Precept-Breaking Blade Perfected! One Precept-Breaking Slash!

Time seemed to freeze in that very instant.

Iwami Shigezo's pupils reflected that massive golden leg.

Only one word remained in his mind.

"No."

"BOOM!!!!!!!!!"

The golden leg slammed into Iwami Shigezo.

It struck that layer of rock armor.

"Crack—"

The armor split.

Starting from the chest, cracks spread like a spiderweb, instantly covering his entire body.

Then—

"Bang!!"

The armor shattered.

It crumbled into fine powder.

The golden leg landed solidly against Iwami Shigezo's chest.

"Snap."

A very crisp sound.

It wasn't the armor breaking.

It was Guy's leg snapping.

The recoil of ten thousand jin of force was more than his body could withstand!

His entire lower leg suffered a comminuted fracture.

The force of the recoil surged from his leg, spreading throughout his entire body.

Every inch of him felt as if it were being torn apart.

This was Guy's strongest kick!

In his current state, he could only deliver such a kick once!

But!

It was enough!

"BOOM!!!"

A thunderous roar erupted.

Iwami Shigezo was sent flying backward.

His entire body was like a projectile hit by a cannonball.

He was launched from between Choza's two palms.

He smashed through the rock wall behind him.

He snapped one large tree.

Then snapped a second.

And a third...

Finally, he tumbled seven or eight times through the mud.

Covered in blood, he lay sprawled on the ground.

The armor was shattered.

The clothes on his chest had been blown away.

Revealing a purple-black footprint.

Nearly all of his ribs were broken.

"Pfft!"

He coughed up a mouthful of blood.

It was filled with fragments of his internal organs.

This kick had nearly killed Iwami Shigezo.

But he still had one breath left!

"He's not dead yet!"

Guy's pupils contracted violently.

His body was now torn apart, his right leg completely ruined.

Even like this, he hadn't managed to kick the opponent to death?

Iwami Shigezo struggled to rise to his feet.

Standing in the rain, drenched in blood, he swayed unsteadily.

He knew he was finished.

Although he had forced himself up, his internal organs were shattered; he was already half a dead man.

"But before I die..."

A final cruelty flickered in his eyes.

"I must kill this brat!!!"

He roared, his hands struggling to form seals.

Ram-Horse-Dragon-Tiger.

"Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet!"

Iwami Shigezo exhausted the last of his chakra to unleash his final ninjutsu.

The mud before him coalesced into the shape of a dragon.

The earth dragon opened its maw, spewing a torrent of earth toward Guy.

Dense and relentless.

Like small cannonballs.

Even though Iwami Shigezo was nearing the end of his rope.

A C-rank ninjutsu from a Jonin was still several times more powerful than that of a Chunin!

If these earth projectiles struck Guy.

He would surely die!!

But Guy was currently severely wounded and unable to move at all.

Akimichi Choza was trapped deep within a crater, unable to break free for the moment.

Ebisu and Genma were still far away.

The situation was precarious.

"Go to hell, brat!!"

Iwami Shigezo's face was twisted with madness.

Rainwater mixed with his blood, revealing his final hysteria.

He seemed to have already envisioned the scene of Guy being pierced through by the earth torrent.

Facing the torrent capable of impaling him, Guy's expression was surprisingly calm.

He felt no fear.

No regret.

He simply pulled the great broadsword from his back and held it horizontally before him.

The moves of the Forty-Nine Forms of the Precept-Breaking Blade flashed before his eyes like a revolving lantern.

Severing Purity.

Falling into the Mortal World.

Slashing Karma Fire.

Invoking Outer Demons.

Severing Reincarnation.

Breaking Delusions.

Crossing the Calamity.

Proving the Unique.

Staining Karma...

Forty-Nine Forms of the Precept-Breaking Blade.

Move by move, form by form.

He had practiced them thousands upon thousands of times!

Every repetition was the same.

And yet, every repetition was different.

The blade light flashed through his mind.

One strike.

One slash.

Another slash.

Every glimmer of the blade, in this moment, converged into a single strike.

Guy's hand moved.

He raised the notched broadsword in his hand.

He swung it forward in a strike that appeared casual.

"Precept-Breaking Blade: Ultimate Slash."

"Precept-Breaking!"

The moment Guy's voice fell.

A massive golden blade suddenly manifested in the void before him!

It was not a broadsword.

