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Bai Xing thought it was great that someone had stepped in, and then said, "This... emmm, Mr. Takeya?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu glared fiercely at Bai Xing: "If it weren't for you taking Young Master Yuanxin out of the city, he wouldn't have been attacked. Do you even know who he is...?"
—Here, because the identity of the man in black who attacked Yuanxin is unknown, he is referred to as "Young Master," while Zhengchanzhu also addresses Yuanxin as "Master."
"Fire Release: Blazing Cannon!!!"
Zhu didn't have time to explain to Baixing. He grabbed Yuanxin and retreated in another direction. Baixing saw the fireball rushing towards them and thought to himself, "Isn't this the Great Fireball Technique?" Then, he calmly formed a few hand seals:
"Water escape·Water chaos!"
The water jets and fireballs quickly created a large area of warm white mist. Then, Shirahoshi rushed towards Takeya's direction because six Chunin had just chased after them.
Tread-tap-
"Damn it! Did the Jonin from Konoha go too?!"
"As expected, a team of one Jonin and six Chunin is still a bit of a struggle."
The leader, dressed in black, revealed green eyes beneath his hood:
"But fortunately."
"I had those guys I'd already bribed surround us in advance."
"You can't run away."
Then, the man in black also left the area.
Chapter 96 The Leader of the White Cross—The Surgeon
After crossing a thicket, Zhu, who was still trying to escape with Yuanxin on her back, was stopped by a man in black who suddenly appeared. "Don't even think about going over there!"
Zhu also kicked the man in black in the face, yelling, "Get the hell out of my way!!"
The man in black who was kicked laughed instead of getting angry. A man in black to the side of Takeya threw a kunai with an explosive tag on the handle. Takeya's ears twitched and he noticed the kunai flying towards him out of the corner of his eye.
"not good!"
In mid-air, the force from her feet was used to kick the man in black. With her hands behind her back, she had no way to dodge, nor did she have any extra hands to block the kunai.
call out!
In Takeya's vision, a light blue chakra thread grasped the kunai and shot it back—poof!
The man in black was filled with disbelief as the kunai struck him squarely between the eyebrows.
Followed by.
boom--
The explosion of the detonating tag caused the three men in black lying on the tree trunks and the man in black with a footprint on his face to fall into deep thought.
"Could it be that Konoha's reinforcements have arrived?!" x4
Zhu also hurriedly landed, carrying Yuanxin whose mind was blank at the moment, and looked around at the situation. The sparks from the detonation tag were still whistling: Zhu also determined that it was an expensive B-grade detonation tag.
"The war has only just ended."
"Explosive tags are rare to begin with, and a Class B explosive tag can sell for tens of thousands of taels on the black market."
—In peacetime, a Class C detonator costs 500 taels of silver, a Class B detonator costs 2,000 taels of silver, and a Class A detonator costs 20,000 taels of silver.
Ordinary wandering ninjas or mercenary organizations would never spend 10,000 taels to buy such an expensive disposable item!
"You are not ordinary wandering ninjas!"
"who is it?!"
Takeya then thought of another candidate, namely the daimyo's younger brother, Lord Enchiyu, who was one of the royal factions of the daimyo's household.
As for the daimyo's other younger brother, Takenori couldn't find any information about him recruiting subordinates, so it probably wasn't him.
"If the Daimyo finds out about this, you will all die! And your families too!!" Takegan's eyes flashed fiercely as he swept his gaze across them.
After saying that, Zhu also glanced at Yuanxin, worried that he might frighten him: he didn't dare to reveal the identity of the mastermind behind this group.
"Ha—" A man wearing a rabbit-patterned mask and a blue and white robe emerged from the dark forest, drawing everyone's attention: clearly, the man was yawning.
"Tch. Where did this trash come from?" One of the men in black saw Shirahoshi's attire and the lack of ninja insignia on her body, and immediately rushed forward to deal with her: Chakra-enhanced speed, kunai aimed at Shirahoshi's snow-white neck.
"Damn it!!!"
Beneath the mask, Shirahoshi glanced briefly at the approaching Chunin, then her fingertip twitched.
——Pfft!
The pain in his chest filled the man in black with disbelief.
Looking down, a pale blue outline pierced through his body:
"What kind of ninjutsu is this?"
Before dying, the man in black voiced his inner question. Bai Xing stretched indifferently, then moved his body around, almost doing a set of calisthenics.
At that moment, he acted as if he were doing something very ordinary.
The air was silent for a while. The man in black didn't dare to move, and Zhu was also observing Bai Xing and taking a break. Only then did Bai Xing slowly answer the question the man in black had just asked:
"This is a technique that uses a chakra scalpel in conjunction with chakra threads."
