The Blooming Mangekyo: Dianli Dongxiang

Rain Ninja Village.

A man's silhouette stood atop a high tower.

Dressed in a black robe with red clouds, his nose was embedded with black iron rods.

"Is a child worth your concern?"

A blue-haired girl stepped out from the door behind him.

"That is no ordinary child..."

"A Mangekyo Sharingan..."

"I can feel that immense power..."

Chuan Yu was currently holding Karin, darting rapidly through the jungle.

Because of this rain, the mark of his Flying Thunder God had been isolated and rendered ineffective.

If his guess was correct, only one person could use such a jutsu...

Pain.

Given the current situation.

Chuan Yu had no reason to provoke trouble with him.

After all, he was not yet strong enough.

Mangekyo against Rinnegan...

The odds were not in his favor...

"Let me go..."

"But there is no need to kill him..."

"I will bring him back..."

Konan said, transforming into a sky full of white paper as she drifted toward the distant jungle.

They were about a kilometer away from the border of the Rain Ninja Village.

Karin, in his arms, suddenly began to show signs of fear.

"Behind us!"

"He's coming! Very close! Right behind us!"

Chuan Yu turned his head to look.

He saw Konan, her back adorned with two wings made of paper, flapping rapidly.

Her speed was too fast.

She was on the verge of closing in on them.

"Stop..."

"Do not force me to hurt you..."

Konan spoke, her face expressionless.

Compared to the color of the sky.

At this moment, Konan looked more like a white angel in the overcast weather.

Her soaring figure completely blocked their line of sight.

It felt as though they could never escape her grasp.

Since it wasn't Pain who had come, Chuan Yu naturally didn't need to worry.

But he feared being pinned down.

If Pain arrived at that moment.

Even if he could escape, he would have to pay a price...

There was only one way...

Chuan Yu's left eye suddenly snapped shut.

Since he had obtained his Mangekyo.

He had never used its ability.

Today, it might finally come in handy...

Unlike Shisui's.

The ability derived from his own Mangekyo was naturally based on genjutsu.

However, it began by affecting the opponent within his own radius.

Compared to the ordinary capabilities of genjutsu...

It simply trapped the opponent within the domain of his eyes.

Then this Mangekyo...

Would generate a genjutsu ability capable of manifesting a physical world domain!

"Absolute Genjutsu Domain..."

"Dianli Dongxiang!"

His left eye snapped open.

Fresh blood trickled from the corner of his eye.

Konan, who was pursuing from behind, did not notice anything unusual.

With Chuan Yu as the center.

Everything within a five-kilometer radius was locked down.

Konan lost her patience.

After her attempts at persuasion proved fruitless, she transformed the paper in her hands into sharp blades and sent them flying toward the pair.

Just as they were about to strike the two, they suddenly veered off toward a treetop not far away.

At this moment, Konan finally sensed that something was wrong.

She carefully observed the surrounding environment.

Yet, there was nothing different.

The two figures before her were still fleeing.

She launched another attack, but it still deviated from its trajectory.

"I clearly locked onto them..."

"What is the reason for this?"

The environment around her had not changed.

It was as if she had been flying the entire time.

But at her current speed, she should have already flown out of the forest.

Konan ceased her pursuit.

Then, she landed steadily on a treetop.

The world before her eyes suddenly distorted.

The flowers and grass on the ground seemed to be shifting deliberately.

She looked up to gaze at the sky.

The dark clouds above were constantly changing their forms.

Konan knew this was due to the passage of time.

But there was no reason she shouldn't be able to hit her targets.

A small bird suddenly flew out.

Konan immediately threw a Kunai directly at the bird.

"It... it hit?"

Konan's eyes widened in terror.

Could it be that eye...

She hurriedly gave chase once more.

The figure of Chuan Yu carrying Karin soon appeared before her eyes.

Yet, even so, she could not catch up, nor could she land an attack.

She remained trapped, flying within this same forest.

On a distant mountain range.

Chuan Yu looked toward the forest and revealed a faint smile.

If Shisui's Kotoamatsukami could alter another person's will.

Then the special ability of his own eye.

Was to lock onto the target's objective within the domain...

Until the opponent gave up...

Only then would they emerge from Dianli Dongxiang...

In truth, Konan was still in the exact same spot.

Within her influenced consciousness, the environment within a five-kilometer radius had been rotating in place the entire time.

They seemed to possess a life of their own.

As long as Konan's objective was to capture the two of them.

She would remain trapped, wandering within the five-kilometer radius of the rotation.

Furthermore, the nature of the ocular technique rendered the caster untargetable.

In reality, the environment was rotating while simultaneously distorting the visual perception of the scene before them.

In other words.

Within Chuan Yu's Dianli Dongxiang...

Those caught in the technique were fundamentally incapable of inflicting any harm upon him.

Within this domain, Chuan Yu could even alter everything inside it.

It primarily targeted the opponent's objective.

It could not, however, twist their will.

This included the duration of the battle.

Because the line of sight of the victim and the line of sight of the caster were fundamentally different!

That deviation was the key to victory!

The technique could only be dispelled once the opponent abandoned their objective.

The cooldown was relatively short.

It was highly practical.

However, the toll it took was too great.

Before obtaining the Eternal, one must use it with caution...

Chuan Yu suddenly clutched his left eye in agony.

The ability he had just used with his left eye had consumed a massive amount of chakra.

At the same time, it had exerted a significant strain on his body.

Karin rushed over in a panic, kneeling before Chuan Yu.

She then swept her hair aside, revealing her alluring neck.

"If you bite down, you'll feel better!"

"Get away!"

Chuan Yu shoved Karin aside.

The map of Ryuchi Cave he had been carrying was flung to the side.

He knew how potent that restorative ability was.

But he did not want to become a junkie like those ninjas from the Land of Grass.

Desire was infinitely amplified.

Restraint was not the only solution.

Releasing his right hand from his left eye.

Chuan Yu slowly opened his eyes.

His vision suddenly became somewhat blurred.

He knew this was the price of using the Sharingan.

His own Mangekyo had just evolved.

It was still in the adjustment phase.

It would take some time before he could fully adapt to it.

By then, he would be able to transplant that Mangekyo of Shisui's...

The Eternal was drawing ever closer...

"This place..."

"I feel like I've seen it somewhere before..."

Picking up the map from the ground, Karin examined it, lost in thought.

"Are you sure?"

Chuan Yu suddenly perked up.

He felt a sudden sense of gratitude that he had saved Karin earlier.

Otherwise, he had no idea how long he would have been searching.

"Mm..."

"I remember when I was fleeing the Uzumaki Country with my mother, we passed through a place called the Land of Stone..."

"The totem on those mountains looks remarkably similar to the snake emblem on your map..."

Chuan Yu nodded.

It seemed highly likely that some of the local residents knew something about the tracks of the Ryuchi Cave Sage.

As long as they could find the location closest to Ryuchi Cave.

Then Karin should be able to sense it using her Kagura Shingan.

"No time to waste, let's set off now."

Karin nodded, and the two turned and hurried toward the Land of Stone.

Meanwhile, trapped within the Dianli Dongxiang, Konan finally abandoned her goal of capturing the two.

The jungle environment shifted abruptly.

Only then did Konan realize that she had been in the same spot from the very beginning.

And she still was.

"Interesting..."

"If they could become a part of the Akatsuki, I think Nagato would be quite pleased..."

Flapping her wings, Konan turned and flew in the direction of the Rain Ninja Village...