Tremor-Tremor Fruit's Second Technique

"Qingchuan Tianming?"

Dosu Kinuta looked at Tianming stepping forward and could not help but laugh. "You're the vessel Lord Orochimaru wants, but if you get in my way, I won't hold back either."

"Heh!" Tianming laughed outright. "That Sound ninja just said the same thing."

"You know where Zaku Abumi is?" Dosu Kinuta's savage expression shifted slightly.

Tianming shook his head and said softly, "I split him apart with one slash. There wasn't even any slag left. He should be somewhere in the forest."

At those words, Dosu Kinuta fell silent for a moment before saying, "Even if you're the target! Since you killed Zaku Abumi, just die!"

The giant snake beside Dosu Kinuta immediately abandoned the people on the ground and opened its bloody maw toward Tianming.

No one could imagine Dosu Kinuta's relationship with Zaku Abumi! Even if killing the target meant suffering Lord Orochimaru's punishment, he would not hesitate.

Facing the summoned giant snake's attack, Tianming neither dodged nor retreated. He instantly rushed forward, gathering all the chakra in his body into his palm as violent lightning burst forth.

"Lightning Cutter!"

Tianming turned the lightning into a sword-like attack and instantly pierced through the giant snake's mouth.

"Urgh!" Though his strike had landed, Tianming was far from relaxed. The moment he used chakra, the Cursed Seal's power was triggered!

Because of the Cursed Seal, Tianming's Lightning Cutter had not killed it outright. The giant snake rose again after falling, its huge mouth blasted to pieces.

As the enraged giant snake launched another attack, a figure rushed out!

Sasuke Uchiha was covered in Cursed Seal markings. Forming hand seals rapidly with one hand, he spat out attacks like falling meteors of heavenly fire. Empowered by the Cursed Seal, the Great Fireball Technique was even more powerful!

"Roar!!"

After taking several Great Fireball Techniques, the giant snake crashed to the ground again!

"Sasuke!!" Seeing Sasuke Uchiha awake, Sakura Haruno hurried over.

"Who did this to you?" Sasuke Uchiha asked coldly.

As he spoke, he locked onto the stunned Dosu Kinuta.

Dosu Kinuta's mentality completely collapsed! What had he seen? He had seen the markings on Sasuke Uchiha's body!

That was the Cursed Seal that only Lord Orochimaru could implant!

Wasn't there supposed to be only one target? Then who was this unfamiliar face with the power of the Cursed Seal?

Had they risked their lives without even being worthy of knowing the real plan?

"Just like you think." Tianming kicked him while he was down. "The three of you are just tools, here to help us level up."

"No! That's not true! Impossible! We are Lord Orochimaru's most loyal subordinates. Absolutely impossible!" Dosu Kinuta's eyes turned bloodshot, and he looked utterly crazed as he frantically drove his chakra.

Even if it accelerated the Cursed Seal's backlash, he would kill these two!

"Ahhh!" As Dosu Kinuta went mad, the giant snake beside him let out a shrill howl and lunged at Sasuke Uchiha, who met it head-on!

Meanwhile, Dosu Kinuta disregarded everything and pushed his chakra and Cursed Seal power to the limit. This was a life-or-death move!

"Die!!"

Dosu Kinuta pressed his hands together. The air holes in his arms spewed streams of red mist, carrying such intense heat that even the bushes behind him were nearly set ablaze!

"Forbidden Technique! Sound-Fire Stream Strike!"

When his all-out attack was fully unleashed, the violent aftershock of chakra sent everyone else flying.

Yet Tianming showed little expression in the face of such an opponent.

He did not form hand seals. He spread his fingers, then clenched them into a fist! At that moment, even the flow of chakra seemed to change.

"Air Quake!"

Using the fruit's power without holding anything back, Tianming threw a punch. It felt as though an invisible cage had descended from the sky and enclosed Dosu Kinuta!

His fist struck the air as if it had slammed into a wall.

Crack, crack, crack!

White cracks appeared all around Dosu Kinuta. In that instant, his scalp went numb. Cracks had appeared in the air?

Before Dosu Kinuta could react further, the cracking intensified! The cage of air formed a crushing pressure around his body.

Then, the white cracks rapidly spread across him.

Boom!

The next instant, as the cage of air shattered, Dosu Kinuta was shaken directly into nothingness!

At Tianming's current stage, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit could only use the small-scale Quake Blade and Air Quake. But to everyone else, this was one move that instantly killed someone?

On the other side, with the summoner dead, Sasuke Uchiha, with both Sharingan fully activated, found the giant snake's weak point and pierced its vital spot with a kunai.

The battle ended, and Tianming and Sasuke Uchiha collapsed almost at the same time.

At this point, Tianming also fell unconscious.

Konoha's twelve rookies present fell silent for a while. None of them could believe Team 7 had become this strong...

"For the sake of us being from the same village, I won't take your scrolls." Shikamaru Nara was the first to leave, and once he did, Team 10 followed close behind.

"Sakura, are you all right..." Rock Lee asked with concern.

"Let's go!" Neji Hyuga grabbed Rock Lee by the neck without another word and dragged him away.

In the end, only Team 8 remained.

Hinata Hyuga looked at the unconscious Tianming with a worried expression.

"Sakura, please take good care of Tianming." Hinata Hyuga seemed to realize something as she spoke. "And Naruto and Sasuke too."

"Let's go." Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame, being dense straight men, did not catch the meaning.

But Sakura Haruno understood, and the guard in her heart lowered. "Don't worry. Leave them to me!"