Konoha: Sage Body

It was sunset, and the setting sun was like blood. The war came very suddenly. It is not known which side initiated the sneak attack first. A battle on the vast plains thus began, with both sides throwing thousands of ninjas into the fray, including more than a hundred jōnin.

This was a veritable melee. The genin and chūnin formed ninja squads with those they knew, and then engaged enemy ninja squads in spirited combat. Some ninjas who considered themselves competent danced alone on the battlefield.

But the only people who could actually sit on this battlefield and barely dance were the few jōnin.

They unleashed their amazing ninjutsu techniques on the local camp, or they simply charged into the local camp, relying on their formidable strength to disrupt the enemy's position and specifically go after those shinobi and chūnin with outstanding abilities to kill.

However, they were quickly held back by their old enemy and were unable to intervene too much in the course of the battle.

Ninjutsu, ninja tools, and various summoning beasts, both sides have done everything they can to defeat the other.

Blood and fire continue to appear on the battlefield, adding another layer of blood to the sky dyed red by the setting sun.

The entire White Fang squad is currently standing on a high hill, looking down at the large battle unfolding on the plains below.

Hatake Sakumo's face was calm, as if he was oblivious to the horror of death that was constantly unfolding on the battlefield. There was even a trace of bloodlust in his eyes that he hadn't shown in a long time. If he wasn't still fulfilling his duty as a teacher leading the team, he might have already charged into the battlefield and killed everyone.

Nawaki was pale. This was the first time he had truly seen what war looked like. He looked at the corpses, the blood, and the numerous limbs that kept appearing below. Both sides were madly enduring and unleashing the art of violence on each other to their hearts' content, and his body kept shaking.

There are some things that only those who have experienced them can truly understand the horror.

Nawaki used to think that war was the best way for him to become Hokage, but now he no longer feels that way. As he watched his comrades die before him, one after the other, he finally realized the true weight of war.

When he casually talked about war and lacked respect for it, he was in fact not qualified to become Hokage.

Chizuru's body wasn't trembling, but her Sharingan was. After witnessing so much death, she found that her Sharingan was actually excited, and her eye power was increasing. It seemed that the various emotions of despair born of death on the battlefield had become its nourishment.

This feeling was very bad. She didn't like it, because she didn't like the idea of her eyes having a mind of their own. She, as the owner of her eyes, should not be influenced by them.

She decisively activated the curse marks on her body and injected the inferior Sage Chakra of the curse marks into her eyes.

The curse mark Chakra contained her own will.

As the curse mark Chakra was absorbed by the Sharingan, Chizuru finally regained perfect control of her eyes again. What she didn't notice was that the three magatama in her Sharingan had already undergone some changes, and they were closer together than usual.

Kirito's body and eyes did not tremble, because he had seen the appearance of war long ago through the intelligence gathered by the White Zetsu clones and the Night Organization.

In the ninja world, war was happening all the time. It was not just about the power between the major powers, but also the smaller countries. In fact, most of the wars in the ninja world happened to the smaller countries struggling for survival between the major powers.

These small countries all have the shadows of the major powers behind them. The wars between them are manipulated by certain people in the major powers, and countless killings and tragedies are born.

Therefore, the current war is not enough to move Kirito.

"Hatake Sensei, can I go down and fight?"

Kirito looked at the war below, which had begun to reach a stalemate, and asked.

He doesn't like war, but if war is inevitable, he hopes that his side can win and that there will be less bloodshed.

"I'll help you hold off that old guy over there."

Hatake Sakumo said after a moment of silence.

"I want to go too."

Nawaki heard Hatake Sakumo agree to let Kirito go down and fight, and he gritted his teeth, resisting the discomfort in his body, and shouted.

Chizuru also planned to speak up, but was interrupted by Kirito: "You two just stay here. You'll die if you go down in your current state. There are a lot of people down there, and I can't protect you."

"Kirito is right, you two just stay put,"

Hatake Sakumo said with a cold face.

He would agree to let Kirito go down and fight because he knew that Kirito had enough strength to fight on the battlefield, and Kirito had obviously adapted to the atmosphere of the battlefield.

Although Nawaki and Chizuru were quite strong, if they really went down to fight, there was a 90% chance that they would not come back.

Especially Nawaki, he would almost certainly die.

When Nawaki and Chizuru heard what the two said, how could the two proud men hold back their anger? Just as they were about to argue with Kirito, a pair of golden eyes appeared in front of their eyes, and two lines of blood ran down their eyes.

