Chapter 173 Rain of Blood (2)

The dark clouds in the sky are getting heavier and darker, as if they are going to flatten the world.

Thunder light also flickered in the dark clouds, making a roaring sound.

Ignoring the harsh weather and environment, Chiyo, who was soaked in the rain, clenched her fists slightly and took a deep breath. Even if Sunagakure had prepared in advance, there was no guarantee that this battle could be won 100%.

But things have evolved to this point, and there is no possibility of backing down.

From the moment the war begins, there is no justice and evil, only winners and losers.

In this ninja world where the winner decides everything, the most important thing is victory.

Therefore, this battle must not be lost.

"Hanzo, your legend ends here..."

Chiyo murmured in a low voice, a look of sadness flashed in his eyes.

Maybe he thought that he might face such a future in the future.

A ninja's life is all about fighting.

These old people, abandoned by the times, have been fighting all their lives.

Apart from fighting, there is nothing else to fill their lives.

Therefore...Hanzo must die!

Yugakure must be defeated!

"Everyone——"

Chiyo's voice penetrated the rain curtain and was transmitted very clearly to the ears of the Sunagakure ninja behind him.

They moved forward in unison, and the edge of the cliff was immediately occupied by densely packed Sunagakure ninjas, looking nervous and excited.

Even the cold rain cannot extinguish the restlessness and passion in their hearts.

For the Country of Wind, for Sand Hidden Village, for being able to give my family a better life, for...

They fight for various reasons and gather here.

Holding the killing blade in hand, bury everything in the enemy's body.

After they were ready to join this killing feast, there was no sadness in Chiyo's eyes, only determination and the cold-blooded determination to inflict heavenly punishment on the enemy in front of him.

A ninja's life is spent fighting.

From after birth to before death, this is a cursed fate that cannot be escaped.

Raising his arm, Chiyo swung it down vigorously, pointing forward.

The sound of rain can be heard in the ears, and the sound of thunder is also passing through.

As a result, the Sunagakure ninjas turned into black shadows as fast as the wind, like flying beasts, charging down from the cliff. The sound of their running turned into the wind and lightning.

Thousands of sand hidden ninjas galloped up, causing the earth to shake.

Ripples appeared in the canal formed by the rainwater and spread out. Hanzo was at the forefront of the Ushio army, letting the wind and rain blow on his body.

Wearing a gas mask and holding a poison-coated sickle connected to a chain in his hand, his long light yellow hair flew with the wind and rain, and under his eyes were the traces of time left by the vicissitudes of life.

Facing the charge of thousands of sand ninjas, Hanzo has never been so calm for a moment.

It seems to have returned to the past, the young and peace-loving self.

It's so tiring, ninja fighting.

I really want to rest.

Tired of fighting.

fear.

Fear.

perturbed.

Death and aging both push themselves.

This is the life of a ninja, the final destiny to bear.

No matter how magnificent a person is, they cannot escape the fate of death after aging.

"let's go."

Hanzo whispered these words, pulled off the gas mask on his face, and diffused the poisonous gas carried in his body.

The ripples on the water surface spread out, and the figure disappeared from everyone's eyes.

The Amegakure ninjas wearing gas masks heard the news and charged forward.

"The legend of demigods comes from me——"

Wielding a ninja sword with wind attributes, this Sunagakure ninja is a ninja who is proficient in sword skills and is very confident in his sword skills.

Demigod... This is the pinnacle of contemporary ninjas.

Countless people have wanted to climb this mountain.

He is one of them.

The old era has passed and the new era belongs to him.

Then, in his excited and confident sight, the wind dissipated, and the ninja sword was cut off neatly by the silver light.

The chest was cut open, splattering with beautiful bright red color.

When he died, he was indulging in beautiful fantasies, a death filled with glory and joy.

This was the mercy Hanzo bestowed upon him.

The figure soon disappeared again, and the sound of the chain dragging the sickle was like a death spell on the battlefield.

Blood poured out from the Sunagakure ninja's body like a waterfall.

"Wind Escape·Hang the Net!"

When the hurricane hits, it is a web-shaped wind with a wide range of offensive capabilities.

The speed was so fast that there was no time to use ninjutsu to resist.

"What?"

