Chapter 115: An Unimaginably Huge Harvest

After the Wind Daimyo roared and issued his orders, the wandering ninja, Guardian Shinobi, and monks gathered in the Daimyo Mansion attacked Uchiha Feiyu without hesitation.

Yet in a mere instant, a golden tide covered the sky and sun, transforming into a sea wave capable of drowning the entire Ten-shukaku, crushing the monks and ninja below into mists of blood in the blink of an eye.

Also using Magnet Release, Uchiha Feiyu's foundation and chakra reserves were not only far superior to the Fourth Kazekage's, but he had also integrated a variant type of Magnet Release from Cloud Ninja; the power he displayed was at least five times stronger than the Fourth Kazekage's!

Magnet Release as a ninjutsu has very few tricks, or rather, the Magnet Release of the Ninja World has very few tricks; it entirely depends on how many metal particles one can control. Being five times stronger in power meant that Uchiha Feiyu could control five times more Gold Dust than the Fourth Kazekage!

Under the terrifying tide, every creature within the Daimyo Mansion that possessed even a shred of chakra was crushed to nothing. A moment later, the golden tide vanished, and apart from a dazed and stunned Wind Daimyo, there was not a single creature left in the Daimyo Mansion that possessed chakra.

"This is just a warning! Lord Daimyo, you had better honestly remain a puppet!"

After these words fell, Uchiha Feiyu vanished without a trace like a ghost, leaving behind only the still-roaring Wind Daimyo:

"Madness, madness, Sunagakure has gone completely mad!! I must utterly destroy these ninja!! Contact the Wind Temple for me, contact the other Guardian Shinobi, and my own ninja army—gather them all for me!"

Amidst the Daimyo's roars, the entire capital of the Land of Wind began to mobilize. The psychological suggestion left behind by the Sharingan burned in his heart like a wildfire, making him prepare to exhaust all his strength to finish off Uchiha Feiyu and Sunagakure.

And this was exactly the good fortune Uchiha Feiyu had been hoping for!

The hidden strength of the Wind Daimyo gave Uchiha Feiyu a slight start; 2,000-plus monks and 1,000-plus wandering ninja led by Guardian Ninja were all quite normal to Uchiha Feiyu.

But a full force of nearly 50,000 chakra-wielding soldiers, each with chakra no worse than a second or third-year student at the Ninja Academy, truly made Uchiha Feiyu feel surprised.

For an army, practicing chakra is actually not a very difficult matter, because practicing chakra itself does not require high demands on external materials.

Admittedly, the major Ninja Villages possess secret medicines, medicinal baths, and various dietary supplements to increase the upper limit of chakra, but these ordinary substances have a limit to how much they can improve chakra, at most only increasing a ninja's chakra limit by one or two layers.

And if one does not pursue the upper limit of chakra, but merely awakens and refines it, such practice consumes almost nothing in terms of materials, roughly the same as ordinary physical training.

No matter how harsh the Wind Daimyo might be, he could not possibly be harsh with the rations of his own army; in other words, as long as the army was fed, they could directly train in chakra.

But even so, the chakra refined by ordinary people is very little.

Back then, the Sage of Six Paths distributed the seeds of chakra to his followers, which allowed this power to spread throughout the Ninja World.

Yet now, after thousands of years of dilution, apart from the major Ninja Villages—the concentration points for the direct bloodlines and followers of the Sage of Six Paths—the chakra that ordinary people can refine is perhaps only one-tenth that of a Genin-level ninja. From this perspective, the soldiers in these armies could be considered to have decent talent.

"I wonder what kind of geomantic treasure land or heaven-sent treasure the Wind Daimyo found; it seems to be able to slightly improve these soldiers' chakra..."

Sitting atop the Ten-shukaku of the Land of Wind, the invisible Uchiha Feiyu watched the Wind Daimyo's actions like a ghost, watching the entire military might of the Land of Wind being gathered.

He lightly raised his hand, Uchiha Feiyu feeling a bit like enjoying this feast directly, but as if he had considered something, he ultimately lowered his hand.

"It's too close to the capital of the Land of Wind... Let's wait a little... to avoid harming the innocent!"

Facing such a large-scale army, Uchiha Feiyu certainly could not hack them to death one by one. That muscle-head, the Third Raikage, was exhausted to death facing an army of 10,000 Rock Ninja, let alone Uchiha Feiyu.

