Are You a Devil?

The Stone Ninja charged toward the pool beneath the waterfall, then all stopped in their tracks.

A violent blast of wind tore up the ground, uprooted bushes, stripped bark from trees, and swept leaves into the air. None of the Stone Ninja could keep their footing.

After struggling for a moment, they were blown backward, flailing helplessly in the wind.

Even an Elite Jonin like Explosion Release Hunt was lifted off the ground, despite pouring Chakra into his feet and using it as he would to climb a tree.

But Hunt had another way. In midair, he pulled off his vest, held it above him, and turned it into a directional explosive.

Boom! The blast drove him back to the ground. He dug in with his hands and feet, sliding slowly backward and leaving five furrows in the earth.

Hunt saw the five furrows too. No wonder my crotch hurts. But if he lifted himself off the ground, the Wind Release would blow him away.

More than ten seconds passed before the fierce Wind Release finally died down.

Hunt rushed to the waterfall and found no one there.

Not only were the people gone, but layers of earth had been stripped away.

The water had already gone still. There was nothing on its surface.

"After him! He used that much Chakra—he must be at the end of his strength! Split into two groups! One goes upstream, the other downstream! Find him and my two nephews!"

At one stretch of the river, Uchiha Ling held two people underwater with his hair, enlarged through Partial Expansion.

He had altered their bodies with Transparent Release Chakra, just as he had altered his clothes and ninja tools.

They looked like a mass of still, clear water. No one could possibly find them.

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