This Monk Knows a Little About Medical Skills

Zabuza had intended to use the Water Dragon Bullet to make Li Chuan abandon the immensely powerful Zen Staff in his hand, then kill him while he was unarmed. But he had not expected Li Chuan to have been prepared all along.

Would Li Chuan be without a weapon?

His Mission Space was packed with swords, spears, blades, and halberds, and he could take them out or put them away instantly.

If he wanted, he could face an enemy empty-handed one second, hold a longsword the next, and have that slashing longsword turn into a massive axe in the second after that.

Compared to Tenten, who still had to make a motion to retrieve weapons from a Sealing Scroll beforehand, his method was far more difficult to anticipate and guard against.

"How is that possible? Where did he get that weapon?"

As the Water Clone was destroyed, Zabuza, who was controlling Kakashi with the Water Prison Technique, instantly widened his eyes.

He had not seen where Li Chuan had taken the weapon from at all. Could it have been the Summoning Technique? In any case, it could not have come from a Sealing Scroll, or it would not have escaped his notice.

But the Summoning Technique required one to bite their finger before casting it, and Li Chuan had not done that just now.

Or was it some special bloodline limit?

"So, so amazing!"

Naruto, hiding in the distance, immediately cried out excitedly when he saw Li Chuan successfully destroy Zabuza's Water Clone. Sakura beside him let out a huge sigh of relief.

As for Sasuke, he wore an expression like he was severely constipated. He had probably once again entered his usual mental struggle of, Why am I so weak? At this rate, when will I ever be able to kill my Onii-san?

"Mr. Zabuza, tell me, will you release the Water Prison Technique yourself, or should I come help you release it?"

After landing, Li Chuan carried the long blade and walked step by step toward Zabuza by the river.

Zabuza snorted coldly, dispelled his jutsu, and swiftly retreated, opening up distance between himself, Kakashi, and Li Chuan.

Given the combat ability and experience Li Chuan had displayed, there was no way he could defeat him while one hand was maintaining the Water Prison Technique and his body could not move.

Rather than that, it was better to give up the Water Prison Technique, widen the distance, and rely on ninjutsu to win.

"Chuan, leave the rest to me!"

Having emerged from the Water Prison Technique, Kakashi's voice carried a clear note of anger.

Zabuza had caught him in a scheme and nearly put both the target he was supposed to protect and his three adorable students in danger. Kakashi was holding back plenty of anger now.

"Alright. Then I'll go protect Mr. Tazuna."

Li Chuan's eyes shifted, and he immediately agreed.

He needed Kakashi and Zabuza to both suffer heavy losses. That would be most beneficial to him.

"You're facing me alone? That isn't a wise choice."

Seeing Li Chuan turn and leave while only Kakashi remained standing before him, Zabuza revealed a cold smile and began forming hand seals.

But he soon could not smile anymore, because Kakashi was forming seals at the same time as him, with every movement exactly identical, before casting the exact same ninjutsu.

He had always thought Kakashi's Sharingan copied a jutsu only after seeing someone finish casting it, but it could actually reproduce it in perfect synchronization.

"He's here!"

At the same time, after rejoining Naruto and the others, Li Chuan was watching Kakashi and Zabuza's spectacular ninjutsu battle when his ears suddenly twitched.

He sensed that there seemed to be an extra person in the nearby forest.

If he was not mistaken, Zabuza's subordinate Haku should have arrived.

He knew that the primary purpose of Zabuza's attack was certainly to kill Tazuna and complete the mission. Its secondary purpose, should the mission fail, was to let the highly intelligent Haku analyze Kakashi's information through the battle and identify his weaknesses.

Water Style: Great Waterfall Jutsu!

After a fierce battle, Kakashi copied Zabuza's ninjutsu and movements while secretly using the Sharingan to cast a genjutsu on him, causing his mental defenses to collapse. In the end, Kakashi was the first to use the A-rank Great Waterfall Jutsu to defeat him.

"Get up the tree!"

As he watched the enormous wave surge toward them after Zabuza's defeat, Li Chuan grabbed Naruto with one hand and Tazuna with the other, then leaped onto a nearby tree.

Sasuke and Sakura followed closely behind.

After the wave passed, the heavily injured Zabuza lay beneath the tree. Kakashi had driven kunai into several joints in his arms and legs, leaving him unable to continue fighting.

However, just as Kakashi raised a kunai and prepared to step forward and finish Zabuza for good, two steel needles about thirty centimeters long suddenly shot out from the dense forest. They accurately pierced Zabuza's neck, killing him on the spot.

Right afterward, a youth around fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing the mask of the Hidden Mist Village's hunter-nin corps, appeared on a tree branch.

"Thank you for your help. I've been looking for a chance to kill Zabuza."

Every ninja village had its own hunter-nin corps, specializing in dealing with ninja who had defected from their villages. This prevented their corpses from being taken by other ninja villages after death and having intelligence harmful to the village uncovered from them, such as secrets about special medicines and ninjutsu.

Thus, the youth's meaning was obvious: he had come to kill Zabuza, a Rogue Ninja of the Hidden Mist Village, and take his body back to the Hidden Mist Village.

Kakashi stepped forward and touched Zabuza's neck. After confirming that there was no heartbeat, he nodded.

It was peacetime now. As a Konoha ninja, he could not stop the Hidden Mist Village's hunter-nin corps from taking Zabuza's body away, or it might lead to disputes between the nations.

"Wait!"

Just as the youth was about to step forward and pick up Zabuza's body, Li Chuan suddenly spoke up to stop him.

The youth calmly raised his head to look at Li Chuan.

"Is there a problem?"

Kakashi and the others also turned their eyes toward Li Chuan.

Li Chuan said with a smile:

"I forgot to tell you all—this humble monk may not be skilled in ninjutsu, but I know a little about medicine. Although those two Senbon from that young man pierced through Zabuza's neck, they were only inserted into his acupoints.

So Zabuza is merely feigning death. He'll wake up once the Senbon are pulled out."

"What?!"

Hearing Li Chuan's words, Kakashi and the others were instantly shocked.

At that moment, Haku, who had been posing as a Hidden Mist Village hunter-nin, knew his cover had been blown. With a flick of his hand, he sent out a spray of Senbon, scooped up Zabuza from the ground, and quickly fled.

Li Chuan knocked away the Senbon with the long blade in his hand, then leaped into the air and bounded through the trees as he pursued the fleeing Haku.

"You protect Mr. Tazuna and take him home. This humble monk will chase after them!"

"I'll help too!"

Naruto immediately moved to follow, but Kakashi stopped him with an outstretched hand.

"There may be accomplices. Protect Mr. Tazuna and get him home first."

Naruto was about to argue, only to see Kakashi's eyes roll back as he collapsed to the ground.

It turned out that although Kakashi had achieved the final victory in his battle with Zabuza, he had also exhausted the Chakra in his body and suffered serious injuries.

Unlike the Chidori and Lightning Blade he had invented himself, which were tremendously powerful but did not consume much Chakra, the Water Style ninjutsu used by Zabuza were all large-scale offensive techniques that required enormous amounts of Chakra.