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The flames and shockwaves formed by the exploding tags, along with countless shattered pieces and melted sand, all erupted from the cannon's black hole!
A tall ANBU, slow in operation, was instantly blown apart at the waist, falling to the ground, unconscious and at death's door!
A deafening roar echoed in the confined space, causing everyone to experience tinnitus!
And at this moment, Wujie formed a hand sign, and with a thump, a Shadow Clone appeared in front of him. The small guardian crane crashed into it with a laugh, then quickly transformed into a large, adult-sized sand crane, and then charged into the crowd!
The guardian crane, its face smeared with blood, let out a crazy laugh. It waved its two huge sharp claws and directly tore at the nearest ANBU ninja!
Tearing sound!
That ANBU, before even shaking off the tinnitus, was instantly torn to shreds by the claws!
"Hahaha!!! How refreshing! How refreshing!" The guardian crane looked at the others with bloodthirsty eyes, its voice arrogant and wild. "You pathetic ninjas, all go to hell! Go to hell!!!"
The rampaging guardian crane instantly created a bloodbath in the secret room!
Regardless of ninjutsu or taijutsu, all attacks were blocked by the rising sand! Even if it was only an extremely small fraction of its power, a Tailed Beast was not something an ordinary ninja could contend with!
His comrade was being torn apart by the guardian crane. Kakashi, unable to bear the injuries to his own body, kicked the guardian crane and used the recoil to retreat behind him. Then he quickly formed several hand signs with both hands, and the three tomoe in his eyes instantly began to spin. A large amount of lightning-style chakra once again filled his entire body!
The wound he had just wrapped suddenly split open. Stimulated by the lightning-style chakra, the blood within his body quickly circulated, delivering energy to his entire body. But it was also because of this that bright red blood, like a small stream, sprayed out from his wound. A large amount of electricity once again emitted a piercing shriek, condensing in his palm!
"Lightning Release · Lightning Cutter!!!"
Kakashi instantly transformed into a bolt of electricity. The guardian crane's gaze turned to Kakashi. From its abdomen, a sand claw suddenly sprang out, grabbing at Kakashi!
But the movement trajectory of the giant claw was completely seen by the Sharingan in his eyes. With the enhancement of lightning-style chakra, Kakashi ducked his head to dodge the giant claw. Then, like a flash of lightning, he instantly darted into the guardian crane's body, simultaneously piercing its chest with his Lightning Cutter!!!
The guardian crane's two eyes widened, then with a thump, they exploded, turning into countless grains of sand that scattered in all directions! After all, its true form was just a shadow clone that shattered with a single hit.
But Wujie immediately extended a hand towards Kakashi, then twisted his wrist, and softly spoke: "Sand Binding!"
As his voice fell, the sand scattered in the air instantly gathered towards Kakashi! Kakashi wanted to dodge, but when the guardian crane exploded, the sand had already drifted around him. So, in just an instant, a large amount of sand gathered, binding Kakashi inside. Only his head was exposed, preventing him from suffocating to death.
The victory seemed clear, but Kakashi suddenly laughed at this moment. He gasped, slowly saying, "You know, when ANBU was established, it was for executing secret missions that couldn't be made public. So, to ensure that enemies wouldn't gain intelligence through their corpses, every ANBU ninja adhered to the iron rule of 'no corpses left behind'! Is what you're doing before us truly just a meaningless struggle!!!"
After Kakashi finished speaking, a large number of talismans suddenly appeared on the surrounding walls, already emitting light!
Kakashi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he loudly shouted, "Whirlpool! Come to hell with me!!!"
Wujie looked at the thoroughly activated self-destruct formation and said indifferently, "You're waiting for the self-destruct formation to activate, but do you know what I'm waiting for?"
Kakashi was stunned. The Yin-Yang Staff in Wujie's hand also radiated dazzling light at this moment. And in the confined space, Wujie fiercely slammed the glowing Yin-Yang Staff onto the ground. The staff instantly released ten thousand rays of light, instantly engulfing everyone standing there!
Then...
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!!!!!
The self-destruct formation instantly generated a series of violent explosions. Blazing fire dragons rapidly formed fire tornadoes in the confined room. Everything caught within them was instantly incinerated into charcoal. Then, as the wind blew away the charred remains, the flames once again incinerated the interior. In such an extreme short time, the fire tornadoes had incinerated everything into ashes!
Then, with a loud boom, the accumulated energy blasted a huge hole in the ground, and a fire tornado, carrying all the ashes, shot upwards!
And as the flames subsided, a clear breeze swept through. All the ashes were carried away by the wind. Everything that had existed here had vanished from this world.
But...
Kakashi's eyes at this moment were already wide like copper bells, because what appeared in his line of sight was a blood-red space!
The ground cracked and extended countless fissures. In the position of the sun, there was a distorted evil spirit hanging there!
Barrier Jutsu! Temporarily an unknown dimension!!!
