r18novel Chapter 248 Third Hokage: What does it mean that the Hyuga have also rebelled?
Chapter 248 Third Hokage: What does it mean that the Hyuga have also rebelled?
Chapter 249 Third Hokage: What do you mean the Hyuga have rebelled too?
On another battlefield, the chaos in the Hyuga clan's territory has not subsided.
Under the astonished gazes of Nara Shikaku and the others, the second squad led by Uzumaki Vanilla plunged into the battle like a sharp dagger.
"Diamond Lockdown!" Whirlpool Vanilla stood on the rooftop, her red hair flying, and behind her, several huge golden chains swung violently like living pythons!
With unparalleled strength and sealing power, they precisely swept towards the formation of the Hyuga guards and Konoha Jonin.
Wherever the chains passed, the chakra of ninjas attempting to form hand seals instantly became stagnant, and taijutsu ninjas were directly thrown away by the enormous force, their carefully arranged encirclement formations instantly collapsing!
"Now! Charge out!" Xia Ri shouted, her hands forming a hand seal. A massive amount of purple chakra surged out from behind her like a peacock spreading its tail feathers, transforming into a giant chakra bird poised to take flight—Peacock Wonder Technique: Wing Strike!
Chakra wings flapped forward violently, shoving aside several Hyuga guards who were trying to reorganize their defenses, clearing a path for them.
"Blood Dragon Technique!" The tomoe in Miyagi Chino's eerie blood-red eyes spun, and the bloodstains left from the previous battle on the ground seemed to be summoned, quickly gathering into a ferocious, roaring blood-red dragon. With a heavy stench, it rammed into the Akimichi clan ninjas who were trying to flank them, forcing them to retreat and defend.
"Let's go!" Morishita Toshito and Murahashi Hazuki, dressed in dark blue chakra-powered armor, stood like two blue whirlwinds, protecting their wings on the left and right.
With his strength greatly increased, Junren punched a Hyuga ninja who was trying to sneak up, sending him flying along with the opponent using the Returning Palm Technique.
Hazuki, on the other hand, was incredibly fast. With her kunai, she accurately parried the flying shuriken and occasionally managed to seize an opening to launch a fierce counterattack.
The four worked together seamlessly and displayed astonishing combat prowess, instantly tearing a gap in the dense encirclement.
"Keep up!" Whirlpool Vanilla's voice came from ahead.
Without hesitation, Hyuga Hizashi grabbed his son Neji and, along with five other rebellious branch family members, charged outwards along the bloody path cleared by the Star Ninja.
"Stop them!" Hiashi Hyuga roared, clutching his still-painful chest.
He forcefully channeled his chakra and led a group of loyal branch family elites, including Hyuga Himon and Hyuga Takashi, in an attempt to stop him once again.
Nara Shikaku immediately ordered the Konoha Jonin to apply pressure from the flanks.
"Shadow Imitation Technique!" Shikaku formed hand seals, but his shadow was just extended when it was violently broken by a sweeping golden chain!
Whirlpool Vanilla gave him a cold, wary look, and the oppressive force in her eyes made Shikaku's heart skip a beat.
It's like seeing Kushina!
"Damn it!" Akimichi Choza's body multiplied, and his giant hand slammed down, but it was blocked by the chakra dragon formed by the Peacock Mystic Technique that he had gathered in summer.
Yamanaka Inoichi attempted to use the Mind Turning Technique, but was interfered with by the strange golden chains, making it extremely difficult to penetrate.
"So this is the Uzumaki clan?" Yamanaka Inoichi asked solemnly.
While directing the battle, Shikaku quickly asked Hiashi, "Hiashi! What's going on?! Why did the Caged Bird Seal fail? What method did they use?"
Hiashi's face was ashen, blood still stained his lips, and he gasped for breath, a mixture of anger and bewilderment in his voice: "I don't know! The Caged Bird Seal, a tradition passed down for hundreds of years, has actually—"
"But it's definitely related to that Asura! He attacked the Hyuga clan's territory twice and gouged out the Byakugan of the main family elder; it must have been premeditated!"
