The village ruins, ravaged by ninja battles, were in disarray.
Within the sky-high barrier, the ground was littered with shuriken, scattered ninja tool threads, and chunks of earth, withered branches, and broken bricks snapped by ninja silk.
In the center of the field, as Uchiha Ci's words fell softly.
Moroi flinched uncontrollably, as if suffering from a trauma response.
Despite his fierce attack, his current state looked incredibly disheveled.
His red coat was torn to shreds by ninja tool threads, revealing numerous wounds with clean cuts, bleeding profusely.
The stinging pain from the wounds made him gasp softly in pain.
Under Uchiha Ci's series of combined ninjutsu, if not for the sealing jutsu scroll he carried, which could be used without hand seals.
And if it hadn't happened to be the Binding Array technique sealed within it.
He might have truly died in regret at the hands of Uchiha Ci, this novice genin.
Moroi narrowed his eyes, not daring to be careless. He formed the Kai Seal with both hands and used sensory ninjutsu to examine Uchiha Ci from head to toe for a moment.
Then, he sighed in relief.
He pressed his long sword forward, a disdainful smile on his face, and said coldly:
"Brat, do you still think you can trick me at this point?"
"I've already seen it. You're almost out of chakra, your stamina is less than a tenth of what it was, and you've been hit by my Lightning Kill Bind."
"With your current strength, you can't even release the Substitution Technique!"
Moroi's lips curled, his gaze filled with confidence, as if victory was assured. He calmly declared:
"You have lost!"
"You have no other path but to wait for death!"
However, Uchiha Ci's gaze remained incredibly calm, perhaps even frighteningly so.
Just as Moroi said, his current condition was dire.
Let alone the Substitution Technique, he couldn't even use a simple E-rank Rope Escape Technique.
But, at this moment, a look of relief actually appeared on Uchiha Ci's face. He muttered softly to himself:
"I finally, finally, finally..."
"Brat, what are you talking about?" Moroi frowned, staring intently at Uchiha Ci.
After the previous exchange, even with victory seemingly in hand, he didn't dare to be careless with Uchiha Ci any longer.
Uchiha Ci merely stared calmly at Moroi, then suddenly grinned, speaking as calmly as if telling a story:
"Do you know?!"
"How long have I been looking forward to this moment!"
"And now—"
Uchiha Ci's eyes gleamed with madness, his lips curling upwards. He exclaimed with extreme excitement: "I have finally reached this moment!"
"Utterly nonsensical, baffling!"
Moroi, seeing Uchiha Ci speaking nonsense even in this situation, couldn't help but frown and bark coldly:
"Whatever your last wish is, it ends here!"
"Die for me!"
He decided to stop wasting words, intending to pierce Uchiha Ci's chest directly and end his life!
Moroi raised his long sword, gripping the sword hilt with both hands. He took a step back, holding the hilt level at his waist.
The blade tip pointed directly at Uchiha Ci's heart!
As soon as he exerted force with his arm and thrust the sword forward, this youth before him would never speak another word!
His gaze sharpened, and he thrust the sword forward!
He could already picture Uchiha Ci falling.
However, at this very moment.
Uchiha Ci, whose limbs were bound by the Lightning Kill Bind, suddenly threw his head back and let out a loud, mad laugh:
"Hehehe, hahahaha, ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha~!"
The laughter was layered, starting from a mocking low chuckle, escalating to unrestrained laughter, and finally reaching a point where he almost choked, tears welling up in his eyes.
Uchiha Ci lowered his head and glanced at Moroi, his eyes full of disdain.
"Kumogakure, you, you don't think you've won, do you?"
As Uchiha Ci's voice fell.
Moroi's long sword sliced through the high-collar black robe on Uchiha Ci's chest.
Upon seeing what was beneath the black robe, his eyes widened in shock, and the smug smile on his face froze.
The hand pushing the sword also stopped suddenly!
"Wh-what is this?" Moroi looked up at Uchiha Ci in horror.
"What is this?!" Uchiha Ci laughed heartily, his tone frenzied.
"Then let me tell you, what this is!"
Ignoring the intense numbness and the pain of electric currents coursing through his body, Uchiha Ci's gaze sharpened.
With one hand, he grabbed the high-collar black robe on his chest and tore it open!
The black robe ripped, revealing a muscular young body under the sunlight.
However, on this body, was worn a close-fitting garment made of densely packed exploding tags!
Black exploding tag patterns crawled all over his body, from head to toe, exploding tags were stuck in every corner!
The dense 'Explode' characters were visually impactful!
The sheer number of them could probably flatten this entire village!
Moroi suddenly felt a tingling sensation from his toes to his scalp, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.
Uchiha Ci, this brat, was actually wearing exploding tags as clothes?!
You damn it!
Madman!
Madman!
He's a complete madman!
Aren't you afraid of bumping into something and blowing yourself up?
Uchiha Ci suddenly felt his body loosen. The magic seal etched with the word 'Lightning' on the ground had stopped because Moroi's lapse in concentration had interrupted the chakra supply.
Uchiha Ci moved his shoulders a few times, jumped down, and glanced indifferently at Moroi, saying lightly:
"The one who truly won, is me!"
As he spoke, Uchiha Ci grabbed the exploding tags on his chest.
With a gentle pull, the entire village would go up in flames along with Uchiha Ci!
On stage, a deathly silence suddenly fell.
Outside the barrier, three people were closely monitoring the battle within.
After Moroi consecutively used the Fire Seal Jutsu, Binding Array, and Lightning Kill Bind, the situation had suddenly reversed.
The roles of prey and hunter had flipped, and Uchiha Ci was restrained.
He was on the verge of having his life ended with a single sword strike!
"Ci!"
Great Elder Uchiha Setsuna couldn't help but be alarmed and immediately wanted to break free and use a powerful ninjutsu to shatter the barrier.
At this moment, Uchiha Ci, held a weight in Great Elder Uchiha Setsuna's heart that was incomparable to before!
He had mastered the Uchiha Style Silk Manipulation Shuriken Jutsu beyond his years, and with a little guidance, could learn the Dragon Fire Technique and Phoenix Sage Fire Flower Claw Red.
Furthermore, he could extrapolate and combine the three techniques to use a Combined Ninjutsu that even astonished him.
In his eyes, Uchiha Ci was no longer the trash who couldn't even activate his Sharingan!
He was, a genius among geniuses!
As a top-tier higher-up of the clan, Uchiha Setsuna naturally knew the path to activating the Sharingan.
He could absolutely design intense stimuli to awaken the clan members' Sharingan.
However, such actions would be like pulling up seedlings to help them grow. Forcing the activation of the Sharingan without the corresponding talent would only make the Sharingan a hindrance, a treasure that others would covet and wish to snatch.
But Uchiha Ci was different!
His talent was enough to support this power!
In fact, Uchiha Setsuna had already planned a cliché, life-and-death separation for this very moment, a scenario so melodramatic it was enough to make Uchiha Ci awaken his Mangekyo Sharingan and become the ultimate psychopath.
And now, the situation on stage had reversed!
This genius, who had only just begun to show his potential, was about to be buried in this foreign land.
For the Uchiha, and for his Hawk Faction, this was a tremendous loss!
Uchiha Setsuna immediately gritted his teeth slightly, his gaze hardening.
He decided to use Izanagi, to trade one of the two Kumogakure shinobi blocking him for Uchiha Ci, and then forcefully break through the barrier to take Uchiha Ci away.
This kind of talent couldn't die here!
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