Time passed, and two years passed in a blink of an eye, and the overall situation in the ninja world in the past two years was relatively peaceful, and no major war broke out.

But there was no peace in the local area, and the squad-level clashes never stopped.

Under the cloak of peace, the ninja battle continues.

At first, Iwa Shinobu and Konoha continued to skirmish on the border.

Iwa Shinobi often work together in two or three squads, shuttling back and forth along the long border of the Fire Country, constantly looking for the lone Konoha team to attack.

There are many ninja people in Iwa, and they can send many ninja squads to infiltrate the Fire Country from different directions.

In the face of Iwa Shinobi's superior forces, the understaffed Konoha could barely defend a few important positions, but he was unable to hold the long border.

So for the first half a year, Konoha has been pressed and beaten by Iwa Shinobi, and every few days, news of the team's territory being attacked by Iwa Shinobi will come back to Konoha.

And as time passed, the situation in Konoha did not improve, but it became even worse.

In half a year, Iwa Shinobi finally digested the entire Thunder Country, and basically completed the cleanup of all the remaining cloud ninja in the Thunder Country.

After the war in the Land of Thunder was completely over, a large number of Iwa Shinobi were finally able to free up their hands to intensify the attack on Konoha.

At this moment, the situation in Konoha almost collapsed, the border line was completely lost, and many Iwa ninja teams began to blatantly penetrate into the territory of the Fire Country.

It can be described as such that for Konoha ninjas, half of the Fire Country to the north of Konoha Village is no longer safe.

The number of tasks in this area has been greatly reduced, and most of the remaining tasks are in the hands of Iwa Shinobi.

Konoha's control over the area has been extinguished in name only. Even some border towns have even changed their managers to the subordinates of the Daimyo of Tsuchinokuni.

And that's not all, the most serious problem for Konoha is that the ninja has lost too much.

Based on the time after the end of the last Konoha United Ninja Exam, the total number of fighting ninjas that Konoha could send out at that time was only 6,000.

No matter how many ninjas are sent, the normal operation of Konoha Village will not be maintained.

In the past two years, more than half of the 6,000 ninjas in Konoha have died or lost their combat effectiveness. On average, a squad of Konoha ninjas dies every day.

In order to make up for the shortage of manpower, the students of Konoha Shinobi School have two early graduations.

Originally, Konoha was the same as Shinobi Iwa, and the age of the ninja school graduate was about ten years old, but now Konoha is an eight-year-old student who has to embark on the road of mission.

Fortunately, Kakashi is still sane, and most of these newcomers are on missions in the southern half of the Fire Nation, and less involved in the conflict between the northern half and Iwa Shinobi.

So now, among the ninjas who go out on missions in Konoha now, the number of ninjas who have graduated more than two years ago is less than three thousand.

The vast majority of ninjas are less than two years old and have graduated less than two years old.

Similarly, in order to maintain the normal operation of Konoha as a military institution, many ninjas whose strength is not up to standard have also won the titles of middle ninja and upper ninja.

In a word, the average combat power of Konoha ninjas has decreased a lot.

However, Konoha also has an advantage, that is, after Kakashi completely opened up the secret that originally belonged to those ninjas, Konoha ninjas had more means.

Although the hard power is not enough, the strange methods have somewhat increased the hole cards for those newcomers.

And in the confrontation between a few or a dozen people on both sides, many well-known ninjas in the ninja world emerged in Konoha and Iwa Shinobi.

The Iwa ninja side is represented by Ningji, Shira, and Shion, and the young generation of elite ninjas with Xiang Phosphorus, Sakura, Black Earth and others as the backbone.

In order not to force Konoha directly to the point of starting a war, and eventually attract the intervention of the six immortals, Yichen did not send too many ninjas who had already become famous.

Yichen is represented by Ning Ci and others, and is cultivating young people.

Yichen's strategy is to boil frogs in warm water, and only kill a few, a dozen Konoha ninjas every day, and occasionally a large-scale conflict between the two sides, and only a hundred or so people die.

Konoha's daily losses would not cause the wrath of the Six Dao Immortals.

