136: Chapter 136 The Valkyrie Unsealed! Jonin Turned into a Sparring Partner

Inside the main sewage channel, water splashed violently.

Chiba Sakura's swordsmanship was completely different from the Genin before.

She didn't move in straight lines.

Her black tactical military boots stepped onto the rusted sewer pipe wall, her entire body almost parallel to the ground.

Utilizing the curve of the pipe wall, she suddenly doubled back.

The blade of her katana had no reflection, yet it kicked up a row of water droplets as it sliced through the sewage.

The droplets refracted the high-intensity flashlight in Tang Qiqi's hand, instantly dazzling Qin Yumo.

"Ssh!"

Qin Yumo tilted her head to dodge, but her left shoulder was still sliced open by a two-inch-long bloody gash from the tip of the blade.

Fresh blood soaked through her black tactical vest.

Qin Yumo gritted her teeth, didn't retreat, and swung her right blade horizontally in a follow-up motion.

Chiba Sakura, however, was like someone without bones; her figure suddenly shrank, and she slid into the sludge on the ground.

When she reappeared, she was already in the blind spot on Qin Yumo's right.

Another slash.

A new wound was added to the outside of Qin Yumo's thigh.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen leaned against the distant stone wall, forcing her eyelids to stay open.

She understood the trick.

This Japanese woman's speed wasn't actually outrageously fast, but she was extremely adept at utilizing the environment.

The sound of flowing water, the refraction of light and shadow, and even the suppressed sobbing of the female prisoners were all factored into her calculations, becoming weapons to disrupt judgment.

If it were just hand-to-hand combat, Qin Yumo would be worn down to death.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen looked toward Lin Yuan, who was standing at the back.

Lin Yuan had his hands in his trench coat pockets, not even intending to pull them out.

Two Chunin thought Lin Yuan was a weak point, wanting to bypass Qin Yumo and launch a sneak attack from the side.

The two dashed close to the ground, their short blades aiming directly at Lin Yuan's ankles.

Lin Yuan didn't even glance at them.

The sewage in the channel suddenly surged without wind.

Two water columns as thin as a little finger shot straight up into the air.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The water spikes pierced directly through the skulls of the two Chunin from their jaws.

The corpses maintained their forward-lunging posture, crashing stiffly into the sewage.

Lin Yuan stepped across the blood-stained ground, his gaze locked firmly on Chiba Sakura.

He was gathering intelligence.

In his past life, the highest-level ninja he had encountered was a Chunin; all intelligence on Jonin was hearsay.

Now that Chiba Sakura had jumped out to act as a living target, he had to squeeze every bit of combat logic out of her.

Her burst speed was twice that of a Chunin.

She excelled at short-range, teleportation-like lunges.

But every time she leveraged force, she had to step firmly on a wall or the water.

Tang Qiqi hid behind Lin Yuan, poking her head out.

Using the high-intensity flashlight, she stared at the black tight-fitting night suit on Chiba Sakura that outlined her figure in a breathtaking way.

Especially the voluptuous contours that rose and fell due to her intense movements, and the exquisite, slender waist cinched by the tactical belt, she couldn't help but mutter softly:

"Great Demon King, this Japanese sister is dressed just like those investigators... You aren't letting Sister Yumo use her Superpower, is it because you want to subdue her yourself and play with her?"

Lin Yuan frowned.

"What investigators?"

In the earpiece, Liu Qing's calm, cold voice suddenly came through, the sound of keyboard typing clearly audible.

"Master, 'investigator' is a common series in a specific type of Japanese adult film."

"They are usually set as female agents wearing tight combat suits who are subdued by villains and subjected to inhumane modifications."

"Do you need me to download the top ten seeds to your exclusive folder?"

Tang Qiqi's face turned bright red instantly.

"Liu Qing! Don't explain every term so thoroughly!"

Lin Yuan backhanded Tang Qiqi with a flick to the forehead.

