Seeing that only Kurenai had entered hand seals, Sasuke realized the three jōnin were underestimating him. This annoyed him slightly.
Who are they trying to test? Why start with someone using genjutsu?
Kurenai always had a habit of using illusions on Uchiha. In the original timeline, she even attempted to use genjutsu on Itachi, who easily broke it with his Mangekyō Sharingan. Now, here she was again—casting genjutsu on him.
Kurenai finished the hand seal rapidly, but to her surprise, Sasuke remained completely unaffected—and even winked mockingly at her.
"Senpai, didn't I ask you not to hold back?" Sasuke said, his tone calm but firm. "Since you all seem to look down on me, I suppose I'll have to offend you a little. Also, Genjutsu has no effect on me. So Kurenai-sensei, there's no need to waste chakra."
Then he extended his left hand forward, palm open.
"Hadō #63: Raikōhō (Thunder Roar Cannon)!"
A torrent of yellow lightning erupted from Sasuke's hand, thundering toward the three jōnin.
Kurenai, still startled by his earlier words, leaped sideways to dodge the sudden blast. Asuma and Hizashi did the same, narrowly evading the A-level ranged lightning spell.
"Immune to genjutsu?! That's not possible!" Kurenai thought, shaken. If this was true, then her primary specialty was rendered useless. She prided herself on her genjutsu skill—without it, her combat role was drastically limited.
Minato, observing from the side, was also surprised. "Even the Sharingan can't completely nullify genjutsu without activation. But… he didn't even use his Sharingan."
"That lightning attack just now… it definitely has the power of an A-rank ninjutsu, and it was cast instantly—without hand seals," Asuma said, his forehead damp with cold sweat. "That's not ninjutsu… It's something else. Stronger."
"Don't forget, his power stems from a system," Hizashi reminded them, his tone serious. "That means he probably has several techniques of that level at his disposal. We can't treat this lightly."
After hearing Hizashi's assessment, Asuma nodded and unsheathed his trench knives—chakra-enhanced with wind nature transformation. The blades' reach and sharpness increased dramatically.
Kurenai, despite her shaken confidence, pulled out a kunai. Her expression was stiff. She still didn't fully believe Sasuke's claim. She planned to test him again later.
Seeing all three jōnin getting serious, Sasuke smiled faintly.
"Good. Now I'll show you a different power," he said as he raised his zanpakutō in front of him.
"Scatter, Senbonzakura."
Before their stunned eyes, Sasuke's blade dissolved into thousands of thin, reflective slivers—each shaped like a cherry blossom petal—floating in the air and gleaming under the sun.
"What kind of technique is this?" Kurenai murmured.
The three jōnin watched the swirling blade fragments in confusion and awe.
Minato narrowed his eyes. This feels like a specialized ninja tool… but nothing like this has ever appeared in our records. What exactly is this power?
Sasuke gave a casual warning. "Be careful, senpai."
With a wave, the glowing petals surged forward in a tidal wave of razor-thin blades aimed at the jōnin trio.
"Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm!"
Hizashi activated his Byakugan, launching twin bursts of chakra-palm strikes, scattering a large section of the blades.
Asuma, with wind chakra flowing through his trench knives, met the incoming slivers head-on, slicing them apart on impact.
Kurenai struggled to block with just her kunai, on the defensive. Seeing this, Asuma growled and increased the output of his chakra blades, extending them to slice away some of the petals threatening her.
They moved as a team. Kurenai didn't thank him, but nodded, focusing on regrouping.
Asuma then charged Sasuke directly, slashing downward with his chakra-boosted trench knife.
Sasuke dodged to the side, but the wind-enhanced edge still clipped a strand of his hair.
Before Asuma could follow up, Sasuke calmly raised a finger.
"Bakudō #61: Rikujōkōrō."
Six glowing rods of light shot from his fingertip, slamming into Asuma's body, locking him in place.
The trench knife slipped from Asuma's hand—only for his wind chakra to remotely command it to slash the light rods apart, breaking free. He caught the weapon mid-air.
At the same moment, Hizashi closed in.
"Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"
A rapid barrage of precise strikes closed in. Sasuke caught the first palm and began countering each blow with his own movements. Their hands blurred with speed, each strike met and deflected with fluid precision. Despite holding his sword's hilt with one hand, Sasuke's taijutsu remained unshaken—calm and efficient.
Then—danger from behind. Sasuke sensed Asuma's renewed assault.
Without looking back, the scattered Senbonzakura petals converged behind him, forming a crystalline shield.
Asuma's trench knife clashed against it with a high-pitched screech, unable to pierce through.
But the barrier was faltering. Sasuke could hear it creaking from the pressure.
Thankfully, Hizashi's combo ended just then.
"Eight Trigrams, Sixty-Four Palms—Complete!"
All sixty-four strikes landed simultaneously—yet Sasuke's hands had moved like lightning, blocking every one.
His taijutsu alone is on par with a tokubetsu jōnin, Minato noted silently, eyes sharp.
Sasuke retaliated with a kick. Hizashi crossed his arms to block, but the force still knocked him back several meters. At that instant, the shield behind Sasuke shattered again into thousands of slivers.
As Asuma raised his blade for a follow-up, the slivers reformed into the shape of Sasuke's katana, clashing against the wind blade.
Asuma's eyes widened. This trench knife is enhanced with wind chakra—it should cut through steel. But his blade… it didn't even chip.
"Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death!"
Still unwilling to concede, Kurenai attempted another genjutsu. But it fizzled out upon activation.
This time, she finally believed Sasuke's words.
With silent acknowledgment, she charged in, kunai in hand, ready to engage physically.
Asuma swung his other trench knife toward Sasuke—but sensing the tide turning, Sasuke jumped back, escaping their encirclement.
"Hadō #88: Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō!"
A colossal beam of crackling white lightning erupted from Sasuke's outstretched hand, engulfing the trio in a blinding flash. The sheer intensity of the technique forced everyone to shield their eyes.
JOIN MY PATREON TO READ ADVANCED 30+ CHAPTERS
patreon.com/FrancisMW
Five chapters uploaded every two days on patreon.
One chapter uploaded everyday on webnovel.
patreon.com/FrancisMW