Chapter 95: Wood Release Exposed

Chapter 95: Wood Release Exposed

The Sound Five had just flown out of the forest and hadn't yet reached the Uchiha compound when they saw a figure flying towards them in the sky ahead.

"A flying ninja, it's Izayoi, the one who defeated Gaara of the Sand during the Chunin Exams."

"Be careful, that guy has a Storm Release ultimate technique, it's long-range and very powerful."

Looking at Izayoi in the sky, the Sound Four immediately recognized him and hurriedly warned.

Kimimaro Kaguya took out a photograph from his chest, first glanced at the photo, then at Izayoi in the sky, and after confirming that the other party wasn't Sasuke Uchiha, he threw the photo away and said, "You guys go find Sasuke Uchiha, I'll deal with him."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kimimaro raised his hand towards Izayoi and whispered, "Dead Bone Pulse: Ten Finger Drilling Bullets!"

whoosh whoosh whoosh...

Tiny holes opened up at his fingertips, and sections of finger bones shot out like bullets.

The finger bones kept firing and growing, and in just a few breaths, they formed a barrage, like a swarm of bees, shooting violently towards Izayoi.

The Sound Four didn't hesitate. Almost the moment Kimimaro made his move, they turned into four afterimages, scattering to the left and right, preparing to bypass Izayoi in the sky and capture Sasuke Uchiha, whose chakra was still behind them.

Izayoi didn't try to stop them, his gaze fixed on Kimimaro below through the barrage, his expression focused.

In an instant, several bubbles appeared around Kimimaro, two purple and three blue.

[Bloodline Limit: Dead Bone Pulse (Purple)]

[Shadow Kage Potential (Purple)]

[Chakra Control (Blue)]

[Taijutsu Genius (Blue)]

[Otsutsuki Lineage (Blue)]

Looking at the Shadow Kage Potential (Purple) bubble, Izayoi's eyes showed a hint of regret.

Relying on the Earth Curse Seal, or more accurately, natural energy, Kimimaro had clearly completed a heaven-defying change of fate.

At only fifteen years old this year, he had just entered a period of rapid growth.

If he hadn't contracted the bloodline disease, by the time of the Shippuden era, his strength might have made him a leading figure in the ninja world.

Someone who could connect with the Otsutsuki clan and was a genius himself was no simple character.

Unfortunately, the current Kimimaro was just in his final burst of energy, and he wouldn't be able to realize this potential.

Even if he did nothing, by the time he returned to the Hidden Sound Village, or even before reaching it, he might die on the way.

But now, Izayoi might get a bargain.

It was time to gamble!

So, Izayoi raised his hand and slapped down, "Violent Wind Palm!"

The wind howled, and the distorted airflow, like a giant palm, slapped away all the incoming barrage.

Immediately afterward, Izayoi's figure descended.

Looking at Izayoi, who had give up voluntarily his aerial advantage and didn't try to fight from a distance in the sky, Kimimaro was slightly stunned. But with his time running out, he didn't think too much and charged violently towards Izayoi.

During this time, a large number of black markings first appeared on Kimimaro's body, and then these markings spread rapidly like ink, covering his entire body and flashing with a red light.

When the light dissipated, Kimimaro's skin, which had been so white that no blood could be seen, had turned a brownish-black color. Black markings also appeared on his face, his back completely bulged, and several huge white bone spurs and a tail grew out, making him look like a humanoid lizard.

Curse Mark Level Two!

Kimimaro, whose time was running out, seemed to sense the aura of a strong person emanating from Izayoi and immediately went all out.

Pulling out his spinal column from his back, Kimimaro manipulated the hard bone, turning it into a flexible whip, and lashed it towards Izayoi.

Looking at the bone whip that was swinging towards him, Izayoi, who had just landed, couldn't help but laugh, "Yours isn't big enough, let me show you something bigger."

After speaking, Izayoi raised his hand and shouted, "Wood Release: Explosive Spear Tree!"

His arm squirmed, and then multiple wooden vines burst out of the ground, like snakes emerging from their den, colliding with the incoming bone whip. At the same time, they rapidly entwined and grew, instantly turning into a large tree, trying to devour Kimimaro, whose pupils had constricted and whose face showed shock.

However, Kimimaro, who had already transformed into a humanoid lizard, was now incredibly fast. With just a flicker of his body, he dodged the tree's engulfment.

Not only that, but he also used the cover of the tree to instantly move to Izayoi's left side, the spinal column in his hand extending and stabbing out like a spear or an arrow, shooting towards Izayoi's head.

Izayoi didn't even turn his head. A hard tree root suddenly rose from the ground, striking upwards and knocking away the violently shooting bone, also blocking Kimimaro's line of sight.

Wood Release: Adamantine Prison!

"...Too weak."

Izayoi's voice came from behind, shocking Kimimaro, whose expression suddenly changed. He hurriedly manipulated the bones in his body, turning them into sharp bone spurs that burst out from his back, turning himself into a hedgehog.