Upon hearing this, Shikaku felt an even greater chill in his heart. Shura's obsession with and connection to the Hyuga clan far exceeded their imagination.
At the same time, the Star Ninja Team has an extremely strong ability to break through enemy lines. Each member has the strength of a Jonin, and the Uzumaki Clan's Vajra Sealing Technique is both offensive and defensive!
Whirlpool Vanilla took the lead, her fiery red hair billowing like a burning flag in the night wind.
Several thick, golden chains behind her swirled and danced around her like living things, radiating a powerful sealing aura. Any ninjutsu or attack that tried to get close would be mercilessly shattered or deflected, providing the team with an indestructible barrier.
Hyuga Hizashi, Neji, and five other branch family Jonin followed closely behind, their eyes filled with a yearning for freedom and a resolute determination to fight to the death, as well as joy at the attention shown to them by the Land of Stars and that Shura.
On the left side of the group, Morishita Toshito, equipped with chakra-powered armor, moved with lightning speed. His specially made chakra-enhanced short blade gleamed coldly as he accurately parried flying kunai and shuriken, occasionally launching cunning and ruthless thrusts in counterattack.
On the right, Hazuki Murahashi moved with agility. Her ninja tool throwing technique was superb, and combined with small-scale wind-style ninjutsu, she could always interrupt the hand seals of the ninjas behind her in time, disrupting their pursuit rhythm.
In summer, he formed hand seals, his body surrounded by a pale purple chakra glow, and a giant chakra dragon faintly appeared behind him, responsible for covering the rear.
They fought and retreated, like a chisel, piercing through the encirclement of the Konoha ninja.
Shikaku and Hiashi's team were unable to effectively intercept them for a time.
Meanwhile, the direction in which Uzumaki Vanilla and the others broke through was towards the Uchiha clan's territory, where flames soared into the sky and explosions resounded one after another!
The closer they got, the stronger the stench of blood and the violent fluctuations of chakra became in the air.
"Not good! Their target is the Uchiha clan's territory!" Yamanaka Inoichi's mental perception also caught the extremely chaotic battlefield atmosphere ahead.
Just then, a sudden change occurred in the center of the Uchiha clan's territory!
boom!!!
A massive, emerald-green pillar of energy shot skyward!
Then, to everyone's utter astonishment, a towering green giant rose from the ground!
It is clad in ancient chakra armor, exuding a terrifying pressure that makes one's soul tremble, like an ancient war god resurrected from mythology!
"What—what is this?!"
"What...what kind of monster is that?!"
All the top Konoha Jonin who were chasing after them were plunged into a huge shock and bewilderment at this moment.
"Bearded Sane?!" And Nara Shikaku, Hyuga Hiashi, and Yamanaka Inoichi, the heads of the various Konoha ninja clans...
Akimichi Choza was even more shocked.
That is the ultimate power that only the Mangekyou Sharingan can unlock, according to the legends of the Uchiha clan!
The main battlefield in the Uchiha clan's territory has reached a fever pitch.
Shouts of battle shook the heavens, and flames rose everywhere.
The elite ninjas of Konoha's Anbu and Root were like a black tide, constantly crashing against the battle line composed of Uchiha survivors and Star Ninjas.
Faced with the crisis of annihilation, the surviving Uchiha clan members unleashed unprecedented fighting power. Many of them even experienced an evolution of their Sharingan after witnessing the death of their loved ones, making their fighting style even more frenzied.
The Sharingan and various secret techniques flashed wildly, and people fell every moment.
Kakashi led a small team consisting of Yamato and several elite Anbu members, attempting to flank the chaotic Uchiha clan battlefield and take the core of the enemy.
However, as soon as they broke through the chaotic outer area, they were met with fierce resistance!
Three figures appeared like ghosts, blocking their path.