And using large-scale ninjutsu would very likely affect the city beneath his feet. Although Uchiha Feiyu could be called cold-hearted and wanted to swallow an army of tens of thousands in one gulp, he would not casually take the lives of ordinary people when there was no conflict of interest.

However, Uchiha Feiyu did not need to wait long. Ten-plus minutes later, the tens of thousands of troops had finished gathering and, led by the monks, wandering ninja, and Guardian Ninja, marched toward the distant Sunagakure.

With a light chuckle, Uchiha Feiyu summoned a patch of Gold Dust and sat upon it, flying toward that army as well.

"Heh... they are actually still maintaining a military formation. It seems the Daimyo only learned the superficial aspects and didn't learn the essence of ninja warfare at all."

But it is also possible there was no other way. The truly troublesome part of ninja training was never materials, but knowledge; otherwise, there wouldn't be so-called Ninja Academies.

The training methods of an army have always been simple and crude; no matter what, they could never be as meticulous as a Ninja Academy. Consequently, the knowledge base of soldiers is naturally a hundred and eight thousand miles behind that of ninja.

If an army of tens of thousands really scattered like ninja, they might end up losing half their number by the end. The fighting will of soldiers is far inferior to that of ninja who have been brainwashed since childhood.

Leaping to the very top of the army, Uchiha Feiyu dispersed the Gold Dust and descended directly from the sky. However, apart from the soldiers, the remaining ninja and monks had decent strength, and soon sensory ninja sensed the chakra aura descending from the sky.

"Careful! Someone is falling from the sky, it's that Sunagakure chakra aura!"

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!! Prepare for battle!!"

Uchiha Feiyu landed on the ground with a boom, the golden sand turning into a sand wave, crushing the surrounding soldiers to pieces in an instant.

The surrounding soldiers reacted immediately; swords, spears, clubs, bows, and arrows were all aimed at Uchiha Feiyu.

Yet, Uchiha Feiyu only lightly waved his hand, and the golden sand grains transformed into a razor-sharp circular saw, slicing the surrounding soldiers in two as it rotated.

The soldiers sliced in two fell to the ground, emitting shrill screams. The flowing blood and severed bodies made the other soldiers retreat in terror.

Lacking ninjutsu, with poor taijutsu and swordsmanship, and unable to even release a Body Replacement Technique, these soldiers before him might be able to defeat a million-strong army if they were fighting against a similar formation of ordinary people. However, facing an absolute powerhouse of the Ninja World, they could only tremble, completely powerless to resist.

The only problem was...

"There are too many of them!! How long will I have to kill at this rate?"

Watching the soldiers being forced to charge again and again by the supervisory teams composed of wandering ninja and monks, a look of impatience appeared on Uchiha Feiyu's face. He knew very well that the opponent wanted to force him to exhaust his chakra and then kill him.

But not to mention Uchiha Feiyu's various methods of escape—flying, tunneling, invisibility, and god-like speed—just the fact that he had awakened the Sage Body, even a partial one, meant his chakra reserves and recovery speed had skyrocketed to a level far beyond that of even Shadow-level ninja.

Counting his chakra recovery speed, rather than using this method to slowly exhaust his chakra, they might as well hope he dies of starvation from the battle lasting too long.

"Tsk... to deal with such a large-scale yet mediocre army, that ninjutsu is indeed the most convenient..."

Putting his hands together, Uchiha Feiyu looked at the soldiers charging over once more, a cold sneer appearing at the corner of his mouth:

"Wood Release—Deep Forest Bloom"

Overwhelming trees instantly surged from the earth. The soldiers surrounding Uchiha Feiyu were instantly entangled and seized by these trees. In an instant, these soldiers felt the meager chakra and physical strength in their bodies being absorbed clean.

The trees that had absorbed the chakra seemed to have been injected with adrenaline, beginning to grow crazily. Although the chakra in each soldier was not much, the massive quantity and the dense formation of the soldiers allowed the Wood Release's chakra-absorption ability to be exerted to the maximum. The chakra fed back caused the power of the Deep Forest Bloom ninjutsu to rise step by step.

This is the greatest difference between the Wood Release ninjutsu and ordinary elemental Bloodline Limits. Originating from the characteristics of the God Tree, the Wood Release—which itself is only an ordinary Bloodline Limit—has an absolute special effect against the chakra system. Any existence possessing chakra, once caught, will have all their chakra drained, which in turn helps fuel the power of the Wood Release.

