Talk Fails, So Use "Persuasion" Instead

A mountain forest outside the city, vast and deserted on all sides, was perfect for a battlefield.

Feng had found it along the way to Upper Leaf City.

He understood all too well that if he wanted to reason with a powerful Uchiha, it was utterly impossible without first beating them into submission.

After all, Uchiha.

Before awakening the Sharingan: Reason? I'm trash. Whatever you say is right. No need to ask trash like me.

With one to three tomoe in the Sharingan: Reason? How could ordinary people like you possibly understand a genius like me? So you should all listen to me.

Then, after meeting someone who could utterly crush them: You're even more amazing than this genius, so what you say must make sense. But if I catch up to you, that means I've understood a deeper truth than you have, and then you'll have to listen to me.

After awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan: I am the chosen one. Reason? My reason is reason.

It doesn't work? Then someone must be sabotaging me.

No one is sabotaging me? Then there must be something wrong with this world.

How could the chosen one's reasoning possibly be wrong? If it doesn't work, the world must be the problem. I'll change this world and make it better, a world where reason can be spoken!

So, before deciding to meet Yashiro Uchiha, Feng had already prepared a place to "persuade" him.

"Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique!"

"Modified Fireball Jutsu: Blazing Fireball Technique!"

Without any unnecessary movements, both sides began by firing a Fire Release technique at each other.

The original power of the C-rank Fireball Jutsu was naturally inferior to the B-rank Dragon Fire Technique.

However, thanks to its higher temperature, greater speed, and denser flames, Feng's modified Blazing Fireball Technique clashed with the higher-ranked Dragon Fire Technique, which also needed to be continuously maintained, and the two remained locked in midair without a victor.

But the Blazing Fireball Technique did not need to be maintained.

Thus, after launching it, Feng leaped high into the air and fired three kunai engraved with Flying Thunder God formulas at Yashiro Uchiha, who was maintaining the Dragon Fire Technique.

He then landed swiftly and charged toward his opponent, one hand gripping his sword hilt while the other was raised before his chest, ready to form hand seals at any moment.

Yashiro Uchiha had been watching in every direction. When he saw Feng leap up and fire the kunai—

He stopped maintaining the Dragon Fire Technique against the Blazing Fireball Technique, used the Body Flicker Technique repeatedly to evade the incoming kunai, and also dodged the Blazing Fireball that had shattered the Dragon Fire Technique and continued flying toward him.

Before Yashiro could make another move after doing all that—

Feng had already rushed in front of him and started close combat.

Feng wielded a custom-made high-grade katana, while Yashiro used a standard-issue kunai. Feng clearly held the advantage in close quarters.

"Clang!"

Feng struck first, but his physical abilities had only recently reached the level of a chunin. Yashiro struck second, but he was unquestionably a jonin.

Their first close-range clash ended in a narrow draw.

"Genjutsu: Sharingan!"

Yet, the instant their eyes met after the draw, Yashiro Uchiha immediately activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and followed with a genjutsu.

Feng's one-tomoe Sharingan was naturally no match for it. He could only rely on the powerful spiritual energy brought by his transmigrator's soul, barely holding on for one second before being controlled by the genjutsu.

"Feng, with strength as feeble as yours, your words have no persuasive power at all."

Seeing Feng trapped in the genjutsu and unable to move—

Yashiro Uchiha closed in as he spoke casually.

He believed that once he put a kunai to Feng's throat, Feng would understand that he was nothing but a weakling spouting nonsense.

Clan extermination? With him in the clan, with Elder Setsuna, and with outstanding juniors like Tekka, Inabi, and Shisui, how could the clan possibly be exterminated?

"Whoosh!"

Just as Yashiro Uchiha raised his kunai toward Feng's throat, Feng vanished.

"Sword Technique: Dragon Flash!"

Feng's blade wind came from behind Yashiro with unbelievable speed. At the same time, Feng murmured:

"Thanks, Kurama."

He was thanking the Nine-Tails for helping him dispel the genjutsu just now.

Yashiro Uchiha, meanwhile, frowned deeply. In a baffled instant, he turned and blocked Feng's incoming katana.

With his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, there were almost no movements he could fail to see clearly.

Yet he had not seen how Feng vanished just now. This... was completely impossible, yet it had truly happened.

He could not understand what had happened.

As for Genjutsu: Sharingan being dispelled, it was only a basic C-rank genjutsu. It was perfectly normal for an Uchiha like Feng to dispel it instantly. It would have been strange if he could not.

"Dragon Flash again!"

Feng swung his sword for another slash. He believed that even if Yashiro Uchiha had been slightly distracted, he could still block it.

And as a ninja who had survived the Second and Third Shinobi World Wars—

Yashiro Uchiha's combat ability was beyond question. Even while distracted, he instinctively deflected Feng's incoming blade with a block.

He then used the Body Flicker Technique to retreat before unleashing "Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"

The entire sequence flowed in one smooth motion.

The scattered phoenix flower flames he spat out attacked Feng from every direction.

Feng did not even dodge. He charged directly at his opponent.

The chakra-coated long blade in his hand scattered some of the phoenix flower flames whenever necessary.

He endured the rest head-on with the initial form of his activated Susanoo.

All so he could close in on his target faster.

Yashiro Uchiha had clearly not expected Feng to withstand his Phoenix Flower Jutsu head-on.

He had originally used the Phoenix Flower Jutsu to leave Feng nowhere to evade, forcing him to use that sudden disappearance technique or ninjutsu that even the Three-Tomoe Sharingan had failed to see.