Thinking that Hanzo's movements could be restricted, the wind of the net was cut straight by the blade in Hanzo's hand from the middle.

Hanzo flickered, bent down slightly, held a sickle in his right hand, gathered chakra with his left hand, and slapped the sand ninja fiercely in the stomach.

"Psychic art!"

"Uh-huh!"

My stomach feels like it's going to burst.

Sand hidden ninja stepped back holding his belly that was about to burst, saliva flowed out of his mouth, and his eyes almost turned white.

boom!

Huge smoke spread to the surroundings, and hideous and huge shadows emerged from the white mist.

Accompanied by the slimy sound of saliva and the sound of churning teeth, the sand hidden ninjas around Hanzo couldn't help but feel terrified.

It sounded like a monster eating delicious food alive.

The monster's body is revealed.

It was a slender but extremely large Sanshou fish, crawling on the ground, with fresh blood smeared on the corners of its mouth, and its tail swinging happily, sweeping away the several Sunagakure ninjas who attacked behind it like garbage.

"Ibushi!"

Hanzo jumped on top of the giant salamander.

The Sanshou Fish Ibushi understood. He opened his mouth and the poisonous mist spread around at an extremely fast speed. The purple poisonous mist could not help but contain deadly toxins and could also blur people's vision.

However, after the poisonous mist spread, these Sunagakure ninjas who did not wear gas masks were still fighting and were not affected by the poisonous mist at all.

"Did that puppet old woman do something good?"

Hanzo sighed.

Every Sunagakure ninja who participated in the war was equipped with an antidote. He was worthy of being a ninja from the five major countries. The financial and material resources were beyond the reach of small countries.

But Hanzo didn't care. If his poison was allowed to work, then this war wouldn't have to be fought at all.

Sanshouyu and Ibushi jumped up, causing a commotion in the crowd.

"No, this guy moves too fast!"

A Sunagakure jounin shouted anxiously.

With such a huge size, coupled with the swift and violent speed, it is simply an invincible killing machine in war.

"Burning Escape·Steam Kill!"

Four orange-red fireballs burst through the sky.

Wherever it passes, all the rainwater evaporates.

Hanzo narrowed his eyes.

The body leaped up, and Ibushi also felt the mortal danger. The black claws dug wildly at the ground and disappeared from the ground in the blink of an eye, leaving a huge black hole leading to the ground.

Seeing Hanzo and his psychic beast, easily evading his own killing ninjutsu, the Sunagakure female jounin who released the ninjutsu immediately stepped back and distanced herself from Hanzo to avoid being caught up by Hanzo.

From the battle just now, she knew that Hanzo's instant body and sword skills were extremely powerful, and even if Jonin was not careful, he might be killed instantly.

One hit must be hit and the distance must be opened. This is the basic strategy for dealing with Hanzo.

"Is it Ye Cang, the scorching escape ninja? If the old man is hit by that fireball, he will be in trouble."

As a leader of the younger generation of Sand Hidden, who still uses the blood succession limit ninja of Burning Dun, Hanzo also pays attention to her.

Xueji Boundary Burning Escape Ninjutsu is naturally powerful. It can instantly evaporate the moisture in the victim's body and turn him into a mummified corpse. It has extremely dangerous and sure-kill properties.

But the shortcoming is also obvious, that is, it is slightly lacking in speed. As long as you pay a little attention, you will have no problem if you want to avoid it with his teleportation skills.

Boom!

At the moment when the earth exploded, Ibukuro's huge body sprang out from the ground. Even if the sentient ninja sensed it in advance, it still caused a certain amount of damage.

Hanging on the black claws were the corpses of two sand hidden ninjas, who were pierced to death.

With his big head and small eyes, Ibushi looked a bit naive, and what reflected in those small eyes was a cruel and fierce light.

He opened his huge mouth filled with the smell of blood, propped himself on the ground, roared at the surrounding Sunagakure ninjas, and swept his tail wildly, so that the Sunagakure ninjas did not dare to step forward to fight it, and could only use ninjutsu to restrict its activities. scope.

"Damn it, doesn't the intelligence say that its main ability is to spit poison?"

"Idiot, the Sanshou fish is originally an amphibious carnivorous animal with a very cruel personality."

