Chapter 225: Blood Pond, Blood Dragon!
The blood-men, wreathed in roaring flames, continued their charge.
"The chakra within these ninja... it's unbelievably chaotic!" Shisui's eyes flashed crimson as the three tomoe of his Sharingan spun to life. 'Could they be under the control of a genjutsu?'
The thought flashed through his mind, but his actions didn't slow. If simple shuriken and fire jutsu were useless, then he would simply change his tactics.
He touched the summoning seal on his left wrist, and a giant, heavy Fūma shuriken appeared in his right hand, a fine, almost invisible metal wire attached to its center.
Whirrr—
With a flick of his wrist, the massive shuriken flew. The sound of it tearing through the air was far more impressive than that of a normal shuriken, but his goal was not to attack the approaching "flaming blood-men." His fingers tightened, and the wire went taut, pulling the shuriken through an impossibly sharp,刁钻 (cunning/tricky) angle in mid-air.
Sharingan Windmill Triple Blade!
The effect of the Uchiha clan's signature shuriken technique was immediate and obvious. The heavy Fūma shuriken acted as an anchor, allowing the thin metal wire to whip through the air and expertly bind the entire group of charging cultists together. Having witnessed their "immortality," Shisui's goal was no longer to kill, but to restrain.
But the wire had its limits, and there were many of them. Just as he was about to add a few more layers, his Sharingan suddenly saw the already-chaotic chakra inside the cultists begin to boil. A wave of intense danger washed over him. He instantly molded his own chakra.
BOOM!
The bound cultists, like a cluster bomb, detonated all at once in a massive, violent explosion.
The closest one to the blast was Shisui, but...
Crow Clone Technique!
Caw! Caw!
With the harsh cry of crows, the figure of Shisui exploded into a flock of birds. The shockwave of the explosion slammed into them, merely knocking a few feathers loose, but causing no real harm. The crows reconverged a short distance away, and Shisui's form reappeared.
He looked back at the explosion, his heart still pounding. A column of black smoke and the thick stench of burning flesh rose into the sky. If his Sharingan hadn't seen the strange state of their chakra just in time, even if he had managed to escape, he would have been at least lightly injured. This sudden, inexplicable explosion was completely outside his intel.
'The abilities of these immortal ninjas are just too bizarre!' he thought, his brow furrowed. 'Mindless, berserk, fearless, and they self-destruct... a bunch of lunatics!'
Against such dangerous opponents, control-type jutsu were undoubtedly the best choice. Shisui thought of his captain, watching from the sky, and sighed.
'Sigh... why did I even have the naive thought of letting the Captain handle this?'
He was keenly aware of his "little brother" status on the team. Getting his captain to work hard? He, Shizune, and Retsu combined couldn't manage that. 'I'll have to use my own methods.'
He calmed himself and stared ahead. 'There are many reasons for chaotic chakra. Genjutsu, drugs, poison... if it's the first one, the principle for breaking it is simple.'
The smoke gradually cleared. Through his Sharingan, he saw that the blood-men caught in the blast had been blown to pieces, not a trace of them left. But they were not all of them. The remaining cultists in the valley, drawn by the fire and explosions, now all turned to face him, their unsettlingly red eyes glowing in their blood-caked faces.
The sight, which would have terrified a normal person, was exactly what Shisui wanted. The Uchiha were the last people to be afraid of a staring contest.
Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique!
It was only a D-rank genjutsu, but amplified by his three-tomoe Sharingan, its power was immense. His dōjutsu flowed through his line of sight and poured into one of the blood-man's minds, disrupting its chakra. If their state was caused by a genjutsu, then all he had to do was inject his own chakra to break them free.
As he watched, the insane, bloodshot eyes of his target cleared for a brief moment, replaced by sheer, hysterical terror.
"Ahhh—"
BOOM!
Another massive explosion. The cultist he had targeted with the genjutsu had also self-destructed. The blast was no weaker than a standard paper bomb and caught several of the nearby cultists in its radius.
But Shisui wasn't looking at them. He was staring in shock at what had just happened. 'Why did he still explode, even after I disrupted his chakra?'
His genjutsu had acted like a lit fuse, and now the rest of the blood-men in the valley let out a collective roar and charged him as one, intending to offer the ninja who had disrupted their sacred ritual to their evil god.
Just then, a black projectile, moving faster than sound, descended from the sky. It landed at the very back of the horde of cultists, near the strange, chakra-devouring blood pond. The bullet struck the ground next to a cultist who seemed more lucid than the others, and from it, Nara Keisuke's form erupted, his feet landing in the man's shadow.
Spiraling Shadow Imitation Bullet!
With the shadows overlapping at such close range, the Shadow Doppelganger instantly used the Shadow Binding Technique, sending out tentacles to restrain the man. But this one seemed to have some intelligence. Though he hadn't reacted to the bullet in time, he sensed the stranger's approach. The moment the shadows touched him, he shouted, "Glory to Lord Jashin!"
At his cry, as if receiving an unseen command, the cultists charging Shisui instantly changed direction and rushed back towards the clone. The ones closest to it immediately self-destructed.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM—
A chain reaction of explosions rocked Hell Valley, the earth itself seeming to tremble. The Shadow Doppelganger, sensing the danger, had already dispelled itself before the explosions could reach it, its chakra and memories returning to Keisuke in the sky.
"What a shame," Keisuke said, sitting cross-legged on his Shadow Creature and looking down at the inferno. "I thought I could catch a big fish... turns out the big fish is just as crazy."
"Captain," Retsu reported, her Byakugan still active. "The ninja with the normal chakra flow was blown directly into that blood pond by the shockwave. He seems to have some way of controlling it. The pond isn't devouring his chakra like it did the others. Instead... it seems to be under his command!"
Shizune, sitting at the back, opened her mouth. She wanted to point out that they were forgetting someone, but then she remembered the name "Shisui of the Body Flicker" and reassured herself. 'Shisui-kun should be fine...'
And he was. He had escaped the second wave of explosions without a scratch. However...
The uninjured Uchiha Shisui stared at the monstrous form rising from the blood pond in front of him, a bitter taste in his mouth.
From the crimson pool, a terrifying, multi-headed dragon made of pure blood was slowly rising. Its long, serpentine body emanated an aura of pure evil and madness. And standing on its central head was the very same blood-man Keisuke's clone had tried to capture, now laughing maniacally.
"Hahaha!" His laughter echoed through the valley. "Do you see?! This is the power of the great Lord Jashin!!"
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