Chapter 171: Chapter 64: Night Raid on Konoha
A gale raged, dust flew, and the face of Hiruzen Sarutobi on Hokage Rock was reduced to countless shattered stones amidst a series of explosions.
A rare hint of excitement crossed Uchiha Nian's face, his wide-open eyes flashing with a kind of glee.
"Insolent fool!"
Several ANBU captains leaped up, their hands blurring as they unleashed countless shurikens, transforming into a blinding, cold light under the moonlight, all shooting towards him.
Nian simply ignored these attacks, the orange skeletal structure abruptly expanding to twice its size, creating a massive bone arm!
The shurikens struck the Susanoo, scattering sparks, while the bone hand had already gripped a massive orange hammer.
"Die!"
His eyes blazed with red light, and the bone arm swung a wide half-circle, slamming three ANBU away in quick succession, like swatting flies. The faint sound of bones cracking brought a smile to Nian's face.
More and more ANBU members swarmed around him. Nian, now clad in Susanoo, was like a rampaging demon god, the giant hammer raised high, golden lightning crackling across its surface. Each swing was accompanied by a peal of thunder.
Facing the drizzling rain of attacks, Nian didn't care in the slightest. The giant hammer roared, and two more ANBU coughed blood and were sent flying, the golden lightning illuminating the entire Hokage Rock in alternating flashes of light and darkness.
"Captain, attacks of this level can't hurt him at all!" Someone dodged the swinging giant hammer and shouted.
"We can't let him run rampant any longer! Holding back out of concern for the building will result in more deaths! Attack directly!" The ANBU captain gave the order decisively, and the ninjas all understood.
The ANBU ninja flipped and dodged the thunder hammer, standing high atop the crown of the building, their hands rapidly forming seals. "Lightning Release: Four Pillar Bind!"
Four enormous stone pillars emerged from the roof, trapping Uchiha Nian in the center. Wisps of lightning condensed into a web-like cage on the gray-blue stone pillars, and, as the lightning bloomed, it struck Nian's Susanoo skeleton incessantly.
Nian attempted to swing the thunder hammer to destroy the stone pillars, but an extremely strong binding force emanated from the lightning net, neutralizing the golden lightning on the thunder hammer and tightly entangling the bone arm, making it impossible for him to move freely.
The ninja didn't stop the hands that were forming seals, and the hand signs changed rapidly. "Lightning Release: Sixteen Pillar Bind!" (fan-made)
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The building shook, and twelve more stone pillars emerged from around Nian, forming a gigantic barrier with the previous four pillars. The gaps between the stone walls were tightly joined, and the top was sealed off, creating what looked like a giant oven.
The "zzzt" of electricity echoed continuously within the closed stone box, and blue lightning rapidly flowed along the seams of the stone box.
"Now, we should finally be able to trap this brat!"
From within the stone structure, a young voice suddenly rang out:
"Wood Release: Adamantine Reaching Wood!"
Suddenly, the entire building began to shake violently, and the stone box suddenly shattered. Huge wooden pillars extended and grew wildly, breaking through the stone box from the inside, like wildly thrashing tentacles.
Uchiha Nian stood on a wooden pillar, the skeletal structure on his body slightly faint, but he himself was unharmed.
"Wood Release—"
His hand seals suddenly changed, and all the wooden pillars meandered upwards, like soaring, airborne dragons. They intertwined and converged in mid-air, spinning and forming a circle, creating a massive, hard-as-wood fortress.
"Wood Locking Wall: Wooden Fortress: Impaling Turrets!" (fan-made)
Dense, tiny protrusions grew on the outside of the fortress. The ANBU captain stared intently at the countless, increasingly formed miniature muzzles, a sense of alarm rising in his heart.
"Not good, retreat quickly!"
In the next instant, countless dense wooden spikes shot out in all directions, the sound of the air being split incessantly, beginning to fire indiscriminately, and several ANBU ninjas, caught off guard, were hit by the wooden spikes, drawing blood.
