Chapter 409

Chapter 409 The Peak Combat Power of the Twelve Divine Guards!

Capture Yamamoto Taichiro’s own son alive?

This suggestion wasn’t just interesting — it was absolutely fascinating!

Everyone present was the kind of person who feared neither heaven nor earth. When Tian Bingyi and Wanyan Zhengyong heard those words, they didn’t think about what kind of retaliation the Yamamoto group might bring — all they thought about was how to take down Yamamoto Kyokusen right then and there!

How dare anyone run wild on Chinese soil — so what if he was Yamamoto Taichiro’s own son?

The two bosses of the Yuanwei Gang had already confirmed it from Yamamoto Kyokusen’s expression — this jonin with top-tier movement techniques was indeed Yamamoto Taichiro’s son!

This Eastern underworld titan must have been hiding his child’s identity! It was even possible that this guy had thirty or forty illegitimate children!

“Do you really think you can capture me alive?”

Yamamoto Kyokusen gave a cold smile, scanning the battlefield around him. The Eastern warriors and the Chinese fighters still seemed to be locked in fierce combat!

Whatever the case, today’s events had far exceeded his expectations. He had originally planned to catch the Yuanwei Gang completely off guard, yet somehow things had come to this — someone had even recognized his identity!

“And why couldn’t we?”

Su Rui suddenly stepped forward, his body launching toward Yamamoto Kyokusen like a bullet!

“Because you can’t!”

This time, Yamamoto Kyokusen did something unexpected — instead of meeting the attack head-on, he shot off to the side. His body traced a wide arc through the air, his toes pushing off branch after branch in rapid succession, drifting into the distance like a wild bird in flight!

The warriors didn’t retreat, the ninjas didn’t retreat — but Yamamoto Kyokusen did!

And this was the same top-tier jonin who had just declared “death to those who retreat,” even cutting down one of his own fleeing subordinates with a single stroke!

His action made one thing perfectly clear — there was something more important than ninja honor that he needed to protect and conceal, something that drove him to flee!

Su Rui didn’t possess the kind of extreme movement technique that allowed one to push off tree branches in midair, yet he refused to give up the chase, weaving left and right through the forest, working hard to keep the distance between them from growing too wide!

Even so, Yamamoto Kyokusen — unobstructed in the air — gradually pulled ahead. Along the way, Su Rui ran into three more Eastern warriors, but he didn’t even have the interest to swing a single slash. His eyes held only that figure of Yamamoto Kyokusen soaring through the air!

Su Rui would not rest until he brought this man down!

Watching Yamamoto Kyokusen pull further and further away, Su Rui let out a roar: “Tarzan! Are you dead?”

“Reporting to sir, I’m not dead!”

The man-ape Tarzan, towering and massive as a bear, let out a thunderous shout. He raised both hands, and the twelve barrels of the Gatling M134 minigun began unleashing their world-class rate of fire!

A ferocious, savage stream of fire erupted at a forty-five-degree angle from below and to the side, tearing straight toward Yamamoto Kyokusen!

That torrent of fire nearly ripped apart the dark curtain of night!

No matter how fast Yamamoto’s movement technique was, it couldn’t outpace that stream of fire. So the moment the gunfire rang out, his first instinct was to change direction repeatedly!

Fortunately, his decision to change direction was swift and decisive — the instant his toes left that cluster of branches, the torrent of fire had already screamed past, blasting off into the night sky!

Yamamoto Kyokusen’s feet seemed to clearly feel the scorching, searing heat!

A wave of lingering fear surged through him, and he dared not let up even for a single moment, his body moving faster and faster!

“Don’t even think about running!”

Man-ape Tarzan roared again, and the stream of fire followed Yamamoto Kyokusen like a shadow!

This chase was absolutely breathtaking to behold! If Yamamoto had been even a fraction of a second too slow, he would have been shredded into a rain of flesh by the minigun!

