I rely on myself

Chapter 727 Fierce Confrontation
"Suffer to death!"

As soon as the game started, Gaara couldn't wait to take action. Under his manipulation, a large amount of sand flew out of the huge gourd on his back and turned into several ropes that flew towards Sasuke, trying to tie him up.

However, it was obvious that such a simple attack could not defeat Sasuke. The moment the sand was about to touch him, Sasuke's figure turned into a residual image and disappeared.

"what?!"

Gaara was obviously unable to react to this and was even very surprised. At this time, Sasuke's disappeared figure reappeared behind Gaara and threw a fierce roundhouse kick without mercy, but was finally blocked by the barrier formed by the rising sand.

This is a ninjutsu called "Sand Shield". It does not require Gaara's own manipulation or even consciousness. This technique will run automatically. The sand will form various protections on its own to block all attacks that may threaten Gaara. It can be said to be an absolute defense.

Although in the second round of exams, Sasuke withdrew early because he was cursed by Orochimaru and did not see it.

However, during the special training that followed, I learned about this technique from Kakashi, so it wasn't too unfamiliar to me.

Having said that, after witnessing it with his own eyes, Sasuke still felt that this ninjutsu was a bit tricky. Fortunately, he did have a way to break through.

"Humph! You can't stop me with just this."

Sasuke said confidently, and his figure disappeared again, and then reappeared in another direction, attacking Gaara again, but of course he was also blocked by the automatic defense of Suna.

Seeing that the attack was blocked again, Sasuke didn't say anything. His figure disappeared again and attacked from another direction, repeating this continuous attack continuously.

Although all the attacks were blocked by Sunako, any discerning person could see that under Sasuke's high-speed attack, Sunako's defense was obviously becoming increasingly slow. If this continued, Gaara's automatic defense would sooner or later be broken.

At this moment, Gaara's defense of the sand finally couldn't keep up, and before Gaara could react, Sasuke kicked him hard in the face with a roundhouse kick.

The huge force of the kick instantly caused several cracks to appear on Gaara's face. That was another layer of defense on Gaara's body, the 'Armor of Sand', which covered his body with sand to form armor for defense. Being forced out of this last layer of defense also meant that Gaara was in a disadvantageous situation at this time.

"........."

Gaara reached out to catch the sand that kept falling from his face. He was stunned for a moment, and then his face suddenly became extremely excited and he yelled at Sasuke.

"This is... I'm injured? Uchiha Sasuke, you actually hurt me, you die!! Sha Shigure!!!"

While Gaara was speaking neurotic words, he was no longer fighting passively, but took the initiative to attack, and started by controlling a large amount of sand and shooting at Sasuke like bullets. Judging from the momentum, even a huge rock would be beaten into a sieve, let alone a human body.

Sasuke naturally would not face the attack head-on, but would temporarily avoid it, relying on his own speed to dodge Gaara in a big loop. In the audience, watching Sasuke's superb physical skills, Sakura was happy, but also puzzled, that is, why Sasuke's physical skills suddenly improved so much, and it can even be said that he was reborn.

She also knew that Sasuke had been undergoing special training with teacher Kakashi for the past month, but even so, this shouldn't have happened.

Maybe Sakura is very lagging in actual combat, but in terms of theory and knowledge, she is undoubtedly very good. But because of this, Sakura knows very well that if a ninja wants to improve his physical skills, there is no other way except to practice and accumulate knowledge over the years. The most obvious example is Rock Lee.

But now the physical skills displayed by Sasuke are undoubtedly comparable to those of Rock Lee in his normal state without activating the Eight Gates. What is going on?
Kakashi and Kai were also asking the same question, but they knew the secret very well, which was——

"It's the Sharingan, right, Kakashi? You asked Uchiha Sasuke to use the copying ability of the Sharingan to copy Rock Lee's taijutsu and use it on himself, so Uchiha Sasuke's taijutsu improved so much in such a short time. Am I right?"

Although he was not good at one subject, he was an elite jonin after all, so Might Guy could tell at a glance why Sasuke's physical skills improved so quickly. Kakashi did not hide it and replied directly.

"Like you said, I did let Sasuke copy Rock Lee's taijutsu, so his taijutsu has improved so much. After all, with something as useful as the Sharingan, it's natural to use it well."

"Is that so? As for that speed, Kakashi, you wouldn't have taught him that technique, would you?"

The conversation between Kakashi and Guy did not affect the following game. Seeing that Sand Shigure couldn't hit him at all, Gaara stopped using this technique and instead used Sand Binding, which is an upgraded version of Sand Binding Coffin, which uses more sand and has a wider range of capture.

Faced with the sand that was attacking and trying to restrain him, Sasuke was a little flustered for a moment. It was not that he couldn't avoid it, but besides dodging the sand on the surface, sand would suddenly emerge from the ground under his feet from time to time, trying to grab his feet.

The first time he faced it, he was nearly caught because he didn't notice the sand coming out of the ground, but fortunately he managed to escape after some effort.

In this situation, the effect of physical skills would be very small. Fortunately, Sasuke himself was not only good at physical skills. He seized the opportunity and used the Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique to directly bombard the sand.

"boom!"

Accompanied by a loud bang of an explosion, a path was blasted out in the sand. Seeing this, Sasuke naturally would not miss it and used it to escape from the encirclement of the sand.

Gaara naturally would not just watch Sasuke escape, so he quickly controlled the sand to try to catch up with him, but his speed was obviously not enough, and Sasuke managed to escape successfully. To be on the safe side, he even ran directly to the wall around the venue and used his chakra to stick to it so as not to fall.

Seeing this, Gaara also stopped his actions. The two sides just looked at each other, and the game fell into silence, but no one in the audience said a word.

Because the current situation is undoubtedly equivalent to the calm before the storm. Once this calm is broken, what will come will undoubtedly be huge waves. Everyone present knows this.

(End of this chapter)