Tobirama watched the raining wooden splinters and raised his right eyebrow a bit.
I read the report about Seimei's battle with the Rock Golem.
In that report, Senju Toshiro mentioned that he saw Seimei using some kind of extremely destructive close-range Ninjutsu to inflict serious damage to that Chakra Beast.
He also mentioned that the Jutsu activated almost instantly, but he wasn't sure when Seimei used hand seals to activate the technique.
He assumed he just didn't see Seimei performing hand seals since he was too far away from the battle zone, or Seimei performed single-handed seals discreetly.
Tobirama's mind ran at full throttle as he quickly analyzed the true nature of the devastating Ninjutsu Seimei had developed.
By the looks of it, Seimei didn't really use hand seals discreetly. And I don't see too much waste of chakra while forming the Ninjutsu either.
It can only mean that this Ninjutsu truly doesn't require any hand seals.
And as long as you master it well, you can activate it and unleash it on your enemies within a fraction of a second, catching the opponents off guard.
The amount of chakra Seimei gathered to perform the Ninjutsu and its destructive power are enough to classify it as an A-rank technique.
Senju Tobirama was a Super Kage-level Shinobi. He was the brother of the God of Shinobi, Senju Hashirama.
But these titles weren't what made him so feared across the battlefield during the Warring States Era.
Not even his overpowered Water Release techniques made his enemies fear him.
No!
What made him so feared was his mastery over various Ninjutsu, his capability to analyze his opponent's trump cards instantly, and his incredible mind that invented several disastrous and strange Ninjutsu.
He invented and used Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation to reanimate and control the deceased Shinobi.
This technique truly summoned the soul of a deceased individual from the Pure Land through the sacrifice of a living person.
Imagine how terrifying it would be to see your opponent resurrect your loved ones who were forced to fight a deadly battle against you in the middle of a war.
Would you be able to harm the people you loved so much?
Such a technique was enough to make many people's mentality collapse. And in the middle of the battlefield, it meant death.
Through this technique, Senju Tobirama summoned countless dead enemy Shinobi, controlled them, and made them fight his enemies.
This technique was so repulsive that Senju Hashirama sealed it away and marked it as a Forbidden technique.
Then he created the Flying Thunder God Technique—a true space-time Ninjutsu that allowed Tobirama to teleport to all marked locations within his spatial sense.
Even the famed Shadow Clone Technique was one of his creations.
With such a sharp and innovative mind, Tobirama could easily analyze his opponent's technique and its underlying mechanics at a glance, enabling him to develop effective countermeasures against it.
This glowing blue ball of Seimei, this Ninjutsu, was a pure mass of chakra condensed to an extreme.
It's the result of pure chakra control and shape transformation with no signs of natural transformation.
A true hand seal-less, powerful, instant-cast Ninjutsu.
I will ask for its details and development process later.
For now…
Although Tobirama thought of so many things, in reality, less than one second had passed. He had already made several countermeasures to defend against Rasengan.
And now, he was about to dash toward Seimei to continue to engage with him in a melee.
But Seimei wasn't about to let it happen.
The moment his Rasengan blasted the wooden log away, he had already formed a cross-hand seal.
Shadow Clone Jutsu
Puff~ Puff~ Puff~ Puff~ Puff~
At the next moment, five shadow clones, each with 5,000 units of chakra, were formed around Seimei with puffs of smoke.
These shadow clones wasted no time. They quickly activated the Body Flicker Technique and dashed toward Tobirama.
Tobirama was about to take action when two of the five clones formed a few hand seals in quick succession and instantly unleashed two common yet effective Ninjutsu.
Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet
Wind Release: Great Breakthrough
The first clone released a large amount of searing hot flame from his mouth that quickly formed three 12-meter-long giant flame dragons.
These red-yellow flame dragons separated and charged toward Tobirama from his front, left, and right sides.
