Reality and Illusion

"Rumble!"

The terrifying power brought about by the burst of pressure instantly destroyed the entire toad's stomach. Even Kurenai disappeared in this instant.

At the same time Guy used the Daytime Tiger to hit Kurenai, the burning chakra on his body also disappeared. It was like the aftereffects of eating stimulants. His face looked very tired as he laid on the ground.

"Did I win?" Guy forced himself to raise his head to look at where Kurenai was. When he saw that Kurenai was gone, he finally smiled.

"It's a pity that you lost." However, Guy's victorious smile didn't last long before it froze because Kurenai suddenly appeared in front of him. Let alone getting injured, even her clothes were not damaged at all. The huge change made Guy completely dumbfounded.

"Do you remember what I asked you just now? Do you know what is reality and what is genjutsu? Are you so sure that the person you hit was me and not you who was hit by my genjutsu?"

Kurenai was like a victorious queen as she looked at Guy with a powerful aura.

"No... impossible. I can break through even the Tsukuyomi with my Eight Inner Gates. With me opening the 7th Gate, other jutsu at Tsukuyomi's level shouldn't be able to trap me…"

Guy shook his head with difficulty. He was very clear about his resistance to genjutsu. Under normal conditions, Sharingan's genjutsu were already useless to him because he didn't even look at the eyes of the other party. Moreover, even if he did, it didn't matter. With the willpower and spiritual energy he trained all year, nothing would scare him.

Why genjutsu was not the way to go in this ninja world? It was very simple, because there were too many people who could resist powerful genjutsu at this time. There were even more ninjutsu that could ignore powerful genjutsu. With Jiraiya's Sage Mode coupled with the powerful spiritual energy brought by his kage-level strength, he wasn't afraid even if it was Tsukuyomi.

With Guy's Eight Inner Gates, and coupled with the tenacious will and spirit energy that he had trained for a long time, he was not afraid of any other Tsukuyomi-level genjutsus, not to mention anything like the Susanoo.

Therefore, in the battles of many experts, the stronger the person, the more often the battle between the two was not an genjutsu battle, but rather a ninjutsu or even a taijutsu contest. The stronger the person was, the stronger their resistance against genjutsu, and the more powerful the same person was, the more terrifying the ninjutsu he mastered.

Often, the deciding factor of victory was ninjutsu and taijutsu. Of course, it was not that there were no strong genjutsu users, but there were very few. For example, Ryoha, Shinku, Kurenai, Itachi, etc.. These genjutsu users were all terrifying, but at the end of the day, there were very few genjutsu techniques could actually kill enemies.

Genjutsus basically played an absolute supporting role in a battle. As for Izanagi and Izanami, these genjutsus had a huge price to use (sacrificing one's eye), so there was no need to talk about it. But would such genjutsu be used in many battles?

As long as they could survive in battle, they basically would not use it. Just like the battle between Uchiha Madara and the First Hokage. Even if he lost, Madara would not use Izanagi or Izanami because he knew that even if he lost, he would still be able to survive. If he used the Izanagi or Izanami, even if he won, it would be equivalent to losing.

Moreover, whether he could win or not was unknown. This kind of situation didn't give enough reason to use them. Unless his life was threatened, he would not use them. The price for using them was also high. Although the effect was strong, but it was hard to guarantee that the enemy would not be able to resist the ultimate genjutsus. Thus, it was not something to use casually.

Even in battle, Shinku only used his superb genjutsu technique to play with the other party in the palm of his hand. In the end, when he killed the enemy, he would use taijutsu or ninjutsu. Of course, he could also use other techniques. After all, using genjutsu would exhaust the other party to death.

For example, like Guy now, Kurenai's genjutsu made him think that he had hit her with his strongest attack. But now, he was lying on the ground like a dead dog. And this wa the time when Kurenai could finish him easily. This was an example of an efficient use of genjutsu.

This method of using genjutsus was the best. It could instantly turn the opponent into an existence that could be killed by ordinary people. This was the true essence of genjutsus, not using powerful genjutsus like Tsukuyomi to destroy the enemy's spirit. That kind of technique could easily hurt people and hurt oneself.

This kind of technique was good for those who had weak spiritual energy and had not reached the Kage level. However, for those who had reached the level of Kage, other than Orochimaru, who brought disaster upon himself and ruined his soul, all the other Kage-level experts would not be afraid of Tsukuyomi.

Therefore, the stronger the genjutsu, most of the time, it would rarely be used due to the costly consequences. Instead, genjutsu users would use some simple genjutsu in a perfect combination with their other jutsus, so that the enemy would not know when they fell into the genjutsu.

Guy was the best example. He did not know when he was hit by Kurenai's genjutsu, and when he realized that he was hit by her genjutsu, the battle had already ended.

In addition to the genjutsu, Jiraiya had already come to Guy's side to lift him up and throw him at Kakashi. Although Asuma was injured by Raikiri, he was still able to move and immediately caught Guy.

"Guy, you were hit by Kurenai's genjutsu just now. It is really hard to imagine that her genjutsu skill is so terrifying that even you can fall into the genjutsu under the Eight Inner Gates."

Kakashi sighed. That short-lived genjutsu was too powerful although it was not a powerful genjutsu.

It just disturbed the vision of others, making them hallucinate. Kurenai made Guy thought that she was in another place, turning the tide of the battle. It was just a small genjutsu, but one could see how high the attainments of an individual were from it.

"This is a real genjutsu master. In that situation, if she used those powerful genjutsus, she would definitely be a super stupid existence. It would be a waste of energy and it would hurt herself. Moreover, the probability of success was very small. It was easy to break through and could cause a backlash."

"She only needed to use the genjutsu to interfere with the visual nerves. Kurenai skillfully timed and used her genjutsu. With her current mastery in genjutsu, anyone who got hit by her genjutsu would not be able to detect it."

"In addition, it was difficult to detect even when she was at her most calm state. By the time her enemies realized what happened, it was already too late."

"Guy's attack just now was almost meaningless. Even if he knew that he was hit by the genjutsu, he could only go all out. But to do that under such circumstances, it was impossible to do it without high mastery in genjutsu."

Jiraiya agreed. Kurenai's skill in genjutsu was too high. Just now, the fleeting genjutsu showed how terrifying Kurenai's skill was. It was simply exchanging the smallest amount of strength for the greatest result.

Others might not be able to do this even if they used a day's worth of strength and paid the high price, but Kurenai only needed to move a finger to do it. This was the terrifying part of her.