Chapter 83: God of Slaughter on the Battlefield
The five members of Kurotsuchi’s group quickly moved toward Su Xiao, but the battlefield was nearly packed shoulder to shoulder, constantly under threat of enemy attacks. There was only one way to advance on a battlefield: kill, and carve a bloody path.
Yellow sand splashed as Su Xiao’s legs sank into it, surrounded by several ninjas wearing expressions of shock.
“Kill him—”
Clang!
A circular blade aura spread outward. Before that ninja could even react, he felt a chill in his chest, his vision tilting as he rapidly lowered.
With a thud, the upper half of the chest-slashed ninja hit the ground, followed by a wail of agony.
Three seconds after Su Xiao entered the battlefield, a chorus of screams erupted around him. He pulled his legs free from the sand.
“A long-lost feeling.”
Dozens of counter shields materialized around Su Xiao.
Ding.
Sparks flew as a kunai got stuck in the gap between the counter shields. Su Xiao controlled the shields to open, and before the kunai could fall, he kicked the ring at its tail.
Bang.
A sonic boom rang out. Half a second later, that kunai returned to its owner’s throat, piercing straight through.
Dragon-Slaying Flash flipped in Su Xiao’s hand as he crouched low, dodging a shuriken flying from behind.
With a wet sound, Dragon-Slaying Flash pierced the skull of a ninja behind Su Xiao.
Su Xiao twisted his wrist, switching from a reverse grip to a forward grip, the blade still embedded in the ninja’s head.
He swung his right arm, lifting Dragon-Slaying Flash, and the corpse on the blade tip was flung away. Su Xiao crouched low, hiding behind the body.
Pfft.
As the corpse was cleaved open, a ninja had his throat slashed. He clutched his spurting throat with both hands and fell to his knees with a thud.
Su Xiao pulled his left arm, tightening a cyan metal wire, severing the lower legs of two ninjas.
He slashed forward with his longsword, and as a head flew up, he suddenly leaped.
With a boom, a pillar of earth rose from beneath his feet.
Su Xiao bent his left arm and drove his elbow backward.
With a crack, the ninja whose leg had been cut by the Realm Severing Thread had his skull shattered.
As soon as Su Xiao landed, three kunai flew toward him. He waved his arm, sending three counter shields forward to deflect them.
The Demon Hunting Gun appeared in Su Xiao’s hand, his pupils contracting slightly.
Bang, bang, bang…
All five bullets in the gun were fired, hitting five chunin or genin in the head, chest, back, and collarbone.
Su Xiao detonated the explosive needles.
Boom! Flesh and blood splattered. Su Xiao’s trench coat was blown by the shockwave, and drops of blood splattered onto his cheek.
Blood dripped from the tip of Dragon-Slashing Flash. Within ten meters of Su Xiao, there were no living people left.
The surrounding ninjas witnessed this scene. Though fear gripped their hearts, they still charged forward.
Blade light flashed. Anyone who entered within five meters of Su Xiao fell in an instant. They were all genin, with a few chunin among them.
In name, these were the vanguard forces, but in reality, they were just cannon fodder.
The drawback of ninjas participating in war became apparent: unless Su Xiao killed all the surrounding ninjas, they couldn’t use ninjutsu against him. Most ninjutsu had mid-range area-of-effect capabilities, and using them in this situation would inevitably hit allies.
As for close combat with taijutsu—don’t joke. Even Kage-level fighters would die in close combat with Su Xiao, let alone these genin or chunin.
Chunin couldn’t withstand a single slash from Su Xiao; genin were just there to die.
Thirty seconds after Su Xiao entered the battlefield, a pile of corpses formed beneath his feet. Undoubtedly, such a corpse pile was extremely rare in the Naruto world, unless someone deliberately stacked them.
Standing on the corpse pile, Su Xiao slashed down a ninja with his longsword, then immediately lowered his center of gravity.
“Ha!”
A low shout came, accompanied by a pale hand slapping toward Su Xiao. That hand was wrapped in a beast’s head formed from chakra.
Bang.
