Wheeze…
A gust of wind blew past rolling up the yellow sand into the sky.
Standing alone on the ground, Kuroto glanced coldly at the incoming 8 Sand ninjas.
Without moving his gaze from their direction, Kuroto completed handprints for the Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
Huala…
Instantly, Kuroto's body was covered in the cyan-blue chakra cloak.
As soon as he entered the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Kuroto's temperament changed completely, he appeared to be a God looking indifferently at some mere mortals while hovering in the air.
For him, these 8 ninjas were nothing more than some ants, although unworthy, they will still have to make do with being his test subjects.
While silently experiencing the consumptions of his chakra, Kuroto concentrated on condensing Truth-Seeking Balls.
First…
Second…
Third…
After condensing the third one, Kuroto frowned slightly.
He could feel that his body was feeling a little strained with the condensation of the third black orb. He feels that if he continues to bring out more truth-Seeking Balls, his chakra refining speed might not be able to keep up with the consumption speed.
"But why is that the case?" – Kuroto muttered with a thoughtful expression.
In actuality, Truth-Seeking Ball is the condensation of the 7 Chakra Natures. Therefore, theoretically, the basic requirement of condensing Truth-Seeking Ball should be mastery of the changes of all 7 chakra natures. If that isn't done then condensing Truth-Seeking Ball is even beyond some dream.
This is also the reason why only a handful of people were able to condense the truth-Seeking Ball, even in the original series.
Excluding Kaguya, Hagoromo, Hamura, and Otsutsuki Asura were the only three people capable of such feat for the next millennia, and after that too, only, Obito, and Madara, who became the Jubi's Jinchuriki, and Naruto because of the power given to him by Hagoromo and finally Toneri, who awakened the Tenseigan dojutsu could use Truth-Seeking Balls.
Among all these people only Kaguya and her two sons Hagoromo and Hamura were the three capable of condensing the Truth-Seeking Balls without relying on any external factors.
As for Asura, Obito, Madara, Naruto, and Toneri, they all relied on some external source to have the qualitative improvement of their strength.
Each of them needed to be in some special state where they borrowed Chakra from some source to be able to use Truth-Seeking balls.
When thinking of all this, Kuroto suddenly realized something.
Only by strengthening his control over the 7 basic chakras natures will he be able to easily and more freely use truth-Seeking Balls, otherwise he can only condense them forcefully using the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, but that would put a burden on his body.
And unlike the superb talent of Toneri, Kuroto is obviously quite mediocre, so his struggle will be much more than what Toneri went through.
But this didn't worry him much, after all the lack of talent can still be supplemented with hard work and science.
Understanding his next course of actions, Kuroto finally directed his attentions towards the Black Orbs floating around him.
In these upcoming tests that he would be conducting, Kuroto intends to see what his current upper limit is after becoming Ryuumyaku's Jinchuriki!
Therefore, even if burdensome, Kuroto still condensed more Black Orbs.
Fourth…
Fifth…
2 more black orbs condensed around him and floated by his side.
After reaching the fifth, Kuroto felt that this is his current upper limit, if he condenses any more black-orbs, he will be forced to exit the Tenseigan Chakra Mode due to being overwhelmed.
But he was still very satisfied with the result.
After all, previously without relying on the Ryuumyaku's Chakra, Kuroto couldn't even completely use one Truth Seeking ball, and now he has access to 5 orbs, such an improvement is not just considered at the level of 'Rapid' anymore.
At this time the 8 Sand ninjas finally arrived in front of Kuroto.
Judging from the Chakra reaction he perceived, Kuroto judged that 2 of them are Jonin while the rest are chunin.
While Kuroto was observing the ants, Sand ninjas were also analyzing the person.
From just the fact that the person was floating and the heavy chakra pressure that was being emitted around him, their scalp felt numb.
Chakra pressure aside, the ability to fly alone indicated that the enemy wasn't some ordinary shinobi, after all, the ninjas that are known to be capable of flight in the shinobi world are obviously beyond Jonin Class, whether it the Sandaime Tsuchikage or the Kazekage with their magnet Release, all are known to have Kage-Class strength.
Therefore, all 8 of them were feeling kind of nervous.
Although nervous, but ninjas are ninjas, for shinobi tasks are more important than their own as well as the team's life.
So, gritting his teeth, one of the Jonin asked sternly, "Are you the person who stole the Ryuumyaku?"
Kuroto didn't bother to answer but slowly drifted towards the Sand ninja who asked this question.
The Sand ninjas were obviously ignorant of what the Tenseigan Chakra Mode is and how horrifying the Truth-Seeking Ball could be, but this didn't prevent them from feeling the instinctive fear of death like any creature does.
To calm down the other ninjas around him or probably to ease his own nervousness, the Jonin leader hastily shouted, "Do it!"
Even before his words were finished, he completed the seal and roared in an aggressive tone,
Ox – Rat – Ram – Tiger – Dog – Tiger -
"Fire Release: Great Tiger Flame Technique!"
At the same time, the three Chunin of his team also co-operated with him tacitly and shouted in unison:
Dog – Horse – Bird –
"Wind Release: Breakthrough!"
Boom…
Fire style was complemented with Wind Style.
The heat of the flame grew with the wind and the huge fire tiger dashed towards Kuroto at extreme speed while riding on the Breakthrough winds!
However, Kuroto wasn't impressed, he just raised his hands slightly.
Instantly, one of the black orbs circling around his back appeared in front of him, and under his command, it morphed into a hemispherical shield to block the attack.
Bang…
Taking advantage of the wind, the flame tiger pounced on the black hemispherical surface and exploded upon impact.
Seeing the attack connect with the person, the three chunin were immediately happy.
"It hit!"
"Success!"
"He should be dead!"
In their opinion, the flame tiger that was supplemented with the Wind Breakthrough from the 3 chunin, leading to a combined Jutsu isn't something that even the Kage's would dare resist, and here this person dares to face this Jutsu openly?
Obviously, he shouldn't survive this!
Too bad there were in for a harsh awakening!
Whoosh…
The dust scattered due to the explosion was blown away because of the sharp wind that passed by.
With the disappearance of the dust, the black hemispherical shield appeared in the vision of the sand ninjas. From the looks of it, there was neither a single crack nor any change in its shape. The powerful combined Jutsu was like a simple firework for it.
Seeing this scene, the chunin all gulped heavily.
"How come?"
Even the Jonin were shocked. Although they all felt instinctive danger from those circling black orbs, no one expected that their attack couldn't even cause slight damage to it!
Feeling that the situation might get worse, the second Jonin hurriedly shouted, "Nobu, those black orbs are weird!"
The Sand Jonin named Nobu who just used the Fire Style Jutsu also suppressed the shock in his heart and shouted towards the other Jonin while trying to restore his composure, "Yusuke, as expected this guy isn't easy, let's attack together!"
The Jonin named Yusuke nodded and immediately bit his hand and pressed on the ground lightly, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
Puff…
With a loud noise, the entire sand dune began to shake as the vague presence of a monster appeared in the sand…
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