Naruto Bloodline Theory? Nothing but Trash

The Blowing Breath Whirlwind rose in an instant.

It directly engulfed Mingren, who had fallen to the ground.

At the same time, Gekko Clan, using the Transparent Release Bloodline Limit to turn invisible, rapidly approached with a katana in hand.

Although it was their first time working together,

they moved like comrades who had fought side by side for years.

This was Konoha's sense of camaraderie!

Slash!

Wind Release blurred the air, and after a ripple,

Mingren's body had been carved with wounds of every size.

Mingren, who had been attacked, abruptly rose to his feet. Enduring the Wind Release assault, he reached up and pulled 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.

Many ninjas would not so much as blink even after losing an arm or having 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.

"..."

Lowering the arm he had used to shield himself, Mingren had blocked the attacks aimed at his forehead and heart.

When Mingren swung his arm and started running,

Hokuto Hyuga suddenly noticed something bizarre. "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 exceedingly rare in the Ninja World, as scarce as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.

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 take them head-on. Instead, he rushed directly into a nearby building.

With a booming explosive sound,

the building's doorframe exploded.

The next moment,

Mingren charged out of the building, gripping an iron door panel.

Holding the door panel before him like a shield, he used it as cover.

In an instant, he charged toward Hokuto Hyuga.

His [8.4] Strength gave him an immense boost in speed.

Bursting forward at full force, Mingren 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 opponent's true target was not him, but Shinya Senju, who was forming hand seals!

Mingren abruptly changed course and switched his first assassination target to Shinya Senju.

As he ran, the various wounds Wind Release had cut across his body began healing as well.

Compared with long-range kunai sniping,

Wind Release's wide-area damage and high lethality made it the target he needed to eliminate first!

This sudden change of plans

also startled Shinya Senju.

It was already too late to dodge...

At the fastest possible speed, Mingren rushed at Shinya Senju.

Boom!

A figure suddenly appeared in midair.

As Gekko Clan flew backward, his Transparent Release Bloodline Limit technique was 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 wanted to block the attack for Shinya Senju.

But he had not expected...

the opponent's strength to be so...

"Far too terrifying!"

That thought flashed through his mind.

Then he crashed into a warehouse.

"So there was another one hiding. I didn't expect... was this invisibility ability Earth Style: Hiding Camouflage Technique? Or... the Transparent Release Bloodline Limit?"

Mingren did not dwell on it.

His 8.4 Strength had already surpassed Momochi Zabuza from Part One, as well as the broad-shouldered Asuma.

In a one-handed arm wrestle, even Asuma, built like a gorilla, would not be his match.

In other words, the consequences of such terrifying strength and acceleration meant that this invisible guy was either dead or severely wounded.

The next second,

the warehouse collapsed with a rumble.

Amid the sound of steel crashing down,

a dark Negative Emotion flew out from that direction and entered Mingren's body.

Filled with endless 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 increased Mingren's strength again, but also enhanced his self-healing ability.

Giving him more capital to challenge Bloodline Theory.

"Killing this guy added 0.2 Strength... if I take out the other two as well..."

"Still not enough! I need to become stronger!"

Because Gekko Clan had blocked him,

Mingren's steps only stalled 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 person before him was absolutely not someone they could confront head-on.

Three kunai left his hand in quick succession, flying toward Mingren and striking the iron door-panel shield with clanging sounds.

Shinya Senju glanced in the direction where Gekko Clan had crashed into the warehouse, pushed off with his feet, and swiftly leaped onto the roof.

"Trying to run?!"

Mingren threw away the door panel in his hand. With a bang, he pushed off with both feet and jumped up after him.

In theory, ninjas used Chakra bursting from the soles of their feet to move upward.

However,

Mingren accomplished this through nothing but pure physical strength.

"He's coming! Move!"

Hokuto Hyuga shouted across the distance.

And on the rooftop opposite...

the target was pursuing them at an unimaginable speed.

"This guy... the wounds on his body have healed significantly... what exactly is this monstrous self-healing ability..."

Shinya Senju's pupils contracted as he swiftly 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, the God of Shinobi, Hashirama Senju, could heal without hand seals through his Wood Release Bloodline Limit.

This guy had not formed hand seals, yet he could accomplish something similar.

In other words, did the target truly possess a Kekkei Genkai?!

But what exactly was this bloodline...?

"This guy is too strong. We shouldn't clash with him head-on... Let's retreat first and join up with our ANBU comrades before deciding what to do..."

As Hokuto Hyuga spoke, he found an opening and once again threw kunai at Mingren with near-perfect accuracy.

Slash, slash.

Protecting his vital points, Mingren continued leaping toward them as if he could not feel pain.

When he leaped over a rooftop and landed,

the kunai embedded in his body were forced out by regenerating, rolling muscle, clattering onto the ground.

Seeing this, Hokuto Hyuga frowned. "Their lethality is a little weaker than before... this guy hadn't shown his true strength earlier!"

The sight before him

made him assume that Mingren had not been fighting at full strength.