But over the years, the essence of Konoha is being emptied little by little!

On the side of Iwa Nin, Ning Ci and the others basically fought on their own, and they didn't divide their priorities very much.

He, Bai and Shion were nicknamed Iwa Shinobi Sanbai by good deeds because of their outstanding achievements.

Ningji is because the Hyuga clan has white eyes, Shui Wuyue is white because there is a white character in the name, and Shion is because of good looks and white skin.

Although the three of them are the strongest on the Iwa Shinobi side, in terms of personnel arrangement and battle command, everyone listens to Aono Shinichi, Minamoto Shizuka and Riyin.

And there are also heroes on Konoha's side who temporarily support the backbone: Hinata, Sasuke, and Naruto are the leaders, supplemented by Nara Shikamaru, Oil Girl Shino, Xiao Li and others.

Among these small powerhouses in Konoha, Sasuke and Naruto only know how to rush and fight on their own, and the real leader is Hinata.

Hinata has become the actual person who calls the shots for these little powerhouses.

Hinata, Sasuke, and Naruto were also given titles by the outside world and were known as Konoha Sanguro.

Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame Nothing Burns, Naruto's Half-Tailed Beast's Black-Red State, and Hinata's Blackening!

As Hinata's fame spread, her previous personality was also used as a talking point.

The simple, kind, and shy princess quickly turned into a cold-blooded, strong, and unassuming queen after experiencing family upheaval.

In particular, Naruto never takes the initiative to kill people consciously, and Sasuke rarely kills people, and only Hinata never leaves a living mouth among the Konoha Sanguro.

Whether it is the people of the Fire Country, the opponents of the Earth Country, or other spectators, they all talk about it.

In the Land of Fire, in the melee area north of Konoha Village, in the Konoha Temporary Headquarters, many elites such as Konoha Sanguro and Nara Shikamaru are now gathered.

At this time, Naruto and Inuzuka were arguing fiercely about something.

"Naruto, you idiot, the west must be a fake target made up by Iwa Shinobi, and Hinata Ninji and the others must be in the east." Inuzuka shouted loudly.

Naruto didn't back down at all, he said, "How can it be in the east, there is obviously no movement in the east. ”

Inuzuka said in a tone that spoke to a fool: "It's not normal because there is no movement in the east, when has Iwa Shinobi stopped in the past two years?" ”

Naruto's IQ obviously couldn't accept this explanation, and he quickly found a reason for himself: "Because I'm Naruto!" ”

"Iwa Shinobi is obviously afraid of me, and they don't dare to appear in the east."

Inuzuka immediately scolded, "Then why did they still appear in the west?" ”

Naruto's eyes lit up at the map, and he said, "Because the west is far away from here!" ”

This is not true, the temporary headquarters of Konoha is indeed relatively eastward.

But this distance is not much different.

The two had a lively argument, but the others paid little attention to them.

Only Qiu Dao Ding Ci and Xiao Li looked at the two while eating, and they didn't know if their minds were spinning.

And the oil girl Shino, Sakai, Yamanaka Ino, and Tian Tian set their sights on Nara Shikamaru together.

Nara Shikamaru looked at Hinata, and Hinata was also looking at him, his heartbeat paused for a moment, and then he said quickly: "I don't think there is any need for us to entangle the specific march route of Ning Ji and the others. ”

"This time the intelligence shows that Ning Ci and the others have left the Iwa Shinobi Temporary Command Headquarters, then their target will only be us."

"The three whites of the rock ninja gathered, and the black soil and others came, and this situation rarely happened."

"They don't have to go all out to deal with scattered squads, and they won't risk crossing us into the south of the Fire Nation in this battle."

"So I judge that the target of Ning Ci and the others is us, we just need to guard this place."

Hinata, who was sitting at the head of the group, thought for a moment, then nodded firmly, and she said in a tone without any emotion, "In that case, we can't go anywhere." ”

"We'll just stay here and wait for Iwanin's attack. But don't be careless, send more scout ninjas out to get information from all over the place in time. ”

Seeing Hinata speak, Nara Shikamaru and the others did not hesitate and quickly agreed.