Boom—

The moment the bone spurs emerged, a terrifying roar instantly erupted.

Izayoi, who had instantly appeared behind Kimimaro, threw a punch, colliding with the bone spurs that had burst out of his body.

The bone spurs failed to pierce Izayoi's fist, blocked by a layer of blue flames that appeared.

Then, the blue flames turned into a distorted airflow, like a shockwave, instantly shattering the Dead Bone Pulse bone spurs, which were harder than steel.

The shockwave that shattered the bone spurs still slammed heavily into Kimimaro's body, blasting him away.

"So... so strong!"

Kimimaro, who was sent flying, kept bleeding from his mouth, his internal organs churning. Even controlling his bones to form a bone membrane hadn't been able to withstand that shockwave.

After landing, looking at the incomparably powerful Izayoi, his eyes were already filled with despair.

This guy in front of him was on a completely different level.

Even he, who had activated Curse Mark Level Two, was no match. The Sound Four definitely wouldn't be his opponents either.

Thinking of this, Kimimaro's eyes suddenly hardened, and he made a decision in his heart.

He just needed to stall for a while. According to the information Kabuto-sensei had given them, Sasuke Uchiha had only awakened his two-tomoe Sharingan. With that kind of strength, he would definitely not be a match for the Sound Four.

He just needed to buy them a little time!

"Aaaaah..."

Kimimaro suddenly let out a beast-like roar, his entire body flashing with red light again. He then mobilized most of the chakra that was being used to suppress his illness along with the medicine, sending it all into the ground, roaring with a ferocious expression, "Dead Bone Pulse... Dance of the Seedling Fern!"

In an instant, the ground trembled slightly.

"What's going on?"

"This location is... the Naka River?!"

"Is Sasuke Uchiha training in ninjutsu?"

"Such an evil aura, it doesn't feel like Yin Release chakra. I seem to have sensed something similar somewhere... Damn it! Quickly notify everyone, Orochimaru's people have infiltrated Konoha, they are fighting Sasuke Uchiha!"

Due to the lack of a barrier, this suddenly erupted terrifying chakra instantly caught the attention of the sensory team.

Even some ninjas outside the city who were skilled in sensing looked towards the forest where birds were startled into flight, their expressions suddenly changing.

Before long, a batch of ninjas who had received orders through the intercom all turned into afterimages that were difficult to catch with the naked eye, flying towards the Uchiha compound.

The speed was so fast that in no time, they arrived in the forest.

The scene returns to the battlefield.

As Kimimaro Kaguya's roar echoed.

Rows of bone spurs, both in length and thickness incredibly terrifying, instantly burst out of the ground, like a white tidal wave, engulfing Izayoi.

The speed was so great, and the distance so close, that even if Izayoi could fly, he wouldn't be able to escape the attack range of the bone spurs in an instant.

However, Izayoi showed no intention of dodging. He simply looked at the incredibly vast and fast white tidal wave, a near-certain kill for any non-flying ninja, clapped his hands together, and smiled, "What a wonderful move. Such a swan song deserves this move as my return gift."

After speaking, a blue chakra flame also erupted from Izayoi's body.

Then, he shouted the name of the technique that pacified a chaotic world.

"Wood Release... Advent of a World of Flowering Trees!"

Rumble...

An even more intense earthquake instantly engulfed not only this battlefield but also spread to the Uchiha compound and the forest over there.

Sasuke Uchiha and Karin, who had already engaged in battle with the Sound Four and gained an absolute advantage, as well as the Konoha ninjas who were flying through the forest at full speed towards the Uchiha compound, could all feel this tremor.

Immediately, an unbelievable scene entered their eyes.

Green trees, one after another, like ancient giant pythons sleeping underground, suddenly awakened, burst out of the earth, and straightened their massive bodies like rivers.

The trees in the forest were already quite large, requiring several people to encircle them.

However, in front of the towering trees that were rising from the ground, the difference was like that between a child and an adult.

Looking at the trees whose height and thickness already far surpassed those of the forest, yet were still wriggling, growing, and spreading, comparable to the Forest of Death, the eyes of the Konoha ninjas trembled.

One of them even said in a trembling voice.

"Wo... Wood Release!"

Before others could exclaim in surprise, a ninja's expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly shouted, "The range of the jutsu is too large, quickly turn around!"

They saw more and more trees rising from the ground in front of them. The fully formed towering trees occupied the space, repelling other latecomers, causing the trees that grew out a step slower to tilt to the side, forming green waves that instantly turned the open space into a forest, also engulfing the surrounding trees and the Uchiha compound, knocking down many buildings.

Even Sasuke Uchiha and Karin, who were fighting, as well as the Sound Four, were engulfed by the green waves.

Fortunately, the main direction of this jutsu's advancement was towards the Naka River. Otherwise, if it had advanced towards the Uchiha compound, perhaps the entire compound would have disappeared.