Kakashi had Kamui on him, so to ensure he wouldn't run away or encounter other unexpected situations, Wujie had intended to pull him into this different dimension from the very beginning. Otherwise, he also had some self-destructive means in that stronghold.
"This is!? Spatial Ninjutsu!!!" He instantly understood his current situation. His knowledge of thousands of ninjutsu was useless here. He knew that his ultimate plan had also failed. A feeling of pain and despair rapidly swelled in his heart.
Kakashi struggled desperately, but the sand binding him even began to shake! Wujie's eyes narrowed. The eye of Indra on his forehead instantly flashed with black light. Then, he slammed his black staff onto the ground. The patterns on the small guardian crane's body flowed like water, rapidly flying towards the sand and then swiftly forming a symbolic pattern on top of the binding, completely binding the chakra reactions within Kakashi's body!
Wujie looked at those patterns thoughtfully at this moment. He discovered that when he used the sand layering technique earlier, when he used the patterns on the guardian crane's body to form a formation, both the speed and effectiveness seemed to be better.
But now was not the time to think about these things. Wujie immediately memorized this matter in his heart.
A large amount of sweat flowed down Kakashi's forehead. He felt as if his chakra was about to be completely drained from his body, so he questioned Wujie, "What did you do to me!?"
Wujie chuckled softly, "It seems you haven't realized it yet."
Kakashi was startled, then immediately asked, "Realize what?"
Wujie looked at his eye, which had already transformed from a three-tomoe Sharingan into a faint three-sickle-blade Mangekyō Sharingan, and smiled.
It seemed they had truly arrived at the right time. Kakashi's eye had actually long been a Mangekyō Sharingan.
However, he couldn't manipulate the Sharingan, and in this version, ninjas' chakra limits were very low, so this eye had always remained in the three-tomoe state.
But just now, Kakashi's spirit had undergone a drastic fluctuation. The eye, which had absorbed power through pain and longing, returned his will and extracted a large amount of chakra changes within his body, transforming it into the Mangekyō state.
But clearly, Kakashi at this moment didn't know about this matter, because the process of this change was interrupted halfway. He was now weak and dispirited due to chakra deficiency and the imposed seal, and simply couldn't sense his own changes.
If he were to activate the Mangekyō in perfect condition, he might be able to research how to use Kamui in a short time. After all, he was a super genius.
However, Wujie looked at the other two ANBU ninjas who were also teleported in with him and smiled at Kakashi, "It's nothing. We just feel it's time to end this. After all, we have other important matters."
Xiang Ran heard this, then pulled out the large dagger behind her back.
She stepped towards the two ANBU ninjas whose faces were ashen. As a result, before she even made a move, the ANBU, knowing that there was no hope of survival, cast ninjutsu on themselves, burning themselves into a pile of ashes.
This is ANBU?
Wujie chuckled softly, then came in front of Kakashi. The tightly packed sand made his face turn pale.
Hatake Kakashi, who had mastered thousands of ninjutsu, clearly had three students, but other than the trees and water everyone knew about, he only taught one person ninjutsu. He even wanted to train Sakura, that violent waste ninjutsu user, into a waste ninjutsu user. He really didn't know what he was thinking.
Wujie was about to place his hand on Kakashi's face when Kakashi stared weakly at Wujie and said, "Someone like you, who doesn't understand the true meaning of a ninja, will sooner or later be defeated by the ninjas you wish to eliminate! I will be waiting for you in the afterlife!"
"Ninjas, huh?" Wujie heard this, then chuckled. He then said to Kakashi, "Do you know, in my opinion, ninjas are a social class with a particularly severe '阶级固化' (class solidification)? Do you remember that when Naruto graduated from the ninja academy, a class of twenty-seven people only had nine successful graduates? So who are these nine people?"
"Shikamaru Nara, the eldest son of the Nara clan head; Ino Yamanaka, the sole daughter of the Yamanaka clan head; Choji Akimichi, the sole son of the Akimichi clan head; Hinata Hyuga, the eldest daughter of the Hyuga clan head; Kiba Inuzuka, the sole son of the Inuzuka clan head; Shino Aburame, the sole son of the Aburame clan head; Sasuke Uchiha, the sole bloodline descendant of the Uchiha clan head; and Naruto, the Fourth Hokage's son. Besides these people, have you noticed anything else? Everyone else has a deep background, and it's impossible for them to be eliminated."
And even if you add Might Guy's team, Neji is a genius, Lee is a hard worker, and Tenten is a commoner. They are not even ordinary geniuses, hard workers, or commoners. Neji can reverse-engineer from basic skills, directly recreating lost secret techniques. Lee can even exhaust all other hard workers. Tenten can carry hundreds of millions of explosive tags with her. Only such people can compensate for the gap in their backgrounds.
Even Sakura's graduation was largely due to being in Sasuke's team. If she had been assigned to a team with other commoners, her academic identity would have been useless, and she would probably have been sent back to the academy long ago.
But facts prove that if Sakura receives proper training, she can also become one of the Sannin of the new era.