Nara Shikamaru even got up directly to arrange for the scout ninja.

And Inuzuka didn't dare to disobey Hinata's order, so he lowered his head and chose to acquiesce.

Only Naruto muttered a couple of sentences, expressing his displeasure that his opinion was not taken seriously.

As for Sasuke, he sat in the corner with his eyes closed from beginning to end, not saying a word.

Sasuke was the most preoccupied, and in the process of getting along with Naruto, although he gradually dispelled the idea of leaving Konoha and going to Iwa Ninja Village.

But the idea of revitalizing the Uchiha clan has not changed.

Sasuke doesn't care about other shinobi of the same age, he only cares about Ninji, the man who brought him shame in the joint shinobi exam!

So Sasuke doesn't care about Nara Shikamaru's analysis, and he doesn't care about Hinata's decision, as long as he can confront Ninji.

Moreover, with Sasuke's arrogance, he is willing to sit here and listen to this group of garbage discussions, which is already very face-saving for them.

After defeating Ning Ci and completely washing away the shame, he flew directly solo.

Konoha doesn't have anything to be nostalgic for!

Just thinking of this, Sasuke couldn't help but open his eyes and glance at Naruto's fool.

Naruto noticed it, and he immediately said loudly to Sasuke, "Sasuke, you bastard, are you laughing at me again?" ”

"Idiot!" Sasuke just responded coldly with two words and closed his eyes.

After that, no matter how Naruto roared, Sasuke didn't pay any attention.

It's just that what tactics should be used against Ning Ci? Sasuke began to recall the several battles he had with Ninji over the past two years.

Sasuke had already been defeated many times at the hands of Ninji, and, with the continuous use of the Kaleidoscope Writing Wheel Eye, Sasuke also noticed a serious decline in his eyesight.

Of course, Sasuke didn't tell anyone about this, and he didn't know that Kaleidoscope Sharingan could be upgraded to Eternal Kaleidoscope Sharingan.

He didn't even know that Kakashi had another pair of kaleidoscope writing wheels in his hands that he needed to upgrade his eyes.

On the other side, just as Nara Shikamaru had guessed, Ninji, Shiro, Shion, Kuroto, Sakura, Kazumizu Ryuhime, Fujii Kusaoru and others were slowly approaching Konoha's temporary camp.

In the accompanying team, in addition to these young people, there was also Chiga.

Kaori and Sakura took turns to sit in Iwa Shinobi Village as usual, while Kurama Yakumo did not want to clash with Konoha head-on and stayed in the Thunder Country branch.

Ning Ci walked at the front of the line. He has had a few more movements in the past two years, and he just completed one not long ago, and his strength has improved again.

According to his and Yichen's estimates, it should only be the last time to fully awaken the reincarnation eye.

Ning Ci's evolution speed was slower than Yichen imagined, and it didn't take too long for the people of the big barrel wooden house to awaken the reincarnation eye in the original book.

Yichen felt that it might be because the purity of Ning Ci's white eyes was not as good as that of Hinata Hanabi.

Maybe Ning Ji was originally no worse than Hyuga, but his white eyes have always been limited by the caged bird, so his promotion is relatively slow.

It is also possible that Ning Ci's compatibility with the giant reincarnated eye is not as close as that of the big barrel wooden house, and he is not like the big barrel wooden house person who has been baptized by the reincarnation eye chakra since he was a child.

In addition to these two possibilities, Yichen thinks that the biggest possibility is that the Six Dao Immortals are making trouble, and the Six Dao Immortals may be buying time for Sasuke and Naruto.

This operation was also initiated by Ning Ci on his own initiative, and his purpose was not only to end the temporary camp of Konoha and deal a blow to Konoha's morale.

What's more important is to test the power of his reincarnated eye at this stage.

After reaching the level of Ning Ci, it is difficult for normal sparring to have any effect, and after his strength increases rapidly, he can only adapt to his new strength through fighting.

Ning Ci looked at Qianhe on the side and asked, "Senior Sister Qianhe, is there any movement over there in Konoha?" ”

Chiga said, "Naruto has been in the Konoha camp and never left! ”

I don't know what Yichen's considerations were, but every few days Chiga would swallow the blood of some of the Uzumaki clan in order to locate Naruto's whereabouts at any time.

