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Chapter 46: Water Release: Water Fang Blade! Believe in Miracles!
Kakuzu didn't let his guard down for a moment after Uchiha Shi's words.
Looking at the three shurikens heading straight for his weak points, although he didn't know what was going on, he assumed Uchiha Shi had just gotten lucky.
A cold light flashed in his eyes, and he kicked off the cliff face with his long legs, sending a few pebbles flying. He delivered a high kick.
The pebbles tore through the night air and fell downward.
With two clangs, two shurikens were knocked away, and Kakuzu dodged the third one.
By this time, Uchiha Shi had already closed in.
He twisted his foot slightly, spinning the kunai in his hand and thrusting it straight at Kakuzu's chest, aiming for his heart.
Kakuzu immediately adjusted his position, turning his body to the side and following up with a spinning elbow strike aimed at Uchiha Shi's face.
His movements were so fast that Uchiha Shi couldn't even see them clearly, and the hair on his neck stood up, his heart ringing with alarm.
[Talent: Battle Intuition (Beginner, S) activated.]
His body instinctively crouched, dodging the elbow strike.
This move took even Kakuzu by surprise.
Although he wasn't particularly skilled in taijutsu, his seventy years of combat experience and the enhanced physical abilities from Earth Grudge Fear made his movements impossible to see with a single tomoe Sharingan.
Uchiha Shi seized the momentary opening and slashed at Kakuzu's left ankle with his kunai, while simultaneously delivering a side kick from the Cloud Hidden Cross-Type Taijutsu, aiming to cripple Kakuzu's good leg.
Kakuzu's eyes narrowed.
The sutures on his left foot opened, and seven or eight Earth Grudge Fear threads shot out, wrapping around Uchiha Shi's kunai. He then executed a scorpion tail kick with his right leg, aiming for Uchiha Shi's face.
Uchiha Shi shuddered and instinctively crossed his arms to block.
At the same time, he gripped the kunai tightly, trying to cut through the thin Earth Grudge Fear threads.
But he was kicked into the air.
Swish!
The threads were severed simultaneously.
"It's over!"
Kakuzu declared coldly, grabbing Uchiha Shi's face and slamming it into the cliff face with a violent push.
Bang!
The force was so great that rocks shattered and blood spurted out.
Uchiha Shi's head spun, and with his last bit of consciousness, he tightly gripped the kunai and stabbed it into his equipment pouch.
Kakuzu lifted Uchiha Shi, who was lying on the cliff face, and sneered coldly.
"Looks like you're nothing special."
"Who gave you the courage to challenge me alone?"
With that, Kakuzu's eyes turned cold, and he delivered a straight punch to Uchiha Shi's abdomen.
He then grabbed Uchiha Shi's head and kneed him in the face, followed by a spinning kick to the shoulder, a scorpion tail kick to the chest, an elbow strike to the face, and a sweeping kick to the back of the head, ending with a final kick to the face.
Each move was ruthless and merciless, using all his strength on Uchiha Shi.
The final kick sent Uchiha Shi flying, smashing him into the edge of the barrier, his head covered in blood, and his face unrecognizable.
"Huff," Kakuzu exhaled.
Even an iron ball would have been flattened into an iron pancake after such a beating, let alone a human head.
However, Kakuzu glanced at the corner, where Uchiha Shi was lying quietly, and frowned.
"The barrier hasn't been opened, and he's still not dead?"
Outside the barrier, Terumi Mei and Fugaku could only watch as Uchiha Shi charged in recklessly.
And very quickly, in less than a minute, Uchiha Shi was sent flying back by Kakuzu's relentless combo.
It was a terrible sight.
It was hard to believe that just a minute ago, he was a handsome young man. Now, he looked more like a bowl of tofu pudding that had been smashed to pieces.
Terumi Mei:
Fugaku: .
Both fell silent.
So, after all that fierce fighting, you couldn't even leave a scratch and were beaten back.
What was the point of that?
