Rock Clone.
"Damn Konoha brat, that's not the amount of Chakra someone your age should have!!"
Yantie broke out in a cold sweat, gasping rapidly as he felt utterly exhausted and weak.
If he had not cautiously sent out a Rock Clone to test the waters earlier, he would already be dead.
Now, this brat's Chakra should be depleted. Having this kind of strength at such an age... he absolutely could not be allowed to live!! In some ways, he was even more terrifying than Kakashi!
Yantie immediately gritted his teeth and struck with all his might. In one blow, he pierced straight through Genitsu's chest.
Unfortunately.
"This one is a clone too."
The Nuclear Release Clone grabbed Yantie's arm. Even as its entire body began to melt, it still held on tightly.
Then, it opened its mouth.
A cloud of nuclear radiation burst forth. As Genitsu's clone melted away, it forced all that nuclear radiation into Yantie's body.
Sizzle!
Yantie struck once, severing his own arm, then turned with bloodshot eyes and charged toward Genitsu's real body in another direction.
But before he had gotten halfway there, he suddenly coughed up blood and collapsed limply to the ground.
"My body?! How could this be? I clearly took so many antidotes...!!"
Yantie was stunned. Lying on the ground, he vomited blood in great mouthfuls, his entire body no longer obeying him.
"Why do you think we took our time recovering and talking nonsense with the two of you?"
Genitsu shook his head. "By merging yourself into rock, you could evade most sensory ninjutsu, but unfortunately, rock wasn't all that effective against my technique..."
It had been close.
Genitsu had nearly been fooled too. But the rock Yantie had merged with had not been thick enough, allowing radiation to seep through bit by bit...
If this guy had attacked immediately from the start instead of searching for some perfect one-hit kill opportunity, he would not have been affected by radiation to this extent... truly pitiful.
Two special jonin attacking them right after they had gone through a fierce battle had been an excellent tactic. But Yantie had insisted on hiding, and in the end, he had hidden his way straight to his own ending.
Ever since that fierce battle began, Genitsu had been silently spreading clouds of nuclear radiation, relentlessly corroding Yantie's body.
Until this moment, when he directly detonated it.
"What kind of poison is this?! Our village can even neutralize some of that woman Chiyo's poisons, so why is yours ineffective!!"
Yantie died with his eyes wide open.
Over the past two months, Genitsu's information had long since leaked out. Many people knew that this Konoha genius possessed not only a battlefield-clearing ninjutsu suspected to be Wind Release, but also an eerie ability to control poison.
After many lives had been lost, they confirmed that this undetectable poison likely spread through the air. Thus, they raised the priority of hunting Genitsu to a level second only to Kakashi.
The only thing that deeply puzzled the Iwa and Sand ninja was that they could never obtain a single poison sample. It was utterly incomprehensible!
No form of poison could be found within any recovered corpse or surviving victim—none in their muscles, blood, bone marrow, or brains.
It was as though the poison simply did not exist.
"My poison has no cure. Once infected, no one but me can reverse it. Even if you survive, the poison will remain with you for life. Yantie, you really worked hard, swallowing dozens of antidotes at once and enduring the drug reactions just to kill me..."
Genitsu drew a kunai and threw it from afar, piercing through Yantie's skull in a single strike. At the same time, he swiftly recalled the Nuclear Release Clone.
Elsewhere.
Might Guy had also opened the fourth gate, the Gate of Pain, and joined forces with Kazue to fight Changshi with all his strength.
Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique!
Kazue directly used the Sharingan's genjutsu, attempting to restrain Changshi.
"Damn it, Brother Yantie was actually..."
Changshi's face was filled with disbelief. In rage and alarm, he tried to flee.
Shiranui Genitsu... he was far more terrifying than that genius Kakashi!! He had to report this to the village. A monster like this had to be killed at any cost!
But as he gasped rapidly, he finally realized that the accumulated damage to his body had become a problem... his heart pounded violently, while his internal organs felt as though they were being scorched, growing worse and worse.
"It's that brat's poison!" Changshi gave a bitter smile.
Then Kazue's genjutsu took advantage of the opening, and Might Guy ultimately slammed a heavy punch into his heart, killing him on the spot.
"Phew, phew, phew... I'm so tired. Genitsu-san actually killed his enemy faster than we did. That's incredible..."
Might Guy released the Eight Gates and dropped onto the ground, exhausted beyond measure.
Kazue wiped the sweat from her forehead, shifted her gaze, and stared in shock at the abundant Chakra still within Genitsu's body.
It was as though it had not diminished at all.
"What kind of monster is he... I heard from my clan that Hidden Mist has someone named Kisame Hoshigaki, whose Chakra is astonishingly vast. Could Genitsu-san also be one of those exceptionally gifted people?"
Kazue was green with envy.
"There won't be any more problems this time. We're very safe... the Iwa ninja's hunt for us ends here."
Genitsu opened his eyes and spoke calmly.
Their hunting targets had been correct. Once the three of them grew up, they would absolutely become their enemies' nightmare. Unfortunately, their method had been wrong. They had insisted on playing at lurking and ambushes.
A direct assault would have been enough.
Whoosh!
At that moment, Aburame Shibi appeared beside the three, carrying a corpse over his shoulder.
"Ah, Teacher Shibi, you finally came back. Weren't you worried we'd get killed?" Genitsu rubbed his neck.
"Dealing with this man took some time. To hold me back, he devised an extremely meticulous strategy.
I also learned the details through the insects. Your excellence exceeded my expectations. After going through a fierce battle, you even devised a plan to kill two special jonin..."
Shibi nodded slightly. For him to make such an obvious gesture showed that he was not merely satisfied inwardly—he was downright delighted.
Just now, he had nearly been unable to resist unleashing the large number of insects lurking around them to cover Genitsu and the other two's retreat—this would have been simple. Creating two Insect Clones would have been enough to hold back those two Iwa ninja.
But he had not expected Genitsu's group to complete the counterkill directly.
Special jonin might have been far weaker than regular jonin, but accomplishing this much was already astonishing enough.
Even compared to Kakashi at the same age, they were no less impressive.
Especially Genitsu. In some respects, his level of danger had long since far surpassed Kakashi's...
The group of four set off to return.
Along the way.
"Genitsu, there's something I need to ask you..."
Shibi hesitated for a moment, then said quietly, "Some of my insects have undergone strange changes. They seem capable of devouring large amounts of Chakra in a short time, and then their bodies expand drastically... insects like that are too dangerous. It's no longer very convenient to keep them directly inside my body."
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