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The battle of ninja is the battle of intelligence.

Uchiha Ci attacked with taijutsu, and Kakuzu countered with taijutsu as well. Besides being angered and wanting to beat up the brat, he was also probing.

After all, this brat had rushed in with a barrier without a word, and looked so confident that he could cover the other two brats' escape.

Kakuzu didn't believe the other party had no tricks up his sleeve.

Caution was his greatest trump card for surviving since the Warring States Period!

Ever since being slapped by that person's wood clone, Kakuzu's eyes had been clear from that moment on.

He had long since carved these two words into his very bones.

At this moment, Seeing Uchiha Ci, who had endured a storm of taijutsu attacks, stand firm again, like an unkillable monster, with all the injuries on his body healed, and apart from looking a bit tired and panting, His condition was incredibly good.

Kakuzu couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.

"Medical Ninjutsu? No, such a powerful healing effect is a bit strange."

This level of combat continuation ability was not so exaggerated even when using Mystical Palm Technique while fighting.

Thinking of this, Kakuzu couldn't help but slightly turn his head, looking towards the cliff face above.

Besides the three brats, he remembered there was also a tall, middle-aged man in a yellow robe.

Moreover, that person gave him a subtle feeling, Making him feel difficult to kill.

"Hm?"

Just as Kakuzu glanced sideways, he suddenly froze, looking in a direction outside the barrier.

At some unknown time, The middle-aged ninja in the yellow robe had already stood on the cliff face outside the barrier, his eyes filled with baffling shock, staring intently at the brat opposite him.

Seeing this, Kakuzu instantly understood.

"This terrifying forbidden jutsu was taught to this brat by that guy!"

"Are these two master and disciple? Is he surprised by his disciple's progress in training?"

"Could it be that this guy wants to use me to temper his disciple?"

Kakuzu frowned, feeling that things were not as simple as they seemed.

This brat was not only setting up barriers for a one-on-one true man battle, but also unleashing such a tricky forbidden jutsu, and pushing his teammate aside to face him alone.

He looked like he wouldn't consider it a show of respect unless Kakuzu killed him.

This was enough to scare the seventy-year-old comrade.

He cried out in his heart, who was bluffing whom?

Looking at it now, the situation was clear.

This kid definitely had someone backing him!

At this thought, Kakuzu's mentality began to undergo a subtle change.

On stage, Uchiha Ci looked at Kakuzu, his gaze slightly narrowing.

At this moment, he sensed his internal condition. After using the forbidden jutsu, Flesh Rebirth, to restore his state, his body felt like rusty parts, not as functional as before.

This jutsu was powerful, but its side effects were extremely exaggerated.

Shennong could use this jutsu with almost no side effects by combining it with the incomplete Zero Tail Chakra, essentially replacing the power outlet for consumption.

Orochimaru could abuse this jutsu because he had Soft Body Modification and Living Corpse Reincarnation; he could just switch to a new body after ruining one.

But Uchiha Ci was consuming his own life force, which was real and tangible.

He estimated that, given the current state of his body, he could only use the forbidden jutsu, Flesh Rebirth, at most twice more before he would need immediate medical attention.

Otherwise, he would die from his life force being drained.

Therefore, he only had two chances.

At this thought, Uchiha Ci took a deep breath, and his Sharingan drew a streak of light.

He once again crouched and charged forward in the same pose. The slight difference was that this time, in his hand, he held a Raging Water Blade entrusted to him by Mei Terumi!

Water Style: Water Fang Blade!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Three shuriken shot through the air!

"Trying the same move again?"

Kakuzu's eyes narrowed. He immediately changed his position, flicking out three entangled Earth Grudge Tentacles to swat down the shuriken while crushing towards Uchiha Ci.

After their previous taijutsu exchange, Kakuzu had a rough estimate of this brat's reaction speed.

Hmm, a bit of a pervert.

If not for his special body structure, using Earth Grudge Fear Silk Threads to unexpectedly entangle the kunai, that brat's leg-sweeping combo would have succeeded just now.

Now the opponent drew out a water blade that could cut tentacles.

His scheme was so obvious, it was practically shouting at him, about to fly out and hit the seventy-year-old comrade in the face.

Kakuzu wasn't stupid, and naturally wouldn't stand there and let Uchiha Ci "fix his feet" again.

The battle situation immediately began to escalate.

Seeing Kakuzu change his move and shoot out a bunch of Earth Grudge Fear Silk Threads, Uchiha Ci's heart immediately lit up.

This water blade's deception effect is better than the kunai!

Before he could even rush forward to "fix" Old Master Kak's feet, the old master threw a reward of valuable ninja tools back at him!

Uchiha Ci immediately slammed on the brakes, stopping himself by stepping on the cliff face.

Then, he gripped his sword, flicking his wrist to create a beautiful sword flower.

His Sharingan stared intently at the furiously shooting tentacles before him.

Next, He braced the blade on his arm, crouched with accumulated power, And suddenly swung his sword!

First, Kumo-ryū: Deceiver Slash, tricking Kakuzu's tentacles into grazing his right shoulder. Then, immediately following up with another move, Kumo-ryū: Crescent Moon Slash!

Perfectly replicating the Kumo-ryū Kenjutsu he had only seen once in Volcano Boiling Sea!

The spinning Water Fang Blade suddenly lit up with three arcs of moon-like light!

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Kakuzu's three incoming tentacles were severed in response.

Uchiha Ci quickly squatted down, gathering the mass of tentacles clinging to the cliff face like shuffling mahjong tiles. With a large grab, he scooped them all into his ninja tool pouch.

He immediately grinned and turned, darting away as if flying, repeatedly ducking and tumbling to dodge several tentacle attacks.

While dodging and weaving, he drew out his empty Ninja Tool Thread spool and quickly sorted out the messy Earth Grudge Fear Silk Threads, installing them.

Only when he saw the Ninja Tool Thread spool was completely wound did

Uchiha Ci reveal a smile of having gotten something for free.

Although Ci now appeared to possess a large array of ninjutsu and forbidden techniques, setting aside fire ninjutsu like Great Fireball and Phoenix Sage Fire which were all smoke and no damage, the only ones that could actually pose a Threaten to Kakuzu

were the two techniques he had just acquired from Great Elder Uchiha Setsuna.

Uchiha Style: Thread Manipulation Shuriken Jutsu!

This was the core of Uchiha Ci's entire combat strategy at the moment.

There was only one word for it:

Fast!

So fast that the Opponent wouldn't have time to form Hand Seals, wouldn't have time to Release ninjutsu, wouldn't have time to defend!

When forced to dodge with all their might, they would inevitably reveal an opening, allowing Uchiha Ci to seize the Opportunity for a fight to the death!

A third-rate Uchiha uses Shuriken as a Feint, a second-rate Uchiha uses Shuriken for a Sneak Attack, a first-rate Uchiha uses Shuriken to seize an Opportunity!

And the Mastered level Uchiha Style: Thread Manipulation Shuriken Jutsu!

Its rating was S, because

it itself

was a Killing Move!

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