area51novel Chapter 158 Contract Successful
Chapter 158 Contract Successful
At this moment, Shinya was lurking in the shadows of the cave, closely observing the changes in Boruto's aura. It was clear that it had sensed that Boruto had successfully entered Sage Mode. However, the aura emanating from Boruto was obviously not the natural energy of their Ryuchi Cave.
In Sage Mode, Boruto perfectly merges his body with natural energy, which not only greatly enhances the power of his ninjutsu but also gives him an unprecedented boost in his perception.
In this dimly lit cave, Boruto's perception was as bright as day, making it impossible for Shinya's movements to escape his notice. In Boruto's perception, there was nowhere for Shinya to hide.
At that moment, Shinya used its ability to sense the temperature of living beings to notice the heat emanating from Boruto's body, and silently moved behind Boruto.
Then, Shinya raised its tail high with a cold look in its eyes, preparing to deliver a heavy blow to Boruto from behind.
Faced with Shinya's attack, Boruto quickly turned around and held his hands in front of him to protect himself from the impact of Shinya's snake tail.
Although the force of Shinya's impact caused him to slide back a few steps, he still easily blocked Shinya's attack.
Shinya was surprised that Boruto could withstand its attack; it hadn't expected that Boruto could withstand the blow with just his own physical strength.
Under normal circumstances, even the largest and most powerful snakes in Ryuchi Cave would suffer considerable damage if struck by Shinja's tail.
Although Shinja was surprised by Boruto's physical strength, it did not hesitate to quickly adjust its posture, bend its body into an arc, and then open its mouth wide towards Boruto, spewing out a stream of dark purple petrified liquid again.
Xin Ya calculated that as long as the brat was splashed with even a little bit of its petrifying liquid, he would lose his ability to resist and be at his mercy, then victory in this battle would be within his grasp.
However, Boruto had no intention of surrendering so easily. He immediately formed hand seals and unleashed his Water Release ninjutsu: "Water Release: Waves!"
Boruto concentrated his chakra in his throat, then opened his mouth and spat out a large stream of water, forming a surging wall of water in the cave, which pressed against the dark purple liquid spewed out by Shinja.
With the enhancement of Sage Mode, Boruto's Water Release technique greatly amplified the power and range of the water flow. In just an instant, it dispersed the petrifying liquid sprayed by Shinja and rapidly spread throughout the cave, forming a vast lake.
At this moment, even half of Xin Ya's body was submerged in the newly formed lake.
Upon seeing this, Shinya plunged headfirst into the water, resisting the onslaught of Boruto's Water Release ninjutsu. Swimming rapidly against the current, he finally reached Boruto and leaped out of the water, opening his gaping maw to bite fiercely in Boruto's direction.
With its immense bite force, Shinja tore the rock where Boruto was standing into pieces in an instant, but it failed to catch a glimpse of Boruto.
After realizing that his attacks had no effect on Boruto, Shinya roared angrily, his voice filled with dissatisfaction: "Ah, you cunning brat!"
Just as Shinya's attention was diverted by his anger, Boruto suddenly appeared near Shinya's tail.
Just as Boruto withstood Shinja's tail attack, he had already imprinted his Flying Thunder God seal, formed from chakra, directly onto the underside of Shinja's tail.
Using the mark under Shinja's tail, Boruto instantly teleported behind Shinja, avoiding Shinja's attack range.
Immediately afterwards, Boruto quickly took out a shuriken from the ninja tool pouch on his trouser leg, and then injected his Purple Lightning chakra into the surface of the shuriken, causing it to begin to flicker with purple arcs of electricity.
Then Boruto aimed at the location he sensed Shinja was at and threw the shuriken in his hand.
As the shuriken flew through the air, Boruto quickly formed hand seals and unleashed the "Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique".
Instantly, the shuriken imbued with purple lightning chakra began to split, transforming into multiple shuriken carrying the same chakra. Enhanced by the purple lightning, they shot out at a faster speed and over a wider area, covering Shinya's current location.