Faced with the Sansho Fish, which is huge in size, moves quickly, and has the ability to burrow into the ground, the Sunagakures were also in trouble.

But when they were in trouble, Ibushi and Hanzo didn't wait to think about any tactics.

"Water Release·Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

Hanzo pulled the chain, took back the scythe that was thrown away, then casually leaped over to Ibushi's head again, forming a seal with one hand.

"Uh! What is that!?"

The earth roared.

A large amount of torrents gathered around Ibushi, and a water dragon that was much larger than Ibushi rose up from the ground, causing terrifying cracks in the ground. After flying into the sky, it opened its ferocious eyes, and then fell from the sky after reaching a certain height.

Boom!

Boom!

More than a dozen sand hidden ninjas had no time to dodge, and were hit by the water dragon, their bones were shattered, and then they were swallowed by the water dragon in one gulp.

After swallowing more than a dozen Sunagakure ninjas and making a hole in the ground, the water dragon did not disappear, but continued to rush forward, causing the Sunagakure ninjas along the way to be baptized by the storm, and their bodies could not stop bouncing to both sides. Open, covered in mud.

Seeing the scene of the water dragon raging brutally, his face showed horror.

boom!

The chakra that maintained the water dragon disappeared and turned into an overwhelming current, drawing a large number of Sunagakure ninjas into it, forming a small lake that appeared in the center of the battlefield.

Ibushi descended from the sky with Hanzo on his back, stood in the center of the small lake, started running, and instantly grabbed the body of a Sunagakure ninja who was standing tremblingly on the water and had just regained his balance.

It was a bloody mouth full of sharp teeth, which swallowed Sand Yinja whole.

Lightning illuminates the world.

Ibushi chewed with his teeth and rolled his throat.

The slimy sound of saliva and the sound of breaking bones reappeared. It was a nightmare-like sound, and it would make people feel chills in their backs.

Standing on top of Ibuku's head, Hanzo stared coldly at the gathered Sagan ninjas.

At this moment, Hanzo noticed something, it was a dangerous signal.

"Ibushi, get out of the way!"

It's too late.

Ibushi screamed, and a bloody hole was punched in the side of his body by some kind of sharp weapon.

Ifuku turned his body angrily, trying to tear the attacker's body apart with his pitch-black claws.

The attacker took his time and raised his black-stained arm.

boom!

The huge force made the water flow form a water wall around it, and then turned into waves and pushed towards the periphery.

Hanzo's eyes widened slightly.

The sneak attacker blocked Ibushi's attack.

The sneak attacker half-kneeled on the water, frowned tightly, grunted in pain, and tried his best to barely block the claws of the well.

Those green eyes looked up and stared at Hanzo.

"I remember you are..."

Hanzo seemed to recognize the identity of the attacker.

The sneak attacker stepped back, out of Ibushi's attack range, and took a deep breath.

"Long time no see, Hanzo, I will accept your head."

"Are you even going to join me in my fight, Kakuzu?"

Hanzo snorted coldly and called out the sneak attacker's name.

"Because this is a business, getting rid of you before the value of your head depreciates is the only way to preserve the value."

"Then I'll give you a ride!"

Hanzo's eyes turned cold.

It is definitely not easy for Kakuzu to appear here. It is probably a trump card that Iwagakure supports to give Sunagakure.

A bounty hunter colluding with the underground black market, or a defecting ninja like Kakuzu, only Iwagakure is so shameless.

"I wish I could, but it seems like your men can't hold on any longer."

Kakuzu sneered, murderous.

Hanzo turned around and looked, and it was true as Kakuzu said. Under the siege and offensive of the Sunagakure ninjas, no matter how stubbornly the Amegakure ninjas resisted, they were retreating steadily.

"Ibushi!"

Ibushi glared at Kakuzu angrily and began to rush towards the battlefield where the Amegakure ninjas were.

The Sunagakure ninjas kept stepping forward to stop them, but faced with the furious Ibushi and Hanzo who was hunting from the side with his sword skills, there was no way to limit their pace.

"Water Release·Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

The huge water dragon roared out again, forcing the surrounding Sunagakure ninjas to retreat, then turned into floods and impacted their bodies, turning the earth into a lake.

