"Lightning Blade!"
Silver-white lightning flashed abruptly, streaking through the air like a thunderclap.
The chakra insects were sliced in half.
Hatake Kakashi shoved the dazed Aburame Shibi aside.
In the next instant, the leaderless chakra insects were swallowed up.
Hatake Kakashi and Aburame Shibi stood on guard, their eyes fixed on the expressionless man before them, whose eyes were scarlet.
Everyone's hearts began to tremble.
Their faces were filled with disbelief.
"How is this possible? Insect Deception Technique is a secret art of the Aburame Clan. How could he learn it just like that?"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Aburame Shibi could hardly believe it.
This was his clan's secret art, a ninjutsu he'd spent more than ten years mastering.
And now someone was telling him that a person had learned it just by looking once.
How was that possible?
He, the other jonin, and even the Kumogakure Ninja in the distance all understood one thing very clearly.
Learning a ninjutsu took insight, and it took time to memorize it.
That was the experience passed down by countless ninja.
But what they had just witnessed shattered everything they knew.
Uchiha Lynn had only looked at Aburame Shibi, yet he'd used the Insect Deception Technique as casually as drinking water or eating a meal.
Aburame Shibi's face was full of disbelief.
So were the others, including Uchiha Sasuke, standing beside Lynn.
His heart was trembling even more.
How many days had it been? Uchiha Lynn could learn someone else's ninjutsu after taking just one look?
That made no sense at all!
Only Hatake Kakashi stared intently at Uchiha Lynn, his heart heavy with concern.
On high alert, he gripped the Kunai wrapped in electricity with his right hand and fixed his gaze on Lynn.
The other man's eyes were just like the Sharingan in Kakashi's own eye.
They could see the direction chakra flowed, allowing the user to manipulate chakra and perform an enemy's ninjutsu.
That was one of Hatake Kakashi's specialties, too.
"Looks like I have no choice but to use this eye."
As he spoke, Kakashi lifted the Forehead Protector covering one eye.
Beneath it was an eye marked with a scar.
As it slowly opened, a scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan appeared before everyone.
"The Sharingan?!" Aburame Shibi snapped out of it and turned to look at Hatake Kakashi.
"Kakashi, how do you have a Sharingan?"
"It's a long story. But right now, I have no choice but to use it," Kakashi said gravely.
Through the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, he could see the terrifying amount of chakra coursing through every part of Uchiha Lynn's body.
More chakra was constantly being extracted from the cells throughout Lynn's body.
The longer Kakashi looked at him, the graver his expression became.
He'd never seen so much chakra in a single person before.
Was this guy... even human?
Hatake Kakashi narrowed his eyes and poured more chakra into the Chidori in his hand.
Silver-white lightning crackled around his right hand, growing even more intense.
As long as Lynn didn't use the Mangekyō Sharingan, Kakashi still had a chance to beat him.
With that thought, Hatake Kakashi tightened his grip on the Kunai and was about to charge forward.
However—
"When did you get the illusion that I wasn't using the Mangekyō Sharingan?"
The man's cold voice came from behind him.
Hatake Kakashi's expression immediately tightened. He hurriedly turned around.
Behind him was now a world shrouded in a blood moon.
Scarlet light shone everywhere. Ahead stood a tall, muscular figure.
Those scarlet, Mangekyō-like eyes were blindingly bright, and Kakashi's heart lurched.
"When?!"
"When? The first moment you saw me. And when you stood on the roof and watched me with your clone."
Uchiha Lynn spoke slowly.
"And... Chidori."
Zzzzt!!
The purest power surged in Uchiha Lynn's hand, gradually transforming into a terrifying bolt of silver lightning, six or seven meters long.
Uchiha Lynn clenched his fist, and the fearsome bolt of silver lightning instantly turned into an electric blade, which he gripped firmly.
Kakashi's pupils contracted sharply as he stared at the scene before him.
As expected, Lynn had an immense amount of chakra and control over it that surpassed all limits.
Kakashi's heart sank.
Uchiha Lynn was a monster.
Outside the illusion.
Seeing Hatake Kakashi standing motionless, Aburame Shibi's heart sank.
Kakashi... hadn't he fallen under the other man's genjutsu?
Zzzzt!!
Electricity crackled as ions surged through the air, gradually coalescing into a silver-white electric blade.
The large hand gripped the blade and slowly walked toward Aburame Shibi.
"Ch... Chidori?!"
Aburame Shibi's eyes widened. He stared in disbelief as Uchiha Lynn approached.
He'd already known that Lynn could copy other people's ninjutsu.
But now he was seeing Lynn use a copied technique that was even more powerful than the original.
He couldn't help trembling.
With talent this terrifying and chakra this immense—
If Lynn ever turned against Konoha, would Konoha even have a future?
Aburame Shibi gritted his teeth, and blue chakra appeared around him again.
Beside him, several injured jonin also began forming Hand Seals, preparing to face Uchiha Lynn.
As for Hatake Kakashi, he stood motionless, his face growing pale.
Just as everyone prepared to deal with Uchiha Lynn,
Uchiha Lynn stopped.
"You jonin are so pathetically weak that you can't even interest me."
At his words, killing intent filled the faces of all the ninja. Chakra surged, and they formed Hand Seals.
Then they charged straight at Uchiha Lynn.
At that moment, a sudden change occurred.
"Unity... of body and spirit!"
In an instant, Purest Power, infused with Conqueror's Haki, surged outward with a roar.
The terrifying black-and-gold current crackled around Lynn.
Visible ripples spread through the air. Centered on Uchiha Lynn, they surged wildly in every direction.
Aburame Shibi, who had been charging at Uchiha Lynn, abruptly stopped.
The other jonin's legs felt as if they'd been filled with a thousand pounds of concrete. They stood rooted to the spot, their backs drenched in cold sweat.
In the distance,
Samui and Omoi stared at the Konoha Ninja ahead of them, puzzled.
"What's going on?"
"What's happening...?"
As they wondered, that tangible aura suddenly spread toward them.
The Kumogakure Ninja all rolled their eyes back and collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
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