Konoha: Sage Body

"Who exactly are you? You are a member of the Hyuga clan, right? With your strength, you must be from the family. The Hyuga clan is a major clan in Konoha. Why are you stopping me? Do you want the Hyuga clan to suffer a great calamity?"

Hatake Sakumo immediately tried to persuade the mysterious ninja in front of him again after confirming that he was a member of the Hyuga clan.

The opponent's strength was terrifying. His assassination technique, which he was most skilled at, was almost completely transparent in the opponent's Byakugan. The essence and power of assassination techniques did not lie in being fast, accurate, and ruthless, but in stealth.

Only by being stealthy enough to avoid detection by the enemy could one truly achieve surprise assassinations.

However, his stealth had now been restrained. The Byakugan's ability to see through and its dynamic vision were really the biggest nemesis of assassins like him.

As an assassination-type ninja, he of course had studied the Byakugan, a Bloodline Limit that severely restricted his abilities, so he knew exactly where the Hyuga branch ninja in the Cage Bird had a weakness with his Byakugan.

It was precisely for this reason that he had just planned to use this weakness against the mysterious enemy in front of him.

The assassination failed.

From this, it can be seen that the opponent could not be someone from the branch family, and could only be someone from the family.

In his impression, the person of the Konoha Hyuga clan's head family should not be able to betray Konoha, but why would the Hyuga head family ninja in front of him do so?

Whether it works or not, he has now decided to try to influence the other person with words in order to end this meaningless internal struggle as quickly as possible.

He is aware of the internal conflict within Konoha, but personally he does not want to get involved in Konoha's internal struggle at all. In his opinion, this is meaningless and harmful to Konoha.

Unfortunately, the mysterious Hyuga ninja had no intention of communicating with him at all, and once again, the other party slammed a palm at him.

A powerful blast of chakra struck again.

Hatake Sakumo quickly used his Shunshin technique to dodge once more, but as soon as he had done so, the enemy's attack came again.

The enemy's movements were terrifyingly fast. Before he could land after using his Shunshin technique, he was charged at by the enemy, who combined pure physical strength with chakra to sprint up to him. A palm wrapped in chakra slammed into his chest.

"So fast. The physical skills of the Hyuga clan's ninja are indeed not to be underestimated,"

thought Hatake Sakumo.

The next moment, he was slapped by the enemy's strong palm.

"Boom~" A sound of impact.

Hatake Sakumo left behind a broken piece of wood in his original position.

This was a substitute technique that Hatake Sakumo had set up a long time ago, and it could now be used.

The real Hatake Sakumo had already appeared on top of a large tree two meters away. The short knife with White Fang on his right hand was now wrapped in a strong Wind Release Chakra. He swung it at his enemy.

A sudden gust of wind swept in, and a huge blade of chakra instantly slashed towards the enemy.

In response, the mysterious Hyuga ninja once again used Gentle Fist Art Secret: Revolving Heaven to defend.

The defensive power of the spiral chakra ball created by Gentle Fist Art Secret: Revolving Heaven was indeed astonishing, and it could be called absolute defense. Hatake Sakumo's full-power wind attribute chakra slash was easily blocked.

However, the Gentle Fist Art Secret: Revolving Heaven defense does not have no weaknesses.

When the mysterious Hyuga ninja performed the Gentle Fist Art Secret: Revolving Heaven, a pair of hands suddenly appeared from deep beneath his feet, grabbed his feet, and pulled him deep into the ground, leaving only his head.

Then, a flash of shining blade appeared, and the mysterious Hyuga ninja's head was beheaded by Hatake Sakumo.

Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique!

Using the technique of substitution to deflect the enemy's attack, and then using Chakra Wave to attract the enemy's attention, so that the enemy switches from attacking to defending, while secretly allowing the shadow clone to sneak underground to perform the Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique, and then the real body finishes off the enemy.

With his outstanding combat experience and abilities, Hatake Sakumo thought of a tactic in an instant, and then completed a brilliant assassination in just a second or two.

However, Hatake Sakumo did not feel the slightest sense of victory at this moment, because the enemy in front of him did not spurt blood from the neck as he had seen countless times before.

After the enemy's neck was cut off by his short knife with White Fang, the whole person actually shattered like broken porcelain, falling apart into pieces with an ominous atmosphere and grey paper.

Then these grey paper pieces began to quickly come together again. In less than a moment, the enemy's neck was reattached and the enemy stood up again.

"A dead person."

