Orochimaru is now very puzzled, the snake he came out of the dragon cave has died inexplicably.

Although the snake was of little value to him, the owner of the Dragon Cave, the White Snake Immortal, would not care about a small snake with low strength and only worthy of being used as food, he could use spiritism to psychically come out of the Dragon Cave at any time, but he still felt a little uneasy in his heart when he died inexplicably.

Because that snake is his experimental subject, it is an enhanced snake that has obtained extremely strong latent ability and mastery of earth escape ability through his physical transformation technology, it is impossible for ordinary perceptual ninjas to detect it, and it is difficult for ordinary perceptual ninjutsu to work on it.

Who discovered it and killed it in an instant?

Orochimaru was very curious, and he immediately formed a seal, created a shadow clone, and told the shadow clone to check the situation.

After that, he continued to focus on the experiment at hand.

After a while, Orochimaru's shadow clone came to the snake cave where the poisonous snake died, and he was not too dirty, and used his hands to pick up the broken body of the poisonous snake, trying to find the cause of the poisonous snake's death from the corpse.

It's just that the more he examines the corpse of the poisonous snake, the more doubts in his heart become.

He muttered in his mouth: "Strange, I didn't find any traces of ninjutsu, the cause of death should be an inexplicable explosion inside, what kind of power will cause a sudden explosion in the viper's body, there are no other traces of chakra, that means that this is not caused by ninjutsu, is it some kind of strange ability to inherit the limit?" ”

Orochimaru's shadow clone's brain was running at high speed, trying to find the blood inheritance limit ability that matched the cause of the viper's death from the various strange blood inheritance limits he knew, but he was not an all-powerful and omniscient person after all, and he couldn't find a matching blood inheritance limit ability.

Unable to identify the murderer, the Orochimaru shadow clone suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of the orphanage.

At the same time, Kirito saw the Orochimaru shadow clone looking over through the white eyes of the white clone, and sneered: "This guy is really as sharp as ever, but he probably didn't find out who killed the poisonous snake, but he was just suspicious." ”

To be honest, he really didn't expect that the poisonous snake to be the psychic beast of the Great Snake Pill.

He just thought that the poisonous snake with chakra was a little close to the orphanage, and it was very large, and thought that it would pose a threat to the people in the orphanage, so he chose it as the experimental subject of the blood dragon's eye, but he didn't expect to accidentally blow up the big snake pill.

However, through the blood perception ability of the blood dragon eye, he knew that the person who came here to find out the cause of the poisonous snake's death was just a shadow clone of the Great Snake Pill.

Now, in addition to soul perception, he has acquired a second type of perception that can distinguish shadow clones.

"Spiritualization? No, the Spiritualization Technique only has the ability to wipe out the soul, and it is impossible to cause the corpse to explode from the inside, unless Kirito develops a ninjutsu that can explode the soul on the basis of the Spiritualization Technique.

But this possibility is extremely low, even if Kirito is a genius, but it is only half a year for him to learn the art of spiritualization, and it is already shocking to be able to master it, if he can use this to develop a ninjutsu that makes the soul explode, it will be incredible. ”

The Orochimaru shadow clone thought of Kirito, the strongest person in the orphanage, through the orphanage, and then remembered the spiritualization technique that Kiritto mastered, and shook his head.

He doesn't believe that the viper was killed by Kirito using the Spiritualization Technique, but he still suspects that Kirito is the most likely person to kill the viper.

Because around here, orphanages are the closest force to the death of the viper.

Now, because of Kirito's relationship, the orphanage that has changed greatly is no longer just a place with a very low sense of existence in Konoha as before, it is now the base camp of many young civilian ninjas, and it has unknowingly become a young force in Konoha.

And the leader of this force is Kirito.

Orochimaru's shadow clone now guesses that Kiritto must have mastered some kind of blood limit that can kill targets in the air.

"Interesting, I wish I had him join my mission team sooner."

The Orochimaru shadow clone thought excitedly, and then couldn't help but spit out his long tongue and lick his mouth.

Then he made a seal and disappeared into white smoke.

"It's like this again, it's disgusting, I feel like I'm being targeted."

Kirito watched the whole process of Orochimaru's shadow clone sticking out his tongue with white eyes, and suddenly felt a shudder.