100 meters, 200 meters, 300 meters... one kilometer, two kilometers... the terrifying Wood Release forest continued to expand. Tens of thousands of soldiers possessing chakra became complete sacrifices to the Wood Release ninjutsu, and having devoured so much chakra, the power of Deep Forest Bloom rampaged to a terrifying degree.

The monks surrounding the perimeter and the wandering ninja acting as the supervisory team were almost crushed at the first touch when facing the terrifying Deep Forest Bloom, being seized by the majority in an instant, with only a very small number of ninja and monks escaping the attack range.

After escaping the attack range, the wandering ninja turned and ran almost immediately. These people were not as loyal as the ninja or monks of the Ninja Villages; seeing that the situation was lost, running away was naturally the best policy.

Consequently, when Uchiha Feiyu walked out of the forest created by Deep Forest Bloom, he was faced with only a few dozen monks.

"Not running away, gentlemen?"

"My goal is to thoroughly destroy the strength under the Wind Daimyo and make this Daimyo honestly realize his position. I don't need to kill you remnants to the last man; in fact, letting you go to report the news is an even greater warning."

"Don't joke around!"

A bald monk shouted angrily:

"The accumulation of the Wind Temple over hundreds of years has been destroyed by you in one go. Do you think we will flee like stray dogs?"

"Tsk... I thought you would be able to see the difference in our strength more clearly. I didn't expect you to insist on coming here to die."

"Hmph! Having unleashed such a powerful ninja technique, I don't believe you have much chakra left! Taking you down right now is the best choice; if I were to run away now, there would truly be no chance left!"

Just as the monk's voice fell, a cold glint flashed from behind him, and his round head immediately tumbled to the ground as fresh blood gushed out.

A cold voice rang out behind him:

"Since you have abandoned my final mercy, then I shall send you all on your way!"

Clearly, the Uchiha Feiyu who had just appeared from the forest was merely a clone; as for his true body, he had long since hidden and quietly lurked behind these ninja, and the moment the negotiations broke down, he immediately moved against the Sand Ninja.

For a monk to have escaped the previous Deep Forest Bloom, unless their luck was exceptionally good, they must have had at least the strength of a Special Jonin.

Furthermore, since the monks' moves were relatively rare and basically all Secret Techniques related to Yin Release or Sealing Techniques, Uchiha Feiyu, out of caution, naturally would not fight them head-on.

These days, there are countless ninja who have capsized because they were too arrogant; if this group of monks knew some Secret Technique of mutual destruction like the Inside Four Symbols Sealing or the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, wouldn't Uchiha Feiyu be in trouble?

While Uchiha Feiyu was speaking, the movements of his hands did not slow down; by the time his voice fell, half of the group of monks had already had their heads taken by invisible blades.

The remaining monks seemed to want to continue attacking, yet the Wood Clone standing at the edge of the sea of trees also pressed his hands together, and a massive amount of trees surged wildly from the sea of trees behind him, rushing toward this group of monks.

A moment later, whether decapitated by blades or strangled by trees, all the monks were dead and gone.

"I originally wanted to keep a few people, but it doesn't matter; those wandering ninja who escaped will spread the news thoroughly."

"This time it really is a huge harvest, tens of thousands of people... although most of them belong to the type of trash who only have a tiny bit of chakra, the massive quantity is enough to compensate."

"But with so many corpses, how long will it take to clean them up? I'd better hurry and let the ninja from Sunagakure come help me collect the bodies."

At the same time, Uchiha Feiyu slightly closed his eyes, his spirit entering the space where the Book of Demonic Inheritance was located, looking at the surging Black Qi beneath the Altar.

Tens of thousands of dead, even if the vast majority were chakra soldiers not even as good as a Genin, the condensed Black Qi had turned into a small wave, far exceeding the previous few sacrifices.

"This time... what kind of inheritance will I be able to obtain?"

Thinking this, Uchiha Feiyu did not hesitate to go all-in with all the Black Qi, using the precise sacrifice method to choose—for himself—the Demonic Arts with the greatest potential for development.

The Book of Demonic Inheritance emitted an unprecedentedly huge vibration, a creaking sound came from the surface of the book, and it slowly flipped open a corner, from which a liquid like fresh blood flowed out.

That blood-like liquid floated and spread in the void, and a massive amount of information was instantly injected into Uchiha Feiyu's mind.

Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art, Secret Method Chapter!

(End of chapter)