Chapter 39: Hurt Tianhe, but not Qinghe
Although Shiba Kiyokawa has been stirring up trouble in the Cat Village and provoking internal strife in Konoha these days, he has never neglected his personal practice.

With continuous practice, he quickly digested and integrated the insights given by the system and transformed them into his own strength.

During this process, Shiba Kiyokawa gradually discovered that he was quite talented in the field of illusion.

Moreover, his ideas on using illusions are different from those of most ninjas.

He never insisted on using illusions to kill or weaken the enemy. In his opinion, deception itself was the goal!
There are many ways to kill the enemy, and there is no need to resort to illusions. However, illusions are the best way to deceive the enemy and manipulate their emotions!

He is particularly good at combining illusion with reality, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.

For example, now, Yayu and Masuda Kazuki are really using the Uchiha clan’s ninjutsu, and Shiba Qinghe also specifically told them not to use the ninjutsu they knew in the past.

This layer of reality foundation became the best assist, crushing the Root Ninja’s defenses bit by bit.

The increasingly urgent “Great Fireball Technique”, the familiar flames, the scorching temperature, and the faint red eyes finally completely broke the nerves of the Root Ninja.

He roared with the determination to die.

“You evil Uchiha! You will never be able to defeat Danzo-sama!
Lord Longma will use insects to eat your bodies, Wuhepo’s fire escape is far superior to yours, they will burn you to death, Lord Luo will dig out your eyes and pour your bodies into the rock pillars!”

This Root ninja felt that he had no chance of survival, as the Uchiha’s Sharingan had the reputation of being invincible in one-on-one combat.

Therefore, under the catalysis of the illusion, he went completely crazy and shouted out all the vicious curses that he had not dared to say in the past.

Just as he was about to continue yelling and cursing, and trace the source of the incident and hit the Uchiha’s household registration book hard, a stinging pain started from his tongue and quickly spread to his entire chin.

The severe pain made him sober, and everything in front of him finally returned to normal. There was silence under the moon. Where was the red-eyed Uchiha?
“Varied–“

He wanted to speak again, but the stinging pain had quickly turned into numbness and nothingness.

He felt that his tongue and even his entire throat were rapidly festering and disappearing.

In terms of appearance, a large number of black tadpole-like sealing runes overflowed from his mouth and quickly spread towards his neck.

Shiba Qinghe raised his eyebrows slightly, feeling a little regretful.

Seeing this, he no longer hesitated, and used a flash body technique to directly appear in front of the Root Ninja and stabbed him in the heart.

But death did not stop the tadpole-like runes. They continued to spread on the corpse, but the direction of spread turned upwards, and soon covered the entire face and head of the Root Ninja.

Hydrangea and the others followed at this time, and they all gasped when they saw this.

“What on earth is this? It looks so weird and scary.” Hydrangea asked with lingering fear.

Shiba Qinghe drew out his sword and explained calmly, “This is the Seal of the Tongue to Eliminate Evil, a secret technique of the root of Konoha.”

“So they are the roots you were talking about before.”

It was not until then that Hydrangea and the others confirmed the identity of the enemy.

Masuda Kazuki said with some regret, “What a pity, if it weren’t for this strange secret technique being triggered, he should have been able to reveal more information.”

Everyone nodded in agreement, looking at Shiba Kiyokawa with a bit of awe in their eyes.

Compared to the Seal of the Tongue to Eradicate Evil, Shiba Kiyokawa’s illusion is just as weird and terrifying!

He easily manipulated the enemy’s emotions, played around with an experienced Anbu ninja, and extracted a lot of information.

Shiba Kiyokawa didn’t have much thought about this.

He had long known that the Root had measures to keep secrets. Moreover, the triggering of the Seal of the Root of Tongues proved that the information the enemy had said before his death was true.

This thing actually helped him and provided a strong guarantee for the authenticity of the information.

“It doesn’t matter. We have gained a lot from this trip. We have confirmed that the enemy leader is Aburame Ryoma, and that there are two masters of fire jutsu and a brutal ninja who is proficient in earth jutsu in the team.”

After a pause, Shiba Kiyokawa continued, “And based on the enemy’s desperate performance and the surveillance over the past few days, this Root team should not have any follow-up reinforcements.”

Although this information was indeed very useful, everyone still did not look optimistic.

“Even so, they are still very strong. I seem to have heard of Ryoma Aburame years ago. He became famous in the Second Ninja World War.” Masuda Kazuki said angrily.

As the highest-level commander of the Root, Aburame Ryoma is usually entitled to use his real name instead of a code name, so he is somewhat famous in the ninja world.

Hearing this name, everyone’s morale dropped even further.

Although they were full of confidence before setting off, it was only after actual reconnaissance that they truly felt the gap in foundation between the Great Ninja Village and the Rain Ninja Village.

Each of these twelve people from the Root has quite outstanding qualities.

The lone cannon fodder in front of them was a soft target that they had been eyeing for three days before finally catching.

Now that they suddenly learned that the enemy had a powerful commander with a good reputation, everyone’s morale suddenly became even lower.

But Shiba Kiyokawa smiled slightly, and his smile looked cold and weird under the moonlight.

The next moment, he said something earth-shattering, “No, I have already thought of a way to deal with them.”

Everyone turned their heads in unison, their eyes filled with shock.

“Captain Qinghe, do you have a solution? So quickly?”

“what should we do?”

Shiba Qinghe still maintained his gentle smile and uttered a few words lightly.

At that moment, everyone unconsciously felt that the moonlight was a bit cold. The chill penetrated into their bodies and made them shiver in unison.

Shiba Kiyokawa said, “Let’s set fire to the mountain.”

At the end, Shiba Kiyokawa kindly explained the subtlety of this tactic.

“Based on the current intelligence, the enemy team lacks water-style ninjas this time. The Aburame clan’s insects have a great advantage in the woods, but mountain fire can completely break this advantage of the enemy.”

But this is not what everyone is paying attention to.

Kenjiro stammered, “Captain Qinghe, isn’t this… too cruel?
There are villages at the foot of the mountain. Even if no one is burned, the villagers rely on the prey in the mountains to survive the winter. Moreover, if the wildfire cannot be controlled, the consequences will be disastrous. “

Hydrangea curled her lips and murmured succinctly, “It’s against the harmony of nature.”

But Shiba Kiyokawa just spread his hands lightly and defeated everyone with just one sentence.

“Is this your first day knowing me? When have I, Shiba Kiyokawa, ever cared about hurting Tianhe?”

It doesn’t matter if it hurts the harmony of nature or people, as long as it doesn’t hurt Qinghe.

Finally, he said firmly: “I don’t want to lose numbers, I just want the root to die!”

(End of this chapter)