However, since Orochimaru left so simply, then he didn't have to worry about killing Orochimaru's psychic beast by mistake.

This matter can be big or small, if Orochimaru insists on finding out to the end, the orphanage will inevitably cause trouble here.

After all, that psychic beast came from the powerful Dragon Earth Cave.

Nine times out of ten, the three generations will see that the face of Longdi Cave will send someone to investigate, and give Orochimaru and Longdi Cave an explanation, and he is the key target of the investigation.

"In the future, if you see an animal with chakra in your body, you can't kill it casually, maybe they are a ninja's psychic beast."

Kirito admonished himself secretly.

Next, he began to continue testing the ability of the Blood Dragon's Eye, he took some blood packets from the laboratory, poured them all into a basin, and then turned on the Blood Dragon's Eye.

The next moment, the blood in the basin flew out of the basin under his control, and then turned into various shapes in midair.

He tried to use the blood manipulation ability of the Blood Dragon's Eye to turn the blood into a sharp spike, and then manipulated it to pierce the ground, but the blood spike was only a virtual appearance, and it could not penetrate the ground at all.

In this regard, Kirito was not disappointed, because he had just not consumed too much blood dragon eye chakra in his body to manipulate the blood spikes.

That blood-red special Yin Retreat Chakra was now named the Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra by him.

This special chakra is the source of power for the release of the blood dragon's eye ability, as long as the consumption of this special chakra is increased, the ability of the blood dragon's eye will be improved, and it is unknown how much it will be improved.

He only knew now that when the Blood Dragon Eye was opened with the Wood Escape Chakra or the Immortal Chakra, the ability of the Blood Dragon Eye would be immediately improved.

This is because the quality of the blood dragon eye chakra born after absorbing the two types of chakras is much higher than that of the blood dragon eye chakra born by absorbing ordinary chakras.

Especially after the Immortal Chakra opens the Blood Dragon Eye, it can make the Blood Dragon Eye consume a small amount of Blood Dragon Eye Chakra and kill the psychic snake of the Great Snake Pill at a distance of hundreds of meters.

The Blood Dragon's Eye, the ability to destroy enemies through the air, is now named Blood Dragon's Eye Blood Explosion by him!

Kirito began to consume more Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra at once to manipulate the blood, causing it to take the shape of a spike again.

This time, the blood spikes were like real iron thorns, digging deep into the ground, and there was no sign of collapse.

Kirito derives a principle from this, that is, the more blood dragon eye chakra consumed, the harder the object shaped from blood will be.

"What if the Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra is directly injected into the blood."

Kirito thought suddenly.

In the original plot, Chino, a descendant of the Blood Pool clan who awakened the blood dragon's eye, once lowered his blood in the blood-like pool water, so that the blood spread in the pool water, so as to manipulate the pool water and form a powerful blood dragon to attack Sasuke.

He now guessed that the blood might contain the Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra.

As soon as he thought of it, a blood-red chakra line formed by the Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra suddenly shot out of his arm, shooting into the ball of blood in front of him.

In an instant, Kirito found that this ball of blood infused with the Blood Dragon Eye Chakra was more closely connected to him, and there was a feeling that flesh and blood were connected as if they were part of his body.

As soon as his heart moved, his blood instantly turned into a cold and glistening spike of blood, and then slammed into the ground.

Then, the blood turned into a razor-sharp blood katana.

The knife flashed.

A handful of well-made kunai in Kirito's hand was suddenly cut into two pieces.

"Interesting, this is the correct way to use the blood dragon eye to control the blood, injecting the blood dragon eye chakra into the blood can not only greatly reduce the consumption of the blood dragon eye chakra, but also make your own control of the blood go further, and the hardness of the object shaped by the blood will also be greatly improved, and the blood dragon eye chack has not been consumed in the process of my blood control, they can continue to maintain their existence by consuming blood, it is incredible."

Kirito used the power of the white eyes on the white clone to see clearly the process of controlling the blood battle with the blood dragon eye, and came to this conclusion.

Finally, there is another conclusion, that is, after the blood is injected into the Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra, they will not experience blood clotting, and the Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra will automatically prevent this phenomenon from happening.

