Konoha: Sage Body

"Mangekyo Sharingan!"

During her conversation with Uchiha Homura, Chiyo had already quietly used the third eye jutsu, and in doing so, she noticed the unusual patterns in Uchiha Homura's Sharingan, exclaiming in surprise.

For a moment, the hope of escape in her heart grew dimmer and dimmer.

She had of course heard of the reputation of the Mangekyo Sharingan. Although she had never personally fought a ninja with the Mangekyo Sharingan, she had heard from the Second Kazekage and her husband, the First Kazekage Retsu, that it was a power that surpassed the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

She also knew that the Mangekyo Sharingan had its own unique techniques, and that it could also use a powerful technique called the Susano'o, which she had heard could be used to create a giant chakra form to fight with, with extremely strong offensive and defensive capabilities.

Her puppet techniques mainly relied on various strange poison-coated hidden weapons to kill the enemy. Once the current head of the Uchiha clan used the Susano'o, she estimated that she would have no choice but to flee.

Because her puppet's attacks probably couldn't even break the opponent's defenses.

Uchiha Homura didn't plan to continue talking nonsense with Chiyo, and while she was still holding back from using her puppet, he quickly completed the hand seals with both hands, and a fan-shaped high-temperature flame was released from his mouth.

Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!

In an instant, a wave of high-temperature fire came at him. Chiyo was using two minds, and with her left hand she took out a storage-type seal scroll from her body, while with her right hand she quickly completed a one-handed seal, causing Earth Release: Earth Style Wall to come out in defense.

A heavy earthen wall instantly rose from the ground, blocking in front of Chiyo.

However, Uchiha Homura's Fire Release was obviously not low-level, and the Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation he used was extremely powerful. Moreover, at this moment, the pattern in his left eye's Sharingan suddenly rotated, and the originally astonishingly powerful Great Fire Annihilation suddenly soared again and instantly transformed into the head of a black fire dragon.

Mangekyo: Kagutsuchi no Me!

Uchiha Homura Although his name is Homura, his parents had high hopes that he would excel at Fire Release Jutsu. However, as a child, he was often teased by his peers for his lack of Fire Release Jutsu ability, and he felt very inferior because his talent for Fire Release was indeed very poor.

It wasn't until he opened his Sharingan and revealed his formidable talent for Illusion Jutsu that he gradually began to stand out in his clan, and eventually trampled all those who had mocked him in the past underfoot, vindicating himself.

However, the shadow of his childhood never disappeared from his heart, giving him a special obsession with enhancing Fire Release.

Perhaps it was because of this that after his Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyo Sharingan, he obtained the Genjutsu of adding the earth element, which could instantly increase the power of Fire Release jutsu.

Not only that, he could also freely change the form of Fire Release jutsu.

The black fire dragon's head destroyed the earthen wall in front of Chiyo like a wrecking ball, and the thick earthen wall was like paper mache, completely unable to block the black fire dragon's head's attack.

"Boom!"

Then, under the control of Uchiha Homura, the black fire dragon's head suddenly exploded, and the black flames engulfed Chiyo, followed by the appearance of a huge black fire lotus.

At the same time, the ground around the black fire lotus turned black, and even red lava appeared. The nearby plants and trees caught fire one after another, and a sea of fire quickly spread within a radius of hundreds of meters.

Amidst the inferno, Uchiha Homura strolled around as if he were a god of fire, unaffected in the slightest.

Suddenly, the ground behind him rose up, and a humanoid puppet in white clothing leaped out, a poison-coated blade piercing the palm of its right hand and plunging straight into Uchiha Homura's heart.

"Pssst..."

The blade pierced Uchiha Homura's heart, but not a single drop of blood flowed.

Uchiha Homura's entire body instantly exploded, turning into a black flame that enveloped the humanoid puppet.

The poison-coated blade instantly turned into molten iron, and the humanoid puppet, most of which was made of wood, caught fire and quickly turned into a coke.

In less than a second, Chiyo, one of the high-level puppets of the 10 Puppets of Chikamatsu that had been rebuilt at great expense, was completely destroyed.

Uchiha Homura had long since understood the Kagutsuchi no Mei, a Mangekyo Sharingan technique that enhances the power of Fire Release jutsu and allows the user to freely control fire. He had even successfully developed his own technique of fire clones using it.

What's more, when Kagutsuchi no Mei is activated, he can temporarily transform into fire and hide among the flames.

In this sea of flames, Uchiha Homura is the spirit of fire. Unless his enemies can use powerful Water Release jutsu, they can't do anything to him.

