Naruto: Konoha Spring of the Uchiha Prodigies

The Nine-Tailed Fox, lying in the sealed space, raised its eyes to sense the strength of its opponent, and then cursed, "My power is not for you to use to deal with such trash."

"Big brother, please help me out. This smoke won't dissipate anytime soon. I need your chakra sensing ability to pinpoint their location." Although Naruto said this, he had already leaped up from the treetop.

"Hmph, troublesome brat." The Nine-Tails in the sealed space pouted, changed its position and continued sleeping. However, the next moment, a faint golden layer also appeared on the surface of Naruto's body as he descended from the sky.

"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"

Naruto formed hand seals in mid-air, and dozens of figures appeared one after another amidst the smoke. The wisp of chakra provided by Kurama accurately located the positions of the nine Cloud Village members who were still within the area affected by the explosion.

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Chapter 211 Yunyin's Elimination

"Super Giant Rasengan!" With Naruto's shout, the Cloud Village members, who were already overwhelmed by the series of exploding tags, suddenly felt a massive chakra surge above their heads. Looking up, they saw a blond-haired guy holding a huge Rasengan and slamming it down on each of them through the thick smoke.

The next instant, spacetime fluctuations appeared one after another from the summoning bracelet. After the smoke and dust raised by the explosion were dispersed by the Rasengan, only one of the nine Cloud Village members remained standing in the arena.

The reason he was able to stay was not because he was so strong, but because he had previously collected a scroll that sealed a Jonin-level defensive ninjutsu. When attacked, it could be activated to generate a solid earth wall.

However, this defense, which even the caster himself found difficult to break, shattered under the attack of the Rasengan.

"This is... a Rasengan? You must be kidding me." The only remaining Cloud Village ninja gripped his sword, his hands trembling slightly. This Rasengan was completely different from the evil Golden Flash's ninjutsu in the Cloud Village's stories.

That's right. The original intention behind the development of the Rasengan was that Minato Namikaze needed a technique to break through the defenses of ninjas that kunai couldn't kill. Even the research direction after the Fourth Hokage never deviated from this original intention. However, after the technique was passed down to Naruto, it completely went astray. In Naruto's mind, bigger is stronger. Therefore, the Rasengan, an instant assassination ninjutsu, had become a powerful move in his hands. But this guy's chakra reserves were so large that he could use the powerful move as a basic attack.

"Is there only one left?" Naruto looked up at the enemy, stomped the ground hard, and his whole figure shot towards the opponent, while throwing a powerful punch at him.

"How could such an attack, full of flaws, possibly hit me!" The last remaining Cloud Village member gritted his teeth, drew his sword, and met the charging Naruto.

However, the moment the two clashed, the Cloud Village ninja realized that although Naruto's attacks were indeed full of flaws in his eyes, his speed was simply too fast, so fast that he couldn't find any openings in his opponent's seemingly flawed defenses.

Boom! In the next instant, the Cloud Hidden was hit hard in the face, but the Cloud Hidden instinctively swung his sword and slashed, which also cut open Naruto's waist. The feeling of cutting flesh and blood came, and the Cloud Hidden was overjoyed, ignoring the pain on his face.

Are the taijutsu skills of Konoha's genin really that bad?

However, before he could rejoice for long, Naruto's next whip kick, accompanied by a strong gust of wind, struck his side waist. After the right whip kick, there was a left front kick, followed by Naruto's wave-like attack.

[This is impossible! How could such an injury have no effect on him at all? And... this chakra fluctuation, is this a Wind Release ninjutsu?]

The Cloud Village genin, struggling to defend himself, was furious. In the brief moment when he was barely holding off Naruto's attack, he could vaguely see the smooth, new skin underneath through the tear in the other's clothes. But the sensation from the blade just now clearly told him that the cut had definitely severed the other's flesh.

"He actually dares to challenge Naruto to a taijutsu contest?" Choji, hiding in the shadows, twitched his lips slightly, admiring the Cloud Village's audacity.

