"Remember, avoid direct head-on Water Release confrontations with Kurokawa. He's got his summoned beast backing him up, providing endless chakra. Worse, he can combine forces with that giant shark to amplify his techniques exponentially."
Fugaku stood side by side with Heiyan, delivering a series of assessments drawn from his experience.
In his eyes, though Heiyan had successfully blocked Kurokawa's Water Release, the latter clearly hadn't shown his full strength yet. Either way, directly engaging a ninja with such a massive summoning beast was never a smart move.
"When we begin, you'll handle restraining Kurokawa and keeping his attention," Fugaku whispered lowly.
Not waiting for Heiyan to respond, he quickly added, "Meanwhile, I'll look for an opening to take out that shark. Once Kurokawa loses his companion, he'll have no choice but to open his eyes. That's when I hit him with my strongest binding genjutsu—ensuring our victory."
He formulated a battle plan in an instant—his expression solemn yet determined.
"You think you can gang up on me?"
Kurokawa didn't open his eyes, but still sensed their intentions.
Originally, he had intended to spare Heiyan's life, turning him into a mind-controlled puppet to seize billions in assets. But under these circumstances, he had no other choice.
[Water Release: Hundred-Shark Devouring Feast!]
With that thought, Kurokawa roared out loud. Leveraging the chakra of the great white shark beneath him, he executed another large-scale summoning technique.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Over a hundred sharks materialized out of nowhere, splashing into the water like dumplings boiling in a pot. Then they opened their fanged mouths wide and charged straight at Fugaku and Heiyan.
"Cursed!"
Fugaku let out a curse as he faced the overwhelming wave of sharks, finding absolutely no chance to reach Kurokawa.
[Fire Release: Gōka Mekkyaku! (Great Fire Destruction!)]
Fugaku pushed himself to the limit, unleashing the most powerful B-ranked fire technique he knew.
Whoosh!
With one breath, he released a vast surge of flame that surged forward, incinerating dozens of sharks instantly.
Yet, his chakra reserves were now completely drained. He collapsed onto the surface of the lake, gasping heavily, stripped of any further combat capability.
[Lightning Release: Raijin's Step! (Raikō Ken / Thunderbolt!)]
Beside Fugaku, Heiyan also unleashed his current strongest lightning technique.
Forming hand seals, he pressed both palms against the lake's surface. In an instant, torrents of electricity burst from his hands, spreading across nearly half the lake.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The remaining sharks convulsed violently under the shockwaves, then vanished into puffs of white smoke.
However, during the time it took the two men to deal with the Hundred-Shark Devouring Feast, Kurokawa's deadly move had already been completed...
Rat → Snake → Rabbit → Rat → Ox → ... → Dog → Rat → Ox → Rooster — a total of forty-four hand seals.
A jutsu this complex naturally bore terrifying power.
[Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!]
Kurokawa poured everything into it, nearly draining half the chakra from the great white shark. From behind him, a colossal water dragon erupted skyward—thicker than three men across and longer than twenty paces.
Roar!
The water dragon coiled midair like a roaring waterfall descending from heaven, its might unstoppable. Before it, humans seemed infinitesimal.
We're finished!
Uchiha Fugaku shut his eyes tightly, bracing for death's arrival.
Meanwhile, Heiyan formed six hand seals in quick succession—Rat, Ox, Tiger, Snake, Horse, and Rooster.
He just so happened to know the Water Dragon Bullet technique as well.
Moreover, it was a simplified version passed down directly from the Second Hokage to Kosuke Maruboshi.
The instant the seals completed,
the immense Chakra within Heiyan's body, comparable to that of a Tailed Beast, erupted. In an instant, Sage Transformation boosted his ninjutsu to its peak.
So—
"Roar!"
An even larger water dragon surged up from the lake bottom, complete with realistically detailed head, whiskers, scales, and claws—it looked alive, exuding immense majesty.
With a mighty surge, Heiyan leapt onto the dragon's head—
clutching his hands together, riding the water dragon as it shot skyward, colliding head-on with Kurokawa's Water Dragon Bullet.
