Heavenly Blade Chaos

"Such strong ninja will."

As expected of a Sunagakure Jonin, the ninja will they unleashed could actually affect their teammates.

This roar was almost equivalent to a small genjutsu.

Unlike Konoha's Will of Fire, whose core concept is "wherever the leaves dance, fire will burn on," emphasizing sacrifice and inheritance.

The Will of Wind means "listen to my roar."

Its core concept is based on the survival laws of the desert, emphasizing the unleashing of potential in desperate situations, transforming into a sandstorm to protect the oasis and the clan.

While both are wills of protection, they differ from the protective core of Iwagakure's Will of Stone. The Will of Stone seeks inward, while the Will of Wind is the opposite, an explosive outward seeking.

The inward-seeking protection of the Will of Stone is reflected in greatly increased defensive power.

The outward-seeking protection of the Will of Wind, on the other hand, is manifested as ferocious offensive power akin to a sandstorm.

Therefore, when faced with desperate situations, Sand Ninja can often unleash extremely powerful combat capabilities, especially those elite Sand Ninja who have awakened the Will of Wind.

However, because these Sand Ninja were struck by poisoned senbon and have already been poisoned, the explosive effect of the Will of Wind is greatly diminished.

Moreover, after his initial set of "three-axe" tactics, he had basically left these Sand Ninja half-crippled. If he were truly a Konoha Jonin as they claimed, they would have absolutely no chance of winning, and escaping would be a problem.

No matter how strong the Will of Wind is, it is futile against the absolute crushing power of a Konoha Jonin.

After all, he had indeed crippled these Sand Ninja.

Originally, a standard elite squad of 2/3 strength Sand Ninja, consisting of 1 Sand Jonin leading 2 regular Chunin teammates; 1 Special Jonin Puppeteer leading another 2 Puppeteer Chunin, totaling 6 people, formed two pursuit squads.

Now, after his "three-axe" tactics, one Chunin teammate was instantly bisected by a Fuma Shuriken.

Subsequently, a Puppeteer Chunin had his legs severed by a "Uchiha-style" Mechanical Fuma Shuriken Wire Trap, and then was riddled with poisoned senbon like a hedgehog.

This resulted in a direct loss of 2 people, leaving only 4.

This was not the most important thing. After all, the ones who died were Chunin. The most crucial point was that, apart from the Special Jonin Puppeteer, the other three were all struck by poisoned senbon, and their Chakra was rapidly depleting.

And the strongest captain, the Jonin, had his left hand's five fingers severed by wires, rendering him unable to form hand seals, greatly reducing his combat effectiveness.

The only one who could still pose a significant threat, the Special Jonin Puppeteer, had his puppet destroyed by the slash of a Fuma Shuriken at the very beginning, instantly losing the advantage of his puppeteer combat system.

However, he was still a Special Jonin of Sunagakure, not one of those imposters from Iwagakure. Even without his puppet, he would undoubtedly be much stronger than an ordinary Chunin.

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

As expected, this Special Jonin Puppeteer formed hand seals, his fingers blurring into streaks of afterimages, performing nearly four seals per second, quickly unleashing a C-rank Wind Release: Great Breakthrough.

He spat out a large amount of rapidly spinning wind, which swept across the void, dispersing and clearing the smoke from the entire battlefield.

Obviously.

These Sand Ninja were already fearful of surprise attacks. The first thing they did was not to change their position, but to clear the battlefield and widen their field of vision to prevent another surprise attack.

At the same time, they gathered together to form a favorable formation, cooperating with each other for defense.

"I didn't check the almanac today; my luck is a bit bad."

Judging by the speed of his hand seals and the power displayed by this Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, there was no doubt that this individual, besides being a puppeteer, was also a Special Jonin who was extremely proficient in Wind Release.

As a result, Umino Sasuke suddenly realized that after his "three-axe" tactics, although the Sand Ninja were remnants, after suppressing the protease toxin with Chakra, they were, for a short period, stronger than his own side.

