At this moment, inside the Blood Pond Clan's Inn.
A woman named Mei Ya tilted her head strangely, approached with unsteady steps, and suddenly waved her hand.
"Swish!"
A rusty cleaver slashed horizontally. Uchiha Zhi Li flipped and leaped up, like a swallowtail butterfly dancing in the wind, lightly dodging the attack. At the same time, she quickly drew her blade, delivering a fatal strike to the woman's throat.
However, her opponent didn't react at all. Despite the gushing blood from the wound on her throat, she remained unmoved, her red-glowing eyes filled with dullness.
Zhi Li kicked her away, taking advantage of the distance to sigh helplessly.
She turned her head and said, "Still not awake?"
"No."
Uchiha Nen's voice came from behind her. He was carrying the unconscious Uchiha Kirito on his back, panting heavily, "He's still in the Genjutsu."
Just now, the moment the three of them stepped into the room, they had fallen into the Shop Assistant's Genjutsu.
Zhi Li noticed it instantly and immediately activated her Three-Tomoe Sharingan. She suddenly discovered that her spiritual world was being dominated by a pair of blood-red eyes.
Those were eyes filled with a bloody aura, black with horizontal pupils, hanging high in the sky of the spiritual world like the sun, as if a god overlooking the earth.
Zhi Li's heart tightened, and she immediately broke free with the Three-Tomoe Sharingan's powerful Eye Power, regaining control of the Chakra flow within her body.
The moment her consciousness returned, several zombie-like people surrounded her. She immediately wanted to retreat, but the entire room was enveloped by a blood-red Barrier, completely turning it into a cage.
These people had been completely controlled by the Genjutsu, becoming puppets. Their previous actions were merely mechanically executing the caster's orders.
They were fearless of death, unable to feel pain even when struck in vital areas. Zhi Li also had to protect her Younger Brothers behind her, so she was restricted in many ways, inevitably becoming somewhat constrained.
Fortunately, Uchiha Nen had actually broken the Genjutsu with his own Will, which surprised her quite a bit.
She really wanted to ask how he did it, because that was the most advanced type of restriction Genjutsu, setting rules to increase the strength of the Genjutsu. Breaking it with strength, rather than breaking free with Eye Power, was indeed quite difficult.
Nen pursed his lips. In reality, his ability to break the Genjutsu wasn't entirely due to his own efforts. After all, the reassuring voice in his mind was the real reason he remained calm.
"The so-called five rules are both a killing move and a loophole. This is a Genjutsu that influences the real world by manipulating the spirit. If you completely follow the rules, then the real you will also completely become a puppet, at his mercy."
"The way to break the situation is to both obey the rules and not obey the rules..."
Following the guidance, Nen immediately understood.
In the Genjutsu world, he seemed to speak, but in reality, he didn't say a word;
He seemed to eat according to the agreement, but in reality, he spat it all out;
He seemed to get up, but in reality, he fell from the seat;
He seemed to obey the rules, but in reality, he didn't follow any of them...
Sure enough, in the moment of rolling down, he suddenly woke up and escaped from the Genjutsu world.
"This Genjutsu is indeed exquisitely designed, but the only flaw is that the Eye Power is not strong enough." The voice continued, as if savoring the experience.
Nen nodded silently. Before entering the valley, a spiritual body had come with the wind and easily entered his mind, sitting cross-legged in his "mindscape."
For Nen, who had already cultivated the Spiritualization Technique, he naturally knew what this was and instantly guessed the identity of the person.
Under the heavens, who else could be cultivating this Secret Technique with him besides that senior!
Therefore, even though he was trapped, he didn't panic in the slightest.
He knew that the senior wouldn't harm him. Although this person claimed to be here for sightseeing, just taking a look, Nen knew in his heart that the senior seemed leisurely but was actually protecting the three of them in secret.
"Senior, is there any way to break this situation?" Nen asked in his mind, his tone tentative.