As a result, Yashiro lost the initiative and was forced back by Feng's sword techniques.

But the strength of an Uchiha jonin was beyond doubt. After several exchanges, Yashiro once again found an opportunity to open the distance between them.

"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"

If the C-rank Phoenix Flower Jutsu could not force out the technique Feng used to disappear, then he would use a B-rank ninjutsu at full power!

Feng might have been able to withstand the previous attack with Susanoo, but he refused to believe Susanoo could withstand such a powerful Great Dragon Fire Technique now.

If Feng had known what Yashiro Uchiha was thinking, he would have told him that he was only a little stronger than that guy who stabbed Susanoo with a kunai.

In the original story, even Susanoo's skeletal form could block the A-rank Rasenshuriken.

So, the moment the two had opened the distance and Yashiro Uchiha formed hand seals to cast his technique, Feng closed in again.

A B-rank Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique? To Susanoo, it was nothing more than a hot shower.

Seeing that even the Great Dragon Fire Technique was useless, Yashiro Uchiha was immediately dumbfounded.

Damn, I knew Susanoo was powerful—it is the legendary power of the gods—but I never expected it to be this powerful.

Yashiro could not help muttering inwardly:

Do I have to use the A-rank ninjutsu I keep as a trump card? But A-rank ninjutsu isn't easy to control once released.

And Feng is so reckless, just like those brutes from Kumogakure, always wanting to endure close combat head-on.

What if Susanoo can't withstand it? Wouldn't that put Feng's life in danger?

Because Feng was a member of the Uchiha clan, Yashiro Uchiha could not bear to strike ruthlessly.

But Feng would not give Yashiro time to overthink things.

After breaking through the Great Dragon Fire Technique with Susanoo, he shouted softly, "Sword Technique: Sky Sever!"

A charged, crescent-shaped chakra sword wave instantly slashed out.

Feng then burst forward with the fastest Body Flicker Technique, following behind the sword wave as Sword Technique: Dragon Flash gathered momentum.

Almost simultaneously, Sky Sever's sword wave and Dragon Flash's blade struck Yashiro Uchiha.

Then, without any resistance, Yashiro Uchiha's body split into four pieces.

His face was filled with shock before he died.

Feng, who had made the attack, was equally stunned. He had only wanted to beat Yashiro Uchiha into submission. He had not wanted to kill him.

"Bang!"

An unusual sound rang out.

"Feng!"

A shout came together with that strange sound.

Hearing it, Feng instinctively looked up toward the source of the voice.

"Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique!"

Yashiro Uchiha's body, which had been split into four pieces, turned into smoke and vanished.

Behind the smoke, a lively and unharmed Yashiro Uchiha's three tomoe spun in his eyes.

Feng's vision went black, and he lost all feeling throughout his body.

But only a moment later, he felt himself recover.

However, once Feng recovered, he saw that his body had been nailed down by enormous iron stakes, leaving him unable to move.

"Ugh, genjutsu really is troublesome."

Realizing that he had fallen under genjutsu again, Feng could not help sighing. Before obtaining Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan, genjutsu would be his greatest weakness.

"Feng, looks like I won."

Within the genjutsu space, Yashiro Uchiha said with a smile.

Combined with his naturally narrowed eyes, it gave the impression that he was smiling while somehow not smiling at all.

Yet the smile on his face lasted less than two seconds before the genjutsu space began to collapse and disperse.

"Hehe, Uncle Yashiro, you celebrated too soon."

Having dispelled the genjutsu, Feng smiled at Yashiro Uchiha.

At the same time, he murmured once more, "Sorry to trouble you again, Kurama."

"Hmph. You were controlled by genjutsu twice in such a short time.

You're the most pathetic Jinchūriki I've ever seen."

Within the mental space, the Nine-Tails raised a brow and spoke disdainfully.

Feng merely pursed his lips and held back from arguing.

Although he knew Kurama had a long history of being controlled by genjutsu, Kurama was his self-supplied cheat-code chakra battery. He could not afford to offend him and even had to keep him placated.

But while he could not offend the Nine-Tails, he could go all out against Yashiro Uchiha.

He had nearly been scared to death just now. After warming up for so long, it was time to show some real skill and let the other man understand which Uchiha had the right to stand there and talk reason.

"Uncle Yashiro, I'm going all out next, so be careful!"

Yashiro had warned Feng before using genjutsu just now, so Feng gave him a warning as well.

After saying that, he spoke in a voice only he could hear:

"Kurama, please lend me your chakra from here on out!

I want to see just how far I can go when I give it everything I have."

"Haha! Fine! I also want to see whether you have what it takes to stop Black Zetsu and Madara.

Take as much chakra as you want. Use it as you please!"

Within the mental space, the Nine-Tails laughed loudly as he continuously sent chakra outward.

As Feng received Kurama's chakra, he poured all of it into the Susanoo technique.

The dark crimson Susanoo around Feng rapidly expanded.

First, it swiftly grew a pair of legs. Its skeletal body began to fill out with meridians and flesh, and even gained garment-like armor formed from chakra.

Finally, a giant warrior more than a hundred meters tall, resembling a colossal samurai clad in majestic armor, stood towering over the earth.

The giant warrior had wings on its back that could soar through the skies, and a samurai greatsword at its waist capable of effortlessly splitting mountains apart.

Merely standing there made people keenly feel their own insignificance and helplessness.

The Perfect Susanoo, which normally required one to train the Mangekyō Sharingan's ocular power to its peak and possess an enormous amount of chakra to wield—

Now appeared once more after Madara Uchiha, displayed by Feng through an opportunistic, cheat-assisted method.