"Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet!"
As Iwa Yū formed hand seals, a dragon head made of earth emerged from the rooftop, rapidly firing a series of stone bullets from its mouth.
Uchiha Ryun dodged left and right, then used the Body Flicker Technique to completely evade the attack range of the Earth Dragon Bullet.
"Such fast Body Flicker Technique!" Iwa Yū couldn't help exclaiming in surprise.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
Uchiha Ryun quickly formed hand seals and spat out a massive fireball from his mouth.
Facing the oncoming fireball, Iwa Yū immediately used a defensive ninjutsu: "Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!"
An earthen wall rose up and collided with the fireball, causing an explosion.
As smoke and dust spread, covering the two fighters, a group of highly mobile clay insects mixed into the smoke and jumped onto Uchiha Ryun's body.
"Explode!!!"
Deian on the flying bird shouted loudly, and a series of violent explosions immediately sounded from within the smoke!
"Is it over?" Iwa Yū waved his hand, thinking the enemy was most likely killed by his teammate's explosions.
But before he could clearly see the situation, a crisp sound of a wooden log hitting the ground caught his attention.
At the same time, an extremely strange and piercing bird cry sounded not far from him.
The noise was like countless birds chirping, sending chills down Iwa Yū's spine.
Three breaths later, as a flash of lightning streaked through the smoke, a palm imbued with lightning force brutally pierced through Iwa Yū's chest.
However, the expected bloodshed did not occur.
"Earth Clone!!!"
Uchiha Ryun's pupils contracted sharply. The Iwa-nin before him had turned into a lump of clay, which also had a special stickiness to it. Uchiha Ryun couldn't even pull back his thrusting hand immediately.
Iwa Yū quickly emerged from the ground behind Uchiha Ryun. In an instant, he stabbed out with his kunai, driving it straight into Uchiha Ryun's heart.
"This time it's really over!" Iwa Yū said with a smile.
But before he could rejoice, his smile suddenly froze on his face as a voice unexpectedly sounded from behind him:
"You're absolutely right!"
With a muffled "thud," a lightning-charged tanto completely pierced through his heart.
The Uchiha Ryun in front of Iwa Yū "poofed" into smoke—it was just a Shadow Clone.
The Iwa Yū before Uchiha Ryun, now bleeding warm blood, was undoubtedly the real one!
As the smoke cleared, Uchiha Ryun pulled out his tanto, and the jonin Iwa Yū collapsed to the ground, eyes wide open and vomiting blood.
"Iwa Yū!!!"
Deian on the flying bird was shocked at this sight, his face full of disbelief.
The next moment, he gritted his teeth and quickly took out a large lump of explosive clay from his tool pouch. After kneading it a few times, he began bombing from the sky.
One after another, high-explosive clay bombs were thrown down at Uchiha Ryun below.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of violent explosions resounded throughout Mizukawa Town.
Uchiha Ryun moved quickly to dodge, appearing quite狼狈 under the bombardment, but in reality, he was carefully observing Deian in the sky, calculating the distance between them.
Since Deian was bombing from high altitude, the attacks were easy to avoid due to the distance. Uchiha Ryun didn't even bother trying to disable the bombs.
Moreover, he was doing this to lure Deian into shortening the attack distance, waiting for the moment when his own attack could hit the target.
"Bastard, stop running away! Weren't you so tough earlier? You killed Iwa Yū, so today you must die with him!"
Deian shouted madly, continuously throwing small bombs with one hand while kneading a large lump of clay with the other.
"Let me show you the power of a C3 bomb!"
The large lump of clay in Deian's hands gradually took shape. But before he could throw this wide-range high-explosive bomb, Uchiha Ryun completely ignored him and charged straight into a group of reinforcing Iwa-nin!
Uchiha Ryun's move into the crowd made Deian freeze, unable to throw the C3 bomb...
"Damn it!!!"
Deian's face turned extremely ugly.
Uchiha Ryun knew he was preparing a big move, so he immediately mixed into the enemy Iwa-nin. Deian, afraid of harming his own people, didn't dare to drop the C3 bomb!
At the same time, the Land of Rice's jonin Itō led nearly a hundred ninjas to attack from the flank, officially engaging the Iwa-nin in battle.
Seeing a large number of enemies approaching from another side of Mizukawa Town, Deian quickly steered his flying bird to attack them. But just as he moved, he heard a mocking laugh from below:
"Hahaha, that coward in the sky, running away because you can't beat me?"
Uchiha Ryun laughed wildly, flashing forward and beheading an Iwa-nin genin with a single slash.
"Bastard, I'll kill you!"
Deian dove straight at Uchiha Ryun. As he passed overhead, he even recklessly dropped the C3 bomb.
'So what if a few allies die? There aren't many people around this bastard anyway!'
Uchiha Ryun had already prepared for this moment, even forming hand seals in advance.
The C3 bomb suddenly expanded a hundredfold midair and plummeted toward him. But before Deian could shout or the C3 could explode, Uchiha Ryun spat out a terrifying lightning bolt!
"Lightning Release: False Darkness!"
The lightning shot upward at lightning speed, striking the rapidly descending C3 clay bomb.
"Explode!!!"
Deian shouted, trying to detonate it, but the result was completely unexpected—the massive C3 clay bomb simply fizzled out!
"What! How is this possible!!!"
This time, Deian saw it clearly. His enemy was a Lightning Release user, and an expert at that. His clay technique was most vulnerable to lightning!
Uchiha Ryun pushed off with his feet, using a high jump with the Body Flicker Technique to attach himself to the surface of the C3 clay bomb with chakra.
The distance between him and Deian was drastically reduced in an instant. A brilliant flash of lightning gathered in Uchiha Ryun's palm.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Leopard!"
A bolt of lightning shot from his hand, transforming midair into the shape of a leopard. It struck Deian with lightning speed.
"Ah..."
Deian let out a scream as both he and his bird lost control and crashed to the ground, their bodies mangled beyond recognition. It was clear they wouldn't survive.
As the C3 bomb hit the ground, Uchiha Ryun seized the moment to jump and disperse the impact force.
But the moment he landed on a rooftop, two Iwa-nin chunin took the opportunity to ambush him with ninjutsu.
"Earth Release: Rock Iron Pellet!"
"Earth Release: Rock Iron Pellet!"
A barrage of iron pellets shot toward him.
Uchiha Ryun didn't have time for complex defenses. He stomped hard on the rooftop, shattering the tiles and causing himself to fall through, narrowly dodging the incoming pellets.
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