Blood Butcher

"Blood Release?"

Chiba's expression shifted slightly as he watched the dense rain of blood arrows shooting toward him.

He had long guessed that this world might possess Kekkei Genkai never mentioned in the original story.

He just hadn't expected to encounter someone wielding an unknown Kekkei Genkai so soon.

"Not bad. It'll make this battle a little more interesting."

Chiba smiled, then was swallowed by countless blood arrows.

"Heh!"

"You brat from the Hyuga Clan with the Byakugan, you're nothing more than... Nani?"

Blood Butcher had just let out a mocking sneer when his expression suddenly changed.

Chiba, who should have been riddled with arrows, vanished with a bang. In his place stood a wooden log.

"Substitution Technique? Damn it!"

Blood Butcher instantly realized something was wrong and hurriedly became alert to his surroundings.

"Your reaction is too slow."

The next moment, Chiba appeared behind Blood Butcher and kicked him flying.

Bang!

Blood Butcher flew more than fifty meters before his body crashed heavily to the ground.

Moreover, the Byakugan combined with the Hyuga Gentle Fist Style allowed every acupoint on Chiba's body to release Chakra.

Even when kicking, he could pour his Chakra into Blood Butcher's internal meridians and inflict deeper damage.

Of course, the Gentle Fist Style used by other Hyuga still primarily focused on sealing the target's acupoints and meridians rather than directly destroying them.

But...

Cough, cough!

In just a few seconds, Blood Butcher rose from the ground like a zombie with a twisted body. Amid a series of cracking sounds, his dislocated joints and broken bones reset themselves one by one.

Not only that!

Through the Byakugan, Chiba could see that Blood Butcher's meridians, which should have been completely destroyed by the Chakra Chiba had poured into them with that kick, were healing at an astonishing speed.

"So this is the Imperfect Undying Body you obtained? It can drastically enhance your recovery ability?"

Chiba quickly understood the reason and analyzed, "This seems somewhat different from Hidan's Immortal Body. He doesn't seem to possess such obvious self-healing ability?"

"But since yours is an Incomplete Immortal Body, that means you aren't truly immortal."

"As long as you suffer injuries too severe to heal, you should truly die."

Blood Butcher, who had gradually recovered, heard Chiba's analysis and his face immediately darkened. Then he grinned. "I didn't expect you, brat, not only to have seen Lord Hidan's Immortal Body, but also to see through my ability so quickly."

"That's right. I can't achieve Lord Hidan's true immortality, but my self-healing ability gives me countless chances to make mistakes."

"And you, as long as I catch you once, are guaranteed to die."

"Is that so?" Chiba raised a universally recognized gesture and crooked his middle finger at Blood Butcher. "Then come and try."

"This time, I won't use the Substitution Technique, and I won't dodge."

"Let me see whether your methods match that big mouth of yours."

"You hateful Byakugan brat!" Feeling humiliated, Blood Butcher's killing intent intensified. "Go regret provoking me in hell."

"Blood Release: Blood Demon Claw!"

Before his words had even faded, Blood Butcher gathered the blood around him onto his right hand, forming a gigantic blood-red claw like that of a demon, which lunged straight at Chiba.

"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"

Chiba had promised not to dodge, and he did not. After rapidly forming hand seals, he spat out a fire dragon roughly twenty meters long.

"Ah!"

Amid a miserable scream, Blood Butcher's Blood Demon Claw—and Blood Butcher himself—were swallowed by the fire dragon and mercilessly burned.

"Wind Release: Tornado Hurricane!"

Seeing the fire dragon gradually dissipating, Chiba immediately added a wind tornado.

This time, the wind fueled the flames and the flames rode the wind. Rather than continuing to fade, the fire dragon became a massive fire tornado soaring into the sky, burning even more fiercely than before.

"Ah!"

"You... bastard..."

Within the fire tornado, Blood Butcher's body was continuously burned away, only to rapidly recover under the effects of his self-healing ability.

The good news was that he wasn't dead.

The bad news was that he seemed to be suffering a fate worse than death.

The even worse news was that, beneath the relentless burning of the raging flames, Blood Butcher's self-healing ability was gradually failing to keep up with the rate of his injuries.

By the time the fire dragon gradually disappeared, he had almost become a humanoid lump of charcoal. There wasn't a single patch of intact skin on his body, and he constantly gave off a nauseating burnt smell.

Yet Blood Butcher remained stubbornly alive due to his powerful self-healing ability.

If given an hour, two hours... enough time, perhaps he could gradually recover completely.

"Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique!"

Without hesitation, Chiba flicked out a Wind Blade with his backhand, severing Blood Butcher's arm on the spot.

"The severed wound is healing extremely slowly, but there's no sign of an arm growing back?"

Chiba carefully observed Blood Butcher's severed arm and the detailed condition within his body through the Byakugan, gaining a deeper understanding of his Imperfect Undying Body. "As long as you don't lose your life instantly, no matter how severe your injuries are, you can slowly recover."

"But if your arm is severed, the wound will regrow skin instead. That means that even if the arm is put back later, it won't truly reconnect."

"Which means that if what was cut off were your head... you might simply die?"

Blood Butcher gave no response to Chiba's speculation.

More precisely, his self-healing ability was still insufficient to restore him to a state where he could respond in such a short time.

"As expected, it's only an Incomplete Immortal Body. Once the flaw in your ability is understood, any Jonin would be enough to kill you."

Chiba shook his head, then flicked out another Wind Blade and cut off Blood Butcher's head.

Just as he had expected, once Blood Butcher lost his head, the self-healing ability within his body became as if it had never existed, instantly losing all effect.

And so Blood Butcher's sinful life came to an end.

"What a pity. You're too weak, and it wouldn't be convenient for me to keep you by my side. Otherwise, I might have considered controlling your mind and making you my slave."

Looking at Blood Butcher's corpse, Chiba shook his head again with some regret.

In truth, among those of the same level, Blood Butcher's self-healing ability was quite advantageous.

But his own combat strength was far too poor. He was nowhere near Kage Level.

Even if Chiba used the Tenseigan's power to control Blood Butcher, it would at most give him an extra super soldier with a massive health bar by his side.

"When I run into Hidan later, I could try controlling him."

Chiba's thoughts began to stir. "Once I become strong enough, perhaps I can study the Evil God behind the Evil God Cult as well."

"If I can find a way to mass-produce Hidan's Immortal Body, that would be even better."

Chiba himself might not need an Immortal Body granted by the Evil God, but if he could build an Undead Legion, wouldn't that be pretty satisfying?