Chapter 297: Be Dragged to Your Death by Your Lousy Genjutsu Skills, Uchiha Douhuan!
"I know what you are all worried about," looking at the group of high-level village officials gathered in his office, Uchiha Douhuan also smiled helplessly. "With my strength, they can't do anything to me."
"Lord Hokage, we are not questioning your strength," at this time, Uchiha Fugaku also said from the side. "However, who knows what kind of conspiracy Onoki and A have waiting for you? To speak disrespectfully, don't forget how Lord Second Hokage died."
Senju Tobirama, hidden in the shadows of the Hokage's office: ...
Although he also wanted to persuade Uchiha Douhuan not to take the risk, he still felt a bit unable to take it when he heard Uchiha Fugaku use him as an example.
"I certainly know that there might be an ambush. However, this is also a good opportunity to directly end the war," Uchiha Douhuan said. "The current progress of the war is still too slow, and our time is not abundant."
"Are you in such a hurry?" Kakashi asked.
"If possible, I would even like to end the war today. The enemy that appeared on the battlefield in the Land of Earth the other day is an extremely difficult existence to deal with. We cannot spend our existing strength on the internal strife of the ninja world," Uchiha Douhuan said.
"So, Lord Hokage, are you planning to negotiate with them?" Inuzuka Tsume asked at this time.
"Those who want to talk peace can be talked to, but if they want to fight, then our Konoha can accompany them to the end," Uchiha Douhuan said.
...
One day later, Uchiha Douhuan, with his temporarily formed Kage Guard, embarked on a journey to the Land of Iron.
This Kage Guard of his, led by the recovered Neji, was probably the one with the youngest average age among all the successive Hokage. In this Kage Guard, all of the Konoha 12 were present except for the original Team 7. Naruto was still wandering the ninja world, Sasuke was still roaming deep in the Land of Lightning, and as for Sakura, with Tsunade and Shizune each responsible for a battlefield's field hospital, the work of training the village's medical students was pressed onto her slender shoulders.
According to Uchiha Douhuan's instructions, the group did not choose to travel quickly, but instead, traveled unhurriedly towards the Land of Iron in a horse-drawn carriage. No matter what the other party's purpose was, they could put great pressure on the other party this way. After all, the current situation on the battlefield was that Konoha had the upper hand on all fronts. If they wanted to negotiate peace, the longer Uchiha Douhuan dragged it out, the greater the pressure on the other party would be.
Of course, it was the same if this was a Feast at Hong Gate. You must know, when ambushing others, especially an enemy whose strength is above one's own, as time goes by, the psychological pressure on the ambushing party will also grow greater and greater.
Five days later, Uchiha Douhuan's Hokage carriage, with its full honor guard, arrived at the border of the Land of Iron. As soon as they arrived at the border, the border was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers. Hundreds of samurai, dressed in the most formal ritual armor, lined up to welcome Uchiha Douhuan's convoy.
"There are an abnormal number of chakra fluctuations. They probably aren't ordinary samurai," in the spiritual space constructed by the Yamanaka clan's secret jutsu, Karin reminded.
"The shape and position of the calluses on their hands also don't look like those of samurai who have wielded swords for many years. On the contrary, they look more like the calluses that would grow on hands that hold kunai and ninja swords," Hinata also spoke up at this time.
"How troublesome. In other words, they've come with ill intentions," Shikamaru said at this time.
"Heh heh, right now, we are the ones who have come," Neji said, while also getting ready.
"Your Excellency, the Grand Minister of the Land of Fire, welcome to the Land of Iron. I am the Minister of the Left of the Land of Iron, Kawamura Terusuke. His Highness the Daimyō of my Land of Iron has already set up a banquet in the city ahead. I ask the Grand Minister to grace us with his presence."
"Oh? An invitation from the Daimyō?" Uchiha Douhuan keenly noticed that what the other party said was an invitation to him, the Grand Minister of the Land of Fire, not the Hokage. In other words, this was an invitation for him to attend the banquet alone.
"Has even that fellow Mifune gotten involved with them? Is it our action of annexing the territory of the Land of Water that has made him unable to sit still?" Uchiha Douhuan thought to himself. However, his expression remained unchanged as he nodded.
However, this was just right. If the Land of Iron continued to maintain its neutrality, then if Uchiha Douhuan wanted to make a move on the Land of Iron, he would still have to bear some of the public opinion pressure of the ninja world. After the war, it would also take a lot of time and effort to directly bring the craftsmen of the Land of Iron under his own use. But now, since Mifune had given up his status as a neutral country, then he couldn't be blamed.