Naruto's fighting style is actually very illogical. Anyone who has trained in taijutsu even a little bit will see that Naruto's attacks and defenses are full of flaws. However, in the face of absolute numbers, being able to see flaws and being able to seize those flaws are two completely different things.

In Konoha right now, among ninjas below the Kage level, apart from Sasuke and Neji who has ninja tools, no one can keep up with Naruto's speed. And even if they could keep up with his speed, they would hardly be able to cause any effective damage in the face of his abnormal regenerative ability. After all, the damage you do to him by stabbing him might not be as great as the damage he does to himself with his own Wind Release ninjutsu.

"Hah!" With a loud shout, Naruto kicked the enemy far away. In the direction the enemy was sent flying, two shadow clones had been waiting for a long time, having already prepared Rasengan.

As the last enemy was sent out of the examination room, Naruto turned to look in the direction where Shikamaru was hiding, and then said in the channel, "Two minutes and fifty-seven seconds, not more than three minutes, right?"

"Shino, Kiba, replenish the explosive tags in the traps. Naruto, you go and wait for Hinata." Shikamaru, who was pondering the battle situation, didn't have time to joke with Naruto. He calmly issued orders, while being extremely puzzled, "If they were just the vanguard, the battle just now should have been enough for the enemy's follow-up teams to provide support. Does Kumogakure really only have 3 squads left?"

“The others are over here,” Neji’s voice came through the channel at that moment. “There are four squads here. They seem to have found the area where our defenses intersect with Iwagakure’s and are planning to break out from here.”

"Why would they do this? If they combine their forces, the combined strength of seven squads will put immense pressure on our current defensive setup," Shikamaru said, utterly perplexed.

"It must be infighting, right? That group of Cloud Village members just now were all white, weren't they?" Sasuke said with a smile.

"This...it can't be that bad," Shikamaru said incredulously. "I'd only heard that the racial conflicts within Kumogakure were a bit serious, but has it really gotten this bad?"

"This is nothing, reality doesn't follow logic," Sasuke said with a smile.

“In that case, you should wait for the Iwagakure people to make their move,” Shikamaru said.

"Lava Release: Lime Condensation Technique!" As soon as Shikamaru finished speaking, Kurotsuchi, who was hiding at the edge of the circle, made the first move. Large amounts of lime sprayed from her mouth and landed at the feet of the four Cloud Village teams led by Omoi.

"It's a bloodline ninja! Everyone, scatter!" Omoi shouted, then quickly formed hand seals.

"Cloud Flow - Crescent Moon Slash!" Omoi drew his long sword from his back and unleashed three chakra-infused sword energies in succession. The sword energies instantly cleaved through the water-style ninjutsu that followed Kurotsuchi, preventing Kurotsuchi's control combo from succeeding. However, the other two squads he brought were caught off guard and hit by the attack.

The sticky cement held the person trapped in place, unable to move at all. The next moment, the iconic combination ninjutsu of Iwagakure, Earth Dragon Bullet, came whistling in and sent the person controlled by the Lime Condensation Technique out of the arena.

"Hey Uchiha, are you just going to watch like this?" At that moment, Kurotsuchi came up to a tree not far from the one where Sasuke was hiding and said loudly to Sasuke.

"Leave the strongest one to me, and you can handle the rest yourselves, how about that?" Sasuke said with a smile.

"Alright, then we'll take a slight loss." Kurotsuchi nodded. "Molten Release: Lime Condensation Technique!"

After Kurotsuchi finished speaking, he used the Lime Condensation Technique to draw a large circle with a diameter of twenty meters around Omoi, and then added an Earth Escape.

"Hehe, the arena has been set up for you. This time he won't be able to escape like last time. How about that? Isn't my ally very considerate?"

"Thank you very much then." Sasuke raised an eyebrow, glanced at the thick layer of sticky cement outside the twenty-meter-diameter circle, smiled meaningfully, then drew his sword and jumped into the battle.

"We meet again." Sasuke twirled his sword and said to Omoi in a leisurely manner.

“Iwagakure isn’t a village that keeps its word. Aren’t you afraid they’ll discard you after you’ve served your purpose?” Omoi said, standing with his sword in hand, looking at Sasuke.

