Unaware that he was about to be eliminated, Shen had already helped take down over forty or fifty Rock-nin who emerged from underground with Nayou and Nawaki.
This sneaky and underhanded tactic didn't achieve any effect against Team One—a group that excelled in every aspect.
"Aw c'mon, what—do you need the whole gang to take us on before you stand a chance?" Shen said, creating two shadow clones while the white glow intensified in his hands.
The two who caught his glance immediately understood the next plan.
"Pfft, if you can't even handle over two hundred weaklings, what are you bragging for?" Nawaki, playing his part perfectly, successfully provoked the Rock-nin hiding underground until their tempers flared.
Nayou, whose acting skills had clearly improved, taunted with icy confidence, "Just over a hundred weaklings? I could finish them off in half an hour max."
Several ninjas who couldn't contain themselves anymore were sliced in half by a spinning [Lightning Transmission] the moment they surfaced halfway.
At the center of the two [Lightning Transmissions], Shen suddenly felt nostalgic about the Disadvantaged Four from Sunagakure back then.
Nowadays, Team One's acting skills were no longer as inexperienced as six years ago.
With such an Oscar-worthy plot and his own Yingdi-level acting skills, did only six or seven people fall for it?
It just proved that even with Yingdi support, it was still hard to carry young actors with such inexperienced acting skills.
"So yeah, you're nothing but a bunch of cowardly trash," DJ Shen muttered as he set up his subwoofer and hit play on the deck.
The bass-heavy electronic music capable of blasting through the entire underground instantly invaded the minds of more than a hundred surviving Rock-nin.
The ninja of Iwagakure naturally followed a will as hard as stone.
But their mentality was gradually beginning to crack under various methods soon to be employed by Uchiha's second young master.
"La la la, let's give a warm round of applause for the next batch of victims about to get intimate with Shinigami!" The sarcastic commentary coming from DJ Shen's subwoofer pushed the Rock-nin's anger level up another notch.
Their mission was simply to capture him.
Killing him? After all, once they returned to Iwagakure Village, Onoki would use his Dust Release technique anyway, sending them all to join their target in Yomi, right?
Their wills as solid as stone firmly guarded their final line of defense.
However, even these mentally strong Rock-nin soon broke through their defenses.
"Rock-nin are weak, really weak; Rock-nin are trash, really trash!"
Their hearts were soon struck with tens of thousands points worth of harsh reality.
"I'm an Uchiha, built to beat Rock-nin! You're a dumb Rock-nin, born to be crushed by me!"
The shrill voice of puberty continued delivering damage measured in ten-thousands of units of truth.
For those Rock-nin hiding underground, their patience had already reached its limit.
They swarmed upward all at once, attempting to capture that brat who shattered their mental composure using sheer numbers.
"Swish"
A flash of [Lightning Transmission] harvested six more lives.
Pressing the auto-play button, Shen gracefully maneuvered around with his shadow clones to the beat of the rhythmically rich electronic music.
His head bobbing along with the rhythm and his wonderful spinning, jumping movements could only remind one of that special title—the Dance King.
Even Nayou throwing punches in Kung Fu style and Nawaki raining blows nonstop were impressed by how effortlessly he danced through battle.
"Damn brat, the Tsuchikage will never..." An ill-fated Rock-nin had his head cleanly severed by Lightning Transmission.
Shen, sensing everything, turned around in confusion and said, "Huh? That flying elderly savior won't be fine either?"
"Zzzt!" The returning Lightning Transmission also sliced through the waist of this collapsing corpse.
Sighing deeply, Shen shook his head wryly: "I'm truly worried about the shinobi world's future when dealing with you clueless ninja all day long."
Looking old beyond his years, he quickly regained his spirit and leaped back into the clustered Rock ninjas.
As everyone knows, lightning defeats earth.
Four or five Earth Flow Walls were split into halves within a blink of an eye.
If Team One witnessed such ridiculous scenes right now, the Allied Forces fighting the Five-Tails would surely accuse them of abandoning their ninja honor?
At least Black Zetsu, hiding in shadows with concentric circles swirling in his eyes, began to somewhat believe who exactly Asura's reincarnation was.
The Allied Forces who drove the Five-Tails into the Land of Earth were now down to half their numbers.
With all ammunition spent and finally seeing Kokuo fall, everyone felt relieved.
Five-Tails Kokuo, capable of wiping out Jonins with a single tail swipe, indeed performed poorly under Han's greatly diminished rationality.
"You—" Tsunade flipped over some rocks and seeing an injured Rock-nin stirred her sympathy slightly: "Are you alright?"
"Cough cough—" Severely injured with internal organs displaced, he spat out a large mouthful of blood immediately.
"Why did you save..."
"Don't speak. Just stay still obediently." Activating Medical Ninjutsu, Tsunade started treating him.
From the perspective of shinobi, both sides stood as irreconcilable enemies destined to fight to the death.
Yet from a doctor's perspective, Tsunade indeed had no justification to abandon treating this dying Iwa ninja.
Watching silently from nearby, Jiraiya didn't think helping enemies was necessarily good, but he understood and supported her decision.
Indeed, war makes people grow up quickly.
Orochimaru gradually experienced the pain and helplessness accompanying loss of life.
Tsunade gained additional kindness—a non-discriminating compassion rooted in her identity as a physician.
Jiraiya, always joking around, also learned understanding and tolerance toward others.
Faced with the overwhelming power of the Tailed Beasts, ninjas became like numbered pawns—losing precious lives two or three at a time.
"Painful, isn't it?" Mamba approached Jiraiya.
"Yes," Jiraiya replied firmly, raising his head toward the setting sun casting golden rays across the evening sky. "Even if it hurts, we ninja must endure it."
"Because we're ninjas."
Mamba felt slight tremors in his heart.
He never thought a young man fresh from his first real battle could already understand the heavy burden carried by ninjas.
Is our main job really just killing? Can money really force ninja warriors to carry out every kind of plundering and massacre mission?
Jiraiya believed that the idea of treating murder as a profession and letting money dictate ninja actions was completely wrong.
Every ninja has their own vision and beliefs. To obey orders without question and become a cold-hearted machine for tasks is no noble destiny.
"My disciple will be the reformer of the shinobi world. And I, one day, will face a moment of decisive choice."
Jiraiya recalled his childhood, when he accidentally arrived at Mount Myoboku to cultivate Sage Art, and the prophecy made by the Great Toad Sage in the end.
"Unprecedented peace... or utter destruction!"
The two possible outcomes revealed by the prophecy made him suddenly feel a sense of anticipation at this moment.
"Wandering the shinobi world and writing novels — now that sounds like a life worth living."
Jiraiya pictured what it'd be like after the war was over — wandering the shinobi world side by side with Tsunade.
Probably end up the two of us laughing our heads off while dodging every creditor in town?
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