"Since His Highness the Daimyō has invited me, then it would be impolite of me to refuse," Uchiha Douhuan said with a laugh.
After Uchiha Douhuan finished speaking, he followed the other's steps. Neji and the others, seeing this, intended to follow, but at this time, that Minister of the Left of the Land of Iron named Kawamura Terusuke blocked their path, then turned his head and said to Uchiha Douhuan, "Your Excellency the Grand Minister, the banquet is all civil officials. I wonder if you could ask your Kage Guard to wait for a moment? Of course, His Highness the Daimyō has also prepared a fine banquet for them."
"Just inviting civil officials?" Uchiha Douhuan nodded, then looked at Neji. "Then you guys can go to the banquet over there."
"Teacher?" Neji frowned upon hearing this, but after seeing Uchiha Douhuan's reassuring gaze, he said no more and followed their steps with the rest of the Kage Guard.
"Wait a minute," Uchiha Douhuan suddenly called out to Neji.
"You can also keep my sword for me for now," Uchiha Douhuan threw Swift Thunder from his waist to Neji, then looked at Kawamura Terusuke and said with a light laugh, "After all, it's the Daimyō's banquet. It would be a bit impolite for me to bring a sword, right, Minister of the Left?"
"It would be for the best if Your Excellency the Grand Minister could think so," a trace of imperceptible joy flashed across Kawamura Terusuke's face, but it was quickly concealed.
Uchiha Douhuan swaggered and followed Kawamura Terusuke to the city lord's mansion in the city. When Uchiha Douhuan arrived, Mifune was already waiting at the entrance.
"Heh heh, thank you, Grand Minister, for gracing us with your presence," Mifune said with a laugh.
"His Highness the Daimyō has invited me. Naturally, I have no reason not to come," Uchiha Douhuan also said with a smile.
"Grand Minister, please!"
"His Highness the Daimyō should go first."
After the two exchanged some pleasantries, they entered together. At the banquet, there were many burly men dressed as civil officials sitting. Upon seeing the two walk in, they all stood up and said, "Greetings to His Highness the Daimyō, greetings to His Excellency the Grand Minister of the Land of Fire."
Uchiha Douhuan nodded at the crowd, then looked at Mifune and said with a light laugh, "The civil officials under His Highness the Daimyō are all so burly. Even our Land of Fire is far inferior in this aspect."
"The Grand Minister jests. My Land of Iron is a country of samurai. Before they entered the court, they were all samurai. It's natural for them to have such figures. I, on the other hand, envy your Land of Fire. Not only do you have a powerful Kage like you, but you also have capable civil officials."
After the two exchanged a round of mutual flattery, they each took their seats, followed by a round of toasts.
The air was filled with the aroma of sake and the smell of food. As the banquet progressed, a subtle, tense atmosphere grew thicker and thicker.
The banquet was gradually getting into full swing, and the atmosphere seemed to have eased a little.
As the host, Mifune stood up in the middle of the banquet, raised his cup, and was preparing to give a toast, when a sudden change occurred!
Two metal cubes were thrown into the banquet hall from a corner.
At the same time, Mifune's wrist flickered. The gesture that seemed to be raising a cup instantly turned into a posture of drawing a sword and charging forward. He drew the short sword from his waist, his target aimed at Douhuan's side, trying to block Uchiha Douhuan's escape route!
The two metal cubes suddenly disintegrated in mid-air, turning into countless fine, shimmering, ethereal blue metal dust, which instantly spread out, completely enveloping Uchiha Douhuan! The dust, upon contact with the air, emitted a faint "sizzling" sound, and a powerful and strange force field was instantly formed!
In the next instant, Uchiha Douhuan only felt the scene before his eyes distort and peel away violently! The luxurious and bright banquet hall disappeared, replaced by a dark and terrifying forest of bones.
The light cast by the crimson moon reflected the countless jagged bone trees as if they were the claws of man-eating ghosts. Under his feet was a soft and sticky decaying soil, emitting a nauseating smell of blood. Countless twisted and pained soul phantoms wailed and shuttled through the bone forest, their voices piercing straight into the depths of the soul, trying to break his will. The illusion itself also carried a strong spiritual impact, trying to directly paralyze his nerves and freeze his chakra flow.
This was precisely the cutting-edge scientific ninja tool developed by the genius scientist of the current Cloud Village, Amado—the "Shinra Nightmare." It did not require the user to be proficient in genjutsu. One only needed to inject chakra to activate it, and it could instantly create a compound genjutsu space that combined spiritual impact and sensory deprivation, sufficient to trap a Kage-level powerhouse! They were betting on Uchiha Douhuan's vulnerability, based on the well-known intelligence in the ninja world that he was "not good at genjutsu"!
