Chapter 132: Bloodline Limit
"If I practice the wind and water nature changes to their maximum, I think I should be able to fuse the Ice Style bloodline limit, right?"
Sasuke hadn't exchanged for those wind ninjutsu just to have more means of attack, but to prepare for his next big project. After more than two months of hard training, fueled by beast meat, his chakra had finally surpassed 0.5 "cards," reaching the amount of a standard jonin. He was now a genuine jonin. With Tobirama's Water Style secret and Sunagakure's Wind inheritance, he had the best possible foundation.
Sasuke's goal in fusing Ice Style was not the power of the jutsu itself, but the act of creation. Forcing his body to create a new bloodline limit would change his own DNA. And with that change, his chakra capacity would skyrocket, putting the Kage level within his reach. It was a much faster path than years of breathing practice.
While Ebizo and his forces cautiously pursued them, Sasuke put his escape plan into action. The plan was a classic military deception: feint east, attack south. While his clones created a commotion in the eastern mountains, attacking Sunagakure patrols, his true force, hidden under the veil of night, slipped downstream on makeshift rafts.
The trick worked perfectly. The Sunagakure ninjas, convinced that the Umino troops were trying to break through the encirclement from the east, sent reinforcements to that area. By the time they realized the deception, Sasuke's army had already reached the south of the Land of Rivers.
As they advanced, the population grew denser, and they had to disguise themselves as a tea caravan. Ironically, they had a large quantity of premium tea cakes that they had confiscated from bandits. The journey showed them the harsh reality of the Land of Rivers: a place rich in natural resources like tea, but impoverished by exorbitant taxes and corruption.
Sasuke was no saint. He paid tolls to small bandits and used Shun's illusions to make the larger ones fight each other. The real problem was the official security teams that demanded bribes. Seeing that the local guards' greed was a problem, Sasuke decided to switch sides. He ordered several of his men to disguise themselves as the very Sand ninjas they were fleeing from.
Suddenly, the predators became protectors. The security teams, seeing a caravan escorted by the feared Sunagakure army, became subservient, and the tolls disappeared. In this way, Sasuke's troops, disguised as a caravan, finally arrived at the largest city in the south of the Land of Rivers, the unofficial capital controlled by Sunagakure.
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