My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 067

[Day 28]

After completing the routine killing mission, the two Root ninja responsible for the assessment approached you with a somewhat fawning tone, asking if you wanted to try out some “new merchandise.”

You nodded, and the two then pulled out the so-called “new merchandise” from a massive cage.

It turned out to be an indescribably huge and constantly writhing monster!

The monster was nearly three stories tall, with countless human heads and wooden stakes growing on its surface. Its skin, or rather, the outer layer resembling tree bark, covered eight varied legs at the bottom, resembling roots that supported its body, some like humans, some like beasts!

It looked like some failed Wood Release fusion experiment under Orochimaru, repurposed by Danzo for secondary use.

Coincidentally, you also wanted to see what this big guy was capable of, which would count as accumulating experience in advance for dealing with giant creatures like Tailed Beast Susanoo in the future.

So you simultaneously channeled four streams of Fire Release, converging them into the shape of fire dragons, striking the monster fiercely from an angle that would cause the maximum area of damage!

Unexpectedly, after the explosion that enveloped its entire body, the monster only suffered minor superficial injuries.

In pain, the human-beast heads on the monster’s body howled in unison, creating a powerful spiritual shockwave. You hastily guarded your mind and covered your ears.

At this moment, some of the heads opened their mouths, aiming at your location and spewing out various ninjutsu: Fire Release, Lightning Release, Water Release, Earth Release, and Wind Release.

You swiftly dodged these highly lethal attacks. At the same time, you clapped your hands together, and six fire dragons materialized around you, quickly enveloping you and breaking through the continuous barrage of ninjutsu. Afterward, a tongue of flame, under your control, surged upstream against the Wind Release spat out by the monster, rushing into its mouth and destroying all the heads that were spewing Wind Release.

With its heads destroyed, the monster let out an extremely piercing sonic attack in pain. Fortunately, you had already prepared by plugging your ears.

But at this moment, bursts of thunder fell from the sky. Even with the help of Body Flicker Technique, your evasion was extremely clumsy.

Indeed, your strength was still far from enough; you couldn’t brute force it, but you could outwit it.

According to your observation, although this creature had immense destructive power and even came with area-of-effect mental attacks comparable to a Kage-level expert, it had almost no intelligence and would only retaliate on its own after being attacked, relying on its tough hide.

And it was extremely reliant on the eyes on its heads for vision!

If that’s the case, I’ll destroy all your heads!

Fire Release: Hiding in Ash and Dust Technique!

You unleashed a massive fireball at the monster, but upon exploding, it released a sky full of smoke and dust.

Subsequently, the Lightning Release ninjutsu that had locked onto your position lost its target and could only fly around, striking indiscriminately.

Good opportunity!

Fire Release: Great Flame Dragon Technique!

A thick fire dragon spewed from your mouth, then, under your extremely skilled manipulation, it rapidly coiled in mid-air. Each time the fire dragon coiled once, its size would shrink by one circle, but this didn’t mean a weakening of power. Instead, it truly concentrated the power of the Fire Release to a single point.

Boom!

In an instant, a fire dragon as thick as two people embracing was condensed to the thickness of an arm, then it charged headfirst into the giant monster ahead, causing a violent explosion.

The monster’s twisted limbs, tree bark-like outer shell, and its putrid flesh were blasted outwards.

It was fortunate that the Root had spent a fortune on the underground training ground, setting up countless barriers and seals, so the space deep underground wasn’t shattered by the violent commotion. However, the metal-cast foundation beneath the surface soil also had many dents and cracks.

It should be dead, right!

Having unleashed the most difficult Fire Release to control to date, and the most powerful Fire Release in your arsenal, you leaned on your ninja blade, which was stuck in the ground, to support your body, exhausted. Your chakra was no longer enough to sustain another attack of such magnitude!

But at this moment, a huge and twisted limb coalesced from the monster’s blazing remnants, reassembling the shattered heads and chunks of flesh into a massive wooden hammer, which slammed down heavily on you from above.

Thud!

The dull impact directly hammered a two to three-meter deep pit where you had been standing.

Fortunately, you dodged in time.

An attack of this level, let alone hitting a person, would be difficult even for a Tailed Beast to endure. It truly lived up to being something fused with Wood Release; even if it was just a deformed failure, it possessed such power, truly terrifying!

You heated your ninja blade to an incandescent state with a flick of your wrist and used all your strength to slash at the twisted limb, but it only penetrated an inch, failing to even pierce the surface wood.

Looking at the behemoth, whose body was largely destroyed but whose vitality remained undiminished, you realized that unless you could unleash another compressed Great Flame Dragon Technique, using condensed Fire Release to pierce it once more and explode it from within, there was no possibility of completely killing this monster.

However, your chakra reserves were already insufficient.

Just then, your gaze turned to the chakra alloy small box stored in your chest.

This small box was crafted by you to preserve the special flames obtained from burning parasitic insects for a long time. Now, it seemed that only with this penetrating Fire Release could you thoroughly kill this monster from the inside!

Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Claw!

Your hands quickly formed specific hand seals, maximizing the power of this ninjutsu that consumed your own chakra. Countless fireballs scattered like heavy rain, covering every part of the monster’s body.

However, such dispersed attacks were not even enough to tickle this deformed creation, which was covered in a Wood Release armor.

But your intention was not here.

Instead, it was the only three emerald green sparks left in the small box in your chest. Although it was just a thought, you still resolutely formed hand seals and poured your remaining meager chakra into them.

Go!

The emerald green flames, infused with your chakra, swept through the space like a silk ribbon, yet their speed was like a gale.

Gather!

You formed another hand seal. The scattered Phoenix Sage Fireballs in mid-air suddenly gathered towards the emerald green flame ribbon, as if becoming a part of this special flame’s power.

The emerald green flames, having absorbed the power of the Phoenix Sage Fire Claws, suddenly expanded, instantly forming a curtain of fire as tall as the monster.

The fire curtain merely brushed against the monster’s body, yet it suddenly began to burn violently.

That’s right, this flame, originating from the death of the mutated parasitic insects, inherently possessed the ability to absorb and burn chakra. Upon encountering this Wood Release creation rich in vitality, it rapidly grew stronger, just like the parasitic insects themselves!

The monster’s chakra was rapidly devoured, and its body shriveled from the inside out, as if a tree hollowed out by insects and drained of its sap, gradually withering, yet showing little external damage.

Using this brief moment, you consumed a military ration pill, rested for a while, recovering some chakra. Then, using the hand seals you had researched, you retrieved this emerald green flame, which had absorbed the Wood Release creation, back into the small box.

You could sense that after absorbing the vitality of the Wood Release creation, the stability of this flame was much better than before. Not only would it not easily extinguish, but its controllability was also much stronger.

If you were to unleash the same attack again, you wouldn’t need to prematurely use the Phoenix Sage Fire Claws to nourish and control this flame, making it barely maintain the crude form of a fire curtain. Instead, you could form it into shapes like Great Fireball or Flame Bullet and unleash it.

Although it still couldn’t compare to the flexibility and versatility of your own Fire Release, it had an undeniable miraculous effect.

In the future, this flame might become an indispensable part of your combat power, even possessing the potential to truly rival Amaterasu’s black flames.

You decided to give this emerald green flame a name, a simple one, just call it — Parasitic Flame.