Raikage's Surprise Attack! The Fastest Under Heaven and Black Lightning? Bones That Reconnect Without End

At the border of the Land of Lightning, dense thunderclouds churned low in the sky, and from time to time, thick bolts of lightning split the gloomy heavens.

A, the Fourth Raikage, was wreathed in blinding blue lightning from head to toe, like an ancient beast bursting free of its cage. He did not care what a defensive battle was. After learning that the Kazekage and Tsuchikage had been killed one after another by that madman of the Uchiha, his reaction had only two words: attack!

"I'm not going to sit in the village and wait to die like those spineless cowards! Uchiha Yuan, I'm going to crush your bones with my own hands!" the Raikage's roar exploded amid the thunder. His "Lightning Release Chakra Mode" had already been pushed to its limit, his hair standing up like steel needles, his body covered in an indestructible armor of lightning.

Boom! A blue bolt of lightning fell from the sky and blasted straight through a small mountaintop.

And amid the dust from the collapsing peak, Yuan, dressed in a tattered black trench coat, landed steadily on a protruding rock. He had not even caught his breath, but those Mangekyō Sharingan had already locked tightly onto the streak of blue lightning racing below.

"Pretty fast, big guy," Yuan mocked with contempt.

Before his words had even faded.

Whoosh!

The Raikage's figure vanished on the spot. Yuan's Mangekyō Sharingan suddenly constricted. His eyes clearly caught the trajectory of the Raikage turning into a blue afterimage, but his body... was half a beat too slow in that instant.

"Too slow!" the Raikage's furious roar exploded right beside Yuan's ear. An iron fist wreathed in high-voltage lightning smashed into Yuan's left ribs with a sonic boom!

"Heavy Flow Blast!"

Bang—crack!

Yuan flew out like a cannonball struck by a massive cannon, shooting more than a hundred meters away. He snapped five or six giant trees thick enough to require several people to encircle before slamming hard into the mountain wall. A clear sound of bone cracking rang out. This was the first time since Yuan's resurrection that someone had broken through his defense head-on and snapped his ribs.

The fastest under heaven truly lived up to his name.

"Hmph. The Hidden Leaf Village's Asura isn't much after all." The Raikage stood where Yuan had originally been, shaking the sparks from his wrist.

"Hahaha... not bad. You're the first person to break my ribs."

A low, sick laugh came from the ruins of the mountain wall. Yuan slowly walked out of the rubble. His left hand covered the area of his broken ribs, where the blue light of the Strength of a Hundred Technique was glowing. In less than three seconds, the broken bones forcibly reconnected and healed through visible writhing. He raised his head, and the contempt in his eyes vanished completely, replaced by the ultimate excitement of seeing supreme prey.

"Your speed really is just a little faster than my physical reaction." Yuan rolled his neck, and the joints all over his body crackled. "But in the end, you're just a punching bag that's a bit faster."

"Arrogant bastard!" The Raikage flew into a rage, and his lightning armor erupted with dazzling light again. "Peerless Bull Lightning Plow Hot Blade!" He once more became a bolt of lightning impossible to catch, his elbow carrying the force to tear through space as it slashed straight toward Yuan's throat.

Yuan did not dodge, nor could he. But the corner of his mouth curved into a strange smile. That punch just now had already allowed him to use his Sharingan to see through the details of this absolute defense the Raikage was so proud of.

"Your lightning armor has a high-density conductive lightning layer on the outside, and an insulating layer compressed with chakra on the inside to protect your organs, right?" Yuan's voice was very soft, yet it entered the approaching Raikage's ears with perfect accuracy.

At the critical instant when the Raikage's elbow was about to sever Yuan's neck, Yuan's right hand suddenly shot out. No chakra blade gathered at his fingertips. Instead, there was a mass of glossy black lightning with an attribute of destruction—the advanced form of Flame-Lightning Chidori, Black Lightning!

This Black Lightning did not meet the Raikage's attack head-on. Instead, it was extremely cunning, like a viper flicking its tongue, stabbing straight into the layer of blue lightning armor covering the Raikage's body!

Both were lightning, so they did not repel each other. But within Yuan's Black Lightning was the miniature disintegrating power of "annihilation"!

Sizzle—

The moment the Black Lightning burrowed into the conductive layer, it immediately seeped inward along the Raikage's chakra pathways like mad. The originally indestructible insulating layer, when faced with this unreasonable internal destructive power, was like plastic meeting strong acid. In an instant, a huge hole was corroded through it!

"What?!" The Raikage was shocked. The defense he was so proud of had been broken! That heart-piercing agony caused a fatal pause in his attack.

"Armor broken. Now, it's my turn."

Yuan seized that fleeting opening and clenched his right fist. Savage monstrous strength stacked layer upon layer within his muscles. He used no ninjutsu at all; it was purely the ultimate burst of body and chakra!

Bang!

The two of them threw punches almost at the same time! In his fury, the Raikage ignored his broken defense as well, and his left fist met the blow head-on. One blue fist and one black fist collided viciously in midair!

Rumble—!!!

A pure physical shockwave, even more violent than a Dust Release clash, spread madly in all directions with the two of them at its center. Within a radius of one kilometer, the forest was uprooted in an instant, and the mountain wall was directly shattered into flat ground.

Amid the deafening collision, two crisp sounds of bone breaking rang out at the same time.

The Raikage let out a muffled groan. The bone in his thick left forearm had been smashed into a comminuted fracture by Yuan's unreasonable monstrous strength, and his entire arm twisted at an unnatural angle. Yuan's right arm also went numb, and a faint crack appeared in his wrist bone.

"Your fist really is pretty hard." Yuan shook his numb right hand, and the blue light of the Strength of a Hundred Technique flashed again, instantly repairing the crack in his wrist bone. He looked at the Raikage opposite him, who was clutching his broken arm and drenched in sweat, and smiled like a madman. "But my bones can reconnect without end. What about yours?"