In short...
"It's a kind of medical ninjutsu."
On the tree trunk, the remaining two men in black, upon hearing Bai Xing's words, wore expressions of disbelief, some even wanting to pick at their ears to see if they had misheard.
"Hey, did you hear that? He said he used medical ninjutsu..."
"I heard that. That guy is obviously lying!"
On the ground, the last man in black was about to get up when Shirahoshi noticed. With a flick of her finger, she shot out a chakra thread and grabbed the man's heel. Seeing this, the man in black immediately picked up his kunai, enhanced it with chakra, and tore through Shirahoshi's chakra. Then, with a few leaps, he arrived beside his companion.
"It really is a chakra thread! I just cut it!"
"Chakra threads...aren't they normally used for surgery or controlling puppets...?"
Seeing his two companions deep in thought, the only man in black with his own knife drew it from its sheath and pointed it at Shirahoshi, who was also pondering: "No matter what, since the opponent is a medical ninja, his strength must be very weak! Just take him down!"
"Three...cough. You're right! Let's go together!"
At that moment, the last three men in black rushed towards Shirahoshi. Although Takeya wanted to help Shirahoshi, he had to get Enshin away from here. He thought to himself, "Sorry. Good luck. That Konoha Jonin will catch up with you. You'll be fine."
Meanwhile, Shirahoshi was contemplating the fact that the chakra threads could still be severed, indicating that his chakra control was insufficient and he couldn't allow his chakra to become like the slime form of a Kage-level user. In the sky, a man in black gripped a long sword and aimed it at Shirahoshi's heart, while two other men in black aimed at his arms.
"Squeeze me to death—"
laugh!laugh!laugh!
Three voices rang out simultaneously, and it felt as if Bai Xing had been struck in the heart and both arms by three people working together...
Just as the men in black were feeling smug, Bai Xing's voice came from above, making the three of them break out in a cold sweat. They then realized that what they had stabbed and cut was just a substitute piece of wood!
"Hey."
"Help me train my chakra threads for a bit. You're not in a hurry anyway. You must have called in a lot of wandering samurai and thugs to stop them beforehand, which is why you can so confidently keep me, the one in the know, here, right?" Bai Xing's tone was light, completely ignoring the three black-clad men who were stunned by the sight.
All they could see were countless faint blue chakra threads emanating from their surroundings.
They're surrounded!
"Wait a minute. How could this be medical ninjutsu! How could medical ninjutsu create such a large-scale trap in an instant..."
The man in black gritted his teeth:
"and."
"There are still no fewer than a hundred chakra threads!"
This time, it was Shirahoshi's turn to complain, "Hey, hey."
"I didn't ask you to explain."
"You'll die if you don't cut it!"
Shirahoshi shot out over a hundred chakra threads from his fingertips: in other words, he didn't need to control the puppet with threads alone; he could squeeze out twenty chakra threads from a single finger without any effect.
All I need is to help him train his chakra threads.
Tread-tap-
Naoto landed in the jungle and saw his men surrounded by a dense network of chakra threads. His heart skipped a beat: "Damn it! Could we have encountered a powerful opponent?! Could it be that Konoha Jonin?!"
He had been chasing after Bai Xing all this way but hadn't seen any trace of her, so he thought she had gone in the wrong direction. Now it seems that she not only went in the right direction, but was also a master!
laugh!laugh!laugh!
The three men in black used their chakra to their fullest extent to sever the chakra lines that restricted their movement, while Shirahoshi pondered the precise control required to maintain the distribution and density of the chakra lines.
then.
Bai Xing's ears twitched as she heard a strange noise from the side, and she stopped thinking.
Suddenly, a young man in black appeared behind them, a knife in his hand—*swoosh!*
"What?!" Naoto was shocked to see that his chakra-enhanced blade had failed to cut through the blue light in the masked man's hand.
It looked like a light blue kunai created out of thin air using chakra!
"Damn it!!"
"I initially thought he was a Jonin from Konoha."
"But I never expected that my men would be blocked by an unknown nobody like you. What a disgrace!"
Naoto stepped back, and Shirahoshi smiled from beneath the mask: "The word 'trash' is still too precious for me."
"Let you inherit it."
At this moment, because Shirahoshi's chakra threads formed the shape of a kunai in her hand, the three black-clad Chunin were freed from their restraints and instantly appeared behind Shirahoshi, their weapons gleaming coldly and their eyes filled with anger as they stared directly at Shirahoshi's back.
At this moment, Bai Xing patted her forehead:
"Sorry sorry."
"I forgot to tell you my code name."