Neji stepped forward and undid the illusion on Lee. Tayuya's illusions were activated by sound. As long as you could hear the sound, everyone would fall into the illusion. This meant Neji had no way to specifically target the person needing the illusion.
Unless he made everyone else wear earplugs...
"Neji, you..." Lee, now free, started to speak with surprise and excitement, but Neji quickly silenced him.
"You should just get some sleep." Neji withdrew his hand, feeling a bit helpless. Lee was more annoying than Naruto when he started talking. At least Naruto had his talk-no-jutsu to move people's hearts. Lee just made you want to hit him.
After putting Lee in a safe place, he immediately ran towards Sasuke. In his sight, Naruto and Sasuke had almost finished off Ishidate.
One with his talk-no-jutsu, the other with his cool act, both of them added another hole to Ishidate with every word. The main thing was that they were both focused on each other, paying no attention to Ishidate.
Ishidate was cursing in his heart. Didn't he deserve any respect?
"Damn it!"
Ishidate raised his right hand, which could turn people to stone, and poured a large amount of Chakra into it, laughing wildly. "I'm going to make you into my specimens."
But at that moment, a white light flashed past him, and with a ripping sound, blood spurted out, splashing high into the air. His right arm was cut off and slowly fell to the ground.
At the same time, the right arm he had managed to activate dimmed.
"Aaaaah!"
After a brief moment of shock, Ishidate immediately clutched his severed arm and howled in pain, very miserable and tragic.
"My hand, my..."
Ishidate's howling suddenly stopped. A lot of dark blood poured from his mouth, and his body trembled. After struggling a few times, he fell into a pool of blood with his eyes wide open.
"What happened?" Naruto stared blankly at the scene, not understanding what had happened.
Sasuke glanced indifferently at Ishidate's body and said to an unseen place, "Orochimaru wants this person."
"Heh, he didn't say he wanted him alive. Besides, he only wanted the arm." Neji instantly appeared in front of Ishidate, speaking coldly.
"So dirty."
Neji washed the bloody severed arm on the ground with water, then took out a white cloth, wrapped it up, and held it in his hand.
"Even though your strength is still the same, your eyes seem to see further," Neji said to Sasuke, speaking calmly.
"I'm the genius of the Uchiha Clan," Sasuke said matter-of-factly, his face changing from green to white upon hearing Neji's words.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, all he saw was a growing, crystal-clear fist in his eyes.
Bang!
Neji punched Sasuke in the stomach, knocking him to the ground, then said to Naruto, "We have things to do. You guys take care of this mess."
"Wait! What does Orochimaru want this arm for?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know." Neji replied, then picked up the unconscious Sasuke and disappeared.
In the palace, Tayuya, Hinata, and Sakura were still arguing fiercely about something when Neji suddenly appeared in front of them, dragging Sasuke.
"Tayuya, it's time to go." Neji tried to keep his tone calm, otherwise, he wasn't sure if he could leave today if the three girls kept bothering him.
"Okay."
Tayuya listened to Neji obediently, lowered her pretty face, and skipped to Neji, looking like a girl next door. She lowered her head, as if waiting for Neji to stroke her head and praise her.
"Oh man." Neji cursed in his heart, feeling like his scalp was tingling and about to explode. He didn't need to think to know that Tayuya was doing it on purpose, just to make him look bad.
At that moment, Hinata and Sakura's eyes were glowing green, emitting an extremely dangerous aura. The powder keg was stretched to the limit, and about to explode.
Neji did not hesitate. He brought four fingers down, even harder than before, heavily tapping Tayuya's head.
"Ah!" Tayuya opened her eyes wide, looking pitiful, but Neji didn't care. Who told you to try to harm me?
Really, there's always some troublemaker trying to harm me.
"Brother Neji, aren't you going back?" Hinata blinked her big eyes, clasping her hands together in front of her chest, looking expectant and nervous.
Sakura also wanted to persuade him, but she knew what Neji was thinking. Moreover, Hinata was clearly more qualified to ask Neji than her. She felt a pang of jealousy, but there was nothing she could do.
"Yeah." Neji nodded, said a simple goodbye, and left with Tayuya and Sasuke.
At the harbor, Sasuke slowly woke up and immediately looked at Neji. Three tomoe slowly rotated in his blood-red eyes as he glared at Neji.
"Three tomoe?" Neji was surprised. Wasn't it just one tomoe before?
He didn't know that when Sasuke and Naruto fought Ishidate together, he had mysteriously awakened the two tomoe, and then he was knocked down by Neji's punch, causing Sasuke's resentment towards Neji to explode, and he awakened the three tomoe.
A moment later, Sasuke's eyes returned to normal. He knew that even if he awakened the three tomoe, he couldn't beat Neji.
Therefore, he didn't feel much joy. This power was still too weak.
Neji looked away, sneering in his heart. He was glad Sasuke knew his place, or he would have had to get beat up again.
A few days later, they returned to Land of Rice Fields. They did not cross Land of Hot Water again. Neji didn't want to keep fighting with the Jashin Cult, so they chose a slower but safer way to travel—by sea.
Inside Orochimaru's base, Neji directly threw Ishidate's severed arm out.
Kabuto waThis made Neji laugh in his heart. It was just a severed arm, and they were treating it like a treasure. s shocked and ran to catch the severed arm. At the same time, she glared at Neji angrily. After confirming that the severed arm was fine, she handed it over to Orochimaru with relieved.
It was ridiculous. If it could break if it fell, Ishidate wouldn't have been hired for a high price.
"Orochimaru, remember what you said." Neji urged, his voice cold, because Orochimaru didn't say anything. If Orochimaru was tricking him, he wouldn't mind sending Orochimaru to the afterlife, even though he wasn't very confident.
"Heh, Kabuto." Orochimaru spoke, signaling Kabuto to take out the scrolls from a hidden panel under the experimental table and hand them to Neji.
Neji glanced at the scrolls, took them, and said again, "What about the other reward?"
Orochimaru suddenly laughed wildly, licked his lips, and said to Neji, "She's already waiting for you."
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