Naruto: The Ninja World's Life Buyer

Chapter 249 Heroes Born of Pain, Books Stained with Blood

Konoha's northeastern defense line. The border between the Land of Lightning and the Land of Fire.

This place is full of hills and dense forests.

Jiraiya stood on a hill.

His long hair danced in the wind, and his face no longer held the frivolousness of the past.

His eyes were deep and menacing.

After Minato Namikaze died, Jiraiya changed.

He watched as his most prized disciple perished alongside the son of the Third Raikage for the sake of the village.

It was a heart-wrenching pain.

Pain has matured this middle-aged man.

"They're here."

Jiraiya looked at the valley in front of him.

The earth was shaking.

The sound of footsteps pounding on the ground.

The army of the Hidden Clouds.

They had no formation whatsoever.

Or rather, their formation was a full-scale charge.

Each Cloud Village ninja was surrounded by flashes of blue and white lightning.

Lightning Release activates cells. This grants them superhuman speed and penetrating power.

They were like a herd of mad bulls, trying to use ninjutsu to smash through Konoha's defenses.

"Too fast."

The observation post at the front of Konoha cried out in alarm.

"One kilometer to contact! Five hundred meters! Three hundred meters!"

The speed at which the Cloud Village charges is almost twice that of an ordinary ninja.

Jiraiya crouched down and slammed his hands onto the ground.

"According to Advisor Sosuke's plan."

Jiraiya gave the order in a deep voice.

"Detonate."

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The traps that had been laid long ago on the path that the Cloud Hidden Army was bound to take were detonated.

But it wasn't the detonator that exploded.

Instead, it was 10,000 specially made projectiles provided by the Takaya Trading Company.

The shockwave exploded.

A thick, grayish-white liquid filled the air, falling like raindrops into the valley.

That's high-strength insulating adhesive.

The vanguard of the Cloud Village directly crashed into this "glue minefield".

"What is that?!"

The Cloud Village Jonin at the forefront felt his feet suddenly stop.

He was going too fast, and his momentum was immense. The moment his feet were stuck, his upper body couldn't stop, and he crashed onto the glue-covered ground.

Immediately afterwards, the people behind couldn't brake in time and crashed into the car one after another.

"It's glue! Cut it open!"

The Cloud Village ninjas immediately mobilized their Lightning Release chakra, using the high-frequency vibrations of lightning to cut through the slime.

But this is precisely the insidious aspect of Sosuke's design.

This special resin is not only insulating, preventing the conduction of lightning chakra, but it also hardens when heated.

The lightning armor worn by the Cloud Village ninjas emitted extremely high temperatures.

When they tried to break free using lightning, the viscous resin underwent a chemical reaction under the high temperature.

"Click click click—"

The resin hardened.

In just a few seconds, the glue stuck to their legs and hands turned into shackles harder than concrete.

They were locked in place.

"I can't move!"

"My legs are blocked!"

The vanguard of the Hidden Cloud Village, hundreds of ninjas, were turned into statues fixed in place.

Their speed advantage was completely negated.

Jiraiya stood up.

He bit his finger and quickly formed a hand seal.

"Hai—Xu—You—Shen—Wei!"

"Ninja Art: Summoning Technique!"

Bang! ! !

A huge cloud of white smoke exploded on the mountaintop.

A giant red toad, as large as a mountain, appeared on the battlefield, a pipe dangling from its mouth and a short knife in its hand.

Miaomu Mountain, Gamabunta.

"Jiraiya, shall we begin?"

Wen Tai exhaled a puff of white smoke, his voice booming like thunder.

"here we go."

Jiraiya's voice was calm and undisturbed.

He jumped onto Bunta's head.

"Bunta, use that."

In the past, Jiraiya would have softened and used other methods.

But now, for the sake of the survival rate of the Konoha ninjas, he only wants the most efficient killing.

"Bring the oil!"

Wen Tai took a deep breath, his huge belly bulging high.

"puff"

Toad oil is flammable.

"Fire Release Team! Ready!"

Jiraiya roared.

On the battlefield of Konoha, the elite members of the Sarutobi clan stepped forward.