However, at that moment, Uchiha Shi, who had been beaten into a pulp, suddenly stretched his fingers and slowly pulled himself up, gripping the barrier and the cliff wall.
The swelling and wounds on his head rapidly healed.
Soon, there was no trace of injury left.
The reason for this was that Uchiha Shi had used a technique he had just learned from the Divine Farmer—
Prohibited Technique: Flesh Regeneration.
This technique allowed him to quickly heal injuries by consuming his life force and stamina.
In the future, Orochimaru would improve upon this technique and create the miraculous Regeneration Technique.
Uchiha Shi stood up, fully recovered.
Although he was covered in blood, which made him look fierce and terrifying, his spirit and energy were unbroken.
He not only felt no shame from his defeat but laughed loudly.
"Hahahaha!"
"I knew it!"
As he spoke, Uchiha Shi pulled out a kunai from his equipment pouch, removed the Earth Grudge Fear threads, and wrapped them around his fingers, pulling them tight.
"This material is as strong as chakra threads, and since it's no longer connected to Earth Grudge Fear, Kakuzu can't control it anymore."
"It can be used as a weapon!"
Terumi Mei and Fugaku were stunned, looking at Uchiha Shi's happy face with a sense of unease.
"Are you crazy? You rushed in and got beaten up just to figure out this strange thing?"
Terumi Mei glared at Uchiha Shi, who was just a step away.
She pounded on the barrier and shouted, "Open the barrier quickly and let me in!"
"If you keep this up, you'll die!"
"Huh?" Uchiha Shi turned his head at the sound of her voice and saw that Terumi Mei and Fugaku were still there, feeling a bit speechless.
"Why haven't you left yet?"
"Didn't I tell you to run?"
Hearing this, not only Terumi Mei but even Fugaku's face turned angry.
"Stop being a hero here!"
"If we're going to leave, we'll leave together!"
"..." Uchiha Shi fell silent for a moment, unsure how to respond.
In the end, he pretended not to hear and changed the subject, speaking seriously to them.
"This isn't a meaningless thing. This information is crucial to me!"
Then, Uchiha Shi turned to Terumi Mei and asked solemnly.
"By the way, you're still here.
"Could you tell me the hand signs for Water Fang Blade?"
Terumi Mei frowned.
Water Fang Blade was a secret technique of the Terumi clan. In the future, the Sixth Mizukage, Chojuro, used it against Momoshiki Otsutsuki.
This technique could withstand Momoshiki Otsutsuki's Six Paths Ninja Tool Fishing Rod and had the advantages of shape-shifting and low chakra consumption, making it a valuable ninjutsu.
She hesitated for a moment but then spoke.
"It's Rabbit-Goat-Snake hand signs. What are you planning to do?"
Uchiha Shi nodded. Although the single tomoe Sharingan could see the flow of chakra in the body, it could only give a rough idea, not enough to replicate ninjutsu.
But knowing the hand signs, combined with the recorded chakra flow, greatly increased the chances of replicating the ninjutsu.
Uchiha Shi had tested his natural chakra affinity and found it to be water and fire, which met the prerequisites for this technique.
"Huff, you'll see soon."
Uchiha Shi didn't explain further and immediately turned around, holding the kunai and making the hand signs.
Rabbit-Goat-Snake.
After only two attempts, he successfully condensed a water fang blade about two and a half feet long, swirling on the kunai.
Just a moment ago, Uchiha Shi had keenly observed that this technique had severed Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Fear tentacles when used by Terumi Mei.
The brief battle had already proven that even with the Sharingan and innate battle intuition, Uchiha Shi was no match for Kakuzu, who had seventy years of combat experience.
If he just charged in, he would definitely lose!
However, in the world of ninjas, Ninjutsu is the existence that creates miracles!
Uchiha Shi, who possessed a wide range of ninjutsu, forbidden techniques, and even the godlike Shuriken control technique, believed that a miracle would be born in his hands!
So, the first step was to borrow some tools from Kakuzu!
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