"Hanzo-sama!"

Kanzo jumped on Ibushi's back, pulled out the broken blade inserted into his arm, and stood next to Hanzo covered in blood.

"It doesn't matter, Kanzang?"

Hanzo couldn't help but feel sad when he saw his cronies in such miserable condition.

Kanzang wiped the blood from his face, smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, because this is Lord Hanzo's will."

"I will bring you back alive, and then I will put this country in order."

Hanzo said firmly.

"I believe Hanzo-sama."

"However, speaking of it, the support from Konoha still hasn't arrived?"

Hanzo had a confused look on his face.

"Support from Konoha?" Kanzang thought for a while and replied, "No, I don't think they will come to support."

"?"

Poof!

The blade pierced through the chest, and blood spattered on Jing Fu's back.

Hanzo's body was stiff, looking at the blade piercing from his back to his chest, he looked at Kanzang in disbelief.

"Kanzang, you..."

Kanzang turned around and kicked Hanzo hard in the abdomen, causing him to roll down the body of the well.

Immediately afterwards, he jumped off Jingfu's back and quickly hid in the crowd of Sha Yin.

"I'm sorry, Master Hanzo, I don't want to die with you. It would be better if I hid in the village like before. I am obviously greedy for life and afraid of death to the extreme, and I will only linger on. How can I be a hero at this time?"

If that were the case, I wouldn't betray him. Kanzang thought to himself.

Therefore, he despises Hanzo very much.

As long as we continue to be greedy for life and afraid of death, why should we stand up and resist? Are you going to drag a close confidant like him to die with you?

With his body aging to this point and countless hidden wounds, fighting against Sunagakure would definitely lead to death no matter how he looked at it.

"Hanzo-sama!"

"Kanzo, you bastard!"

The Amegakure ninja was anxious and his angry curses spread.

The medical ninja quickly stopped Hanzo's bleeding.

However, the knife stabbed Hanzo in too much pain.

Not only the physical pain, but also the mental pain.

Why did Kanzang betray himself?

Do you regard him as your closest confidant?

Teach him swordsmanship, ninjutsu, and even give him part of the power of Yuyin Village, and treat him with all his heart...

Pain, loss...but no regrets.

"It's over, Hanzo. Let me see you off for the last time and give you the last puppet drama!"

Chiyo sighed and took out a scroll from his ninja bag.

The confrontation between me and Hanzo in the past is still vivid in my mind, and I really don’t want to send my old friend away in this way.

But in order to reduce Sunagakure's losses, she had to accept Kanzo's surrender and use despicable ghost tricks to defeat Hanzo.

It was also because of this that she dared to face off against the alliance of Konoha and Amegakure.

After killing Hanzo, it was the turn of Konoha from the Land of Fire.

For this reason, she wanted to hold a grand funeral for Hanzo, her old friend.

A white scroll was spread out in mid-air, and what appeared on the scroll was a different and weird spell mark.

I saw the scroll floating in mid-air, Chiyo quickly formed seals, and the ten characters on the scroll immediately rushed out of purple chakra, wrapping the characters and rushing out of the paper of the scroll.

The characters mixed with purple chakra turned into physical humanoid puppets, uniformly dressed in white robes and holding different weapons in hand, appearing around Chiyo and surrounding her.

"It's too powerful. It's the legendary Chiyo Elder's strongest puppet art white secret technique, Kinmatsu Ten People!"

"Yeah, it's a living legend to be able to control a puppet with just one finger."

The puppet masters naturally showed expressions of excitement and excitement. Those layman ninjas who did not know the art of puppetry also understood how difficult it was to control ten puppets and how terrifying the power they could exert was.

"It's the ten-finger technique of the puppet old woman, it's troublesome now, ahem..."

Hanzo frowned in pain, and stood up from the ground, his limbs were cold, almost unconscious.

The badness of the body is more troublesome than Hanzo imagined.

Just standing up now is exhausting.

Konoha's support has not arrived for a long time, and I am afraid that it was also ambushed and intercepted by another army of Sa Yin.

Kanzang's betrayal made him understand that Sha Yin had already known the road map of his and Konoha's march, and it was impossible to come to support him.

What to do next?

Will you die?