Su Rui shouted as he ran: “You idiot, where’s your lead!”

“He’s too fast!”

Man-ape Tarzan called back, and the twelve barrels lowered by just a fraction more!

This time, the ferocious stream of fire didn’t chase directly after Yamamoto Kyokusen — instead, it swept just beneath his feet, raking across the cluster of branches where he was about to land!

The fragile branches had no way of withstanding that kind of assault from the minigun — they snapped cleanly and completely, crashing to the ground, leaving nothing but bare trunks!

With the branches gone, Yamamoto Kyokusen lost his footing for his movement technique. He stumbled in midair and finally came crashing down!

At that same moment, a figure concealed at the mountain peak had already locked Yamamoto Kyokusen in the crosshairs of a scope!

Without the slightest hesitation, the trigger was pulled!

A deafening gunshot rang out, and a streak of light that seemed to come from beyond the heavens tore through the night sky, driving straight toward Yamamoto Kyokusen!

That streak of light vanished almost in the blink of an eye — its speed even surpassing that of the minigun’s rounds!

A strong sense of being watched had long since risen in Yamamoto Kyokusen’s heart, yet he had never been able to figure out where that strange feeling was coming from!

Now, he finally understood. A top-tier sniper had been lying in ambush nearby, waiting for the right moment to strike!

Even Yamamoto Kyokusen had to admit — the timing and angle of attack this sniper had chosen were nothing short of perfect, utterly flawless!

The sniper had stayed hidden in the dark, firing neither too early nor too late, like a leopard fixated on its prey, quietly waiting for the most ideal moment to strike!

Because at this moment, Yamamoto Kyokusen had already lost his balance, sent plummeting from midair by the minigun!

“Adjust now or die!”

Yamamoto Kyokusen wrenched his body around by sheer force of will!

But in the face of the Barrett anti-materiel rifle — a weapon that had pushed the aesthetics of violence to their absolute extreme — the capabilities of the human body suddenly seemed not quite so impressive or relevant!

Just as Yamamoto Kyokusen was trying to force an adjustment, that streak of light made the most intimate contact with him the world had ever seen!

“Hit! Coldblooded, well done!”

Su Rui let out a loud shout, his figure accelerating once more as he charged toward the spot where Yamamoto Kyokusen was falling!

The sniper known as “Coldblooded” heard Su Rui’s praise clearly through his earpiece, yet his expression didn’t change at all. His eyes remained fixed on the scope, and within his field of vision, Yamamoto Kyokusen’s figure flickered in and out of view among the trees!

He had been hit by a Barrett anti-materiel rifle — and yet he wasn’t dead!

Coldblooded simply said: “He’s not dead.”

“I can see that!”

Su Rui kept sprinting!

Yamamoto Kyokusen hadn’t died, but the sniper round had grazed his backside!

Though it was only a graze, with any other bullet the damage might not have been so severe — at most leaving a small bullet hole in that soft tissue. But this was a Barrett anti-materiel rifle. A mere graze was enough to blow his backside wide open!

Flesh and blood flew everywhere!

A piercing, bone-deep pain hit him. Yamamoto Kyokusen instinctively reached back to touch the wound, only to find that the muscle of his entire buttock was completely gone! Even the ligaments and tendons connecting his thigh had been damaged!

An absolutely devastating injury — it would probably take more than a year to heal!

If he hadn’t sensed the danger a moment earlier and made a slight adjustment, it wouldn’t have just been his backside that was blown open — his entire lower back would likely have had a bowl-sized hole blasted through it, and he would have had no chance of survival!

Despite suffering an injury unlike any he had ever experienced, Yamamoto Kyokusen dared not stop for even a single moment, because he could hear Su Rui’s pursuing footsteps. His combat effectiveness had already been severely compromised, and if this man caught up to him, the outcome was something even a child could figure out!

