speed.

Kirito neither dodged nor avoided the barrage of shuriken.

As a result, all the shuriken passed right through his body, and he was completely unharmed.

At the same time, a kilometer away, deep underground, the Third Kazekage, enveloped in a large amount of iron sand, watched Kirito's current behavior through the third eye formed on the iron sand puppet. His heart grew heavier and his face became increasingly grim.

In addition to being proficient in Magnet Release, he is also proficient in Earth Release, Wind Release, Lightning Release, and Puppet Technique.

After witnessing Kirito firsthand with his Iron Sand Puppet, he quickly realized that he was probably no match for Kirito. Now, having witnessed Kirito use Storm Release ninjutsu, he was even more certain of this.

He has a keen eye; he had encountered ninjas using Storm Release when he was young, so he could tell at a glance that the ninjutsu Kirito had just used was a Storm Release ninjutsu he had never seen before.

He was both shocked and frightened by this.

Fortunately, he immediately dove underground after noticing Kirito approaching, leaving only an iron sand puppet on the surface to confuse the enemy. Otherwise, he might have already died if he had carelessly left his main body on the surface.

Kirito's Storm Release ninjutsu attack was so fast that he was hit before he could even react.

He feels lingering fear when he thinks about it now.

This means that Kirito already has the ability to kill him instantly. If it were an ordinary Kage-level ninja who didn't know that Kirito knew this Storm Release ninjutsu, they might have been killed by Kirito using this Storm Release ninjutsu right from the start.

Even if you understand this, without the necessary defensive measures, you're still doomed.

"This isn't very interesting. Are you trying to force me to attack Sunagakure?"

Upon hearing this, Kirito sighed again.

Using his spiritual transformation technique, he naturally knew where the Third Kazekage was.

That old bastard is incredibly cunning; he's been moving underground the whole time, while his true form is already a kilometer away. It's obvious he doesn't intend to fight me seriously.

His main target tonight is the Third Kazekage. If he kills him, he will not only gain a lot of battle merits and valuable enhancement points, but also completely break the backbone of Sunagakure, making it impossible for Sunagakure to pose a threat to Konoha for a long time.

Unfortunately, this Third Kazekage was much more steady than he had imagined, unlike the original story where he was careless, ambushed by the young Sasori with poison, and died a pathetic death.

Chapter 219: The Tragedy of the Wind Shadow

"You'd better think before you speak. I'm warning you, Kirito Tohsaka, you're not the only one who would use a village to threaten people. If you dare to use the people of Sunagakure to threaten me, I'll use the same method on you and on your Konoha."

"Aren't you a genius? Then think about it carefully. A Kage-level powerhouse without any constraints—you should know what will happen, right? You are indeed powerful, but not all of your relatives and friends can be as powerful as you."

When the Third Kazekage heard Kirito threaten him with the Sand Village, his killing intent instantly surged, and he stared at Kirito with a fierce glint in his eyes.

As he spoke, a fan made of iron sand appeared in his hand, and he fanned it forcefully at Kirito.

A sudden gust of wind swept through, carrying with it a large number of sharp-edged weasels.

Wind Release: Great Scythe Itachi!

Every ninjutsu has a weakness, and the Lightning Transformation Technique is no exception. Wind Release ninjutsu is precisely the weakness of the Lightning Transformation Technique. Once the lightning-transformed body is hit by Wind Release ninjutsu, it will immediately revert to its original form and suffer severe internal injuries.

However, after Kirito used the Lightning Transformation Technique, his movement speed was simply too fast, much faster than the wind.

Under normal circumstances, wind-style ninjutsu can't even catch up with Kirito's exhaust fumes, let alone hit him.

The Third Kazekage, as expected of the village's leader, possessed keen insight and seemed to have already guessed the weakness of his Spirit Transformation Technique. He directly used Wind Release: Great Scythe Itachi, a Wind Release ninjutsu that infuses wind chakra into the airflow for a wide-range attack.

If Kirito were to use his Lightning Transformation Technique to dodge at this moment, he would easily be hit.

Kirito was well aware of the weakness of the Lightning Transformation Technique. With a wave of his hand, a solid sand wall rose from the ground, blocking the Third Kazekage's Wind Release: Great Scythe Weasel. Then, he landed on the ground and ran quickly towards the Third Kazekage's main body.

