CHAPTER 122

Transportation? This ability... depending on his age, it should be Konoha's Chao Yanqian!" There was a cautious expression on Scarface's face.

The shadow of the famous tree of human beings, Chao Yanqian, has a record of blocking 5,000 ninjas and severely wounding the Tsuchikage. Although he was only assisting Bo Feng Shuimen, even as an assistant, not everyone could do it. Faced with such a record, no one dared to underestimate Chao Yanqian, not to mention that Scarface was just a jonin.

"That kid went in!" said a Kirigakure shinobi.

"Chase him!" Scarface said hatefully.

Letting a little devil escape under his nose even if that person was the famous Chao Yanqian still made Scarface feel humiliated. After all, Chao Yanqian was only a teenager now.

"Boom!"

Hearing the explosion at the entrance of the cave, a smile appeared at the corner of Chao Yanqian's mouth.

Now that he had entered the cave first, how could Chao Yanqian not have set up a detonating tag trap at the entrance?

Now, while the entire ninja world knows that Chao Yanqian's best ninjutsu are [Kairiki Fist] and [Flying Thunder God Technique], they have forgotten that before mastering these two ninjutsu, Chao Yanqian's specialty was using detonating tags to set up traps.

Five detonating tags were enough to collapse the entrance of the cave, though not enough to collapse the entire cave.

Blocking the Kirigakure ninja outside, Chao Yanqian had no more worries and immediately began searching for traces of Koychi.

The cave the Kirigakure ninja had chosen was indeed not bad. It was full of connected passageways, and even knowing the terrain, it was difficult to find Koychi's specific location in a short time.

Every time he encountered a fork in the road, Chao Yanqian would insert one of his specially-marked kunai into the ground, then explore one passage at a time.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

A series of shurikens attacked from the darkness. They flew toward Chao Yanqian, and at the same time, he began making hand seals.

[Earth Release—Earth-Style Wall]

In the darkness where vision was blocked, even the simplest shuriken attack couldn't be completely evaded by Chao Yanqian. But since a Kirigakure ninja had come to stop him, it meant he must be close to Koychi's location.

"Who's there?" a cold voice came from the darkness.

Chao Yanqian had no intention of chatting. He immediately threw three specially-marked kunai. Hearing the "ding ding" sound of the kunai being deflected, Chao Yanqian instantly teleported and unleashed a flurry of [Kairiki Fist] strikes, killing all the nearby enemies.

Finding the correct path, Chao Yanqian hurried forward and finally found traces of Koychi in a spacious stone room. Along the way, he also placed his remaining ten detonating tags on the cave walls.

If Scarface and his team came to reinforce, they would immediately trigger an explosion.

"Who's there!" a Kirigakure ninja shouted, turning his head and staring at Chao Yanqian vigilantly.

"Koychi!" Chao Yanqian called, but Koychi had been placed under a genjutsu and did not respond.

Looking around, Chao Yanqian saw six Kirigakure ninjas inside the stone room, all of them either elite jonin or chunin. One of them had collapsed, but was still wearing a Mist ninja uniform that person must be the Three-Tails' jinchūriki.

"Have they transferred the Three-Tails?" Chao Yanqian asked directly.

"What?!" one of the Mist ninja exclaimed. "How do you know our plan?"

"Kid! State your name!"

"It seems you haven't succeeded yet," Chao Yanqian said with a smile.

"Do you think you alone can stop us?" said a dark-faced Mist ninja. "You've got guts, little devil daring to come here alone to die!"

Chao Yanqian took six specially-marked kunai from his ninja pouch and threw them at the six Mist ninjas.

Without Sharingan, Chao Yanqian couldn't pull off Uchiha Itachi's brilliant kunai techniques, but he could still accurately judge the flight paths of his kunai.

The six kunai flew toward the six Mist ninjas, but none of them made a move. Two of the kunai embedded themselves near Koychi and the Three-Tails jinchūriki.

"Go to hell!"

A Kirigakure ninja brandished a blade and slashed toward Chao Yanqian.

"Ding!"

In order not to reveal his true identity, Chao Yanqian didn't use [Kairiki Fist], but instead used [Hardening Technique] to block the strike.

Catching the ninja sword with one hand, Chao Yanqian easily pierced the enemy's throat with the other. As the Mist ninja let out his final scream, Chao Yanqian smiled and said, "Famous for your Blood Mist, huh? I'm not impressed!"

As he spoke, Chao Yanqian formed hand seals again.

[Earth Release—Earth Dragon Bullet]

Koychi and the Three-Tails jinchūriki were being guarded by the Mist ninja. To take them away, he had to distract their attention.

With a [Earth Dragon Bullet], the five remaining Mist ninja dodged. In that instant, Chao Yanqian vanished and reappeared beside the Three-Tails jinchūriki, then quickly teleported to Koychi and in the next moment, all three disappeared together.

The reason Chao Yanqian had been holding back was for this exact moment!

"Quick! Stop him!" the Mist ninja shouted in alarm just as Chao Yanqian vanished.

...

"Qianren! You're back!" Kurenai Yuhi whispered upon seeing a figure flash nearby, then relaxed.

Those who used the [Flying Thunder God Technique] didn't need their identities confirmed—it could only be Chao Yanqian.

"Huh? Isn't that Koychi? And who's this Mist shinobi?" Sarutobi Asuma asked suspiciously.

"There's been a change. The Mist planned to transfer the Three-Tails into Koychi and have her return to Konoha, then release the Three-Tails to destroy Konoha. Luckily, I've been investigating the Three-Tails jinchūriki. This time I not only rescued Koychi, but also brought back the Three-Tails' jinchūriki," Chao Yanqian explained.

Space-time ninjutsu really was powerful. Chao Yanqian thought to himself—no wonder Uchiha Obito could manipulate the entire ninja world later. But for now, being able to snatch the Three-Tails jinchūriki from Kirigakure's hands made Chao Yanqian feel elated.

"What?! The Mist are that despicable?!" Kurenai Yuhi said angrily.

"This isn't really despicable," Chao Yanqian said calmly. "After all, we had similar ideas about releasing the Three-Tails in Kirigakure. This is war—any method is fair game."

In fact, Kurenai's reaction reflected the thinking of most people in this world. When others use conspiracies against you, it's despicable; when you use conspiracies against others, it's just strategy. Having lived again, Chao Yanqian had already seen through all of this.

"Next, I'll sneak into Kirigakure with the Three-Tails jinchūriki and release the Three-Tails to destroy the village," Chao Yanqian said, taking a deep breath to calm himself. "This war... will end!"

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