The pale hand struck a counter shield, tilting the corpse pile beneath Su Xiao’s feet. He glanced sideways at the attacker—it was Hyuga Hinata.
Seeing her intact right arm, Su Xiao was puzzled, but when he noticed the glove on her hand, he guessed what was going on.
“Gentle Fist: Eight—”
Standing on the corpse pile, Hinata felt a chill. She had witnessed the gradual formation of this pile.
“Lime Solidification Technique.”
Just as Su Xiao was about to slash at Hinata, a large amount of black mud surged from above.
Su Xiao knew what this was—a substance similar to cement. If hit, he would be trapped in the cement within a short time. Normally, it wouldn’t be a problem, but on this chaotic battlefield, he absolutely couldn’t afford to lose mobility.
Su Xiao changed his slashing posture, instead smashing the hilt of his sword toward Hinata’s throat. If this hit, the damage would be nearly the same as cutting her throat.
Hinata was indeed no match for Su Xiao, but she wasn’t so weak as to be instantly killed. She immediately leaned back.
The hilt in Su Xiao’s hand suddenly changed its attack trajectory, smashing into Hinata’s chest.
With a crack, Hinata’s ribs snapped, and her heart, struck by the heavy blow, stopped for an instant.
Before Hinata could be sent flying, Su Xiao grabbed her collar with one hand and hurled her into the air, scattering the large gray mud.
A female ninja was floating midair—it was Kurotsuchi. Flying on the battlefield was a significant advantage, but also a high risk. The wooden spears of the White Zetsu army were no joke, capable of anti-air attacks at any time. Though their accuracy was poor, there were plenty of them.
Kurotsuchi in midair quickly lowered her altitude. She had nearly been skewered like a hedgehog earlier.
She caught Hinata midair and was surprised to find that Hinata had stopped breathing. This puzzled her—had this elite Konoha ninja just died? Her constitution was too weak.
“Cough, cough, cough…”
Hinata in Kurotsuchi’s arms coughed up a little blood and resumed breathing. She wasn’t dead; the violent impact to her chest had caused her to temporarily lose the ability to breathe.
“Don’t… get close to him.”
Clang.
A blade aura slashed toward them. Kurotsuchi in midair was horrified.
“Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall.”
A wall of earth quickly rose, just in time to block in front of Kurotsuchi midair.
With a tearing sound, the earth wall was cut open, but taking advantage of the moment the blade aura was blocked, Kurotsuchi, floating midair, made a dodging move.
A dozen meters away, Kitsuchi pressed one hand to the ground, his gaze fixed on Su Xiao.
“Don’t think you can run rampant any longer.”
Kitsuchi’s meaning was clear: he wanted to gather elite ninjas to surround and kill Su Xiao.
Su Xiao glanced at Kitsuchi, puzzled by this ninja’s actions. On a chaotic battlefield, the other party thought he could surround and kill Su Xiao with just a few people? He seemed not to understand what war meant.
Unless the surrounding crowd was separated by some ability, Kitsuchi and his group had no hope of surrounding Su Xiao.
Su Xiao casually grabbed a severely injured genin and threw him toward Kitsuchi and the others, then stomped the ground and charged back into the crowd.
On the battlefield, even if it wasn’t shoulder to shoulder, there wasn’t much room to move. Trying to chase someone on the battlefield was a pipe dream, let alone catching Su Xiao, who could carve a bloody path in an instant. As for using large-scale ninjutsu, Kitsuchi didn’t dare—it would cause massive friendly fire.
Su Xiao’s goal wasn’t to fight to the death with Kitsuchi and his group, but to kill as many enemies as possible. When the White Zetsu’s numbers became overwhelming, the enemy would start to rout. Then the White Zetsu could cooperate with Su Xiao to surround Kitsuchi and the others.
If it came to killing speed on the battlefield, Su Xiao could definitely rank among the top few in the ninja world.
Moreover, Su Xiao had two plans. One was to find an opportunity on the battlefield to kill a super-Kage-level powerhouse. If there was no chance, that was fine. The second plan was to gain a large amount of World Source by sneaking an attack on the enemy’s base camp.