Chapter 89: Uchiha Feiyu, Who Runs After Taking Advantage

"Cut the crap, Konoha Ghost! You've killed so many of my brothers from the Cloud Ninja Village; today, I will make you pay in blood!"

"Lariat!"

The Fourth Raikage was naturally hot-tempered, and the recent pursuit had only filled him with fury. As soon as he finished speaking, his entire body transformed into a bolt of lightning and charged forward wildly.

"What incredible speed!"

Uchiha Feiyu let out a soft exclamation. Within his red pupils, three Tomoe spun continuously, clearly capturing the movements of the Fourth Raikage. He draped his own body in a faint layer of Lightning Armor, and the Kusanagi Sword in his hand slashed out horizontally with the sound of wind and thunder.

In terms of speed, Uchiha Feiyu could not compare to the Fourth Raikage, but possessing the Three-Tomoe Sharingan's bonus to dynamic vision allowed him to compensate for his physical speed deficit with superior reaction time, blocking the Fourth Raikage's surprise attack.

The Kusanagi Sword collided with the Lariat—that is, the hand-blade under the Lightning Release Chakra Mode—emitting a sound akin to the screeching of a Chidori. Subsequently, under a powerful blast of air, Uchiha Feiyu was sent flying backward, retreating seven or eight meters before he could steady his footing.

His hand gripping the Kusanagi Sword trembled slightly, and fresh blood snaked down from the web of his thumb, staining the Kusanagi Sword red.

However, the Fourth Raikage did not pursue. A sword mark had also appeared on his wrist, the wound deep enough to see bone.

In this exchange, neither of the two could be said to have gained any advantage.

Uchiha Feiyu's White Fang sword technique was incomparably sharp, using a single point to break through the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release Armor, inflicting a severe injury on his wrist.

Likewise, the Fourth Raikage's hand-blade was heavy and powerful; his raw strength far exceeded Uchiha Feiyu's, directly bruising the web of his thumb and his wrist.

After this single clash, both knew that the person before them was the greatest enemy they had ever encountered in their lives, and their gazes turned serious simultaneously.

Yet, the moment their eyes met, the Fourth Raikage's expression suddenly changed drastically:

"Not good, Sharingan..."

"Genjutsu: Sharingan!"

Being directly named after the Sharingan, one could imagine the level of this Genjutsu; it was extremely compatible with the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan, and in an instant, it pulled the Fourth Raikage into an illusion.

It was mainly because the Fourth Raikage had not expected at all that this ninja, whose fighting style so closely resembled the White Fang of the Leaf, would actually be an Uchiha. He hadn't noticed Feiyu's Sharingan at first, and as a result, he was trapped the moment their eyes met.

"Lord A! Damn it!"

The sensory ninja who had been standing at the edge of the battlefield was horrified to see A fall into a Genjutsu instantly. Without hesitation, he rushed up, wanting to disrupt the chakra inside A's body.

"Don't get in my way, you guy!"

Uchiha Feiyu's expression was cold and ruthless; the Kusanagi Sword in his hand flashed with a white light, stabbing straight at the Fourth Raikage's throat.

"Lightning Style: Lightning Illusion Flash Pillar!"

The Cloud Ninja sensory ninja knew his speed was far inferior to Uchiha Feiyu's, so he simply blocked Uchiha Feiyu's path of attack, his entire body suddenly erupting with blinding electric light.

Within that blinding electric light, there were intense Genjutsu fluctuations. Even with Uchiha Feiyu's Three-Tomoe Sharingan, he was momentarily dazed.

But after that momentary daze, Uchiha Feiyu quickly regained his senses. The Kusanagi Sword in his hand instantly extended, stabbing directly into the sensory ninja's heart.

"Optical Genjutsu, huh... Good thing I had intelligence on it, otherwise I might have fallen for it!"

Uchiha Feiyu felt a lingering fear in his heart. Although the Hokage series was also known as the "Eye Legend," and the vast majority of Genjutsu that didn't use eyes were trash, there were still a very small number of exceptions.

And among these exceptions, most were specifically designed to counter the Sharingan! For example, the Darkness Technique, and for another, the just-used Lightning Illusion Flash Pillar.

Uchiha Feiyu was able to be on guard against the Lightning Illusion Flash Pillar because, in the original work, this Genjutsu had a certain effect even on Sasuke Uchiha, who had awakened the Mangekyo, clearly showing it had a certain targeting effect against the Sharingan.

He himself only had a Three-Tomoe Sharingan and no companions; if he were to be caught in it during a battle, it would almost certainly mean death.

However, it was also because of the sensory ninja's interference that the Fourth Raikage, who had been controlled by Genjutsu: Sharingan, finally woke up. Looking at the scene before him, he roared out in anger:

"Shi! You bastard, go to hell! Liger Bomb!"

Watching the Fourth Raikage charge over, Uchiha Feiyu's mouth twitched. The Three-Tomoe Sharingan was not very effective against Shadow-level powerhouses; he had only managed to make the Fourth Raikage fall for it earlier by taking advantage of a surprise attack.

But without that sensory ninja, Uchiha Feiyu felt much more relaxed. In this situation, as long as he kept his distance, the Fourth Raikage would absolutely never be able to catch him.

Facing the oncoming Fourth Raikage, Uchiha Feiyu's body also flashed with electric light, and a sword aura transformed from a gale slashed out instantly. The Fourth Raikage ignored it and crashed through the sword aura, though his momentum was slightly stalled.

Taking this opportunity, Uchiha Feiyu performed seals with one hand, and in an instant, a black radiance spread out:

"Genjutsu: Darkness Technique!"

The Fourth Raikage only felt his vision go black, and suddenly he could see nothing. His body, which had been charging fiercely, stopped immediately, and he assumed a defensive posture. At the same time, the chakra within his body surged wildly, trying to dispel the Genjutsu he was under.

It was just that the effect of the Darkness Technique was simple and crude—it merely deprived one of their visual ability—which was completely different from other sophisticated Genjutsu. Therefore, the method of disrupting the chakra in the body could not dispel this kind of Genjutsu.

However, the essential principle of any Genjutsu is the operation of chakra. As long as one's own chakra volume is powerful enough, one can forcibly dispel it, so it could not be said that the Fourth Raikage's approach was useless; it just required time.

While desperately agitating his chakra, the chakra armor on the Fourth Raikage's body also bloomed with a deep blue light, pushing his defense to the limit. At the same time, he maximized his hearing and sense of touch, sensing the attacks around him.

Yet, after waiting for a full half-minute, with the influence of the Darkness Technique almost worn away, the Fourth Raikage still had not waited for an attack to come.

Finally, through the Fourth Raikage's efforts, the Genjutsu chakra within his body was completely worn away, and the pitch-black darkness before his eyes instantly became bright.

But after turning his head to look around, an expression of shock, anger, and disbelief appeared on the Fourth Raikage's face—the surroundings were empty, not even a shadow of a person, and even the corpse of Shi, who had just died, was reduced to nothing but a pool of blood.

Two kilometers away, a sound suddenly came from the void. A moment later, Uchiha Feiyu's figure, dragging Shi's corpse, appeared in the air.

"Tsk, finally shook off that big guy. Are these two Raikage obsessed with me? Why do they always keep chasing after my tail?"

"Fortunately, the harvest this time is not small. If this generation's Shi hadn't been young, it wouldn't have been so easy for me to finish him off."

(End of this chapter)