"Go!"
A roar suddenly erupted.
The seemingly decrepit shopkeeper instantly moved with extraordinary agility, reaching out to grab Uzuki Yūgao.
Yūgao was stunned.
She never thought that the old man in front of her would be hiding so deeply.
At such close range, there was nowhere to hide.
The old man's face lit up as he witnessed this scene.
In his eyes, as long as he took a hostage, it would be easy to deal with the two young Chunin.
"Heavy Flowing Blast!"
The sound of crackling lightning suddenly echoed.
The fist, wrapped in lightning, seemed to blast even the air.
Bang!
The old man was blasted hundreds of meters away.
Along the way, whether it was wooden planks or trees, they were all snapped in half.
When he finally stopped, crashing into a rock wall, he spat out a mouthful of blood, tilted his head, and died.
Inside the post station, the dozen or so merchants who were about to attack were stunned.
The information and mission they had received was to deal with three Konoha Chunin.
Among them, even the formidable Yellow Flash, Minato Namikaze, had left early.
In their eyes, this mission was a piece of cake.
"Clan leader, who is he? He seems different from the intel," one of the wandering ninjas couldn't help but ask.
The leader, disguised as a merchant, looked at Kai with a sinister gaze.
"Hmph, he's just fast. Don't forget, we're all in this together. As long as we take this kid's head, the bounty will be enough for us to survive the war!"
"Our clan fights for survival!"
"Yes, we fight for survival!"
The dozen or so wandering ninjas echoed in unison.
The leader of the wandering ninjas stared at Kai and shouted, "Let's finish this quickly. Don't let that guy get the bounty before us."
Thinking of the guy who reeked of money and danger, the leader of the wandering ninjas still felt a chill down his spine.
"It seems we have another formidable character," Kai smiled warmly.
"Since you're not the main course, you don't deserve to be questioned."
As soon as he finished speaking, the floor beneath Kai's feet cracked.
The next moment, he vanished like a ghost. When he reappeared, he was already in front of the leader of the wandering ninjas.
"Rasengan!"
This was Kai's most powerful attack at the moment.
With chakra surging, he instantly formed a ball.
Without any fancy moves, he slammed it towards the leader of the wandering ninjas.
No!
The leader of the wandering ninjas' pupils constricted.
This was completely different from the Chunin he knew.
Boom!
The moment the Rasengan landed, the leader of the wandering ninjas hurriedly raised his hands to defend, but they instantly snapped.
The immense force sent him flying.
He smashed through the roof beams and crashed into a tree hundreds of meters away.
He was even worse off than the wandering ninja who had pretended to be the old man. He couldn't even spit out blood.
His chest was caved in, and he died.
"He's dead? The clan leader is dead?"
"Run! Run! We have to run! Otherwise, our Fūma clan will be wiped out!"
Panic-stricken roars echoed through the post station.
The wandering ninjas, without thinking twice, scattered in all directions.
"Kai, go after them. These wandering ninjas dared to attack outside Konoha. If they encounter someone weaker than you, it will be unfortunate," Uzuki Yūgao urged.
After the initial shock, she quickly came to her senses, drew her chakra blade, and stood guard.
She wasn't surprised by the leader of the wandering ninjas being instantly killed by Kai.
"Kai, go. I'll protect Yūgao," Gekko Hayate quickly volunteered.
This was a good opportunity to curry favor.
However, looking at Gekko Hayate's legs shaking like jelly, his confidence in these words was clearly lacking.
"No need. They won't get away," Kai said calmly, looking towards the forest in the distance.
Just as the leader of the wandering ninjas had said, a formidable character had arrived.
"Ahhhhh!"
A scream suddenly echoed.
Uzuki Yūgao's expression changed. "Kai, is that Minato-sama?"
In Yūgao's eyes, Minato Namikaze possessed the Flying Thunder God Technique.
This was still the outskirts of Konoha, and there were bound to be Anbu or sentries patrolling nearby.
The sound of the battle was enough to alert Konoha.
As long as Minato Namikaze learned about the situation, he could reach here in a few miles with one Flying Thunder God Technique.
"That, that's what?!" Gekko Hayate's expression changed dramatically.
Before he could react, Kai's right foot moved like lightning, kicking Gekko Hayate away.
At the same time, Kai pulled Uzuki Yūgao into his arms and quickly dodged to the side.
Bang!
The spot where the three of them stood was instantly pierced.
The soil flew up as two black-veined arms, connected by black veins, grabbed at empty air.
Kai landed eight meters away with Uzuki Yūgao. As for Gekko Hayate, who clearly didn't have the privilege of being held, he crashed outside the post station. Looking at the strange hands emerging from the soil, his face turned pale.
If Kai hadn't acted in time, he would have been caught by those large hands.
"So, it's you, the money-grubbing guy," Kai said, looking towards the forest.
The two hands that had emerged from the soil suddenly tightened, flipping the soil over and revealing themselves to everyone.
A figure shrouded in a cloak, whose face was obscured, slowly walked out of the forest.
However, as he stepped out of the forest, behind him, black veins, like tentacles, each with a corpse hanging from them, emerged.
These were the wandering ninjas who had fled.
"Kai, who is this? He's terrifying!" Uzuki Yūgao's face turned a little pale.
If the wandering ninjas who appeared earlier were ordinary enemies, then this person was a monster.
Moreover, he had instantly killed the seventeen or eighteen fleeing wandering ninjas.
This kind of feat was not something ordinary ninjas could accomplish.
"Have you heard of Takigakure?" Kai asked with a playful look at the enemy in front of him.
He never expected that he would encounter a future member of Akatsuki, Kakuzu, so soon after arriving in the Naruto world.
"Takigakure?" Uzuki Yūgao was startled. "I heard that there was a rebellion in Takigakure twenty or thirty years ago. The once powerful Takigakure was wiped out overnight, and the high-ranking officials were all killed. In the end, they retreated behind the waterfall to recuperate."
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