Chapter 246 How Ninja Doctors Handle Medical Disputes (Part 1)
While Sasuke was engaged with two opponents, Neji also took out his chakra sniper rifle and aimed it at the two entangled with Sasuke.
Sasuke, in close combat with them, guided and suppressed their figures, bringing them under Neji's gun barrel.
The opponents' bizarre method of increasing their strength clearly showed signs of external forces, so the two tacitly cooperated, trying to directly shatter the abnormal source of their chakra flow.
Neji seized the opportunity and fired a shot. A condensed chakra beam erupted from the muzzle, striking the back of the neck of the person he had targeted.
The chakra ray pierced through the opponent's neck in an instant, but the next moment, the opponent's body transformed into a stream of blue water and disappeared before Sasuke's eyes.
A moment later, the water gathered in another spot, coalescing into the shape of the ninja who had just been shot.
"A technique similar to the Hidden Mist, a water transformation technique? If that's the case..." Sasuke frowned, then forced back another ninja facing him with a single strike. Taking two steps back, he sheathed his sword, Purple Lightning, and began rapidly forming hand seals.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Waterfall!"
Thick plasma generated around Sasuke as he formed the seals. As he completed the final Rabbit Seal, the plasma suddenly boiled, transforming into a surging wave that roared towards the attacker.
"Fire Release: Fire Walk Technique!" Facing the oncoming lightning wave, one of the attacking ninjas began spinning rapidly, the intense flames stretching into a rotating circular wall of fire.
"Wind Release: Divine Wind!" The other ninja, surrounded by the wall of fire, spun around while unleashing a gust of wind.
Fueled by the wind, the rapidly spinning wall of fire grew increasingly powerful, expanding outwards continuously.
The next instant, lightning collided with flames, and a violent explosion resounded in the center of the valley. The trees in the valley were instantly ignited by the intense heat, and billowing black smoke rose into the air.
"Something's not right." Neji approached Sasuke, who was maintaining his ninjutsu and exchanging blows with the enemy, and said with a frown.
"Yeah." Sasuke nodded, "Their strength, at best, is only at the level of an ordinary Jonin in the village. For the four of them to think they can kill someone under our noses is a pipe dream. But that charlatan's confident words didn't seem like he was lying, so something's fishy."
Just as the two were still pondering what kind of trump card the enemy was hiding, the last of the four attackers emerged from underground, his target being Sakura, who was protecting Karin and setting up a sealing jutsu for her.
To this person, Sakura's hair was still messy, and her dark circles under her eyes made her look like she was about to die at any moment; she looked like an easy target.
However, just as half of his body emerged from the ground, Sakura stomped her foot forcefully, instantly freezing his expression. The ground beneath him cracked inch by inch, and his body underground was nearly shattered into pieces by the force of the impact. After barely escaping from the ground, Sakura's relentless punches left him with no chance to retaliate.
Compared to those who were barely escaping from Sakura's clutches but were at least not in mortal danger, and those who were maintaining a ninjutsu exchange with Sasuke, the one who started the fight with Lee was also the first to give in. After Lee deliberately removed his weights and opened the Fifth Gate, his speed had become so fast that it was difficult for the naked eye to follow. Moreover, with each of Lee's attacks landing on his opponent, although he could use his chakra to condense new rocks to replenish the damaged parts of his body while remaining in a petrified state, thus not suffering much damage, his chakra was being rapidly drained by Lee's relentless onslaught.
The petrified attacker tried to escape, but Lee gave him no chance. Using pure speed, he reached the attacker from behind and launched him into the air with a high kick.
"Reverse Lotus! Hah!" Lee roared, spinning downwards with a flying kick. The stone golem, completely out of balance in mid-air, its only remaining human feature, showed terror on its face.
"Boom!" A deafening roar echoed through the sky. Lee's kick struck the stone golem, causing it to glow red before exploding into pieces of rubble.
"Neji! Now!" At that moment, Sasuke, maintaining his ninjutsu in a clash with the attacker's combined ninjutsu, shouted. Neji, meanwhile, pulled components from the sealing scrolls on either side of his waist and attached them to his chakra sniper rifle, then began channeling chakra into it.
With the newly installed components, the sniper rifle's energy storage device overloaded almost instantly, and the previously tightly flowing chakra began to surge wildly within the barrel.
The two great Konoha dojutsu, connected by Tenten's invention, locked onto the enemy's position almost instantly, and Neji pulled the trigger.
A thick chakra laser cannon erupted from the barrel; the new component Tenten had prepared for Neji transformed the chakra sniper rifle into a massive cannon! After the cannon fired, even with Neji's physical abilities, the immense recoil forced him back several steps before he regained his balance.
His enemy was engulfed in the explosion in that instant.
Simultaneously, Sakura's powerful punch slammed into the last enemy, shattering him into pieces.
After dealing with their respective enemies, the group quickly regrouped, protecting Shion and Ashiho in the center.
"Is that all?" Karin, who had just prepared a large-scale chakra sealing technique, was about to relax when Sasuke's reminder rang out.
"Don't let your guard down! They might have a backup plan!"
As Sasuke's voice fell, four incantation circles glowed with an eerie light at the locations where the attackers had been shattered. Under the influence of these circles, the shattered bodies of the attackers began to slowly coalesce into various forms of chakra, and then reassembled into human form.
"Are they unkillable?" Neji stared intently at his opponent. In his Byakugan's vision, the abnormal chakra fluctuations at the back of the opponent's neck became even more active than before. Furthermore, Neji also discovered that not only had the opponent's body recovered, but even the chakra depleted in their battle had been completely replenished.