When Shinya saw Boruto unleash his area-of-effect attack, he immediately realized the situation was dire and opened his massive maw, spewing a petrifying liquid at the shuriken flying towards him.
The instant Boruto's purple lightning shuriken made contact with the liquid sprayed by Shinja, the violent purple lightning chakra contained within the shuriken immediately came into play. It cleaved the liquid with great force, and the resulting arc of electricity caused the liquid to turn into plumes of thick smoke, which quickly dissipated in the air.
Boruto's shuriken shadow clones were numerous, overwhelming Shinja, who was unable to block all of them with his attacks.
Shinya quickly moved his massive body to dodge Boruto's repeated attacks, eventually retreating behind a huge stone pillar for cover.
Boruto's shuriken, carrying a violent electric current, not only shattered all the surrounding rocks as it flew, but even the sturdy stone pillar where Shinja was hiding could not withstand it and was directly blown apart.
In the end, the shuriken pierced through the fragments of the stone pillar and struck Shinya directly.
Even Shinja's tough scales couldn't withstand Boruto's fierce attack with his shuriken; blood began to seep from the gaps between the scales, revealing that it had suffered considerable damage.
Guided by the Flying Thunder God mark engraved on those purple lightning shuriken, Boruto instantly teleported in front of Shinja.
He swiftly used the Shadow Clone Technique to summon two shadow clones beneath him. These two clones simultaneously used Gale Palm to further accelerate Boruto's main body.
At that very moment, purple arcs of electricity were flashing in Boruto's hand, their light illuminating the gloomy cave and Shinja's body.
Boruto shouted, "Purple Lightning Whirlwind - Second Form!" and charged toward Shinya's body, pushing his palm, which was covered in purple lightning, toward Shinya.
When Boruto launched his attack, he deliberately dispersed the power of his Purple Lightning Chakra throughout his entire palm, rather than concentrating it on a single point.
This approach minimizes the damage to Xin Ya while ensuring that Xin Ya is temporarily rendered immobile due to the effects of the Purple Lightning.
Under the impact of Boruto's "Purple Lightning Whirlwind - Second Form", Shinya's figure was violently knocked back.
Purple arcs of electricity began to attach to Xinya's body and continued to spread throughout its body, causing a persistent paralysis effect.
Finally, Xin Ya could not withstand the continuous electric shocks. His body went limp, and he collapsed straight into the cave, raising clouds of dust.
Seeing Boruto so easily defeat Shinja from the edge of the cave, Sasuke's desire for Sage Mode grew even stronger.
At this moment, Boruto slowly walked up to Shinja and smiled, "You lost. According to our previous agreement, you should form a summoning contract with me, right?"
Shinya did not object to Boruto's announcement. Although it was impatient, it had its own bottom line. It had to keep its word and would not go back on its word, even if the other party was human.
However, its eyes were full of anger, revealing a deep disgust and distrust of humans, clearly indicating that this defeat had left it feeling resentful.
Xin Ya silently calculated in his heart. He had only agreed to become Boruto's summoning beast, but had not made a clear promise to go all out for Boruto or even sacrifice himself.
So he thought that after becoming Boruto's summoning beast, he might not respond to the summons often, or not go all out, or even take the opportunity to treat Boruto the way his former contractor treated him.
Boruto reached out and touched the scales on Shinja's body, his gaze falling on the special reverse scale beneath its massive head, but he had no intention of removing it.
Sasuke had already stood up from the distant boulder and slowly walked to Boruto's side. His gaze also fell on Shinja, and he asked Boruto softly, "What? What are you still hesitating about? Why don't you take off its reverse scale?"
When Boruto heard Sasuke's question, he just smiled faintly and replied, "Never mind, I actually quite like its personality."