Hatake Sakumo saw this scene and instantly felt a tingling sensation on the scalp, realizing that the enemy in front of him was just a puppet manipulated by others.

He personally was not familiar with the forbidden technique of Impure World Reincarnation.

In fact, in Konoha, there were very few people who knew the forbidden technique of Impure World Reincarnation. This jutsu that played with the dead had never been used by the Hokage as a reward and handed to others.

Hatake Sakumo is not someone obsessed with ninjutsu, so naturally he has no impression of this ninjutsu.

But he now knows what kind of troublesome thing the enemy he faces is. The opponent is obviously immortal, and it is impossible to destroy the opponent by normal means. Faced with this kind of troublesome and strange enemy, the only way to deal with it is by using sealing techniques.

Sealing techniques are ninjutsu that require brainpower. Hatake Sakumo knows his limitations, and has never touched this kind of thing, which has limited achievements in his life.

Therefore, he does not know any sealing techniques, not even the simplest one-chain light array.

If it were the previous Hatake Sakumo, he would definitely be disgusted by this kind of immortal enemy in front of him and be unable to do anything but retreat. But he is lucky to have had a good subordinate before.

"I didn't think I would need it so soon,"

Hatake Sakumo exclaimed as he took out a seal with a complex sealing technique from his body.

This seal technique was given to him by Kirito before he left the Land of Wind. It is a high-level seal technique, and it was personally created by Kirito, a master of seal techniques with an outstanding reputation. It is a high-level product that cannot be bought with money.

In terms of value alone, this seal technique requires the completion of several A-level missions before it can be bought.

He originally planned to use it as collateral for a mortgage if he ran out of money to buy a house someday, but he never expected to have to use it so soon. Just thinking about it makes him feel a little heartbroken.

However, no matter how painful it is, it is necessary to solve this immediate enemy.

Uchiha Homura was also attacked by an unknown enemy, and Chiyo, the target of this assassination, is now nowhere to be found. He has no time to waste here with this immortal enemy.

With great difficulty, Hatake Sakumo suppressed his pain and affixed the seal to the enemy before it recovered.

In an instant, the seal exploded with a powerful wave of chakra, and a large number of black seal techniques spread out from it, quickly covering the mysterious Byakugan ninja's body, easily subduing him.

At the same time, in an artificial cave several kilometers away, a man wearing a rat mask opened his eyes and coldly said, "What a Konoha White Fang, he actually had such a high-level seal on him. This must have been given to him by that person."

"The White Seal cannot be taken away. Rat, you are the one who lost it, so you must bring it back. And you must not get in the way of me killing Uchiha Homura. That old thing was already hard to deal with, and if Hatake Sakumo comes over to cause trouble, it will be even harder to kill him. If the mission fails, you know what will happen to us, don't you?"

The next moment, a person wearing a rabbit mask said beside the rat-masked man, his voice also very cold.

"Hmph, I know that without you having to tell me,"

the Rat Masked Man said irritably.

The two of them were the core members of the old Root, Rat and Rabbit. They came from the Aburame and Nara clans respectively, and they had come here to destroy Konoha's mission to assassinate Chiyo on the orders of their superiors, or more precisely to kill Uchiha Homura and Hatake Sakumo.

For this purpose, they had been assigned four immortal puppets created through the Impure World Reincarnation technique by the organization.

However, due to their limited strength, they can only control one undead puppet to fight at most. If they try to control more, they may not be able to suppress the will of the undead puppet and will be countered by it.

After all, each of the four undead puppets they brought was a powerful Kage-Level powerhouse in their previous lives. If they are countered, they will definitely die.

However, they did not expect that Hatake Sakumo actually had a seal that could suppress these undead puppets, which was really beyond their expectations.

At this time, the rat, relying on his own parasite, already saw that Hatake Sakumo was going to intervene in the battle between Uchiha Homura and his enemy, and his hands quickly completed the seal.

The next moment, Hatake Sakumo, who was about to leave, saw a coffin suddenly appear behind the mysterious Byakugan ninja, and the coffin quickly collected the mysterious Byakugan ninja inside.

Hatake Sakumo was unwilling to let his enemy, whom he had captured at great cost, be taken away, so he immediately drew his White Fang short knife and attacked, but a terrifying wave of fire suddenly struck from behind.

In order to avoid becoming a roasted pig, Hatake Sakumo had to stop attacking and used the technique of Shunshin to dodge.

Then, he saw a Uchiha ninja appear before him, one of whose Sharingan had turned pale. The opponent gave him the same feeling as the mysterious Byakugan ninja just now, a feeling of death, and his face had a large number of cracks.