In an instant, the two found themselves in a bloody space, with a pair of huge golden eyes full of blood in front of them.

"Damn you, Kirito, don't you dare use illusion to control me."

Nawaki saw this and immediately realized that he had fallen victim to Kirito's illusion, and began to form seals in an attempt to break the illusion by disrupting the flow of chakra within his body.

However, he found that no matter how hard he tried, he was unable to do so.

On the other side, Chizuru was constantly trying to use his Sharingan to counter Kirito's illusion, and then angrily discovered that his Sharingan's illusionary abilities had actually been suppressed. He thought hatefully, "Just you wait, when I get out of here, I'll make you pay."

In reality, both Nawaki and Chizuru's eyes had lost their brightness, and their expressions had become dull, obviously caught in an illusion.

Meanwhile, Kirito had already activated his Ketsuryūgan, but the Ketsuryūgan he had activated at this time was completely different from usual. The originally blood-colored white of his eyes had turned golden, and the black pupil had turned purple, looking mysterious and noble, no longer the bloody and brutal Ketsuryūgan it had originally been.

Senjutsu · Ketsuryūgan · Illusion Technique.

Kirito had just used the Sage Art Chakra to open his Ketsuryūgan, and the pale golden Sage Chakra once again caused some kind of magical enhancement of the Ketsuryūgan, causing it to change in appearance and greatly enhancing its abilities. He directly performed a powerful illusion that even the Three-Tomoe Sharingan ninja Chizuru found it difficult to break free from.

"Hatake Sensei, please take care of them for the time being,"

Kirito said to Hatake Sakumo after using the illusion of his Ketsuryūgan to control the two.

Hatake Sakumo looked into Kirito's golden eyes and felt an inexplicable tremor in his heart. He had a hunch that once Kirito used the illusionary power of those eyes, he would also be affected, ending up the same way as Nawaki and Chizuru.

He swallowed, and replied, "I understand. Hurry back."

After receiving Hatake Sakumo's promise, Kirito slowly stepped into the battlefield below.

At the same time, the chakra within him continued to be infused into the Ketsuryūgan, causing it to give birth to a large amount of Ketsuryūgan chakra.

Suddenly, his eyes widened slightly, and he quietly activated one of the abilities of Ketsuryūgan.

Ketsuryūgan: Blood Manipulation!

The next moment, the blood from the numerous corpses on the battlefield began to rise strangely from the ground at a fast pace, before converging into a blood ball in mid-air.

As the blood ball formed, a blood-red chakra line shot out from Kirito and pierced into the blood ball.

In an instant, a faint bloody light appeared on the surface of the blood ball.

This strange scene instantly attracted the attention of a large number of Konoha and Sunagakure ninja. Their gazes quickly followed the bloody chakra line and converged on Kirito, before noticing Kirito's pair of golden Ketsuryūgan eyes. One by one, their hearts trembled, and subconsciously they did not dare to look directly at them.

Then, the Konoha ninja saw the Konoha forehead protector on Kirito's forehead, and all of them inexplicably felt relieved, and continued to concentrate on killing the enemy.

The ninjas from the Sunagakure were inexplicably agitated, as they all sensed a strong sense of threat from Kirito.

Without hesitation, many of the ninjas from the Sunagakure decisively abandoned their opponents and attacked Kirito at the same time.

A large number of ninja weapons such as Kunai, Shuriken, Senbon, and explosive tags were shot at Kirito, along with many Wind Release and Fire Release ninjutsu.

Facing the attacks of so many enemies, Kirito remained calm and collected, strolling leisurely across the battlefield full of corpses.

Wherever he walked, a large amount of blood shot out from the corpses he passed, forming a huge blood-colored shield that blocked all the incoming attacks.

At the same time, the blood sphere in the sky, which had grown to a diameter of ten meters, suddenly shot out a large amount of blood-colored senbon.

A blood rain suddenly descended on the battlefield.

Many ninjas were stabbed by the blood-colored senbon, but it didn't cause them any harm.

However, they couldn't help but feel a strong sense of impending doom.

"What on earth is this thing, why does it make me so afraid?"

An elite chūnin from the Sunagakure looked at the bloody senbon stuck in his arm and said in horror.

He trusted his instincts implicitly, as they had saved his life many times on the battlefield. Now his instincts were telling him that the bloody senbon on his arm was extremely dangerous, even more deadly than when he was attacked by a Konoha jōnin.

Great fear made him subconsciously turn around and flee, fleeing from the Konoha brat who was obviously manipulating the blood to attack.