"Yes, yes, this Blood Dragon's Eye's blood control ability is not inferior to my Special Magnetic Escape, and to some extent, it is more powerful than the Special Magnetic Escape.

Because it is more deadly, once the blood injected into the Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra injures a person, it is equivalent to the Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra being injected into the enemy's body.

At that time, the other ability of the Blood Dragon's Eye, the flesh bomb, can be launched immediately, and the illusion of the Blood Dragon's Eye will inevitably make it easier for the enemy to be hit, there is no doubt that the Blood Dragon's ability to control the blood is the basic core of the Blood Dragon's other abilities. ”

Kirito looked at the blood ball in front of him that was infused with the Blood Dragon's Eye Chakra, and quickly realized its danger.

At this time, the picture of him using the Blood Dragon's Eye ability to fight on the battlefield in the future involuntarily appeared in his mind, and it must have been a very bloody and terrifying scene.

The blood flowing from all the corpses was controlled by him, and then he injected the Blood Dragon Eye Chakra, and as he wished, the blood turned into blood needles, Chiben, kunai and other objects to shoot, or turned into huge blood dragons and blood waves, sweeping across the battlefield, and all the enemies who were injured by the blood he controlled turned into flesh bombs and exploded to death.

A mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he walked all the way like this, unscathed, only the blood splashed by the enemy's explosion on his body.

At that time, what will the enemy call him?

"I'm not a war maniac, as long as the enemy retreats in the face of difficulties and is willing to surrender and pay reparations, I will still let them go, and I will not do things that kill innocents indiscriminately."

Kirito shook his head and said, dispelling the bloody picture made up by his brain, and then took out a psychic card from his body, and used the psychic technique and absorption technique to suck the blood ball in front of him.

This is the end of the test of the Blood Dragon's Eye for the time being.

"Next, it's time to meet Iwakuin and other ill-intentioned guys for a while, so let's use these guys to test the power of the white eye."

Kirito closed the blood dragon eye, looked at the white clone, and said with a slight smile.

The next moment, the white clone used the mayfly technique to quickly burrow into the ground, and quickly passed in the direction of the Land of Rain.

Kirito himself left two shadow clones in the laboratory to keep them working in the laboratory, while he quickly left the orphanage and headed for the hospital.

It's time to ask Tsunade sister about medical ninjutsu.

Since Tsunade's return to Konoha, she has directly accepted the job of the hospital's vice president, but in fact, she has more power than Sarutobi Biwako, who is the director.

Because the heads of various departments are willing to obey her commands, and no longer engage in private infighting because of factions, resulting in mutual dragging.

With Tsunade, the hospital's work efficiency has been significantly improved.

Under Tsunade's special care, he was finally freed from the complicated daily outpatient work, got more time to learn medical knowledge, and was always able to happily get the opportunity of Tsunade to open a small stove, so that he could access all kinds of precious medical knowledge without all kinds of permissions.

The chakra scalpel was learned by Tsunade under the guidance of Tsunade in the past few days, and there are all kinds of precious pill formulas for conditioning the body, detoxifying, and enhancing physical fitness, and Tsunade has taught him like a cabbage.

I have to say that Tsunade's sister has really given too many benefits, which makes him feel very happy.

Such a good sister, he Kirito's identification.

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In a relatively prosperous border town near the border between the Land of Rain and the Land of Earth, Loess, the son of the third generation of Tsuchikage, is drinking alone in a room in a high-end hotel.

"Where the hell did this guy go, I've been here for a week, and he hasn't come to contact me, even if he doesn't come in person, why don't you send someone to tell me about the situation?"

Loess drank the cup of stuffy wine in his hand and thought very depressedly.

He was released for many days, and his mood was as bad as it had been raining outside, and he wanted to find someone to fight with him, and to get rid of the deep resentment in his heart.

However, he is more understanding of Hattori Masari's release of his pigeons, and their Iwakushi's intelligence network is not vegetarian, and there are a large number of spies in this border town that was born because of the border trade between the Land and the Land of Rain.

For example, in the high-end inn where he is temporarily living now, the owner behind the scenes is their Iwan Yin.

Therefore, he knew that there were already a large number of spies of Konoha and Sand Hide gathered in this small border town.

In addition, there are several mysterious forces and powerful lone rangers operating in the depths.