Although the Sand Ninja were reduced to 4 people, one was a Jonin with severed fingers, one was a Special Jonin whose puppet was destroyed and who was proficient in Wind Release, one was a bald Chunin skilled in Earth Release whose Chakra was largely depleted, and one was a Chunin controlling a half-damaged puppet.

His own side had 7 people. Apart from the cat-faced Chunin who seemed to be poisoned and was barely holding on, everyone else maintained a relatively intact combat capability.

This meant his side had exactly 3 Chunin and 3 Genin.

Seemingly having a numerical advantage and better condition, but the opponents were all elites among elites and were prepared to fight to the death.

From any angle, a head-on confrontation would not favor his side.

The only advantage was that the Sand Ninja were still unaware of the battlefield intelligence, believing him to be a Konoha Jonin skilled in mechanical tools.

A self-deprecating smile flickered across Umino Sasuke's lips as he unconsciously rubbed the Soldier Pills in his ninja tool pouch. A Konoha Jonin? He was merely a high-level Konoha cannon fodder.

If it weren't for the ambush beforehand, aided by Tejudo's Money Release Secret Technique, and the battlefield control provided by a Byakugan-like sonic radar technique, he would have already fled and wouldn't dare to stay here to die.

Fortunately, he only needed to stall for a while longer. The Konoha Mobile Patrol should be arriving soon.

"Charge!"

"We must retrieve the intelligence no matter what!"

The Sand Ninja's combat will was extremely tenacious. They immediately maintained their tactical formation, while guarding against surprise attacks from mechanical tools, they rapidly moved towards the monkey-faced Konoha Chunin with all their might.

"Even at this point, they are still thinking about mission intelligence. How tenacious."

Umino Sasuke shook his head, but a cold glint flashed in his eyes. Since they refused to retreat, he would add a little more "spice" for them.

Umino Sasuke grabbed the largest Sealing Scroll from Tejudo's waist and, with a tone of incitement, loudly reminded him, "Do, your time for revenge has come!"

Tejudo looked at his wife-puppets, now reduced to fragments, and was greatly stimulated. His eyes turned red, and veins bulged on his forehead: "Ah! My big Fuma wife, my paper-figure little wife, my..."

With every word Tejudo uttered, his rage level surged, and his internal Chakra churned.

Clearly, Tejudo blamed the Sand Ninja for everything, completely forgetting that he was the biggest culprit.

"Damn Sand Ninja, all of you die!"

Tejudo let out a furious roar, immediately grabbing the other end of the sealing scroll and pulling. The seal was broken.

"Tool Manipulation: Heavenly Blade Chaos!"

With a loud bang.

Instantly.

Tens of thousands of ninja tools surged out from the sealing scroll, converging in mid-air to form a sky-obscuring metal storm.

Poisoned senbon buzzed like a swarm of locusts, tearing through the air.

A large number of hexagonal shuriken, caltrops, kunai, kusarigama, war hammers, and other tools rained down like meteors, covering the entire battlefield.

There were even many iron balls, steel hammers, and other heavy tools that smashed directly into the Sand Ninja formation.

"Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall!"

The bald Chunin was finally prepared this time, constantly wary of sneak attacks, and promptly cast a B-rank defensive ninjutsu: Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall.

The bald Chunin's timing was excellent, perfectly shielding his two Puppeteer colleagues.

The Sand Jonin leading the charge weaved through the myriad of weapons, dancing on the edge of steel blades, dodging every single sharp weapon.

Clang, clang, clang...

His long sword moved like a nimble antelope, easily deflecting each poisoned senbon.

As expected of a Sand Jonin, their strength was formidable. Facing such a sky-obscuring barrage of tools, they were still handling it with ease.

Clearly, this Sand Jonin was not only powerful but also extremely rich in tactical experience. The fact that they didn't immediately retreat behind the Earth Flow Wall was a testament to this.

Being alone on the front lines, besides having absolute confidence in their own strength, was also to prevent being wiped out in one fell swoop.

At the same time, they could step out of the battle to control the rhythm of the fight and help teammates gain battlefield intelligence.