The person on the left has snow-white hair, pale skin, and cold eyes. He exudes a dangerous aura, and white bone spurs extend from his arms.
"Kimimaro of the Kaguya Clan." He activated his Byakugan, his 360-degree unobstructed vision taking in the actions of Kakashi and the others.
The person on the right has a handsome face and a gentle temperament. As he forms a hand seal, a chilling aura spreads out, and the moisture in the air instantly freezes into ice crystals.
"The Snow Clan, White."
There was also a brown-haired girl with freckles on her face, whose eyes were unusually sharp at this moment. She didn't say much, but simply turned her body into smoke.
"Bloodline Limit!" Yamato immediately warned in a low voice, his eyes beneath the mask fixed on the girl with freckles on her face.
"Kill!" Kakashi didn't waste any words. A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and he instantly issued the attack command.
Several ANBU ninjas immediately threw out their shuriken while rapidly forming hand seals.
"Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Technique!"
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
Fueled by the wind, the fire transformed into a blazing net that enveloped Kimimaro and his companions.
"Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Camellia!" Kimimaro advanced instead of retreating, and the bone spikes on his arms instantly lengthened and deformed, turning into two huge bone blades!
He was like an elegant dancer, or a ruthless grim reaper, wielding a bone blade to precisely slice and shatter incoming fireballs!
Sparks flew everywhere, but they couldn't harm him in the slightest!
Sharp bone spikes instantly sprang from the ground beneath his feet, forcing the two Dark Guard members, Wolf Fox and Wolf Fox, who were charging ahead, to retreat.
"Ice Release: Ice Rock Hall!" Haku moved even faster, pressing his hands to the ground, and a thick, hard ice wall instantly rose up, easily blocking the impact of the combined wind and fire ninjutsu.
Xuejian then swayed and instantly transformed into an invisible wisp of smoke, skillfully avoiding the aftershocks of the ninjutsu. She appeared beside another ANBU member who was trying to flank her, and thrust her kunai straight at his throat!
The movements were ruthless and precise!
"Watch out! Her bloodline limit is smoke transformation! Watch your breathing!" Kakashi immediately warned, while his figure sprang up, his kunai crackling with lightning as he thrust towards Yukimi, attempting to save his teammate.
clang!
Yukimi's kunai collided with Kakashi's kunai, producing a crisp sound.
The close encounter made Xuejian feel that this person was somewhat familiar.
Just then, as Yamato dodged to the side to support his comrades who were being forced back by Kimimaro's bone spikes, the edge of a sharp bone spike grazed his face, wielding his ANBU mask!
Kama!
The mask of the Dark Guard shattered and fell to the ground, revealing Yamato's young but somewhat wooden face.
Xuejian's movements suddenly froze!
She stared intently at that face, her pupils suddenly contracting!
A long-forgotten name blurted out: "Tian—Tian Cang? It's you?!"
Yamato stiffened, looking at Yukimi with a complicated expression: "Yukimi, why did you join the Star Ninja? Why are you aiding and abetting evil?"
"Aiding and abetting evil?!" Xuejian's voice suddenly rose, filled with anger and sorrow: "Look around! Look at this hellish massacre! We're aiding and abetting evil? And what about you?! Look at what your Dark Guard is doing! You're not even sparing naked infants, you're not even sparing elderly people who are walking!"
"Is this the Konoha you're here to protect?!" She pointed to the body of an old woman lying in a pool of blood not far away, her voice trembling with emotion.
Kakashi remained silent, and in his one exposed, dead-fish-like eye, weariness and confusion deepened.
His father's suicide, Obito's "sacrifice," Rin's tragic death, and Minato's sacrifice had already dragged him into the abyss. He was just numbly carrying out orders, using missions to fill the emptiness in his heart.
Although his encounter with Xuejian was brief, it brought him one of the few moments of light in the past few years, warming his lifeless body for a moment.
I never expected that we would meet again on the battlefield a few years later.
