Chapter 196: Hanzo of the Salamander Captured

Almost at the same moment Uchiha Feiyu opened his mouth to speak, Hanzo of the Salamander also formed seals with both hands, simultaneously unleashing his own ninjutsu.

"Poison Release—Poison Dragon Technique!"

The poison spit from the mouth of Hanzo of the Salamander swelled in the wind in an instant, transforming into a massive purple poison dragon that wrapped around Hanzo of the Salamander's entire body, before extending its claws to grab at Uchiha Feiyu.

Uchiha Feiyu was also intrigued; he injected vast amounts of chakra into the earth, and following a series of rumbling roars, a forest grew from the ground, countless trees twisting and growing to condense into a massive wood dragon.

Judging by their size, the wood dragon was more than three times larger than the poison dragon, and it likewise extended a claw to grab at the poison dragon.

The two claws, one large and one small, collided, and a screeching sound immediately rang out. The dragon claw extended by the wood dragon rapidly turned pitch black, while the poison dragon's claw was simultaneously crushed directly into a puddle of poison, which was then continuously absorbed by the power of the Wood Release.

No matter how terrifying the toxicity of Hanzo of the Salamander's Poison Release was, it still belonged to the chakra system, and therefore these toxins could still be absorbed as chakra; however, before the poison was decomposed into chakra, the damage it dealt to the wood dragon was quite horrific.

Although the poison dragon was smaller in size, its power was not much inferior to the wood dragon. Based on this move alone, in the current Ninja World, Hanzo of the Salamander could walk sideways, facing anyone other than himself.

However, even though Hanzo of the Salamander's life level had evolved, in terms of pure chakra, he was still a significant distance behind Senju Hashirama, and perhaps not even a match for Madara Uchiha, let alone Uchiha Feiyu, who could be considered a standout even among the Otsutsuki Clan.

Purple poison surged out, condensing into shape on the ground, gradually forming a massive poison giant nearly 200 meters tall. After the giant was completely formed, the outermost layer of the originally liquid poison gradually solidified into a crystal-like solid.

However, Uchiha Feiyu clearly would not give Hanzo of the Salamander any more time to think. After the first punch was thrown, he threw consecutive punches, blasting out giant air cannonballs.

Thunderous explosions rang out one after another, causing the earth to tremble. Amidst the roars, the air bullets caused by Uchiha Feiyu's fists alone were enough to shatter the entire massive poison human into pieces.

The blood flowing from his fingers was mixed with seven or eight types of toxins that stimulated life force and increased chakra in the short term. Any ordinary ninja who drank even a single drop of any one of these toxins would burn their life away as if they had awakened the Heavenly Demon Dissolution Method.

Uchiha Feiyu looked at the massive poison giant before him and nodded lightly:

"Confirmed—this guy must have watched the battle between Senju Hashirama and Madara Uchiha!"

Only a monster like Hanzo of the Salamander, who had evolved into a poison human, could be stimulated by so many different types of lethal toxins without dying, and instead become mentally excited, physically activated, and experience a surge in chakra.

Considering that the Sharingan awakening to the Mangekyo level allows for automatically piloting a 'Gundam', perhaps the Wood Human Technique was also something Senju Hashirama imitated from the Susanoo...

The gap in chakra energy caused Hanzo of the Salamander's poison dragon to be quickly suppressed by the wood dragon. No matter how the poison dragon melted the wood dragon's body, under the vast chakra injected by Uchiha Feiyu, the wood dragon would fully recover in the next second, while the poison dragon grew smaller and smaller under the wood dragon's attacks, its chakra almost completely absorbed.

Uchiha Feiyu was still lost in thought here, while at this moment, Hanzo of the Salamander had already unhesitatingly controlled the poison giant, clenched its fist, and smashed it down.

Seeing the situation take a sharp turn for the worse, Hanzo of the Salamander gritted his teeth, no longer stingy with the chakra in his body, and bit his own finger.

In just a few seconds, purple patterns appeared on Hanzo of the Salamander's face, and his eyes turned blood-red. Under the stimulation of the poison, his chakra, which had already been significantly depleted, not only recovered to its peak but surged several times over.

Standing atop the wood dragon, Uchiha Feiyu felt the oncoming gale and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth:

"I've played enough. It seems this guy Hanzo of the Salamander can't come up with anything fresher, so let's just end the battle!"