In the past two years, Naruto has been to Myoki Mountain, and Chiga has also helped Yichen determine the exact location of Myoki Mountain in time.

But instead of letting Chiga stop, Masashin made her pay closer attention to Naruto's movements.

This time, Ninji brought Chiga to judge Konoha's reaction through Naruto's position.

Hearing that Naruto was in the direction of Konoha Temporary Headquarters, Ninji nodded.

It just so happens that the Konoha ninja will be solved at one time, and the temporary headquarters of Konoha will be destroyed at will.

Ning Ci was still young, and although he became a shadow level, he did not enter the advisory group of Iwa Ninja Village.

So he didn't know that there were six immortals standing behind Konoha , so he said such things.

But it was precisely because Ning Ci didn't know about the existence of the Six Dao Immortals that Yichen gave him the main task of dealing with ordinary ninjas in Konoha .

If they were to do it, they would definitely be restrained.

At the back of the line were Shiro and Shion.

Bai's expression is relatively flat, he is a normal ninja, all the way from the lower ninja to the middle ninja to the upper ninja, the elite upper ninja, and finally to the shadow level.

Bai's growth is very steady, step by step, so although his strength has steadily reached the shadow level, his mentality is very stable.

But Shion beside him was completely different, and she was eager to try the coming war.

Aster's promotion was half a year ago.

That night, Yichen was diligently studying his five-attribute fusion.

Because the progress of the little white ball research team was not enough, Yichen himself joined it in the past two years.

This can not only speed up the progress of research, after all, Yichen's strength and insight are there, and the work efficiency of others is far less than his.

This can also temper Yichen's soul power that has skyrocketed in the past two years.

Yichen, who worked late in the laboratory outside the village as usual, suddenly noticed that there were violent fluctuations in the village.

Yichen was taken aback, immediately put down his work, and rushed to the source of the fluctuation.

There are a lot of shadow levels in the Rock Ninja Village, but these people's attainments in Yin Escape are far inferior to Yichen, and they don't have Yichen's perception.

So these people just felt that there was something unusual in the village, but they couldn't tell what was happening, and they couldn't locate the source of the fluctuation for a while.

They locked on to the source when they saw Yichen flying quickly towards Ziyuan's residence.

Therefore, Yichen was the first to see the aster in the wrong state.

Shion was dressed in plush pajamas and lay on the bed with a pained expression.

Yichen checked it a little and figured out the reason, it should be the dragon in Ziyuan's body that counterattacked.

As Aster's strength grows stronger, so does her ability to suppress and digest the spirits.

It's just that it stands to reason that the dragon should have no chance to fight back, and the consciousness of the dragon was destroyed by Yichen early.

Yichen observed for a while, and after Han arrived first, he gave him a few words and used the spirit technique to enter Ziyuan's body.

After entering Aster's body, Yichen quickly found her soul.

Ziyuan's soul was obviously a little excited when he saw Yichen coming.

Although Shion in her soul state was unable to speak, she still used her movements to express her uneasiness to Yichen and asked for help.

And around Aster's soul body, there were a large number of dragon tentacles entwined.

The other end of the tentacle leads to what resembles a tailed seal.

There are continuous runes there, and it exudes a special purple-red light, which looks beautiful and fantastic, like a fairyland.

It's just that Yichen knows that on the other side of the seal, there is an extremely ugly and hideous ghost.

Yichen returned his gaze to Shion, and found that it was not so much the tentacles that were wrapping around her, but that the tentacles had merged with her.

Aster and Sprite are vying for control of these tentacles, and Aster is clearly at the bottom of the line.

Seeing this scene, Yichen understood what was going on.

Aster should have absorbed enough soul power and was about to advance to the third stage.

This can be seen in the fact that Shion is able to control her soul body.

It is precisely because the strength of the soul is strong enough that Aster can see Yichen and can also convey distress signals.

But it is precisely because of this that Aster saw the true face of the ugly spirit.