Chiyo also understood this, and after her puppet was instantly burned to ashes, she emerged from the ground in a flustered manner, and quickly rushed towards the distant shore with three humanoid puppets.

She looked very disheveled and terrifying at the moment, with large burns on her left hand, left side, and half her face, her long hair destroyed, and blisters already appearing densely on her burnt skin. The once beautiful flower of Sunagakure had suddenly become hideous.

Chiyo tried to escape, but Uchiha Homura, who was hiding in the flames, did not agree. He walked out of the flames of a burning tree, and slightly rotated in the hook-shaped pattern in his left eye's Sharingan. The flames in the surrounding forest quickly gathered into a wall, blocking Chiyo's path.

"Get out of my way!"

Chiyo shouted, and with a movement of one of her fingers, a mechanism appeared on the right hand of the humanoid puppet with the law engraved on its forehead, generating a chakra cover to protect it and Chiyo.

Puppetry: Mechanical Light Shield Block.

Relying on the defensive power of the chakra shield generated by the Mechanical Light Shield Block, Chiyo planned to break through.

But to her surprise, the invisible wall of fire in front of her was like solid steel and stopped her in her tracks.

At the same time, she felt a terrifying heat behind her, which made her feel a strong sense of fear.

Uchiha Homura struck again with a simple Fire Release jutsu, Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation.

Chiyo could only turn around and control the puppet to use Earth Release: Earth Style Wall and Water Release: Water Formation Wall in succession to resist, but it was completely futile. She could not stop Uchiha Homura's Great Fire Annihilation, which had been strengthened by the Earth Seal with his Mangekyo Sharingan.

Only the Chakra Shield formed by Puppeteering: Mechanical Light Shield Block could barely withstand it.

However, the chakra shield could block the flames, but not the high temperatures they brought with them.

Chiyo had already tasted the power of these flames, and had used Water Release: Water Prison Jutsu to defend herself within the chakra shield. However, the water created by the Water Prison Jutsu boiled almost immediately, evaporating quickly, and she was in agony in the boiling water.

As for her puppets, which she relied on for survival, they had already been reduced to ashes in the black flames.

At this moment, Chiyo hated in her heart that Konoha was killing her to the last man, that Uchiha Homura had mastered such an unreasonable Fire Release Jutsu that her puppets were so vulnerable, and that her own Water Release Jutsu was insufficient.

It was no surprise that in a few seconds' time, she would either die from the flames or from the pain in the boiling water.

However, she still refused to give up and waited for death. She created a large amount of water attribute chakra to create a chakra line to wrap herself in an attempt to fight back and find a glimmer of hope.

"You are not bad at all for being able to force me to use the Mangekyo Sharingan, Chiyo of the Sunagakure,"

Uchiha Homura said coldly as he watched Chiyo, who was currently struggling to survive in the boiling water.

In order to deal with Chiyo, he had used the Kagutsuchi no Me three times in a row, and his eye power and chakra had been depleted. His elderly body could no longer take it, and he had also revealed the Mangekyo Sharingan and one of his pupil techniques.

But it had all been worth it. As long as Chiyo was dead, he would have done Konoha a great service and secured more benefits for the future survival and development of his family.

On the other side, Hatake Sakumo, who had been hiding nearby to prevent accidents at all times, was having huge internal waves.

He had watched the entire battle between Uchiha Homura and Chiyo, and he knew that Uchiha Homura was very strong and should have no problem defeating Chiyo. However, he never expected that after Chiyo had broken Uchiha Homura's most powerful illusion technique, Uchiha Homura would still be able to defeat Chiyo so easily.

"Is this the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan? It's truly terrifying. No wonder Sandaime and the others are so afraid of the Uchiha clan, and no wonder the Uchiha clan has remained standing despite being ostracized by the various clans in the village. As long as they have this clan head, the Uchiha clan simply isn't afraid of being suppressed or ostracized."

Hatake Sakumo watched as Chiyo was about to be defeated by Uchiha Homura, and finally understood just how powerful the Uchiha clan was.

Although he had previously felt that the Uchiha clan's ninja were very strong, ever since he had become a Kage-Level powerhouse, and had perfected his concealment, blade, and teleportation arts, killing jōnin was like killing chickens for him, and he no longer took the Uchiha clan's ninja seriously.

Because the Uchiha clan's specialities of Fire Release and Illusion Arts are almost useless against a ninja like him, who specialises in assassinations from hiding in the shadows. As long as he can't be found, even an elite Uchiha jōnin is just a matter of one strike away.

