Third Generation Raikage (1)

Seeing that negotiations were off the table, Li Yu decided to let his fists do the talking; if they didn't submit, he would make them.

He bent his knees and hunched his body, his black robe snapping in the wind. He pulled several shuriken from his ninja tool pouch, focused his chakra into his eyes, and activated his Three Tomoe Sharingan.

Li Yu quickly unleashed a wave of shuriken at Third Raikage A, then wove a series of hand seals.

"Shuriken Shadow Clone!"

He followed this by throwing several specialized kunai in all directions, then hurled the kunai in his hand directly at Third Raikage A's eyes.

Seeing a massive swarm of shuriken hurtling toward him, Third Raikage A didn't dodge or weave; he ignored them entirely and charged straight at Li Yu, his fist aiming once again for Li Yu's face.

People shouldn't hit others in the face. Why does this Third Raikage A love face-smashing so much?

"Clang! Clatter!"

The shuriken struck the Purple Lightning Armor on Third Raikage A's body, only to be deflected away.

"Swish!"

Li Yu decisively activated the Flying Raijin Jutsu, caught the specialized kunai that was about to strike Third Raikage A's face, performed a backflip in mid-air, and pressed the Big Ball Rasengan he had prepared in his left hand against the Raikage's back.

Leveraging Third Raikage A's forward momentum, he added the force of the Big Ball Rasengan to his back.

"Boom!"

Third Raikage A spun in the air, accelerated forward for a distance, and slammed his feet into the ground, kicking up a massive amount of dirt on both sides.

Third Raikage A stood steady and stretched his back; a dent in the purple armor on his back vanished in the blink of an eye.

"So this is the Flying Raijin Jutsu mentioned in the intelligence reports? You managed to catch me off guard, but it won't be so easy to hit me next time."

Is the Lightning Armor really that defensive? My Big Ball Rasengan couldn't shake him at all. It seems I need to bring out some real skills.

"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!"

Li Yu crossed his fingers and shouted, "Ah!"

A vast number of trees and vines erupted from the ground beneath his feet, sweeping toward Third Raikage A. At first, the Raikage dodged and smashed the encroaching vines with his fists, but he soon found himself surrounded by a sea of vegetation, with vines lunging at him from every direction.

"The First Hokage's Deep Forest Emergence is nothing more than this."

Third Raikage A pinpointed Li Yu's direction, held one hand out flat, and pointed his fingers at Li Yu's position.

"Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite!"

Ignoring the vines reaching for him, he charged straight at Li Yu with astonishing, unstoppable momentum.

Seeing this, Li Yu halted his ninjutsu and immediately threw several specialized kunai into the dense forest around him.

"Swish!"

He vanished from the spot, dodging the Third Raikage's Strongest Spear, and hid within the thick woods to prepare to enter Sage Mode.

The nearby Cloud Ninja onlookers watched as a dense forest suddenly rose from the barren plains, causing the two combatants to vanish from sight.

"Is this the First Hokage's Wood Release?"

"So strong."

"He changed the terrain directly."

"Will Lord Third Raikage be alright?"

"How could he not be? The Third Raikage is the strongest ninja."

Li Yu performed hand seals to create five shadow clones. He activated the Mangekyo Sharingan in his left eye, instructed them to absorb natural energy as quickly as possible, and then absorbed the five clones into his eye.

This enemy was the most troublesome he had ever encountered; there was simply no time to use ninjutsu. If he got caught in close quarters, he could only rely on the Flying Raijin to escape. Li Yu's taijutsu was no match for the Raikage's ninja-taijutsu.

"Ninja of Konoha, come out! Why are you hiding?"

Li Yu felt helpless. Sage Mode required a long preparation time, and having been forced into a hasty battle with Third Raikage A, he had no choice but to hide.