The other clone directly charged his Wind Ninjutsu with 500 units of chakra and released a hurricane of wind that contained countless sharp wind blades hidden within it.
Halfway through, the flame and the wind interacted with each other, making themselves even more powerful.
The flame dragons burned with even more intensity, radiating intense heat that could evaporate all water from the atmosphere.
Meanwhile, the wind also became hot, making wind blades hidden in the hurricane akin to hot knives.
Tobirama watched the incoming inferno and the deadly sharp blades calmly while finishing his own hand seals.
Water Release: Water Formation Wall
A massive amount of water began to gather around Tobirama, immediately forming a towering 25-meter-high wall of flowing water that encircled him from all sides.
Booooom!! Splash!!
The fire dragons smashed into the rotating water pillar with a loud bang. The fire tried to penetrate the water but all efforts went in vain, reducing the dragons to nothing but harmless embers.
On the other hand, the hot air and the wind blades of the Great Breakthrough Ninjutsu also hit the water wall, causing a lot of water to splash.
However, even the searing hot wind blades couldn't breach the high-speed rotating water barrier, leaving behind nothing but splashes of water.
Still, the interaction between water, flame, and scorching air caused a lot of mist to form.
Seimei's shadow clones took advantage of the mist and flickered toward Tobirama.
One clone created a baseball-sized Rasengan and tried to smash it into Tobirama's stomach.
But Tobirama, who had already sensed his chakra despite the dense mist, deftly dodged, grabbed the hand holding the glowing chakra ball, and delivered a powerful knee strike to the clone's abdomen.
"Gah"
Puff~
The sheer physical force of the strike caused the clone to wince in pain and then disappear with a puff of smoke.
Even though Seimei's Shadow Clone Technique was at Lv.5 and his shadow clones could handle a great deal of physical punishment, Tobirama's full-powered knee strike was still too much for them to handle.
Just as the clone disappeared, another clone, which was just 8 meters away from Tobirama, formed hand seals and puffed his mouth, which was filled with dense Wind Release chakra.
Wind Release: Vacuum Bullets
10 vacuum bullets were quickly charged at Tobirama in a widespread formation. However, he instantly vanished from the spot by activating the Body Flicker Technique.
Next, he reappeared right behind that clone and struck its shoulder with a kunai, causing the clone to disappear with a puff of smoke as well.
He was about to look for the other clones and the real Seimei when he heard a sound similar to thousands of birds chirping together.
Chirp~ Chirp~ Crackle~ Crackle~
It was Seimei who had already completed the hand seals and cast Chidori in his right hand.
Countless arcs of blue lightning were coming out of his lightning-infused right palm, causing deep cracks and lightning-infused burnt damage to the earth around him.
But he wasn't planning to rush forward with this Ninjutsu to his father.
That wouldn't work at all.
Instead, he planned to use another variation of Chidori, which he used to defeat the Chakra Beast, Elite Aquatrex, a few months ago.
Lightning Release: Chidori Stream
The lightning chakra around Seimei intensified, and the blue lightning arcs formed a dense barrier of crackling electricity around him.
Then, in the blink of an eye, the lightning barrier around Seimei expanded, filling the area around him with countless streams of deadly lightning currents.
The electric arcs were quickly approaching Tobirama, who was just 40 meters away.
Meanwhile, Tobirama's mind worked at full drive, analyzing his current situation to find the most efficient way to counterattack.
Although my Water Release can stop this lightning, I would need to waste a lot of chakra to purify the water before releasing it to minimize its lightning conductivity.
And it would waste too much time.
I won't have time to form hand seals.
I can use the Body Flicker Technique, but who knows how far these lightning currents can travel?
Plus, Seimei must have hidden a few shadow clones to take advantage of the moment of my retreat and launch a counterattack.
In that case…
Tobirama raised his right leg high into the air and gathered a copious amount of chakra on it.
In the next moment, he brought his leg down, stomped the ground, and detonated all the gathered chakra in a controlled manner.
