"You're not hurt, are you?"
Nian stretched out his hand, pulling both Tong Ren and Orochimaru up at the same time.
Orochimaru frowned slightly, "Do you know that this will expose us? There are Ninja rushing over from the village."
Nian shook his head helplessly, "There's no helping it. Compared to that, I'd rather not see two roasted whole lambs."
Tong Ren looked at Nian, his eyes filled with a hint of guilt.
"Don't blame yourself, this is also part of my plan," Nian said softly.
"Plan?"
Nian's gaze turned to Orochimaru, "You already know the location of the Treasure you mentioned, senior, but you're just waiting for an opportunity. I'll create that opportunity for you."
Orochimaru's pupils shook, "Nian, you..."
Before Nian could answer, Uchiha Taki's furious voice came from outside the Wooden Dome Wall:
"Damn brat, do you think I'm dead! So what if you have Wooden Style, no matter what tricks you have today, you're all going to die here!"
"Uchiha Kirito, as long as I kill you, your bitch of a sister will know what price she'll pay for rashly taking sides!"
Taki clasped his hands together, "Fire Release: Great Fire Dragon Technique!"
A heatwave gathered, and the high temperature in the air continued to rise. A huge fire dragon head burst out!
"Scatter!"
The three of them immediately scattered. The Wooden Dome Wall only lasted for two seconds before being shattered by the fire dragon, and scorching flames plowed a charred path on the ground.
"Fire Release: Dust Technique!"
Tong Ren took a deep breath and spewed out a huge amount of dust, instantly covering the forest within a radius of several dozen meters, obscuring everyone's vision.
Except...
"Wooden Style: Adamantine Entangling Trees!"
Nian immediately located Taki's position, even though he was still moving freely in the sky-covering dust.
He pressed his hands on the ground, and several huge wooden pillars burst out of the earth, like flexible tentacles, grabbing towards Uchiha Taki.
Uchiha Taki was no ordinary person either. Although the dust had a certain impact on him, he could still discern the faint trajectory with the Sharingan's microscopic ability.
As the wooden pillars approached, he immediately reacted and leaped high into the air.
A cluster of flames lit up the blade, and with a few swings of his sword, four consecutive flame slashes fiercely struck the tentacles below, smashing them into pieces of wood.
He fell straight down in mid-air, a powerful heavy chop heading straight for Nian's head.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
"Fire Release: Great Fireball!"
Tong Ren and Orochimaru jointly performed a Fire Release collaboration technique. The strong wind blew away the dust, and a fireball streaked across the sky, trying to block Taki's attack. However, a smug smile flashed across Taki's face. Instead of dodging, he flipped his sword and plunged it into the fireball.
"Secret Art: Sword Draws Flame!"
As Fire Release Chakra was poured into the blade, his longsword actually carried a suction force, diverting the high temperature and heat of the fireball away from its original direction, instead flinging it towards Nian below!
"Wooden Style: Wooden Dome Wall!"
The fireball crashed into the wooden barrier, erupting with rolling heat waves. A flash of the blade followed, Taki's slash coming right after. He split open the barrier and stabbed Nian in the chest with his sword, pinning his entire body to the ground.
"Die!"
He twisted violently, and flames instantly ignited Nian's entire body. Suddenly, his ferocious expression froze, because the Nian in front of him had turned into a lifelike wooden sculpture at some point.
"Wind Release: Wind Rope!"
Swift winds flashed, transforming into invisible ropes that bound Taki's limbs, and in his urgency, he couldn't break free.
"It's over!"
A whistling wind came from behind, and Tong Ren held his sword in reverse, the cold light of the blade streaking across Taki's throat.
With a "chi" sound, blood gushed out like a spring.
Taki clutched his throat tightly with both hands, but scalding blood kept gushing out from between his fingers, and his life force was also constantly draining away.
His eyes widened, unable to believe that he had died at the hands of three kids. He seemed to want to say something, but his vocal cords were destroyed, and blood choked his throat, so he could only make "gege" sounds.
As the Wind Rope dissipated, he collapsed powerlessly to the ground, his twitching body returning to stillness.
It's over.
Nian walked out from behind a tree, exchanged glances with the two, and a smile of relief appeared on his face.
"Did we win?"
Orochimaru sat down on the ground with a thud, looking exhausted. "We won."
Tong Ren finally let out a long breath. The crisis was over, but he felt as if all his strength had been drained.
He stood there blankly, Zhi Li's gentle smile flashing through his mind.
I still shouldn't tell big sister about this, otherwise she will definitely blame herself.
"Puchi!"
A sword pierced through Tong Ren's chest, the blade twisting, and blood flowed like a waterfall, Tong Ren's chest instantly dyed red.
"I said, I must kill you today!"
Uchiha Taki's voice floated from behind. He leaned forward, his Sharingan eyes now transformed into red and white heterochromatic eyes.
Tong Ren stared blankly at the tip of the sword in front of his chest, the extreme pain making his face pale. His heart was completely destroyed, and his life force was rapidly draining away.
In an instant, his body lost all support and slowly collapsed. He raised his hand, as if trying to grab the sword, but he no longer had the strength.
His vision suddenly darkened, and everything returned to silence.
"Big sister, I'm sor—"
He died.
Orochimaru stood there dumbfounded, seemingly unable to react, feeling like he was dreaming.
Taki raised his long sword, seemingly wanting to take advantage of the situation to finish off Orochimaru, but a figure suddenly lunged out from his side, like a crazed little wolf, and a wooden spike fiercely pierced his neck.
Taki wanted to pull out the wooden spike immediately, but the wood grew wildly in his flesh, with branches sprouting everywhere, soon piercing through his head, and bloody wooden spikes emerged from his ears!
In the last moments of his life, he struggled to turn his head, and in the instant before his single eye went blind, he saw an angry, ferocious face, and a pair of bloodshot pupils.
Two black tomoe were slowly rotating in the scarlet pupils.
Nen opened his mouth wide, seemingly roaring with all his might, but Taki couldn't hear him. As a wooden spike destroyed his eyeball from the inside, his world was plunged into darkness.
In Orochimaru's stunned gaze, Uchiha Taki's head was crushed by the wildly growing wooden spikes, turning into a headless corpse, deader than dead.
Nen roared to the sky, endless sorrow gushing out. Even if he killed the enemy, he still couldn't bring back Tong Ren's life.
His friend, his only friend in the clan territory, and also his first friend, had died just like that.
A gentle breeze blew, slightly dispersing the high temperature in the air, but for some reason, both Orochimaru and Nen were shivering with cold.
Soon, the surroundings were filled with figures, the Hidden Leaf Village ninjas arriving late after the battle ended.
They walked through the scorched forest, looking at the headless corpse killed by the wooden spikes, and the boy in the pool of blood, all clicking their tongues in amazement, marveling at the ferocity of the battle.
A beautiful figure pushed through the crowd and stumbled towards the center of the field. Ignoring the blood and dust, she held the dead boy in her arms, carefully pressing his chest.
She recognized Uchiha Taki's corpse, even though the guy was decapitated, she still recognized him.
Uchiha Chiri hugged Tong Ren's corpse tightly, tears silently streaming down.
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