"According to the information that Lord Jiraiya passed on before, we should only be less than a hundred kilometers away from our destination."

Amazo, who was the captain of the operation force in this special mission, said this with a solemn face according to the message that Jiraiya had transmitted through the toad not long ago.

The distance of less than a hundred kilometers, judging from the fact that most of their troops are Shangnin, if everything goes well on the way, it will not take an hour to arrive.

It was a few hours ahead of the expected arrival of the destination by this evening.

"Then, let's speed up from now on, even if the three shinobi are personally watching, maybe an accident will happen."

Darui, who is in charge of the Cloud Hidden Squad, said.

Although this mission is dominated by Konoha, he also does not fully trust the abilities of the Konoha ninja, and he wants to end this mission quickly and pry out the information about the two tails from Orochimaru's mouth.

In order to recover the two tails, they Yun Yin had already wasted a lot of manpower and material resources, and this time they said that they couldn't let go of Orochimaru.

"Okay." Tenzo did not object, and turned back to the people behind him and ordered, "Everyone, let's speed up together." ”

Everyone responded, and began to exert force under their feet, increasing their speed, and galloping between the forests.

This acceleration lasted for about half an hour, and the mountains at the end of the forest in front of us were already close at hand.

According to the information obtained, Orochimaru's stronghold is located between the mountains to the west of Tanokuni, adjacent to the country of samurai such as the Land of Iron.

Suddenly, one person from each of Konoha, Yunyin, and Sha Yin's troops jumped out, catching up with the pace of Tianzang, Darui, and Hakura, and the three of them glanced at each other to make sure of each other's thoughts, and Konoha said darkly: "Be careful, there are eleven strong chakra reactions ahead, they are quickly approaching our side, and they are coming for us." ”

After hearing this, Tianzang, Darui, and Ye Cang's eyes were all dark, and Ye Cang asked directly, "Can you be sure which side it is?" ”

The three shadows shook their heads.

They could only perceive the powerful chakra reaction around them, and could not accurately determine the identity of the comer.

However, with such a powerful chakra, it is conceivable that the eleven people who suddenly appeared are not unknown in the ninja world.

"It's a ninja from the land of demons."

In the middle of the team, a voice sounded coldly.

Ningji, who was in Kai's team, opened his eyes and easily captured information that the perception ninja couldn't detect.

However, in the observation of his white eyes, only one figure appeared, and after a while, ten other people appeared in his white eyes' field of vision.

"The land of ghosts?"

Hearing this answer, the three Tianzang who were in charge of leading the team were stunned for a moment, and their faces sank at any time.

When they encounter the ninjas of the Oni Country at such a time, they don't believe it's just a simple coincidence.

Moreover, according to the joint statement of the three dark ministries, these ghost country ninjas are obviously coming for them, so it is even more unlikely that it is a so-called coincidence.

It's the other side's goal, and it's them from the beginning.

"What's going on?"

Darui swept towards Tenzo with an unhappy expression, and his suspicious eyes seemed to say the words 'Did Konoha leak information?'.

After all, it's not the first time that Konoha has done this by leaking important information to the country of ghosts.

If their plan of action is revealed, it is obviously not that Yunyin and Shayin have a problem, they are confident that the spies planted by the country of ghosts will not be able to become the top leaders of their village, and only a village like Konoha that was once the cradle of rebellion in the country of ghosts can leak such important information to the country of ghosts.

Tenzo's face was also ugly, and he also thought of this, but as a Konoha ninja, it was naturally impossible for him to question the upper echelons of the village.

What's more, the people involved this time were either from the ninja clan or the Hokage's cronies, and even the high-level leaders who held the action meeting were only four people. It stands to reason that such a thing as leaking information is simply not going to happen.

"Could it be that it was when I ......cooperated with the Oni Country in the last operation?"

Ye Cang couldn't help but think of something when he saw Tianzang's ugly face.

As for the last battle to recapture my Airo, she did not participate, she was sitting in Shayin Village at the time, and she didn't know anything about some things until Luo Sha returned.