Sasuke wasn't surprised by Boruto's answer, since that was exactly how Boruto was, as far as he knew. It reminded him of Naruto, that idiot, and the two were very similar in this respect.
However, he still believes that Boruto is creating trouble for himself by keeping a potential destabilizing factor around, which could lead to unforeseen events in the future.
Upon hearing Boruto's words, Shinya was somewhat surprised, but still responded in a cold voice: "Kid, aren't you afraid that after I become your summoning beast, I'll find a chance to betray you? Let me tell you! The so-called trust you talk about exists only to be used!"
"Take a good look at my blind eye!" Xin Ya continued angrily. "This is my previous contractor, who cruelly abandoned and blinded me after using me. At that moment, his eyes were filled with betrayal!"
Next, Sasuke and Boruto learned from Shinja's account how he was betrayed by someone he once trusted deeply.
After listening to Shinja's explanation, Sasuke finally understood why it had shown such strong anger and resistance when Boruto suggested using it as a summoning beast.
Shinya's past experiences have completely eroded its trust in humans, making it extremely averse to becoming a summoning beast again.
"You humans are all like this, cunning and deceitful!" Xin Ya roared at the two of them, venting the emotions that had been building up inside him.
Faced with Shinja's anger, Boruto simply responded calmly, "So what if it's betrayal?"
"what?"
Shinya wondered if it had misheard; it couldn't believe that Boruto was so fearless in the face of potential betrayal.
"I said, so what if it's betrayal?"
Boruto repeated, "If he left because he went astray, I will bring him back. If he truly betrayed me for personal gain, I will do everything in my power to retaliate, rather than hiding here and escaping reality."
Sasuke frowned slightly at this. He always had a feeling that Boruto's words seemed to be directed at more than just Shinji.
After Boruto finished speaking, he turned his back to Shinji and suggested to Sasuke, "It seems that the Orochi I'm looking for isn't in this cave. Let's go, Sasuke."
By this time, Boruto and Sasuke had walked several meters away. Shinya had finally recovered from the paralysis caused by the purple lightning. It slowly straightened its massive body and let out a cold snort at Boruto's back: "Hmph! Kid! Don't underestimate me! Since that's what you think, I'll play with you and show you just how naive your idea is."
After hearing Shinya's words, Boruto turned around to face Shinya, his expression calm: "I really don't know if I'm naive or not, but I do know that I'm willing to believe in my comrades, just as I'm willing to believe in myself."
Xin Ya responded, "Hmph! Anyone can talk big like that, but how many can actually do it?" Its tone was tinged with provocation.
Boruto reached behind his back and took out the summoning contract scroll he had prepared beforehand. He had carefully prepared it before heading to Ryuchi Cave, just for this moment.
After a brief contract ceremony, Boruto and Shinja, one human and one snake, officially formed a summoning contract, and Shinja became Boruto's summoning beast.
After completing the summoning contract with Shinya, Boruto lowered his head and his body began to tremble slightly. Shinya scoffed at this sudden change, thinking that Boruto had gone back on his word so quickly. However, Boruto burst into laughter and gave Shinya a V sign, clearly very happy with Shinya as his handsome partner.
"You bastard..."
Shinya stared at Boruto's excited expression and immediately realized that although what Boruto had said earlier was not a lie, he had used it as a way to provoke him step by step, and Shinya had inadvertently fallen into his trap.
"Hmph! If you dare betray me, even if my strength is inferior to yours, just as you said, I will take my revenge on you until I die!" After expressing his determination, Xin Ya then asked Boruto a question: "Kid, what's your name?"
"Okay, just call me Boruto. Nice to meet you from now on! Shinja!"
Boruto stared directly at Shinji, a big smile spreading across his face.
Shinya gazed into Boruto's clear eyes, a sense of感慨 rising in his heart. You really are just as foolish as I was when I was young. After a moment of silence, Shinya slowly lowered his eyes. Then I'll believe you this once, Boruto.