Hanzo felt fear again.

If he hadn't gone against Sunagakure, he wouldn't have faced this danger, wouldn't have been betrayed by Kanzo, and wouldn't have lost his precious life.

He will be a demigod in people's hearts.

The undefeated legend of Yuyin Village.

But now...

Hanzo was frightened when he saw the mockery and contempt in the eyes of the Sunagakure ninjas.

The legend of being a demigod no longer exists.

The title he earned from fighting on the battlefield all his life was worthless when he was trampled on at this moment.

Yes, I am already afraid of life and death, so why do I have to stand up? Hanzo asked himself.

Isn't it enough to live well, maintain that undefeated legend, and accept the respect and admiration of others as a matter of course?

Hero, peace, so ridiculous.

This ridiculous decision was made because of this stupid country.

But it doesn't matter, my body can still move.

If you can move, you can escape.

Being able to escape means staying alive.

Yes, as long as I escape here...

Hanzo's eyes burned with the desire to live.

Want to live!

Don't want to die!

When he raised his feet to run back, blood splattered on his face, waking him up from his confusion.

It was an unfamiliar face.

He fell to the cold muddy ground.

Wearing Yugakure's forehead protector, he is not very old, only sixteen or seventeen years old.

He took the place of the distracted Hanzo and blocked the kunai and shurikens flying from a distance.

"Han...Hanzo-sama...little...be careful..."

His body convulsed slightly, with kunai and shurikens sticking out of his body, and his eyes gradually lost their look.

"I want to be a hero... and live... Mako is still waiting for me to go back... She said she wanted to marry a hero... but I can't go back..."

The mouth is still moving, but there is no sound.

He died with a smile on his face.

Hanzo stared blankly at the young corpse.

What is this young man doing?

Why should he block the enemy's attack for him and die himself?

He wanted to escape.

Sacrifice for the escaping shinobi, such a sacrifice was meaningless and worthless.

Who is Mako?

I will marry you when I go back... Mako... she must be a beautiful and kind-hearted girl of the same age as Hua.

This thought came to Hanzo's mind, but his eyes lost all color.

Raising his arms, the world seemed to have stopped.

The blade cuts across.

A puppet wearing a white robe flew over and shattered from the middle, with wood pieces flying around.

"how come?"

Chiyo's eyes widened.

This old guy was stabbed by one of his own, which should have hurt his heart. The injury was so serious that it should be impossible for him to use the knife with more power than before.

Why can it still exert such power?

"I didn't expect that he still retains such a strong power, but this is just a dying struggle. I accept that corpse worth 100 million taels without mercy."

Kakuzu was not frightened when he saw this scene. He had already seen through Hanzo's weak nature.

The green light in his eyes became brighter.

Money is the meaning of life.

Without money, the world would be nothing but indifference and betrayal.

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"Hurry up! We're almost there!"

In the stormy weather, Yahiko rushed towards the battlefield between Amegakure and Sunagakure.

There were more than a dozen Akatsuki members accompanying him, including Nagato and Konan.

"Yahiko, do we really want to stop this war?"

Nagato came to Yahiko's side and asked this sentence.

Yahiko clenched his fists and said with firm eyes:

"Yes, it must be stopped. The Kingdom of Rain can no longer withstand the disaster, and war will only make the Kingdom of Rain suffer more pain. Teacher Jiraiya also said that people will definitely usher in an era of mutual understanding. .”

"But……"

"It's okay, Nagato. I will become a bridge for them to understand each other. If Teacher Jiraiya knows, he will also support me. Now Akatsuki must take this step. Only by letting them understand each other can this country be saved. Hanzo Sir, he is too impulsive."

Yahiko's words reached everyone's ears clearly, allowing everyone to feel his determination to love peace and hope to quell the war.

(PS: Tomorrow will be two chapters to end the Rain Country chapter. The battle between the protagonist and Madara should be written on Saturday and weekend. The reason why Madara and the protagonist fight should be the extremes of realism and illusionism, both of which are only It is impossible to coexist if one can exist. Madara has despaired of the real world and only wants to create an illusory world of peace to escape reality. The protagonist can deduce by collecting Madara’s past and the information given by the living snakes. The world uses Infinite Tsukuyomi.)