An Iwagakure jōnin was advancing rapidly, covered by his companions.
In this battle, they not only had to guard against Konoha's ninjas, but also against fireballs coming from afar.
However, as a jōnin, as long as he remained alert, those fireballs posed no real threat to him.
Yesterday, the power of that fireball had already been demonstrated. In just one night, it couldn't possibly have improved by much.
With full concentration, he continued rushing forward.
At that moment—
A fireball flew in from the distance, clearly aimed at him.
But it was just a fireball.
He raised his kunai, preparing to knock it aside.
Right then, the fireball suddenly expanded, transforming into an enormous fire-dragon head that howled as it charged straight at him.
Long-Range Fire Dragon Strike!!
"Damn—" The jōnin only had time to curse before being swallowed whole by the fire dragon.
In the distance, Hyuga Arin watched as it passed through his field of vision.
[Experience +10,561]
"So it really is incredibly effective." Hyuga Arin clenched his fist.
This was the first time he had killed a jōnin from an ultra-long distance.
Just over the course of this morning alone, including this jōnin, he had already farmed more than thirty thousand experience points.
"Today, I'll push for a hundred thousand!!"
Hyuga Arin shifted his gaze to another jōnin and began pouring chakra into a kunai.
Another Long-Range Fire Dragon Strike shot toward the distant Iwagakure jōnin.
This one was clearly faster than the last. He used Earth Release: Instant Movement to leave his original position in a flash. The blossoming fire dragon instead engulfed two genin who failed to dodge in time.
[Experience +847]
[Experience +859]
"It's not over yet!!!"
Hyuga Arin's Byakugan instantly locked onto the moving jōnin. The third Long-Range Fire Dragon Strike was already thrown.
The jōnin who had just escaped danger turned his head and saw yet another fireball rushing toward him. As it bloomed into a fire dragon, he realized that this time, he truly couldn't evade it.
"So you're really dead set on killing me, huh…"
What grudge, what hatred?
He chose to give up resistance and closed his eyes.
"BOOM!!!"
[Experience +19,957]
"Level up."
The chakra within his body rapidly recovered to its full state.
"This time, I can use four of them." The corner of Hyuga Arin's mouth twitched upward. With the newly gained experience, it was even enough for him to level up once more.
It could be said that he had fully achieved his goal of sustaining himself through battle.
Just as he was about to continue his bombardment, his gaze suddenly shifted to the ground around him.
From deep underground, several massive streams of chakra were emerging.
Konoha's ninjas wouldn't approach him from underground—they could just run straight over.
"Looks like I've been noticed." Hyuga Arin quickly understood the enemy's strategy. The fierce fighting up front was meant to draw everyone's attention.
They had dispatched a group to detour underground and come in from behind, directly executing a decapitation strike on him.
If successful, they could even launch a surprise attack on Konoha's ninjas afterward.
But the core of this strategy lay in the brutal battle up front. To draw Konoha's attention, they had to pay an enormous price in casualties.
"They're really willing to spend lives." Hyuga Arin raised his hand. Right now, he was at full strength.
There was no such thing as a successful sneak attack.
God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand.
With his left hand, he took out an explosive tag. Chakra poured out rapidly, and one explosive tag after another quickly formed in his hand, gradually scattering throughout the entire watchtower.
After finishing this, he flung kunai in all directions.
These were all the real thing.
"Trying to play stealth in front of a Hyuga? You've really got guts."
They had no idea that within Konoha's trenches, there were Hyuga branch-family members stationed.
To avoid being discovered, they had even taken a longer route.
When they realized they were already close to the watchtower, one jōnin was the first to burst out of the ground, his hands forming seals at high speed.
"Earth Release: Earth–Stone Dragon!"
Countless rocks and chunks of earth formed into a dragon. This Earth–Stone Dragon technique was no weaker than the Water Dragon Bullet Technique. The stone dragon surged toward the top of the watchtower.
Watching the stone dragon rush up, Hyuga Arin's mouth twitched.
"These guys don't play by the rules."
All the explosive tags he'd worked so hard to make!!
Whoosh!
His figure vanished, leaving behind only a substituted kunai.
The stone dragon smashed heavily into the watchtower.
"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"
Explosions rang out in succession, blasting the entire upper section of the watchtower into dust.
Using the Substitution Technique, Hyuga Arin had just landed when a pair of hands suddenly reached out from the ground.
His figure vanished once again, reappearing at the location of another kunai.
One by one, Earth-style ninjas emerged from the ground.
"One, two, three, four, five, six… You really think highly of me—six jōnin at once." Hyuga Arin bared his teeth in a cold grin.
With this much commotion, the trench line should have already received the news. As long as he could hold out, that would be enough.
He still had one more chance to level up.
Against six jōnin, he wouldn't even dream of a counter-kill. His only demand was to survive!!
"Earth Release: Earth Rising Spears!"
Countless sharp rocks suddenly burst out from beneath Hyuga Arin's feet as two Iwagakure jōnin charged straight at him.
"Trying to instant-kill me?" Hyuga Arin grabbed the jagged rock with one hand, flipping his body upside down. As he did, the charging Iwa ninja's figure suddenly vanished.
From the predictions of the Eight Trigrams Gentle Fist, if he stayed there, he would be instantly killed.
As he landed, Hyuga Arin tilted his head slightly.
Earth Release: Rock Stealing Rod.
A stone rod brushed past his ear and struck the ground not far away.
At the same time, two coordinating Iwa ninja rushed in, engaging Hyuga Arin in close combat.
But—
Hyuga Arin shifted to the right. One Iwa ninja rushed past his front. The ninja's pupils slid to the corner of his eyes, keeping track of Hyuga Arin's movements.
Twisting his body midair, he spun and kicked toward Hyuga Arin—
Hyuga Arin raised a finger and jabbed upward.
It was as if the Iwa ninja had deliberately sent his leg into that precise strike.
Another Iwa ninja attacked from behind. Hyuga Arin suddenly crouched down—this was one advantage of a body that hadn't fully grown yet. The ambushing ninja's kunai stopped against the abdomen of the ninja whose acupoint had just been struck.
As jōnin, he managed to halt his taijutsu attack in time.
"Fire Release: Great Fire Dragon Technique!!"
Hyuga Arin took a deep breath and unleashed a raging fire dragon, detonating right in the midst of the three of them.
At this distance, once the Great Fire Dragon Technique was used, none of the three could escape!!
"BOOM!!"
Hyuga Arin was blasted into the air, his body covered in severe burns. If not for his high defenses, it wouldn't have been just burns.
The two Iwa ninja, however, were not so lucky.
[Experience +18,773]
[Experience +19,872]
They had never imagined that Hyuga Arin would use such a mutual-destruction fighting style.
No matter how fearless someone was, unless pushed to utter despair, they wouldn't fight like this.
"Earth Release: Heavenly Descending Adhesive Clay!!"
The air above Hyuga Arin suddenly rippled as layers of crimson sticky clay fell from the sky, about to crash down onto him.
He twitched his fingers.
The surface of his body had already been burned to charcoal. He had completely lost the ability to move. All of his skin was carbonized, and even his internal organs were gradually failing.
Even if the enemy didn't use ninjutsu anymore, Hyuga Arin was already not far from death.
Unless—
He could level up.
"Level up!!"
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