Analyzing the Ninja World Starting from Konoha

Chapter 263 [The Abnormal One]!

Aoba, who was sitting on the rock, slowly stood up and looked down at the three people below.

He ignored Sasori's provocation and instead calmly focused his gaze on Hiruko.

"You're the one who injured my men, aren't you?"

Aoba's voice was calm, yet it carried an inexplicable pressure.

Sasori inside Hiruko was taken aback at first, then realized that their purpose in coming here was to investigate the person who sold Konoha information to the underworld, and their attack on Ryoichi was to force out the person behind him. They didn't expect the person in question to come knocking on their door so quickly.

"Heh—how interesting!"

Sasori's voice came from the puppet, tinged with amusement, "He's clearly a Konoha ninja, yet he willingly leaked Konoha's information. It seems Konoha isn't a monolithic entity after all."

"What's so strange about that? Just like you, I'm unhappy with the higher-ups, so I'm causing them some trouble."

Aoba leaped down from the rock, landing steadily on the sand. "Didn't you also take down the Third Kazekage outright and even turn him into a puppet, right, Sasori!"

Upon hearing this, Hiruko's eyes widened suddenly. The lifelike control of her expression impressed even Aoba, who marveled at Sasori's puppetry skills.

"Who exactly are you?!"

Scorpion's voice was deep and resonant, carrying an undisguised killing intent.

He carried out his assassination plot against the Third Kazekage with extreme secrecy, to the point that even the higher-ups in Sunagakure still believe the Third Kazekage has disappeared.

How did this person know that?!

Who I am is not important.

Aoba didn't answer the question. He walked forward slowly, his tone calm: "You attacked my people. How should this be settled?"

Aoba's nonchalant attitude completely enraged Scorpion.

"court death!"

Without warning, the steel tail spikes on Hiruko's back shot out and stabbed towards Aoba at an extremely terrifying speed!

Faced with this fatal blow, Aoba didn't even try to dodge.

He simply raised one hand slowly.

Snapped!

A muffled thud.

The steel spike, powerful enough to pierce through rock, was firmly held in Qingye's hand with one hand!

"What?!"

Sasori was terrified and desperately tried to pull back his stinger by channeling his chakra, but found that the hand was like an iron clamp, completely immovable.

Kakuzu and Konan, who were standing to the side, also showed expressions of shock.

He actually caught Hiruko's attack with his bare hands using only his physical strength?!

"You started it."

Qingye gripped the tail thorn, her expression calm.

The next moment, Aoba's arm suddenly exerted force!

A terrifying force traveled along the tail spike, causing the entire Scarlet Amber puppet to lose its balance and be dragged forcefully toward Aoba!

"not good!"

Scorpion's alarm bells rang loudly, and he wanted to control Hiruko to defend himself.

But Aoba is faster!

The moment Hiruko was pulled closer, Aoba clenched his other fist and punched Hiruko in the head!

boom!!!

A dull bang was followed by a shower of golem fragments flying everywhere.

The incredibly strong defense of the Scarlet Amber was smashed in the head by a single punch, and the rest of its body was torn to pieces by the immense force, with parts and fragments shooting out like a shower of flowers!

Amidst the flying debris, a figure leaped out rapidly, retreating dozens of meters to create distance between himself and Qingye.

He was a handsome young man with short red hair.

It is Sasori of the Red Sand in his true form!

At this moment, Scorpion had not yet transformed himself into a human puppet; he still retained his human body, but his face was excessively pale, and his eyes were filled with shock.

"Such superhuman strength—"

Scorpion stared intently at Aoba. "You're just as troublesome as the intelligence reports. But the more troublesome you are, the more valuable you are as a puppet."

Without further hesitation, he pulled a scroll from his pocket and unrolled it.

boom!

White smoke exploded.

A new puppet appeared behind Sasori; it was none other than the Third Kazekage, whom Sasori had turned into a puppet!

sizzle ————

As Sasori's chakra was injected, the Third Kazekage puppet suddenly spewed out a large amount of black iron sand, which gathered in mid-air into a black cloud, exuding a suffocating sense of oppression.

"A human puppet? It can still use its original bloodline limit even after being made into a puppet. Interesting!"

Qingye chuckled lightly and waved his hand casually.

Splash!

The yellow sand on the surrounding Gobi Desert seemed to come alive, frantically converging towards Qingye, forming a huge sand wave around him, confronting the iron sand in mid-air.

"The secret technique of manipulating sand?!"

Scorpion's pupils contracted slightly. Although the quality of the iron sand was better than that of ordinary sand, it couldn't compete with the sheer quantity of sand from Yamashiro Aoba.

"Aren't we going to come together?"

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Aoba glanced at them indifferently, a smile playing on her lips. "If it's just one person, they might die."

"Arrogant brat, what do you know about fighting?"

Kakuzu snorted coldly and ripped off his black trench coat with red clouds, revealing his terrifying body covered in black stitching.