It was a blade with an archaic design, heavy and thick, shimmering with a brilliant golden luster!

The appearance of this blade was so blinding that the others could not even keep their eyes open!

Then, the golden blade surged forward with an unstoppable momentum.

It slashed toward the incoming Earth Flow Bullet!

The blade light flashed.

There was no sound.

There was no explosion.

Only a golden arc remained.

All the earth flow that touched the golden blade dissipated entirely.

The Earth Dragon at the very front disintegrated the instant the golden blade swept past it.

The golden light did not lose speed.

It sliced silently through the body of Iwami Shigezo and vanished into the depths of the dense forest.

Iwami Shigezo stood dazed on the spot.

He looked down at his chest.

A thin red line ran diagonally from his shoulder to his waist.

He opened his mouth.

He wanted to say something.

"Pfft—"

Blood sprayed out.

His upper body slid off his lower body.

One slash, severed in two!

The rain was still falling.

The blood was diluted, flowing into the muddy water.

Guy's body swayed, and he instinctively drove his broadsword into the ground.

But the next second.

"Cling."

The broadsword shattered.

It could not withstand the Precept-Breaking Blade: Ultimate Slash.

It broke into dozens of iron shards, scattering across the ground.

Guy braced himself on one knee, looking at the shattered broadsword.

That was his first blade.

The blade of a bandit leader.

He had used it for half a year.

It had accompanied him through the Forest of Death, through supply line raids, and through killing Iwagakure chunin.

Now it was broken.

He grinned.

"Thanks."

Then his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.

Ebisu rushed over to catch him.

"Guy! You did it! You killed that jonin!!"

Ebisu's voice was trembling.

Genma ran over and tore off his own sleeve.

He knelt down to bandage Guy's broken leg.

Akimichi Choza, at this moment, also crawled out from the cracked earth.

The effects of the Curry Pill had worn off, and the side effects were setting in.

Right now, Akimichi Choza was also in excruciating pain all over his body.

But he still forced himself to stand and check on Guy's condition.

"The right leg bone is fractured, and there are multiple muscle strains, but he won't die!"

Akimichi Choza made a quick assessment.

He looked at Ebisu and Genma, his face solemn. "You two, take Guy back to the Kikyo Mountain camp immediately!"

"Captain! What about you?"

Ebisu asked, his face full of anxiety.

Akimichi Choza shook his head. "Don't worry about me, I can walk on my own. Get Guy out of here first!"

Just as Ebisu was about to agree, Guy gritted his teeth and sat up again.

Without waiting for Akimichi Choza to speak, Guy threw something directly at him.

Akimichi Choza instinctively reached out and caught it.

He opened his hand to see a medicinal pill, and his teeth ached.

"Another pill??"

Akimichi Choza couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

After experiencing the side effects of the Curry Pill, he had already sworn an oath.

He wouldn't eat another pill for at least a month!

"Captain, eat it quickly, and we'll leave together." Guy spoke with difficulty.

Akimichi Choza looked helpless.

No one knew the effects of the Curry Pill better than he did.

It was a type of trauma that was almost irreversible.

The exhaustion in his body could not be recovered in a short time either.

He wanted Ebisu and Genma to take Guy away precisely because he didn't want to be a burden to them.

"You should keep this medicine for yourself; I'm fine!"

"If you don't eat it, I'm not leaving!"

Guy looked serious.

Seeing his persistence, Akimichi Choza finally compromised.

Though in his heart, he felt quite helpless.

This kid... he doesn't know how severe the side effects of our Akimichi Clan's Tricolor Pill are!

He placed the pill into his mouth.

With a gulp, he swallowed it.

"Now you can..."

Before Akimichi Choza could finish his sentence, his eyes widened abruptly.

The exhaustion in his body was swept away.

The life force he had forcibly overdrawn seemed to be replenished in that very instant.

"What... what kind of pill is this?!"

Akimichi Choza was shocked.

Just as he was about to ask, he looked over at Guy and realized that he had passed out at some point.

Akimichi Choza's eyes flickered with confusion.

Finally, he sighed and gathered Guy into his arms.

"You two, follow me!"

With that, he sprinted back along the path they had come.

Seeing their captain recover, Ebisu and Genma were thrilled and quickly followed.

Guy knew nothing of all this.

After giving the Lesser Restoration Pill to Akimichi Choza, he had only managed to glance at the system notification.

Then, he completely blacked out.