What Poison Dragon Technique, Poison Human Technique—no matter how you look at them, they are variants of the Wood Dragon Technique, Wood Human Technique, and Susanoo. As expected, is all ninjutsu just based on plagiarism?

The unlucky Hanzo of the Salamander was swept away by the air punch, spat out several mouthfuls of blood from being crushed, his entire body crackled and popped—who knows how many bones were broken—and he fell to the ground with a thud.

As Uchiha Feiyu's voice fell, he also clenched his own fist. Facing the poison fist descending from the sky, which was the size of a locomotive, he likewise threw a punch upward.

"How is this possible..."

Hanzo of the Salamander, located at the very center of the poison giant, wore an expression of disbelief. Although this massive poison giant could not compare to the Susanoo or the Wood Human Technique in terms of physical damage and durability, using a fist to shatter it directly was still too far beyond Hanzo of the Salamander's imagination!

No matter what, its size was there. Even if the most powerful toxins didn't work, the physical attack power of the Poison Human Technique was far stronger than ordinary ninjutsu. What the hell is shattering it directly with a fist?

The two fists, with a huge difference in size, collided "lightly" amidst a fierce whistling sound. Then, accompanied by an explosive sound, the air blasted out wave after wave of shockwaves, and the gale swept across a range of hundreds of meters, kicking up a large amount of soil and trees spawned by the Wood Release.

And the result of these two fists, which looked so visually different, colliding was completely unexpected. Without even 0.01 seconds of stalemate, the massive poison giant's arm directly exploded into powder!

The monstrous force of the punch remained undiminished, soaring into the sky. Amidst the wailing of the air, it blasted into the clouds, directly punching a large hole through the cloud layer in the sky, revealing the rare sunlight of the Land of Rain.

"Poison Release—Poison Human Technique!"

If it weren't for the fact that after his rebirth from the cocoon, his own life form had evolved and his physical life force and defense had increased significantly, if an ordinary ninja had taken such a punch, it would likely be difficult to find even a fingernail-sized piece of a corpse.

"It's over, handled easily!"

Uchiha Feiyu clapped his hands, jumped down from the head of the wood dragon, and landed directly beside Hanzo of the Salamander, who had fallen to the ground.

Hanzo of the Salamander did not have a single piece of intact flesh left on his body, and his injuries were extremely heavy. Although he did not breathe his last thanks to his tenacious life force, and even showed signs of recovery, his eyes were now ash-gray, and he had a look of total resignation.

Don't look at how Hanzo of the Salamander was handled in a few punches; in reality, Hanzo of the Salamander, whose life level had been raised once, could have fought back and forth for a while even against Senju Hashirama and Madara Uchiha at the Valley of the End.

Considering his special Poison Release, there was even a tiny possibility of making Madara Uchiha capsize in the gutter—Senju Hashirama basically had no possibility of being killed by a surprise Poison Release; the error tolerance of the Sage Body was much higher than that of the Sage Eye.

It was just that even though Hanzo of the Salamander could be called the strongest person in the Ninja World in the last thousand years without Otsutsuki blood, he was likewise powerless when facing Uchiha Feiyu.

Hanzo of the Salamander, who was now lying flat on the ground, saw Uchiha Feiyu approaching and only shook his head slightly, saying:

"I didn't expect to be defeated so easily... I originally thought that with my strength increased to this level, I could already contend with you..."

Contend with me? Uchiha Feiyu curled the corner of his mouth. He didn't say much more to Hanzo of the Salamander, just snapped his fingers, and a space-time vortex immediately appeared behind Hanzo of the Salamander, swallowing him up.

As the only ninja in the entire Ninja World to break through his life level due to cultivation techniques, his value was self-evident, and Uchiha Feiyu would naturally not let him go.

After taking Hanzo of the Salamander away, Uchiha Feiyu turned his head to look at the surroundings. This was originally the center of the Rain Ninja Village, but after the chaotic battle between Uchiha Feiyu and Hanzo of the Salamander, the entire Rain Ninja Village was now in chaos.

Uchiha Feiyu's Wood Release ninjutsu was one thing; although its attack range was huge, under his own control, it didn't have much lethality. However, Hanzo of the Salamander's Poison Release was a different story—its power could not be controlled, and its lethal range was outrageously large.

For those ordinary ninjas, there was no need for the poison Hanzo of the Salamander used; just a wisp of gas from the evaporated poison was enough to make those ordinary ninjas suffer. If the speed of rescue was a bit slow, it was a situation of certain death.

