Naruto: The Ninja World's Life Buyer

Chapter 137 Encounter! The AB Combination

The Land of Fields, a forest not far from the front lines.

This is a mountainous area with rugged roads. Under the gloomy sky, withered trees stretch towards the heavens like ghostly claws.

The Takaya Trading Company's convoy moved slowly along the muddy road.

"stop."

Sosuke suddenly raised his hand.

In his left eye, the white snake was writhing wildly in its socket. He saw it.

The two sides of the canyon, 500 meters ahead.

There were no ambushes.

However, static electricity permeated the air. That was the trace left by the high-speed movement of Lightning Release chakra.

"interesting."

Sousuke smiled.

"As expected of the AB duo, they don't even bother with an ambush; are they planning to just charge straight in?"

"All personnel on high alert!" Hyuga Katsu shouted. He saw it too, even with his Byakugan.

Just then.

Rumble—!!!

It's a sonic boom. A sonic boom like thunder.

At the mouth of the canyon ahead, two figures, accompanied by lightning, smashed through the air and rushed towards them at terrifying speed.

"Yo! Looks like this is Konoha's supply team!"

The tall figure let out a wild roar.

A. The future Fourth Raikage.

He was completely enveloped in lightning armor, his hair stood on end, and his muscles were bulging.

"Idiot! Bastard! Destroy all the supplies! Yeah!"

The man next to him, wearing sunglasses and rapping, is none other than Killer Bee, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.

The two men completely disregarded the guard team.

Faced with absolute speed and power, ordinary ninja guards are nothing but paper.

"Absolutely Superb: Thunderous Plow and Hot Blade!"

The two men separated tacitly, one on the left and one on the right, like two giant scissors, about to cut the entire convoy in half.

At that speed, no one but Minato Namikaze could keep up.

"They're here!"

Sosuke stood atop the carriage, calmly watching the approaching Grim Reaper. He suddenly pulled upwards with both hands.

collapse!

The wire mesh that had been buried underground on both sides of the road sprang up instantly.

"Such a petty trick!" Ai scoffed.

His lightning armor was indestructible; steel wire couldn't even cut through his skin.

He crashed right into it.

The steel wire snapped, but instead of bouncing off, it stuck to his lightning armor.

"Hmm? This is—"

Ai's body paused slightly.

The steel wire was covered in glue!

Sosuke pulled again, and another wire mesh sprang up. Each wire was covered with a dense array of explosive tags.

"Explode!" Sosuke shouted without hesitation.

Boom boom boom boom—!!

Hundreds of explosive tags detonated simultaneously.

Flames shot into the sky.

Even with the Raikage's defensive capabilities, it's impossible for him to emerge unscathed from being bombarded by hundreds of explosive tags at close range.

Ai was thrown by the blast wave and crashed heavily onto the rock wall.

"Big brother!"

Seeing this, Kirabi wanted to come to the rescue.

But a white figure blocked his way.

Hyuga Katsu. He assumed the stance of the Steel Gentle Fist.

"Your opponent is me."

Chirabi narrowed his eyes behind his sunglasses.

"The Hyuga clan? Then I'll crush you! Yo!"

Killer Bee pulled out the seven swords from behind him.

His posture was extremely bizarre, with the knife held between his elbows, knees, neck, and mouth. It looked comical, yet exuded a chilling murderous aura.

"Wild chestnut, rare heron, felling knife!"

His body began to spin like a top, and the seven swords transformed into a meat grinder, rolling towards Hyuga Katsumi.

Ding ding ding—!!

The dense clanging of metal created a continuous sound.

Hyuga Katsu did not retreat.

Beneath his skin, a thick layer of periosteum had already formed. The hardness of his bone veins was on full display at this moment.

Seven knives slashed at his shoulders, chest, and thighs, sparks flying, but they only cut through the skin and got stuck in the periosteum.

"What the hell is this? Bones?"

"Hard to the touch, won't make a sound, you idiot! You bastard!"

Hyuga Katsu seized this fleeting opportunity.

Five sharp finger bones suddenly emerged from his fingertips, and he pushed out with both palms, compressing chakra in his palms.

"Steel-Gentle Fist - Collapse!"

boom!

He slammed a palm down hard on Killer Bee's chest.

Kirabi grunted and slid back two meters.

But that's about it.

Hyuga Masaru felt as if he had slapped a piece of elastic rubber. Killer Bee's incredibly strong muscles, combined with the activation of Lightning Release chakra, took the hit head-on.

The skin was pierced by the finger bone, and blood seeped out.

"Ouch, that hurts!"

A glint flashed in Killer Bee's sunglasses.

He put away his playful smile.

"Lightning Release: Supersonic Lightning Blade!"

Zizizi!

