Under One Person: The Sea Emperor Who Shattered Heaven and Earth

"Kill him! Kill him! I will devour the dignity of this land!" Eita roared madly, his eyes bloodshot, his pupils reflecting Lu Ren's still calm face, even with a hint of mockery.

With a slight sway, Lü Ren lightly touched the pile of rocks with his toes, and like a leaf drifting in the wind, he used the slight gust of wind from the blade to gracefully leap onto the shoulder of a burly Putuo monk as imposing as an iron tower.

"Master Kong, please lend me a hand!"

"Young Master Lü, let's go!"

The monk named Kongzheng roared, his arm muscles bulging like coiled dragons, a sacred Buddhist light faintly flowing across his bronze skin. He suddenly leaned down and gripped Lü Ren's waist:

"go with!"

boom!

Lu Ren was thrown out instantly, leaving a blinding afterimage in the air, and flew directly over Eita Nikaido's head. His target wasn't this madman, but the ninja leader Ono Noriyoshi behind him.

Eita Nikaido's sword strike missed its mark, splitting a rock in two. He looked up abruptly, his eyes wide with astonishment: "What?!"

While suspended in mid-air, Lü Ren's Qi energy underwent a frenzied reversal.

He spread his arms and began to spin in the air, his Ruyi energy surging out and forming a dense layer of Qi around his body. The high-speed rotation also generated a strong suction and vibration.

"Ruyi Force - Flowing Chaos!"

Lu Ren, who had been flying through the air, formed a huge sphere of Qi energy. The sphere was no longer just pure Qi energy, but was mixed with the withered wood and broken stones that had been rolled up around it. Like a meteorite falling from the sky, it crashed heavily into the core formation of the Hieiyama ninja.

"Thump—!!!"

A deafeningly loud bang.

The shockwave, combined with the Ruyi Qi, spread wildly in a circular pattern from the center of Lü Ren's fall to the ground. Some ninjas were unable to dodge in time and their internal organs were shattered by this domineering Ruyi Qi. When the dust and Qi dissipated, a small crater appeared on the ground.

Ono Noriyoshi took several steps back expressionlessly, slamming his cane heavily on the ground to steady himself.

"kill--!"

With Lü Ren's preemptive strike, all the various martial arts masters who had been lying in ambush on the sidelines came out in full force.

A ninja leader suddenly blew a short flute made of withered bones in his hand. On the originally cold snow, clusters of pale white flames instantly rose up. The fire had no heat at all, but instead carried a chilling coldness.

"Don't be afraid! This must be the illusion created by the flute music mentioned in the intelligence report, and the white fire is the heart fire stirred up by yin energy!" a Shangqing Sect disciple shouted. "Use the 'Purifying Heart and Warding Off Evil Talisman' to protect your body, and use the Five Thunder Talisman to blast them head-on!"

A dozen or so golden talismans were scattered like falling leaves as the Shangqing disciples made hand seals in unison.

A dozen streaks of purple-blue lightning flashed across the sky in an instant. The lightning, being of the yang element, perfectly countered the cold, white flames. In the flashes of lightning, not only were the fireballs shattered, but the flute-playing ninja was also reduced to a charred corpse.

In the center of the valley, the towering, god-like Japanese "strongman" moved. They displayed physiques several times larger than ordinary people, each strike accompanied by a whooshing sound, their strength astonishing.

"Disciples of Buddhism, today we subdue the demon!"

The martial monks from the three temples of Putuo lined up in formation. Instead of dodging, they directly activated their "Vajra Body Protection Technique." Their fists, radiating golden light, collided head-on with the ninja's monstrous strength.

It's a direct, ruthless head-on confrontation.

"Pfft!" Although a monk was shaken and coughed up blood, he grinned maliciously and grabbed his arm tightly: "Got you, senior and junior brothers! Hurry up and do it! It doesn't matter if I'm included!"

The Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain were the most composed. Their bodies were enveloped in a golden light spell that seemed almost tangible. No matter how cunning and sneaky the opponent's elusive, snake-like phantom sword was, it could only send up a few sparks on the golden light.

"The intelligence says that the one who can imitate other people's Qi and appearance must be you, right?" Fang Dongtian's Yin spirit, which was constantly moving around the field, suddenly stared at a person from Longhu Mountain.

Upon hearing this, a Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain snorted coldly and closed his eyes slightly. Suddenly, he struck a fellow disciple beside him who was being entangled by a swarm of snakes and was crying for help.

"Senior brother, are you crazy...?"

"Bang!" A golden light pierced through. After the junior brother fell to the ground, his body twisted and turned into a ninja with an incredulous expression.

The most brutal place on the battlefield was undoubtedly Nikaido Eita's.

He was one of the people Jiang Zhen highlighted.

"Hehehe... Useless! In front of Hirumaru, you are all just fodder!"

Eita wielded his demon sword like a madman, black blade energy crisscrossing and swirling. By absorbing the energy generated from slaughter, he continuously strengthened himself, becoming even sharper and more powerful.

A disciple of Putuo Mountain tried to take the knife by bracing himself against it, but was instead cut in half by the blade.

"Junior brother!" The Putuo monk's eyes widened in horror.

"Disperse first, I'll handle this!"

Lu Ren had already jumped out of the pit. He looked at the arrogant Eita with cold eyes.

"Ruyi Force - Thousand Threads!"

Lu Ren shook his hand from a distance, his ten fingers moving rapidly. He didn't attack Nikaido Eita directly, but instead channeled his Ruyi Jingu Bang (a powerful energy technique) into the dozens of scattered mummified puppets and fragments of ninja tools around him. Those inanimate objects, originally controlled by Hieiyama, were now, under Lu Ren's control, crashing back towards Eita.