Although Shion always knew that there was a monster in her body, thanks to the promotion of the human pillar force by Iwa Ninja Village, she didn't feel that it was so awkward.

But when she really saw the dragon in her soul state, and the soul was deeply entangled with the dragon, the disgusting feeling was too unbearable.

So Shion's heart was upset, and at this time she was left with only instinct, and she instinctively resisted those disgusting tentacles.

She had completely forgotten how to use the power of the shrine maiden.

Fortunately, after being severely injured by Yichen, the spirit was knocked unconscious. This counterattack of its is unconscious, an instinctive act.

Therefore, the aster can hold on until the arrival of Yichen, otherwise the dragon spirit has already fused the aster in reverse at this time.

Yichen quickly stepped forward and cut off all those tentacles with a few brushes.

Yichen's current level is the same as that of the dragon in its heyday, but the quantity is less.

So it can be said that dealing with these tentacles can be caught.

After severing these tentacles, Yichen applied a soul seal around Shion's body, blocking the tentacles that had re-extended from the shrine maiden's seal.

Then Yichen said to Ziyuan: "Ziyuan, calm down, close your eyes, take a deep breath first, and adjust your mentality." ”

"Don't worry, with me, it's going to be fine."

Yichen's current soul level is already able to convey information to Ziyuan, who is also a soul body, but Ziyuan can only listen, not speak.

Yichen's words Ziyuan still trusted her very much, and she hurriedly closed her eyes and began to take deep breaths as Yichen said.

Although the soul state was not breathing, doing this action still made Shion slowly calm down.

Then Yichen said: "Very good, let's continue, you try to mobilize the power of the witch to suppress these tentacles on your body." ”

Shion, who calmed down, quickly demonstrated the witch's ability to restrain the spirit, and after she burst out of the witch's power, the severed tentacles on her body were absorbed by her at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After a while, the tentacles were completely absorbed, and then Yichen said, "Okay, open your eyes and look at the dragons." ”

Hearing this, Shion opened her eyes and looked in the direction of the shrine maiden's seal.

Yichen said: "This should be the first time you have seen a dragon when you grow up, in fact, you don't have to be afraid at all." ”

"To you, the sprite is just a special kind of chakra, and you've been absorbing this chakra since you were a child."

Aster was still a little scared and disgusted when she saw the dragon again, but it was generally fine.

After Ziyuan got used to it for a while, Yichen said, "Okay, ready, I'm going to break the seal and let these tentacles in, you use your witch power to absorb the power of these tentacles." ”

Shion nodded, her hands in a special pose. Then the power of the witch on her body instantly reached the extreme, and the purple-red light lingered around her.

Yichen smiled, making such a big battle shows that Ziyuan is still a little scared, but it doesn't matter.

Yichen unlocked the soul seal, and the next moment, the tentacles of those spirits immediately instinctively wrapped around the aster again.

But before these tentacles could get close, they were immediately digested and absorbed by the power of the witch of Shion.

This time, these tentacles continuously transmitted the power of the dragons, and then they were quickly digested and absorbed by the asters.

As time went by, the power of the witch on Shion's body became stronger and stronger.

The power that the Sprite instinctively teleported was no longer enough for Shion, and she began to take the initiative to extract the Sprite's power through her tentacles.

And with the active absorption of Aster, the witch seals that sealed the spirits were trembling slightly.

Just when Yichen was worried about whether there would be a problem with the witch seal, the witch seal actually resonated with the witch power on Ziyuan's body.

The next moment, the beautiful shrine maiden's seal shone brightly, and then a large amount of dragon power began to be directly transformed into the power of the shrine maiden.

This transformation takes place inside the seal, which is the location of the dragon itself.

Yichen was stunned, it turned out that the witch seal still had this ability?

If the dragon is subjective, it should be very painful at this time, but the spirit in the seal is very calm, allowing the power of the witch to transform it.

After a few more moments, Shion opened her eyes.

Yichen sensed it, and immediately determined that the aster had reached the third stage of yin retreat.

I was too tired from work the day before yesterday, my body couldn't bear it, and I had insomnia at night, so I didn't update it all day yesterday. Sorry!

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