The Slaughter Begins

The blue wind-nature chakra coating his blade extended another few inches! Then Kangetsu charged straight ahead!

At that moment, Kangetsu was like a killing machine! Every slash claimed a life!

This could no longer be called a battle! It was a one-sided slaughter!

Soon, the people inside the valley emerged as well. Kangetsu finally caught sight of the elite Chunin and roughly twenty people protecting a Genin in their midst!

But those twenty people were already covered in wounds!

By then, Kangetsu's blade rested against the neck of the last survivor of the twenty who had originally come as reinforcements!

A faint smile curled his lips as he said, "What a miscalculation! I thought that Genin you were protecting-no, that young master who came out to gain experience-would have someone drive the people out of the valley, then deal with them himself. That would count as training, wouldn't it?

"But I never expected this young master to be so brave and charge straight in! Ah, honestly! If I'd known, I would have planted more Explosive Tags in the valley! Then your deaths wouldn't have to be so unpleasant! Just like this!"

Cold as a world of ice and snow, a blood-red line seemed to appear along Kangetsu's blade. In an instant, the Hagoromo Clan member with the blade against his neck lost his head in a gush of blood!

Kangetsu smiled coldly and let out a pleased chuckle, then flicked the blade in his hand! He looked back at the dozens of people before him, his scarlet Sharingan wide and a smile on his lips. "Tell me! How do you want to die? What kind of death would make you happy?"

After killing more than a dozen people, Kangetsu had absorbed and refined their killing intent. Now he unleashed it without restraint and roared, "Kill them!"

With that, Kangetsu charged straight ahead! Chakra enveloped his feet, making him incredibly fast. For people of the Warring States Period, coating their feet with chakra was only a way to walk on water and cliffs! The sight of Kangetsu using it to launch himself forward, especially at such incredible speed, left them all stunned!

But in that same instant, Kangetsu's Black Blade, wrapped in blue wind-nature chakra, slashed straight at the elite Chunin!

As the saying went, kings fought kings, and soldiers fought soldiers! Yet at that moment, Kangetsu saw the so-called Genin smile faintly, then shout, "Storm Release-Laser Circus!"

Kangetsu caught the sly, eager, excited smile on the Genin's face.

But Kangetsu merely shook his head and thought, Being able to use Storm Release as a Genin really does make you a genius. No wonder so many people are protecting you! But are you sure a jutsu like that will work on me?

Then Kangetsu gave a wicked smile and shouted, "Storm Release at this level won't work on me, even if your timing is excellent!"

With that, the blue wind-nature chakra on the Black Blade shone even brighter!

At that moment, the Black Blade enveloped in blue collided head-on with his opponent's aqua-blue Storm Release!