"Not only are there Hyūga clan ninjas, there are even Uchiha clan ninjas. Damn it, they're even playing with the dead, playing with the dead Konoha ninjas."

Hatake Sakumo looked at the Uchiha ninja in front of him, who was wearing the Konoha jōnin vest, and a strong anger immediately arose in his heart.

The mysterious Byakugan ninja just now did not have the slightest sign of being a Konoha ninja. It is thought that this Byakugan ninja should not have been from Konoha when he was alive, but the Uchiha ninja in front of him is clearly a Konoha ninja.

He has some impression of this person, the Uchiha clan's jōnin, but he died many years ago. Now he is 'alive' again, which is obviously the same as the previous Byakugan ninja, who was summoned from the Pure Land by someone using some kind of vicious jutsu.

On the other side, Uchiha Homura was facing a huge crisis.

At this time, Uchiha Homura had already used the Susano'o: Second Stage, creating a flesh-and-blood half-body chakra giant, with a huge uchiwa fan in each hand. He only needed to control the Susano'o giant to fan the uchiwa fan to create an instant fire storm.

"Here we go again, this guy is simply invincible, I must find out who is controlling this guy as soon as possible."

Uchiha Homura looked at the kimono-clad boy in front of him, who had been quickly resurrected after being destroyed by the fire storm created by his chakra fan, and had also gained a lot of weight. He suddenly felt that this was a major problem.

He had now realized that he seemed to have been caught in some kind of illusion.

This illusion was not aimed at him, but at the surrounding environment, which caused some kind of false change in the surroundings, which then had an effect on him through his vision.

He had seen this kind of false change before in the desert: it was a mirage.

Suddenly, a high-pressure water gun shot from a distance and hit the Susanoo giant, creating a small hole in its surface.

Uchiha Homura saw this and immediately manipulated the Susanoo giant to fan the circular fan in his hands, creating a storm of flames that swept towards the direction of the water gun.

As the fire storm rolled, a large amount of grass and trees turned to ashes, but after a moment, the scene in front of him changed again. The grass and trees had returned to normal, except that some of the ground was slightly different.

At the same time, the speed at which the kimono-clad boy, who had already become a fat man, gained weight suddenly increased. His entire body rapidly expanded, turning him into a fat man, and he quickly headed towards Uchiha Homura.

"Boom!"

Within five meters of Uchiha Homura, the kimono-clad boy exploded, sending a terrifying blast of superheated steam in all directions.

Uchiha Homura was protected by the Susanoo Giant at this time, so he was not afraid of being burned by the superheated steam, but the explosive power of the kimono-clad boy was astonishing. The entire body of the second stage Susanoo Giant, created using the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan, was covered in cracks, and the chakra fan in his hand shattered directly.

After the kimono-clad boy exploded, his body reverted back to its previous slim appearance, and he continued to charge at Uchiha Homura with his large sword.

During the process, his thin body began to rapidly strengthen.

"It must be right, this ninjutsu is the ninjutsu of the Second Mizukage of Kirigakure Village, Steaming Danger Explosion Power. Damn it, isn't the Second Mizukage already dead? Someone from Kirigakure Village has learned this fearsome Water Release ninjutsu again?"

Uchiha Homura witnessed the changes in the kimono-clad boy, and he finally remembered where the kimono-clad boy in front of him got his skills from, and his face became increasingly ugly.

Regardless of whether someone from Kirigakure had inherited the ninjutsu of the second Water Shadow, he must make a choice right now.

Because this kimono-clad boy was an existence that could not be killed, if he was unable to quickly identify the enemy hiding in the shadows, even if he had the Mangekyo Sharingan, he would be worn down and killed by the enemy here.

In less than a second, Uchiha Homura made his decision. The patterns in his Mangekyo Sharingan suddenly began to spin, and a powerful burst of chakra erupted from his body.

The next moment, the form of the Susanoo Giant changed again. It grew legs, and the broken fan of chakra appeared once more.

Susanoo Giant, Stage 3!

Uchiha Homura then did not hesitate to control the Susanoo Giant and turn around and leave.

An unexpectedly strong enemy had appeared in the mission, and the originally easy mission had become full of crises. For the sake of the Uchiha clan, he could not retreat again without fighting to the death. Temporary retreat and joining up with other Konoha ninja was the right choice.

However, before he could run a distance, a huge blue chakra arm suddenly broke through the ground and overpowered his Susanoo Giant.