“You don’t need to worry about that, because I’ll be sending you away soon,” Sasuke laughed. “You’ve got another sword? Then let me see the swordsmanship of Kumogakure.”

"I may not be your match in lightning ninjutsu, but when it comes to swordsmanship, as Killer Bee's disciple, I will not lose to you."

The next instant, two bolts of lightning flashed, followed by the soft clang of metal clashing.

Within the area enclosed by limestone, two bolts of lightning, one blue and one purple, collided continuously, causing electric sparks to surge within the area.

"Such speed!" Omoi was forced to retreat repeatedly by Sasuke's fierce attacks. After several rounds, he had to admit that Sasuke's speed was still superior to his. "Then, let's try this move!"

Omoi suddenly changed the rhythm of his attack, stepping forward on lightning, but his broadsword remained poised to strike.

Sasuke realized at this moment that he couldn't predict where Omoi would strike next in this posture. Due to some special reasons, he couldn't adopt a strategy of trading blows for damage, so he could only temporarily avoid the attack.

"My Style: Reverse Mist Slash!" This was the moment Omoi had been waiting for. He slashed at Sasuke, who had taken a half-step back, with his broadsword at an incredible angle.

"Lightning Flash!" Although Omoi's sword was fast, Sasuke's three-tomoe Sharingan still managed to catch a glimpse of that cold light at the last moment.

Sasuke lightly twisted his left hand, his body leaned back at an incredible angle, and then he retreated rapidly.

After dodging the attack, Sasuke twisted his body to regain his balance, transformed into lightning once more, and slashed at Omoi.

Only then did Omoi finally see clearly the extremely thin steel wire connected to Sasuke's waist, reflecting the sunlight.

"Steel wire? When?" Before Omoi was slashed across the chest and abdomen by Sasuke's sword and triggered the summoning jutsu on his bracelet, he still didn't know how Sasuke had done it.

"Uchiha-style shurikenjutsu, kid." After seeing Omoi off, Sasuke sheathed his sword. By then, Kurotsuchi had already led her team to eliminate the remaining Kumogakure members.

"Miss Kurotsuchi, you can take the arena down now," Sasuke said loudly.

"Is that so? But I don't think it's necessary." Kurotsuchi chuckled as she approached Sasuke. "Young man, your swordsmanship is very strong and fast. You might cause us quite a bit of trouble later."

After saying that, Kurotsuchi formed hand seals, and the sticky cement around Sasuke began to gather towards the center at an extremely fast speed.

Chapter 212 The Final Battle

"I knew you wouldn't be so honest. After all, the reputation of you Iwagakure ninjas isn't even good enough to qualify for deposit-free services at underground exchange shops." Sasuke said calmly, looking at the gathering mud.

“That’s true, but what are you going to do now, bro?” Kurotsuchi didn’t care about Sasuke’s words. Instead, she looked at Sasuke, who was now only able to stand on his own two feet, with a smile. “You are fast, but in this environment, you can only be slaughtered by others.”

"Hehe, Hokage, it seems my granddaughter won this match." In the VIP room, Onoki said with a smile.

"That's hard to say, Lord Tsuchikage." Uchiha Touko smiled as he looked at Sasuke, who was calm and unhurried in the scene. Based on his understanding of his disciple, Sasuke knew from the beginning that Kurotsuchi had ill intentions, so if he dared to jump into this trap, then he must have been prepared.

"Hmph, two despicable bastards, do you really want to argue about who's better?" Ai sneered from the side. In this Chunin Exam, the ninjas of Kumogakure were arguably the most disgraceful among the major ninja villages. Not to mention the infighting they displayed in front of the leaders of the major ninja forces in the ninja world, even in a clash of high-level combat power, their village's strongest ninja of this generation, Omoi, was completely defeated by Uchiha Sasuke. What's even more unacceptable is that Sasuke defeated them in Kumogakure's proud Lightning Release and swordsmanship.