Chakra Enhanced Strength
BOOOOOM!
The ground around him cracked, and massive chunks of earth rose up in all directions except his back.
Tobirama further reinforced this cover of the earth by investing loads of Earth Release chakra, making these uprisen chunks of earth as resilient as steel.
Just as Tobirama had done all that, countless electric arcs and lightning currents from the Chidori Stream Ninjutsu reached him, only to be blocked by the makeshift earth barrier.
Crack! Crackle~ Crack!!!
However, the earth was, after all, weak against lightning.
Although the earth barrier successfully blocked the incoming lightning current, over 60% of its body was also destroyed.
Before Tobirama could even find a breather, he saw Seimei jumping high in the air, finishing the final hand seal, and gathering Lightning Release chakra in his mouth.
Lightning Release: False Darkness
False Darkness was a Ninjutsu that could be released in two different forms.
The most common practice was to create a crackling lightning spear around the caster before launching it toward the enemy at a breakneck speed, giving the opponent very little time to react.
As for the other form…
Seimei released a 30-cm-wide, straight, laser-like lightning beam from his mouth that instantly arrived in front of Tobirama.
The laser of lightning hit him and penetrated his shoulder before Tobirama could even react.
However, before Seimei could rejoice, Tobirama, who was hit by the lightning beam, disappeared with a puff of smoke.
Seimei's eyes widened as he cursed under his breath, "Shit! It was a damn shadow clone."
He landed on the ground, closed his Sharingan, and activated the Tenseigan to find his father's whereabouts.
Soon, his instincts sensed a danger that made his hair stand on end.
He directly activated the Body Flicker Technique and flickered away from where he was standing. Just after he left, a pair of hands emerged from the ground at Seimei's previous location, trying to catch his legs.
But it obviously failed.
Before these hands could even retreat underground, Seimei formed a few hand seals in less than half a second and gathered a vast amount of Water Release chakra in his mouth.
Water Release: Water Severing Wave
It was one of his father's signature Ninjutsu that he admired and mastered. A powerful A-rank Water Release technique that had a very high killing potential.
Seimei released a fast stream of high-pressure water toward the location where Tobirama's hands had emerged from.
The Ninjutsu hit the ground when the hands almost retreated underground, causing the earth and stone to erode as the stream of water cut through the layers of earth and hit Tobirama, who was lurking underground.
When Seimei finally stopped the Ninjutsu, his face had a grim expression.
He could only see eroded earth, destroyed stone, a surface filled with spider-like cracks, and water residue from his Ninjutsu.
There was no sign of Tobirama at all.
It was clearly another clone.
Just as he was about to search for Tobirama once again, his steps suddenly came to a halt.
He could feel the touch of cold, sharp metallic kunai right before his neck.
Tobirama, pointing the kunai at his neck, calmly said, "Surrender, you have lost."
Seimei was silent. However, his face didn't show even a hint of panic.
If anything, his lips were curled upwards as he asked Tobirama with a sunny, energetic voice, "Really? Are you sure, my dear father?"
Tobirama frowned and was about to reply when Seimei, who was standing in front of him, vanished with a puff of smoke.
The smoke covered Tobirama and everything around him within a 3-meter radius, making it hard for Tobirama to see or sense anything.
At this moment, he heard the sound of crackling lightning, which seemed to travel toward him at a very fast speed.
By the time he came out of the smoke, he saw 6 dark golden lightning balls coming toward him, targeting his head, throat, heart, stomach, and lungs with precision.
Inside these lightning balls were highly lethal shurikens, covered in concentrated lightning release chakra.
If this Jutsu hit, it wouldn't just paralyze or sear a person, it would leave the person with fatal injuries, which could lead to death if they didn't get quick treatment.
This was Seimei's newly copied…cough cough…ahem…he meant his newly invented technique.
Improvised Uchiha-style Shurikenjutsu: Lightning Ball Shuriken Technique
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