Chapter 77: Shocking the Entire Arena
"He... he's flying!"
"That young boy, he can actually fly!"
"Can ninjas even use flying ninjutsu? That's... that's amazing!"
"Those two youngsters don't seem easy to deal with. It looks like this match will be even more intense than the previous ones!"
"..."
Watching Izayoi, who had no wind barrier surrounding him and was defying gravity with an unknown ability, the audience seats remained silent for only a few seconds before erupting into a clamorous uproar.
Gasps of surprise, murmurs of discussion, and excited shouts of astonishment rose in a continuous wave.
Unlike the ignorance of the common people, the ninjas present wore expressions of shock.
"A flying ninja? Could that kid have learned the Earth Release: Light-Weight Rock Technique from Iwagakure?"
"Is it a ninjutsu, a secret technique, or a Kekkei Genkai?"
"It's him! The top rookie of this year, a ninjutsu prodigy who has mastered five nature transformations! If I remember correctly, he seems to have developed a version of the Fourth Hokage's Rasengan on his own, and even fused two nature transformations into a Storm Release ultimate technique."
"Could it be that this flying ninjutsu is also something he developed himself? What astonishing ninjutsu talent!"
"..."
Various exclamations of awe echoed within the ninja circles as well.
This time, even elite Jonin like Kakashi Hatake and Might Guy were visibly taken aback.
"A-amazing... Onii-chan can fly," Hanabi stammered, her eyes wide with disbelief.
Hearing this, Hiashi Hyuga, whose own eyes were also trembling, immediately looked towards the contestants' waiting area, veins bulging at his temples.
When he saw that all the other contestants had dumbfounded expressions, while only his eldest daughter wore a faint smile, he finally closed his Byakugan, his heart unable to calm down for a long time.
It seemed that Izayoi and Hinata had discovered they were being watched a long time ago.
Otherwise, the information gap wouldn't be this significant.
Five nature transformations, plus the Rasengan and Storm Release ultimate technique, and now this flying ninjutsu...
Neither the guards nor he himself had any knowledge of this information.
These two youngsters were truly skilled at concealing their abilities!
"Konoha truly lives up to its reputation as a cradle of geniuses. I never expected they would even have a flying ninja, a rarity in the ninja world."
In the VIP seats, Orochimaru was also expressing his amazement.
Hiruzen Sarutobi remained silent, taking a slow puff of his pipe, his eyes filled with undisguised delight.
Truly... outstanding!
Lord Hashirama, Teacher Tobirama, your decisions were correct!
The Senju's integration into Konoha has filled the village's future with hope.
The Uchiha orphan, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, the ninjutsu prodigy with unknown bloodline... Konoha will rise again in this generation.
Izayoi, now the center of everyone's attention, slowly floated down to Genma Shiranui's right side.
Genma Shiranui gave Izayoi a deep look, then raised his arm and shouted, "Second Round, Izayoi VS Gaara... Begin!"
After swinging his arm down, Genma Shiranui immediately used the Body Flicker Technique to leap backward, creating distance between himself and Izayoi and Gaara.
Even ordinary people could tell from their entrances that this match would be incredibly intense, let alone him, a Special Jonin who had once served as the Fourth Hokage's guard.
Both Izayoi and the black-eyed, gourd-carrying kid had an aura and chakra that were ridiculously strong.
As the match began, Gaara stood with his arms crossed, looking at Izayoi with a blank expression, showing no change in demeanor despite the latter's ability to fly.
It wasn't that Gaara's mental fortitude was exceptionally strong; rather, he was covered in a layer of sand armor, and the face on the outside was actually a mask.
Beneath the sand armor, his true expression was one of savage bloodlust.
As if sensing its master's will, the large gourd on his back automatically opened its stopper, and a large amount of sand, similarly defying gravity, surged out, swirling around Gaara, awaiting his command.
In the next moment, Gaara opened his crossed arms and launched the first attack.
However, it wasn't the sand surrounding him that flew out, but two waves of sand that suddenly erupted from the ground on Izayoi's left and right, like giant hands attempting to engulf him.
"Sand Binding Coffin!"
As Gaara's voice echoed, the two waves of sand merged together, twisting into a spiral knot.
Since becoming a weapon of slaughter, countless individuals had died in Gaara's combination of this technique and Sand Burial.
But this time, no blood stained the sand.
Gaara looked up, only to see a figure in a white robe floating in the sky – Izayoi, who had vanished using the Body Flicker Technique without anyone noticing.
Looking down at Gaara, Izayoi murmured in a voice only he could hear, "In my current state, I don't have time to play your childish ninja games."
As the words fell, Izayoi immediately raised both hands, condensing a massive blue and white energy ball. Then, the white within the energy ball rapidly transformed into a blue even deeper than its outer layer.