The reason why these bull ghosts and snake gods appeared here is undoubtedly because they are eyeing this deal between them Iwakure and Hattori Masanari, and are ready to sabotage or seize the fruits of this deal.

Loess has been assassinated in a row these days, but fortunately, his own strength and the guardian force around him are strong enough, and he has always been safe.

However, on several occasions when assassinated, the loess felt mortal danger.

This is a signal that there are ninjas in the shadows who are strong enough to put their lives in danger to him and want to take advantage of the opportunity to attack him, but in the end, they didn't choose to make a move, otherwise he would definitely not be as safe and sound as he is now.

However, in recent days, the level of assassination has obviously increased, and the ninjas and bounty hunters who came to assassinate him have become stronger and stronger, and their methods have become more and more difficult to prevent.

"Wait another day, and if you can't wait for anyone, go back."

Loess drank another glass of stuffy wine, and quietly made up his mind.

It's not that he doesn't want to wait, it's just that he can't wait, and if he waits any longer, the powerful ninja who gave him a huge sense of threat will probably not be able to hold back the killing intent in his heart, and will directly attack him, the Iwa Shinobi who has a lot of benefits.

Out of caution and identity, the bargaining chips that Iwakure used to trade with Hattori Masari this time fell on him.

And the chips in this transaction have a large number of Earth Escape Ninjutsu, among which there is also an S-level Earth Escape Ninjutsu in it, and its preciousness is self-evident.

As long as you kill him, it is possible to get these precious ninjutsu from him.

Many assassins saw this in order to assassinate him.

Also, as the son of the third generation of Tsuchikage, he has a noble status, and he is still a powerful elite in the rock hide, and the bounty of his head in the underground gold exchange house is very high, as high as 120 million.

As long as you kill him, get his head, and then successfully get to the underground gold exchange, you can immediately get rich overnight.

The amount of loess wine is good, but after drinking five bottles of spirits in a row, the person seems to be a little drunk, his face is red, and his eyes are a little confused.

But the next moment, his eyes, which had been a little confused, instantly returned to clarity, and became sharp, and suddenly looked into the shadows of the room.

Just as he was about to use some kind of powerful earth escape ninjutsu to force out the guests who suddenly appeared in the shadows, a figure who had been looking forward to it for a day and night came out of the shadows.

"Long time no see, Mr. Loess."

Kirito greeted Loess with a smile through the white clone wearing the vest of Hattori Masari.

"Hmph, it's been a long time, I thought I'd never see you again, do you think you have a big face, can you let us Iwain wait for you to trade? Hattori Masanari, there is a limit to our Iwakure's patience and tolerance for you. ”

Hearing this, the surprise on Loess's face instantly turned into indifference, and he sneered.

I was embarrassed to smile and said that I hadn't seen you for a long time, when was this time, it really made him wait, let them wait for Yan Yin.

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Loess, I definitely didn't mean to make you wait with you for a long time, it's really been closely watched recently, it's hard to find a chance to meet you, I guess you are also aware of my difficulties, and now I am only a body of mine who is here.

I'm short on time, so I'm not going to talk nonsense, we need to change the location of our trade, but I hope that you people from Iwakuin will continue to stay here and attract the attention of those with bad intentions.

In fact, I didn't show up for a long time, but I also deliberately let these people's eyes continue to gather here, to develop inertia, so that our next transaction can be completed smoothly, you know, I brought two living people to trade, which is a bit inconvenient. ”

Kirito explained apologetically.

"Don't talk about this useless nonsense, I just want to ask us what to say about the losses Iwakuin has suffered these days, do you want us Iwakuin to attract firepower for you."

Loess didn't want to listen to Kirito's explanation, he just wanted to use it to get more benefits in favor of their rock hide, and he was aggressive.

These days of assassination, he is fine, but he has also lost a lot of Iwakuin's good compatriots, and he must get these losses back from Kirito, an unpunctual guy, otherwise how can he be worthy of his dead companions and Iwakure.

Hearing this, Kirito was silent for a while, and sighed: "I can do without the resources to cultivate Shangninjutsu, but you have to give me those Earth Escape Ninjutsu and S-level Ninjutsu." ”

"Fair enough, let's say, where's the new place to trade?"

