My Ninjutsu Is Complete

Meanwhile.

Upstream.

One of Qingye's Shadow Clones moved exactly like the original, unleashing large-scale Fire Release techniques without pause. Flames blanketed the area, setting the surrounding woods ablaze!

The Iwagakure Ninjas rushing in from this direction to reinforce their allies were all held back here.

Whoosh!

A burst of air-rending sound came from farther upstream!

Qingye looked ahead and saw a massive boulder, more than ten meters across, hurtling toward him from a distance. He immediately dodged.

The boulder crashed down, tearing the earth apart!

"You're the one?!"

Kitsuchi and several others rushed over from afar. Only now did he get a clear look at Qingye's face, and he flew into a rage.

He'd seen this bastard before!

Just a few days ago!

After discovering that Gari had seemingly been killed, he'd flown into a rage and pursued the killer recklessly all the way to the border of the Land of Fire. Back then, he'd caught a distant glimpse of the three people fleeing ahead.

They were all boys around twelve or thirteen!

And the one leading them was the bastard standing right in front of him!

"Kitsuchi..."

Qingye's eye twitched.

That old bastard Uchiha Madara had even lured Kitsuchi here!

"Where's Minato Namikaze? Where is he?!"

Kitsuchi looked around, searching for a particular target, but found nothing.

He'd chased Minato Namikaze all the way here. Then, while he was in pursuit, a fire suddenly broke out downstream. The moment his attention wandered, Minato disappeared.

His subordinates had said that Minato seemed to have suddenly used some kind of Earth Release technique to burrow underground and escape. But Kitsuchi had searched all around, and there wasn't a trace of Chakra underground.

What the hell?!

Had Minato escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique?

Then why burrow underground first? What was the point?

Completely baffled, Kitsuchi had rushed over to help, worried about the situation up ahead—only to find the Konoha Ninja he hated most.

"Minato Namikaze... Tch!"

Qingye suddenly laughed, guessing what had happened.

Ignoring the large number of Iwagakure Ninjas in front of him, Qingye suddenly charged toward the great river on his left. He leaped above the water, forming Hand Seals at the same time.

"Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"

Three fire dragons, each dozens of meters long, blasted the surface of the water, sending vast clouds of steam into the sky.

After doing that, the Shadow Clone ran out of Chakra, burst apart, and vanished.

"What is that guy trying to do?"

Kitsuchi was bewildered.

Why blow up the river for no reason?

"Lord Kitsuchi, could he be trying to create rain clouds and use lightning?"

One of his subordinates pointed at the rising steam. As it joined the clouds overhead, already spread across an area more than ten miles wide, they expanded further.

"Impossible!"

Kitsuchi immediately dismissed the idea.

He might not possess a Kekkei Genkai, but when it came to understanding Ninjutsu and controlling Chakra, he was at least top-tier—even if he wasn't among the best in the Shinobi World.

Was controlling the forces of nature really that easy?

If a technique like that existed, it would have to be an S-rank Ninjutsu at the very least!

Even in Kumogakure, he'd never heard of any Ninja who had mastered such a technique.

He did recall that one of Kirigakure's famed Seven Ninja Swords, passed down through generations, could supposedly be used that way.

But the person up ahead was a Konoha Ninja, not one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.

"Hahahahahahaha..."

Faint flashes of lightning flickered within the dense clouds overhead, while a vast sea of flames raged below. A wild, unrestrained laugh echoed through the blaze!

At that moment, neither the Iwagakure Ninjas on this side nor the reinforcements repeatedly attempting to cross the river from the opposite bank had any idea what was going on. They all thought the man had gone mad.

"My Ninjutsu is complete!"

Qingye, who'd been laughing with his head tilted back, suddenly lowered it and looked down. He pulled out a scroll and unfurled it with a poof of smoke. "Now, it's time to end this!"

Inside the scroll, revealed by the white smoke, was a pair of oddly shaped twin blades.

Each blade had two curved prongs, one in front and one behind, one on each side.

They were none other than the Lightning Blade: Fang, one of the Seven Ninja Swords passed down through generations in Kirigakure!

Two years ago, Qingye had been incredibly lucky during one of his first battles. He'd encountered Black Zetsu Raiga, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, gravely wounded.

That daring move he'd made after steeling himself had earned him a bounty of thirty-five million ryō. But another important reward had been these twin blades!

One of the blades' key abilities was to draw down lightning from the sky and launch lightning strikes!

To release lightning over a wide area all at once, like the S-rank Ninjutsu Lightning Style: Kirin, would probably take a lot more practice and experimentation.

But with these two Lightning Blades, he could easily direct repeated lightning strikes over a smaller area!

Standing atop the earthen wall, Qingye raised the Lightning Blades high.

"Lightning Style: Falling Lightning!"

The blades came down!

Terrifying bolts of lightning poured from the clouds. A massive swath of lightning crashed down amid the Iwagakure Ninjas straight ahead!

The lightning struck in a mere thousandth of a second. In its glare, the faces of the Iwagakure Ninjas below turned deathly pale.

There was no time to defend themselves!

A deafening crack rang out as heaven and earth connected. More than a dozen Iwagakure Ninjas fell instantly, their bodies charred black, their fates uncertain.

"Falling Lightning!"

The Lightning Blades came down again!

At that moment, the blades seemed like the sickle of the grim reaper. Every swing brought death to a host of men!

"We can't let this go on!"

"We're too close together! Everyone, spread out!"

"Spread out and charge him from all sides! Take him down at close range!"

If all the Iwagakure Ninjas rushed him at once, there was no way he could strike them all down in a single blow!

The remaining Iwagakure Ninjas forced themselves to find their courage, quickly spreading out before charging Qingye from every direction.

"Heh. Interesting."

Qingye raised both Lightning Blades high. "Let's see who's faster—your charge or my blades."

Falling Lightning!

Falling Lightning!

Falling Lightning!

Qingye said nothing, simply bringing down lightning again and again.

Silver-white bolts tore through heaven and earth. The faster the Iwagakure Ninjas charged, the faster they died!

As the Iwagakure Ninjas at the front fell one after another, those behind them could no longer suppress their terror. Their faces twisted in panic, and they didn't dare advance.

Some even turned and ran!

"Falling Lightning!"

A silver-white bolt struck down, and an Iwagakure Ninja fleeing in the distance crumpled to the ground.

The storm clouds already covered an area more than ten miles wide. Unless they could leave the area entirely, no one could escape Qingye's range!

Unable to advance or retreat, the Iwagakure Ninjas below were nearly in despair!

Far away.

Uchiha Madara watched the scene from a distance, speechless for a long time.

He was using the natural power of rain clouds to perform Lightning Release... Had Black Zetsu Raiga of Kirigakure's Lightning Blade: Fang died at this boy's hands? He seemed to remember hearing something about that.

But judging by the powerful Fire Release he'd been using repeatedly, his Chakra reserves were already beyond what was reasonable.

He must have awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, right?

What kind of eye technique would he have?

He'd miscalculated. Uchiha Qingye really had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

If he could be brought into the Moon Eye Plan, he'd make a far better successor than Obito. But could he draw Uchiha Qingye over?

"Lord Madara, I've brought Obito back!"

White Zetsu Tobi came running back excitedly. His face, shaped like a spiral, opened up, revealing Uchiha Obito, gravely wounded and on the verge of death, wrapped inside him.

"Tobi, shut up!"

Uchiha Madara snapped.

He was thinking!