chsdbacks Chapter 164 Rashomon
Chapter 164 Rashomon
Chapter 166 Rashomon
The entrance to the mountain village is located halfway up the mountain. As long as you hide back there, you don't need to worry about avalanches. You can just wait for the snow to slide off. However, this avalanche is not too terrifying. For a Jonin, it is not an insurmountable natural disaster!
"Send the salamander back first, then we'll give chase!" Anli didn't want to give up the opportunity, but the avalanche was still a great threat to the salamander, since the salamander didn't like cold places.
The next moment————
They no longer need to worry about avalanches.
because----
Spirit Spell: Triple Rashomon!
Three enormous Rashomon gates suddenly rose from the ground—
Ding ding dang—
The massive Rashomon gate stood directly at the village entrance, blocking three sides. The avalanche was completely unable to move it, as it was blocked by the red Rashomon gate in front of it, and then rolled outwards along the blue Rashomon gates that were blocking it on both sides.
"This is—" Lan Wu exclaimed with delight upon seeing this.
It's Rashomon!
We should be safe now.
"Rashomon" is a special kind of spiritual object, existing between the living and the dead, and is said to be the gateway between the human world and the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
During the Warring States period, this was a being that only the Uzumaki clan could communicate with spirits.
Later, the Uzumaki clan shared this with the Senju clan, and after the establishment of Konoha, the "Rashomon" contract also circulated within Konoha.
Those who can sign a contract with "Rashomon" are all strong individuals. Moreover, the biggest and most mysterious characteristic of "Rashomon" is that the stronger a person is, the larger and stronger the gate they can open through their spiritual connection.
Although they cannot move or attack like living creatures, they possess extremely strong defensive capabilities.
Judging from the size of the "Triple Rashomon" in front of her, Lan Wu immediately guessed that it must be either Jiraiya or Captain Orochimaru!
They were students of the third generation, and the third generation was a student of the second generation, so it was normal for them to have mastered the "Rashomon" contract.
Whoever it is, even if it's just one of them, it means that Lan Wu and the other two are safe.
Although Yakushi Nonou remained composed, a hint of joy flickered in her eyes. After all—if she could, she didn't want to die either!
In stark contrast to their feelings, Yu Ren was naturally grieving as if she had lost her parents.
Three enormous Rashomon gates seemed to have struck their hearts—
Indeed, they weren't too afraid of avalanches of this magnitude.
but----
This "fearlessness" refers to daring to move around in an avalanche, rather than directly confronting and blocking the entire avalanche like we are right now!
Orochimaru looked at the six Rain Ninja with grim expressions and smiled slightly, saying, "We really are destined to meet again. It is an honor to reunite with you all here."
"not good----"
"Run separately!"
"Muddy current!"
The six Rain Ninja were clearly not in the same good mood as Orochimaru; their hearts were colder than if they had been buried by an avalanche.
Although they were about to scatter and escape immediately, now that they were already in front of Orochimaru and Jiraiya, escape was clearly impossible.
The.
Anli wanted to delay a bit longer, so he threw the "Sealed Scroll" he had saved to Zhuoliu, but—
Even without Orochimaru and Jiraiya's intervention, Minato alone stopped him, rendering him ineffective in delaying or covering the retreat!
Soon, all six were bound by Orochimaru with snakes—although Manda refused to invite him to Ryuchi Cave, and Orochimaru was unable to sign a contract with Ryuchi Cave, Orochimaru had always liked snakes and had bred many snake-type ninja beasts.
At the same time, Lanwu called to Jiraiya-sensei and checked on Akaishi's condition.
"Aren't you six going to summon the salamander?" Orochimaru asked meaningfully.
"Don't even think about it!" Anli shouted.
"Is that so? That's a real shame—it wouldn't have been a big deal to spare your lives." Orochimaru shook his head helplessly.
"Wait, wait!" Yin Yan said somewhat flusteredly, "You—Konoha didn't intervene in the war between Amegakure and the Land of Iron, did you?"
"Well, since you actually targeted the supplies we were escorting and attacked our Konoha ninjas, then there's no point in intervening," Orochimaru said matter-of-factly.
"You—" Yin Yan wanted to say that it was the Konoha ninjas who started the trouble for them.
However, it's obvious that such wrangling is pointless when the outcome is already decided.
"You have one last chance. Summon the giant salamander, and then you can go wherever you want. Otherwise—we're just escorting supplies; we don't need to keep any prisoners." Orochimaru made his threat clear.
Meanwhile, the well-informed Jiraiya realized that Akaishi was experiencing a sudden, acute oxygen deprivation in his brain, but fortunately it was only for a moment and he did not suffer brain death.
In addition, Lanwu can handle "external injuries" such as ruptured eardrums.
Immediately, Yakushi Nonou and Jiraiya returned to the mountain village and provided assistance to the villagers who could still be saved.
In the final moments, Akaishi blew out the poison gas, leaving most of the villagers teetering on the brink of life and death.
