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Chapter 136: The Dust Release that Pierces Heaven and Earth!
🕑 Added 2025-08-17 13:55:54 +0000 UTCChapter 136: The Dust Release that Pierces Heaven and Earth!
"The Black Beast?"
In the Iwagakure wartime conference room.
The then-Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki of Both Scales, slammed the data scroll in his hand onto the table and began to rail at the silent Iwa Jonin before him.
"You bunch of idiots! Konoha produced a Yellow Flash, and you can't deal with him! Now there's some 'Black Beast,' and you can't deal with it either! If this goes on, what's the point of fighting Konoha? We might as well just wave the white flag and surrender! That so-called 'Black Beast' has been roaming the Land of Grass for so long. Forget about not being able to gather any intelligence on it, you don't even know what it looks like? Does Iwagakure raise you just to let you eat for free?"
In the vast conference room, only Ōnoki's booming scolding voice echoed.
"Calm down, old man," the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, Han, coolly reminded him from the side, while also picking up the scroll from the stone desk. He had come to this meeting because he had heard that the description of this "Black Beast" was somewhat similar to the Konoha ninja from the Nara clan he had encountered with Orochimaru some time ago. He had little interest in listening to Ōnoki's lecture.
Han opened the scroll and stared at the lacquer-black demonic beast resembling a night owl drawn on the white surface. "Konoha wouldn't produce a strong person out of thin air." He tossed the scroll back onto the desk and crossed his arms. "This so-called 'Black Beast' should be the person I mentioned to you before."
"The one who teamed up with Orochimaru and forced you to flee after entering your full Tailed Beast form?"
Ōnoki's words left Han speechless. Old man, if you don't know how to talk, then just shut up!
But the other Iwa ninja present showed no reaction to this piece of intelligence. The news that the Five-Tails Jinchuriki had suffered a major defeat on the Land of Grass battlefield had long been circulating within Iwagakure. This was also the reason why Ōnoki had later transferred him to the Land of Lightning front, and the Four-Tails Jinchuriki to the Land of Grass front.
Hearing Han's report, the anger in Ōnoki's heart gradually dissipated. If it was an opponent that even the Five-Tails Jinchuriki couldn't handle, to ask those low and mid-level ninja in the village, whose basic qualities were already insufficient, to deal with him... was indeed asking too much.
"Kitsuchi, go to my office and bring me the intelligence scroll that Han submitted before," Ōnoki ordered his son. The latter acknowledged and left.
"As for you lot." Ōnoki's gaze shifted to the intelligence personnel in the conference room. "Regarding the 'Black Beast,' it has been basically confirmed that he is a ninja of the Nara clan—damn it! To think the Nara clan could also produce such an incredible genius, damn you Konoha..."
Ōnoki suppressed the dissatisfaction and jealousy in his heart and said solemnly, "How much more intelligence have you gathered on him?"
The office was silent. Under the focus of many gazes, the head of the Iwa Intelligence Division helplessly stood up. "Reporting to Lord Tsuchikage," he said with his head down, "the Black Beast's movements are completely unpredictable. He is like a ghost floating on the battlefield—"
"Pah!" Ōnoki spat a small, hard pebble towards the air above the man's head. It grazed past the top of his head by a hair's breadth, startling him into a cold sweat. "Don't talk this nonsense!"
"But this is indeed all the intelligence we know, Lord Tsuchikage." The intelligence chief wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Just like the Yellow Flash, and the White Fang back then. Any ninja who saw them would basically die at their hands, because their Body Flicker Technique speed was simply too fast, so fast that people couldn't react at all. It's the same with the Black Beast now. We only know that he has mastered a special flight ability, and that his killing speed is also very fast... but other than that, we really haven't been able to probe or collect any other intelligence. But one thing is for sure: his own Body Flicker speed is definitely not as fast as the Yellow Flash or the White Fang!"
"All nonsense!" Ōnoki waved his hand in annoyance. The intelligence chief, as if granted amnesty, immediately sat back down, his back unknowingly soaked with cold sweat.
"Yellow Flash! White Fang!" Ōnoki gritted his teeth and looked towards the entrance of the office. Kitsuchi was walking in with a scroll. "I'd like to see if Konoha has really produced another ninja of this level!"
A few days later.
Land of Grass, a certain temporary grassland research base.
Nara Keisuke packed up the relevant data scrolls in the base and arranged them by category. "The research materials are getting more and more numerous." He picked up a bulging luggage bag, filled with all sorts of small scrolls. "It seems that when I go back to the village later, I'll have to buy a giant summoning storage scroll from Lady Cat. Or Shōryūdō? I remember the old Clan Head said that's the ninja tool shop run by Tenten's family."
Keisuke walked out of the research site and quickly formed hand signs, releasing a ninjutsu towards the base below. "Rock Shelter Collapse!" The research base was completely destroyed.
During this time, he hadn't used many other ninjutsu, but the two Earth Release techniques, [Rock Shelter Technique] and [Rock Shelter Collapse], he had used countless times. Randomly selecting a location, creating a temporary base, and then completely destroying it before leaving—Keisuke was extremely cautious in his actions.
As for the research results... they could only be described as so-so.