"Stop watching inappropriate things."

Tang Qiqi covered her head, pouting aggrievedly.

"I'm just rich in two-dimensional knowledge, okay..."

In the center of the battlefield.

The blood on Qin Yumo flowed more and more.

But her eyes grew brighter and brighter.

The pain didn't make her weaker; instead, it accelerated the awakening of her muscle memory.

Seven consecutive clashes.

Chiba Sakura's three feints to trick the blade failed to leave any more fatal wounds on Qin Yumo.

Qin Yumo had completely adapted to the Jonin's attack rhythm.

She found a flaw.

Before Chiba Sakura vanished into thin air each time, there was a very slight inward flick of her right ankle.

That was the precursor to exerting force.

The eighth clash.

Chiba Sakura lunged along the wall again, preparing to use her scabbard to jam Qin Yumo's wrist.

This time, Qin Yumo didn't defend.

She even stepped half a step forward.

The moment Chiba Sakura's ankle flicked inward, Qin Yumo's left blade slashed violently upward from bottom to top.

Chiba Sakura felt a chill in her heart and immediately twisted her waist to evade.

It was too late.

"Snap!"

Qin Yumo's blade brushed past her waist, slicing the hardwood scabbard hanging from her belt into two pieces.

Half of the scabbard fell into the dirty water.

Tang Qiqi immediately jumped up and down in excitement.

"Yay! Loot drop! The Valkyrie chopped off her equipment slot!"

The female prisoners huddled in the corner felt a glimmer of hope ignite in their desperate eyes for the first time.

Chiba Sakura retreated five meters, her face darkening.

She realized that if this dragged on, the red-haired woman before her would dismantle all her moves completely.

Since regular taijutsu couldn't kill her, she would have to use some dirty tactics.

Chiba Sakura cast a sidelong glance, locking onto a female prisoner crouching nearby with her head in her hands.

She suddenly shifted horizontally, grabbing the female prisoner's hair.

The katana blade cruelly sliced across the female prisoner's arm.

"Ah!"

The female prisoner screamed, blood spraying out.

Chiba Sakura quickly formed hand seals with her left hand, dipping into the female prisoner's blood and slamming it against the wall.

A blood mist exploded.

The next second.

Chiba Sakura's real body, directly utilizing the female prisoner's shadow, flashed behind Qin Yumo!

[Flesh Substitute]

This was an extremely despicable ninjutsu within the Ninja Guild, using the blood and energy of a living person as a catalyst to forcibly swap spatial positions.

Even their own people found this method insidious.

But Chiba Sakura didn't care; she only wanted to kill.

When Qin Yumo sensed the strong wind behind her, she was already half a beat too slow.

Chiba Sakura's blade tip thrust straight toward the back of her neck.

"Go to hell!"

Chiba Sakura even had time to taunt her.

"Your teammate treats you as a guinea pig for practice; you really are an obedient dog!"

Qin Yumo gritted her teeth.

If Lin Yuan didn't order her to use her Superpower, she absolutely wouldn't.

She forcibly twisted her spine, risking severe injury just to avoid the fatal point.

Just as Chiba Sakura's blade tip was about to touch Qin Yumo's skin.

Lin Yuan, who hadn't moved the whole time, flicked his fingertip gently.

"Ssh!"

In the darkness, the air was sliced open by something.

No sound, no reflection.

A water line thinner than a strand of hair, with an extreme burst exceeding the speed of sound, swept past Chiba Sakura's side.

Chiba Sakura's hair stood on end; instinctively, she abandoned the kill and desperately threw her head back to fall backward.

But the water line was too fast; not only did it carve a blood gash deep to the bone on her cold, beautiful face, but the violent airflow raged all the way down her neck!

"Rip—!"

A sound of fabric tearing under unbearable strain was unusually harsh in the empty sewer.

The special tight-fitting bulletproof vest on Chiba Sakura's chest was instantly sliced open with a large gash, and the black tight-fitting suit inside burst apart.