"I'll accept your heart!"

puff!puff!

With a tooth-grinding tearing sound, two black tentacle monsters emerged from behind Kakuzu.

Earthly resentment!

"Go to hell!"

The scorpion struck first, moving its ten fingers across its hands.

The iron sand in mid-air instantly coalesced into a huge black triangular cone, and with a devastating force, it slammed down on Qingye!

boom!

The huge triangular cone slammed into Aoba's sand. Although the iron sand was hard, Aoba's sand was plentiful, and for a moment neither could gain the upper hand.

Just then, Kakuzu's Jigan-gura also launched an attack.

"Wind Release: Gale Palm!"

"Fire Release: Head Carving!"

The two types of escape techniques are perfectly integrated under the control of the Earth Grudge Fear, with the wind fueling the fire and the fire borrowing the power of the wind!

A terrifying fire dragon, interwoven with crimson and bluish-white, roared out, distorting the air with its intense heat and melting the ground into a charred, glassy substance.

Before Qingye, waves of sand surged and quickly coalesced into a thick wall of sand.

However, when wind and fire are combined, their power is multiplied!

The terrifying fire dragon pierced through the sand wall and slammed into the spot where Aoba was standing!

Rumble!

A violent explosion rang out, flames shot into the sky, blasts of air rolled in, and dust billowed everywhere.

"Did you get it?"

Kakuzu's green eyes were fixed on the center of the explosion.

As the smoke gradually dissipated and the scene became clear, both Kakuzu and Sasori's pupils contracted sharply.

Qingye remained standing quietly in the same spot.

His abdomen had been pierced through, leaving a huge gash that allowed him to see clearly into the distance.

However, Aoba's face remained expressionless, not even a furrow of his brow.

He looked down at the "hole" in his abdomen, his tone even carrying a judgmental tone: "Not bad, a complex ninjutsu, very penetrating."

As soon as he finished speaking, a gurgling sound of magma surging came from inside his body.

Dark red magma flowed from the edge of the wound, emitting thick smoke. As if it were alive, the dark red magma quickly filled the gap, transforming into a perfectly intact body of flesh and blood!

"Can you get me any more excited?"

Qingye twisted her neck, her tone indifferent.

"How is that possible?!"

Sasori's expression also turned extremely ugly. He stubbornly tried to control the Third Kazekage again.

"Magnetic Release: Iron Sand Rain!"

The iron sand that filled the sky transformed into countless tiny senbon needles, pouring down on Aoba like a torrential rain!

Puff puff!

The dense barrage of iron shot instantly turned Aoba into a hedgehog.

However, the iron sand that was shot into Qingye's body was instantly melted into molten iron by the terrifyingly high temperature of the magma, and dripped onto the ground.

Kakuzu's eyes narrowed to slits, a hint of apprehension in his gaze.

"Is this the Lava Release immortality mentioned in the intelligence?"

"Not only is it immune to physical attacks, but even ninjutsu can't cause any real damage—this is troublesome!"

Meanwhile, on the distant sand dunes.

A strange creature that looked like a pitcher plant was sticking half its body out, quietly observing the battle in the distance.

"Wow, this guy named Yamashiro Aoba has similar abilities to Tobi, they're both practically invincible!" A dramatic expression appeared on White Zetsu's half-white face.

"Ah Fei is more capable."

Another deep voice responded from the side; it was Black Zetsu.

In fact, Black Zetsu's fear of Yamashiro Aoba had reached an unprecedented peak!

As a cunning old fox who has lived for over a thousand years, Black Zetsu has witnessed far too many geniuses throughout his long life.

There's no way around it; the ninja world has no shortage of people. Almost every so often, one or two of those unreasonable super geniuses will emerge.

Sometimes, the brilliance of these geniuses can even overshadow the reincarnations of Indra and Asura.

The last "abnormal individual" that Black Zetsu found so troublesome was a member of the Uchiha clan, a woman named Uchiha Chiri.

At that time, Indra's reincarnation was about to unify the Uchiha clan, but that woman developed a new technique called "Izanami," which directly reversed the will of Indra's reincarnation at the spiritual level, and overturned the chessboard he had carefully laid out for more than ten years.

From then on, he became particularly wary of such "abnormal individuals".

Because the way these kinds of people grow up is just too illogical.

Even among the reincarnations of Indra and Asura, not every one is a genius. In fact, many Asuras in the early stages are often useless and at the bottom of the class, only experiencing a period of explosive growth in strength later on.

But the "abnormal ones" are different.

They were geniuses from the very beginning, and the kind of geniuses who never hit a bottleneck.

Others' abilities will stagnate after reaching a certain level, and they need a long time to accumulate and break through.

But the "abnormal ones" are different; if they want, their strength can keep increasing rapidly.

Even more terrifying is that they will develop some extremely powerful or bizarre techniques, some of which could even directly jeopardize his plan to resurrect his mother, Kaguya.