Tianzang shook his head and said, "Impossible, the information revealed by the scorpion was only known to us Konoha and Shayin at the beginning, and it was not revealed to the people of the Oni Country at that time. ”

"Did you learn about it from another source?"

Ye Cang also frowned in embarrassment.

From the current point of view, Konoha has the biggest suspicion, but this is not completely certain, maybe there is a problem on their side of Sand Yin and Cloud Yin. Although the probability is small, it is not impossible.

You must know that the intelligence system of the country of ghosts has always been very developed, and unlike those limited to their own country, the intelligence system of the country of ghosts has long been laid out in many countries in the ninja world, creating a huge sophisticated intelligence network in the ninja world.

Maybe it's based on scattered fragments of information, but even if it's a bit of a speculation in itself.

"I don't know what it is, and there's no point in arguing about blaming each other, so let's all be ready for battle."

Darui sighed, and said 'boring' in his mouth, but he held the heavy two-handed short knife on the back of the knife behind him in one hand in his hand, took a deep breath, and his whole body chakra gathered, and there was a faint thunder beating in his eyes.

Ye Cang and Tianzang glanced at each other, and nodded slightly.

Indeed, now is not the time for prevarication and debate, and the most important thing is to remove the obstacles in front of us.

So, Tenzo put his hands behind his back and quietly gestured to the people behind him.

After everyone saw it, they didn't hesitate, and the originally dense team suddenly dispersed, leaving enough space between the two sides.

The space for the entire team to move has suddenly expanded several times.

"Stop!"

At this time, there was no need to perceive the reminder of the ninja and the white-eyed Ning Ci, and the three Tianzang who were in charge of leading the team also felt an extremely strong heavy pressure, penetrating through the air, like a mountain squeezing over, making their shoulders sink suddenly, and they couldn't help but stop.

The people scattered around also stopped, either standing on the ground, hiding behind the trees, or standing separately on the branches of the trees, looking ahead.

A pitch-black figure appeared in their field of vision, quietly landing on the thick branches of a tree not far away, and stopped like them.

"Good afternoon, Konoha, Yunyin, and Shayin."

As the footsteps stopped, the girl's long black hair fell from the back of her head, and she smiled and said hello.

"You're Ruri-sensei's ......"

Kai Dingding looked at the girl, his face was quite shocked.

"It's a tough guy to do."

Cold sweat flowed from Tianzang's face, and he barely squeezed a smile on his face, no matter how he looked at it, he was very reluctant.

Information about the girl is clearly recorded in Konoha.

Especially on the Konoha battlefield two years ago, the other party easily defeated Konoha with almost one person's strength, and if it weren't for the timely arrival of one of the three ninjas, the result at that time was unimaginable.

According to the inference of the Konoha Intelligence Group, if you want to annihilate the other party, you must send at least one Five Shadows and more than 3,000 elite ninjas.

And it must be done quickly, otherwise the opponent's chakra, which is comparable to the weight of a tailed beast, can exhaust thousands of ninjas to death.

But with the opponent's offensive and defensive Susa Nenghu technique, it is actually difficult to achieve a quick victory.

And fighting a war of attrition with a ninja with a tailed beast-level chakra is the most stupid thing to do!

The opponent's attack limit may not be as high as that of her mother, Ruri Uchiha, but the amount of chakra is extremely large enough to make up for her lack of attack. But even if it's a so-called lack of attack, it's relatively speaking, for flesh and blood ninjas, it's also a natural disaster to move.

Aside from breaking her defenses from the front, any tricks may be pointless.

"Although I know it's nonsense, I still ask more, why did the ninjas from the country of ghosts come to us?"

Tenzo asked nervously.

To be honest, he didn't want to fight this kind of battle that he wasn't completely sure of, and he didn't want to face this kind of monster that could be called a 'humanoid tailed beast'.

This is not the kind of pain that a ninja of his level can bear.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not here to fight, I'm just going to ask you to talk about it here. I happened to have booked a few tables at a small town inn not far away, so I wonder if you can enjoy it. ”

Kazuhime patted the wrinkles on her clothes that didn't exist, and sincerely extended her invitation.

"Hey, now is not the time to discuss dinner, you hurry up and get out of the way for me!"