But what he didn't expect was that the Konoha brat looked at him at this time.

He suddenly once again locked eyes with the Konoha brat's pair of mysterious golden eyes.

Fear instantly dominated him.

He decisively threw the Kunai in his hand, then turned around and fled, but as soon as he turned around and fled, he found that his legs were out of control.

He looked down and instantly felt a tingling in his scalp.

His legs had somehow swelled up and turned into a hideous mass of flesh. Not only his legs, but also his hands had started to turn into the same thing. Then he noticed that the chakra within his body had begun to expand uncontrollably, about to burst out of his body.

At this moment, in the eyes of others, this elite junior ninja of the Sunagakure clan's entire body rapidly swelled up, turning into a terrifying mass of flesh that exuded a terrifying aura.

As if realizing that his end was near, the elite junior ninja of the Sunagakure clan cried out in resignation, "No!"

"Boom!"

The Sunagakure elite middle-aged ninja exploded, creating a terrifying explosion that instantly cleared out the area around him for more than ten meters, creating a bloody explosion crater.

The explosion of the Sunagakure elite middle-aged ninja seemed to be a sounded trumpet, and many Sunagakure with bloody senbon stuck in their bodies began to fearfully discover that their bodies were also rapidly expanding.

As they were on the verge of death, they all saw a pair of golden eyes.

"Boom boom boom~"

A series of loud explosions occurred.

A large number of Suna-Nin turned into human bombs, blooming a terrifying bloody rose flower after flower on the battlefield.

Watching a living person turn into a flesh bomb and explode, such a bloody and terrifying method of killing, both the people of the Sunagakure and the people of Konoha could not help but feel fear in their hearts. They subconsciously looked at the instigator who created these flesh bombs, and then once again saw those cold golden eyes.

In an instant, many of them were horrified to find themselves in a bloody space, with a pair of bloody golden eyes before them.

Subsequently, many of the Konoha ninja quickly found themselves back on the battlefield, as if what had just happened was just an illusion for them. However, when they saw that many of their enemies looked dazed, they immediately realized that this was not an illusion at all.

"What are you still doing? Hurry up and kill your enemies."

Then, an icy voice appeared in their minds.

"Ha~"

Many Konoha ninja heard this voice, and they subconsciously shouted out loud, before picking up their weapons and killing the enemies around them who had been affected by the illusion.

Kirito was located in just one corner of the battlefield, but his appearance had obviously caused a huge reversal of the situation in that corner. Some of the Sunagakure jōnin nearby had already noticed him, and they decisively dispatched some of their men to eliminate Kirito.

A Sunagakure jōnin proficient in Earth Release quietly came to the ground beneath Kirito, preparing to use Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique on him. But before his hands could grab Kirito's legs, a huge bloody spike pierced the ground and impaled his head.

After the Earth Release Jōnin failed, two strange-looking puppets descended from the sky and suddenly shot a large number of poison-coated hidden weapons in his direction. This was the move of a certain Sunagakure puppet master with the strength of a Jōnin.

Unfortunately, the poisoned dark weapons, which could only lightly scratch a ninja's skin, were all stopped by the bloody shield created by Kirito's blood. They could not harm Kirito at all, but the two puppets were hit by a bloody dragon formed by blood and turned into a pile of rubbish.

"Damn it, how dare you hurt my precious!"

In the rear of the Sunagakure camp, a puppet master with a scorpion tattooed on his face looked at Kirito with hatred through binoculars.

However, soon his expression of hatred turned to fear as he noticed that the chakra lines he had withdrawn contained a trace of foreign chakra. As soon as this foreign chakra entered his body, a pair of golden eyes with bloody tears appeared before him.

"Boom!"

The next moment, the Sunagakure puppet master exploded, turning himself into a flesh bomb and killing himself along with the two puppet masters nearby who had not been able to react in time.

"It really was him who did it,"

From a high hill at the edge of the battlefield, Orochimaru watched the figure on the battlefield that was controlling the blood to kill on all sides, and couldn't help but lick his mouth with his long tongue, musing.

Then, he revealed a cold and sinister smile and smiled, "On the battlefield, being too showy is not a good thing."

Hyuga Hanare, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but show a nervous expression when she heard Orochimaru say that.

Because under her Byakugan gaze, a middle-aged man with long, cold eyebrows was rushing towards Kirito. Wherever he went, all the Konoha ninja were cut to pieces by the five puppets he controlled, each holding a variety of ninja tools.

Ebizo, the Kage-Level powerhouse of Sunagakure, had arrived.