My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 064

You watched as the Cloud ninja, who moved like a wild beast, or more accurately, a mudslide, lunged at you with lightning speed.

You quickly activated your Sharingan, but each time you tried to use a basic genjutsu, it was immediately shattered by the turbulent chakra within your opponent’s body.

You were slightly shocked by this. You hadn’t expected that the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, when pushed to its limits, would be like the Eight Gates Release, constantly damaging his internal organs and burning his life force to gain strength beyond his limits!

“Yamero!”

A Root ninja rushed towards the berserk Cloud ninja. This level of chakra was far beyond the limit for your training!

If left unchecked, the place meant to cultivate the future of the Root would become a true hell on earth!

Seeing this, the Cloud ninja’s threat level in your mind rose even higher—he was someone worth taking seriously!

You pulled out two kunai modified from tiger teeth from your sleeve, holding one in a normal grip and the other in a reverse grip.

Crimson chakra flowed like a trickle into the two tiger teeth, heating them red from the inside out. It had to be said that biological materials had a much better compatibility with chakra than ordinary metals, though their durability was somewhat lacking. They would probably be废 after this one use.

You took a step, naturally infusing chakra into your legs, and moved with extreme speed to stand in front of the Root ninja who was blocking the Cloud ninja.

Clang!

After a dull clang of metal, one tiger tooth exploded into countless fragments, and you were sent flying into mid-air by the Cloud ninja’s powerful force.

However, the Cloud ninja also paid a heavy price. His only intact hand was completely pierced by the tiger tooth due to the immense impact. The Lightning Release Chakra Mode not only failed to defend against the attack with Fire Release nature transformation, but the collision of the violent lightning and fire forces completely shattered that arm!

It’s not over yet!

At this moment, still in the air, you pulled out your remaining shuriken from your waist, repeating your previous trick, and shot them at the Cloud ninja again. Two light blue thin ropes, woven from dozens of chakra threads, tightly constricted the Cloud ninja’s neck.

For a moment, the Cloud ninja, having lost both hands, couldn’t break free. Even if he activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode again to empower himself, he couldn’t break free from the enhanced chakra threads in a place with not much muscle!

You pulled hard, dragging yourself from mid-air towards the Cloud ninja.

Seeing your relentless pursuit, the Cloud ninja gathered all his lightning chakra to his forehead, then leaped into the air, intending to kill you with a single, devastating headbutt. You, meanwhile, heated the other kunai in your hand to a glowing red, and at the same time, circles of chakra threads tightly wrapped around the outside of the kunai to prevent the fragile tiger tooth from shattering on impact!

Die!

Fire and lightning, two of the most violent forces in the world, collided at a single point, emitting a blinding flash that momentarily blinded everyone in the training ground.

When your vision returned, you were already sitting on the arena floor, rubbing your slightly red wrist. Below the stage, the Cloud ninja’s upper body, completely charred black, remained stiffly upright.

“The Black Horse Terminator is dead…”

“He was a strong opponent!”

“I wonder how long he can play with you?”

On the other side, Aburame Torune and Yamanaka Fuu had already effortlessly completed their challenges. Seeing you kill the out-of-control Cloud ninja, they nodded, then began to choose their own opponents for challenges.

“Continue.”

After rubbing your wrist, you spoke to the Root ninja who was still愣 on the arena.

The fifth battle, your opponent was a puppet again.

However, this puppet was clearly much stronger than the previous one. Although its main body was still made of wood, its mechanisms and joint connections were all covered in iron armor, preventing you from using chakra threads to inversely control it.

But since the Cloud ninja had already forced out some of your strength, you decided not to hold back and unleashed your excellent control over Fire Release.

You continuously spat out three flame bullets, which then exploded, destroying many of the puppet’s soaked mechanical structures.

Then, activating your Sharingan, you formed a very unusual hand seal, actually manipulating the still-burning flames, separating them into several fire snakes. They wrapped around the puppet’s iron-armored joints, and the melted iron solidified, casting the joints firmly. The puppet couldn’t move, and after you dismantled its main weapon, a long sword, you threw it off the arena.

Next was the sixth round of battle.

Your opponent was a fully armored samurai. According to him, he was the personal bodyguard of a great noble, and he asked you to release him, promising that he would ask the noble to pardon your crimes! From his luxurious armor and the intricately carved katana, his words seemed true.

To nobles, ordinary ninja, even with great power, would obediently submit, submitting to this inexplicable social hierarchy.

But Root ninja were different. In the eyes of Root, there were only living and dead, only valuable and worthless. The only difference between humans and animals was that an animal’s value was constant, while a human’s value could be very high or utterly worthless.

For someone who couldn’t even see the situation clearly after entering Root, you tested his swordsmanship, copied it, and then stabbed him to death through a gap in his armor. Afterward, you stripped him of his equipment.

However, due to the unsuitable size and the excessive weight of the armor, which would reduce your combat effectiveness, you only took his gauntlets and greaves. All other items were placed aside as spoils of war.

The seventh round of battle followed closely.

However, it was just a leopard. Dealing with a beast was much easier than fighting puppets that weren’t affected by genjutsu, or unpredictable ninja.

Your eighth opponent was a spy from Sunagakure.

But as he was trained as a spy, he wasn’t skilled in direct combat. After you seized control of the puppet he was manipulating, he only knew one extremely simple technique: Wind Release: Gale Palm.

You kept your distance to avoid his attacks, and after activating your Sharingan to learn his ninjutsu, you killed him with a single strike, declaring victory.

The ninth match.

The final opponent was a wild bounty ninja. He was wanted for hunting too many Konoha individuals, captured, interrogated, and then, having lost his value, was repurposed by Root.

A “wild ninja” was someone without a ninja village or a master, simply a civilian with chakra talent who accidentally found a dead ninja’s tools and techniques, and through serendipity, learned them.

Such individuals were also the most troublesome for the major ninja villages to deal with, because their logic of action was completely different from those trained by the villages, and each had their own way of doing things. They were hidden unstable factors within the ninja villages’ jurisdictions!

Moreover, such individuals were bound to have top-notch combat experience and wisdom.

It was a pity that such individuals often lacked basic knowledge of the ninja world, and coupled with the mental trauma they suffered in the interrogation department, they became completely harmless after being controlled by your Sharingan.

In the final battle, your opponent was a rhinoceros, acquired from who knows where. At first glance, you thought it was just an ordinary beast, but fortunately, out of caution, you used your Sharingan to briefly probe it, only then realizing it was a captured summoning beast that had lost its contractor.

Although it had tough hide and thick flesh, impervious to slashes, and charged like a tank, as a wild summoning beast that had lost its contractor, and not from a sacred land or a summoning beast family with its own traditions like the ninja cat clan, this mutated creature didn’t have much combat intelligence. Without a ninja’s command, it knew very few techniques.

After being controlled by your genjutsu, you roasted it with Fire Release to replenish your stamina.

Having completed ten consecutive challenges, you sat on the arena, savoring the fresh rhinoceros meat, tasting such delicious fruits of victory for the first time.