Senju's Final Swan Song—Nawaki in the Second Great Ninja War
Puppet Master—Elder Chiyo
Rebellious Youth—Young Asuma
Beautiful Uselessness—Chunin Exam Sakura Haruno
Seeing these four options, Uchiha Yi's lips curved into a smile.
This time, at least there were a few characters he could actually defeat.
Sakura Haruno during the Chunin Exams was utterly useless. As long as she didn't bring her strongest summoned beast, Naruto Uzumaki, Uchiha Yi felt he could easily dominate her.
At this stage, Sakura Haruno hadn't yet become Tsunade's disciple. At most, she had excellent chakra control and a bit of genjutsu talent.
And regarding Sakura Haruno's genjutsu, from beginning to end, the only illusion she ever cast was on herself—the illusion that she had caught up to Sasuke and Naruto.
Sakura Haruno had never displayed any other genjutsu.
If it were Sakura Haruno from the Fourth Great Ninja War, Uchiha Yi certainly wouldn't be her match, but from the Chunin Exams...
Of course, calling Sakura Haruno a 'beautiful uselessness' was well-deserved. In his previous life, when watching Naruto, everyone disliked Sakura Haruno, but in the original setting, Sakura was indeed a beauty. Rock Lee even fell in love with Sakura at first sight.
To be honest, Uchiha Yi wasn't entirely confident of victory against Nawaki from the Second Great Ninja War. After all, he was the grandson of Hashirama Senju, a disciple of Tsunade, and a disciple of Orochimaru. His lineage was even better than Uchiha Yi's.
If he hadn't been killed by those strange explosive tags, it wouldn't have been a problem for Nawaki to grow into an elite jonin. As for further advancement, it wasn't impossible either.
Against the current Nawaki, Uchiha Yi had a chance of victory. Nawaki and Uchiha Mikoto were in the same age group, and their strengths were similar, so it wouldn't be too difficult for Uchiha Yi to defeat him.
He wondered how much the opponent would grow in the coming years.
As for Elder Chiyo, Uchiha Yi didn't even consider her. She was a Kage-level expert now, and no matter how old she was, she wasn't someone his current self could challenge.
As for Young Asuma, it seemed he might not be unbeatable.
This time, he should be able to get some good items.
After a moment of hesitation, Uchiha Yi chose Sakura Haruno first and entered the battle space.
Looking at the pink-haired girl not far away, Uchiha Yi immediately threw three kunai without a word. Sakura Haruno, in a panic, quickly pulled out her kunai to block, but unfortunately, she encountered the unique kunai throwing technique of the Uchiha clan.
After blocking one kunai, she was hit by the remaining two kunai, one in the shoulder and one in the abdomen.
Before Sakura Haruno could react, Uchiha Yi quickly approached her, drew a short sword from behind, and slashed across her throat.
The next moment, Uchiha Yi's consciousness withdrew from the battle space.
"Ding! Congratulations, Uchiha Yi, for defeating Sakura Haruno. You have obtained Sakura Haruno's chakra control talent. Do you wish to merge?"
Merge!
After merging Sakura Haruno's chakra control talent, Uchiha Yi's lips curved into a smile. He admitted that he had indeed underestimated Sakura Haruno before.
Sakura Haruno, who could be taken as a disciple by Tsunade and trained with such effort, indeed had some talent.
Uchiha Yi had considered his chakra control to be excellent, but after merging Sakura Haruno's talent, his chakra control improved even further, by at least a third.
This was already a very significant improvement.
Next, Uchiha Yi looked at Nawaki. After a moment of hesitation, he decisively chose to start the battle.
Entering the battle space and seeing Nawaki, who was clearly less than twelve years old, Uchiha Yi's thoughts became complex. This must be Nawaki from before his death, meaning he was two years older than the current Nawaki.
And the chakra aura on him was even larger than his own current chakra, even about a third more than Kushina Uzumaki's.
This showed how excellent Nawaki's talent was.
No wonder some people suspected that Nawaki's death was related to Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura. Nawaki's other talents were also very good; it was truly not impossible for him to grow to Kage-level in the future.
However, such an opponent was much more interesting.
Uchiha Yi's lips curved into a smile. His single-tomoe Sharingan activated, and he quickly formed hand seals. "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!" In an instant, a massive fireball was spewed from Uchiha Yi's mouth, rushing towards Nawaki.
Nawaki calmly formed hand seals. Just as the Great Fireball was about to hit him, Nawaki gathered a large amount of chakra in his mouth and spat it out. This chakra quickly formed a rotating circular water wall, blocking Uchiha Yi's Great Fireball.
The scorching flames met the water wall, creating a large amount of steam.
It was Tobirama Senju's Water Style: Water Formation Wall!
A look of surprise flashed in Uchiha Yi's eyes. He hadn't expected Nawaki to have learned this technique.
Other people's Water Formation Walls were created by pouring chakra into the ground to form a water wall, while Tobirama Senju's created all-directional protection.
No doubt, this was also modified specifically to counter the Uchiha's Fire Style.
Indeed, most of Tobirama Senju's ninjutsu were designed to counter the Uchiha!
Thinking this, Uchiha Yi quickly approached Nawaki again, forming hand seals once more: "Lightning Style: Grateful Wave."
Terrifying currents gathered in Uchiha Yi's hand, touching the Water Formation Wall that enveloped Nawaki.
Water conducts electricity, and the Water Formation Wall was quickly conducted by the Lightning Style, forcing Nawaki to end the Water Formation Wall and retreat backward.
After creating distance from Uchiha Yi, Nawaki looked at him with lingering fear. If his reaction hadn't been fast enough, he would have been affected by the Lightning Style.
Since when did Uchiha clan youths stop studying Fire Style and start researching Lightning Style instead?
Uchiha Yi, seeing this, showed no impatience. He bit his finger, slid it across the seal on his arm, and a giant shuriken, as tall as a man, appeared in his right hand. He threw it towards Nawaki.
"Damn it!" Nawaki cursed under his breath, pulling out a kunai with his right hand to block the spinning, flying giant shuriken.
"Explode!" But before Nawaki could make his next move, Uchiha Yi let out a low shout. Only then did Nawaki realize that the giant shuriken was actually tied with a large number of explosive tags.
Are the Uchiha this devious?
"Boom!" A violent explosion engulfed Nawaki.
Did he use a substitution? Uchiha Yi quickly pinpointed Nawaki's location.
The previous explosion had engulfed Nawaki. Even though his Substitution Jutsu was timely, he was still affected by the explosive tags.
He had no time to tend to his injuries and had to face Uchiha Yi's slash, who had already reached him.