Loess saw that Kirito came up with substantial benefits to make concessions, and he accepted it when he saw it, and nodded expressionlessly.

Kirito smiled without saying a word, and then turned into a puddle of water under the puzzled gaze of the loess, and directly lifted the water body.

At the same time, a soggy wooden sign landed on the ground where Kirito's water body had disappeared.

Loess immediately quickly went over and picked up the wooden card, and when he saw the words engraved on the wooden card, he immediately used the technique of Tu Dun Rock Fist, and said that the wooden card was crushed into pieces.

"It's a great place to trade."

Loess lowered his head, looked at the sawdust in his hand, and muttered.

At the same time, in a forest seven or eight kilometers away from the town, Bai Jue's clone came out of a big tree and looked at the direction of the town with a solemn face.

He had already opened his white eyes at this time, and with the power of his white eyes, he saw everything and every move of people in the town.

In fact, he now combines the perception of white eyes and natural energy, and all the powerful ninjas in the town can't hide it from him.

He found that in this small border town, there were actually twenty Shangnin and two shadow-level powerhouses gathered.

This lineup is truly luxurious.

The more than 20 upper ninjas came from various forces, among which Iwakuin and Konoha had the most, each with five upper ninjas, followed by Sand Hide, with three upper ninjas, and again Yuyin, with two upper ninjas, and the remaining five upper ninjas, one of which was Yamanaka Cloud, and the rest of the strength was unknown, and nine times out of ten they were lone rangers.

As for the two shadow-level powerhouses, one of them was Chiyo of the sand hide, and the other was actually the undead Kakuto.

"I didn't expect that this deal with Iwakuin actually attracted even the horns, is he here to take my vest Hattori Masanari's head bounty or the loess head bounty?"

Kirito looked at a ninja in a private house in the town with white eyes, and thought to himself.

This person is none other than Kakudu, who has used illusion to control the people of the house at this time, and used the tentacles formed by the resentment on his body to sneak underground, all the way to the inn where the loess is located.

It seems that in addition to allowing him to live forever, the secret technique of earth resentment on Jiaodu's body also has the ability to investigate.

"Hmm~, someone is snooping on me, where did this snooping come from."

On the other side, the horns that Kirito peeped at with his white eyes were shocked, quietly observing his surroundings, and using some kind of perceptual ninjutsu to counteract.

It's just that the feeling of being spied on has not been eliminated, which makes his heart sink gradually.

"It doesn't look like this bounty trip will be as pleasant as usual."

Kakudu found that his perceptual ninjutsu was useless, and he simply chose to put it badly, but he was secretly vigilant in his heart, and mobilized the chakra in his body, ready to hurt people at any time.

Now that he's been exposed, the wisest thing to do now is to get out of here right away.

Because he knew very well how tricky an enemy he could not counter with his perceptual ninjutsu was, the other party was likely to be from the Great Ninja Village, and he had many powerful companions around him.

It was already very difficult for him to snatch food from these people alone, and now that he had lost the advantage of hiding in the shadows, it would be even more difficult for him to try to steal food again, and maybe he would put himself in it.

Although he is strong, he never underestimates the enemy, which is the experience he has summed up over his long life.

No matter what kind of enemy you are, you need to go all out, and you can't take the enemy lightly in the slightest.

Knowing that if he continued like this, his situation would become more and more dangerous, but Kakudu did not choose to leave, and still sat firmly in the homestay, continuing to use the resentment to monitor the loess and other rock ninjas' every move.

"If you want to make me retreat like this, hum, don't think about it, I won't betray money."

Jiaodu found that the peeping gaze fell on him and did not leave, and suddenly realized what the other party was thinking, and sneered in his heart.

The reason why he came here was because he had been commissioned by someone to assassinate Hattori Masanari at an underground gold exchange.

He has already accepted the generous deposit, and now it is impossible to return the money.

And he has no intention of returning the money.

Of course.

In this world, only money will not betray him.

Since money did not betray him, he could not betray money, nor could he betray the contract formed by money.

He will do his best to fulfill this contract made of money, even if it means death.

"I can only say that I am worthy of being a film-level powerhouse, the artist is bold, I have stared at it like this, and I still don't plan to leave for a long time, and I am really convinced to get out of my peeping."