Among them was even a boy who was only twelve or thirteen years old. He was a student of Misa Hayama, named Tetsuya Sarutobi.

Dozens of Konoha ninjas who were proficient in Fire Release simultaneously took a deep breath.

Jiraiya also formed the hand seals for Fire Release.

"Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet!"

"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"

Countless flames shot out.

When the raging fire came into contact with the toad oil that filled the sky.

"boom!!!!!"

The entire valley was instantly engulfed in flames.

This is no ordinary fire.

The base material of insulating resin + the combustion aid of toad oil + the raging fire of the Sarutobi clan.

The combination of these three elements creates an extremely terrifying mixture.

It turned into a high-temperature napalm bomb that was extremely difficult to extinguish!

"Aaaaaaaahhhhh!!!"

Screams echoed through the sky.

The Cloud Ninja whose legs were stuck together were instantly dried out by the extremely high temperature.

The meat was charred, giving off a meaty aroma.

They struggled, they wailed, they died.

A few minutes later.

The screams subsided.

Hundreds of Cloud Ninja were burned to a crisp, their bodies carbonized.

Jiraiya stood atop Bunta's head, taking in the entire scene.

The heat wave hit him, making his cheeks burn.

His hands trembled slightly inside his wide sleeves.

He is a novelist, a romantic who pursues mutual understanding between people.

He traveled to various countries and wrote "The Tale of Genjitsu Ninja," hoping to influence the world with love and perseverance.

But now.

He is using the most vicious and cruel methods to slaughter humans in large numbers.

"Watergate————"

Jiraiya murmured softly.

"Is this what we have to do to protect the village?"

He felt a violent tearing sensation within himself.

The Toad Sage once prophesied that he would guide a changer who would bring peace.

He thought the reformer was Watergate.

But Minato died. He died in this meaningless meat grinder of hatred.

If the existence of ninjas is solely for the purpose of developing more efficient killing techniques, simply for turning people into charred remains—

So what exactly is his insistence on "mutual understanding"?

However, the battlefield gave him no time for reflection.

"Damn Konoha!!!"

From the other side of the sea of fire came a furious roar.

The people of Yunyin did not back down.

The ninjas of the Land of Lightning possess a wild and fearless nature deep within them.

Those Cloud Village ninjas who didn't fall into the trap witnessed their comrades being burned alive.

Fear did not break them; instead, it ignited their fury.

"Kill them all! Avenge our brothers!"

A large number of Cloud Village ninjas, their eyes bloodshot.

They bypassed the inferno and charged towards Konoha's position with reckless abandon.

The formation was more scattered, but the killing intent was even stronger.

They abandoned reason and became vengeful beasts.

"Prepare for hand-to-hand combat!"

Jiraiya suppressed his confusion and drew his kunai.

A trap can only be used once.

The rest must be dealt with using swords.

"kill!"

The ninjas of Konoha and the ninjas of Kumogakure clashed.

The Cloud Ninja are terrifying melee machines.

The destructive power of Lightning Release ravaged the Leaf Village's territory. A punch shattered internal organs, a kick broke a spine.

Konoha ninjas fell one after another.

Blood stained the hills red.

Jiraiya and Gamabunta fought fiercely in the enemy ranks, their fire-style techniques and toad daggers constantly reaping lives.

This bloody tug-of-war continued until dusk.

Ultimately, due to the heavy losses suffered by its vanguard and the inability to sustain its advance, Yunyin had no choice but to temporarily halt its offensive and retreat ten miles away.

The two sides were locked in a brutal stalemate.

The crisis on the northeastern defense line has been barely averted.

The light of dusk was dim and blood red.

Jiraiya sat in the trench, blackened by blood and charcoal.

He was covered in blood, some from enemies and some from his own.

He watched the medical ninjas move through the trenches and listened to the cries of the wounded Konoha soldiers with severed limbs.

The charred corpse was still emitting a burnt smell.

Although the strategic objective was achieved, and the Cloud Village's charge was stopped.

But Jiraiya felt no joy whatsoever.

He pulled a book from his pocket, "The Tale of Genjiro Ninja".

The book was stained with the blood from his hands.

"If our power can only be used to create this kind of hell—"