If it weren't for the order, Naruto felt that the anxiety in his heart was uncontrollable.

Sasuke was waiting for him in front, and now someone suddenly came halfway through to stir up the situation, which was simply his little patience.

"Don't say that, I just want you to make friends and make peace with everything-"

Before Ichihime could finish speaking, lightning flashed in front of her, and a figure had rushed in front of her in the blink of an eye, holding the hilt of the knife with both hands, wielding a heavy blade that carried the power of thunder and lightning.

Bite!

The sound of metal colliding with metal.

Everyone felt a flower in front of them, and they saw that Ichihime blocked the heavy blade with the Kusanagi sword at his waist.

Ignoring the thunder and lightning transmitted to his body by the heavy blade, Kazuhime still had a smile on her face, but she had already revealed a cold meaning.

"Looks like there's no need to talk about it."

"Isn't that a matter of course, little miss?"

Darui drew his blade back, stepped back, and returned to Tenzo and Hakura, his shoulders sinking, and pressed the two-handed short knife in his hand.

"Be careful, this guy has a lot of strength and can ignore my thunderbolt."

Darui reminded softly, feeling that his arm was slightly numb, obviously shocked by the other party's strength.

There is an illusion of facing the fourth generation of Lei Ying, the boss of his own family.

"You don't need to say this kind of thing to know."

The corners of Ye Cang's mouth twitched slightly, and the chakra in his whole body began to move, and his whole body immediately condensed four white balls of light with orange flames wrapped around his body under the effect of this chakra.

At the moment when the four fireballs were born, the air in the forest was immediately covered by a high temperature, and even the moisture in the air was drained, making people feel uncomfortable in their throats.

Subconsciously, Tianzang and Darui, who had been keeping a certain distance from Ye Cang, moved a few steps to the side slightly again, and distanced themselves from Ye Cang.

Even if the other party is consciously manipulating ninjutsu, as long as they are negligent, they are likely to be drained of water from their bodies in an instant and turn into a dried corpse and die.

"Go ahead!"

With a wave of his arm, four fireballs, two of which were launched, hit the location of Yiji.

The other two fireballs are left to protect around the body.

"Wood Escape: The Art of the Great Forest!"

Before he could get close to Yihime, countless sticks of vines suddenly sprang out from behind Yihime, and a masked man wearing a black coat and black chakra armor stretched out his arm These vine branches turned into long snakes and wrapped around the two fireballs that impacted Yihime, wrapping it.

However, it didn't last long for the vines that wrapped the fireball to burn directly.

Rumble!

As the explosion rang out, a large number of burnt black wood chips spilled down, and the fireball broke through the blockade of the vines and continued forward.

However, because she was hindered by the vines, Kazuhime had plenty of time to deal with it, and she moved her steps unhurriedly, avoiding this fireball that can instantly evaporate human water, and kicked on the branch, and her body fell down.

Boom!

As if breaking the sound barrier, the air vibrated violently, emitting a piercing scream.

"Get out of the way!"

Kazuhime's speed was too fast, and the moment Tenzo finished shouting these words, she had already rushed to the center of the group, turning her body into a meteorite that fell from the sky, and sank the earth with a bang.

Rumble!

The earth roared loudly, and an incomparable force was shaking the whole earth with itself at its center.

The ninjas who landed on the trunk of the tree were all unstable and screamed in panic, and they jumped away from the thick trunk one after another, hiding in an area with stable terrain.

At this moment, a black shadow swept through the sky, and behind it gathered chakra wings far beyond the scale of a human body, like a peacock opening the screen, and with a gentle fan, the wind surged, leaving countless beast scratches on the ground, blowing several ninjas out and rolling in embarrassment.

When Kazuhime was disrupting the enemy's center, the rest of the Thorn Team immediately took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack to disrupt the enemy's formation.

Sakai, who was not far from a member of the Thorn Squad, immediately took out a scroll, took out a paintbrush, and quickly painted on it, and the ink tiger with a roar of rage slammed into the enemy's back.

