Water Release: Water Fang Blade! Believe in Miracles!

Chapter 46: Water Style: Water Fang Blade! Believe in Miracles!

As the words fell, Kakuzu showed no sign of letting down his guard.

He watched the three shuriken charging towards his weak points. Though he didn't understand how, he simply attributed it to Uchiha Ci getting lucky.

A cold light flashed in his eyes. He stomped his leg hard against the cliff face, kicking up several pebbles, and unleashed a high whiplash kick.

The pebbles tore through the night wind, smashing downwards.

With two clangs, two shuriken were knocked away. Kakuzu sidestepped and dodged the third.

By this moment, Uchiha Ci had already closed the distance.

Twisting his foot slightly, the kunai spun in his hand, creating a blade flower. He thrust straight towards Kakuzu's chest, aiming for the heart position.

Kakuzu immediately adjusted his stance, turning sideways. He followed up with a turn elbow strike, violently blasting towards Uchiha Ci's face.

The movement was so fast that Uchiha Ci couldn't see it clearly at all. He only felt the hairs on his neck stand on end, his heart sounding an alarm.

[Talent: Combat Intuition (Beginner, S) activated.]

His body instinctively ducked, dodging the incoming elbow strike.

This move left Kakuzu slightly taken aback.

While he wasn't particularly skilled at taijutsu, his combat experience of over seventy years and his physical abilities augmented by Earth Grudge Fear meant his movements were far beyond what a single-tomoe Sharingan could perceive.

Uchiha Ci seized the momentary opening Kakuzu revealed, immediately slashing his kunai towards Kakuzu's left ankle.

At the same time, he used a move from Kumogakure's Swastika-shaped taijutsu, a side kick to the sole of the foot, attacking from both sides.

He aimed to cripple Kakuzu's good leg.

Kakuzu's gaze sharpened.

The stitches on his left foot opened, spewing out seven or eight Earth Grudge Fear silk threads that wrapped around Uchiha Ci's kunai. Then, with a scorpion tail sweep, he swept his right leg upwards, kicking towards Uchiha Ci's face.

Uchiha Ci jolted again, instinctively crossing his arms to block.

At the same time, he tightly gripped the kunai, trying to cut through the extremely fine Earth Grudge Fear silk threads wrapped around it.

As a result, he was kicked into the air.

Swoosh!

The silk threads were severed simultaneously.

"It's over!"

Kakuzu declared indifferently. With a violent single push palm, he suddenly grabbed Uchiha Ci's face and slammed his head against the cliff face.

Bang!

The force was so great that rocks scattered and blood gushed.

Uchiha Ci's head spun. With his face broken, he used his last shred of consciousness to tightly grip the kunai and stab it into his ninja tool bag.

Kakuzu once again lifted Uchiha Ci, who was slumped against the cliff face. His gaze was icy, and he sneered:

"Looks like you're nothing special."

"Who gave you the courage to challenge me alone?"

As the words fell, Kakuzu's gaze turned cold. He held Uchiha Ci and delivered a straight punch to the abdomen!

He followed up with hands grabbing the head and a knee strike blast to the face, a flip over mid-air spin kick shoulder smash to the ground, a scorpion tail sweep kick to the chest to knock away, a turn elbow blast to the face, a face sweep kick, a back kick leg blast to the back of the head, and finally a front kick to the face.

Each move was vicious and ruthless, aimed at Uchiha Ci with all his might!

The final kick was like kicking a soccer ball.

He kicked Uchiha Ci flying, smashing him hard against the corner of the barrier. Blood poured from his head, his face no longer recognizable.

"Hoo," Kakuzu let out a long breath.

After this combo, even an iron ball would be flattened into a pancake, let alone a human head.

However, Kakuzu glanced towards the corner, looking at Uchiha Ci, who was lying there silently. He frowned slightly.

"The barrier hasn't opened yet. He's not dead?"

Outside the barrier, Through the barrier, Mei Terumi and Hidan could only watch as Uchiha Ci charged forward like a madman.

Then, very quickly, In less than a minute, he was kicked back by Kakuzu's ruthless combo.

Too tragic.

He was completely unrecognizable from the handsome young man he was a minute ago. If one had to describe him, he now looked more like a pile of thoroughly smashed tofu pudding.

Mei Terumi: Hidan:

The two fell silent.

