Chapter 83: Kazekage, Dead
Konoha defensive line, Sector B4…
Moonlight like blood. Senju Tobirama and Sarutobi Hiruzen finally arrived here. What shocked Tobirama, however, was that Li Jiexuan was not dead—he was still fighting!
"Huff… huff…"
Li Jiexuan lay in an enormous sand crater, breathing with difficulty. Both legs were broken, his chest completely caved in, and even the dragon horn on his head had been snapped off.
With injuries this severe, they were already beyond what stamina potions could heal…
The only reason he was still alive was that the stamina potions were barely keeping him breathing.
That said, the First Kazekage's condition was not good either. His entire body was covered with dozens of sword wounds of varying sizes—marks left by the Kusanagi Sword. The Peacock technique of the Gate of View had burned him into a plucked chicken…
As for the small penetrating wound in his chest, that was the mark left by Lightning Blade!
"What a pity…"
Li Jiexuan shook his head inwardly.
That Dragon Lightning Blade—if it had been just a bit faster, he would have succeeded. But that tiny difference had allowed the Kazekage to condense sand to block most of its power…
"I never imagined that I, Reto the Kazekage, would one day be forced to this point by a three-year-old child."
Reto suddenly coughed up a mouthful of clotted blood and sneered. "But it's time for all of this to end!"
"Earth Release—Raging Sand Divine Needle!"
Reto raised both hands high. Pale blue chakra flowed between his palms!
The entire desert trembled violently. Every grain of sand eerily floated up, compressing toward Reto's hands, finally forming a gigantic sand pillar hundreds of meters long, suspended high in the sky!
If struck by that thing, even steel would be smashed into sheet metal…
"At only three years old, to force me to this extent—you already have every right to be proud!"
Reto controlled the sand pillar as it hovered before Li Jiexuan, nodding coldly. "I will use my strongest ninjutsu to send you to your grave!"
"Damn it, there's no time!"
Even Senju Tobirama, famed as the god of speed, had no way to save Li Jiexuan from Reto's hands from several kilometers away…
"Die!"
Reto violently swung his arm. The enormous sand pillar in the sky crashed down toward Li Jiexuan like divine punishment…
It was over!
Senju Tobirama shook his head helplessly. In the end, were they still one step too late?
However…
Li Jiexuan suddenly burst out laughing!
"What are you laughing at?"
Reto was gripped by panic, but the Raging Sand Divine Needle was already in motion—even he could not forcibly stop it…
"The Eight Gates are powerful precisely because there are eight of them! And up to now, I've only opened six!"
Li Jiexuan bared his teeth in a feral grin. "Gate of Shock—open!"
The Eight Gates technique is called a taijutsu that points directly to the Great Path because it embodies the resolve to carve away one's own flesh and dare to drag the emperor down from his throne!
Might Guy fighting Six Paths Madara relied on this same savage resolve of the Eight Gates!
Li Jiexuan extended the only two arms he could still move and roared through clenched teeth, "Daytime Tiger!"
A white air cannon condensed in Li Jiexuan's hands. A roaring silver-white tiger burst forth from between his palms, engulfing the immobile Reto!
The ferocious tiger roared. Even though Reto tried with all his might to twist his body aside, he was still devoured whole—leaving only an unwilling head to roll onto the ground…
The First Kazekage was dead!
Killed by Li Jiexuan, a child only three years old!
Even having witnessed it with his own eyes, Senju Tobirama could not believe it was real:
That was one of the Five Great Ninja Villages' Kage!
And he had been killed by a three year-old child?
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