"You!..." Seeing that the ninjutsu he exerted his full strength to unleash was casually slapped away, Sasuke couldn't help but be full of astonishment.
Naruto and Haruno Sakura also showed surprise on their faces.
They thought that move just now would burn this teacher's butt towards the sky...
"Truly a bit weak." Lexon waved his palm, his tone disdainful.
"Don't be arrogant! You jerk!" The tomoe in Sasuke's Sharingan spun, capturing the opponent's next movement and action trajectory, and the chakra inside his body surged again.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"
Chakra condensed into flames and spewed out from his mouth, scattering in all directions, finally attacking towards Lexon as the target.
In Sasuke's view, the opponent was a ninja skilled in taijutsu, so he luckily thought in his heart that slapping away his Fireball Jutsu might just be an act achieved by gathering chakra in the hand...
In that case... using Phoenix Flower Jutsu to find weak points in the body to attack became a matter of course!
The scattered flames invaded towards Lexon, and even the surrounding air temperature seemed to heat up.
"Even in another hundred years, you won't qualify to be my opponent."
Suddenly, Sasuke heard an indifferent voice coming from behind him.
His pupils shrank.
When?
Sasuke was incredibly suspicious in his heart.
Under the observation of his Tomoe Sharingan, there was actually not the slightest trace of that person leaving!
However, this suspicion of his was quickly covered up by the emotions aroused by Lexon's mocking words. His body turned, and his arm smoothly took out a sharp kunai from his pocket and slashed towards his back.
But on the sliding trajectory, the kunai was abruptly stopped by a tremendous force.
Sasuke's turned face just happened to see the figure that used only one finger to withstand the advancing pace of his waved kunai.
"Too weak..." Under the cat face mask, words containing mockery were revealed again.
Sasuke's face flushed red again, veins popped, and he transmitted the strength to slash upward to the kunai from his body as if in a fit of pique.
But... this was all futile behavior.
No matter how Sasuke exerted force, the kunai didn't move a single bit.
The sharp edge didn't advance even an inch, nor did it cut open anything.
"If you've played enough childish games, then be quiet and obedient." While Lexon spoke, his finger pressed down, actually directly cracking the sharp kunai. The tip broke, and the body was covered with spiderweb-like cracks.
Sasuke immediately retreated a few steps, lowering his head to look at the broken kunai held in his hand, appearing somewhat lost in soul.
"If you want revenge, this level is far from enough." Lexon said with an indifferent expression, "Uchiha Itachi is not a weakling, and Uchiha Lexon is even less so... Weigh yourself properly, strive to become stronger, and don't be arrogant and conceited."
His move was mainly to let Sasuke recognize the gap, and not act like he was second only to heaven all day long.
Obediently listen and don't be so rebellious.
Otherwise, he would do stupid things like "Itachi comes to Konoha, raises a Chidori directly thinking he can kill", "after fusing with his brother's Mangekyo, directly breaks into the Five Kage Summit to provoke"...
If this went on, he was afraid Sasuke would be teased again: "The sky is clear, the rain has stopped, Second Pillar feels he can do it again".
So Lexon chose to teach him a lesson.
Ah... actually, more importantly, this kid's pretentious look was indeed quite annoying to watch.
"Sasuke!" Haruno Sakura saw Sasuke's lost appearance and quickly ran to his side to comfort him.
"What are you doing!" Even Naruto spoke up for Sasuke.
'You really have a sharp tongue but a soft heart...'
Lexon looked at Naruto's righteous indignation and couldn't help but think in his heart.
'Even though this guy definitely grumbles to me about Sasuke every day when he comes back...'
'Truly hitting is affection, scolding is love, right...'
"Naruto! Go away!" Suddenly, Sasuke shouted.
Everyone looked over.
They only saw that Sasuke ignored Haruno Sakura's comfort and walked directly past Haruno Sakura and Naruto to stand in front of Lexon.
"Please! Teach me to become stronger!" Sasuke lowered his head heavily and said very seriously.
To become stronger, he could discard many things!
For revenge, he could do whatever it takes!
So, he issued a sincere request to the person who was mocking him just now.
On the other hand, Sasuke was also acknowledging the strength of Lexon.
It was completely worlds apart from his estimated strength, completely crushing him!
Even the Jonin within his clan in the past might not have had such strength as the opponent.
Although the opponent had only shown taijutsu so far, and ninjutsu might not be too optimistic, taijutsu was also an important way to become stronger.
As long as he could become stronger! As long as he could kill those two people!
Then that was fine!
'Why do I have a strange feeling...'
Suddenly, a classic famous scene of "Coach, I want to play basketball" appeared in Lexon's mind.
And... why did his neck feel chilly...
While the strange scene appeared, he also felt that someone had bad thoughts about him.
"You can become stronger by doing missions~" Lexon's tone was smiling. Immediately, he took out a mission list from his pocket, which was written with dense words, "Completing all the missions on it is the goal of our Team 7 for this period of time."
Looking at the hundreds of missions on the mission list, not only Naruto and Haruno Sakura... even Sasuke, who had long been prepared to suffer for the sake of becoming stronger, couldn't help but be secretly terrified.
Thus... more than a month passed.
"Sensei... really can't do it anymore... really can't do it anymore... let's rest for a while..."
After the 236th mission was completed, Naruto lay beside a telephone pole on the street, shouting tiredly without any image.
"Re... rest for a while... Sensei..." Haruno Sakura leaned against the wall and also panted heavily.
Sasuke, with his arms crossed and a cool look, leaned against the telephone pole, looking indifferent about "whether the mission continues or not".
If it weren't for his uncontrollably trembling legs, he might really not have been seen through...
It was really too tiring... more than a month was just a few days...
Up to now, they had completed 236 missions... that is to say, they had to complete about seven or eight missions on average every day!
Although they were just some D-rank missions like finding pets or lost items... very simple...
But! The frequency was too high! Too tiring!
As soon as one mission was completed, they had to immediately execute the next mission, with almost no rest time.
Occasionally, a few C-rank missions would pop out, clearing some wild monsters, exterminating some bandits or something...
Truly tiring.
Who could accept this...
Anyway, Naruto, Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura couldn't accept it.
However, what comforted and made the three of them happy was the feedback on their bodies and strength.
In their view, although their teacher was a hands-off teacher who occasionally disappeared, never taught ninjutsu, and was not very responsible, he often prepared some potions he researched (Orochimaru researched) for them that helped them become stronger.
So much so that compared to themselves more than a month ago, they had undergone considerable changes in both body and strength.
This made them very grateful to their teacher "Lexon" in their hearts.
Orochimaru: What about me?
"Hang in there, there's one last one left." Lexon's words came through the mask. He raised the mission list with many mission strips crossed out, pointed to the one remaining uncrossed mission on it, and said: "Only this one left."
Everyone's attention immediately shifted to the mission list.
[C-rank Escort Mission: Escort Tazuna safely to the Land of Waves]
"Escort mission... then we can finally relax a bit on the road!" Naruto jumped up and cheered with energy from who knows where.
"Yay~" Haruno Sakura also clapped her hands happily.
Sasuke's cool expression also eased, slowly exhaling a breath of fatigue.
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