The member of the Thorn Xiao team also noticed something, gave up the eighth squad member in front of him, turned around and pulled out a long saber at his waist, the black handle without the slightest shiny, and his silver light could reflect the dazzling cold blade.

With a standard drawing slash, he easily swung out a glittering sword, and the ink tigers that attacked him were instantly killed.

Then his chakra exploded, and the saber immediately wrapped around the thunderbolt - no, it was different from the electricity generated by ordinary thunderbolts, like flowing soft water, but it also really possessed the thrusting power of thunder and lightning.

There is no doubt that this is the Blood Inheritance Limit that can release thunder and lightning in the form of water or lasers.

Judging from the fact that he can use Lan Dun to the realm of sword skills, it is obvious that he has a deep attainment in Lan Dun.

Sai's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the thorn group ninjas who rushed out, and subconsciously retreated.

But the thorn group ninja who used Lan Dun didn't intend to let it go, and the back of Chakra's armor suddenly burst out with electric light, gushing out the air that propelled him forward, and the black coat was instantly agitated and fluttered.

Laugh at!

Sakai's pupils shrank, and the Lan Dun ninja who was originally in front of him suddenly disappeared, appeared beside him, and ruthlessly swung a sword.

Hair falls.

The eyes of the Arashi Ninja under the black beak mask were slightly stunned, he didn't expect Sakai to be able to dodge this lore blow.

Immediately, he noticed something, on Sakai's calf, at some point, each of them had a chakra needle with an orange electric light, which stimulated the motor nerves in his leg.

"Did the thunder escape strengthen the nerves in the legs? Trick. ”

The ninja's eyes flickered slightly, and he looked towards a tree, behind which a person was hiding.

Huo Yezi felt her heartbeat suddenly accelerate, and cold sweat broke out in her palms, except for Yiji, everyone in this group of guys was wearing chakra armor, and directly blocked her chakra needle attack.

No, their eyes aren't protected, so they can...... Huonoko carefully observed the movements of these people, and two chakra needles quietly appeared in her hands, waiting for the best time to attack.

"Water Escape, Water Rush!"

On the other side, Darui gave up attacking with a two-handed short knife and launched a ninjutsu attack on Kazuhime.

A fierce torrent erupted from his mouth and rushed towards Kazuhime.

Then he changed his Indian style, maintained the water escape, and continued to use the second ninjutsu.

"Thunder Escape, Gratitude Wave!"

Whoosh.

The torrent was immediately covered by dazzling thunder, turning into a stronger attack of lightning torrent.

Kazuhime swung out the Kusanagi sword, separating the thunder and lightning torrent from the middle, although her body caught it steadily and did not take a step back, but there was a sour tingling sensation on her arm immediately, which made her frown.

Then two white balls of light burning with orange flames flew over, quickly approaching Ichihime's body.

Yiji glanced slightly, pulled back, and let the fireball and the thunder torrent collide violently, and for a while the white steam spread, and due to the addition of thunder, there was still an electric current in the high-temperature water vapor.

"It's not bad, but it makes me feel a little tricky."

Kazuhime held the Kusanagi sword in one hand, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"If you take it more seriously, maybe I'll have to believe it."

Darui sighed weakly, but his eyes flashed solemnly, and he didn't dare to relax.

So far, Kazuhime has only used some body techniques and knife techniques, and even so, it is more difficult for him and Hakura to deal with them.

Although both he and Ye Cang still retain a lot of strength, the hidden strength of the other party is only a lot more than theirs.

And when Tenzo saw that Ichihime was restrained by Darui and Hakura, his eyes flickered, and finally, he made up his mind.

"Don't fight here, they are deliberately delaying time, leaving some people to contain them, and the rest to follow me!"

Sensing the intentions of the Oni Country, Tenzo immediately knew that the other party's purpose was to contain them and prevent them from going to the stronghold where Orochimaru was.

Therefore, these people must be bypassed.

Naruto, who originally wanted to join the battle group, heard Tenzo's words, and immediately stopped his hand and came to Tenzo's side.

There was also a small group of Konoha Dark Division, and the three-person team of the eighth squad to seek the enemy.

