Slaughter and Entrapment

Before Four-Tails Son Goku had even begun condensing a Tailed Beast Ball, and before Orochimaru could summon the Triple Rashomon, Uchiha Feiyu himself had already turned into a streak of lightning and charged down the hillside.

Well, it was not that he did not trust Orochimaru. It was simply that a gentleman did not stand beneath a crumbling wall. Watching that kind of giant bomb fly over his head was terrifying.

Watching Uchiha Feiyu vanish in a flash, Orochimaru merely twitched his mouth, then shook his head and formed a hand seal.

A thunderous rumble erupted. In the distance, the Four-Tails, which had been gathering another Tailed Beast Ball, let out a roar as a massive purple serpent shot up from the ground and sank its fangs into the Four-Tails' octopus tail.

Before the battle had even begun, Orochimaru had already summoned Manda and had it secretly hide underground. After sensing the Four-Tails' Chakra, the cunning giant snake had tunneled beneath it and delivered a vicious blow to the ape.

Leaving aside the battle between Orochimaru and the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, after Uchiha Feiyu rushed into the area below, he did not continue using Lightning Release Chakra Mode. Instead, he used the Camouflage Concealment Technique to erase his figure, then used the Light-Weight Rock Technique to eliminate the sound of his footsteps.

He did not use Lightning Release Chakra Mode not only because of the faint crackling of electricity, but also because the effect of Camouflage Concealment dropped sharply while he was using Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

Moreover, the Light-Weight Rock Technique could greatly reduce his own gravity. Combined with the Camouflage Concealment Technique wrapped in Wind Release, which also had some ability to reduce air resistance, he could still maintain seventy to eighty percent of his maximum speed.

Amid the chaotic battlefield, many Iwagakure Ninja had blood suddenly spray from their necks without ever seeing an enemy. Their eyes widened in disbelief as they died.

This hair-raising, inexplicable scene repeated itself again and again. In just a few minutes, dozens of Iwagakure Ninja had died without understanding why.

Maintaining seventy to eighty percent of his speed while erasing all traces of his image and sound, with even his scent rendered faint and indistinct by the wind-natured Chakra wrapped around him, Uchiha Feiyu was now practically an invisible high-speed ghost.

Without sufficient Sensory Abilities, a ninja would not even know what had happened before their throat was slit.

The bizarre situation not only killed a large number of Iwagakure Ninja, but also sent their morale plummeting. The invisible, traceless assassin made nearly every Iwagakure Ninja fear for their life.

Both of Uchiha Feiyu's techniques had been learned from Iwagakure Ninja. However, after incorporating the Wind Release from the White Fang Sword Style, the effect of Camouflage Concealment had greatly improved, allowing him to remain invisible even while moving at high speed. The Light-Weight Rock Technique was practically the perfect match for this new Camouflage Concealment Technique, leaving the Iwagakure Ninja helpless against it.

"Sensory Ninja! Is there a Sensory Ninja here?! Find that invisible bastard, now! Agh!"

"N-No... he's too fast. Even if I sense him, I can't pinpoint his location at all!"

"Use wide-area ninjutsu! Even if we hit our own people, we can't let him keep running wild on the battlefield!"

"No... even wide-area ninjutsu can't catch him... he's just too fast! Argh!"

As Uchiha Feiyu continued his invisible assassinations, the Iwagakure Ninja death toll kept rising rapidly. He struck viciously, targeting nothing but throats, and he had no shame at all, specifically going after weaker Iwagakure Ninja. Everyone he killed was only Chunin or Genin level.

Even in a fair fight, these ninja could not withstand more than one or two moves from Uchiha Feiyu, let alone a sneak attack while he was invisible.

As for the formidable-looking Iwagakure Ninja experts, Uchiha Feiyu had no intention of attacking them at all. Setting aside whether those Jonin had any hidden trump cards, their battle-hardened experience alone was enough to let them sense killing intent and keep him entangled for a while.

Once he was tied down, he might run into danger. How could someone as protective of his life as Uchiha Feiyu possibly chew on those hard bones? Naturally, he would squeeze the soft persimmons first.

However, after he had killed another hundred or so people, the Iwagakure Ninja finally could not endure it any longer. Kitsuchi, who had been fighting Torifu Akimichi, endured several hammer blows badly enough to cough up blood, broke free from Torifu Akimichi's entanglement, and immediately began forming hand seals. At last, he punched toward Uchiha Feiyu's approximate location.

"Earth Release—Earth Style: Quicksand River!"

The ground shattered into countless grains of fine sand, which surged outward like ocean tides. This move practically engulfed everyone within a range of several thousand meters, but its power was utterly ordinary, little different from a street thug throwing sand in someone's eyes.

However, Kitsuchi had not used this move to kill. After a cloud of fine sand and dust swept through the area, a hazy figure appeared in the air. The massive amount of dust interfered with the Camouflage Concealment Technique's visual effect, finally revealing Uchiha Feiyu's outline.

"So it really is you—the successor of the White Fang of Konoha, that Uchiha brat!"

Uchiha Feiyu rolled his eyes and replied lazily.

"Iwagakure's intelligence is pretty impressive. You dug up all my background so quickly, and you even found out I'm an Uchiha!"

As for whether this intelligence had been leaked by insiders, that was hard to say. Such matters were a tangled mess, so Uchiha Feiyu merely made a mental note of it.

"How could the White Fang of Konoha have a successor like you? You actually specialize in attacking ordinary ninja. Did you not inherit even a shred of White Fang's sense of honor?"

Faced with Kitsuchi's completely harmless verbal attack, Uchiha Feiyu felt no pressure at all. He even wanted to laugh.

"Yeah, yeah, and that's why that honorable White Fang of Konoha died, isn't it? (White Fang's soul: Please stop talking.) The facts prove that people with thicker skin live better in this world!"

"Besides, I'm only a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy. Every ninja I've killed is much older than me. Instead of complaining that I'm strong and bully the weak, why don't you ask why you Iwagakure Ninja have lived all these years like dogs? At such an old age, why are you still only Genin and Chunin?"

After that vicious barrage, Kitsuchi, who had intended to provoke him, was instead angered until his face turned red. But at that moment, massive rock barriers suddenly rose several dozen meters around Uchiha Feiyu.

"Brat, this world is not one where strength alone guarantees victory. Let me teach you a lesson: in your next life, you'd better not waste so much time talking to your enemies on the battlefield!"

Kitsuchi's face emerged from the rock wall. Then he stepped out in full, a smile appearing on his face. Clearly, his words just now had only been meant to stall for time.