He had previously accidentally fallen for Uchiha Homura's illusion, but in fact, he didn't really care, because he had only accidentally made eye contact with Uchiha Homura for a moment, and had not regarded the other party as an enemy, lowering his guard, which was why he had fallen for it.

But now he wouldn't do that again. From this battle in front of him, it was clear that the Uchiha clan leader's illusions did not require eye contact to be triggered, and the other party's specialty was not just illusions of the visual type.

If he wasn't careful, he might very well fall for it.

As the martial arts leader of Sunagakure, Chiyo was undoubtedly a stoic ninja. She found herself in boiling water, with no hope of escape and no quick death. Immediately, she understood Uchiha Homura's plan, and coldly laughed in her heart, "Dream on, trying to capture me alive."

Then, without hesitation, she took out a Kunai from her body and stabbed it into her own brain.

Even if she was to die, she could not let the people of Konoha get the information about Sunagakure as they wished.

Uchiha Homura sighed inwardly when he saw this, knowing that no matter what, he would not be able to capture this strong-willed puppet master alive. He then interrupted the output of his chakra, ending the Kagutsuchi Jutsu.

No matter what, Chiyo was a respectable enemy.

Since the other party had chosen to commit suicide, he decided to leave the other party's corpse intact.

However, he soon sensed something amiss. He noticed that the corpse of Chiyo in front of him suddenly and strangely disappeared, accompanied by a strong sense of crisis that he had not felt in a long time.

Without the slightest hesitation,

a dark red chakra skull, only half of a body, appeared in an instant to protect him.

Susanoo, Stage 1!

The next moment, a water gun suddenly attacked from behind, hitting the chakra skull.

Then, Uchiha Homura was shocked to see that the Chakra Skull, which had a defense comparable to Chakra Metal, was actually pierced.

Fortunately, the Chakra Skull formed by the first stage of the Susano'o was able to buy Uchiha Homura some time to dodge, which prevented him from being pierced through the heart. However, he was still grazed by the water gun, and a large piece of flesh was shaved off his right armpit.

"Who's there!"

Uchiha Homura ignored his injuries and immediately turned around, shouting. Then, without a trace of hesitation, he used Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique and once again activated Kagutsuchi no Mei.

The Great Fireball Technique was enhanced, and a huge black fireball rushed quickly in the direction of the water gun's attack.

However, what made Uchiha Homura's eyes twitch was that a huge water dragon directly destroyed the Great Fireball Technique that he had enhanced with the Earth-Additive Life Force, and then continued to charge at him with its mouth open and claws out.

This showed just how terrifying the mysterious enemy's Water Release ability was.

He quickly retreated to dodge, but just as he managed to avoid the water dragon's attack, a beardless teenager wearing a striped high-collared trench coat appeared in front of him from the sky. At this time, the huge blade on the right elbow of the opponent was aimed at him and slashed over.

The beardless teenager was very fast, and the timing of his attack was just right. Uchiha Homura had no time to dodge and could only rely on the Susano'o to resist the beardless teenager's blade attack.

"Clang!"

The moment the boy with no eyebrows slashed down, a deep cut appeared on the surface of the chakra skull.

At the same time, Hatake Sakumo was also attacked by a mysterious enemy.

A mysterious ninja wearing armor in the style of the Warring States period and a mask with a white word on his face stopped him from going to support Uchiha Homura. The powerful aura, chakra fluctuations, and attack stance of the opponent at this time made his scalp numb.

He was right, this was clearly the attacking stance of the Konoha Hyuga clan when using Gentle Fist.

The opponent was a Hyuga clan ninja?

Why was the opponent blocking his way?

Was there a traitor in Konoha?

Hatake Sakumo didn't have time to ask the opponent or think about what was going on, because the opponent's attack was already here.

The opponent suddenly slapped forward, and a powerful wave of chakra shockwaves appeared instantly.

Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm!

Hatake Sakumo hurriedly used the technique of instant teleportation to avoid it, and then appeared behind the other party.

But before he could stab the other party's heart with his White Fang short knife, he was knocked flying by a powerful shockwave formed by a spiral of chakra.

A rapidly rotating ball of chakra appeared in Hatake Sakumo's eyes, which made him even more certain of the identity of this mysterious ninja.

The opponent must be a ninja of the Hyuga clan, named Shinobu.

The technique the opponent is using is clearly the Hyuga clan's secret body technique, Gentle Fist Art Secret: Revolving Heaven.