Kirito stared at Kakuto's every move with white eyes, and found that Kakuto had clearly noticed his prying eyes but the old god was staying where he was, and sighed.

Powerful ninjas are very difficult to spy on, because they have developed a very strong instinct for danger after countless bloody battles, and once they are targeted, they will immediately notice it.

Kakutoshi was a contemporary of the first Hokage, who once escaped under the first Hokage, and was a powerful ninja who had lived for a long time and had been battle-hardened.

A ninja of this level must have already noticed his prying eyes, but he didn't choose to leave for a long time, which shows how confident he is in his strength.

To be honest, if he hadn't gotten a roll of his eyes on the top corner, he would have run as far as he could.

Because this guy is also a strong man who is proficient in water escape, and he is also proficient in the other four five elements escape techniques.

With his white eyes, he saw that the five hearts in his body all stored a fairly large number of five attribute chakras.

Combined, the amount of chakra is undoubtedly at the level of shadows.

In the original plot, although Jiaodu came and went to use those five kinds of Five Elements Escape Techniques, it didn't mean that he didn't know the other Five Elements Escape Techniques, but he was more proficient in those Five Elements Escape Techniques.

The white doppelganger fought with him in the Land of Rain, and nine times out of ten, he would not be able to take advantage of the geographical advantage, and it was likely that he would be educated by him with Thunder Ninjutsu in turn.

However, the white doppelganger now has the power of the white eye, and with the help of the location of the Land of Rain and the immortal mode, there may be a chance to leave the horns behind.

According to the development of the plot, Kakudu will be a core member of Akatsuki in the future, and he is a very important character in Naruto.

As long as he can kill Kakuto now, he will definitely get Enhancement Points.

I have to say, this is a big temptation.

"The appearance of Kakudu is an accident, since it is an accident, let's put it aside for the time being, it is difficult to deal with this Shinobi flower of Sha Yin, I captured her son and daughter-in-law, and used them to trade with Sha Yin, she must have hated me to the core.

If the loess can't get rid of her tracking, Hattori Zhengcheng will have to fight with her with real knives and guns next, this shadow-level puppeteer is an all-rounder, puppetry, medical ninjutsu, ninjutsu and sealing techniques have quite high attainments, I fight with her, and the danger is extremely high.

If there is another horn next to it that is coveted, Hattori is in danger of this vest. ”

Kirito took his eyes off Kakuto and stole a look at a middle-aged woman who was tending to a puppet in the basement of a private house, with a solemn look in her eyes.

He didn't dare to keep staring at Chiyo like he had just done with the angle, he just swept her inadvertently, and then moved away.

Unfortunately, no matter how careful he was, Chiyo seemed to sense that someone was watching her, and the movement of fiddling with the puppet in her hand suddenly stopped.

"This feeling of peeping is the white-eyed ninja of Konoha, but you can actually see through the seal enchantment I laid and peep at me, this white-eyed ninja's white-eyed ability is not simple, is it the white-eyed ninja of the Hyuga clan? No way, those guys are cowards and can't be here.

But if it's not the white-eyed ninja of the sect family, which white-eyed ninja of the sect has the white-eyed eyes of this level of strength.

Forget it, there's no point in thinking about this, the important thing is that I was discovered by Konoha's people, but I haven't been in the sand for so many days, and that stand-in should have been recognized a long time ago, it's time to transfer, and it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time. ”

Chiyo continued to fiddle with the puppet quietly, and her heart secretly became active.

Soon, she finished the maintenance of the puppet and then secretly left the border town as fast as she could.

Unlike the perspective of a lonely person, Chiyo shoulders the heavy responsibility of guarding and building the village of Sand Hide, and it is irresponsible for her to continue to stay in the border town without being exposed, which will only increase the danger.

"It doesn't matter if you're out of my surveillance, I've already remembered your soul breath, and no matter how far you run, I'll be able to find you again."

Kirito watched Chiyo gradually disappear from view with white eyes, and said coldly.

Like the angle, Chiyo is a very important figure in the Hokage, and killing her will definitely give you reinforcement points, and there will be no fewer of them.

It's just that if you want to kill this shadow-level puppeteer, it is not enough to rely on the strength of Bai Jue's clone alone.

He needed help.

(End of chapter)