"The fusion of Yin Release and Earth Release..." Keisuke raised his right hand and clenched his fist slightly. A dark, deep color suddenly appeared on his forearm. Its appearance had a hard, cold, metallic luster like steel, inspiring awe. With a thought, this lacquer-black energy covering his right arm gathered forward, slowly forming into a giant black iron fist.
"I inexplicably feel like the art style has gone a bit off..." Keisuke waved his hand, dissipating the chakra on his right hand.
Several months had passed, and he had made considerable progress in the dual fusion of Yin and Earth. The biggest contributor to this progress was not the [Rock Clone] as he had previously thought, but another technique: the B-rank [Earth Release: Earth Spear] he had obtained from Kakuzu's scroll. The effect of this jutsu was to harden the body by circulating earth-style chakra.
The [Rock Clone], using the [Yin Release Mask], had made no progress for a long time. But in an accidental experiment, a [Shadow Doppelganger], through the chakra in the [Earth Release Mask], had successfully formed a layer of the [Earth Spear] defensive jutsu on its body surface, thereby breaking through the fusion barrier of the two chakra natures in one fell swoop.
Keisuke had not yet confirmed the optimal chakra ratio of Yin and Earth, but he was already able to preliminarily use the new nature transformation produced by their fusion. "It's just that, this Kekkei Genkai produced by the fusion of Yin and Earth, what should it be called?"
A [Shadow Creature] emerged from his shadow and began to fly towards the Konoha camp. For several months, unless his supplies were completely exhausted, he had rarely returned to the camp for resupply. Now that the Kekkei Genkai fusion experiment was initially successful, Keisuke planned to go back for some simple replenishment.
On the way back to the Konoha camp.
Keisuke's increasingly refined senses discovered the presence of a group of Iwa ninja. He controlled the [Shadow Creature] and quickly descended. The appearance of the ferocious black beast in the sky seemed to bring some unknown fear.
"It's the Black Beast!"
"The Black Beast is here!"
Ear-piercing screams echoed through the sky. Keisuke, on the back of the [Shadow Creature], heard them and his head was full of black lines. What the hell are you Iwa ninja yelling about?! Don't slander people's reputations for no reason!
The [Shadow Creature] circled in the sky. Its shadow thereby crisscrossed and touched the Iwa ninja on the ground below, and a slender shadow line connected all of their shadows together completely.
[Shadow Paralysis Jutsu]!
Keisuke descended from the sky. Single-handedly, he had firmly restrained all the Iwa ninja present. "Hey, you guys!" He did not attack immediately, but instead asked about that strange nickname. "That 'Black Beast' you were shouting about, you couldn't be talking about me, could you?"
But seeing him land, a certain ninja among the Iwa ninja quickly activated a certain technique, and their own person disappeared on the spot.
"Hm?" Keisuke looked at the puff of smoke, his brow slightly furrowed. "Reverse Summoning Technique?"
Various thoughts flashed through his mind. The Iwa units he had encountered before had almost no resistance to his shadow attacks. This was the first time an example of directly using a technique to escape the control of the [Shadow Paralysis Jutsu] had occurred! What's more, the opponent had used what seemed to be the Reverse Summoning Technique!
"Could it be that Iwagakure has made some special arrangements?"
Keisuke looked at the group of Iwa ninja left on the spot and lost the thought of chatting with them. The [Shadow Paralysis Jutsu] silently transformed into the [Shadow Neck Binding Technique]. One by one, lacquer-black arms climbed up the shadows of the Iwa ninja, directly killing them on the spot.
"It's been so long since I've triggered a high-level mission. I'd like to see what kind of surprise the Iwa ninja have prepared this time!"
Keisuke summoned the [Shadow Creature] from the sky, remounted its back, and waited leisurely on the spot, also to watch for the ninja who had just used the Reverse Summoning Technique to escape. Whether it was the [Summoning Technique] or the [Reverse Summoning Technique], their effects were all time-limited!
Just then, a long, slender path of sand, like an earth dragon, shot over from a distance. Keisuke, sitting cross-legged on the back of the [Shadow Creature], looked down at the unusual movement below. "Earth Dragon Hiding Technique? Such a fast movement speed. It seems a formidable ninja has indeed arrived!"
Unleashing his sensory abilities to the fullest, Keisuke sensed a large concentration of chakra below. The next moment, a heaven-piercing white pillar of light erupted from the depths of the earth, shooting straight towards his position.
"What is this?" Keisuke's pupils contracted slightly. He immediately controlled the [Shadow Creature] to dodge to the side.
The white pillar of light continued to fly forward. All matter it touched along the way was disintegrated and destroyed into a molecular form invisible to the naked eye. With the earth as its starting point and the sky as its end point, this white pillar of light seemed to have punched a hole straight through the sky!
"Dust Release: Detachment from the Primitive World Technique!"
The aged voice arrived a step later. And appearing with it was a new mission triggered on Keisuke's panel.
[A-rank Ninja Combat Mission Detected!]
[A-rank Mission: Ōnoki of Both Scales]
[Mission Content: Defeat/Kill Iwagakure's Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki of Both Scales]
[Mission Reward: A-rank Shinobi Secret Scroll]
(End of Chapter)
