Chapter 80: Using Genjutsu on the Noble Otsutsuki?
"Aaaah... it hurts, my head hurts so much!"
Being infiltrated by the invisible Yin Release chakra, Izayoi felt nothing at all.
Because these chakra, just like the ninjutsu blasted away and scattered by the Almighty Push, hadn't even seeped into Izayoi's body before being repelled and scattered by an invisible force of rules, causing severe aftereffects for the caster.
The miserable and shrill cries belonged to Yamanaka Fu, who had been hiding in the shadows, waiting for a chance to deliver a fatal blow, intending to seize Izayoi's body and then take the Rinnegan for Lord Danzo.
His gaze tearing through the darkness, watching Yamanaka Fu clutching his head, rolling on the ground in agony, his eyes seemingly about to burst, Izayoi was speechless for a moment, then couldn't help but utter two words in his hometown dialect: "What a moron."
Using mental-type Yin Release ninjutsu against an Otsutsuki, and a noble Otsutsuki who had awakened an ultimate ocular jutsu at that, was truly a textbook example of courting death.
Apart from taijutsu and rule-based abilities, the Otsutsuki's resistances in all aspects reached superhuman levels.
And this was just the resistance of a Red-level Otsutsuki bloodline.
If it were a pure-blooded Otsutsuki from another planet, their resistance would be even stronger, capable of immunizing them against ninjutsu, and even genjutsu at the level of Kekkei Mōra and divine arts.
This single immunity alone would be enough to make ninety-nine percent of ninjas despair.
"Continue with the area tactics."
No one paid any attention to the screaming Yamanaka Fu.
Danzo Shimura's echoing voice resounded from the darkness.
His voice blended into the Wind Release, and if Izayoi didn't have the Tenseigan and Sage Art: Sensing, he really wouldn't know Danzo's location.
"Fire Release: Dust Concealment Technique!"
The barrier tore open a very small gap, and four Root members formed hand seals, spitting out a large amount of dust inside, instantly making the barrier a hazy gray.
Before the barrier closed again, the four men gritted their teeth fiercely. A wisp of flame instantly seeped into the barrier like a lit fuse, igniting the dust and erupting into a huge orange-red blaze, about to create a tremendous explosion.
"Almighty Push."
The repulsive force storm once again blasted away the dust and flames, simultaneously slamming forcefully into the barrier.
This time, the repulsive force storm was incredibly powerful.
The barrier, like an inflating balloon, rapidly expanded, severely deforming.
Although it was tough enough not to break, the four individuals maintaining the barrier saw it pressing in on them.
Even though they were the casters, the flames on the barrier didn't recognize their master.
Before they could dispel the barrier, the four casters were touched by it.
"Aaaah..."
As the screams rang out, the Four Violet Flames Formation instantly disappeared, and the repulsive force storm expanded outwards, smashing the stone bridge and stirring up thick dust and mist.
The already dimly lit underground base instantly became pitch black, impossible to see one's hand in front of one's face.
Izayoi, who had just been preparing to increase his power to test the Four Violet Flames Formation's endurance limit, couldn't help but pause slightly.
Looking at the four charred corpses beneath the broken bridge, Izayoi shook his head and murmured softly, "What a pity, all such high-quality leeks."
After speaking, Izayoi's eyes suddenly flashed as if he had seen something.
Without the slightest hesitation, Izayoi released the repulsive force storm again, blasting away and killing the nano-sized poisonous insects invisible to the naked eye.
The moment he landed, ninjutsu of various colors rained down from all directions once more.
As before, they didn't even touch Izayoi, being ruthlessly blown away by the repulsive force.
The Root members clearly knew the power of this ability. They no longer used barriers to trap Izayoi but instead used Earth Release to turn the ground into a swamp and various long-range ninjutsu to force Izayoi to continuously use that ability, gathering information for Lord Danzo.
"Why haven't the other squads arrived yet? Didn't you relay my orders?"
In the darkness, Danzo Shimura looked at Yamanaka Fu, who had slightly recovered, and asked. "I notified everyone. The fact that they haven't arrived yet means they must have encountered enemies," Yamanaka Fu said,捂着脑袋 (clutching his head), his face looking unwell. "Earlier, I sensed several chakra signatures, they should be this person's subordinates. However, their chakra isn't strong. Unless they're defeated one by one, they shouldn't be a match for those squads."