Eita roared as he cleaved through the puppets that were crashing down on him, only to find that the puppets were already filled with extremely unstable Ruyi energy.

"burst!"

boom!

The puppet exploded in Eita's arms, sending him flying, but at the last moment a golden light emanated and protected him.

The Longhu Mountain group watching this scene turned ashen-faced. That was the Golden Light Mantra, an ability copied from a fellow disciple he had killed.

……

"Black Dragon Clan, sacrifice!" Kimura Okataro shouted, and the snakes that had been scattered around suddenly went berserk. Countless colorful venomous snakes crawled out of the ground, intertwined, and formed a foul-smelling snake tide, attempting to engulf the Chinese Fang Yi people on the entire battlefield.

"Hmph, a beast is a beast."

As the Wang family's painting of Wang Liu unfolds, several ferocious beasts emerge from the painting and collide with a swarm of snakes.

On the other side of the battlefield.

Ono Noriyoshi narrowed his eyes as he watched his subordinates being precisely targeted one by one. He had already guessed that the intelligence had been leaked. Although there were casualties on both sides, he could not accept it.

"Tuning complete!"

"Lian---Share!"

Invisible ripples emanated from Ono Noriyoshi, linking all the ninjas together like a shared radar. The movements and Qi of Lu Ren and the others were clearly visible to each ninja through these ripples, as if they were transparent from every angle.

Instantly, all the ninjas seemed to be united as one, cooperating seamlessly, and unleashing a series of combined ninjutsu techniques.

Meanwhile, Lü Renfang's superhuman also switched to defensive mode, and the two sides were locked in a tug-of-war for a while.

Lu Ren and several members of the Lu family kept pulling on Nikaido Eita with their Ruyi Force. Lu Ren secretly glanced at Ono Noriyoshi and Sakon and Ukon who had not moved beside him, his eyes revealing a resolute look.

"As long as I can avoid those two fatal knife attacks—no, I don't need to avoid them—I just need to gather all my Ruyi Qi within my body, and as long as the corpses roll past them, that's enough..."

The Lü family disciple standing nearby saw through Lü Ren's intentions.

"Ren-ge...we just need to stall for time..."

"No, it's not that I don't trust Jiang Zhen, but he has what he can do, and I have what I can do. If we wait for him this time, what about next time? This is war, a war for everyone! China is too big. Even if Jiang Zhen works day and night, he can't cover the whole country alone."

"In that case, let's use this useless body to get rid of as much trouble as possible!"

"Please tell Xiao Ci that I'm sorry."

Just as Lü Ren was about to make his move.

In the distance, Ono Noriyoshi suddenly looked up, his slightly closed eyes opening a crack, revealing a look of terror. In his "ripple" perception, not far from the northern mountain pass, a terrifying aura as hot as the sun was rapidly approaching.

Chapter 43 Ripples of the End

In Noriyoshi Ono's perception, time seemed to stand still at this moment.

The "Ripple Sharing" system, which was originally as tightly controlled as a spider web and managed every corner of the battlefield, seemed to be strongly disturbed at that moment.

At the core of this sensory network, Noriyoshi Ono's slightly narrowed eyes suddenly widened.

"That...that is..."

Ono Noriyoshi trembled as he extended the ripple, wanting to see what that terror was. But his "ripple" was like a tentacle probing into an abyss.

"Puha—!"

Before everyone's eyes, the ninja leader, who had been as steady as a rock just moments before, suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, his entire body convulsing violently as if struck by lightning. Then, glaring crimson blood seeped from his eyes, nostrils, ears, and even the corners of his mouth.

He managed to cut off the "sharing" at the last moment, preventing the terrifying aura from affecting the ninjas.

"Teacher Ono!"

"Ninja-sama!"

……

The ninjas around them, who had been coordinating perfectly and moving in a well-ordered manner, all gasped in surprise.

Lu Renben was already poised to strike. His muscles were creaking from the extreme compression, a sign that the Ruyi energy was surging wildly through his meridians.

He was preparing to trade his life for the enemy's commander, but this sudden turn of events forced him to abruptly halt his charge.

"What happened?" Lu Ren looked into the distance with surprise and uncertainty.

The old man made that expression.

It was extreme, undisguised fear.

Ono Noriyoshi, ignoring the blood on his face, leaned shakily on his cane, staring intently at the direction of the northern mountain pass. There, a heavy aura, so oppressive it made the earth groan, was rapidly approaching.

As an old monster who had lived for nearly a hundred years, he knew better than anyone what this level of power meant.

"How is this possible..."

How could such an extraordinary existence exist on this land! But the fact is right before our eyes, and it will arrive soon.

"Let's go... let's go..."

Ono Noriyoshi's voice was no longer the previous hoarse and composed one, but rather carried an almost desperate roar.

"Ono-sensei? We're going to kill them all—" Nikaido Eita, carrying his demon sword, was about to retaliate in the chaos, but he was frightened by Ono Noriyoshi's crazed eyes.

"Everyone, listen up!"

The old man ripped open his gray robe, revealing a withered chest covered in eerie incantations. With all his might, he roared at his still-stunned subordinates:

"Retreat! No... Escape! Escape at all costs! Escape, escape back!"

His voice echoed through the valley, carrying a desolate resolve: "As the head of the Hieiyama ninja, I order everyone to do everything in their power to escape! Survive! Tell those guys back home who are still dreaming... no, forget about them, the military has completely gone mad!"

"Tell the rest of the ninja who are still on this land to leave immediately, and never set foot on this land again under any circumstances! Even if those adults forbid us from stepping out of the mountain gate! You are also not allowed to contact them again, they will only lead us into the abyss!"

"After I die, Nichiriki will take over as the head of the ninja! No one is allowed to avenge me! And no one is allowed to come back!"