Spreading the Wealth! Spreading the Wealth!

Watching Hoshigaki Kisame step toward Uchiha Yu, Deidara was filled with terror.

It was his first time encountering such a powerful opponent; this level of strength was in a completely different league from the small-time ninja thugs he had dealt with before.

For the first time, Deidara questioned his own life.

Even if he had seen this scene two years later, Deidara might have been able to accept it, but the current Deidara was merely a ten-year-old child.

"Big Brother! Please, don't let anything happen to you!" Deidara shouted at Uchiha Yu, his expression frantic.

He had promised Uchiha Yu that he would go to Konoha to take a look!

Thinking of how Uchiha Yu was going to introduce him to so many adoring fans, Deidara felt a fire burning in his heart.

"You wretched guy! Don't you dare go near that Big Brother!"

Although Deidara was only ten, seven-year-old Uchiha Yu was about the same height as him, so Deidara had called him "Big Brother" without hesitation.

He threw a series of Clay Birds directly from his hands.

The quality of this Explosive Clay was extremely high, and the explosive power was incredibly formidable!

They rushed straight toward Hoshigaki Kisame!

"Hmm?" Hoshigaki Kisame paused slightly, watching as the five or six Clay Birds suddenly flared with intense white light.

With a deafening explosion, the entire ground began to rumble.

The shockwave sent Uchiha Yu, whose severe wounds had not yet fully healed, flying through the air. He spun several times before finally landing on the ground.

For Uchiha Yu, who was already in discomfort, this was like adding frost to snow.

"That might be the strongest explosion I've ever made in my life," Deidara panted heavily.

Within the dust and smoke, there was not a single sound.

"Did I blow him up?" Deidara shouted with pleasant surprise.

"How could that be?" Uchiha Yu climbed up unsteadily, using Seal-less Healing to mend many of the superficial wounds on his body.

However, he was still far from his peak condition.

In the distance, Sasori spoke with the tone of a spectator: "Kid, do you really think you can deal with Kisame with your amateur skills?"

Having said that, Sasori sneered.

As the dust settled, it was clear that the previous explosion had been completely blocked by Hoshigaki Kisame's Water Formation Wall.

Although most of the Water Formation Wall had been blown away, Hoshigaki Kisame did not have many wounds on his body.

He grabbed Samehada, and by drawing on the chakra from the blade, even the few superficial wounds he had sustained were completely healed.

"Kid, it's time to end this." Kisame sneered, his body trembling as he began to display his true strength.

In just an instant, Kisame used a body flicker to appear in front of Deidara, kicking him away with a brutal strike.

At the same time, he locked his gaze onto Uchiha Yu, raised Samehada, and slashed directly at him.

"Wood Release: Great Forest Technique!"

Uchiha Yu immediately summoned a series of vines, which lashed out toward Hoshigaki Kisame in an attempt to strangle him.

"Wood Release?" Hoshigaki Kisame was surprised for only a second before cleanly slicing through all the vines with Samehada.

Uchiha Yu pulled out another piece of wood, condensed it into the shape of a spear, and opened his Mangekyo, locking onto Hoshigaki Kisame.

He spat a mouthful of flames onto the spear and then hurled it directly at Hoshigaki Kisame.

A shark-shaped water bullet shattered the flaming spear, and Hoshigaki Kisame closed the distance, reaching out to grab Uchiha Yu by the throat.

Relying on the insight of his Mangekyo, Uchiha Yu narrowly dodged the strike, but Hoshigaki Kisame's Samehada followed like a shadow, slashing toward him.

"Great Luo Heaven!"

Enduring the discomfort in his left eye, he activated Great Luo Heaven once more, freezing Hoshigaki Kisame's body in place.

"That move is useless against me," Hoshigaki Kisame laughed.

"Controlling you for a few seconds is enough," Uchiha Yu replied with a smile of his own.

The Kusanagi Sword instantly swept from behind, flying forward to pierce Hoshigaki Kisame!

Although Hoshigaki Kisame reacted quickly, there was simply no room to dodge.

Faced with this fatal blow, he could only force his chakra to circulate, causing the blade to veer away from his vital organs.

"Damn it." Hoshigaki Kisame gritted his teeth, his expression turning even colder.

"Shark-face, I'm not afraid of you!" Uchiha Yu made a face at him.

Hoshigaki Kisame, humiliated and enraged, let out a roar and channeled his brute strength, tearing through the Great Luo Heaven technique once again.

He pulled out the Kusanagi Sword stained with his own blood, threw it dozens of meters away, and flickered his body forward once more.

"So fast! Even faster than before!" Uchiha Yu groaned. Even with his Mangekyo Sharingan, he could barely defend against Hoshigaki Kisame's subsequent attacks, and he was sent flying time and time again.

"Is this the limit of my current body?" For the first time, Uchiha Yu felt a trace of helplessness.

His physical body, having been strengthened twice by both his Sage Body and the Physical Enhancement Talisman, was already comparable to that of a Jonin.

However, for someone like Hoshigaki Kisame, whose taijutsu and ninjutsu were both exceptional, making him comparable to a walking humanoid Tailed Beast, a three-to-seven split was truly the limit.

"I still have a trump card!" Uchiha Yu snorted coldly, a gleam flashing in his pupils.

"Money Release Chakra Mode!"

Golden light instantly flickered across Uchiha Yu's entire body, and his physical energy and chakra doubled immediately.

His eyes shimmered with the color of a tycoon, and golden light seemed to circulate beneath his skin, allowing him to handle Hoshigaki Kisame's attacks with ease.

"Is this what it feels like to have my power doubled?" Uchiha Yu chuckled, feeling incredibly exhilarated.

"This is..." Hoshigaki Kisame's eyes widened as he realized his opponent was now on an entirely different level than before!

It was as if he had leaped from the strength of a jonin to that of an elite jonin, completely touching the threshold of a quasi-Kage!

"Ten thousand ryo gone." Uchiha Yu didn't have time to feel the heartache as he unleashed his full force upon Hoshigaki Kisame.

Hoshigaki Kisame was instantly beaten back, retreating again and again!

Following that, Uchiha Yu took another step forward.

"Money Release: Money Scattering Technique!"

A massive ¥ symbol shot out from Uchiha Yu's fingertips!

Trailing waves of golden light, it locked onto Hoshigaki Kisame!

"Damn it! Great Shark Bullet Technique!"

Unwilling to yield, Hoshigaki Kisame immediately formed hand seals.

A vast expanse of water converged, and a giant shark-shaped water projectile surged toward Uchiha Yu with the force of a collapsing mountain!

"No matter what kind of ninjutsu it is, as long as it is made of chakra, it will be absorbed by the Great Shark Bullet Technique! Uchiha Yu, you are nothing but a brat after all!" Hoshigaki Kisame sneered.

Although he didn't know what power Uchiha Yu had used to boost his strength to such a terrifying degree, Hoshigaki Kisame still believed that this brat could never be his match!

But the next second, Hoshigaki Kisame's eyes widened, his expression one of having just bitten into something foul.

"What the hell?"