Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

Chapter 134 The Fox Wolf Eagle

"Okay."

Faced with Chihaya Tohru's invitation, Hairi also put on a fake smile.

She wanted to learn medical ninjutsu, and he was a good candidate. But she never forgot the terrifying greed and desire she saw above his head when she went to the hospital that day.

That intense emotion was like a huge underground cavern, pitch black and without a single ray of light.

Even after leaving the hospital, she continued to watch over him with a disdainful look for a long time.

The medical reports about her on the table, the unidentified coded messages written on the white paper—all pointed to one fact:
This guy's identity is questionable, and he has some kind of ulterior motive towards her.

As a shadow clone, besides assisting the main body in its cultivation, its most fundamental duty is to help the main body clear obstacles and detect dangers.

Making her face danger is a hundred times better than making her face danger.

"Is Chihaya-sensei's house far away?" Hairi asked, seemingly casually.

"The housing prices in the center of Konoha are still very high."

A bitter smile of poverty appeared on her face, and the small pits on both sides of her cheeks immediately collapsed. Chihaya Toru changed out of her white coat and walked out of Konoha Hospital with Hairi in the lead.

walk down the street.

Sparse golden leaves scattered along the roadside crunched on the soles of my shoes, making a crisp cracking sound.

It's the weekend, and the pedestrians on the street don't show the usual hustle and bustle.

A slightly overweight middle-aged man put his arm around a young woman's arm as they walked through the curtain of an izakaya (Japanese pub), while a young girl in a short skirt laughed and showed off her long, white legs.

Chihaya walked with her head down, her eyes fixed straight ahead, like a camel dragging its cargo across the desert.

Above his head were two orbs of light representing good and evil, like the intermingling of black and white clouds on a rainy, overcast day.

Hui Li followed behind him with her hands behind her back, her meager chakra flowing gently within her.

The chakra allocated to 'Ninja Academy Gray Glass' was the least, almost negligible, followed by 'Yin Release Gray Glass', which was not a focus of training.

Because she had class today, she received the most chakra.

It has about one-third of the original body's chakra, and considering its extremely high chakra quality, it contains more chakra than an average Jonin's entire chakra.

The deathly gray Byakugan locked onto Chihaya Toru's gaunt body. The opponent's chakra was less than that of her shadow clone, and her physical condition was pitifully weak. If the opponent showed the slightest abnormality, she would be met with a thunderous blow that would be enough to kill a Jonin.

"Chihaya-sensei, what's the difference between the life energy released by medical ninjutsu and human life force?" Hairi asked Chihaya, suppressing the killing intent ignited by the lightning.

Chihaya Tohru paused for a moment, then continued walking while answering:
"The difference is that one is fake and the other is real."

"What do you mean?"

Hui Li narrowed her eyes, a thoughtful look flashing in them.

"It's very simple. Is the water you condensed using Water Release real water? Can it quench your thirst if you drink it? If it can, then it's real; if not, then it's fake."

Medical ninjutsu is a type of Yang Release ninjutsu; in essence, it's just chakra that resembles life force, but it's far removed from true life power.

"But Water Release chakra can manipulate external Water Release techniques."

"You don't actually think that the healing power of medical ninjutsu comes entirely from the fake life force you mimic with your chakra, do you? How much chakra would it take to heal one person?"

Chihaya Toru glanced back at Hairi, who seemed to have grasped something, then continued forward:

"Medical ninjutsu cannot save someone who has lost their life force. Of course, there are exceptions. If you are willing to give your life force to someone else, you may have a chance to help them regain their life."

Injecting life?

The art of self-reincarnation?

Hui Li's eyes lit up, and she instantly thought of the resurrection technique that Chiyo used to revive Gaara.

Converting chakra into life force is something few in the entire ninja world can do, but manipulating someone else's life force through medical ninjutsu is much simpler.

She had always wanted to absorb the tailed beast's chakra to convert it into life force, but this step was really too big.

If we temporarily skip the step of converting chakra into life force, using medical ninjutsu to extract the life force of others and inject it into the 'gates' of our own Eight Inner Gates seems like a good approach.

Directly utilizing someone else's existing life force requires less technical skill, and it eliminates the need for humans as consumables, as well as the need to fight the tailed beasts.

She could see the vitality in the carp.

It is entirely feasible to first devour the life force of ordinary animals little by little to resolve the imminent crisis of the Corpse Bone Pulse, and then slowly search for a way to convert chakra later.

You've been a great help, Chihaya-sensei.

A jumbled mess of thoughts began to clear, and countless ideas sparked in her mind. Hui Li seized the inspiration to consider the feasibility, and the two, both preoccupied with their own thoughts, fell into a state of tranquility.

Click, click!
The withered yellow leaves rustled softly underfoot.

The autumn evening breeze is clear and carries a unique coolness.

Hui Li touched her cool arm and looked up.

