Boom!
The thunderclap shook the heavens, its sound seeming to tear through everyone's eardrums.
Blue lightning illuminated the entire world, stealing the sight of everyone present.
The violent force of the explosion instantly blasted through the water-shield wall formed by more than a dozen Mist Ninja.
Lightning Needles as fine as hairs pierced their bodies from head to toe.
The powerful electric current combined with its razor-sharp destructive force.
Their entire physical structures were instantly torn to shreds.
The next moment, they exploded into clouds of blood mist, which mingled with the seawater.
Dozens of Mist Ninja turned into blood mist at once. The sight nearly made everyone's eyes bulge out of their sockets.
The only consolation was that Lightning Release: Rasengan had mainly targeted the Mist Ninja.
Otherwise, even Konoha's Four-Sided Barrier might have been pierced through in an instant.
Without chakra to support it, the river water could no longer hold its shape.
The next moment, it collapsed onto the ground and flowed away.
When everything returned to normal, a gigantic crater hundreds of meters across had appeared in the ruins where the Cloud Ninja had fought.
The crater's edges were pocked with countless small holes.
They were all marks left by the piercing Lightning Needles.
Two Thunder Blades lay slanted in the ruins. As for the Mist Ninja, they had already been reduced to flesh and blood, washed away by the river.
The Konoha Ninja who witnessed the scene were left gaping in astonishment.
Only half a day had passed since the Cloud Ninja's invasion.
Last time, a single Lightning Style: Kirin had killed more than a hundred Cloud Ninja in an instant.
Now, facing dozens of Mist Ninja, a single Lightning Release: Rasengan had wiped them out once again.
With such casual ease, he had dismantled two waves of attacks.
Was this really a war?
Qin Yu landed in the ruins and watched the electric arcs coursing along the two Thunder Blades as they seeped into the earth. A faintly amused smile appeared on his face.
"Raiya, you're the only one left. Why are you hiding instead of coming out? Where did all that confidence from earlier go?" Qin Yu called out.
A ghastly white hand reached out from the earth amid the ruins and seized a Thunder Blade.
Soon, everyone saw Raiya, his clothes in tatters and his body smeared with blood.
The instant he appeared, he didn't hesitate at all. His face twisted as he roared, "You little bastard! I'll take you down with me!"
The chakra lying dormant inside Raiya surged recklessly into the Thunder Blade.
He knew all too well that against a young man who was probably Kage Level, his only option was to carve a path through his opponent by force.
"Not bad chakra. I was running low myself." Qin Yu's smile widened.
He drew Samehada from his back with a reverse grip.
Without any fancy moves, he swung it straight at Raiya.
Rip!
A sound like fabric tearing rang out. The chakra pouring out of Raiya was instantly devoured by Samehada.
The Thunder Blade, deprived of chakra, glimmered with lightning for a brief moment before its light faded from the world.
Samehada's sharp spikes were like dozens of blades, instantly slicing open Raiya's chest.
Blood sprayed out, and the stark white of his bones made for a horrifying sight.
The sudden turn of events left Raiya dumbfounded.
As one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, he had never imagined he would end up dying to a Ninja Blade.
"You... you're definitely not some nobody. Who are you?" Raiya asked haltingly.
"The man who's going to kill you." Qin Yu smiled wryly. "The dead have no right to know my name."
"You!"
Raiya spat out a mouthful of blood, then breathed his last and fell onto his back.
Only after dust billowed through the air did the dazed Konoha Ninja finally come back to their senses.
Qin Yu sheathed the Thunder Blade and said, "I'll leave this place to you. If there's nothing else, I'm going back to rest."
After saying that, Qin Yu acted as if he'd done nothing of importance.
Meanwhile, Minato Namikaze led Inubou and the others to the place where they had spotted the Mist Ninja dozens of kilometers away.
After a difficult search, they finally encountered a few Mist Ninja.
Spurt!
The Kunai in Minato Namikaze's hand instantly slit the last Mist Ninja's throat.
Watching the Mist Ninja collapse and die, his expression darkened.
"Lord Minato, this one's a Chunin too. Judging from the traces, over a hundred Mist Ninja must have passed through here, but we've only encountered eight Chunin so far." Inubou examined the dead Mist Ninja on the ground, then could no longer contain his impatience.
"Not good. This has to be a diversion." Minato's expression suddenly changed.
Inubou froze. "Lord Minato, are you saying the Mist Ninja deliberately lured our main force away, then sent men to attack our outpost?"
"But Qin Yu is at the outpost, so we don't need to worry too much."
After witnessing the battle against the Cloud Ninja firsthand, Inubou and the other Konoha Ninja felt completely safe with Qin Yu around.
"No. Qin Yu has just fought a major battle. He's very strong, but I'm still a little worried." Minato looked concerned. "I have a Flying Thunder God Kunai here. Take it, and if anything happens, activate it with chakra. I'll come right away."
"I'll return to the outpost first and see whether the Mist Ninja have made their move."
After saying that, Minato vanished from the spot like a ghost.
Using the Flying Thunder God Seals he'd left along the way, Minato made several jumps before finally appearing inside the outpost.
"Careful! We have an intruder!" Uzuki Cangwu shouted urgently.
Kunai shot toward Minato with a series of whooshes.
The sudden attack caught Minato off guard for a moment, but he vanished again and reappeared beside Uzuki Cangwu.
He was about to pat him on the shoulder to reassure him, but the enormous crater in front of him made his pupils contract sharply.
The attack missed completely. Seeing this familiar Space-Time Ninjutsu, the Konoha Ninja present couldn't help but freeze.
"Lord Minato!"
Uzuki Cangwu came to his senses. Looking at Minato's stunned face, he wore a proud expression. "Lord Minato, you missed it again."
"Not long after you left, the Mist Ninja attacked with forty or fifty men. Their leaders were Suikazan Fuguki of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and Raiga Kurosuki."
"You didn't see it. The moment Qin Yu appeared, he hit Suikazan with a Rasengan and sent him flying."
"Then Suikazan got right back up as if nothing had happened, so Qin Yu hit him with another gigantic Rasengan and killed him."
"Next, Raiya had the Mist Ninja change the terrain. Qin Yu used a Lightning Release Rasengan and blew them all into blood mist with a single move."
As he listened to Uzuki Cangwu ramble on, spittle flying everywhere, Uzuki Yugao shot him a glare and said, "Don't mind my father's crude description, Lord Minato."
"Qin Yu only used four moves to deal with the Mist Ninja just now."
"As I understand it, the first was Lord Minato's Rasengan, the second was a much larger Rasengan, and the third was a Rasengan with Lightning Release nature transformation."
"Once Qin Yu had used all three moves, the only one left on the battlefield was Raiga Kurosuki, badly wounded. He tried to fight back with everything he had, but Qin Yu killed him with Samehada."
After hearing this explanation, Minato was completely dumbfounded.
He knew the power of the Rasengan well. At most, it was an A-rank technique.
From his perspective, he'd already developed it to its limits.
But he'd never imagined that as soon as he taught it to someone else, that person would find all sorts of ways to use it.
And the idea that three Rasengan had ended a war was simply too astonishing.
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