Early in the morning, when it was still foggy outside the window, Naruto had already gotten up from his warm bed.

No way, unless he gets drunk, years of habit have made him lose the right to lie in bed, and what is even more frustrating is that there is nothing to celebrate recently, and he has not even had a chance to convince himself to buy alcohol.

After washing up and simply eating two slices of toast, he went straight out to the training ground, there were still at least three or four hours before the daily meeting, plus Kakashina's outrageous concept of time, so during this time he had already divided his practice into two sections, morning and evening, to avoid wasting time.

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

When he came to the training ground, he directly made ten clones without saying a word, nine of them went to carry out the unfinished chakra nature changes as usual, and the remaining one stayed to strengthen his physical skills with him.

"Dangdang, dang!"

With a series of metal crisp sounds, the two Naruto in the field flew up and down, the ninja sword moves in their hands attacking each other's vital points, and the crisp sound of striking iron was pleasant.

Got the so-called new plug-in, the exercise of physical skills has naturally entered a new stage, weapons are a direct extension of human beings, and in the confrontation of physical skills, it is obvious that the side with weapons will have a huge advantage.

Belch...... Except for the BUG-like body technique of the Eight Gate Dunjia.

Since the shadow clone will have all his memory experience and even body senses, it is simply perfect to use it as a sparring partner, and a quick stab from the side doppelganger flashed, Naruto swept forward with excitement, and when the clone jumped up to dodge, it suddenly changed again, and the sweep changed to retract the knife inward, and at the same time held the knife with both hands and stabbed diagonally, turning it into a cloud of smoke in the slightly panicked look of the doppelganger.

"The second generation of Hokage, it really deserves to be 'Edison in the ninja world', and the shadow clone is really a genius idea." Reminiscing about the memories passed back by the doppelganger, feeling the horror between life and death just now, Naruto couldn't help but say in admiration.

Compared to Orochimaru, who is also known as an inventor, he has a much better sense of the second generation of Hokage, after all, this is like the relationship between the original and the cover, no matter how good the cover is, it is just standing on the shoulders of the original.

Take a look at the techniques invented by the second generation of Hokage, [Shadow Clone], [Flying Thunder God], [Filthy Earth Reincarnation], which is not an outstanding masterpiece that has a profound impact on the ninja world, especially the shadow clone, not only is the magic skill that runs through the whole drama in the plot, but now even he, a traverser from another world, has benefited a lot.

On the other hand, Orochimaru seems to have done a lot of improvement work on the basis of the second generation, and in Naruto's memory, the more eye-catching one seems to be the only [Orochimaru Flow Stand-in], as for the [Immortal Reincarnation] that is all side effects, it is just like the low-level snatching of the Xianxia novels he had read in his previous life.

Every time you take it, it will reduce your soul, making the existence of one of the three ninjas look like a sheep waiting to be slaughtered every time you face the Sharingan Illusion, which is simply funny.

If it weren't for the fact that the soul of this world is entangled with Chakra and has a certain materiality, coupled with its penchant for leaving curse marks everywhere in a cold and unscrupulous manner, it would have been cold in Itachi's ten-fist sword, how could there be a chance to resurrect and whitewash in the later stage.

Of course, the above is just a strategic contempt, and tactically, as Hei Jue said, Orochimaru, a guy who gives people a slimy and uncomfortable feeling like a snake, is really difficult, because the ambiguous relationship between Chakra and the soul makes it difficult to be truly killed.

However, at the same time, he also felt that this would not really be only a low price for illusion resistance, and there must be some unknown negative effects, looking at the same personality changes that Orochimaru reversed several times in his life, perhaps it was because of the relationship of a large loss of souls.

"Orochimaru...... Unconsciously, Naruto, who was in a state of cranky thoughts, thought of Orochimaru, and couldn't help but think of the next shinobi exam again.

It's been almost two weeks since they've returned from the Land of Waves, and these days, even with his narrow social circle, he's starting to notice that there are some unfamiliar faces in the village, and he doesn't have to think about it to know that exams are approaching.

And throughout the entire Zhongnin exam process, what really worries him is not my Airo, who is the pillar force of the crane guard, not to mention the tooth and brother-in-law who may have a duel with him, but Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas who appeared in the "Zhongnin" exam.

Needless to say, the former is not even an opponent, and if it is really like in the plot, it will be completely abuse.

As for the eldest brother-in-law, not to mention that he has practiced with Hinata countless times, he already knows everything about Baiyan and Juquan, but he doesn't know Juquan, and he is confident that he can win with hard power.

My Airo is indeed a little troublesome in his opinion, because he is not sure if he will be able to learn the spiritism taught by Jiraiya in the future, and without Bunta, I Airo who is in a frenzy to liberate Shouhe may have to flee for his life.

The main reason why Naruto thinks that Iara is just "some" in trouble is that he can't beat him and can run away at all, and maybe he doesn't even go to the troubled waters, so it's troublesome to survive.