A blinding blue light simultaneously shone from all seven knives.

The high-frequency vibration of lightning.

This is the nemesis of Earth Release and Hardening Technique. Utilizing high-frequency vibrations, it increases extreme penetrating power, capable of cutting through even rock like tofu.

brush!

Killer Bee swung his sword again.

laugh-

Hyuga Katsu's periosteum was cut open. Sparks flew and blood splattered as the pale bone was sawed by the lightning blade.

Hyuga Katsumi now has seven deep scars on his chest.

"Hmm!"

Hyuga Katsuki was forced to retreat.

The muscles at the wound site were twitching, and the cytokines of the Kaguya clan began to operate wildly.

Stop bleeding, set bones, promote regeneration.

In just three seconds, the wound scabbed over.

"Regenerated? Are you a monster? You bastard!" Killer Bee exclaimed in surprise.

Hyuga Masaru did not answer. He knew that in a contest of sheer physical strength, he had lost. Lightning Release was effective against bones.

Then let's rely on skill.

"Corpse Bone Pulse: Dance of the Tang Pine!"

Puff puff!

Hyuga Katsu's bones bulged out of his body, turning him into a pale white hedgehog.

He spun around, using bone spikes to jam Killer Bee's knife, restricting his movements.

At the same time, he created some distance.

"Eight Trigrams - Empty Palm!"

But what he shot wasn't air.

shhhhhh!

Countless tiny fragments of finger bones, mixed in with the chakra shockwave, blasted towards Killer Bee like a shotgun.

Killer Bee parried with his sword, but was forced to retreat repeatedly.

Sosuke didn't watch the fight between the two; he wasn't idle.

He opened a huge sealed scroll.

"Summoning: Ninja Tool Torrent!"

Splash—

Countless ceramic kunai and mechanical shuriken rained down on Ai's location.

Each ninja tool was coated with a neurotoxin he had obtained from Orochimaru.

"This quantity—"

Ai, who had just crawled out of the ruins, felt a chill run down his spine as he looked at the ninja tools raining down like a shower of flowers.

When did Konoha become so extravagant? This kind of fighting style is simply burning money!

"Lightning-Struck Horizon Chiyo Dance!"

Ai roared and swung his hand, creating a lightning barrier that shattered all the incoming ninja tools.

But there are too many ninja tools.

Moreover, several special Fuma Shuriken were mixed in among them.

That's a modified "explosive windmill." Once it's hit, the explosive clay inside will explode.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Ai was forced to retreat step by step by the continuous explosions.

Although he wasn't seriously injured, he was in a sorry state.

A dignified quasi-Raikage was actually suppressed by someone using a gadget?

"Damn brat!"

Ai was furious.

The lightning around him surged, and his chakra level reached its peak.

"I'm going to tear you to pieces!"

He pushed off with his foot, and the ground collapsed. This time, his speed reached its limit.

Even Sosuke's snake eyes could only catch a fleeting blue afterimage.

Steel wire? Glue?

Faced with such absolute speed, there was simply no time to deploy defenses.

In an instant, Ai had already rushed in front of Sousuke. The heavy fist wrapped in lightning was only an inch away from Sousuke's head.

Sosuke could even smell the acrid odor of ionized air.

There's no escaping it.

But he didn't panic. Because he saw it.

At Ai's feet, on that muddy land.

A pair of pale hands reached out silently and grabbed Ai's ankles.

"Earth Release: Heart-Slaying Decapitation Technique?"

Ai sneered, wanting to shatter those hands.

But he discovered that the hands weren't straining, nor were they pulling him forcefully; rather—

They coiled around his legs like snakes. They were two enormous pythons!

"Hidden Shadows, Many Snake Hands"

Orochimaru slowly rose from the soil and stood in front of Sousuke.

He licked his lips, his golden eyes filled with greed.

"Your body looks very strong."

Ai stopped what he was doing. He looked at Orochimaru, his expression turning extremely grim.

"Orochimaru—?!"

Is this a trap?

""

Ai instantly understood everything.

The supply teams and merchants are all a facade.

Konoha's true trump card is this monster, one of the Legendary Sannin.

"Since you're here, leave something behind."

Orochimaru formed hand seals.

"The Formation of Ten Thousand Serpents!"

Countless venomous snakes poured out of his mouth, turning into a sea of ​​snakes that engulfed Ai.

The battle between top experts has begun.

Sosuke took the opportunity to retreat and land in a safe area.

"Is this... the level of an S-rank mission?"

Sosuke wiped away his cold sweat.

This was a hundred times more dangerous than any battle he had ever experienced before.

If he hadn't prepared a massive amount of ninja tools, and if Orochimaru hadn't intervened in time, he would be dead by now.