It was a pity he didn't have Uzumaki Naruto's cheat-like life—later mastering Sage Fox Mode, capable of entering Perfect Jinchuriki Mode combined with Sage Mode at will, with no time limits and no need for clones to absorb natural energy. The "Prince" could activate it whenever he wanted.

"Boom! Boom!"

Large trees were knocked down one by one as Third Raikage A searched everywhere for Li Yu's trail.

Seeing how desperate Third Raikage A was to find him, Li Yu couldn't let him lose face, so he prepared for a war of attrition to drain the Raikage's chakra.

He performed hand seals to create two Wood Release Clones, each imbued with ten percent of his own chakra.

"You two go keep the Third Raikage company. I'm going to take a break and recover some chakra."

The two Wood Release Clones nodded and headed toward the Third Raikage, each performing their own hand seals.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!"

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

A massive fireball and a giant sphere of wind slammed into the Third Raikage from both sides.

"Boom!"

Third Raikage A quickly surged out from the gap between the two techniques, changed direction, and charged straight at one of the Wood Release Clones.

"Swish!"

Using the Flying Thunder God to vacate his original position, Li Yu left the Third Raikage A lunging at empty air, while constant ninjutsu harassment and shuriken volleys left the man thoroughly annoyed.

Two Wood Release Clones found an opening and began weaving hand seals once more.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!"

"Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet!"

Two dragon-shaped ninjutsu of different natures let out draconic roars as they charged toward the Third Raikage A from both sides.

Although they still failed to hit their target, they caused enough splash damage to be a nuisance. Just then, Li Yu, who had been hiding to the side, spotted a perfect opportunity: the Third Raikage A was heading straight toward him, completely off guard.

He immediately activated his left Mangekyo Sharingan and unleashed his ocular technique.

"Kamui!"

Kamui suffered from the drawback of a delayed activation, but under Li Yu's precise calculations, he triggered the spatial distortion the moment the Third Raikage A leaped and was about to land, before his feet touched the ground.

Good, a direct hit.

The moment he was struck, the Third Raikage A cursed inwardly, "Not good, what kind of ninjutsu is this?"

Centered on the Third Raikage A's back, a massive spatial force began to pull at his body. Li Yu suddenly felt the pressure on his left eye spike, his ocular power consumption intensifying far beyond what he had anticipated.

In mid-air, the Third Raikage A's purple Lightning Armor flared with brilliant light. 1.5 seconds later, the moment his feet touched the ground, he gathered all his strength, gave a violent shudder, and stomped hard, bursting out of the range of the spatial distortion.

"Boom!"

The ground where the Third Raikage A had been standing cracked and collapsed over a wide area with a deafening roar. Dust billowed, forming a crater twenty meters in diameter and five or six meters deep.

Only when Li Yu felt warm, red liquid trickling from his left eye did he snap back to reality, his face filled with disbelief.

"How is this possible? To think someone could actually break free from the power of Kamui."

In the original story, Kamui was an invincible technique—it was said that whoever he glared at would die, and whatever he looked at would vanish. It was a god-tier skill that was ridiculously overpowered.

The Third Raikage A performed several backflips to put some distance between them, watching the three black-robed Li Yus with wariness. That moment had broken him into a cold sweat; the powerful spatial force had been pulling at his body as if it intended to tear him apart.

Relying on his formidable physique and the ultimate defense of his Lightning Armor, he had successfully escaped the range of that spatial distortion. He truly couldn't fathom that a Konoha ninja possessed such a bizarre method of attack; anyone else would have perished from that sneak attack long ago.

"Konoha ninja, you probably can't use such a bizarre attack many times, can you? Hahaha!"

"That's right, and it wouldn't hurt to tell you—it doesn't have much effect on you. So, you have things you're afraid of too, don't you?"

Now that he was on guard, the element of surprise for Kamui was greatly diminished. The spatial force of Kamui was simply insufficient to tear through the enemy's powerful physical body.

It seems this ninjutsu isn't as invincible as I imagined.