"You foolish child!" Onoki slowly descended from the sky. At this point, he had no other options. He couldn't beat Kusuo in a fight. Rather than drag it out and sacrifice countless lives, it was better to use his one old life in exchange for the survival of the others in his village. This was his last shred of dignity as the Third Tsuchikage.
Onoki saw things very clearly. He smiled bitterly and stroked Kurotsuchi's head. "It's alright. If my death can bring peace to the Land of Earth, to the Hidden Stone Village, what does a single old life count for?"
Now, Onoki already had the will to die. He planned to give his life for his country, to be buried with his village.
Just as Onoki was saying his last words to Kurotsuchi, as the grandfather and granddaughter were reluctantly parting...
Schlick! Schlick!
A flash of a cold blade. A crisscrossing sword aura cut through the heads of the twenty-something jonin, decapitating them all. One head after another fell to the ground.
This scene startled Kurotsuchi, her beautiful face instantly turning pale with terror.
These Iwa jonin were the last group on the battlefield who had harmed Konoha ninja. By killing them, only some fleeing chunin remained. Kusuo couldn't be bothered to deal with them.
And there was a reason he had killed these people.
[Current Role-Play Percentage: 80.00%.]
Finally. Eighty percent.
A brand-new feeling emerged in his mind. Kusuo could feel his body undergoing a complete transformation. This was an unprecedented improvement. The airflow and blood in his body flowed with a roar, like a great river, surging and澎湃 (pēngpài) - majestic. His meridians, muscles, internal organs, and even his cells were all cheering.
The amount of air he drew in with every breath was astonishingly large. The process was still silent, but the energy contained within was comparable to a jonin's entire day of hard training. Even if it was just being used and not stored, this kind of power was truly heart-stopping.
Absurdly strong. Kusuo's strength had long since surpassed the Kage level.
"This brat! What's going on?" Onoki had just awoken from the shock of Kusuo suddenly killing all his jonin when he immediately noticed the change in him. This feeling... it was as if he had suddenly become much stronger.
Kusuo's growth simply couldn't be viewed with common sense.
Kurotsuchi stood there foolishly. Her face was still pretty and pale. At only fourteen, when had she ever seen such a brutal scene? Seeing this picture, her long legs, wrapped in mesh, trembled slightly.
Kusuo awoke from his closed-eyed perception and saw the scene of the old and the young, Kurotsuchi and Onoki. He pondered for a moment, then spoke, "Keeping you alive is always a source of trouble."
"But now, I don't need to be in a hurry to kill you."
Kusuo had just successfully broken through the 80% mark. For a while, it didn't matter whether he killed Onoki or not. Of course, he couldn't just let him go either. He wasn't that soft-hearted.
"I'll cripple your cultivation. Only a useless person can completely eliminate the threat."
Onoki was stunned to hear this. Cripple my cultivation? He had roamed the ninja world for so many years, and he had never heard of such a thing. The chakra one cultivated was gathered in the energy of their cells, and the ninjutsu they mastered was recorded in their brain. How could you cripple a person's cultivation?
The next second, Kusuo gave him the answer.
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
Countless sword lights flashed past. Kusuo's arm flew, and in the blink of an eye, he had stabbed Onoki until he was a blood-man.
"Your meridians have been completely severed by me. In the future, your chakra will never be able to circulate again. I've also planted a sword aura in your body. If you try any funny business, I think it goes without saying, you should know the result."
"Alright, now it's time to choose a hostage."
"Hmm—"
"It'll be you."
With that, Kusuo wrapped an arm around Kurotsuchi's body, then used the Hyuga clan's Gentle Fist to seal her acupoints. He hoisted her onto his shoulder and left without looking back.
"Tsunade will bring Konoha's people to handle the handover with you later. At that time, remember the agreement we reached."
"As for whether there are any other requests and specific arrangements, you can discuss it yourselves. I won't be participating."
His voice grew smaller and smaller. In the blink of an eye, Kusuo had already disappeared from sight.
Onoki felt a blockage in his aura. His body's chakra no longer had a channel to run through. At the same time, because of the sword aura left by Kusuo, a stinging pain became unbearable.
Onoki's heart was filled with shock. On one hand, it was the speed of Kusuo's sword just now; on the other, it was his unfathomable techniques. When did the ninja world have a technique that could completely pierce a person's meridians without harming their body?
If I'm not mistaken, that brat doesn't have any dojutsu. How did he see through the mysteries of my body?
Wait a minute! My granddaughter!
Onoki was filled with regret. In that moment of being dazed, shocked by Kusuo's world-shaking techniques, he had forgotten that his own granddaughter had been kidnapped by him. That was the future heir of the Hidden Stone Village, his most beloved only granddaughter.
"Oww!" Becoming an ordinary person, Onoki lay on the ground and rolled around, completely like a common old man throwing a tantrum. Everything had happened too fast. So fast that he hadn't even realized the consequences before it was over.
...
"Let me down! Let me down, you bastard!" Kurotsuchi was being held by the legs, carried over Kusuo's shoulder, swaying back and forth as he rushed back.
Kusuo suddenly stopped in his tracks and threw her on the ground.
VMM!
With a light tremble, Kusuo drew his sword and pointed it at her. "Shut up. Otherwise, I don't mind killing you, and then going back and killing your grandfather."
These words instantly silenced Kurotsuchi; she didn't dare to make a sound. "F... fine. Why are you so fierce?" she said, feeling wronged.
But Kusuo didn't care about her little expressions or tone. He roughly hoisted her onto his shoulder again and continued on his way.
Kusuo remembered the plot of the original story. Kurotsuchi was destined to become a generation's "Leg Kage"—ah, no, the Tsuchikage of the Hidden Stone Village. So as the heir, both her strength and status were worthy of being taken as a hostage to Konoha. With this princess of the Land of Earth in hand, even if the future Hidden Stone Village wanted to retaliate, they would have to think twice. After all, like the Sand Village, their high-end combat power of jonin and above had all been killed by him cleanly, leaving only a few stragglers, not enough to be a threat.
At that time, with Hinata and Hanabi's strength under his guidance, they would surely improve by leaps and bounds. An ordinary elite jonin would be no match for them. And Shion, there was even less need to say more.
Originally, he had wanted to kill Onoki with one slash. Who knew the system would be so helpful? After killing those jonin, he had directly broken through the 80% mark and entered a new stage. And seeing how good the relationship between Kurotsuchi and her grandfather was, if he had really died, it might have been disadvantageous for managing her. So crippling him directly was simple and saved trouble.
Why could he pierce the meridians? With the excellent talent of Yoriichi Tsugikuni, Kusuo only needed to watch Hinata and the others practice their punches to master the Hyuga's Gentle Fist style. If the Hyuga could seal, he could naturally directly pierce. And the Transparent World... made it so that no living being could escape his eyes.
All the things that had shocked Onoki... Kusuo just wanted to wave his hand and say, "Basic operations, basic operations. Don't be amazed, have a seat."
...
The desolate rocky ground. Besides his tapping footsteps, there was also Kurotsuchi's faint, delicate whimpering. She was being carried on his shoulder, grumbling.
A group of figures flew past at high speed, with the speed of lightning and a gale force wind. In the instant they passed each other, their eyes met.
Kusuo saw a tall, muscular middle-aged to elderly man, filled with a violent aesthetic, who looked like his power was explosive. And two young women, one white and one black, abnormally magnificent, comparable to Tsunade.
The scene was too astonishing.
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