And in the chaotic battlefield just now, plus the fact that all the ninjas were still under the control of Uchiha Feiyu's Genjutsu, how many people would think to save others?

Under these circumstances, the poison gas spread by Hanzo of the Salamander's poison directly took down nearly half of the Rain Ninja Village.

"Really, if we fought for a few more rounds, don't let the Rain Ninja Village be destroyed by Hanzo of the Salamander's own ninjutsu instead of by my hands... The key is that the ninjas killed by this guy don't count as my sacrifices."

Seeing the poisoned state of the Rain Ninja Village ninjas, Uchiha Feiyu was slightly troubled for a moment, then simply decided to end the suffering of these ninjas—directly using a Wood Release move to pack up and take away all the ninjas in the Rain Ninja Village, refining them into pills.

There was no other way; saving people was impossible. Although the Yang Release chakra in Uchiha Feiyu's body was powerful and his own level of Medical Ninjutsu was extremely high, the mental effort and time required to save these thousands of people were simply too great, so he just harvested them and be done with it.

"The unexpected harvest is already in hand; now it's time to put a period to this war!"

Although all the ninjas of the Land of Rain were under the control of Genjutsu at this moment, it could be said that he could harvest these sacrifices at any time, but Uchiha Feiyu was not prepared to do the job so crudely.

In any case, a battle of millions of people would definitely leave many traces in the Land of Rain, which was something Genjutsu could not achieve. Uchiha Feiyu at least had to create those forged traces.

"It's a pity I don't have the God Tree in my hands... Otherwise, directly activating the Infinite Tsukuyomi would allow the entire Ninja World to sink into a realm where reality and illusion alternate, and I could easily obtain a large number of sacrifices."

"However... even the Infinite Tsukuyomi requires the God Tree World Advent to absorb the chakra within the ninjas themselves to maintain the generation of that illusion..."

The Infinite Tsukuyomi is a super-powerful Genjutsu that can shroud the entire planet. Just looking at the range of shrouding the entire planet, one can imagine how great the consumption of this Genjutsu is.

Even for an Otsutsuki who has fused with the power of the Ten-Tails, this kind of consumption is not something that can be easily borne. Generally speaking, when activating the Infinite Tsukuyomi, the Otsutsuki Clan only provides the initial chakra to cast the illusion, while what maintains the existence of the illusion is the life forms themselves who are controlled by the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Although Uchiha Feiyu already possessed a pure-blooded Otsutsuki Clone, and with the blessing of the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and the Divine Sect Demonic Gate Arts, the talent of the Otsutsuki Clone was definitely among the best of the best, even when looking at the entire Otsutsuki.

But after all, he had never eaten any Chakra Fruit, and in terms of pure chakra, he had no advantage even over an ordinary Otsutsuki; even he could not sustain the Infinite Tsukuyomi covering the entire world for a long time.

After imagining the scene of possessing the Infinite Tsukuyomi ability, Uchiha Feiyu quickly returned to reality; one must know that in the current Rain Ninja Village, there are nearly two to three million ninja and chakra soldiers, and if he could swallow these sacrifices in one gulp, the amount of chakra Uchiha Feiyu would obtain would be roughly equivalent to a dozen or twenty ordinary Tailed Beasts.

Although the chakra of the Ten-Tails is actually more than the sum of the nine Tailed Beasts, and the Chakra Fruit, to a certain extent, possesses even greater energy than the Ten-Tails, which is the God Tree itself.

Therefore, even if all this chakra were added together, it would not improve Uchiha Feiyu as much as eating one Chakra Fruit, but considering that a Chakra Fruit only appears once every thousand years, Uchiha Feiyu felt that he was still making a massive profit.

This does not even count the Soul energy and the Qi and Blood of these ninja and chakra soldiers; for Uchiha Feiyu, this is what can truly be called the main prize.

"Unknowingly... I have also gradually become cold-blooded; the lives of millions of people feel just like a few hundred jellybeans..."

On second thought, Uchiha Feiyu felt that he did not seem to be a good person to begin with; even from the very start, he did not seem to have cared much about the lives of others, it was just that his power was insufficient before, so he could not carry out such a large-scale sacrifice.

If he had been given such an opportunity to consume millions of lives and ascend to the heavens in one step when he first transmigrated to the Ninja World, he would have likely done it without the slightest hesitation, and would not have felt a shred of regret.

(End of this chapter)