"That slap was on behalf of your brother!"
Shengu Xuan's bone-chilling voice boomed over the thunder and lightning of the Valley of the End like a death knell from the deepest depths of hell.
Before a look of shock could even appear on Sasuke's face, covered in black cursed seal markings, Shengu Xuan's raised right hand came crashing down with a terrifying sonic boom that tore through the air!
Smack!!!
An incomparably crisp slap instantly rang through the entire valley, drowning out even the roar of the surrounding waterfalls and the crashing thunder.
Under the utterly horrified gazes of Shikamaru, Naruto, Kiba, and Neji, the supposedly impenetrable defense of Cursed Seal State Two that Sasuke took such pride in proved as flimsy as paper before Shengu Xuan's seemingly casual slap!
Sasuke felt an indescribably terrifying force slam into his left cheek like Mount Tai collapsing on him. He could even clearly hear the crack of his own jawbone breaking. Several bloodstained teeth shot straight from his mouth and embedded themselves in the nearby rock like bullets.
Then Sasuke's burly, mutated body flew off the ground as though struck head-on by a heavy train at full speed. Spinning through the air like a high-speed top, he let out a string of shrill screams as he hurtled toward the turbulent pool beneath the waterfall!
Boom!!!
Sasuke's body slammed into the water so hard that it blasted a massive, empty depression more than ten meters across into the unfathomably deep pool! Spray lashed wildly in every direction like a tsunami, and mist instantly filled everyone's vision.
"S-Sasuke!" Naruto struggled to get up on the water, clutching his stomach where Sasuke had kicked him, and stared blankly at the churning pool. He had never imagined that Sasuke, who had just been so overbearing and