Chapter 114: Man's Schemes Triumph Over Heaven
"What did you just say?!"
Zabuza's eyes widened in shock…
Crackle—crackle—
The Kusanagi Sword, wreathed in pale white lightning, sliced straight through Zabuza, splitting him cleanly in two.
"Hmph, I knew something was off about you!"
Zabuza's real body slowly emerged from the mist. It turned out the one cleaved apart by the Kusanagi Sword had merely been a Water Clone.
"Oh?" Li Jie Xuan curled his lips into a smile. "Looks like you're confident you can deal with me?"
"Of course!"
Zabuza formed hand seals with both hands. "Hidden Mist—Silent Killing Technique!"
Dense fog surged forth, completely blocking Li Jie Xuan's vision. Even the circulation of chakra was affected. Yet Zabuza could use the mist to perform instantaneous movement within it…
"I have to admit, this kind of eerie assassination technique really does look flawless," Li Jie Xuan said with a smirk. "Unfortunately, it's still far too weak!"
"Since I can't see through this fog, then I'll just destroy it!"
"It's useless! The fog here can't be blown away by wind—absolutely not!" Zabuza laughed confidently.
However…
"Who said I was going to use wind?"
Li Jie Xuan sneered as he rose into the air, fists clenched. "Eight Gates—Gate of Shock, open!"
"Morning Peacock!"
His terrifying fists struck without pause. Violent power ignited the air itself, and waves of flaming punches spread outward like a tide, peacock-feather flames sweeping in all directions. Gradually…
The dense fog dissipated!
"How is this possible?!" Zabuza stared in disbelief.
"The sorrow of the weak!"
Li Jie Xuan sneered disdainfully. "This mist-killing technique may be strange enough, but it was never truly powerful. By using the flames of Morning Peacock to evaporate all the moisture in the air, the fog naturally disperses!"
Poor Zabuza—never went to school. Fog is nothing more than water combined with dust, after all!
"Dragon Chidori!"
As lightning pierced through Zabuza's body, a heart-rending cry rang out.
"Zabuza-sama!"
Haku arrived…
"Still no sign of Naruto?"
Li Jie Xuan narrowed his eyes. "In that case, I'll have to speed things up!"
Taking the Executioner's Blade from Zabuza's hand, Li Jie Xuan rushed straight toward Sasuke. The two-tomoe Sharingan and Indra's bloodline—there was no way he would give those up. However…
"Ice Release—Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!"
Hundreds of ice mirrors blocked Li Jie Xuan's path. Haku frantically unleashed ice needles from within the mirrors, every single one aimed straight at Li Jie Xuan's vital points.
"See? You can kill now, can't you?"
Li Jie Xuan waved his hand, shattering the ice needles, and shook his head with a smile. "You could have lived. It's just a shame…"
If Haku had stayed with Naruto the whole time, Li Jie Xuan would have had no choice but to abandon her Ice Release bloodline.
But in the end, she couldn't let go of Zabuza…
"Die already!"
Haku darted wildly through the ice mirrors, attacking Li Jie Xuan without restraint.
"You think you can kill me?"
The sharp ice needles struck the scales of the Dragon Sage form. Aside from faint white marks, they changed nothing at all.
"Demon, as long as I keep you here, Naruto will be here soon!"
Haku sneered as she continued flashing through the mirrors, trying to stall for time.
Hearing this, Li Jie Xuan shook his head with a smile. "Haku, you're just as naïve as Zabuza."
"What?"
"Ice Release—Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!"
Li Jie Xuan laughed as he formed hand seals, his entire body slipping directly into Haku's ice mirrors. In one swift motion, he grabbed Haku and dragged her out of the mirrors.
"No… how is that possible?"
Haku had believed she was the last Ice Release bloodline left in this world…
"In this world, there is no such thing as impossible!"
Li Jie Xuan's face turned cold as he snapped Haku's neck, then used a syringe to draw out a single unit of icy blue blood.
Next…
Only Sasuke remained!
For some reason, there always seemed to be an invisible force delaying Sasuke's death.
"So this is the protagonist's luck?"
Li Jie Xuan sneered as he grabbed Sasuke by the throat. "Even without any hidden trump card in his body, you still use the deaths of others to buy time?"
"But does that actually mean anything?"
Li Jie Xuan decisively snapped Sasuke's neck…
"Looks like this so-called protagonist luck isn't absurd enough to defy logic."
Li Jie Xuan smiled and took out a syringe, just about to extract Sasuke's Indra bloodline.
Suddenly, an extremely dangerous aura surged over him!
"What is this?"
Li Jie Xuan sharply turned his head.
At some point, the terrifying Nine-Tailed Fox had already emerged from Naruto's body. Sasuke's death had clearly completely triggered Naruto. In the Nine-Tails' mouth, a tailed beast bomb capable of annihilating everything was rapidly forming!
"So that's how it is…"
Only now did Li Jie Xuan finally realize the truth. What this world was protecting wasn't Sasuke himself—but the Indra bloodline within Sasuke's body…
Sasuke could die, but the bloodline could not be allowed to end!
That was why Orochimaru had been able to take over Sasuke's body so smoothly last time. Sasuke had died, but Indra's bloodline still lived on inside Orochimaru…
Now, the situation was crystal clear!
If he continued extracting the bloodline, he would be blasted into nothingness by the tailed beast bomb. But if he stopped extracting and dodged the tailed beast bomb…
Even if only delayed for a moment, the Sage of Six Paths would descend and crush him to death outright. Li Jie Xuan wouldn't be surprised at all!
The Sage of Six Paths hadn't appeared yet solely because, according to this world's calculations, Indra's bloodline would not be lost. Whether Li Jie Xuan chose the first option or the second, he would not be able to take the bloodline away. Because in the first choice, even if he extracted it, he himself would die—and the bloodline wouldn't be lost.
In the second choice, the Sage of Six Paths would simply crush Li Jie Xuan to death, and the bloodline still wouldn't be lost.
People often say: man's schemes are no match for Heaven's designs.
"But this time, you made one critical miscalculation!"
Li Jie Xuan sneered up at the sky. "I am not from this world!"
"Extract!"
Strange purple blood flowed into the syringe, filling an entire unit before finally stopping. The tailed beast bomb that annihilated all things slammed in, destroying the entire bridge—along with Li Jie Xuan himself!
Li Jie Xuan was dead, but the system's notification did not lie:
"Congratulations, Host has obtained Indra Bloodline (Dormant)."
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