Instant Kill, Half a Second

"Rumble..."

Of the eight seconds between life and death, only two remained. After his injuries flared up once more, Uchiha Yue finally cast off the burden weighing him down and regained the use of his chakra!

However, at this moment, the Sunagakure jonin surrounding Uchiha Yue needed only two more seconds to complete their barrier technique. Once they completed it, Uchiha Yue, trapped within the encirclement of those Sunagakure ninja, would be confined by the barrier. By then, with his injuries repeatedly flaring up, Uchiha Yue would find it extremely difficult to break through the barrier trapping him. He might even be slowly worn to death by the Sunagakure ninja before him while trapped inside it!

Therefore, Uchiha Yue had to seize these last two seconds and prevent those Sunagakure jonin from completing their barrier technique.

Then, while the Sunagakure jonin continued forming seals for the barrier technique, Uchiha Yue, having regained the use of his chakra, hesitated not in the slightest. He directly used Falling Moon Style: Flash Step, instantly moving before the eight Sunagakure jonin. Yet what Uchiha Yue had not expected was that the moment he spent that precious second teleporting before them, the remaining twenty-four Sunagakure chunin recovered their wits and immediately surrounded him.

In that case, even if Uchiha Yue risked grievous injury to prevent the Sunagakure jonin before him from completing their barrier seals, he would still have to struggle against the encirclement of eight Sunagakure jonin and twenty-four Sunagakure chunin. Thus, having seen those Sunagakure chunin closing in through Purple Eye, Uchiha Yue had to do something to disrupt their plan if he wanted to escape successfully.

Right after that...

After spending half a second thinking, Uchiha Yue, his face as pale as a sheet of paper, formulated a battle plan in his