Chapter 102: Plundering the Sand Falls
Gaara was excited.
After the brief battle in the second exam, he was eagerly looking forward to the next showdown with Luo Yi.
He felt it was a pity that he couldn't fight with Sasuke, but if he couldn't fight with Luo Yi again, he might be so upset that he would go crazy on the spot.
Plans and wars, how could they be more important than killing Luo Yi?
After Xuanjian announced that the game was about to begin, he walked slowly onto the exit channel, enjoying the last calm before the storm.
As a result, two Kusagakure ninjas blocked his way.
"Stop! A low-level competition like the Chunin Exam is perfect for gambling... Several daimyo are here just for this."
"So, please lose this game on purpose, okay?"
It was the sand in Gaara's gourd that answered them, and what they heard again was the piercing wail of Kusagakure.
Thanks to Yang Dun's enhanced senses, Luo Yi heard the two desperate and short screams, and then smelled the unignorable smell of blood and the breath of death that was blowing in his face.
Really killing wherever he goes...
Gaara finally showed up, his brows were exaggeratedly twisted, and the raised corners of his mouth could hardly hide the suppressed madness.
Even though he is now accustomed to killing, Luo Yi still finds it difficult to accept the opponent in front of him psychologically.
"Game start!"
Following Genma's order, the sand behind Gaara impatiently poured out of the gourd; in contrast to the active sand, he suddenly held his forehead in pain.
“Ouch!” The cold sweat that oozed out silently told of the pain, and Gaara’s eyes became more and more fierce, “Don’t be angry, Mom…
"I'm really sorry for letting you suck such disgusting blood just now. But, this time... the blood... must be delicious... oooh!"
After another severe headache, he finally regained his composure and said, "Come on."
Is he talking to himself? Or is he talking to Shukaku? It can't be his mother, Karura.
"Last time you were the one who attacked first, this time... it's rude not to reciprocate." Luo Yi stepped out of the ground with two rock spears.
"Earth Style: Rock Ridge"
Gaara folded his hands in front of his chest and just looked coldly at the rock spear that appeared in front of him in an instant and the sand shield that appeared automatically.
"Puff——"*2
As expected, the rock spear failed to penetrate the sand shield.
Then, the sand that made up the sand shield slowly transformed into a human form, becoming a sand clone. It grabbed the two rock spears with both hands, turned in another direction and threw them out with force, returning the original objects!
Another rock spear shot out from the ground near Luo Yi's feet, and two of them bounced off at an angle, so a total of three rock spears were shattered at the same time.
In the first round of fighting, neither of the two men's feet left their standing position.
"Do they... think that whoever moves first will lose?" An interesting comment came from the audience.
"I didn't expect that. His name is Luo Yi, right? His physical skills in the fight with Uchiha just now were already very impressive. Is he going to show off his ninjutsu now? Is there anything else he doesn't know?"
"What are you talking about! He defeated the Uchiha with his clever earth escape technique. I thought he was relying on the support of the Hyuga family. I didn't expect that... Tsk tsk tsk..."
For the extremely realistic spectators, the failed Sasuke quickly went from being the biggest attraction to a reference for comparing combat power.
Sasuke in the audience had a grim look on his face. The gossip around him came into his ears, constantly irritating his nerves.
"Damn it... Was this month's training just a waste of time..." He came to an extreme conclusion.
...
The battle on the field continues.
"Sand Rain"
Gaara raised one hand, like a commander giving a shooting order, turning the quicksand into round sand bombs and pouring ammunition forward.
Luo Yi stepped on a wall of earth to block.
The next moment after the earth wall rose, the noise of countless sand bombs smashing against the wall could be heard; and after the sand bombs shattered into quicksand, the quicksand intertwined into a sand curtain, ready to wrap up the people hiding behind it along with the earth wall!
"Wind Style: Self-dispersion"
Luo Yi opened his arms and exerted wind pressure on the fan-shaped area in front of him with himself as the center, blowing away the sand curtain that covered the sky.
"Hmph!" Gaara waved his hands and controlled a large amount of quicksand to hit the earth wall.
Luo Yi was stunned. Is this because the large area of sand curtain is too thin to withstand the wind escape, so they are preparing to break through head-on?
No! As the earth wall began to weather, he understood Gaara's true intention...
