Near the campfire.
The Uchihas in hooded black robes lowered their heads. Red light reflected in their eyes, and their expressions were gloomy.
Ingetsu's expression was calm. He held the Black Blade Dark Moon in his right hand and formed the "Dragon" seal with his left.
This was the finishing seal for Wind Release.
Several Uchihas recovered from their grief and stared blankly at their captain, Ingetsu, unable to understand what was happening.
In the Shinobi World, ordinary people generally possessed multiple Chakra natures from birth.
After becoming shinobi, they would choose one or two Chakra natures to cultivate and master their Chakra Nature Transformations.
Once they mastered Nature Transformation, the power of that nature's ninjutsu would increase dramatically.
To become a Jonin, one needed to master at least two Chakra Nature Transformations.
As for the Uchiha Clan, whose members possessed the Sharingan, once their eyes were awakened and their Pupil Power and number of Tomoe were sufficient, the Sharingan granted them the ability to copy ninjutsu.
The more ninjutsu they observed, the faster some Uchihas, who were naturally born with all five Chakra natures, could master the Nature Transformations of those five natures.
Ingetsu gathered his thoughts and calmly stared at Dark Moon.
The prerequisite for releasing Wind Release was to transform and simulate Chakra as wind, using the properties of gas pressure to give Chakra effects such as extremely strong penetration and sharp cutting.
The Dragon seal completed the process.
The Chakra refined within Ingetsu's body flowed rapidly through his meridians. It faintly showed signs of condensing into wind as it surged toward his throat.
Just as when he had previously condensed Fire Release's Nature Transformation.
Ingetsu guided this Wind Release Chakra into his right hand. He could clearly feel the rapidly flowing energy squeezing into the Chakra meridians in his right arm.
His right hand began to ache faintly.
As if pierced by ten thousand needles.
Dark Moon sensed the Wind Release Chakra through his skin. As before, it released dense black mist that wrapped around Ingetsu's right arm.
The black mist absorbed the Chakra through his skin and slowly guided it into the blade of Dark Moon.
The pain in his right arm vanished.
Hum—
Dark Moon, which had been pitch-black, suddenly began to hum and tremble. Its blade was as thin as a cicada's wing, with hazy black mist and wind flowing across it.
The blade continued to vibrate faintly, as though high-frequency particle vibrations had distorted its appearance.
At that moment, Dark Moon seemed capable of cutting even the air apart.
Extreme sharpness became its most obvious trait.
For a moment, the air around them began to surge.
The Uchihas, who had been sunk in grief, sensed the sudden sharpness in the air. They abruptly raised their heads and stared at Dark Moon, their pupils contracting.
Ingetsu blinked. Amid the Uchihas' dumbfounded stares, he placed Dark Moon, now imbued with Wind Release Chakra, into the flames.
Hum—
The flames trembled.
To everyone's astonishment, the flames cut by Wind Release Dark Moon created the illusion of being severed at the waist and no longer burning.
At the point where Wind Release Dark Moon hovered, the flames were displaced and scattered by dense streams of wind.
The Uchihas stared fixedly at Dark Moon and swallowed. They had witnessed the entire process of Ingetsu manipulating the blade.
Clearly, their captain, Ingetsu, could use this mysterious black blade to complete Chakra Nature Transformation and Chakra Form Transformation.
That meant Ingetsu did not need to form Hand Seals like they did. He could release ninjutsu through the black blade alone!
This was completely different from simply coating a weapon in Wind Release Chakra to increase its sharpness.
Ingetsu slowly rose and continued feeding Wind Release Chakra into Dark Moon. He walked to the edge of the forest, assumed a sword-drawing stance, and gathered his strength.
A violent wind suddenly rose.
Ingetsu drew his sword, expending ten percent of his Chakra. Through Dark Moon, he completed Chakra Form Transformation and released Wind Release Chakra sharpened to the extreme.
Compared to Fire Release, which came with the effect of scorching heat,
the fierce Wind Release was more suited to being released over long distances.
Under the moonlight, the black blade flash swept across the night. A crescent-shaped gale, black as splashed ink, burst outward. In an instant, wind rolled sand through the air, and the trees in the forest trembled faintly.