Therefore, over the long years, Black Zetsu had to personally intervene and quietly erase some dangerous secret techniques from history.

For example, the Earth Spider clan's [Raging Heaven].

In Black Zetsu's view, Yamashiro Aoba is now an "abnormal being" of this era!

A ninja of commoner origin, not even twenty years old, defeated the combined forces of the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki in a head-on confrontation.

Even Obito, the guy with Kamui, died once at this person's hands.

Despite not being of Uchiha blood, he mastered the Sharingan through some unknown means.

This is simply outrageous.

Keep in mind that this is the closest he has ever come to lifting the lockdown on his mother.

He had the Rinnegan, the Ten-Tails' body had returned, and the chess pieces were all arranged—all under his control.

Black Zetsu absolutely would not allow "abnormal beings" to affect his plans at this crucial moment.

In order to gather information about Yamashiro Aoba, Black Zetsu dispatched many White Zetsu clones to investigate him.

The results of it?

All the White Zetsu clones sent to monitor Yamashiro Aoba have lost contact.

No intelligence was transmitted back.

This is what worries Black Zetsu the most.

White Zetsu's stealth ability is among the best in the entire ninja world. Their spore clones can even directly parasitize the target's body, making them extremely difficult for even sensory ninjas to detect.

However, Yamashiro Aoba seemed to possess some special sensory ability, enabling him to accurately detect and eliminate every lurking White Zetsu.

Without knowing the full extent of Yamashiro Aoba's abilities, even Black Zetsu dared not approach rashly.

Because Yamashiro Aoba possessed sealing techniques, Black Zetsu knew about them and was very proficient in them.

Left with no other choice, Black Zetsu revealed to Nagato that Aoba Yamashiro was selling Konoha information in the underworld.

Let the Akatsuki members test the waters.

Once we have a true understanding of Yamashiro Aoba's weaknesses, it will be much easier to find a way to deal with him later.

"We have to find a way to get rid of this guy—"

Anyone who threatens his plan to save his mother must be eliminated.

Meanwhile, the battle on the battlefield had reached a fever pitch.

Having witnessed Aoba's bizarre immortality, Kakuzu and Sasori no longer held back and launched a relentless barrage of attacks.

"Wind Release: Crush!"

"Lightning Release: False Darkness!"

"Fire Release: Diligent Head!"

The Earth Grudge Mask monsters behind Kakuzu emerged, their advanced ninjutsu of wind, lightning, and fire attributes intertwining to form a devastating chakra storm that completely enveloped the area where Aoba was located.

At the same time, Sasori also controlled the Third Kazekage puppet and unleashed his strongest killing move.

"Magnetic Release: Iron Sand Boundary Technique!"

The black iron sand condensed into countless huge spikes in mid-air, like a black thorn forest, and fell from the sky, crashing heavily into the chakra storm.

Rumble!

The deafening explosion resounded through the sky, the entire Gobi Desert trembled violently, and the terrifying shockwave unleashed a massive sandstorm.

This level of combined attack would blast even a small mountain into dust, let alone flesh and blood.

"Now they should be dead, right?"

Kakuzu took a deep breath, his green eyes fixed on the center of the explosion.

Even if someone is immortal, if they're blasted into nothingness, they can't possibly regenerate, right?!

Scorpion didn't speak, but the hand that was controlling the puppet stopped.

However, as the dust and smoke gradually dissipated under the strong wind, their pupils simultaneously contracted sharply.

Glug glug————

Hot lava began to gush from the ground where a huge crater had been blasted out.

The lava churned and gushed like a fountain, radiating terrifyingly high temperatures that made it hard to breathe.

Then, to the horror of their eyes, a figure slowly emerged from the lava.

Yamashiro Aoba was still wearing his Konoha Jonin vest, with not a single tear on the hem.

The lava dripping from his body fell to the ground, instantly melting the hard rock into bottomless pits, emitting a piercing hissing sound.

"Damn it, what kind of ninjutsu is that?"

The scorpion's pupils contracted sharply.

Kakuzu's face turned extremely grim. In all his years of life, this was the first time he had ever seen such a bizarre and unreasonable ability.

Aoba twisted his neck, patted off non-existent dust from his shoulders, and calmly swept his gaze over the two of them.

"Are you all done having fun?"

Aoba's lips curled into a faint smile. "Now that you've made your move, it's my turn."

As soon as he finished speaking, Aoba pulled out a kunai from his ninja tool bag.

He infused it with chakra and gently stroked the blade of the kunai with his palm.

hum!

With a piercing buzzing sound, the kunai transformed into a lightsaber!

Immediately afterwards, a blinding blue lightning suddenly erupted from Aoba's body, and crackling electrical sounds exploded in the air.

Lightning Release activated!

The next moment————

Aoba's figure disappeared.

A blue lightning bolt streaked across the Gobi Desert at an extreme speed, too fast for the ordinary naked eye to detect!

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