vncnus Chapter 117 The Unique Tai 1
Chapter 117 The Unique Tai 1
Chapter 117 Taiyi, Who Is Different From Others
The attack on Angusa wasn't just because of the superhuman strength that countered the puppets. The situation on the field was now clear: the defeat of Sunagakure was only a matter of time. If Angusa, now unattended, saw the situation was turning against him and abandoned his companions to escape, then Konoha's assassination attempt would be completely ineffective.
Just as Taiichi had thought, looking at the situation on the field, Yusha also had the idea of escaping. He wanted to take the news back with him. Konoha had actually sent people to assassinate the Sunagakure delegation, which was a serious act of provocation.
As long as I can return alive, I can use this information to incite the village's militant faction to join forces with Iwagakure to give Konoha a hard time.
However, while the idea is good, implementing it is quite troublesome.
"Damn it, how can this kid be so fast!"
Using his superhuman strength version of the Body Flicker Technique at full power, Taiichi approached Urasuna with lightning speed. Facing the several puppets thrown out by Urasuna, Taiichi easily dealt with them one by one with his speed advantage.
This is not only because Taiichi is powerful enough, but also because the Rikusa group doesn't have many good puppets left. By now, not counting the puppets Taiichi destroyed, Sakumo's side has already taken down several.
With so much loss, his inventory is obviously almost gone, and what he's taking out now are just some defective products.
As Taiichi continued to approach, Yusha felt helpless. He had to constantly deploy puppets to restrain Hatake Sakumo, and he also had to deal with Taiichi's attacks. All his energy was tied up in this, and now he didn't even have a chance to escape.
"Konoha's White Fang, you Konoha have broken the alliance and come to attack me. Aren't you afraid of Sunagakure's revenge?"
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With escape hopeless, Uraha made a final struggle, attempting to intimidate the Konoha ninja with words. It's unclear whether he was foolish or thought the Konoha ninja were foolish. Even at this point, he still uttered such words.
Shuo Mao didn't answer. He wasn't in a hurry to finish off the puppets in front of him. As long as he kept them occupied, he could keep Lou Sha's attention occupied and create opportunities for Tai Yi.
At this moment, Taiyi lived up to expectations and successfully advanced to Lou Sha's side. What blocked his way was only the last and largest scorpion-shaped puppet that had been guarding Lou Sha at all times.
Having learned from its previous experience, the scorpion-shaped puppet gave Taiyi no chance to get close. All sorts of mechanisms on its body were activated, and the poisoned senbon was sprayed at Taiyi as if it were free, forcing Taiyi to keep dodging.
Even more deadly was the puppet's tail, a long tail composed of dozens of nested broad blades that could extend and retract freely, and could even stab and strike like a real scorpion's tail.
For a time, Taiyi was forced to stay outside its attack range.
Just then, Taiyi, who was dodging attacks, suddenly felt a pain in the sole of his foot. A tingling sensation spread rapidly upwards from the sole of his foot. Although it was not enough to affect his movement, it was clearly a sign that the toxin had entered his body.
Taiyi looked back at the ground and realized that he had just stepped on a senbon shot by a puppet. Looking around, he saw that the ground was covered with such senbon.
As expected of a veteran Jonin, the Thousand Needles attack has this other use. Taiichi's actions are now greatly restricted.
Seeing that his plan had succeeded, Lou Sha no longer hesitated and slowly moved away from the battlefield, his intentions quite obvious.
Seeing the ant-sand preparing to escape, Taiichi no longer held back. He took out an antidote pill, put it in his mouth, and quickly formed hand seals, unleashing Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
The roaring fire dragon roared out, softening all the senbon needles along the way into molten iron. As Taiichi increased his chakra output, the already golden flames instantly turned bright white, and the temperature suddenly increased.
The puppeteer's puppets are made of specially treated materials to prevent fire, but this only protects against ordinary flames.
Faced with Taiyi's fire jutsu, the confident Sand was initially not too concerned. However, when the flames turned bright white and the high temperature could be clearly felt even from such a distance, it was too late to control the puppet to dodge.
The moment the fire dragon struck, all the puppet's joints caught fire and softened. Without the support of the joints, such a massive puppet could not be moved by just a few chakra threads.
When the ninjutsu ended, the once majestic puppet had vanished without a trace, leaving only a pool of molten iron and a few scattered supports still struggling to hold it up.
Such exaggerated fire-style power not only startled the enemy, but even their own people were taken aback. Hizashi, who had just finished dealing with the swordsman ninja and was rushing towards Taiichi, instinctively stopped in his tracks.
Taiyi clearly wouldn't give his opponent a chance. With a thought, he covered his feet in flames and used the path opened by the fire dragon to quickly approach the location of the sand monster.
