The Blowing Breath Whirlwind rose in an instant.
It directly enveloped Mingren, who had fallen to the ground.
At the same time, Gekko Clan, using the Transparent Release Bloodline Limit to turn invisible, swiftly approached with a katana in hand.
Although it was the first time the three had worked together,
they moved like comrades who had fought side by side for years.
This was Konoha's sense of companionship!
Screech!
Wind Release blurred the air, and after a brief distortion,
Mingren's body was covered in wounds of varying sizes.
The attacked Mingren abruptly rose to his feet, endured the Wind Release assault, and reached up to pull the kunai from his left eye.
It was as though he could not feel pain.
The sight made Hokuto Hyuga frown slightly.
However...
Ninjas were creatures capable of enduring pain in the first place.
Many ninjas would not so much as blink even if they lost an arm or had an eye gouged out.
Mingren casually tossed away the kunai.
Just as he was about to counterattack...
Eighty meters away, Hokuto Hyuga threw another weapon.
This time, there were three kunai.
As he threw them, he closed the distance and approached.
The precisely aimed kunai instantly struck Mingren's arm and thigh.
"..."
He lowered the arm he had used to shield himself, blocking the attacks aimed at his forehead and heart.
When Mingren swung his arm and began to run,
Hokuto Hyuga suddenly noticed something strange. "His eye... is healing?!"
The eye that had been stabbed began to heal itself.
The same was true for his arm and thigh.
The Byakugan's exceptional observational ability allowed him to notice details that neither Gekko Clan nor Shinya Senju had seen.
Ninjas with self-healing abilities were extremely rare in the Ninja World, practically one in a million.
In an instant,
he compared the intelligence in his mind with the situation before him.
Hokuto Hyuga's eyes widened, and he immediately concluded, "This guy... really does possess some kind of Kekkei Genkai [bloodline]!"
Without another thought,
Hokuto Hyuga immediately threw several more kunai.
This time,
Mingren did not choose to endure them head-on. Instead, he charged directly into a nearby building.
With a booming explosive sound,
the house's doorframe exploded.
The next moment,
Mingren rushed out of the building, gripping an iron door panel.
Holding the door panel like a shield in front of himself, he used it as cover.
In an instant, he rushed toward Hokuto Hyuga.
His [8.4] strength gave him an enormous boost in speed.
Mingren, bursting forward at full power, was like a tyrannosaurus, closing the distance at an unbelievable speed.
But the next second,
Mingren suddenly changed direction.
"Not good!"
Hokuto Hyuga was startled.
The other man's real target was not him, but Shinya Senju, who was forming hand seals!
Mingren abruptly changed direction and switched his first assassination target to Shinya Senju.
As he ran, the many wounds carved into his body by Wind Release began healing as well.
Compared to long-range kunai sniping,
Wind Release's wide-area damage and high lethality made it the priority target he needed to eliminate!
This sudden change of plans
also startled Shinya Senju.
It was already too late to dodge...
At top speed, Mingren charged at Shinya Senju.
Bang!
A figure suddenly appeared in midair.
As Gekko Clan flew backward, the technique of his Transparent Release Bloodline Limit had already been broken.
"Puh~~!"
He violently spat out a mouthful of blood.
It felt as though every bone in his body had been shattered!
In his urgency, he had intended to block the attack for Shinya Senju.
But he had not expected...
the other man's strength to be so...
"Too astonishing!"
That thought flashed through his mind.
Then he crashed into a warehouse.
"There was actually someone else hiding. I didn't expect it... Was that kind of invisibility Earth Style: Hiding Camouflage Technique? Or... Transparent Release: Kekkei Genkai?"
Mingren did not dwell on it.
His 8.4 strength had already surpassed that of Momochi Zabuza from Part One and the broad-shouldered Asuma.
Even in a one-handed arm wrestle, Asuma, no matter how built like a gorilla, would not be his opponent.
In other words, with the consequences brought by such terrifying strength and acceleration, that invisible guy would either be dead or severely injured.
The next moment,
with another boom, the warehouse collapsed.
Amid the sound of steel crashing down,
a wave of dark Negative Emotions flew from that direction and entered Mingren's body.
Filled with boundless unwillingness,
the severely injured Gekko Clan died just like that, buried beneath a pile of steel...
[Strength... 8.6!]
Crushing
The absorbed Negative Mental Energy not only raised Mingren's strength once more, but also enhanced his self-healing ability.
This gave him greater capital to challenge Bloodline Theory.
"Killing that guy added 0.2 strength... If I take out the other two as well..."
"Not enough! I need to become stronger!"
Because Gekko Clan had blocked him,
Mingren's steps only paused slightly.
Then he continued charging toward Shinya Senju.
Seeing this, Hokuto Hyuga grew anxious.
The instant he saw Gekko Clan get rammed to death, he knew the man before him was absolutely not someone they could fight head-on.
Three kunai flew from his hand, striking the iron door-panel shield with clanging sounds.
Shinya Senju glanced toward the direction where Gekko Clan had crashed into the warehouse, pushed off with his feet, and swiftly leaped onto a rooftop.
"Trying to run?!"
Mingren threw away the door panel in his hand. With a bang, he pushed off with both feet and followed him up.
In theory, ninjas moved upward by erupting Chakra from the soles of their feet.
However,
Mingren accomplished it through pure physical strength alone.
"He's coming, move!"
Hokuto Hyuga shouted from afar.
And on the rooftop opposite...
the target was pursuing them at an unimaginable speed.
"This guy... his wounds have healed considerably... What exactly is this monstrous self-healing ability...?"
Shinya Senju's pupils contracted as he quickly joined up with Hokuto Hyuga.
Within the Senju Clan,
a similar story had been passed down.
It was said that the Senju Clan's ancestor, Hashirama Senju, the God of Shinobi, could heal without hand seals through his Wood Release Kekkei Genkai.
This man did not form hand seals, yet he could do something similar.
Did that mean the target truly possessed a Kekkei Genkai?!
But what kind of bloodline was it...?
"This guy is too strong. We should not confront him head-on... Let's withdraw first and rendezvous with our ANBU comrades before deciding what to do..."
As Hokuto Hyuga spoke, having found an opening, he once again threw kunai at Mingren with near-perfect accuracy.
Screech, screech.
Mingren shielded his vital points and continued leaping toward them as though he felt no pain.
When he leaped over a rooftop and landed,
the kunai embedded in his body were forced out by the rolling and regeneration of his muscles, falling to the ground with clatters.
Seeing this, Hokuto Hyuga frowned. "Their lethality is slightly weaker than before... This guy did not reveal his true strength earlier!"
What he saw before him
made him believe that Mingren had not used his full strength earlier.
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