So, Big Brother, after all that maneuvering, you couldn't even open a small gap on the enemy and got beaten back.

What was the point?

However, at this very moment, Uchiha Ci, who had been beaten into a pulp, suddenly twitched his fingers and slowly grabbed onto the barrier and cliff face, pulling himself up.

The swelling and wounds on his battered head rapidly healed.

Soon, not even a trace of injury remained.

The reason for this outcome was that Uchiha Ci had used a jutsu he had just obtained from Shennong—

Forbidden Jutsu: Flesh Regeneration.

It could rapidly restore injuries by consuming life force and stamina.

In the future, Orochimaru would even use this as a basis to improve it into the mysterious Regeneration Jutsu.

Uchiha Ci stood firm again, his state fully restored.

Though his blood-soaked body looked gruesome and terrifying, his spirit and energy remained undiminished.

Far from feeling any shame from his defeat, he instead gasped for breath and laughed heartily.

"Hahahahahaha."

"I knew it!"

As he spoke, Uchiha Ci drew a kunai from his ninja tool pouch, removed the Earth Grudge Fear Silk Threads from it, and wrapped them around his finger, giving them a tug.

"This toughness is similar to ninja silk, and without the Earth Grudge physical form, Kakuzu can't control it anymore."

"It can completely be used as a ninja tool!"

Mei Terumi and Hidan, standing nearby, were dumbfounded. Seeing Uchiha Ci's joyful expression, they felt a lump in their throats.

"Are you mad? You charged in and got beaten to a pulp just to figure out something so baffling?"

Mei Terumi glared at Uchiha Ci, who was just a step away, with disappointment.

She slammed her hand against the barrier and shouted, "Open the barrier quickly and let me in!"

"You'll die if this continues!"

"Hm?" Uchiha Ci heard her voice and turned his head sharply. Seeing Mei Terumi and Hidan still there, he couldn't help but feel speechless.

"Why are you still here?"

"Didn't I tell you to run?"

Hearing this, not only Mei Terumi but even Hidan's face showed anger.

"Stop playing the hero here!"

"If we leave, we leave together!"

"..." Uchiha Ci was uncharacteristically silent for a moment, unsure how to respond.

In the end, he pretended not to hear and changed the subject, saying gravely to the two, "This isn't something baffling. This kind of intelligence is crucial to me!"

Then, Uchiha Ci looked at Mei Terumi and asked solemnly, "Since you're still here."

"May I ask for the hand seals for Water Fang Blade?"

Mei Terumi frowned slightly.

The Water Fang Blade jutsu was a secret technique of the Mei family. Chojuro, the future Sixth Mizukage, had used it when fighting Ōtsutsuki Urashiki.

It could withstand Ōtsutsuki Urashiki's Six Paths Tool fishing rod, possessed shape-shifting abilities, and had low chakra consumption, making it a rather valuable ninjutsu.

She hesitated for a moment, then thought and finally spoke, "It's U-Mi-Si. What do you want to do?"

Uchiha Ci nodded. Although his One Tomoe Sharingan could see the flow of chakra in a person's body, it could only see the general direction, and it was still a distance from replicating ninjutsu.

However, with the hand seals known, combined with the recorded chakra flow, there was a high probability of replicating the jutsu.

Uchiha Ci had also tested his innate chakra nature, which was water and fire, perfectly meeting the prerequisites for releasing this jutsu.

"Hoo, you'll know soon enough."

Uchiha Ci didn't explain further. He immediately turned around and formed hand seals with the kunai in his hands.

U-Mi-Si.

After only two attempts, he successfully condensed a spinning Water Fang Blade, about two and a half feet long, onto the kunai.

Just moments ago, Uchiha Ci had keenly observed that this jutsu, in Mei Terumi's hands, had severed Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Tentacles.

And the brief fierce battle just now had already proven—

Even with his Sharingan activated and his innate Combat Intuition, Uchiha Ci was no match for Kakuzu, who possessed over seventy years of combat experience, when it came to Basic Body Techniques.

If he just went in with plain attacks, he would definitely lose!

But, In the world of ninja, Ninjutsu is the existence that creates miracles!

Uchiha Ci, who possessed a large array of ninjutsu, forbidden jutsu, and even Mastered-level Silk Manipulation Shuriken Jutsu.

He believed that miracles would ultimately be born from his hands!

So, The first step was to borrow some ninja tools from Kakuzu!

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