“Don't get cocky and die.”
“It's best to test it out on some small fry.”
The shadow clones chimed in, reminding him.
“Relax.”
With that, Qifeng unrolled the scroll and stored all the puppets, then used Earth Release to leave the base.
As for the test subjects, Qifeng's primary target was likely still the Sand Shinobi.
Unlucky Sand Shinobi.
There was no helping it, in the Land of Rain, the best test subjects could only be Sand Shinobi.
He couldn't exactly go looking for Leaf Shinobi.
After all, as long as Sasori appeared within the Sand Shinobi's line of sight, Chiyo, knowing the situation, would definitely make Sasori her primary target.
Saving him the trouble of having to look for him himself.
Besides, the Sand Shinobi were already unlucky enough, so being slightly more unlucky wouldn't be too much of a problem…
Right.
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“Lord Danzo.”
Inside the Land of Rain, within the Leaf's camp, in a dimly lit underground secret base, a Root ninja appeared.
Having officially taken command of the Leaf Shinobi forces, Danzo directly constructed a simple Root base here.
“Has the identity of the other party been confirmed?” Danzo, leaning on his cane, cast a gloomy gaze upon the Root ninja before him.
Facing Danzo's gaze, the Root ninja showed no emotional change, simply replying stiffly: “Unable to confirm, only know that the other party is extremely skilled in Water Release, and seems to possess the ability to suppress Tailed Beasts.”
Half a month had passed.
The Leaf Shinobi, Sand Shinobi, and even Rain Shinobi on the Land of Rain battlefield had begun a strange game.
Searching for Qifeng.
Of course, they didn't know that the one who attacked the Sand Shinobi camp was Qifeng, using the Tobirama Senju Experience Card.
But digging to the root of the matter, the person they were looking for was indeed him.
There was no helping it, Qifeng had to choose the Sand Shinobi to maximize the effect of the Experience Card, in order not to waste its duration.
But the impact it caused could almost be said to have swept across the entire ninja world.
Even if this was a disgrace to the Sand Shinobi, it wasn't something they could suppress if they wanted to.
Therefore, the major hidden villages were extremely wary of this powerful, even terrifying, ninja.
After all, no one knew if the mysterious ninja would have other targets, the sudden attack caught the Sand Shinobi off guard.
Who knew if the next time it would be the Leaf, or perhaps the Rock, or even the Cloud.
As the Leaf's overall commander stationed in the Land of Rain battlefield, Danzo certainly wouldn't allow such a potentially dangerous existence to continue.
Not to mention confronting him, at least some contact had to be made to test his bottom line and goals.
As for the Sand Shinobi, on the surface, they seemed to be searching for this mysterious ninja just like the Leaf, but in reality, the higher-ups of the Sand Village had learned the name and origin of that ninja from the One-Tail Shukaku's jinchuriki, Bunpuku.
Sharingan, Uchiha clan, Itachi Uchiha!
A ninja belonging to the Leaf!
Watching Danzo put on an act of searching for someone, the Sand Shinobi higher-ups sneered.
Acting.
Keep acting.
From this day on, if we Sand Shinobi ever take the initiative to attack again, we'll take your Shimura name.
However, the reason why Qifeng's sudden attack had such an effect was, to a large extent, also because the Sand Shinobi responded hastily, and the environment had extremely great limitations.
Therefore, the Sand Shinobi retreated their camp dozens of miles, directly sticking to the Wind Country border, where the rainfall wasn't as heavy, and there was a large amount of sand to utilize.
But in this way, Danzo, who wanted to establish merit through war on the Land of Rain battlefield, was immediately dumbfounded.
What did this mean?
The Sand Shinobi didn't want to fight anymore?
But the Leaf's army couldn't move, nor could they launch a strong attack, who knew if it was a feigned weakness.
The Leaf was already the weaker side, even if Qifeng caused the Sand Shinobi to suffer considerable losses, their high-end combat power was preserved, and with the One-Tail Shukaku sitting guard, the Leaf rushing up on their own would be no different from courting death.
Therefore, Danzo was directly tied down here.
That's why Hiruzen Sarutobi was so prescient, having transferred Nara Shikaku and the other two away early on.
Land of Rain, Danzo, you can play by yourself.
Just like that, the Land of Rain fell into a strange calm, and Danzo had no choice but to shift his target to that mysterious ninja, namely Qifeng.
However, this was destined to be a fruitless target shift.
There was only one Tobirama Senju Experience Card, unless Tobirama Senju was reanimated with Impure World Reincarnation, otherwise such a ninja couldn't be found.
In fact, Qifeng didn't expect things to develop in this direction.
Originally, he thought that his attack on the Sand Village would give Danzo an opportunity to defeat the Sand Shinobi.
Only he didn't expect that a name he inadvertently uttered would have such a big impact on the Sand Shinobi.
To sum it up in one sentence.
The Sand Shinobi were scared witless.
Chapter 102: Encounter Again
“Why can't I even run into a single Sand Shinobi?”