At that moment, Kurotsuchi released a signal flare, and the Iwagakure team, who had been lying in ambush, emerged from the dense forest and unleashed a large-scale Earth Release ninjutsu, targeting Sasuke in the field.

"Bye-bye, Uchiha's little brother?" Kurotsuchi waved to Sasuke with a wicked grin.

At this moment, Sasuke, whose feet were stuck to the cement of the Lava Release, smiled. Facing the whistling Earth Dragon Bullet, he twisted his body and threw the long sword in his hand behind him. Then, with a bang, he turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared from the spot.

"What? A shadow clone?" After the giant earth dragon landed in the air, Kurotsuchi looked at everything that had happened in disbelief. So the one who had fought so hard with the genius genin from Kumogakure was just a shadow clone?

boom!

Colorful flares exploded in the air, and Sasuke's real body appeared together with Neji and Naruto who had arrived from the other side. He caught the ninja sword that his shadow clone had just thrown. The hidden Konoha genin squad also appeared and came behind Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji.

"As expected, you never intended to cooperate with us properly from the beginning." Upon seeing this, Kurotsuchi took a deep breath and said.

“Likewise,” Sasuke said.

"Looks like we'll have to see who's the real deal when it comes down to it," Heitu said, as a layer of black rock appeared on his hands.

"The Will of Stone belongs to Iwagakure and is with us!"

At that moment, Sasuke also drew his sword and pointed it at the enemy's battle formation, declaring, "The Will of Fire will never be extinguished!"

As soon as the two finished speaking, everyone in the arena shouted and charged towards the enemy formation.

"Watch out! Something's moving underground!" Hinata shouted.

As soon as Hinata finished speaking, a wave of earth suddenly rose from the ground, black soil leaped high, and a black rock fist slammed down onto the ground.

Behind her, the Iwagakure ninja simultaneously formed hand seals, and eighteen rock pillars burst forth from the ground, forming a ferocious wolf head totem in the air.

"Earth Release: Rock Iron Wolf Fang Formation!"

"Scatter!" Lightning flashed and chirps rang out around Sasuke. Thick purple electric light clung to the long sword in his hand, and with a single strike, he cleaved through the first wave of rock spikes.

"Neji! Hinata!" Shikamaru shouted from among the Konoha members who were forced to scatter by the rock spikes that burst from the ground.

Neji and Hinata reunited amidst the chaos of battle. Using the Bagua stance, they struck the rock wall with punches and palms. Where their hands landed, the chakra injected through their Gentle Fist technique created spiderweb-like cracks in the rock.

"Konosuke, prepare your Sarutobi clan's combined Fire Release technique. Goro, prepare your Water Release ninjutsu as well!" Shikamaru's voice rang in everyone's ears through Ino's secret technique.

"Naruto, the most troublesome one is yours. Be careful not to get stuck in his Lava Release: Limestone!"

"Understood!" A golden figure burst out from the formation and went straight for Black Soil.

"Kurotsuchi, your opponent is me!" Naruto's body was moving at high speed, and sharp wind-style chakra was constantly cutting into his body, but in return, he achieved a speed that was unimaginable to ordinary people.

Before Heitu could react, a fist the size of a sandbag was already upon him.

"So fast?" Kurotsuchi gritted her teeth and raised her arms to block, the black rock blocking Naruto's fist.

boom!

The two were knocked back by the impact of the collision. After regaining her balance, Heitu shook her slightly sore and numb arm. The essence rock attached to her arm had been completely shattered by the attack.

However, Naruto's next attack arrived at that moment.

At that moment, the ground in front of Kurotsuchi suddenly turned into mud. From the mud, a hand reached out, trying to grab Naruto's ankle. But when the hand approached Naruto's body, the sharp wind-style chakra left several fine cuts on his palm. This was already the result of the attacker withdrawing his hand extremely quickly. If it had been delayed for even a moment longer, the man's palm would probably have been finely sliced ​​into minced meat by the wind-style chakra.

"Don't worry about me! Go support the combination ninjutsu!" Kurotsuchi said to her companions who wanted to come to her aid, while forming hand seals to summon an earthen wall in front of her.