“I changed my mind!” Su Rui pressed his earpiece and shouted: “I don’t want him alive anymore — I want him dead! Blast his body to pieces and mail it back to the Yamamoto group headquarters in Japan! Let that old bastard Yamamoto Taichiro see that the men of China are not to be trifled with!”

The moment Su Rui’s words fell, countless bullets came blasting from every direction toward the path of Yamamoto Kyokusen’s escape!

It turned out this group had been fighting in a chain formation all along — and without even activating full group combat mode, they had already pushed Yamamoto Kyokusen to this point!

With his backside blown apart, Yamamoto Kyokusen was stumbling and staggering, his escape speed severely hampered!

Engulfed by all that gunfire and bullets, the esteemed Yamamoto jonin practically wished he were dead!

He wasn’t particularly knowledgeable about firearms, but he could still distinguish the sounds of those bullets!

Pistols, submachine guns, M4s, light machine guns, sniper rifles, miniguns!

Every kind of hot weapon imaginable — they had it all!

Good god, there were even grenades!

Sprinting at full speed, Yamamoto Kyokusen heard an unusual sound cutting through the air. He looked up — two smoking grenades were hurtling straight down toward his head!

Just what kind of lunatics and maniacs were these people!

Yamamoto Kyokusen endured the pain in his backside and activated his movement technique again, his body spinning as he shot off to the side!

At that same moment, the two grenades exploded right in midair!

Anyone with even a basic understanding of military matters knows that when a grenade explodes in midair, the blast radius it produces is more than double that of a ground explosion!

The two exploding grenades were like dazzling fireworks lighting up the night sky! Their shrapnel was the brilliant, blazing display those fireworks scattered across the heavens!

Had they exploded on the ground, Yamamoto Kyokusen would certainly have been able to dodge outside the blast radius! And if his backside hadn’t been injured, he might have been able to get even further away!

But there are no “ifs” in this world!

Yamamoto Kyokusen ultimately failed to clear the blast radius. His shoulder, lower back, arms, and thighs were all struck by grenade shrapnel!

Wounded all over, the pain made him grimace and bare his teeth! He rolled across the ground several times in a row!

A proud jonin — when had he ever been reduced to such a miserable state!

And yet, Yamamoto Kyokusen could count himself lucky. Because just one second earlier, a spinning piece of shrapnel had flown past just above his scalp — a few centimeters lower, and it would have split his skull wide open!

“You dare mess with the Temple of the Sun God — I’ll blow you to hell, you bastard!”

Man-ape Tarzan cradled the minigun in one arm, his right hand pulling two more grenades from his waist. He bit the pins off with his teeth and hurled them with one arm!

The two grenades flew an almost unbelievable distance through the air, as if launched from a mortar, and came crashing down on Yamamoto Kyokusen’s head once again!

It was worth noting that at this moment, despite having already fired a tremendous amount of rounds, Tarzan was still carrying a load of at least 100 kilograms!

With that kind of raw strength — was he even human?

Once bitten, twice shy!

Yamamoto Kyokusen knew he had taken a serious hit today — his only option was to fight his way out with everything he had!

This time he didn’t roll to the side. Instead, he planted both feet and launched himself straight into the air!

A sweep of his long blade sent both grenades flying far away, exploding in midair!

And at that moment, Yamamoto Kyokusen’s figure had once again landed atop the treetops!

He could see it now — not far ahead lay a vast, open valley. As long as he could pull away and disappear inside, no one in this group would ever be able to find him with his ninjutsu!

But how could things ever go exactly as planned in this world?

The moment Yamamoto Kyokusen’s body landed atop the treetops, a blaze a hundred times more intense than the minigun’s rounds erupted from fifty meters away! The entire night sky was lit up!

That blaze was so arrogant, so domineering, so utterly unstoppable!

A flamethrower! Someone had actually brought one of those things!

Almost in the very next second, Yamamoto Kyokusen’s body was engulfed in roaring flames!