Faced with Yukimi's questioning, Kakashi could only stiffly repeat, "The Uchiha clan colluded with the Land of Stars to launch a rebellion, threatening the safety of the village—"
"Collusion?" Xuejian seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world. She pointed at the Uchiha ninjas who were fighting fiercely with the Anbu and the Hoshi ninjas who were desperately rescuing the elderly, women, and children in the distance: "Open your eyes and see clearly! Right now, who is raising a butcher's knife to slaughter their own villagers? And who is desperately protecting those innocent people!"
Yamato wanted to argue further: "But—"
"Enough!" Kakashi interrupted Yamato hoarsely, slowly pulling down his headband as if trying to conceal the deeper pain and struggle in his eyes.
"Yamato—Yukimi. Our positions differ, so there's no point in saying more. Now, we can only meet on the battlefield." He gripped his kunai tightly again, lightning crackling in his palm.
"An old friend?" Kimimaro asked softly, standing beside Yukimi.
"Hmm—" The last trace of warmth in Xuejian's eyes disappeared.
The battle broke out again, and it was even more brutal than before!
Kimimaro's Shikotsumyaku, enhanced by the Byakugan's insight, was like a meat grinder on the battlefield, with bone blades, bone spikes, and bone bullets attacking Konoha's Anbu from all sorts of tricky angles.
The remaining power of the Uchiha clan unleashed astonishing combat strength. Like mad tigers, they recklessly charged at the Konoha ninja, disregarding their own casualties.
Their experience fighting the Kaguya clan of Kirigakure during the Third Shinobi World War made them exceptionally familiar with Kimimaro's fighting style, and they quickly developed a cooperative relationship.
Two ninja clans that were enemies on the battlefield just a few years ago are now fighting side by side.
Many Uchiha ninjas, while fighting, raised kunai or shuriken and angrily slashed deep marks on their Konoha headbands on their foreheads or arms.
The harsh scraping sound seemed to be their final declaration of severance from the village!
"Wood Release: Silent Binding Technique!" Yamato formed hand seals, and several thick wooden vines burst from the ground, coiling around Kimimaro and a nearby Uchiha ninja like giant pythons!
"Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Tang Pine!" Kimimaro's body suddenly spun around, and countless sharp bone spikes burst forth from his body!
These bone spikes not only tore apart the entwined vines instantly, but also shot out in all directions like a rain of pear blossoms!
Two Anbu ninjas who couldn't dodge in time were instantly pierced!
"Ice Release: Demonic Mirror Ice Crystal!" Haku's figure darted through the ice mirror that instantly materialized, his ice senbon in hand like an invitation from the Grim Reaper, constantly reaping enemies who tried to approach.
Faced with immense pressure, Kakashi had no choice but to open his left eye, which had been tightly closed all along, and his scarlet three-tomoe Sharingan slowly began to rotate.
He didn't want Obito to witness this scene of fratricide, but he had no choice but to complete the mission and protect his comrades.
"Raikiri!" A dazzling blue lightning bolt condensed in his hand, emitting a sharp sound like a thousand birds singing in unison.
Amidst the deafening roar of thunder, Kakashi transformed into a streak of blue lightning, hurtling straight at Yukimi!
Xuejian once again transformed into smoke to dodge the fatal blow.
On the other side, Yamato also abandoned his previous stance: "Wood Release: Tree Binding Eternal Burial!"
The ground cracked open, and enormous trees surged forth as if alive, coiling around Kimimaro and Haku, attempting to restrict their movements.
"Wood Release?!" The surviving Uchiha ninjas were all horrified and exclaimed in shock upon seeing this scene.
Those thick trees, like demonic claws reaching out from hell, burst through the soil and grew wildly. They failed to catch Kimimaro and Haku, but instead entangled themselves around the three Uchiha ninjas who were attempting a surprise attack!
"Damn it! It's the First Hokage's Wood Release!"
"The Senju clan is already—"
"Oh!"
The vine-like branches, carrying a powerful strangulation force, instantly entangled the three Uchiha ninjas. The sound of bones shattering could be clearly heard, and their screams abruptly ceased!
