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King of the Killing Species (Extremely Rare): Harvest more than 1,000,000 Human Race lives; Progress: 317/1,000,000

You killed the Land of Lightning Daimyo. Your reputation in Kumogakure has been permanently set to: Hatred (Locked at 100/100)

You will face continuous pursuit by Kumogakure forces in this world

Satsui no Hado slightly increased. Current: Lv3 (576/1200)

"Ha, haha~ hahaha!"

Large sections of muscle on Bai Cangshu’s arm had been torn apart, but they were already healing rapidly. He looked at how he had merely used brute force to squeeze sand and dirt into stone, then hurled it out, and had directly destroyed the Daimyo’s Estate and killed hundreds of people.

He threw his head back and laughed madly at the full moon, his most genuine joy overflowing from the depths of his heart.

It was like a child picking up a wooden stick for the first time and casually swinging it, smashing the beautiful flowers by the roadside into pieces. The realization that one possessed the power to dictate the life and death of other things was intoxicating.

This was pure strength, untainted by any energy.

Under this full moon, Bai Cangshu felt that if he encountered the Werewolf from the Jujutsu World again, he would only need one frontal punch to blast it to death.

This was the effect of the Second Tier. This extreme effect, combined with Bai Cangshu’s terrifying body, produced an unprecedentedly horrifying result.

Listening to the panicked cries of the people in the Land of Lightning’s capital, he saw many samurai and civilians trying to rescue people, while some stationed ninja were attempting to locate the enemy.

"Let’s go. It’s time for us to make this country submit…"

Bai Cangshu’s tone rose slightly with excitement. He sounded like a drunkard who had had too much to drink, or a lecher who had won the beauty he desired. Both Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi could hear the pleasure of having one’s desires vented, the sensation of every pore opening in relief.

The two of them looked at the nearly blazing purple aura around Mercenary Tao. That unknown energy, which did not belong to Chakra, was clearly connected to slaughter.

He grew stronger through killing. He pleased himself through killing…

Huff~

Itachi lowered his eyelids and gently exhaled a breath of stale air, once again confirming in his heart that Mercenary Tao was a complete aberration—a monster wearing human skin, utterly devoid of normal human ethics.

But then he thought of how there had been countless heroes in the ninja world, yet none had been able to end the wars that had lasted for a thousand years. Perhaps humanity truly needed monsters like this surrounding them before they would let go of Greed and cease fighting.

Orochimaru’s gaze was even more sinister. Mercenary Tao’s attack had shown him, with incomparable clarity, how fragile humans were. Even ninja, even the daimyo of a nation standing at the pinnacle of power.

Targeted by someone like this, a stone thrown from two kilometers away could blast apart the Daimyo’s Estate…

This was a power that completely stripped human life of all its weight.

Moreover, he had not sensed even the slightest moral consideration from the other man over taking so many lives.

When many ninja first killed, they hesitated and vomited. Once they had killed enough to grow accustomed to it, they began finding all kinds of excuses to ease their consciences. This was a mission; ninja had to complete missions; the people they killed were all enemies… Then there were those who craved killing, who came to enjoy slaughter, the thrill of torment, and the suffering of the dead.

But Mercenary Tao was different. Orochimaru could sense that the other man was simply delighted by his own strength.

Mercenary Tao seemed not to regard the people he had killed as human at all. Or perhaps he did not regard himself as human.

Therefore, killing so many people had not caused even the slightest moral ripple in him through empathy—neither good nor bad. There was nothing.

Perhaps if he had thrown that stone at a mountain and blasted it apart, he would have worn the same exhilarated smile.

Bai Cangshu noticed their strange looks and turned back to look down at them.

At this moment, Bai Cangshu stood over three meters tall. His bulging muscles nearly burst through his clothes, and his sense of oppression was utterly terrifying.

Both Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi instinctively assumed guarded fighting stances.

But Bai Cangshu merely sneered.

