Purple Lover

Yuan Wei was a little uneasy. Yesterday, after a brief 'exchange', they established a team system led by Lin Ke. According to the plan, he would protect the leader and unleash his 'technique' at the start of the test, then watch from the sidelines.

But having never seen how powerful the so-called 'technique' was, he had no confidence at all.

Their opponent was a Jonin.

Xia was much calmer. She admired Lin Ke. He was young, but his personality was steady and calm, his mind was sharp, and his strength was great. There was nothing wrong with obeying him, but that didn't stop her from gloating over his misfortune after being bullied.

A ninjutsu that needs to be deployed slowly, so he needs his teammates to protect him?

Nara Yan Shui saw through the intentions of his three subordinates at a glance and waited quietly.

Hand seals, release—

Bad luck.

Lin Ke sighed inwardly as he watched the small red-orange tomato with sharp teeth, hands, and feet floating beside him. Even after a year, the flaw in his Substitution Jutsu remained uncontrollable.

This time, the summoned substitute was called Pearl Jam. Chopped up and mixed into dishes, it could heal the body. The more precious the ingredients, the stronger the healing effect. But applying Pearl Jam required considerable cooking skills. He had summoned it during training before.

The main problem was that the Substitution Jutsu lasted too short a time to complete a dish. Mixing it in water and drinking it would work, but the effect would be greatly reduced. For him, who was completely unskilled in cooking and had a limited time for his substitute to exist, it was a useless substitute.

He dismissed the substitute.

Lin Ke calmly took out a Soldier Pill and put it in his mouth. Replenishing stamina wasn't like in a game, where it could be restored instantly. Taking medicine in advance was normal. Then he continued with hand seals, release—

As the Chakra disappeared, his consciousness connected to… his hair.

Then, the sensation of his hair flooded his brain. He could clearly feel the nearby air currents, the warm sunlight, and the fine dust.

It was wonderful, as if his hair had come alive.

A possession-type substitute, controlling hair, it's Purple Lover.

He breathed a sigh of relief. This was a pure and powerful substitute. Simply manipulating the hair allowed it to have the ability to tear down a three-story building despite its unremarkable stats. It could easily extend more than ten meters, was very tough, and had considerable attack power.

If he studied it carefully, he might be able to develop the ability of the substitute's original user in the manga to transplant hair onto other people's scalps to control them, but he didn't have time to study that now.

Thoughts flashed through his mind. Lin Ke jumped off the rock, tensed his legs, exerted force with his feet, and combined it with Chakra refinement. In an instant, he rushed towards Nara Yan Shui.

Here he comes.

Nara Yan Shui prepared to test his Taijutsu level first, according to his exchange with Hatake Kakashi—

He was surprised to find that when the kid rushed to about three meters away from him, his hair suddenly lengthened, covering him like a blanket.

A ninjutsu related to hair?!

With the speed of a Jonin, he easily dodged the hair's encirclement. The hair possessed by 'Purple Lover' was not fast, and its precision was extremely poor. It could only guarantee the general direction of the attack and could not perform micro-operations.

"Pa!" Clumps of hair whipped the ground, shattering several rocks, leaving gullies in the ground, and dust filled the air.

Lin Ke, supported by his hair, hung in mid-air. Countless black, smooth hairs flowed down like a waterfall, then filled the space within a dozen meters of himself, weaving into a dense hair net. Every strand of hair seemed to be alive, wandering and exploring.

From the outside, it would probably scare someone with trypophobia to death on the spot.

Yuan Wei watched dumbfounded. What was this thing? No, what ninjutsu was this? Xia suppressed the nausea in her heart and took a small step back.

Found you!

Clumps of hair slammed hard on the ground, bouncing up like springs and carrying Lin Ke away at high speed.

The first thing he chose to do was to get close, because he wanted to get the freely controlled hair on his opponent. Even if the hair was separated from his body, he could clearly sense it with Purple Lover's ability, even if it was kilometers away. Even if he couldn't control his opponent, it wouldn't be difficult to know his exact location.

So as long as he left hair on his opponent, he wouldn't have to worry about being tricked by Shadow Clones and ambushed like in his last fight with Hatake Kakashi.

"Pa!" A large tree was directly broken, and Nara Yan Shui, who was hiding behind it, was forced out and had to teleport away again.

Even though he was a Jonin, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless looking at the black hair net with a diameter of nearly thirty meters.

This thing… could a Genin really create it? What about the promised Ice Release? He completed the hand seals in the air, and the shadows on the ground quickly deformed and turned into needles, 'chi chi chi' cutting off the chasing clumps of hair.

What made his scalp tingle was that the severed hair was still wriggling on the ground, like worms, and finally merged into other hair strands rooted in the ground.

What a strange and powerful ninjutsu.

After using Shadow Sewing Jutsu to briefly escape the hair's capture, Nara Yan Shui's expression was very serious. This type of opponent was very difficult for him to fight against.

Attacks with a wide range, high mobility, and the ability to track his position—

What special method of perception is this? Or is it...

"Boom! Thump! Thump!"

The entire forest quickly turned into a demolition site in the chase, trees collapsing in swathes, dust filling the sky, and the rapid movement whipping up a gale.

The huge commotion quickly attracted other ninjas—

This was the Seventh Training Ground, not far from the village's residential area. A 'monster' nearly thirty meters tall had appeared and was destroying the training ground.

Basically, all the Jonin who were still in the village with slightly stronger sensory abilities arrived, and the Seventh Training Ground was completely surrounded by ninjas.

As a military organization, Konoha Village's ability to mobilize was definitely not bad.

"It must be someone releasing a Ninjutsu."

"Fighting in the village?"

"It's Nara Yan Shui's Chakra." Yamanaka Haiichi said with a focused expression and a serious tone.

"Let's go help."

"Is the Barrier Team..."

Immediately, other Jonin wanted to intervene.

"Wait." As soon as Nara Shikaku spoke, no one said anything more.

There weren't that many Jonin in Konoha Village to begin with, and everyone knew each other well. Nara Yan Shui was also a member of his clan, and coupled with his identity as the Jonin squad leader, his words carried a lot of weight.

An Anbu teleported in front of the group of Jonin, bowed slightly, and said, "Inside the Seventh Training Ground, Jonin Nara Yan Shui is conducting a Genin certification test with Genin Lin Ke."

"Wow~" Special Jonin Mitarashi Anko exclaimed in surprise, "These kids nowadays are really something."

Hatake Kakashi rubbed his hair and didn't say anything.

Nara Shikaku frowned and thought for a few seconds, looking at the noisy forest in the distance, and said, "Disperse."

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