Despair

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"Rumble..."

"Rumble..."

Almost the instant Uchiha Yue finished speaking, every Kirigakure ninja on the battlefield could feel the chakra fluctuations already steeped in oppression intensify severalfold. At that moment, even Kushimaru Kuriarare and Munashi Jinpachi were secretly startled after sensing that suffocating chakra. What kind of ninja possessed such chakra fluctuations that even they—the Ruthless Duo—felt fear?

Then, as the water vapor filling the battlefield gradually dispersed...

The answer was finally revealed before the Kirigakure ninjas!

The person emanating that terrifying chakra fluctuation was none other than Uchiha Yue, whom the Kirigakure ninjas had believed dead!

As the surrounding water vapor gradually faded, Uchiha Yue's figure appeared before the Kirigakure ninjas. He looked somewhat exhausted and disheveled, with several tears in his clothing. However, when those Kirigakure ninjas saw the crimson chakra, red as blood, spreading out from Uchiha Yue's body, every one of them froze at the overwhelmingly shocking sight before them!

One reason the Kirigakure ninjas were shocked was that Uchiha Yue had actually survived the force of their ninjutsu. The second reason, naturally, was the pressure exerted by the blood-red chakra emerging from his body.

That was right. Earlier, when Uchiha Yue had resisted the Kirigakure ninjas' ninjutsu, he had indeed taken a huge gamble. There was no way he alone could withstand the ninjutsu unleashed by so many Kirigakure ninjas specializing in ninjutsu. However, after their Water Release techniques broke through the Fire Release technique Uchiha Yue had cast and came crashing toward him, Uchiha Yue reacted immediately, using the blood-red chakra spreading from his body to block part of the damage.

Still, even