Before they knew it, the two had walked quite a distance. There were no pedestrians on the street anymore, and even the street itself was gradually disappearing. The ground beneath their feet had unknowingly turned into a rough dirt road.

The roadside flowers and plants began to grow noisy, and the massive tree canopies obscured the distant buildings, casting dense shadows on the ground.

Chihaya Tohru continued walking forward at a leisurely pace, showing no intention of stopping.

"Not here yet?"

"Yes, my home is in a rather remote area."

His voice was no longer as enthusiastic as before; instead, it was cold and perfunctory. Perhaps this was his true nature.

Following behind Chihaya Toru, Kairi looked around. Unbeknownst to them, twelve blinding chakra fluctuations had already surrounded them.

Click!

The leaves were crushed into dust by the black ninja boots. Hui Li slowly stopped, and the fingers behind her back began to crackle with electricity: "It doesn't seem that remote. At least you have quite a few neighbors."

call out!
The words have not yet fallen.

A shuriken, gleaming coldly, flew out from the dense bushes, spinning as it hurtled toward Gray Glass's cheek.

Using shuriken to probe before engaging in combat—is this some kind of unspoken rule among ninja groups? Gray Glass inwardly scoffed at this textbook-style, universal tactic.

An electric arc flowed through his entire body along his nerve plexus, and pure pupil power enveloped the space.

hum~
Lightning Release Chakra Mode complements the Byakugan.

With her accelerated reflexes and superhuman dynamic vision, the high-speed spinning shuriken seemed to slow down as if a fan had been turned off, and she could even count the nicks on the blade.

One, two...

The windmill-shaped shuriken has four notches, undoubtedly belonging to a veteran of the battlefield.

Hui Li surveyed the twelve masked figures that appeared around her, and finally waited for the shuriken to fly in front of her.

Hold it firmly with three fingers.

The shuriken, with its immense impact, immediately settled obediently in my palm, like a withered leaf falling from the treetops.

Fingers gripped the hollow center of the shuriken.

Zizi!

Lightning Release surged from his heart.

The high-energy particle stream activates muscle cells, causing them to jump wildly, while tissue fibers contract simultaneously, concentrating extreme physical power at the fingertips.

overhead.

At the very top of the lush green canopy.

The woman, blending seamlessly with the green leaves, remained motionless, yet her firefly-like chakra core flickered incessantly, like a peacock displaying its plumage in courtship, exerting all its strength to attract Hui Li's attention.

She did it.

The Byakugan's pupils contracted, locking onto the enemy's chakra core.

The tendon instantly tensed like a bow.

A tremendous force surged from the soles of the feet, through the calves, thighs, and arms, all the way to the fingertips, forming a perfect kinetic chain. A flick of the finger!

collapse!
His entire body trembled, as if a massive bow of immense weight had been drawn.

The shuriken at his fingertips instantly became illusory.

laugh!
"Uh~"

The masked ninja hidden at the top of the tree canopy lowered his head in disbelief.

Her hair fell down to her chest, but it couldn't stop the fountain of blood.

At her heart, flesh was torn apart by an inexplicable force, and blood gushed from a star-shaped cavity the size of a bowl. Golden sunlight shone through her back, illuminating her eyes.

This was the first time she had ever seen sunlight in this way.

So...so fast!
boom!
Wow...

The body fell from the tree canopy, smashing through countless withered yellow leaves before crashing to the ground, its blood spraying and staining the leaves a dark red.

There was no mourning, no roaring.

Eleven dark figures slowly appeared, forming a fan shape around Gray Glass. The swirling patterns on their masks rotated slowly in the shadows of the leaves, like eyes peering into people's hearts.

Chihaya Toru remained indifferent, continuing to walk against the flow of people, leaving only a thin, frail figure behind.

Four Jonin-level chakra, seven Special Jonin.

What a generous gesture.

Is this feeling of deathly stillness coming from the roots?

The electric arc crackled between her fingers, and the silver-haired blind girl tilted her head, a pure smile on her face that was more terrifying than coldness.

"Everyone... is there something you need?"

Her response was a chilling, murderous intent.

Whoosh!Whoosh!
Two ANBU ninjas, wielding kunai, rushed out of the crowd. Their rapidly moving figures became two black streaks, and in the blink of an eye, they appeared in front of Hui Li.

at the same time.

Four Jonin simultaneously formed hand seals, their movements so fast that afterimages appeared. A strange Yin Release power crossed space, and unknown Earth Release, Water Release, and Wind Release lights lit up at the same time.

A sharp, piercing sound of wind breaking suddenly arose.

Blah blah blah!

Five steel cables flew out from the sleeves of the five special Jonin, shooting in from different angles, with a pale blue chakra glow at the ends of the chains.

The halo outlined an incredibly complex structure, like a mad python biting at the blue figure in the center.