"Do you know why ninja have always been driven to wage war, why it has remained this way for a thousand years?"

"Because… loyalty?"

"No. It’s because you have no awareness of yourselves as beings beyond the ordinary."

Bai Cangshu turned and walked barefoot toward the distant capital built atop the cliff.

Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi followed behind him, while Hiranaka Hana and Danzo were placed on the backs of two Summoning Beasts.

Bai Cangshu’s voice grew louder and louder, beginning to echo like thunder through the cliffs and canyons. Even the clouds and mist seemed to churn beneath the tremendous sound.

"You possess power, yet lack the aura to wield it."

"What does it mean to transcend the ordinary? To break free of mortal shackles—everything in this world can be changed with a wave of my hand!"

"Does power control strength?"

"No. Only absolute strength can give birth to absolute power!"

As Uchiha Itachi listened to Mercenary Tao begin his "temptation" once more, he found himself unable to stop those words from entering his mind, unable to stop himself from contemplating whether they made sense.

Absolute strength… can give birth to absolute power… Can absolute power bring absolute peace…

Bai Cangshu focused his gaze on the ninja maintaining order above the chaotic, distant Daimyo’s Estate. They had also heard Bai Cangshu’s voice and were looking in this direction, shouting for the others to stay alert.

Bai Cangshu raised his right hand, and intense Satsui no Hado began gathering beneath his palm.

Hadou was a manifestation of qi, but it was more unstable and reacted more violently.

The intense Hadou continuously spun and condensed, eventually becoming a sphere roughly thirty centimeters in diameter. Under the severe compression, it grew increasingly unstable and emitted a piercing shriek.

The sound was so sharp that it nearly made one’s eardrums ache.

Yet Bai Cangshu curled the fingers of one hand, still compressing the Hadou. He did not fire it with both hands as he usually did, turning it into a Hadouken.

Having realized that the barrier between the Second Tier and the Third Tier lay in energy intensity and energy control, Bai Cangshu naturally would not relax his control over energy.

Compared to the powerful yet difficult-to-access Soul Power within his bloodline, qi and Hadou were far easier for Bai Cangshu, a Martial Artist who constantly trained, to control.

He felt that intense power constantly pulsing beneath his palm. The terrifying energy contained within it, once out of control, would be enough to utterly destroy everything within a radius of more than ten meters.

Seeing that Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi remained on guard but had not moved away from him, Bai Cangshu suddenly felt something strange. Even two powerful ninja like them, people who could casually deprive hundreds of lives, were now unable to perceive his terror.

This was the difference at the biological level. Though Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi both commanded energy like Chakra, and were even stronger than him in terms of energy manipulation alone,

their physical attributes were far too frail. Even the Uchiha, who could be considered to possess Otsutsuki Clan blood, were only slightly superior to ordinary people in terms of their bodies.

Whether it was their instinct for danger or their ability to withstand harm, they were nowhere near comparable to him.

To put it bluntly, although they were all Human Race creatures and bore human appearances, they had long since become worlds apart within.

Screee!

The intense shriek seemed on the verge of exploding, and blazing clouds of vapor continuously billowed from beneath Bai Cangshu’s palm.

Before the distant Daimyo’s Estate, a group had already gathered. Several ninja turned into black shadows and leaped down the cliff at high speed toward them, while several others stood ready, their hands prepared to form seals at any moment.

The Hadou beneath Bai Cangshu’s right hand had now shrunk to less than ten centimeters. Its vibrations were astonishingly rapid and violent, and Bai Cangshu felt as though he were gripping an already detonating bomb, its terrifying force constantly surging beneath his palm.

At last, wearing a cruel smile, he pushed his right hand toward the Land of Lightning’s capital, toward the ninja formation.

Woooong~

The air instantly caved in. The next moment, the Satsui no Hado Punch, radiating intense Hadou and making even one’s vision seem to blur, shot through the air.