At this moment, Lou Sha was truly panicked. Faced with Taiyi's sudden attack, he could only stop his retreat and take out his puppets again to fight back. However, these defective puppets could only slightly slow down Taiyi's pace.
At that moment, taking advantage of Angusa's distraction, a kunai was shot towards the area behind him. Because it wasn't aimed at him directly, it didn't attract his attention. But following closely behind the kunai was Minato Namikaze's sneak attack.
This was the second time Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique in this battle. The first time, he killed a Chunin; the second time, he directly killed his target.
Just now, Minato had also dealt with his opponent. When he saw that Suna was fully engaged in dealing with Taichi's attack, he knew that this was a good opportunity to launch a sneak attack, which led to the Flying Thunder God Slash mentioned above.
With the death of the antara, the three puppets that had been entangled with Sakumo also lost their power and collapsed to the ground.
"Quickly, clean up the battlefield, we need to get out of here as soon as possible."
Before anyone could speak, Hatake Sakumo immediately gave the order, and the group didn't delay. They collected the bodies and cleaned up the scene, and everything was done in an orderly manner.
Taiyi then came to the corpse of Lou Sha. He hadn't forgotten that they were all still poisoned. Although his antidote pills could suppress the toxin, he still needed the real antidote.
After a careful search, Taiichi found a bottle with the words "antidote" written on it in the pocket of Ryusa's shirt. However, he did not take it immediately. Instead, he continued to search until he found all the medicine-related items on Ryusa's body before he stopped.
"Something's not right." At this moment, Sakumo, who was standing to the side, also noticed something was amiss and asked curiously.
"Just to be on the safe side, we should test it first. We can never be too careful with those who are good at using poison."
As he spoke, Taiyi picked up some more poisonous senbon from the ground and carefully put them away.
"Hurry and find a place, I need to test the poison."
A few minutes later, the group, having mostly finished cleaning up, gathered in front of the glazed ground scorched by Taiyi's fire escape technique. Looking at the large expanse of blackish-red crystalline glass, they all scratched their heads, wondering how to deal with it—it was too conspicuous. Anyone who had seen it even once would remember it vividly.
"How about using Earth Release to sink underground?" Hizashi offered his suggestion.
Everyone turned their attention to Hizashi, anticipating his next move.
Hizashi, on the other hand, looked embarrassed. "Don't look at me like that. There aren't many people in the Hyuga clan who are good at the five elemental jutsu."
Everyone then turned their attention to Sakumo Hatake, who was the team leader.
"I only know Lightning Release, and I don't have Earth Release myself." Sakumo shrugged, indicating that he couldn't help.
Before anyone could even look at Minato, he said directly, "I do know some Earth Release techniques, but I don't have any ninjutsu that can handle this situation."
Just as everyone was feeling disappointed, Taiichi quietly stepped forward. He didn't actually want to steal the spotlight; after all, it's always better to keep your strength hidden. Those ninjas who jump around too much often die very quickly.
However, the current situation does not allow it. In fact, Taiichi's ninjutsu is quite numerous now. Ever since Tsunade gave Taiichi all her most treasured techniques, Taiichi has been practicing them constantly, especially functional ninjutsu, which he has mastered quite a few of.
Although it is less than satisfactory in actual combat, it is more than sufficient to perform in such a stable environment.
At this moment, Taiyi arrived in front of the glassy ground he had created and began to form hand seals. Because he was not proficient in ninjutsu, the hand seals were formed rather slowly. It took several breaths before Taiyi completed the hand seals and used Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld.
The land in front of them reacted immediately. First, a small area softened and turned into a bubbling swamp. Then, with the injection of Taiyi's chakra, the swamp rapidly expanded and slowly covered the entire area, while the glassy ground slowly sank into the ground.
A minute later, after making sure it sank deep enough, Taiyi changed his hand seals again. This time, the hand seals were formed quickly enough, and the seals were completed in an instant: Earth Release: Earth Split Palm.
Taiyi gathered chakra in his palm and struck the ground with it. A muffled boom echoed from the earth, accompanied by the crisp sound of shattering glass. It seemed he was about to smash the entire glazed floor into pieces.
Finally, Taiichi changed his hand seals once again. The hand seals were slow, but the chakra he gathered was enormous. Earth Release: Earth Flow River.
The land before them rapidly turned into mud, and the area was expanding at an alarming rate, soon exceeding the size of the previous Yellow Springs Swamp. Under Taiyi's control, the mud flowed like a river, stirring up the entire swamp into chaos.
Once the ninjutsu's effects wore off, the mud, deprived of chakra, returned to the earth. Taiichi then stood up again, letting out a long sigh of relief. The chakra consumed in this post-battle cleanup was no less than that used during the battle itself.