In the spiritual world, Shin'yu's spiritual body spread his hands, "Simple, find the caster and kill them, that's all."
"I mean, to make Tong Ren wake up too."
"This, well..." Shin'yu thought for a moment, "Generally speaking, Genjutsu-type illusions can only be broken by others disrupting the flow of Chakra, but the Blood Dragon Eye's Genjutsu is not simple. You must make eye contact with Sharingan, forcibly breaking it with Eye Power. The more skilled can even cover or reflect the Genjutsu..."
"Thank you, Senior!" Nen politely thanked him, then shouted at Zhi Li's back, "Zhi Li-nee-san, make eye contact with Tong Ren and activate your Eye Power, and you can forcibly break the Genjutsu!"
"Is that so... Huh? How did you know?"
"There's no time to worry about that now, I'll hold these guys back!"
Nen's hands flashed, and countless Shuriken shot through the air, "Puff puff puff" hitting the bodies of those puppets. Accompanied by sparks, the Shuriken bounced and spun in mid-air, nailing into the walls, floor, and rafters, scattering in all directions.
Zhi Li didn't dare to delay, and with a sidestep, she exchanged positions with Nen, supporting her Younger Brother.
"Be careful, these people don't feel pain..."
She was about to remind him, but when she looked up, she realized it wasn't necessary, because crystal light suddenly flashed in the air. As Nen pulled his hands, dense silk threads emerged, the threads intertwined into a net, entangling all 5 puppets, tightly binding them.
"Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique!"
Nen made hand seals one by one, not daring to make the slightest mistake, ending with the "Tiger" seal. A strong Fire Release Chakra gathered in his throat as he took a breath, spreading out along the silk threads.
The fire flashed, and a dozen thick pillars of fire flew along the silk threads, all the puppets instantly bathed in a sea of fire, their bodies charred inch by inch.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Zhi Li quickly pried open her Younger Brother's eyelids, revealing those empty, dazed eyes. Her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, allowing the Three-Tomoe Sharingan to be imprinted in Tong Ren's eyes.
As Eye Power erupted, Tong Ren's body trembled, and his eyes regained their light.
"I... am I still alive?"
Those who escape from Genjutsu are like waking up from a dream. The strong sense of incongruity between reality and dream will immediately make them realize that they were dreaming just now.
"It's okay now that you're awake." Zhi Li gave him an encouraging smile, her eyes suddenly turning sharp, ready to fight alongside Nen.
The puppets were dealt with, but there were still two people upstairs, one of whom was the real caster!
However, at this moment, Nen suddenly widened his eyes, his pupils reflecting five charred, swollen balls of flesh, crimson blood growing on their bodies, wrapping layer by layer, with terrifying energy brewing in the center.
"Not good, run..."
At the critical moment, Zhi Li grabbed Nen into her arms, then suddenly turned around, using her body to protect her two Younger Brothers.
"No!!" Tong Ren shouted, tears welling up in his eyes.
Nen's eyes were lit up by the fire. At that moment, only one thought remained in his mind:
He must protect the two of them!
In desperation, he opened his hands and released some kind of strange and unfamiliar power all at once.
With a *"boom,"* the five human bombs exploded simultaneously, and the powerful shockwave spread out. Even the Barrier couldn't withstand such an explosion, and the entire Inn was instantly blown to pieces. Wood chips and broken tiles mixed in the gale, spreading in all directions.
Footsteps came from the dissipating black smoke. It was the Shop Assistant. He patted his clothes, brushing off the charred blood scabs bit by bit.
Before the explosion, he had refined the last puppet beside him into a Blood Shield, using its body to block the impact.
Suddenly, he froze, because he didn't see the fragmented Corpse of the three Uchiha.
What came into view was only countless broken pieces of wood, countless vines converging and closing, forming a huge wooden shield, steadily blocking the explosion outside the barrier.
At this moment, the trees disintegrated and shattered bit by bit, revealing the three people's safe and sound figures.
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