Even so, the Uchiha compound, merely affected by the edges, was destroyed by one-tenth.

In the forest, small trees were overturned by large trees, and birds and beasts fled frantically, still unable to escape the fate of being swallowed.

When everything returned to calm, a shocking scene presented itself.

Seen from the perspective of the Konoha ninjas, a Forest of Death-level towering forest stood before them.

The forest attached to it was like a field of leeks next to a field of rice, the difference was not small at all.

Even the ninjas and villagers outside the city, as long as they looked this way, could see this unbelievably exaggerated small forest.

"Look, what's that?"

Before the Konoha ninjas could recover, they saw someone point a finger at the sky.

Following the direction the person pointed, they saw a figure in the sky filled with beautiful evening clouds, a figure as small as an ant compared to the towering trees, flying above the forest.

"Is it a bird? No, that's... a person!"

"A flying ninja, so it's him, the ninjutsu genius who developed the Storm Release ultimate technique."

"I remember he seems to be a disciple of Jonin Kurenai, a classmate of Sasuke Uchiha, and a very good friend."

"It is said that his chakra is very powerful, a genius who seems to have awakened his bloodline across generations."

"Wait..."

The people who recognized the figure were all stating the information they knew.

Suddenly, as if they had realized something, they suddenly froze.

Then, everyone's expressions changed to dumbfounded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Could it be..."

A ninja opened his mouth wide, looking at the figure in the sky above the forest, who had already raised his hand to condense a blue-white energy ball, with an unbelievable expression.

The words that followed, although not spoken, everyone knew what he wanted to say.

At this moment, everyone's expressions became incredibly fanatical, and the way they looked at Izayoi was like a lecher looking at a peerless goddess.

Izayoi was naturally unaware of the Konoha ninjas' reaction.

After raising his hand to condense the Super Hurricane Consecutive Spheres, Izayoi injected water, lightning, and fire nature transformations into it, quickly turning the blue-white energy ball into a cyan energy ball with flowing light.

"Radiant Light Cannon!"

Izayoi gave Kimimaro Kaguya the highest-level funeral, and at the same time, to see if he could increase the drop rate, he began his gambling moment.

The cyan energy ball changed shape, turning into a cyan beam of light that shot down violently.

Different from the energy diffusion of Storm Release: Judgment, although this cyan beam of light was huge, it wasn't a simple electrothermal attack but contained the power of destruction with flowing light.

Although it only had one more nature transformation than Storm Release: Judgment, its power was on a completely different level.

The cyan beam of light fell into the forest, accurately hitting Kimimaro Kaguya, who was bound by branches and hanging under the treetop of a towering tree, already a fixed target.

Boom————

A earth-shattering explosion rang out.

Even in the central district, everyone heard the muffled thunder-like roar.

People outside the city could also see a huge mushroom cloud rising from the forest.

Izayoi, engulfed by the mushroom cloud, opened his Byakugan-covered eyes, staring at Kimimaro Kaguya's original position through the dust and mist.

At this time, Kimimaro Kaguya and a large area of the surrounding towering trees had already turned into dust, possibly becoming part of the dust and mist.

To take a gamble, Izayoi chose to give up Kimimaro Kaguya, a high-quality human puppet.

If he lost the bet, he would not only waste a large amount of chakra but also lose a powerful human puppet.

If he won, Izayoi would gain another keyword, and one that was very compatible with the Otsutsuki lineage. In the future, when the Otsutsuki lineage upgraded to an unknown level, it might even have the potential to advance to a Kekkei Mora (bloodline encompassing), and it was also an indispensable core keyword for synthesizing a Kekkei Mora.

Therefore, Izayoi's current mood was like gambling big or small, and it was the exciting feeling of betting everything.

Several seconds later, the corners of Izayoi's mouth slightly curved upwards.

It dropped!

Two beams of light that only Izayoi could see, one purple and one blue, appeared in the thick dust and mist.

Before long, the two beams of light flew to Izayoi's front and seeped into his body.

Izayoi clenched his fist slightly, waiting for the moment that would determine his emotions.

"Ding! You have obtained the talent keyword [Otsutsuki Lineage (Blue)], which overlaps with your own talent keyword. Merge or decompose?"

"Ding! You have obtained the talent keyword [Bloodline Limit: Dead Bone Pulse (Purple)], merge or decompose?"

"Merge, merge everything!"

Afraid of making a foolish mistake, Izayoi chose to give up the points from a blue keyword and merged everything.

At the same time, he clenched his fist and swung his arm forcefully.

He won the bet!

A 50% chance, either it dropped, or nothing at all.

Izayoi, who had only obtained two blue keywords from Rock Lee since graduation, finally had some luck with his main body this time.

At this moment, Izayoi's mood was so joyful.

At the same time, the battle on Sasuke Uchiha and Karin's side also came to an end.

(End of this chapter)

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