Chapter 131: The monk
However, Li Jiexuan had ultimately not reached the super–Kage level.
A squad of ten Sunagakure jōnin stopped his slaughter in its tracks…
"This is probably half of Sand Village's top-tier combat strength, right?" Li Jiexuan reached out and brushed aside a sand spear that had pierced through his chest, curling his lip disdainfully. "What, did Shamon not come? I heard he's your new Kazekage."
"Hmph. The Kazekage doesn't know about this." The leading jōnin manipulated a crocodile puppet and sneered. "Once we kill you, we'll report it to him—with your head!"
"Wind Release—Wind Blade!"
A green wind blade slashed through, cutting open Li Jiexuan's arm. Bright red blood dripped down. An A-rank Wind Blade—its piercing power was already enough to break through Li Jiexuan's defenses.
Seeing this, the Sand ninjas' spirits surged. "Hah! So this guy isn't invincible after all!"
In an instant, hundreds of highly penetrating ninjutsu surged toward Li Jiexuan like a tidal wave. From the sky, ninjutsu rained down…
"What a spectacle!"
Li Jiexuan widened his eyes. With his current strength, facing this many ninjas at once was still too much of a strain. But…
"Ice Age!"
The fiery-red chakra cloak surged into Li Jiexuan's hands. In that instant, the panel for his Ice Age rose to S-rank. Both palms plunged into the ground as terrifying cold power erupted, freezing everything in the canyon through the lingering moisture in the air.
Ice-blue solid frost spread like the earth itself, repairing and sealing the entire canyon…
"Jiexuan-kun!"
Orochimaru stared blankly at the Sand ninjas frozen all around him. Tears shimmered in his eyes. Even though he had deceived Li Jiexuan—even at a moment like this—Li Jiexuan had carefully restrained himself, making sure not to harm him!
"The Nine-Tails really is a bug!"
Li Jiexuan pulled his hands free as blood-red demonic fox power erupted outward. His entire body lit up like neon— Dragon Sage Mode glowing white, the Eight Gates glowing green, and Nine-Tails chakra blazing red…
In the end, Nine-Tails chakra was simply the most convenient to use. It was, after all, an official cheat—near-infinite chakra that could be spent however one pleased. But even this kind of power was only temporary…
Li Jiexuan could feel the demonic fox power inside him rapidly fading. After all, Kinkaku and Ginkaku had only eaten a few chunks of fox flesh; it was still very different from Naruto actually keeping the fox alive inside his body.
The frozen canyon looked like a work of art crafted by a god. Li Jiexuan smiled and lightly tapped it…
"Crack—crack—crack…"
Terrifying fractures spread across the ice, branching out to fill the entire canyon. With a thunderous crash, the whole frozen canyon shattered into countless ice fragments, mixed with flesh, blood, and bones, piling up throughout the gorge.
"Is it over?"
It felt a little too easy? Before Li Jiexuan's words could even fade—
Eleven figures wreathed in blazing chakra suddenly burst out from the shattered ice. All ten jōnin, along with Aunt Chiyo, were completely uninjured…
"Well, well—jōnin really are tough to deal with." Li Jiexuan shook his head helplessly. Even someone as powerful as Six Paths Madara rarely managed to one-shot jōnin. As for the embarrassing incident where he schemed for a century only to almost get kicked to death by a jōnin, Li Jiexuan couldn't even be bothered to bring it up.
"You demon!" Chiyo, still in her beautiful mature form, glared at him with eyes wide. "You killed my husband, and then slaughtered nearly a thousand Sand ninjas! We of the Sand will never let you go!"
"Sigh—beautiful women really are unreasonable." Li Jiexuan sneered sideways. "Reto, as Kazekage, losing to a mere child like me is one thing. As for these ninjas, they simply overestimated themselves. This is no different from your attempts to seize Konoha's tailed beasts—you were always going to pay a price!"
"If you're really that eager to die, I don't mind sending you on your way!" Li Jiexuan grinned ferociously as he clenched his fist. The Eight Gates quietly advanced to the Gate of View, and surging chakra flames shot straight into the sky.
At that moment, a blue bamboo hat slowly drifted down into the canyon…
A coiling azure dragon, a black dragon's claw sealing the right eye. Beneath a yellow cloak sat an enormous bald head!
"The Second Kazekage—Shamon!"
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