Seeing Uchiha Douhuan frozen in place, the revealed A laughed wildly, "Hahaha, as expected, using genjutsu against Uchiha Douhuan really works!"
After speaking, A looked at the figure before him, who had brought him endless shame, through gritted teeth, "Uchiha Douhuan! Die, dragged down by your own lousy genjutsu skills! One-Finger Nukite!"
A transformed into lightning, his metal prosthetic limb wreathed in roaring electricity, and charged towards Uchiha Douhuan.
At this moment, in the center of the terrifying illusion, Uchiha Douhuan's face showed no panic. Facing the wailing ghosts and the abyss that suddenly opened up at his feet, he just calmly closed his eyes.
"Boring tricks."
When he opened his eyes again, those jet-black eyes had already changed!
In the crimson background, three jet-black tomoe spun rapidly and transformed, forming a tomoe composed of three lightning bolts. At the corners of his eyes, the silver eyeshadow of Sage Mode appeared—Mangekyo Sharingan: Mōshō-no-mikoto!
Mōshō-no-mikoto dōjutsu, activate!
In Douhuan's vision, the sky-blotting blood moon, the dark bone forest, the wailing souls, the abyss at his feet... all the illusions, like the reflection of water into which a stone had been thrown, fluctuated violently, distorted, and then shattered piece by piece! The chakra flow that constituted the genjutsu, the energy nodes, and the faint metal signals of the two scientific ninja tools hidden at the core of the illusion, like bright lamps in the dark night, were all presented in his eyes in minute detail. The dōjutsu, awakened by doubting the reality of this world, could "see through" the root and essence of all falsehoods.
The illusion instantly collapsed!
In the real world, only an instant had passed.
The ethereal blue dust force field that had enveloped Uchiha Douhuan shattered with a boom like broken glass! He was still sitting in his original seat, and not even his posture had changed. Only that pair of crimson Mangekyo Sharingan, with their lightning pattern, were staring at the front like an abyss.
The savage smile on A's face instantly froze, replaced by extreme shock and disbelief, "What?! Impossible!"
Mifune's charging momentum also suddenly stagnated. A samurai's intuition made him feel a great sense of crisis!
"Lord Mifune," Douhuan's voice was frighteningly calm, yet it carried a chill that could freeze the soul. "Is this the after-dinner entertainment you prepared for the banquet? And these two are the actors you found?"
Before his voice had even finished, Uchiha Douhuan moved!
Uchiha Douhuan's body disappeared from his original spot like a ghost, leaving a faint afterimage in his place. When he appeared again, he was already at Raikage A's side!
Seeing this, A roared angrily, and his whole body erupted with a violent blue lightning. The metal prosthetic limb, wreathed in destructive lightning, tore through the air and blasted straight at Douhuan's face!
A jet-black Susanoo skeleton instantly appeared, its giant hand grabbing the metal prosthetic limb that A had thrust out. Then, a pale blue lightning arc whistled from its hand.
On the other side, Onoki's hands were brought together, and a dazzling point of white light rapidly condensed and expanded between his palms!
Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu! A huge translucent cube instantly formed and shot towards Uchiha Douhuan!
While pinching A's metal prosthetic limb, Uchiha Douhuan turned his head to look at Onoki. After showing a smile, the lightning in his hand instantly erupted. A's vision exploded, and at the same time, Uchiha Douhuan's figure also disappeared from Onoki's eyes.
When Uchiha Douhuan's figure reappeared, he was already beside Onoki. His speed was so fast that even Onoki didn't react. A mass of lightning that had almost condensed into a liquid state transformed into a blade and slashed at his face. Onoki hurriedly dodged, but with his speed greatly reduced due to his age, how could Onoki keep up with Uchiha Douhuan's speed?
Seeing that his escape space had been completely sealed, Onoki had no choice but to temporarily condense a Dust Release cube and block it in front of the lightning blade.
The moment the violent lightning and the Dust Release cube came into contact, the energy instantly surged out. At the banquet earlier, the "civil officials" disguised by the elites of the two villages were just about to step forward to assist their Kage, but were instantly sent flying by this energy. A group of people slammed heavily into the walls of the palace one after another. The banquet hall of the city lord's mansion in this border city of the Land of Iron collapsed with a boom at this moment.
Uchiha Douhuan quietly left the center of the explosion, but just at this moment, a cold glint suddenly lit up, slashing at Douhuan's neck at an extreme speed and without a sound!
Mifune had made his move!
(End of chapter)
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