When Taiichi turned around again, he was met with the way the others looked at him as if he were a monster. Just as Taiichi was about to explain, Sakumo stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, interrupting him: "No need to say anything more, you did a good job."
Then he said to everyone, "Now that everything is settled, let's get out of here!"
"Yes!" *3
Half an hour after the Konoha team left, the four-person team that had acted as scouts had completed their mission and started to return. However, it was not hard to tell from their hurried demeanor that they were not in a very good mood.
The reason was simple: the delegation that had agreed to meet them at the designated location had not appeared on time. Even after they waited for another half hour, they still hadn't seen the delegation.
They were truly panicked. Such an important alliance was a huge blow to the alliance if one side broke their promise without cause, no matter what the reason.
Realizing the crucial point, the four-man team disregarded everything else and rushed towards the outpost. They needed to immediately relay the message back to the village and await the village's latest instructions.
It was precisely because of their haste that they missed the battle scene that was only a hundred meters away from them on their way back, which bought the Shuomao squad enough time to withdraw.
Meanwhile, in a cave deep within the Bird Kingdom, Taiichi was busy at work.
Never readily believe anything about a dead ninja, especially if he was a skilled puppeteer who used poison.
The antidote that Taiyi found on Lou Sha was indeed problematic. To be more precise, it was not the complete antidote; it was only a semi-finished product. The real antidote needed to be reconstituted with the other medicines on his body.
If an ordinary ninja had encountered this, they would have been completely helpless, but who could blame them but Taiichi? Moreover, Taiichi personally tested the poison and was the one who was most severely poisoned.
After experiencing the mechanism of the poison's effects and conducting several experiments, which harmed several small animals, Taiyi finally completed the preparation of the antidote within an hour of its effects taking hold.
Looking at the dark, sticky pill in Taiichi's hand, Sakumo, Minato, and Hizashi exchanged glances, none of them wanting to be the first to try it. It wasn't a matter of life and death; just the appearance of the pill was enough to deter anyone.
Taiyi seemed to notice their hesitation. Without waiting for their reaction, he put the pill in his mouth and closed his eyes to quietly feel the pill taking effect in his body.
Seeing this, Shuo Mao and the other two breathed a sigh of relief, but thinking that they would have to take the medicine sooner or later, they couldn't help but frown again.
Five minutes later, Taiyi opened his eyes with satisfaction and said happily, "That's it, this is the recipe!"
As he spoke, he took out the other three pills he had just prepared and handed them to Sakumo and the other two.
Seeing that they were still hesitating after receiving the antidote, Taiyi frowned and urged them in a more forceful tone, "Eat it quickly, time is almost up. If you wait any longer, the poison will damage your body, and even with the antidote, such damage is unavoidable."
Taiichi's words became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Sakumo and the other two gritted their teeth, picked up the antidote, and threw it straight into their mouths.
Fishy, bitter, and astringent.
The three completely unrelated flavors were mixed together in this small pill, and the three of them immediately turned into bitter faces. They struggled to swallow the antidote.
"Taiyi, you cook so well, how come the pills you make taste worse and worse?"
Minato finally managed to calm the bitterness in his mouth, and when he thought of the food Taiichi had made, the difference was like heaven and earth. He couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.
Taiichi stared at Minato with an expression that said he was an idiot, making Minato question his very existence.
"Could it be that I misspoke? Or is there something wrong with my sense of taste? That shouldn't be the case," Minato thought, glancing at Sakumo and Hizashi, only to find that they, like him, looked constipated. He knew the problem wasn't with himself, but with the instigator of this whole mess—Taiichi.
"Good medicine tastes bitter, but it's good for the disease. This medicine isn't meant to be eaten as food, so of course the more it helps the medicine to work, the better!" Taiyi said confidently, but then muttered to himself, "Besides, it tastes pretty good too."
Everyone present was a highly skilled ninja, and although Taiichi spoke softly, everyone heard him clearly.
That's it, the case is solved! It wasn't that everyone's sense of taste was off, but rather that Taiichi's own sense of taste was flawed; he actually called that flavor delicious! Sakumo, Minato, and Hizashi all broke out in a cold sweat, simultaneously making a firm decision:
I will never take Taiyi's medicine again unless absolutely necessary.
After being detoxified and cleaning up the scene, the group immediately headed towards the Land of Rain. At this point, it was impossible for them to approach the border of the Land of Wind. Their plan was to cross the Land of Birds and then travel through the Land of Rain back to Konoha.
Not to mention the return journey of Sakumo's squad, the border outpost of Sunagakure was already in an uproar.