Clashing with the Chinoike Clan Chief, Genjutsu

Clashing with the Chinoike Clan Chief, Genjutsu

"There are too many of them. There are terrifyingly many!"

"These Chinoike ninja are truly insane. Have they never considered how many people they'll kill? These innocent civilians aren't ninja, yet they've been turned into living bombs."

"Enough nonsense! Against enemies this deranged, don't underestimate them in the slightest. We must use all our strength if we want any chance of victory!"

"Yes! Understood!"

"Look! That man is the Chinoike Clan Chief!"

Suddenly, an Uchiha ninja shouted, revealing the Chinoike Clan Chief's location.

Uchiha Jobu raised his eyes and looked over. Sure enough, he spotted a distinctly different figure. Whether in presence or chakra fluctuations, he far surpassed the other ninja.

He seemed like someone who stood above all others, yet the killing intent radiating from him made him resemble an executioner.

"Izuna! I'll leave this place to you. I'll deal with the Chinoike Clan Chief!"

Izuna Uchiha swept his gaze across the battlefield coldly. The Three-Tomoe Sharingan embedded in his eyes like jewels periodically emitted chilling chakra fluctuations. Without a sound, he cast genjutsu, then easily harvested his enemies' lives with kunai.

Hearing that Uchiha Jobu intended to face the Chinoike Clan Chief, Izuna Uchiha immediately turned toward that unusual figure. The cold killing intent in his eyes seemed to solidify into an invisible blade that could cut into the enemy's body.

"His chakra fluctuations are powerful. He isn't an ordinary enemy. His strength is likely second only to the clan's elite ninja. We should join forces against him."

"Don't forget, besides the Sharingan, I possess a second Kekkei Genkai: the Dead Bone Pulse! In a one-on-one fight, as long as my opponent isn't too strong to defeat, I fear no one!"

"I also have the Hagoromo Clan's Kekkei Genkai. With both of us working together, we can handle the enemy far more effectively."

"Izuna, listen to me. We still need you to lead this place. Otherwise, we'll suffer heavy losses. We can't let the clan's ninja be wasted here for one mission. If we do, dealing with the Senju Clan afterward will be even harder."

Izuna Uchiha nodded solemnly. "I understand. Leave the enemy to you. I'll clear out all these fodder."

Perhaps it was merely an illusion, but Uchiha Jobu always felt that the chill surrounding Izuna Uchiha grew more terrifying over time. He gave off the impression of an evil ghost walking among men, and Jobu could not help worrying that Izuna Uchiha would become a human weapon devoid of all emotion, one that knew only how to complete missions or slaughter.

But there was no time to dwell on it. This was a battlefield; a moment's distraction could invite an enemy attack.

Earth Release: Earth Spear!

Rather than using the Uchiha Clan's most proficient Fire Release, he chose Earth Release, which was not particularly powerful offensively.

Uchiha Jobu reasoned that while Fire Release possessed astonishing destructive power and could instantly blast apart a target, its grand spectacle might not achieve ideal results against an enemy with Jonin-level strength.

Therefore, Earth Release was the better choice. Even if it failed to strike the enemy, it could still force him to defend.

"Uchiha brat!"

"You came straight at me, intending to deal with the king?"

"Have you taken me too lightly?"

With a simple Body Flicker Technique, he easily evaded the Earth Spear.

When Qian Rou saw that her opponent was a youth from the Uchiha Clan, no contempt appeared on her face. In the Ninja World, one could not judge strength by an enemy's age. True geniuses possessed extraordinary power even before they had fully grown.

No one knew how many geniuses perished in the Warring States Period every year. Qian Rou had seen far too many over the years. She understood that a powerful ninja clan like the Uchiha Clan cultivated its members far better than ordinary ninja clans, and the likelihood of producing geniuses was much higher.

Therefore,

she held no contempt at all and only intended to use her full strength.

"The Chinoike Clan Chief!"

"A ninja like you is definitely at Jonin level. No one would ever take you lightly. To defeat you, I'll use all my strength."

"Jonin? I've heard of it. I heard it was a ranking system for ninja strength that originated in the Land of Fire. It begins with the lowest-ranked Genin, followed by the transitional Chunin, and then the powerful Jonin."

"That's right. You're very strong. Dead Bone Pulse: Activate!"

Qian Rou was stunned!

Who the hell could explain why a member of the Uchiha Clan possessed the Dead Bone Pulse?

Even though the intelligence had mentioned a Dead Bone Pulse ninja before, she had never expected the Dead Bone Pulse to appear on an Uchiha ninja. This was utterly absurd. He did not resemble a proper ninja at all!

Genjutsu!

Shaken to the core, Qian Rou hurriedly activated her Blood Dragon Eye and used genjutsu as her opening attack, wanting to see whether she could defeat her enemy through genjutsu alone.

Genjutsu

came in many varieties. Some used sound to cast illusions, mainly targeting the enemy's hearing. Others used hand gestures and expressions during battle. Then there were the most special kind: ocular genjutsu.

Most ocular technique users could cast genjutsu through their eyes. Otherwise, like the Hyuga Clan, they could use their eyes to see through all falsehoods and fear no genjutsu.

Uchiha Jobu suddenly felt his head sink, as though he had spent an entire night drinking with friends, then awoken the next morning with a splitting headache and no strength in his body.

Have I fallen under genjutsu?

Uchiha Jobu's first thought was that he had been caught in genjutsu.

After all, his enemy was also a Kekkei Genkai ninja famed throughout the Ninja World for ocular techniques. Genjutsu was one of the most common attack methods for ocular technique users and one of the simplest, most convenient ways to defeat an opponent.

Genjutsu Release!

The chakra within his body instantly expanded and contracted, then flowed in a chaotic manner, like an unreasonable brute forcefully breaking through the genjutsu his enemy had cast on him.

Having been caught off guard by the enemy's genjutsu, Uchiha Jobu was no greenhorn who would charge forward yelling, intending to punch his opponent away.

Against a ninja who also possessed an ocular technique Kekkei Genkai, the best approach was to defeat the enemy in the same field.

Blood Dragon Eye?!

Trash!

The Sharingan is the true ancestor of genjutsu!

Genjutsu: Sharingan!