Despite looking miserable, Akaishi's "Air Explosion Technique" actually has a limited range of damage, only two or three meters around him. Anything further away is just a shockwave.
Although the area was extremely large, it did not cause any casualties.
As for being submerged by Lan Wu's water jutsu again, fortunately it didn't last long. It was all water formed from chakra, and after Lan Wu came out, she had already released the ninjutsu, and the "water" quickly disappeared.
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Of the four samurai who remained here, one servant and one foot soldier were still alive, since the Rain Ninja's target was never them from the beginning.
As for the other two samurai, one was the gatekeeper for the night, and the other just happened to be there and was casually killed.
Upon seeing the Konoha ninjas return after defeating the Amegakure ninjas, they quickly assisted in rescuing the surviving villagers.
Soon after, everyone met again at the supply point in the mountain village.
Lan Wu had just used a medical ninjutsu that aided breathing to give Akashi oxygen therapy, and sure enough, Akashi recovered quickly!
Just as Jiraiya had predicted, Akaishi's inability to concentrate was caused by acute cerebral hypoxia. He could recover with normal rest, and oxygen therapy would help him recover even faster.
Although Akaishi is still a little dizzy, his newly repaired eardrum has not fully recovered his hearing, and he has a cough due to some lung strain, it is no longer a major problem.
When Akaishi came to his senses, he saw Orochimaru looking at him curiously. He had already asked Yakushi Nono and Ranmai why the poison gas had been released.
"Captain Orochimaru? I see—thankfully you and Jiraiya-sensei arrived in time." Akaishi immediately understood why...
Yao was still in the mountain village, while he and the others were "safe and sound".
"No need to thank me. It was my fault for driving the enemy to this location." Orochimaru shook his head, but then offered no apology, instead asking directly, "Akaishi-kun, what ninjutsu did you use at the end? Could it be—"
Orochimaru already had a vague idea when he heard the description.
Akaishi did not hide anything.
There's nothing to hide about this —
Although my understanding of chakra transformation is not deep enough, and I am not at the level to awaken the "First Hokage's Bloodline Limit", I was just lucky enough to awaken it, so there is nothing strange about it.
After hearing Akaishi's description, Orochimaru became even more interested.
"So that's how it is—not controlling the movement of air, but directly causing the air to expand violently, the 'Void Escape'? Hmm, that name is quite fitting. The air isn't empty, but 'Void Escape' uses 'emptiness' to manipulate the air." Orochimaru commented with an air of importance.
That's right, the biggest difference between Red Stone's Void Release and Wind Release is that Red Stone doesn't make the air flow in a specific way, but rather makes the air expand instantly—
Of course, this should only be a small part of the abilities of "Void Release". After all, Akaishi only created one ninjutsu in "Void Release", namely "Void Explosion Technique".
"Captain Orochimaru, have you ever heard of a similar bloodline limit inheritance?" Akaishi asked expectantly.
Akaishi did not want to be the founder.
otherwise----
"That means that this bloodline limit has no matching ninjutsu, and you have to create it yourself!"
Within the Uchiha clan, there is also a bloodline limit called "Flame Release," but the Uchiha clan itself doesn't care much about it.
While Flame Release is indeed stronger than Fire Release in some aspects, it has too few compatible ninjutsu and an immature system. In the hands of the Uchiha, it is not as useful as the well-honed and accumulated Fire Release!
However, Orochimaru shook his head: "Not only the name 'Void Release,' I haven't heard of any similar bloodline limit. Generally speaking, when talking about bloodline limits combining 'wind' and 'lightning,' the first thing that comes to mind is 'Magnet Release.'"
Indeed, "Magnetic Release" is also a combination of wind and thunder, but it leans more towards thunder.
The Third Kazekage's ninjutsu for controlling "iron sand" was the "Magnet Release" bloodline limit. Akashi scratched his head and said, "That's a real shame—I've only created this one Void Release ninjutsu so far, and it seems to have serious backlash."
Orochimaru looked at Akaishi with an even more "interested" expression than before.
"No, that's not a backlash, Akaishi-kun," Orochimaru shook his head.
"? But back then I clearly—" Akaishi asked in confusion.
"That's just being hurt by your own ninjutsu, like accidentally burning yourself when practicing Fire Release—it can't be called a backlash," Orochimaru emphasized.
"Backlash" refers to the fact that ninjutsu itself has side effects, and using it will inevitably damage the user. In contrast, Akashi was directly killed by his own ninjutsu.
Seeing Akaishi's listless expression, Orochimaru asked curiously, "Judging from the 'Air Explosion Technique,' it shouldn't have been an accidental awakening, but rather a bloodline limit created because you wanted to push away the poisonous fog as much as possible, right?"
Orochimaru was also very puzzled at this point.
Given Akaishi's chakra transformation speed, he shouldn't have reached the level of awakening the First Hokage's bloodline limit or creating his own ninjutsu. As for his knowledge—pfft.
But looking at the characteristics of this ninjutsu, it seems that Akashi developed it himself. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that Akashi immediately came up with a ninjutsu that countered the enemy who controlled the giant salamander?
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