Seeing this, the Third Kazekage quickly manipulated his Iron Sand Golem to block the attack. A large amount of Iron Sand surged out from the ground, transforming into long Iron Sand snakes that attacked Kirito.

Kirito manipulates the sand to create lifelike sand cats to fight against these sand iron snakes.

Both are merely shaped forms of some kind of matter, and have no life of their own. When they collide, the comparison is based on factors such as the number of shaped forms each side controls, their chakra, and their skill in manipulating objects.

Kirito's mental arithmetic ability is astonishing. Coupled with Shukaku's massive chakra, he directly created more than twenty sand cats out of sand and controlled them with ease.

Correspondingly, while ensuring that the maneuverability of the controlled object is not affected, the Third Kazekage can only control a maximum of eight Sand Iron Serpents at the same time.

However, the Third Kazekage had been immersed in Magnet Release for decades, and was far more skilled at controlling the iron sand snake than Kirito, who was just starting out with sand. Moreover, he was a professional at handling snakes and knew all about their movements.

Under his control, the eight sand-iron serpents were as agile as real desert serpents.

In an instant, the Third Kazekage, relying solely on eight iron sand snakes, overwhelmed the more than twenty sand cats controlled by Kirito, demonstrating his formidable mastery of Magnet Release.

Kirito wasn't discouraged by this; instead, he kept his eyes glued to the eight iron sand snakes controlled by the Third Kazekage.

A moment later, Kirito had a sudden thought, and a sand snake the same size as the Sand Iron Serpent emerged from the sand and began fighting with one of the Sand Iron Serpents.

If there were other people watching here, they would definitely see that Kirito's new Sand Serpent moves are almost identical to those of the Third Kazekage's Iron Sand Serpent.

At first, the Sand Iron Serpent controlled by the Third Kazekage could easily suppress the Sand Serpent controlled by Kirito. The Sand Serpent had almost no power to fight back and its body was constantly being damaged by the Sand Iron Serpent. But gradually, the Sand Serpent gained some resistance and began to tear a gash in the Sand Iron Serpent's body.

"This bastard is stealing my skills, and his learning ability is just too abnormal."

The Third Kazekage wasn't blind, and of course he noticed Kirito imitating him. He was shocked and cursed inwardly, becoming even more determined to find a way to eliminate this terrifying Konoha genius as soon as possible.

But at this moment, he was also happy that Kirito was here learning from him, so that he would have more time to return to Sunagakure.

"As expected, if you want to improve quickly, you still need a master to teach you. Manipulating iron sand and manipulating sand are essentially the same. This Third Kazekage is indeed a master of Magnet Release. His ability to manipulate iron sand is truly unparalleled in the ninja world. There are many things worth learning from him."

Kirito wasn't in a hurry to cause trouble for the Third Kazekage, and was immersed in the joy of learning.

However, when the Third Kazekage was about to escape his soul perception range, he decisively stopped learning and used the Lightning Transformation Technique to quickly catch up with the Third Kazekage, who was still moving rapidly underground.

Once the Lightning Transformation Technique was activated, the Sand Iron Golem controlled by the Third Kazekage couldn't stop Kirito at all.

When Kirito caught up with the Third Kazekage again, the circular valley where Sunagakure was located was already in sight.

Sunagakure Village is built in a rare circular valley in the desert. Due to its special geographical environment, the surrounding high rock walls block the wind and sand from the outside world. In addition, the valley has relatively abundant groundwater, which allows Sunagakure Village to develop peacefully.

"We're almost at Sunagakure, Kazekage."

Kirito flew through the air using magnetism, then looked at the Third Kazekage on the ground, which was rapidly formed from iron sand, and said with a smile.

As he spoke, he raised his right hand and then raised his index finger, and a rapidly spinning chakra ball began to appear above his index finger.

In just a few seconds, the chakra ball expanded to a diameter of two meters and continued to grow.

At the same time, he poured wind-style chakra into the chakra sphere.

The chakra ball rapidly changed shape, transforming into a giant white spiral shuriken that emitted a terrifying vibration.

Wind Release: Super Giant Rasenshuriken!

As the giant Rasenshuriken appeared, a sudden gust of wind arose, forming a massive tornado centered on the Rasenshuriken.

The tornado stirred up the surrounding sand.

Soon after, a massive sandstorm began to appear.