This scene deeply affected Xuejian!
Xuejian, who had been carefully observing his hand seals and chakra flow, suddenly had a flash of realization in her eyes!
The power that had been dormant within her, hidden in the bloodline stabilizer developed from the First Hokage cells and White Zetsu cells that Orochimaru had incorporated, seemed to be activated by some kind of same source, becoming exceptionally clear and active!
A strange resonance surged violently deep within her blood!
The vague power I had sensed in the Star Kingdom in the past became incredibly clear at this moment!
The moment the smoke reformed, Xuejian almost subconsciously imitated the sequence of hand seals and the way chakra was circulated by Yamato, rapidly forming hand seals with her hands!
Her chakra surged wildly in an unprecedented way, merging into the earth!
"Wood Release: Tree Binding for Eternal Burial!"
Rumble!
Before the horrified eyes of Kakashi, Yamato, and all the other combatants around them, the ground cracked open not far in front of Yukimi!
Several sturdy trees burst from the ground, growing wildly at a speed no less than that of the Yamato. With the same ferocity, they instantly entangled the three Konoha Anbu ninjas who had rushed too far forward and had no time to dodge!
Amidst the terrified and desperate light emanating from the three ninjas, the tree suddenly tightened and contracted!
"What?!"
"How is that possible!"
"Ah! Ah!
A sickeningly loud cracking sound rang out, and the three members of the Dark Guard were instantly killed!
The entire flank battle seemed to have been paused at that moment! The air itself seemed to freeze!
Everyone who witnessed this scene, whether from Konoha, Hoshinobi, or the Uchiha, wore expressions of extreme shock and disbelief!
Kakashi and Yamato's eyes widened in disbelief!
Wood Release?!
How—how is this possible?!
This is the bloodline limit that Hashirama Senju possessed, unparalleled in the ninja world!
How many people died in Orochimaru's human experiments to obtain Yamato, a Wood Release test subject?!
But Xuejian is clearly from the Ibri clan!
"Wood—Wood Release?!" The Uchiha ninjas fighting nearby were also drawn to the scene and exclaimed in surprise.
Whether they were Uchiha ninjas or Konoha ninjas, their eyes were filled with shock and confusion as they looked at the freckled-faced female ninja: "She—she's a member of the Senju clan?!"
The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was in the distance, naturally noticed the scene involving the child.
When he saw yet another user of "Wood Release" appear, and that he was on the side of the Land of Stars, a chilling coldness instantly shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his head!
The first person Hiruzen Sarutobi thought of was Orochimaru!
After all, Yamato was Orochimaru's test subject. Could this female ninja also be Orochimaru? And now, the Star Ninja camp has not only Uchiha, Uzumaki, and Kaguya, but also Ice Release and several bloodline limits!
Now even the lost Wood Release technique has reappeared!
This Star Kingdom!
This Asura!
Just how many bloodstained ninja clans have they recruited?!
What exactly is he trying to do?!
"Lord Hokage! Urgent report from the Hyuga clan!" Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi was in shock, an ANBU ninja, covered in gunpowder and filled with urgency, appeared beside him in an instant.
The ANBU ninja's voice trembled slightly as he urgently reported, "The Hyuga branch family has rebelled, and the Caged Bird Seal has failed! Hyuga Hizashi, in collusion with a Star Ninja, has ambushed and murdered three main branch elders. They are currently breaking through towards the Uchiha clan's territory with the Star Ninja's assistance! Lord Shikaku and Lord Hiashi are in pursuit!"
"What?!" Hiruzen Sarutobi was struck dumb, his body swaying violently!
The Uchiha rebellion is still raging, and now the Hyuga branch family has rebelled too?!
Uzumaki, Uchiha, and Wood Release with possible Senju bloodline—.
In addition, the Hyuga branch family—
He felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head, and his vision went black.
On this night, it seemed that the foundation of Konoha was truly about to collapse completely!