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#341 - Flame Wood

"Wood Release!?"

Seeing the large tree that suddenly grew out, Itachi and Kisame Hoshigaki on the opposite bank of the river were immediately astonished.

Especially Itachi Uchiha, who also came from Konoha and had seen the darkness of the world, naturally understood what it meant for someone to possess the ability to use Wood Release.

Either they had undergone modifications by Root, with Hashirama cells implanted in their body, or they possessed the Senju bloodline, or they were born with a Sage Body.

However, now that the battle had begun, Liang Yue naturally wouldn't waste any more words.

He simply shook his body, and a burst of vigorous aura suddenly surged from within him, a small tree entangled with lightning and fire abruptly appearing behind him.

At the same time, the large tree in front of him also shook violently.

"Whoosh~"

A round leaf suddenly shot out.

Some were like rapidly rotating grinding wheels, incredibly fast, while others had bizarre trajectories, spiraling in all directions.

But in the blink of an eye, they had already enveloped the two opponents from all angles, covering the sky and earth.

When Itachi and Kisame saw this situation, although they were somewhat doubtful about the power of these leaves, they didn't dare to be careless in the slightest.

After all, this was Wood Release...

So the two immediately leaped backward with great tacit understanding, dodging the attack range of the flying leaves.

However, the development of events did not go as they had expected, and the large number of leaves that attacked were not a one-time offensive.

After changing direction in mid-air, they continued to spiral and shoot towards the two at high speed.

Seeing this, Kisame Hoshigaki simply swung the large sword bound with bandages in his hand, creating a gray shadow in front of him.

Swish, swish, swish~

With a few strikes, the leaves in front of him were shattered to pieces.

However, due to a slight oversight, several leaves still intersected with him, cutting out small, baby-mouth-sized bloody openings on his body.

"Hahahaha~! Is this all the power of Wood Release?"

"Careful!"

Just as Kisame Hoshigaki was about to land, thinking that Liang Yue was nothing more than this, he suddenly heard his teammate's reminder.

Unfortunately, it was too late~

Only a muffled "Bang~" sound was heard, and a thick tree root suddenly emerged from directly beneath Kisame.

Fluttering and dancing, like a dancing emerald green python~!

In the blink of an eye, it had firmly bound Kisame Hoshigaki's limbs, torso, waist, neck, etc., even fixing each of his ten fingers separately.

Rendering him unable to move even half an inch!

The Samehada in his hand also fell to the ground with a thud.

The sharp ends of the roots, at this time, even directly transformed into wooden cones, aiming at Kisame Hoshigaki's eyes, mouth, ears, and other vital positions.

Startling Kisame himself, who suddenly felt a burst of fear in his heart.

Turning his gaze, and looking at Itachi Uchiha at this time, he had instantly completed a Fire Release~ Phoenix Sage Fire Technique.

It seemed that he was planning to cooperate with shuriken, and with the flames, to cut off the tree roots wrapped around Kisame Hoshigaki.

Unfortunately, Liang Yue was indifferent to this.

Then, this guy even directly turned his gaze, looking at a certain position on his side.

"Fire Release~ Great Fireball Technique!"

The Great Fireball Technique is just the most common ninjutsu in Fire Release, with a level of around C-rank.

It's roughly the same as the Wave Country mission that Kakashi's Team Seven had received last time.

The C-rank level is only responsible for escorting, and incidentally dealing with ordinary thieves along the way.

Once there are ninja intercepting the road, this mission will automatically be upgraded to B-rank.

If enemies of the Elite Jonin level such as Zabuza Momochi appear, the mission level will continue to rise.

Therefore, the difficulty represented by C-rank is the entry level~

However, at this time, the Great Fireball Technique used by Itachi-san is obviously not that simple.

This so-called Great Fireball has really become a ball~

From the appearance, its diameter is about ten feet, the surface is smooth, all the flames of this ninjutsu are restrained, and have been collected into the interior of the fireball.

Like a sun, it emits a terrifyingly hot temperature!

For a time, the entire area was illuminated in a fiery red!

Obviously, this originally most ordinary fire ninjutsu has been modified by Itachi.

Although the hand seal method remains unchanged, the internal structure of the ninjutsu has been reorganized.

"As expected, compared to Itachi-san, Sasuke is just a little brother..."

Facing the modified Great Fireball Technique that was smashing towards him, Liang Yue was not flustered at this time, but just raised his arm towards the fireball.

As the spiritual power within his body was released, his arm instantly transformed into a half-grown small tree.

However, compared to the verdant large tree in front of him, this small tree transformed from his arm was fiery red all over, and the surface faintly shimmered with a hint of glazed color.

Subsequently, a surprising thing happened.

It was seen that after this small tree collided with Itachi's Great Fireball Technique, it did not cause any ripples, and the two quickly merged together.

To be precise, the large fireball was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just one or two breaths, it was completely absorbed by the fiery red small tree in Liang Yue's hand!

Under the sunlight, this small tree, after absorbing the Great Fireball Technique, seemed to have been nourished, and it was even more crystal clear.

Inside it, there was still a stream of honey-like water flowing.

Itachi on the opposite side, and even Jiraiya and Naruto behind Liang Yue, obviously did not expect that "Wood" could actually absorb flames, which was a completely illogical phenomenon in their understanding.

For a time, they all fell into a daze.

However, Itachi-san is now in a hostile relationship with the three after all, so only in the next moment after being in a trance, he regained his composure.

And Liang Yue here, also once again manipulated the small tree in his hand, completing another round of transformation.

In the blink of an eye, the original tree instantly transformed into a sword blade connected to his arm.

This "sword" presented a sharp triangular pyramid shape, the surface showing a crystal fiery red, but the interior was a piece of blazing white, the scorching temperature directly baking the surrounding air and quickly distorting it.

Immediately, Liang Yue gently flicked the sword blade in his hand.

A white flame instantly sprayed out, and a mottled scorched gully appeared in the ground and dense forest behind him.

The trees were directly carbonized, and a magma color appeared on the ground.

After releasing this flame energy, the sword blade on Liang Yue's arm returned to the appearance of an arm.

"Your Wood Release seems to be a bit different."

Itachi frowned slightly at this time, looking at him with a hint of solemnity in his eyes.

"This is something I researched myself, it's not the Wood Release of the First Hokage."

Liang Yue replied after smiling.

"Is that so? I didn't expect that the Hyuga family, who are good at taijutsu, would produce a genius in ninjutsu, then, now let me show you the true strength of the Uchiha clan."

Saying that, Itachi's eyes, which originally had a slightly melancholy color, suddenly widened.

The three-tomoe Sharingan quickly rotated a few times, and then turned into a pattern similar to a three-bladed shuriken.

"Tsukuyomi!"