Without even calling out the name of the technique, Izayoi hurled the massive energy ball downwards.
"Sand Shield!"
Witnessing the falling energy ball and sensing the Water Release nature transformation contained within, Gaara didn't hesitate. He immediately crouched down and slammed his hands on the ground, expending a huge amount of chakra to turn the earth into sand, which then floated upwards, forming a massive shield to block the energy ball.
Boom—
A deafening explosion erupted. The energy ball failed to break through the sand shield, instead sinking about a third of the way in before detonating into a gigantic water tornado.
The water tornado acted like a drill, continuing to bore into the sand shield while simultaneously spewing out a large amount of water, making the sand even heavier.
Izayoi hadn't expected this single attack to take down Gaara.
Almost the instant he threw the energy ball, Izayoi raised his hands again, condensing another energy ball.
This energy ball wasn't as large as the previous one, only about the size of a basketball.
Then, two energy balls the size of billiard balls appeared inside the larger one, their colors rapidly changing from blue and white to one blue and one white.
The contestants and Jonin who had watched the preliminaries in the central tower were all very familiar with this technique – the S-rank Storm Release ultimate technique that had recently spread throughout Konoha's Jonin circles.
Just as they all thought Izayoi was about to unleash that Storm Release ultimate technique called Judgment...
Under the wide-eyed, shocked gazes of these ninjas, yet another energy ball appeared inside the Super Hurricane Consecutive Spheres.
This energy ball was initially also blue and white, but in less than two seconds, it turned a vibrant orange-red.
Even those who didn't understand nature transformation and shape manipulation could see that this energy ball contained the power of fire.
Watching the three-colored orbs – the white of lightning, the blue of the ocean, and the red of fire – rapidly rotating clockwise inside the energy ball, some individuals in the audience seats immediately began making coded hand signals.
Kabuto Yakushi, disguised as a Konoha Anbu member, hid in the back, ready to weave hand seals and cast a jutsu at any moment.
The three colored orbs rotated clockwise within the energy ball, like the tomoe in a Sharingan.
After several rotations, one of the blue orbs suddenly switched from clockwise to counter-clockwise, colliding with the approaching white orb, with the red orb following closely behind.
The collision of the three orbs was like shattering glass orbs. The three liquids contained within surged out, mixing together, gradually transforming into a completely new color.
It was a cyan with flowing flame-like light.
"Ultimate Technique... Luminous Blast Cannon!"
Izayoi uttered the name of the jutsu and then hurled it downwards.
At this moment, the water tornado had just shrunk and disappeared, and a huge dent had appeared in the floating sand shield.
As if equipped with a tracking system, the cyan energy ball plummeted towards that dent.
Along the way, its speed increased rapidly.
Its basketball-sized volume also expanded like a water-filled balloon, and its shape transformed from a sphere into a cylindrical beam of cyan light.
While both were beams of light, Judgment was a diffuse electrical attack, like a waterfall.
But this cyan beam of light had orange-red flames flowing both on its surface and within. Anyone with sensory abilities could detect the destructive power contained within this beam.
"You've got to be kidding me, people will die!"
Genma Shiranui, who was outside the range of the sand shield, immediately used the Body Flicker Technique to fly towards the high walls.
And Gaara also felt the aura of death, as if his mother was warning him in his ear.
Without the slightest hesitation, Gaara made a hand seal and whispered, "Tanuki Sleep!"
His eyes closed, and his consciousness instantly entered a deep sleep.
Then, both the gourd and his body turned into sand. The earth and the sand shield above also transformed into waves of sand, engulfing Gaara.
BOOM————
The cyan beam of light struck the waves of sand.
A sky-shattering explosion instantly reverberated throughout Konoha's central street.
The massive plaza violently shook.
The audience members closest to the explosion covered their ears with their hands, their faces contorted in pain, feeling as if their hearing had been stolen.
And the audience members standing outside the plaza were so terrified by the sudden explosion and tremors that they collapsed to the ground.
The residents of Konoha all stopped what they were doing and turned to look in the direction of the plaza.
A gigantic mushroom cloud rose into the sky.
Before they could begin to discuss it, dense shadows shot out from all directions, beginning to attack the patrolling ninjas.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
A shout, its origin unknown, echoed, bringing with it a vast expanse of white mist. Then, a gigantic three-headed snake appeared out of thin air, wreaking havoc as it advanced from the village gate.
In the plaza, the audience members hadn't yet recovered their hearing when they vaguely saw white feathers fluttering down. A strong drowsiness overcame them, and they fell asleep where they sat.
The Konoha Crush plan had officially begun!
(End of this chapter)
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