That is to transform the earth wall into sand on the spot!
"So you are the culprit for the desertification of the Wind Kingdom's soil?" Luo Yi was shocked and slapped the earth wall before it could become the opponent's weapon.
Yin-Yang Release Chakra surged out, and through the feedback of Chakra, he finally understood the essence of Gaara's Sand Release.
Wind attribute + earth attribute, is it just the combination of two basic attribute chakras?
Generally speaking, the ninjutsu chakra of bloodline limit has attribute suppression on the chakra of basic attributes, which is why Gaara can transform the earth wall into sand.
However, Yin-Yang-Tsu can restrain all attribute-based ninjutsu, including bloodline limit ninjutsu that uses a mixture of basic attributes and basic attributes.
Gaara's expression changed.
He discovered that the sand that had originally begun to transform, the sand prepared for the "Flowing Sand Waterfall", not only did not continue to transform; even the sand he already had, he lost control of it in an instant.
"What?!" Temari in the stands couldn't believe her eyes.
"How is this possible?!" Kankuro on the side seemed to have had an unprecedented nightmare.
Even the Third Hokage and the Fourth Kazekage sitting on the main seat were a little restless, and their arms on the armrests were shaking slightly.
Because what appeared before their eyes was... the sand on the playing field began to flow around Luo Yi, as if willingly surrendering.
"Gaara of the Sand Falls, I'll take your sand." Luo Yi stretched out one hand in front of his eyes, with five fingers spread out and reaching into the air.
As he looked down upon the world, the quicksand surrounding his body transformed into long spears that scattered in all directions, spreading in the air across the entire field, with the tips of the spears all pointed at the other side.
"Gaara, what are you doing? Take back control of the sand!" Kankuro shouted towards the venue, regardless of the risk of being warned by the referee.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Does he need your reminder?" Temari couldn't help but scold, "He must have tried before he lost control... No, he must have tried as soon as the control was taken away."
There were dense bloodshot in Gaara's eyes.
——Mom, have you betrayed me?
"Considering your murderous intention towards me during the second exam, I will not show mercy. If you want to surrender, do it now." Luo Yi's palm moved forward, and now it was his turn to give the order to attack.
Countless sand guns made a buzzing sound as if they were ready to go, shaking the heavens and the earth.
"Um, player Gaara?" Xuanjian took two steps back calmly, and while giving a reminder, he prayed silently in his heart, "You kid, please don't shoot wrong."
And be prepared to escape at any time.
Just kidding, if I got hit by two bullets from a sand gun head-on, it wouldn't be a work-related injury or not, but my name would be engraved on the memorial tablet tonight.
"Shut up!" Gaara glared at him, and if he could, he even wanted to kill the examiner first.
——Mom, do you really not love me anymore?
Seeing that the other party had no intention of surrendering, Luo Yi's five fingers began to tighten, "I will attack in five seconds. 5, 4, 3, 2...
"1!" Five fingers clenched into a fist.
All the sand guns fired at the same time, the speed was shocking!
--Mother?!
A ball of sand with a distinctly different texture spurted out of the gourd and became the final sand shield.
And the sand has not become the other's slave!
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the quicksand that Luo Yi saw before the sand shield was formed seemed to be in the shape of a pair of hands.
Those were a mother's hands.
What followed was a continuous sand gun bombardment that lasted for more than ten seconds. The scale of the attack was so large that the billowing sand and dust even floated high into the sky above the stadium, literally "covering the sky and the sun."
"Ahem... so scary, who is the "Sandfall"? "
"Let's not talk about that for now. I need goggles and a mask."
Even the audience seats were affected.
When the dust cleared, what appeared before everyone was...
Luo Yi stood calmly in the same place he had never moved from since the start of the game; and where Gaara had originally been, in the quicksand, stood a sand ball about two meters in diameter.
Is this preparing to transform into a tailed beast directly?
How could I possibly let you succeed?
Since the physical defense of the sand is maxed out...
"Fire Style: Flame Phoenix Wings"
Luo Yi flicked a few golden and red feathers under the sand ball in slow burning mode.
"What is he doing?" Temari sweated profusely at her temples.
"He's making a fire! He's going to grill Gaara!" Kankuro yelled again.
