Chapter 146: Single-Handedly Challenging Sand Village
"What?!"
All Sand shinobi erupted in fury, slamming tables as they rose.
"Heaven has a road you refuse to walk—Hell has no gate yet you come knocking!"
"Perfect! Today we'll kill this Uchiha Yasushi, then carry his head to exchange for Lord Kazekage!"
"Elder, this time it's not Sand Village seeking trouble with him—he's delivered himself to our doorstep!"
Uchiha Yasushi's direct assault was too provocative. Even Rasa's opposition faction couldn't tolerate such insolence.
Seeing all jonin seething with rage, the Sand Village elders had no choice but to sigh and order:
"The enemy storms our gates—retreat serves no purpose now."
"All Sand Village jonin, hear my command! Immediately mobilize all forces! Kill Uchiha Yasushi! Use his head to exchange for Rasa!"
"Yes!" Everyone roared in acknowledgment, leaping through doors and charging toward the village entrance.
Actually, Yasushi could have quietly infiltrated the village, kidnapped Gaara, and easily completed the One-Tail capture mission.
But Yasushi had been ambushed by Sand Village previously. His heart harbored great displeasure toward them. Now, seizing this opportunity to rampage here also counted as settling public and private grudges together.
Old habits—Susanoo opened the proceedings.
However, this time Yasushi didn't blindly charge into Sand Village.
This wasn't Kusagakure. Though Sand Village was the weakest among the Five Great Nations, they still possessed some old monsters—not just the Chiyo siblings.
He also hadn't summoned the Uchiha army, because once they were sealed, they absolutely couldn't be summoned again.
From the start, he'd decided to rampage here alone, venting his resentment with simple revenge before fleeing.
He wasn't arrogant enough to believe he alone could topple Sand Village.
"Haha..." Yasushi laughed wildly, once again removing the gourd from his back and pouring it toward Sand Village's defensive position.
After rampant flooding through the Land of Grass previously, the Parasitic Destruction Insects—nearly depleted—had reproduced a full gourd again.
He immediately dumped out half, and this time he had no intention of recollecting these insects. He'd leave them in Sand Village, adding blockage for the shinobi here.
Dense swarms of Parasitic Destruction Insects poured from the gourd's mouth like a purple cloud, spreading across the ground.
Unfortunately, Yasushi's intelligence had long since leaked thoroughly. Seeing these insects charge forward, shinobi immediately shouted warnings:
"Those are Parasitic Destruction Insects! Don't let them approach!"
"Use Water Release to wash them away!"
Sand Village shinobi were well-trained. Immediately a squad stepped forward, rapidly forming seals before spitting from their mouths.
"Water Release: Water Severing Wave!"
A row of water jets sprayed from their mouths like high-pressure water cannons, washing away the charging Parasitic Destruction Insects far into the distance—unable to spread for quite some time.
Using Water Release in this vast desert truly troubled them. But this Water Release wasn't wasted—just consider it irrigation.
"Hmph." Yasushi curled his lip, clapping his hands together again.
"Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees!"
After witnessing this technique at Obito's place previously, he'd learned it. Now using it fresh against Sand Village—perfectly appropriate.
Amid earth-shaking rumbles, towering trees burst from the ground, rapidly blooming with enormous flowers that then opened, releasing cultivated toxic spore pollen inside.
Yasushi made some improvements to the original jutsu foundation.
With a thought, those giant trees bent their branches, then suddenly snapped back like massive cannons, flinging the colorful flowers at their tips outward.
These gorgeous flowers exploded mid-air, scattering their pollen down toward Sand Village below.
Those toxic spore pollens displayed brilliant colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue—falling from the sky like a flower pollen rain, stunningly beautiful.
Yet behind this beauty lurked lethal threat, making it even more alluring.
Sand Village shinobi were battle-hardened veterans. Though unclear what these spore pollens were, following the principle that anything enemies do must be stopped, they immediately shouted urgently:
"Quickly stop him! Don't let those colored things land!"
"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
Shinobi throughout the village immediately formed groups of three to five, using Fire Release to spray flames toward the sky.
Whatever fell, burning it clean would absolutely be correct.
But pollen was too fine, dancing everywhere through the air—completely blocking it simply wasn't realistic.
Moreover, on the ground, massive tree seas spread inward. Branches whipped and struck wildly everywhere, interfering with shinobi movement efficiency.
Ultimately, considerable pollen still fell near the ground, adhering to shinobi bodies.
Those shinobi contaminated by pollen immediately felt their entire bodies go numb—violent toxins ravaging their bodily nerves. They collapsed to the ground, convulsing.
"No good! This pollen is poisonous! Quickly use antidotes!"
"Where are the medical shinobi? People here are poisoned! Come detoxify quickly!"
After momentary chaos, Sand Village quickly regained composure.
Sand Village could be called the village most skilled with poisons among all shinobi villages. Since they excelled at poisons, naturally they also excelled at detoxification.
No matter how powerful the poison, once finding the antidote, damage could immediately be reduced to zero.
This was far easier to deal with than things like Susanoo and Wood Release that required hard strength to fight head-on.
Leveraging home field advantage, poisoned shinobi were quickly carried away by medical shinobi, replaced by a fresh wave of shinobi squads.
Led by numerous jonin, groups used Fire Release in shifts to burn those enormous flowers on tree branches.
As long as these flowers couldn't fly skyward and explode, naturally the pollen spores would lose killing power.
"Haha... Nice thinking, but did you forget my existence?"
Yasushi laughed uproariously. With a chakra surge, the Wood Release forest accelerated growth speed, lashing toward those shinobi forces.
Those thick branches were unstoppable—whether jutsu or puppets, everything shattered on contact.
Any shinobi even grazed by branches was immediately bound tightly, chakra swiftly drained before limbs were broken, bones crushed, and bodies stuffed beneath tree roots as fertilizer for tree growth.
"Where is the anti-Wood Release specialized puppet division?"
A jonin roared loudly. Immediately a group of puppet-carrying shinobi appeared, shaking out their puppets and standing in a row at the front.
Those puppets extended their hands—arms opening like flowers, revealing sharp blades inside that rapidly rotated, swiftly cutting the Wood Release branches extending toward them like gardeners pruning trees.
Ordinary puppets were completely no match for Wood Release, but this batch of puppets were the "Anti-Wood Release Specialized Puppets" specifically developed previously to intercept Uchiha Yasushi. They had no other functions, couldn't normally engage enemies—their sole purpose was cutting trees. So the effect was extremely obvious.
Yasushi's Wood Release merely originated from Hashirama cells. Ultimately it still had vast gaps compared to Hashirama's Wood Release, inferior in chakra quality.
For jutsu, chakra quality directly determined jutsu strength.
Sand shinobi, leveraging single-function puppets, numerical advantage, and massive concentrated puppet usage, could actually resist Wood Release's spread in the short term.
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