Large patches of snow-white, delicate skin were exposed to the air, and even that plumpness bounced slightly due to losing its restraint.

"Ah...!"

Chiba Sakura covered her bleeding cheek, stumbling back ten meters away in a wretched state.

She covered her torn bodice, but those breathtaking, voluptuous lines and the slipping fabric couldn't be hidden at all.

Her prideful, cold mask shattered completely, and her eyes were filled with shock, shame, and extreme malice!

[Ding! Target Chiba Sakura (Beauty 85), Affection -10%, Current Affection: -60%!]

Lin Yuan remained standing in place.

He took out a wet wipe, wiped his hands unhurriedly, and tossed it into the sewage.

"That so-called Amaterasu, is that it?"

Lin Yuan's voice held a mocking tone.

"It's filthy, not even a bit of aesthetic appeal."

Then, Lin Yuan turned to look at Qin Yumo.

"I've seen enough of the show; you can proceed."

Qin Yumo had been waiting for these words until her whole body ached.

She slowly stood up straight.

[Wild Resonance]!

"Boom!"

The wounds on Qin Yumo's body not only stopped bleeding but instead emitted white steam as if boiling.

All the pain she had accumulated up to this moment was converted into combat power.

"Kill!"

Qin Yumo transformed into a streak of red lightning, smashing through the air in front of her.

Chiba Sakura's expression changed drastically.

She couldn't win.

The woman before her was a dog on a leash just a moment ago; now, the leash was off.

"Retreat!"

Chiba Sakura made a decisive decision.

She threw three high-concentration smoke bombs behind her.

Simultaneously, she ordered the remaining six Genin and one Chunin.

"Hold her back!"

The ninjas obeyed the order absolutely, raising their blades to meet Qin Yumo.

But Qin Yumo was now a pure meat grinder.

Her twin blades flew.

The first Genin was split in two, along with his blade.

The Chunin tried to block with a kunai, but Qin Yumo delivered a knee strike that shattered his chest cavity on the spot.

Blood and severed limbs flew across the sewage channel.

Thirty seconds.

A mere thirty seconds.

Seven strictly trained Japanese ninjas were all hacked to pieces by Qin Yumo like chopping vegetables.

The pipeline went quiet.

Only the sound of blood dripping into the water remained.

Chiba Sakura, utilizing the two seconds bought by the last ninja acting as a meat shield, forcibly rolled through the gap of the partially lowered sluice gate.

Liu Qing requested instructions in the earpiece.

"Master, should I lower the gate and crush her to death?"

"Leave her."

Lin Yuan looked toward the other side of the gate.

"This Chiba Sakura meets the criteria for a tool; it would be a pity to kill her directly."

"There are some experiments I don't have the heart to perform on you all."

Chiba Sakura stood on the other side of the gate.

The blood gash on her face was gruesome and terrifying, and her tactical trench coat was in tatters.

She gripped the broken scabbard tightly, looking at Lin Yuan through the iron bars.

"Lin Yuan."

Chiba Sakura's voice was steeped in poison.

"The Ninja Guild will remember this debt. I will be back."

Tang Qiqi poked her head out from behind Lin Yuan.

She held the high-intensity flashlight in her hand, shining it directly onto Chiba Sakura's bleeding face.

"Are you Team Rocket?"

Tang Qiqi activated extreme taunt mode.

"Do you want to shout 'We're blasting off again!' too?"

Chiba Sakura naturally knew their country's number one IP.

That sense of mockery made her want to vomit blood.

She stamped her foot and turned to disappear into the deeper darkness.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen leaned against the wall, trying to stand straight.

But as soon as she moved, the wound on her side split open again.

In the end, she could only kneel on one knee in the sewage.

This posture made her complexion look even worse than her wound.

"Lin Yuan."

She gritted her teeth, enunciating each word.

"I want to cooperate with you."