"Whoosh—"
Ingetsu sheathed his blade, his expression calm as he stood in place and exhaled a breath of stale air.
The Uchihas held their breaths. Seeing that nothing had happened, they relaxed.
At that moment.
Flap—
Birds burst from the forest, and the beasts fled in all directions.
Immediately afterward.
Explosions like Explosive Tags rang out one after another throughout the forest. The trees struck by the black gale, regardless of their size, burst apart one after another. Their insides seemed to have been infiltrated and disintegrated by dense energy, and not one escaped destruction.
Ingetsu's expression remained calm.
Just as he had expected.
Wind Release Dark Moon was better suited for long-range attacks using Chakra Form Transformation.
"Is this Wind Release?"
Kurenai Yuhi, Uchiha Mikoto, and the others widened their beautiful eyes. Their lips moved soundlessly, and their hearts began to race.
Suddenly.
In the Uchihas' eyes, a surge of blue energy appeared and rapidly expanded. It ignited around Ingetsu's body, dazzling in the darkness.
The Yachihoko Tomoe revolved into view in Ingetsu's pupils.
After adapting over the past few days,
he had already mastered Yachihoko's control over other people's minds. He could brainwash them, and he could also use mental control to manipulate their bodies.
As for controlling Chakra,
Ingetsu had previously tried developing a method to make others suffer backlash from their own Chakra.
Now, he would attempt to master the final ability naturally possessed by Yachihoko.
Absorbing Chakra!
As his own deep-blue Chakra burned around his body, guided by Yachihoko, Ingetsu could clearly observe that the people around him who had been branded by Yachihoko were like prey caught in a spiderweb.
The threads woven by Yachihoko connected them.
Ingetsu's expression was impassive as he closed his eyes.
Using the Yachihoko brands as a medium, he forcibly drew Chakra from the bodies of the Uchihas, Kurenai Yuhi, and Nonō.
The bodies of the others automatically condensed Chakra.
Streams of Chakra poured into Ingetsu's body.
The blue Chakra flowing around Ingetsu's body grew even more vigorous. The surging pressure kicked up sand around his feet, and large swathes of nearby grass were flattened.
He extracted half of the Chakra within everyone's bodies.
He drew his blade.
He swung it.
He slashed toward the night sky. In an instant, a black gale dozens of yards long erupted like a full moon. Its edge was peerless as it transformed into a black ring and pierced through the sky.
That slash was like the Milky Way pouring down, cleaving a visible gap through the clouds that blocked the moonlight.
The Uchihas' scalps went numb as they stared at Ingetsu's back in disbelief.
Could those two slashes just now really be made so easily by a shinobi?
As long as I have enough Chakra, this Wind Release attack should be able to cut through Susanoo's defenses.
Ingetsu sheathed his blade and withdrew Yachihoko. The blue energy around his body dissipated.
He did not stop infusing Dark Moon with Wind Release Chakra. Dark Moon continued to tremble faintly, its sharpness frightening to behold.
This time, however, Ingetsu had used Yachihoko to absorb everyone's Chakra and continuously charge Dark Moon.
That meant
bringing the Uchihas along was like carrying Chakra power banks.
Under the other Uchihas' shocked gazes, Ingetsu returned to his seat by the campfire and removed the roasted wild boar from the fire rack.
What happened next left the Uchihas staring wide-eyed, inwardly crying out at the waste of such a treasure!
Ingetsu held Wind Release Dark Moon and carefully sliced the wild boar meat. Wherever the blade passed, he did not need to exert the slightest force to cleanly slice through the bones and pork.
"Captain Ingetsu, this..."
Uchiha Nanpu looked anxious and wanted to stop him, but he truly did not know how to begin.
If the Uchiha Clan still existed, the potential displayed by this mysterious black blade would surely see it honored as a clan heirloom.
It was most likely a Divine Weapon on the same level as the ancestral "Gunbai." Since it was a Divine Weapon, how could it be used to cut food?
No!
Honest and straightforward, Uchiha Nanpu was heartbroken and decisively rose to his feet.
He decided to do something for this Divine Weapon—at the very least, to stop his captain from desecrating it!
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