But it's different when you change to Orochimaru's side, in the Forest of Death, Orochimaru is clearly coming for Sasuke, as a fellow in the team, he is almost unavoidable, the level difference between each other is too far, Orochimaru's gap is unimaginable for him at this stage, and the possibility of overturning is extremely great.

"I'll have to figure out a way......" Naruto said to himself, frowning.

He didn't want to be like in the plot when Orochimaru came to interfere with his chakra with a [Five Elements Seal], and he didn't want to have any other accidents, so the most direct way was to avoid Orochimaru directly, but it was so easy to say, after all, the main purpose of this three ninja to Konoha was Sasuke, and compared to it, the so-called "Konoha Collapse Plan" was not as important.

"Hmm...... It seems that we still have to use the old way. After pondering for a while, Naruto, who didn't seem to think of any particularly perfect solution, finally said to himself.

It looks like he has a plan, but he doesn't look very confident.

……

It was nine o'clock in the morning, an hour had passed since the time of the meeting, and Naruto's side had also finished his morning practice and hurried to the meeting place unhurriedly.

"Good morning." Naruto gave a brief hello to Sasuke and Sakura, who were waiting there.

As he expected, Kakashi couldn't even see the shadow, and it didn't matter if he could have come later.

"It's not early, Naruto, you've been late lately." Sakura said, glancing at the time.

Although she said that, in fact, she wished that Naruto would come later, so that she and Sasuke would have more alone time.

"Hmph, you seem to be very busy lately, are you afraid that I will catch up?" Sasuke snorted, not knowing whether to be sincere or sarcastic.

Apparently, Sasuke already had some guesses about where he was going during the morning.

"There are some reasons for that, after all, you can understand the pressure that sometimes comes with being a leader." Naruto smiled when he heard this, and said calmly.

Although this is not the case at all, he still answered according to the other party's guess, and he couldn't just say, "If you want to catch up, I estimate that you will have to wait a few years, and I have to stop and wait for you." If you are ridiculed, it is estimated that the arrogant character of the second pillar classmate will definitely explode on the spot.

"Hmph, don't worry, you won't feel this pressure anytime soon." Sasuke said with a smile when he heard the words "evil spirit".

The confidence that surpassed Naruto in his words was overflowing, and Sakura, who saw it on the side, was immediately handsome, and couldn't help but feel soft under his feet, and almost threw himself directly into Sasuke's arms.

"......" In the face of the blatant provocation of the second pillar classmate, what can Naruto's side say except to admire his imagination.

Naruto can understand Sasuke's desire and urgency for power, but it's really a bit annoying to keep staring at him, can't you honestly improve yourself, your target is Itachi and not me, this is not playing RPG games to upgrade and fight bosses, the target is always set on me, what if I'm stronger than Itachi in the future?

Naruto couldn't help but complain in his heart about Sasuke's single-threaded thinking, and felt offended and very troubled by Sasuke's idea of "how can you defeat Itachi if you can't even surpass Naruto".

Thankfully, the unpleasant atmosphere didn't last long, and after a while, a belated Kakashi finally appeared, and the three of them began their daily ninja missions until three o'clock in the afternoon, when they disbanded and went home.

"Huh?"

On the way to the training ground after the disbandment, Naruto noticed three familiar and unfamiliar figures and couldn't help but stop.

Saying that familiarity is naturally that he knows who these three people are, and strangeness is because it is indeed the first time he has encountered them in reality.

That's right, these three people with very different costumes from Konoha are the trio of Sand Hide's Iairo, and the sand gourd, the puppet, and the three-star fan that the three of them carry behind their backs are obvious signs.

"Is it finally coming, the middle ninja exam." This was Naruto's first reaction when he saw the trio.

Since he doesn't know Konohamaru at all now, naturally there is no bloody incident that caused him to bump into Kankuro because Sakura chased Konohamaru, and he didn't have the opportunity to meet the trio for the first time in the plot.

Passing by in an extremely normal way, Naruto walked non-stop, and the smell of blood coming from my Airo made him frown slightly.

"Do I love Luo of the Sandstorm, it's scary." Continuing to walk without looking back, Naruto sighed in his heart.

Although it was a brief interlacing, he was still deeply impressed by the aura on his body, which seemed to be mixed with sand and blood and coagulated, and this murderous aura was much more uncomfortable than no matter how much he didn't cut it.

"......" At the same time, Airo looked back as if he sensed something suddenly stopped, staring at Naruto who was drifting away.

"I'm Airo, what's wrong?" I Ai Luo suddenly stopped, and the hand bow beside him hurriedly asked.

She and Kankuro are very nervous at the moment, and they are afraid that I Airo will be sick at this time, after all, this is not Shayin, but Konoha, they both have a more important mission than the middle ninja exam, the more low-key the better at this time.

“…… Nothing, let's go. I paused for a moment, then said a faint word, then turned my head and moved on.