Noticing this, Kazuhime quickly made a decision, abandoning Darui and Hakura, and jumped with both feet, spanning a distance of dozens of meters in the blink of an eye, flying out like a black arrow.

"Don't think about it!"

As if waiting for this moment, Yiji was slightly startled, and after turning his head, he only saw a green figure that was not weaker than his speed, and flew out with a kick.

The ground behind him was torn apart by the violent impact he had driven, and the trees were also rumbling and trembling.

Kazuhime didn't want to turn his body sideways, and at the same time, he flipped his palm and swung the Kusanagi sword in his hand upwards without hesitation.

It struck the air, and a half-moon sword swirled out.

The opponent also turned his body sideways in the air, allowing the Kusanagi sword to slash in front of him by a fraction of a millimeter, and then his body rolled out in an embarrassed manner.

But his goal was achieved, and he succeeded in stopping Kazuhime's footsteps, so that she could not stop the progress of Tianzang and the others.

On the other side, Darui and Ye Cang also quietly made a gesture to their own people, and a small group of Yunyin and Shayin Shadows withdrew from the battlefield one after another, following in the footsteps of Tianzang, obviously not planning to stay here.

Kazuhime frowned at this, she also knew that with her and the Thorn Group's ability, it was impossible to stop everyone here, after all, this was a resistance war, not an annihilation war, but the number of people in the past was a little more than she estimated.

Soon, Kazuhime turned her head and swept towards Maitkai, who was burning green steam on her body.

The same person who stopped her just now.

"From the third gate, the Eight Gate Dunjia will start burning green steam, but your level should not be just the level of the third gate."

Although Yi Ji was in a questioning tone, he was extremely sure that the eight doors of Dunjia that Kai opened at this time were by no means just the extent of the third door opening.

Kai didn't breathe, now as long as it is not above the seventh gate and the eighth gate, the load on him from the eighth gate Dunjia is not as great as he imagined.

For Yiji's question, he nodded without hesitation.

"Now I've opened the fifth door."

"Dumen? I thought it was going to be the sixth gate. No wonder my mother told me to be careful of Konoha's Eight Gate Dunjia Ninjas, you're such a troublesome anomaly. ”

The chakra that gushed out of her body was inferior to her in number, but it was also extremely heavy, and just standing there could be an unparalleled intimidation for ordinary ninjas.

Kazuhime licked her pink tongue happily, her eyes shining with excitement.

"If the opponent is you, this kind of frustrating sword technique is meaningless, so I'll take it a little seriously. Before that, though, get rid of the other two obstructors. ”

Kazuhime glanced at Darui and Hakura, who were about to come forward, and put the Kusanagi sword into its sheath.

Immediately afterward, she opened the ninja bag without hesitation, took out a red scroll from it, put it in her mouth and bit it, and began to seal her hands.

Two bangs.

In the surprised gaze of Kai, Darui, and Ye Cang, two thick clouds of smoke erupted in front of Yiji, and two figures stood in the smoke, and the tall and mighty pitch-black figure appeared in the smoke and dust.

"It's ......"

The three of them were shocked and shocked, as if they had seen something extremely incredible, and their eyes widened.

I saw two figures in the thick fog stretch out their palms, sweeping away the white smoke that covered their bodies, and their burly and tall bodies were wrapped in lava-like flame armor, and their whole bodies were transparent, like empty shell warriors formed by chakra materialization.

In the heart of the empty shell warrior burning lava, there is a pale blue jade floating quietly, which is extremely gorgeous.

Two lava warriors nearly two meters tall, holding flaming swords formed by the convergence of physical chakras, and two white eyes, like two small suns, released a strong light that made people dare not look directly.

They were like two door gods standing on either side of Ichihime, and with a gentle swing of the flaming sword in their hands, the space around them began to burn, distorting the scenery around them with intense heat.

As soon as Ichihime's mouth loosened, the scroll rolled to the ground, spontaneously igniting flames and burning to ashes.

She took a step forward, let go of her hands, and said in a playful tone:

"It's my favorite toy, so I'm going to put it to the test. Speaking of which, this is the first time this thing has been put into real combat. ”

(End of chapter)