Physical techniques, illusion techniques, ninjutsu, sealing techniques... she seemed to be caught in a net of heaven and earth all at once. The suffocating and meticulous offensive, mixed with killing intent, reached its peak in an instant.

The heart beats wildly.

Roll your eyes!!

boom!
It was as if a glass had been dropped on a cement road.

The mysterious Yin-style power was instantly shattered by the power of the pupil. Before the unknown illusion could even manifest, it disintegrated into countless fragments of light.

Just then, the martial arts duo finally arrived.

The arm traced a crescent moon shape in mid-air.

One man leaped into the air, holding a knife in his hand, and stabbed fiercely at Hui Li's Baihui acupoint on the top of his head. Another man held a kunai in his hand and leaned forward to stab Hui Li in the lower abdomen, like a greedy wolf.

Zizi!

A blinding flash of lightning erupted, and suddenly everything in front of the two was filled with white light.

A fierce glint flashed in Gray Glass's eyes. He turned his head to avoid the cold light piercing from above, and stepped on the blade aimed at his abdomen with his dark ninja boots. Using the momentum, he spun around with his right leg and slammed it down on the neck of the ANBU below.

The black boots, moving at breakneck speed, traced a semicircle in the air, forming a black moon.

Click!

Blood and bone fragments splattered everywhere.

The operative's neck was broken by the kick, and his head hung at an odd angle from his neck, bloody and resembling a red lantern hanging under the eaves during the Lunar New Year.

Then, a green light appeared in her mouth, and her pink tongue gently flicked against the dark area that was pressed against her face in mid-air.

hum!
In an instant.

The ANBU member was instantly torn in two by wind-style attacks, starting from between his eyebrows, and fell to the ground with a thud.

Because of the speed of his wind escape, his left and right hemispheres were not yet aware that they had separated, and he crawled to the left and right sides with his limbs gripping the ground.

Within a quarter of a second, two special ninjas skilled in taijutsu were killed by Hai Li.

At this moment, various escape techniques and iron lock sealing techniques finally arrived, albeit belatedly.

boom!
The Wind Release and Earth Release techniques clashed, unleashing a terrifying shockwave from the intense chakra. The two corpses were torn apart by the leaking Wind Release chakra, blood and flesh mixed with dust flying everywhere, and the iron chains were shattered by the shockwave.

Rumble…

Trees fell, and leaves flew everywhere.

A huge cloud of smoke completely covered the center of the field.

No one asked useless questions like "Is it resolved?" The ninja who had just used Wind Release quickly formed three simplified hand seals and spewed out a gust of wind.

Call ~
The harmless gale pushed away the billowing dust, revealing a huge, yellowish-brown crater below.

The pit was a deep crimson mess, a mixture of flesh and mud that made it impossible to identify the deceased.

"She's dead."

Scanning the corpses of his companions in the pit, the voice of the Wind Release Anbu was colder than the glaciers of the northern lands.

"Can't die."

Standing in the center of the dark area, looking at the pit ahead, Chihaya Toru said with absolute certainty.

As Hui Li's attending physician, no one knew better than him how abnormal this monster's survival ability was. Despite the horrific wounds that exposed his lungs, he slept for one night and was being pushed around the hospital by the Third Hokage the next day, and was discharged three days later.

There is also that kind of chakra full of yang attribute, which can make plants sprout new buds simply by being exposed to the light of chakra.

He even suspected that even if the monster were skinned and dismembered, it could grow back all its flesh and blood within a few hours.

"Find quickly!"

At this moment, the ANBU member who had just used genjutsu finally broke free from the backlash of his mental energy. Enduring the throbbing pain in his temples, he sensed the ninjutsu enveloping the space.

"There she is!"

The loud shout from the illusionist operative immediately attracted everyone's attention, and they followed the direction he was pointing.

About twenty meters above the ground, on the bent branches of the tree canopy, a tiny figure stood on one leg, looking down at the crowd.

Dressed in black and shrouded in lightning.

They were too far away to see her expression clearly, but the heavy sense of oppression weighed on everyone's hearts, making it hard to breathe.

Illusion magic is ineffective.

The 'Cat Raccoon', skilled in stealth and assassination, was instantly killed by a shuriken. The 'Wolf' and 'Eagle', adept at high-speed hand-to-hand combat, were killed by a single kick and inexplicably split in two.

Needless to say, their speed is exceptional; ordinary ninjutsu and sealing techniques would find it difficult to catch such a fast-moving taijutsu ninja.

According to information provided by Chihaya Toru, its recovery ability and defense are also top-notch.

In addition, there are the well-known Water Release technique without seals, the Bloodline Limit with unknown abilities, and the possibly existing Eight Gates...

This is an enemy without any weaknesses!

As their minds raced through the information about the girl above them, everyone's breathing became heavy and suppressed.

(End of this chapter)