Difficult Opponent, Change in Mindset

Difficult Opponent, Change in Mindset

As expected, the opponent would not be defeated so easily. Qian Rou, the Chinoike Clan leader, leaped backward and opened up a safe distance. Then her eyes narrowed abruptly, flashing with a blood-red light as though she were activating some kind of ocular technique.

"Brat! If you have someone to blame, blame the fact that you're from the Uchiha Clan."

There was no holding back in battle, nor was there any room for mercy.

So long as it could kill the enemy, any method was the right one.

Prisoners resembling walking corpses were controlled by the Blood Dragon Eye's special ocular technique. Having lost themselves, they could only act according to the caster's will, becoming living bombs of terrifying power.

"Don't waste your breath on a battlefield. If you can kill me, that's your skill and ability."

"If you are unfortunate enough to be killed by me, then the price will be that Chinoike Clan ninja will completely disappear from the Ninja World from this day onward."

Uchiha Jobu knew very well what an earth-shaking crime it was to lay hands on high-ranking nobles of a nation, or even a daimyo. It was an absolutely unforgivable sin.

The themes of the Warring States Era were slaughter, death, betrayal, deception, war, hunger, and plague.

To survive in such a brutally cruel age, ninja could only rely on the missions issued by nobles.

Not to mention now—even in the peaceful era before his transmigration, people said that the one paying the bills was God.

The mad Chinoike Clan ninja had actually set their sights on the daimyo of the Land of Lightning. Whether it was for their clan or simply to survive, they had offended the ruling class of the Warring States Era.

Uchiha Jobu believed that even if the daimyo of the Land of Lightning truly died, the Chinoike Clan ninja's plan would not truly succeed. A nation could never allow itself to be controlled by ninja.

Faced with the prisoners charging at him as living bombs, the Dead Bone Pulse was of little use in this situation.

But so far, aside from the Sharingan, the Dead Bone Pulse was still his most useful ability. The only ability of Embroidery Release was invisibility, and he could only conceal his body while remaining motionless.

Could he just squat down and turn invisible, then avoid being attacked by the enemy?

Obviously, that was impossible.

Not to mention that Qian Rou, the Chinoike Clan leader, also possessed an ocular Kekkei Genkai, even the blast radius of those living bombs rivaled the Explosive Tags used by ninja in battle.

The more vigorous a person's vitality, the more terrifying the explosion when they were refined into a living bomb.

Boom!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A continuous series of explosions rang out as flames swallowed a vast stretch of ground. The earth itself trembled beneath the terrifying blasts.

"Wind Release! Wind-Blowing Technique!"

Uchiha Jobu formed hand seals with both hands and cast a C-rank Wind Release ninjutsu using only a single seal.

This Wind Release had little offensive power, but it was highly effective right now. The wind could disperse the smoke and dust kicked up by the explosions, restoring his vision so that everything ahead was no longer obscured.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The instant the wind dispersed the smoke, several kunai tore through the air. Fine threads trailed from their ends, each pulling along a burning Explosive Tag.

An Explosive Tag was simply a piece of paper inscribed with an explosive formula. During close combat, it could be stuck onto an enemy's body and detonated with chakra.

Since it was made of paper, an Explosive Tag could not be thrown on its own.

However, ninja had devised a way to combine kunai with Explosive Tags so that they could better utilize their effects and launch long-range attacks.

Watching the kunai bearing Explosive Tags rapidly draw closer in his vision, Uchiha Jobu instantly felt danger envelop his entire body.

If he were struck by several Explosive Tags, his flesh and blood body would be roasted in the blast. There would be no possibility of survival.

Forget the Dead Bone Pulse—even more outrageous special Kekkei Genkai could not use flesh and blood to withstand an Explosive Tag's explosion.

"A Body Flicker?"

Blood-red light flashed repeatedly in Qian Rou's eyes. More living bombs surged out from every corner, an unending tide that seemed infinite and terrifying.

"But it's useless. The moment the light blooms from these eyes of mine, neither the Uchiha nor Qian Rou can be a match for the Chinoike Clan."

"Chinoike Clan ninja are the strongest in the Ninja World."

"Uchiha brat, you're doomed."

The prisoners controlled by the Blood Dragon Eye surrounded Qian Rou within roughly three meters. It was exactly the distance needed to control the explosion's power and prevent it from harming Qian Rou, the caster herself.

After silently counting, Uchiha Jobu found more than twenty living bombs dressed in prisoner uniforms. They held hands and formed three rings, protecting Qian Rou at the center.

If he rushed in recklessly, even if he had a chance to kill the enemy, he would certainly be swallowed by the explosion as well.

Unless...

Uchiha Jobu thought of Susanoo. If only his eyes were Mangekyo Sharingan right now. Then he could summon the Uchiha Clan's invincible offensive-and-defensive mecha and forcibly crush this so-called Chinoike Clan.

"This is troublesome."

"As expected, none of the ninja capable of thriving through the Warring States Era are simple."

"In the story, the Chinoike Clan ninja were only briefly mentioned. They were a ninja clan jointly suppressed by the nobles and upper ranks of the Land of Lightning, and under the Uchiha Clan's surveillance, they had nearly been truly wiped out."

"When reading it, he had thought the Chinoike Clan was nothing special. Their Blood Dragon Eye Kekkei Genkai was merely equivalent to a two-tomoe or three-tomoe Sharingan."

"So he had assumed Chinoike ninja were utterly insignificant. Only after truly fighting them did he realize how troublesome they were."

Uchiha Jobu felt rather annoyed with himself. Had he gotten cocky just because he had a cheat? This world did not only contain native ninja; it also had an extraterrestrial race from the tree-planting clan. His current strength was, at most, that of a Special Jonin, yet he had already begun looking down on an entire ninja clan from the bottom of his heart.

What would happen if he encountered powerful members of the tree-planting clan descending in the future?

This mindset would not do. He had to face every existence in this world head-on. Whether famous or unknown, so long as they stood before him, they were enemies who deserved his full strength and serious attention.

This shift in mindset also transformed Uchiha Jobu's aura, making it more solid and majestic.