Chapter 184: Gangshan

At this moment, besides those who noticed Dong Shilang's situation was unfavorable, there was also someone observing the battlefield from afar, guarding against the enemy sneaking up on Yuzhibo Yan.

But their side's situation changed almost in the blink of an eye, becoming unfavorable to Dong Shilang.

Even if she wanted to help, she couldn't get there in time.

She could only watch helplessly as Dong Shilang fell into the enemy's trap; her lovely little face turned deathly pale due to the sudden shift in battle.

Even the Sharingan in her eye sockets, due to her nervousness, began to slowly rotate its two tomoe!

On one hand she worried about her teammates' safety; on the other hand she worried about the battle unfolding.

She knew that if Dong Shilang's situation changed, the enemy could immediately free up a Jonin and a Special Jonin's combat strength.

On her side, aside from herself, there was no extra strength to oppose the enemy.

Those teammates without awakened eyes would only drag them down at that moment!

Hah…

Fortunately, the worst case didn't happen; Dong Shilang successfully dodged the enemy's attack.

This allowed her three-tomoe Sharingan, which had almost popped out from fright, to gradually calm down~

At that moment, Dong Shilang stood in a strange rooster-on-one-leg pose, one foot on the hilt of his ninja blade, his whole body rigidly straight.

His ninja blade was driven straight into the ground, and his entire weight rested on that slender blade.

Phew!

Seeing the blade so close, Dong Shilang couldn't help but sweat on his forehead; it had been extremely dangerous just now, if he hadn't exploited the opening of that ninjutsu.

Using his ninja blade as a support to bear his full weight, if he had landed just then, it would have cost him his life.

Even so, the pants near his calves were still torn by the sharp spikes of the stone bamboo shoots, and through those rips one could faintly see blood occasionally seeping from his skin……

Dong Shilang felt immensely grateful to be an Uchiha! Without the visual boost of the Sharingan, he could not have so quickly seized the opening in that ninjutsu; he might have only suffered a slight graze and still managed to escape this danger!

Just as he was about to readjust his posture, a rumbling like an earth dragon turning over sounded.

Immediately afterward, the whole ground began to tremble slightly!

What is this?

Seeing this sudden change before him, he dared not hesitate in the slightest, quickly landing on the ground to prepare for the enemy's next round of attack.

But before he could steady his footing, the enemy's assault came in waves, and its momentum was extraordinary, as if they were determined not to stop until they had taken him down.

What a fitting retribution!

Faced with the enemy's relentless onslaught, Dong Shilang momentarily didn't know how to describe his feelings.

Just moments ago, when he sneak-attacked the enemy, his offense was also like this—uninterrupted, one move after another. He never expected that, in an instant, the enemy's assault on him would be similarly seamless.

This left him starting to run ragged!

Roar!!

Before he could collect his emotions, two massive beasts emerged from the ground and lunged at him!

Seeing that the two opponents were entirely made of earth and stone, their surfaces covered with abundant weeds and vines, he said nothing and immediately turned and ran.

Indeed, the ninjutsu the enemy is currently using exceeds his present capacity to withstand; if he were in good condition, he could still block those two things.

But right now—

Watching those two creatures emerge half their length—over thirty meters long and three to four meters thick—from the earth, treating the soil beneath him as thin mud as they writhed like dragon-like monsters, he could only fend off their sharpness.

Who let him be in a state of chakra depletion? No words—he could only flee quickly~

It turned out that at this moment, the Rock Village Jonin Gangshan, hiding underground, had unleashed an A-rank Earth Release: Double Stone Dragon.

The Stone Dragon Technique is originally a B-rank Earth Release ninjutsu; its function is to create an earth-attributed stone dragon from the ground to attack enemies on the surface.

Thanks to the heaviness of the earth element, few defensive ninjutsu can block this move; moreover, it can earthenize the land before him, allowing him to swim through the ground as if taking a bath.

It possesses tremendous destructive power!

Furthermore, this ninjutsu is the specially strengthened version used by the Jonin Gangshan of Rock Village.

Ordinary Stone Dragons, when manifested, are not this large—not to mention they can only produce a single stone dragon per use to attack the enemy.

But the ones now chasing Dong Shilang are two of them~

As for this Jonin Gangshan, his own talent is not bad; he barely reached the threshold of an elite Jonin, only achieving this level around thirty years old.

But his talent and effort cannot be denied!

Compared to Leaf Village, whose master-disciple system is relatively well-developed, Rock Village falls short in this regard; moreover, Rock Village's relatively conservative atmosphere adds to the problem.

As a result, over the years he has never obtained any profound secret techniques, being able to devote all his energy only to these not-so-advanced regular ninjutsu.

Of course, this also inevitably includes the exclusion by ninja clans!

Rock ninjas are famous for their unity, but this unity also brings about an unfavorable consequence.

The united Rock Village high-ranking ninjas inevitably, intentionally or unintentionally, suppress those ninjas born of commoners for the sake of their own clan interests.

Take Gangshan for example: whether when he was promoted to Jonin or after he achieved merits and wanted to exchange for some high-level secret techniques, he encountered many obstacles.

Being promoted to Jonin was fine—it just took two extra years. Though he was unhappy, there was no substantive loss.

But when he tried to exchange for the secret techniques he favored, those superiors kept making excuses, always finding various pretexts to reject his application, leaving him both loathing those clan ninjas to the bone and yet helpless!

He certainly couldn't just fly into a rage and kill those village higher-ups!

He himself might not mind, but once he had a family, he couldn't do that anymore!

To be frank, such things are unavoidable anywhere. Even in Leaf Village, isn't there a conflict between commoners and clan ninjas?

What more could be said of the Rock ninjas!