"Even their chakra has recovered?" Sasuke took a deep breath. He now understood why the attackers, despite having only this much strength, had been able to kill someone under their protection, as predicted by Shion.
The opponent's seemingly endless chakra indeed gave them a chance to wear them down here.
[If only that guy were here!] Sasuke gritted his teeth, thinking to himself.
However, Sasuke quickly shook his head, banishing these chaotic thoughts from his mind, and turned to Karin, saying, "Since we can't kill them, let's use sealing techniques. It's up to you, Karin!"
"Leave it to me!" Karin nodded, then gave a low shout and activated the sealing technique runes that she had already completed. The dark sealing technique runes spread outwards from her center. Upon seeing this, the attackers tried to leap up to dodge, but the next moment, all sorts of ninja tools suddenly shot out from the ruins of the battlefield, which had been turned into a mess in the previous battle, completely blocking their movement routes.
Sasuke and Neji, one twirling a steel wire, the other holding a small remote control, represented the conservative Uchiha clan's traditional shurikenjutsu, while Neji, representing the reformist Konoha Ninja Tool Research Institute's chief experimenter, had already laid traps during the earlier battle. Steel wire shuriken, explosive tags, and various other explosive devices flew and detonated around the attackers.
Although these things couldn't cause much damage to the group, who all possessed elemental abilities, they only bought them a brief respite before Karin's sealing technique, a net of heaven and earth, completely enveloped them!
The sealing runes clung to their bodies like leeches, causing their chakra to rapidly deplete.
However, just as the chakra fluctuations completely disappeared, colorful magic circles suddenly flickered on the back of their necks. In Neji's Byakugan perspective, although the attackers' chakra had vanished, a strange energy surged forth afterward.
"Oh no! This isn't chakra! This chakra-sealing technique won't work!" Karin shouted a warning.
"Useless," Shion, protected behind the others, suddenly muttered to herself, "The power of the demon isn't chakra."
"Why wasn't such important information mentioned earlier?" Karin turned around and scolded without thinking. The Uzumaki clan's heritage wasn't entirely devoid of methods to deal with non-chakra special forces. Even with mysterious natural energies, the Uzumaki clan's heritage had two techniques that could seal them. Moreover, the Uzumaki clan's heritage also had methods for analyzing and formulating sealing techniques against special energies. However, Karin had never encountered the special energy emanating endless resentment and malice emanating from this opponent. If she had known this information earlier, Karin could have prepared for analysis and temporary sealing techniques from the beginning, but now that opportunity was clearly gone.
In just a few breaths, the attackers' bodies underwent a drastic transformation under the influence of this strange energy. Their forms became bizarre and twisted.
"Take them and retreat. Leave this to me. Since the seal is useless, let them disappear completely," Sasuke said coldly. The three tomoe in his eyes spun rapidly, transforming into a kaleidoscope pattern. Blood tears slowly flowed from his left eye, and dark lightning appeared in his hands, transforming into two longswords.
"Alright." Given the current situation, without a way to deal with this special energy, it would be difficult for him to help even if he stayed. Therefore, Neji simply chose to trust Sasuke and retreated while protecting Shion and the others.
Under the transformation by the power of the demon, the attackers quickly became twisted monsters driven only by instinct, and their target was Shion, who was retreating under the cover of Neji and the others.
Roaring, their modified bodies, in bizarre poses, pursued Shion relentlessly, completely ignoring Sasuke, who was in their path.
"Dare to ignore me? This is infuriating!" Blood tears streamed from Sasuke's eyes. His feet stomped on lightning, and two longswords formed from black lightning summoned by his eye technique, the Martial Arts Hammer, slashed through the bodies of the four monsters in a dual-wielding circular slash.
The black lightning blades made no sound upon contact with their targets; the eerie energy emanating from the demons vanished into nothingness.
"Roar!" The monsters, driven by instinct, cried out in pain.
However, Sasuke's next strike followed immediately. At this moment, Sasuke was like a precise butcher, his black lightning blade relentlessly annihilating the bodies of the four indescribable monsters. Although the black lightning blade was constantly being consumed, the Mangekyou Sharingan patterns in Sasuke's eyes spun faster and faster, continuously summoning black lightning. This lightning, which killed instantly upon contact, was constantly repairing the longsword in Sasuke's hand under the effect of Kenbutsu no Mi.
At this moment, Sasuke alone was cutting down the four monsters, leaving them in a sorry state.
"Is this the power of the Mangekyou Sharingan?" Karin, turning around and seeing this scene, couldn't help but exclaim in astonishment.
However, Neji's expression was not optimistic at this moment, because in his vision, Sasuke's chakra was being consumed at an alarming rate. At the same time, Sasuke's vision, shared through the device created by Tenten, was also slowly becoming blurry.
"No, I have to go and support him," Neji said. "You guys protect the client!"
"Understood," Sakura nodded.
Under Sasuke's relentless attacks, only one of the four monsters remained. The other three were completely annihilated by the annihilation power of the Martial Hammer. However, Sasuke had somewhat overestimated his remaining chakra. Although the Mangekyou Sharingan was powerful, his body, having only recently awakened, clearly couldn't withstand such consumption. After cleaving the last monster's body in two, the black swords in Sasuke's hands shattered into fragments and dissipated into the air. At
that moment, the last monster, now only half its body remaining, roared and transformed into a green streak of light, rushing towards Shion's direction.
"Return!" Neji roared, blocking the monster's path. His body began to spin continuously, and chakra surged from various acupoints within his body, forming a huge blue sphere, attempting to intercept the attack.
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