Boom!
Midair, the two water dragons entangled each other, locked in fierce combat, shaking heaven and earth.
However, this stalemate didn't last long before a victor emerged.
Wuuuh!
Kurokawa's water dragon emitted a mournful cry, exploding from head to tail, disintegrating into countless droplets raining down like a sudden torrential downpour.
"!!!"
Fugaku Uchiha's eyes flew wide open, his mouth gaping in stunned silence.
At this moment, through his Sharingan, everything between heaven and earth rapidly receded and vanished, leaving only one full moon high above, casting boundless moonlight.
And beneath that silver glow, the youth Heiyan stood upright on the dragon's head with solemn grace, his white clothes flapping violently in wind, short hair dancing—like a celestial immortal descending.
Man and dragon stood poised—like they were about to soar straight into the moonlight.
Heiyan's figure became infinitely towering in Fugaku's eyes. That divine-like heroic posture etched deeply into the latter's mind, wave after wave crashing against his soul.
"How… could this be?!"
Over on another side, Kurokawa roared, his eyes bloodshot. That boy Heiyan had just defeated him in the most impossible way imaginable.
In his widening pupils, Heiyan atop the dragon drew ever closer...
Kurokawa's roar of unwillingness soon drowned completely within the water dragon's mighty roar. Together with his summoned great white shark, he got swept away by the dragon's force, crashing straight into the surrounding barrier.
Crack!
The sturdy black barrier immediately developed a huge fissure before shattering apart.
Even after breaking through the barrier, the water dragon didn't lose momentum, dragging Kurokawa and the shark further into the woods, knocking trees askew all along its path until finally stopping fifty or sixty meters away.
Puff!
The critically wounded great white shark dissolved into white smoke as the summoning jutsu released.
As for Kurokawa, he lay face-up among bushes, lifeless with wide unblinking eyes.
Heiyan approached Kurokawa's corpse to collect spoils.
From the body, he retrieved several Water Release scrolls, including Hidden Mist Technique, [Water Prison], [Exploding Water Shockwave], and others.
Unfortunately, the device Kurokawa used to control the barrier got destroyed during the battle.
However, just as Heiyan started feeling disappointed, he pulled out one final scroll—a sight that made him raise his eyebrows:
It was none other than the Uzumaki clan's A-ranked secret technique [Adamantine Sealing Chains]!
"So this must be the precious thing he offered in exchange," Heiyan murmured thoughtfully.
"Heiyan..." murmured Heiyan under his breath, recalling what Kaketa had once said.
Moments later, he carefully packed away all the ninjutsu scrolls.
Tonight's battle marked his first true combat since awakening the Sage Transformation—though his earlier trouncing of Uchiha Youji certainly didn't count. It was a decisive victory.
"Heiyan..."
At this moment, Fugaku Uchiha hesitantly approached, his voice faltering, his expression filled with turmoil.
Over the past week, he had played the role of Heiyan's personal bodyguard. Yet in truth, he always regarded Heiyan—as this so-called "weakling"—from a position of superiority, never truly considering him an equal.
Now, however, reality had proven that it was Fugaku himself who was weak.
After witnessing firsthand Heiyan's earth-shaking Water Release technique, the pride he carried as the Uchiha clan's Number One Prodigy had been completely crushed.
Seeing the shame on Fugaku's face, Heiyan was about to offer some words of comfort when suddenly his expression shifted dramatically.
Because from beneath his feet, he sensed chakra fluctuations emanating from Kurokawa's corpse.
Was it reanimating?
Heiyan had no time to think further. He yanked Fugaku and sprang over ten meters away in an instant.
Almost simultaneously—
WHOOSH!
Kurokawa's corpse erupted into a massive burst of crimson flames from the ground below.
These flames were not ordinary fire—they resembled hellfire itself. In an instant, Kurokawa's body was reduced to ashes, and the inferno began rapidly spreading outward.
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