Hearing this, Danzo Shimura's expression improved slightly.
Immediately, he turned his head to look at Aburame Torune, who had failed multiple times in his sneak attacks, and asked, "Torune, have you figured it out?"
"Yes, Lord Danzo."
Aburame Torune nodded and said, "This person's jutsu is very peculiar and powerful. It can repel and blast away all ninjutsu, and its cooldown time is extremely short. However, this jutsu also has a flaw. To release a powerful invisible storm, he needs to charge up for a while. When converting chakra into the nature transformation of that jutsu, a green shield will appear around him."
"If it's used in rapid succession, the power of the second blast, as long as there are no buildings nearby, is equivalent to an enhanced version of Wind Release: Great Breakthrough that can repel all ninjutsu. If one's physical strength is strong enough, they might even be able to withstand his second blast directly."
"He seems to know this as well, so he rarely uses it in rapid succession, preferring to charge up in place or fly into the air. This is actually the best time to attack, but..."
Aburame Torune paused slightly, not continuing.
Yamanaka Fu took over his words, looking at Izayoi, who was being 'held back' by the Root members' firepower, and said in a deep voice, "However, his Yin Release chakra is extremely powerful. The Yamanaka clan's secret techniques are useless against him, and the same might be true for genjutsu. To make him show an opening, we not only can't let him charge up, but we also need to prevent him from even using it in rapid succession, which is impossible."
"And the insects tell me his chakra is very powerful. Trying to exhaust his chakra with a rotation battle might be unrealistic," Aburame Torune added.
"Flight, offense and defense integrated, and an infinitely usable jutsu, as well as the jutsu to summon giant creatures from back then... Is this the power of the Rinnegan?"
Danzo Shimura's gaze towards Izayoi instantly filled with heat and greed. "The legendary top of the Three Great Dojutsu, it shouldn't just have these three abilities."
It seems I have no choice but to take action myself.
Danzo Shimura had already formulated a tactic in his mind.
Thus, he didn't hesitate to unwrap the bandages covering his right eye and also removed the device sealing the Sharingan on his arm, making several coded hand gestures towards Yamanaka Fu and Aburame Shino.
Seeing this, Yamanaka Fu and Aburame Torune immediately nodded and then vanished in a Body Flicker Technique.
Izayoi, who was currently playing a turn-based game with the Root members – you attack, I repel; you attack, I repel again – was in a very cheerful mood.
Because every so often, Izayoi would see a blue beam of light and a green beam of light fly in from a certain direction, penetrating all obstacles and seeping into his body.
Sometimes, even a purple beam of light would fly in.
Every time a beam entered his body, a system notification would sound in Izayoi's mind, and he would unhesitatingly decompose the skill entry into points.
The points continuously increased, each time by a random two-digit, three-digit, or even four-digit number.
In the eyes of Danzo Shimura and the others, Izayoi was being suppressed by their firepower, forced to stand passively in place and engage in a battle of attrition with them.
In reality, in Izayoi's eyes, the Root members were all precious treasures, and he was completely unwilling to use lethal force against them.
Even when they accidentally killed themselves, Izayoi would feel a pang of heartache, no less severe than a massive hemorrhage when he was broke.
If Gato was the world's foremost tycoon, then in Izayoi's eyes, the Root organization was a huge treasure trove of points.
Thanks to Danzo Shimura's pickiness, anyone who could become a Root member was at least a Chunin with a green skill entry, up to a Jonin with a blue skill entry aptitude, and even Kekkei Genkai users with purple skill entries.
Moreover, very few members were single skill entry holders; almost all were elites with two or three skill entries to start with.
On the battlefield outside, the human puppets had to kill several more people to drop a green skill entry.
But killing a Root member almost always resulted in a green or blue skill entry dropping for every two kills, sometimes even a double drop.
Such a high drop rate was something Izayoi had never encountered since obtaining the Talent Skill Entry System.
At this moment, Izayoi suddenly felt a bit teary-eyed.
His good days had finally arrived.
The anxiety of worrying about leveling up too slowly, being caught up or surpassed by cheats when Shippuden started, and then the arrival of aliens, the constant threat of the ninja world entering the era of Kekkei Mōra and divine arts at any moment, had finally been cured.
(End of this chapter)
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