Obtaining the Explosion Release Kekkei Genkai

Shū's true body appeared where he stood.

"Earth Release: Earth Clone!"

The ground churned, and more than a dozen clones made of earth emerged from the ground and fled in all directions.

Without forming hand seals, Long Ye reacted at top speed and released another bolt of lightning.

The lightning struck one clone, instantly triggering a chain reaction. A bolt of electricity pierced through more than a dozen clones, leaving only two.

One of the two had to be the real body.

But at that moment, the two fled in opposite directions.

"Split up and pursue them!!"

Long Ye fixed his eyes on one of them and flew into the forest.

Seeing Long Ye pursue it so recklessly on his own, Shisui felt conflicted. But considering the importance of their mission, after a moment's hesitation, he chased after the other one.

Neither of them knew which of the two fleeing figures was the real body.

Long Ye pursued relentlessly.

The person ahead seemed intent on drawing him along, always maintaining a distance that was neither far nor near.

"This time, it's all down to luck!"

Long Ye spoke to himself inwardly.

The final clone had actually been left behind deliberately.

His purpose was to create an opportunity to fight this person alone.

The reason he had said it came down to luck was that he was not sure whether the one ahead was the real body.

Because this kind of physical Clone Technique was formed by separating off a portion of one's own chakra, even the Byakugan could not see through it.

And the reason he wanted to fight this person alone was precisely to avoid Shisui and perform the "surgery" to deprive him of his Kekkei Genkai.

His ability was not something outsiders could witness at present.

At that moment, the person sprinting ahead suddenly stopped and landed in a narrow clearing in the forest.

Long Ye followed close behind, landing a hundred paces away.

"Why did you stop running?"

Long Ye asked, also intending to determine whether this was the man's true body.

"Run? Why would I run? You little brat, you're truly an idiot. I deliberately lured you here to eliminate you. Whoever the Jonin who came with you is, he won't be able to save you now."

The man charged forward and threw a punch.

"This is his true body!"

Long Ye felt secretly delighted, but his heart leaped into his throat.

The man's Explosion Release was simply too overbearing. If he fought him head-on, Long Ye had not the slightest confidence of defeating him.

After a single thought, he neither dodged nor retreated, instead throwing a punch to meet it.

He released all the electricity he could muster and gathered it into his right hand. The flowing current transformed into the head of a giant hound, its vicious features fully exposed.

Rather than being alarmed, the man opposite him was delighted.

"Fool! You came to hunt me down, so you should have known that I possess Explosion Release. You actually dare to clash with me head-on? Remember, you died from your own stupidity today."

"Boom!!"

The two fists collided.

The man's Explosion Release erupted as expected, triggering a violent explosion.

Long Ye flew away like a stone hurled through the air, crashed through a large tree, and was left drenched in blood.

"Ah!!"

The Iwa shinobi instead let out a pained howl.

One of his arms was ravaged by electricity. It was completely numb and had lost all feeling.

"Brat, you actually broke through my Explosion Release and injured me. That isn't ordinary Lightning Release. It must be some rare Kekkei Genkai."

The man's arm hung limply at his side, and his expression twisted viciously.

"Then I definitely can't let you live today! Die..."

Seeing Long Ye struggle up from the ground, swaying as though a gust of wind could topple him, the man feared that the Konoha Jonin might arrive. He stopped wasting words, charged forward, and punched toward Long Ye's head.

He had an almost fanatical confidence in his Explosion Release. As long as he struck Long Ye—even if he merely grazed him—this powerless brat would surely be torn to pieces.

"Die!"

As the distance between them rapidly closed—

Suddenly!

Long Ye vanished right before his eyes.

"Body Flicker Technique?"

The thought had just crossed the man's mind when his heart suddenly turned cold. In the next instant, his entire body went numb.

He moved his stiff neck and looked down with difficulty.

The youth who had seemed ready to collapse moments ago was now half-kneeling. He had dodged the man's punch, and one hand gripped a chakra scalpel plunged into the man's heart.

The scalpel seethed with violent electricity, leaving his entire body numb, robbing him of both pain and the ability to resist.

At that moment, he was like someone lying on an operating table, with his life no longer in his own hands.

Somewhere, he found a burst of strength. Relying on his powerful willpower, he suddenly seized the hand at his heart. His hand was as hard as an iron hoop.

Long Ye tried to pull it out, but it was as though the hand had been locked in place and could not move even a fraction.

"If I die, you'll die with me. I'll show you what true Explosion Release is."

Blood gushed from the man's mouth as he grinned savagely.

"Blow yourself up like Deidara?"

"Unfortunately, you've entered my barrier and stepped onto my operating table. Anything you do is futile."

The instant Long Ye succeeded, he had already released his barrier. The next step was the "surgery."

The man did not understand what Long Ye was saying. Gathering all his strength, he shouted:

"Explode!!"

But nothing happened as he wished. Nothing happened at all.

His expression changed from shock to terror.

Because he could clearly feel all the strength in his body flowing outward, toward the scalpel embedded in his heart.

His mouth fell wide open, and his body went from rigid to limp, as though the force holding it stiff had been extracted from within him.

Long Ye slowly withdrew his hand.

In his hand was a green energy sphere.

All the power and principles of the Explosion Release Kekkei Genkai had been completely separated by Long Ye through the "Power Extraction Surgery."

Once the extracted Kekkei Genkai power left the barrier, it could not exist for long, so it had to be transplanted immediately.

"Perform the surgery!!"

Long Ye pressed the green energy sphere in his hand against the position of his own heart.

The chakra in his body poured out uncontrollably, and a new kind of chakra slowly began to merge with it.

The process lasted more than a dozen breaths. The fist-sized chakra energy sphere, seemingly solid, completely vanished into the area around his heart.

The chakra throughout his body surged into the sky like smoke from a beacon fire.

This state lasted several breaths before suddenly retracting.

[By killing a bloodline-limit wielder with Explosion Release, you obtained 1 Demon Point.]

[Human Modification successful. Obtained Kekkei Genkai: Explosion Release.]

[Inherited all Explosion Release abilities of the bloodline-limit wielder.]

Three consecutive system messages rang in Long Ye's ears.

Suppressing his excitement, he awakened the system through the Devil Mark and opened the "Personal Information" page.

Under "Human Modification," new information had indeed appeared. It read:

[Basic Demon Body Modification. Possesses the Explosion Release Kekkei Genkai. Any object struck by the fist will trigger a violent explosion.]

Unable to suppress his eagerness to test it, Long Ye wrapped chakra around his fist and struck a large tree beside him, its trunk as thick as a person's waist.

Boom!!

With a deafening explosion, the tree shattered into countless fragments of wood.

"Such powerful Explosion Release! I really did inherit the Iwa shinobi's Explosion Release perfectly. The power of this punch is no weaker than when he used it himself—not by the slightest."