"Enough is enough, Kirito Tohsaka. Sunagakure is not something you can conquer by yourself. Even if you add your thousands of Konoha ninja, it's still impossible."

The Third Kazekage looked at the chakra spiral shuriken emanating terrifying chakra fluctuations and vibrating sounds above his head, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat, speaking with a cold face.

He wasn't bragging when he said that. Sunagakure still has more than 8,000 ninjas, including more than 200 Jonin, and they also have many trump cards left behind by the Second Kazekage.

Moreover, after so many years of management by Sunagakure, the traps and sealing formations secretly set up by Sunagakure have long turned the valley where Sunagakure is located into a terrifying and dangerous place. If any outside enemy wants to successfully break into Sunagakure, unless they can all fly, they can only obediently enter through the One-Line Sky Canyon.

He firmly believed that unless Konoha mobilized its entire force, the idea of ​​annihilating Sunagakure was a pipe dream.

"Actually, my only target is you. As long as you die, I promise to immediately lead my people out of the Land of Wind. After all, someone important needs to be in charge of this war between Konoha and Sunagakure. I'll also have a good explanation when I return to Konoha. What do you say?"

Kirito said with a smile, using the most amiable words to make people willingly die.

As he spoke, the spiral shuriken on his fingertip continued to grow rapidly.

With his chakra manipulation ability and chakra reserves both greatly improved, he can now create Rasengans of astonishing size, just like Naruto in his later years. In addition, his Wind Release ability has recently made great strides, allowing him to add Wind Release chakra to upgrade the Rasengan into a Rasenshuriken.

To be honest, he himself wasn't quite sure what the power of the spiral shuriken on his finger, which had expanded to a diameter of five meters, would be, but judging from how easily he could shatter a boulder more than ten meters high with a normal spiral shuriken, it was clear that he was capable of doing so.

His ever-expanding Rasenshuriken might just be able to create a decent opening in the rocky cliffs of the valley protecting Sunagakure.

"You bastard, you won't get away with this."

When the Third Kazekage saw that Kirito still hadn't stopped attacking the dangerous thing that made his heart pound even when he was being threatened, he knew that Kirito had no intention of negotiating at all, so he decisively launched a fierce attack.

The next moment, a huge iron sand cone slammed into Kirito.

Magnetic Release: Iron Sand Mitsubishi Cone!

Kirito countered by manipulating the sand to create an even larger sand cone to counter it.

Sand Release: Sand Triangular Cone!

The two enormous triangular cones clashed head-on in mid-air, creating a tremendous crashing sound. However, the result was that Kirito's sand triangular cone was pushed back by the Third Kazekage's iron sand cone, crashing straight into the Third Kazekage's iron sand golem.

"That despicable fellow."

The Third Kazekage was furious when Kirito defeated him using the same technique, relying on his superior chakra reserves.

But he had no time to care about that now. He let the iron sand golem be crushed by the two huge triangular cones and continued to manipulate a large amount of iron sand to form a large number of fine needles that shot towards Kirito from all directions.

He had to stop Kirito from throwing that dangerous object at Sunagakure no matter what.

Magnet Release: Sand Rain!

Unfortunately, as the Jinchuriki of the One-Tailed Beast, Kirito's chakra was far stronger than that of the Third Kazekage. No matter how fierce the Third Kazekage's attacks were, Kirito could easily manipulate a large amount of sand to block them all.

In the desert, Shukaku's ability to manipulate sand gave Kirito a huge advantage. Even though the Third Kazekage had secretly stored a large amount of iron sand underground around Sunagakure a long time ago, it was still far inferior to sand in terms of quantity.

Moreover, although the Third Kazekage had more chakra than the average Kage-level shinobi, he had absolutely no advantage over Kirito.

At this moment, the Third Kazekage felt as if he were facing an enhanced version of himself, and he could see no hope of victory.

Ten meters—that's the maximum size of the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken Kirito can currently create. Any more and he'll face the risk of losing control.

To create this spiral shuriken with a diameter of ten meters, Kirito consumed nearly one-fifth of Shukaku's chakra.

"Go, let me see your power."

Kirito said with great anticipation.

As soon as he finished speaking, his right index finger moved immediately, pointing in the direction of Sunagakure.

The next moment, the enormous Giant Rasenshuriken obediently shot towards Sunagakure at high speed, carrying the giant Sand Tornado with it.