Shen leapt downward, feeling the fierce wind rushing against him as he pointed the Chakra Channeling Blade at a black-clothed intruder below.
"!!!" The invader looked up in alarm at the increasingly bright descending spot of light and instinctively drew his long blade from his back.
"Shua!"
The moment the light met the sword, the invader widened his eyes in disbelief, staring at his blade being cleanly severed.
"First one." Shen, withdrawing his lightning chakra, instantly vanished from sight.
The invader stared in terror at the fading streak of white lightning, wanting to give chase but unable to move an inch.
Fear immediately flooded his mind.
"Could it be that I've already..."
The next second, a small crack appeared on his forehead and started extending downward continuously.
With a "Da" sound, a purple light point arrived before this invader.
"Something feels off about Shen."
Before her stood the corpse that had been cut in half yet still remained upright without shedding any blood, which only further confirmed this thought.
Half a minute earlier, at the main gate of the Senju Clan compound, Nawaki was leading a large group of clansmen waiting for something.
"All forces move out, leave none alive!"
"Understood!" After loudly responding, Nawaki released the Yin Seal on his right hand.
"You guys are finished for daring to target our respected elder women!" He jumped straight into the air after throwing those words away.
[Nawaki's Meteor Shower!]
Several sneaky invaders who were less than two hundred meters from the Senju Clan compound looked up when they heard the cry, all able to see the brown speck getting closer and larger under the moonlight.
"Scatter!"
Although their warning came in time, the powerful shockwave still hit them hard.
"Damn it, has our plan been exposed?"
None of these invaders sustained serious injuries.
They quickly surrounded Nawaki, who now stood inside a deep crater.
"Old man me didn't come alone either!"
No sooner had the words left his mouth than more than twenty figures landed on the ground, surrounding the encircling invaders in turn.
At the location near the Uchiha clan compound on Commercial Street, fifty students from the first graduating class of the Kendo Dojo all took ready stances with swords drawn.
Their pupils shimmered with eerie red glints.
Meanwhile at the entrance of Commercial Street, over one hundred meters away, two beams of light—one white and one purple—arrived successively.
"Nayou, aren't you going to assist the Hyuga side?"
"No. With the clan members and my two older brothers there, nothing should go wrong."
"Alright."
Shen's unusually short answer only made Nayou more suspicious.
She thought that her usually cheerful and joking-around friend might be holding a grudge against the incoming invaders because she'd almost died again recently.
"Was it just like last time?" Nayou kept asking herself inwardly, trying to comfort herself with this reasoning.
"Nayou, don't attack yet. Let me handle the first wave." There was a slight coldness in Shen's voice.
"Yes." Nayou replied, then suddenly gasped, "Twenty-seven enemies closing in—three kilometers straight ahead!"
"I'll be right back."
A fleeting white light in the night sky caused her heart to waver, shaking what she had once firmly believed.
"He's really changed. I barely recognize him anymore."
Hyuga Nayou, Shen Uchiha's first friend, let go of her initial beliefs and admitted that her good friend had become unsettlingly unfamiliar.
The twenty-seven people attempting to steal Uchiha-related techniques soon encountered Shen blocking their path.
"Killing you one by one is troublesome. Can't you all come at once?" With a cold tone, Shen pointed his Chakra Channeling Blade toward them.
"Kid, get out of our way, or else—"
"I've lost my patience!"
A strange red light flashed briefly. The intruder who had just spoken stared blankly for less than a second before turning sideways, glaring angrily at his companion.
"Kill this brat!" He roared furiously, swinging his sword at the person beside him.
"Are you insane?" His companion stepped back, dodging the deadly blow.
"It's the Sharingan!"
"Boy, the Sharingan, a silver-white Sword of Kusanagi! He's the youngest son of the Uchiha clan head!"
"Capture him, and the Uchihas will obediently hand over the techniques we need!"
Several quick-thinking intruders swiftly dealt with their comrades who remained under Genjutsu, still attacking their own teammates.
"Just a bunch of cold-blooded killing machines through and through." This cruel scene didn't change Shen's expression in the slightest.
"Come on, scum!"
In an instant, he appeared before the first intruder who had recognized his identity, the Sharingan flashing its eerie crimson glow once more.
After releasing a Genjutsu, Shen sidestepped to evade several Kunai and Lightning Release attacks flying toward him. Then, with a sweeping glance, he observed the remaining twenty-five attackers.
After memorizing their positions, he formed a series of hand seals with his left hand while raising the Chakra Channeling Blade above his head with his right, blocking five swords swung at him.
Through the gaps between the five attackers, he spotted the remaining nineteen scattering. Among them, several were even attacking the person previously controlled by his Genjutsu.
Instantly, Shen entered Wind Elemental Chakra Mode, forming invisible Wind Blades around his body. At the same time, he completed the last half seal. Looking up, he exhaled a massive Great Fireball.
As the giant fireball made contact with the Wind Blades, it dispersed into countless smaller flames, scattering toward the five sword-wielding attackers suppressing him.
After cutting through the fireballs, the Wind Blades quickly launched a second wave.
The Great Fireball rising upward, after being sliced multiple times outward by the Wind Blades, transformed into countless flame petals imbued with both wind and fire elements.
[Fire Release: Blazing Fire Dance!]
From a distance, it looked like countless flaming petals burst from Shen's mouth. Indeed, it lived up to its name.
"Sizz!" One of the flaming petals landed on someone's shoulder, immediately creating a sizzling sound like grilled meat.
"Trying to escape?" Immediately, Shen switched to Lightning Release, spreading electric currents surrounding his body outward.
"Sizzzz!" The five paralyzed men could only endure the scorching petal dance.
Blazing pain struck again and again—relentless and unending.
Soon, the five of them were engulfed by countless flaming petals swirling like a storm.
The remaining nineteen attackers had just finished dealing with their comrade who fell victim to the Genjutsu when they all turned their terrified gazes toward the violently blazing inferno ahead.
"Still got the nerve to watch petals dance like this?"
A pair of arms suddenly burst from the ground, nearly causing an attacker to fumble his sword in fear.
"There he is!" shouted one invader as all of them spotted the hands emerging from the earth.
They quickly formed hand seals, attempting to kill the hidden Shen with Ninjutsu.
"Zhi—"
In the next instant, those hands suddenly emitted a bright white spot that shot toward a certain direction.
"Why is it targeting the firestorm?" Another attacker narrowly dodged an incoming strike but was stunned when a bolt of lightning erupted from within the flames.
"Attack now!" The bizarre scene snapped him into urgency, shouting to warn his comrades.
"[Too late!]x2 — the words echoed in perfect unison from both directions."
As two lightning bolts connected, a voice rang out in unison from both beneath the earth and within the raging flames.
All nineteen intruders knew that voice all too well—it belonged to the Uchiha clan head's youngest son, the one who had just wiped out five of their comrades in an instant.
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