Hyuga Uses Finger Gun!

After Biwa Juzo fled, the hundred-odd Kirigakure Ninja who remained did not scatter.

The Kirigakure deputy commander in charge of the rearguard wiped mud from his face, his expression dark.

"Don't panic!"

"Lord Juzo has gone to get reinforcements!"

"They've only got a few hundred brutes in metal shells. A ninja's strength lies in ninjutsu!"

The deputy commander shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Everyone spread out! Keep thirty paces between you!"

"Don't fight them hand to hand!"

"Use a combined Water Release! Wash those armored turtles into the marsh and drown them!"

The Kirigakure Ninja came to their senses under his barrage of orders.

They sprang backward, skimming across the water to open the distance.

Dozens of Kirigakure Ninja formed two neat rows, their hands moving so fast they became blurs.

Moisture churned violently in the curtain of rain.

"Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"

"Water Release: Water Dragon Barrage!"

More than a dozen B-rank Water Release Ninjutsu merged into a wall of water several yards high.

The torrent roared toward them, dragging mud, sand, and broken timber along with it.

It lifted the marsh water wholesale, surging forward with tremendous force.

A direct hit would crush even hundreds of armored ninja beneath the water's pressure.

At the rear, Qian Ye did not so much as budge. He was still chewing on a strip of dried meat.

"Yan, that water's filthy. Don't get my trench coat dirty."

Uchiha Yan heard Qian Ye's order and grinned from ear to ear.

"You got it!"

Uchiha Yan stepped forward without even raising his hands, let alone forming Hand Seals.

In the past, he would have dutifully formed six seals and fired a Great Fireball Technique to meet it head-on.

But ever since he started training in that hellish get-beaten-up style with Bullet,