As Seimei and his group were less than 100 meters away from the Sunagakure ambush squad, Seimei quickly used special signals to tell his teammates about the enemy ninjas lurking in the dark ahead.
Hyuga Ginjo also kept his Byakugan open, giving his teammates the exact locations of every enemy ninja.
When Senju Haku heard that Sunagakure positioned a total of 27 ninjas, including seven ninjas with Jonin-level or higher rank, he was indeed very surprised.
But he wasn't worried.
After all, they had brought reinforcements, too.
At that time, Seimei suddenly halted his advance and said in a barely perceptible voice that only his teammates could hear, "Captain, Water Formation Wall."
As soon as the words fell, Senju Haku wasted no time and formed a couple of hand seals in less than one-third of a second. Even then, he completed the hand seals and chakra molding step with utter ease.
Water Release: Water Formation Wall
Haku suddenly spat a large amount of water, which created a tall, transparent wall of flowing water in front of them.
And right on cue, several Wind Release and Earth Release ninjutsu, along with multiple kunai laced with explosive tags, appeared in front of their eyes.
"Damn. Just look at these bastards," cursed Uchiha Sorata as he saw the incoming Ninjutsu and explosive tags.
Fortunately, his team had a Byakugan wielder and a kid with insane sensory talent.
Splash! Splash!
Soon, multiple Water and Earth Release Ninjutsu violently collided with the water wall, causing the water to splash from the wall continuously.
However, Senju Haku kept supplying chakra to his defensive Ninjutsu, making it difficult for the enemy's Ninjutsu to pierce through the water curtain.
Right now, he was demonstrating what it meant to be a Senju clan Jonin with ridiculously high chakra reserves.
Chakra depletion? Sorry. He, a Senju, didn't know what it meant.
He could keep this water wall active all day.
After Ninjutsu came a barrage of kunai laced with explosive tags, which directly smashed into the water wall, causing the explosive tags attached to them to trigger.
BOOOOOOOM!!!!!!
The tags exploded with a powerful shockwave and a surging wave of searing crimson flames, ready to shatter and engulf everything in their way.
Splash! Splash! Sizzle!
The combination of devastating shockwave and fiery flames caused the water of the Water Formation Wall to splash and sizzle.
Fortunately for Seimei, the water wall still held on, protecting them from the heat and impact of the explosions.
From the Sunagakure ninjas' perspectives, the violent explosion made dust and flames fly into the air. They just didn't know if they managed to injure them or not.
One Suna Jonin asked, "Did we get them?"
They couldn't be unscathed after a series of Ninjutsu and a barrage of explosive tags, right? After all, they ambushed them from afar, not giving the Konoha ninjas any time to prepare.
Hearing this, Masaru, their captain, shook his head.
He had an exasperated expression as he said, "Stay alert. The Konoha scums have a Hyuga and a Senju brat with a ridiculously sensitive sensory perception. They probably survived the attacks unscathed."
Hearing this, the Suna ninjas' eyes widened.
One Elite Suna Jonin couldn't help but curse, "Damn. Those white ghostly-eyed freaks…"
Meanwhile, a Sunagakure Chunin formed a few hand seals and unleashed the Wind Release: Gale Palm Jutsu to clear the dust and knock back any hidden enemy with powerful wind.
However, they couldn't see any of the five Konoha ninjas after the dust was cleared.
As expected…
Masaru sighed and ordered his subordinates to stay alert once again.
He was about to instruct their sensory ninja to track the location of the Konoha ninjas when his survival instincts flared up.
His pupils contracted as he heard crackling electricity from afar. He didn't waste any more time and barked, "Disperse, now."
"Protect yourself."
Then, he activated the Wind Body Flicker Technique to move away from his current position.
As soon as he and the Suna ninjas began moving, a dozen one-meter-long needles of purple lightning as thin as regular ninja senbon cut through the air and rained down into the Suna ninjas' previous positions.
Crackle! Crackle!
However, not everyone dodged them perfectly.
The long lightning needles pierced through the forehead of one Suna Chunin, granting him instant death as the potent lightning chakra fried his brain and destroyed his nervous system.
Two other Suna Chunin were also killed. One of them had his heart pierced. Meanwhile, the other Suna kunoichi got her throat pierced by the lightning needles.
Crackle~
The remaining nine lightning needles hit nothing but the ground, creating a field of electricity that burned the ground around them with powerful arcs of lightning.
Seimei, who was responsible for the attack, clicked his tongue while hiding behind a tree.
"Tsk~"
"I tried to conceal the Chidori: Senbon, but they still sensed it. I need to refine it more."
After muttering that, he activated the Body Flicker Technique and vanished from his location.
He quickly arrived in front of one of the Jonin, who was also a puppeteer, with a blue, glowing orb of rotating chakra in his hand.
The puppeteer Jonin, who was weak in close combat, was so surprised that he involuntarily blurted out, "What?"
But he was still a skilled puppeteer, so he immediately placed a powerful defensive puppet between himself and Seimei while also activating its offensive mechanism with fine manipulation of chakra threads.
As soon as Seimei retreated after his failed attack, he would instantly launch a barrage of poisoned needles at him.
A perfect opportunity to take this arrogant opponent down who dared to come close to a puppet.
Unfortunately, he would never get the chance.
"Hehe."
Rasengan
Seimei chuckled coldly and slammed the Rasengan on the puppet, destroying it completely, including its powerful defensive and offensive mechanisms with the raw power of rotating chakra.
The Rasengan tore through the puppet and came forward, ready to tear the flesh and bones of the Suna puppeteer Jonin into pieces.
However, the Jonin reacted in time and quickly retreated.
Just as the puppeteer Jonin was about to sigh in relief, sharp, dark-brown spears of rock and stone quickly erupted from the ground all around him and pierced through every part of his body.
Red blood flowed from his body to the rock-like, deep brown spears, painting the spears in crimson while creating a pool of blood around them.
The whole setup looked incredibly eerie and sinister.
But it didn't matter to Seimei, he had already finished off more targets than he had supposed to in the initial confrontation.
Now, that's how you use the Earth-Flow Spears Jutsu.
Seimei mused as he retreated to meet up with his teammates.
Meanwhile, the other four of his teammates were also killed or severely injured at least one Suna Shinobi before regrouping to avoid pincer attacks from all directions.
After all, the number of Suna ninjas was still higher.
Hyuga Ginjo even had a deep laceration across his right shoulder to his left chest. Thankfully, he had already taken a minor restoration potion, which effectively stopped the bleeding.
The remaining Suna ninjas also gathered around Masaru. All of them had intense killing intent that was practically overflowing from their eyes.
Masaru, who was silent until now, said with a chilling tone, "You will die today."
Seimei and his teammates, who had grim expressions on their faces, looked at each other before giving the Suna ninjas a knowing smile.
Seeing this, Masaru couldn't help but squint his eyes. He couldn't understand what these Konoha scums were cooking.
Senju Haku finally smirked and said, "Sure, I will die."
He pointed toward Uchiha Sorata and said, "This Uchiha will die."
Hearing this, Uchiha Sorata's lips twitched a bit.
But Haku didn't care and continued.
"This kid from my clan may die."
"The insect man in our team may die."
"We will all die."
"...Just not today!"
As soon as his words fell, he tore a paper that had a unique Fuinjutsu seal inscribed on it.
And then, amidst the confused, shocked, and horrified expressions of the Suna ninjas, at least a dozen powerful chakra signatures appeared around them.
These dozen chakra signatures clearly belonged to hidden Konoha Shinobi, each of them was at least as strong as an Elite Chunin-level ninja.
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