The Lightning Release ninja standing before the ruined Daimyo’s Estate wore exquisite robes. At that moment, they saw a point of purple light flare up in the distance, followed by a terrifying howl through the air.

As ninja skilled in Lightning Release, they knew very well that certain extremely high-level Lightning Release ninjutsu could likewise slice through the air with summoned lightning, producing similar shrieking sounds.

Such a sound often represented extreme danger!

More than a dozen people formed hand seals together.

Lightning Release: Sixteen-Pillar Binding Technique!

This was a special Lightning Release ninjutsu combined with the Earth Release Barrier Technique. It was usually only used when facing rampaging Tailed Beasts, either to defend against them or obstruct their movements.

Amid intense lightning, walls like refined steel rose up before them.

Pfft~

Under Bai Cangshu’s smiling gaze, the intense Satsui no Hado Punch struck the barrier raised by the Lightning Release. The next moment, the steel-like wall silently caved inward. With the impact of the Satsui no Hado, the energy compressed within instantly began to spread completely.

Blazing white light erupted from within the intense purple glow, instantly drowning out all other light.

Boom!

Orochimaru raised a hand before his eyes to block the brilliant flash. Only then did the terrifying explosion and shockwave arrive.

An enormous fireball erupted from the cliffside capital of the Land of Lightning, completely drowning out the terrified screams.

Whoosh, whoosh, pfft~

Several swift figures wreathed in flashing lightning instantly appeared behind the three of them. The kunai in one man’s hand, accompanied by lightning, pierced through Orochimaru’s neck in an instant.

Another swung a long lightning blade at Uchiha Itachi, whose eyes were still fixed on the explosion. But the Three Tomoe in Uchiha Itachi’s pupils spun faintly, and his figure seemed to blur for an instant.

Clang!

At some unknown moment, he had already drawn his sword and precisely blocked the opponent’s blade. At the same time, his Three-Tomoe Sharingan met the other man’s gaze coldly. The brown-skinned ninja wearing a Kumogakure forehead protector saw those eyes, and his heart sank.

Damn it, it’s an Uchiha…

Then he saw crows taking flight before his eyes, and in the next moment, a sharp blade pierced his throat.

The person who appeared behind Bai Cangshu was powerfully built and covered in lightning. He was clearly an expert in Nintaijutsu. With a tap of his foot, the ground shattered, and his figure vanished once more behind the half-turned Bai Cangshu.

The brawny Kumogakure Jonin wearing sunglasses joined his palms like a blade and abruptly appeared before Bai Cangshu. As his hand blade swept horizontally, it sliced through the air in an instant, the lightning becoming a silver blade of light.

Pfft!

At the end of that blade of light was an enormous palm.

Odula, the Kumogakure Jonin, only felt as though his hand blade, capable of splitting mountains and shattering stone, had struck diamond. His hand bones nearly shattered, while all his force vanished without a trace.

Bai Cangshu’s left hand gripped the arm that now seemed far too slender in his grasp, then turned and slammed the brawny ninja into the ground.

Bang!

The sound of the ground and human bones breaking rang out at the same time.

Bang!

Pfft!

Like a lump of rotten meat, before excessively terrifying brute force, even a body reinforced by Nintaijutsu instantly shattered. Only a twisted arm remained, held in Bai Cangshu’s hand.

You killed Kumogakure Jonin Odula. Obtained 1,000 Dimensional Points

You killed a Kumogakure Special Jonin...

You killed...

Pfft!

The ninja, horrified by Odula’s brutal death, failed to notice that the Orochimaru he had killed had transformed into a snake. Orochimaru silently appeared behind him, opened his mouth, and spat out a giant snake that instantly bit down on his throat. As venom was injected in an instant, the remaining ninja twitched twice and fell silent.

"People of the Land of Lightning, I am the one who just killed your daimyo. Now, I will give you a choice…"

"Submit, or die."