If it was just being scratched, that would be fine, but one ninja, because he wasn't quick enough to dodge, had a wooden spike lodged in his thigh.
"Impaling Technique!" (fan-made)
He immediately let out a bloodcurdling scream, as the wooden spike continued to branch and grow within his body, piercing his entire leg from the inside, bringing out a torrent of blood. The method was extremely cruel.
Seeing the miserable state of their companion, the others dared not hesitate and flipped and jumped off the building, not daring to get close.
Just then, a deep shout echoed through the night sky.
"Uchiha Nian, Konohagakure will not tolerate your rampage!"
Nian in the wooden fortress was slightly stunned. The next second, the roof suddenly shattered, and some kind of hard, iron weapon slammed up from under his feet, and he immediately activated the skeletal structure. Only then did he see clearly that it was a huge iron staff!
With a loud bang, the seemingly solid wooden fortress shattered in an instant, and a massive iron staff protruded from the roof, carrying a fierce momentum like a locomotive, sending Uchiha Nian flying.
"So heavy!" Nian bit his teeth slightly, blood appearing in his eyes. The Susanoo skeleton was also knocked out with dense cracks.
The iron staff continued to extend, and Nian, high in the sky, was like an orange shooting star, falling towards the Village Gate of Konoha.
On the roof of the Hokage Residence, a figure appeared, holding the iron staff that had shrunk back to its original size.
"In the name of the Hokage, I declare the activation of S-rank Emergency Alert status! Leave only the minimum number of people to guard the building, and all other jonin immediately go to the Village Gate of Konoha to assemble. We will eliminate the rogue ninja together!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi waved his hand sharply, his voice deep and forceful.
"Confirm that Uchiha Nian is a dangerous individual who possesses both Wood Release and Mangekyō Sharingan. Do not hold back and do your best to defeat him!"
"Yes!" The ninjas responded in a deep voice, filled with righteous indignation.
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In the dense forest, the two people squatting in the bushes immediately fell silent, because the blue stone they had been waiting for a long time had moved.
It slowly cracked open in a slight tremor, revealing an underground passage, and two ninjas emerged from the passage.
"Hey, are we really going too?" one of them asked.
"Nonsense, the Hokage-sama's summons. All jonin must go to defend against the enemy. Dare you not listen?" the other replied, his tone somewhat impatient.
"Okay, should be no problem here, right?"
"Don't worry, we've guarded here for so many years since the reconstruction. What problems could there be?" The voices of the two faded away.
"Besides, it's all orders from above. If something really goes wrong, it's not our fault. It's so boring to stay inside all day..."
In the bushes, Orochimaru and Hiruko exchanged glances and immediately came out.
"Quick, now's the time!"
They touched the blue stone skillfully and reached out to tap it lightly with a certain frequency 3 times. Then, the blue stone opened again in the slightly excited eyes of the two.
The dark passage slowly appeared, and the two went in silently and quietly.
Orochimaru was first, and Hiruko was at the back. The two went down the stone steps, and the lights above immediately worked, and the deep passage was illuminated, erasing the darkness layer by layer from top to bottom.
As they went deeper, the air became humid, and a faint scent floated into their nostrils. It was a mixture of rust and potion. For a moment, Hiruko even felt that he had entered the Konoha Hospital.
At the end of the passage, there was nothing. Orochimaru's vertical pupils narrowed slightly, and, with his keen senses, he detected a faint heat on a wall.
Hiruko immediately stepped forward, using Earth Release to investigate. After a few delicate operations, he tentatively pushed.
"Creak…"
The wall disappeared, and the secret door opened.
The joy in Hiruko's eyes had just risen and then immediately died.
There was indeed a whole other world in the secret door, connecting to the hall of the research institute, but in front of the hall door, there were three Chunin in green vests guarding it, staring at Hiruko.
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