Chapter 156: White Fang’s Blade Glint
Upstream of the White Wild River, a special Konoha battalion was trying to break through the Sand Ninja defense and rush into the White Wild River.
This special battalion had assembled many Water Style ninjas.
As long as they rushed into the gorge of the White Wild River and used Water Style to create a massive flood, they could force the puppet masters hiding in the gorge out.
The puppet master themselves were relatively weak; puppets did not feel pain or bleed, so attacking the puppet master was the best choice.
The Sand Ninja also knew that the puppet masters hiding in the river gorge were their weakness, so they had deployed a large amount of defensive forces here to protect the upstream of the White Wild River.
The Konoha Water Style ninja battalion encountered strong resistance and could not break through the defensive line composed of over a hundred puppets in a short time.
There were too many puppets to dare engage in taijutsu clashes.
On the gorge shore stood a row of Sand Ninja using Wind Release and Earth Release to block the Konoha ninjas’ ninjutsu, preventing the ninjutsu from destroying too many puppets.
One after another Earth Flow Wall rose up; these Earth Flow Walls could block the impact of the Konoha Water Style ninjas and also provide puppets with a shield to avoid Water Style.
The battle fell into a stalemate; on the chin of Konoha battalion captain Gu Yang hung sweat drops gathered from cold sweat.
Damn it, he had held them back; it had already been half an hour, and they still could not advance into the White Wild River.
Detour further upstream again?
The Sand Ninja would follow.
He actually had no good ideas.
At that moment, battalion captain Gu Yang suddenly saw a water line.
The Sand Ninja stood on the shore in a row, originally using ninjutsu to block Konoha’s Water Style battalion.
That water line shot diagonally upward from below the gorge.
After sweeping across, it cut most of the Sand Ninja on the gorge shore in half!
That was Water Style… Water Severing Wave?
Battalion captain Gu Yang thought to himself, wasn’t that one of the Second Hokage’s signature Water Style techniques?
As a jonin specializing in Water Style, he had not even had the chance to learn that ninjutsu.
Gu Yang hurriedly shouted: “Opportunity! Use Water Style to rush through all obstacles!”
The Konoha ninjas unleashed Water Style, breaking through the unattended Earth Flow Walls and flushing the puppets back into the White Wild River.
The Water Style battalion finally reached the shore of the White Wild River and saw the Sand Ninja at the bottom of the gorge.
The Sand Ninja did not give up; after the puppet masters were exposed, they desperately manipulated puppets to fly upward.
Another water line swept across, slicing the twenty-plus puppets in mid-air into two segments.
Battalion captain Gu Yang followed the water line and saw an Anbu wearing a fox mask standing on a stone below the gorge.
Surrounded by puppets attacking him, he remained completely still.
The puppets’ poison needles, kunai, and various mechanisms could only tear the Fox Anbu’s clothes.
It was Copper Fox!
Gu Yang had heard of Copper Fox’s reputation but did not know his strength.
No wonder the Sand Ninja headquarters valued him; Copper Fox was simply the nemesis of puppet masters.
Puppets had the advantage of not fearing damage, but their durability limit and attack limit were too low to break the defense; Copper Fox did not even intend to dodge.
Konoha’s Water Style ninjas jumped down into the gorge and unleashed combined ninjutsu in the gorge.
“Water Style: Raging Waves!”
The Raging Waves released by more than thirty Water Style ninjas instantly created a flood peak over thirty meters high in the White Wild River.
One wave head after another rushed toward the downstream.
The rumbling sound of the flood peak arrived, stunning the downstream Sand Ninja for an instant.
Then, some Sand Ninja jumped upward, while others were directly swallowed by the floodwaters.
All puppet masters hiding in the gorge would lose their hiding places.
Mission success; Gu Yang turned to look at Copper Fox but found the stone already empty.
After providing crucial assistance, Copper Fox had probably gone to the second battlefield.
As expected of the Hokage’s elite.
Yoru’s vest had turned into rags again, nearly exposing him. After returning to the Fox Squad, Yoru changed into a new vest.
His absolute defense was great in every way except it could not protect his clothes.
The upstream of the White Wild River was captured by Konoha, with waves of flood peaks rushing downstream.
The Sand Ninja were forced out of the gorge, exposing the puppet masters to the Konoha ninjas.
The Konoha side held a great advantage.
Yoru looked toward the most important battle: Sakumo Hatake versus the Tuoci couple.
Sakumo Hatake moved extremely fast; his chakra short sword swung, creating white blade auras that hovered around like thin ribbons.
The white blade auras were continuous; the blade auras from five swings ago had not yet disappeared when new ones were already slashed out.
Sakumo Hatake seemed to be in a whirlwind composed of several arc-shaped blade auras.
In front of the chakra short sword’s blade auras, puppets cracked upon brushing against them and broke upon colliding.
Tuoci’s initial 10 puppets were long damaged; now he was using puppets Yoru had not seen before.
The ground around Sakumo Hatake and Tuoci was littered with puppet fragments, discarded poison needles, and mechanisms everywhere.
Tuoci’s own taijutsu level was unexpectedly high; Sakumo Hatake had not slashed him yet.
Konoha’s advantage grew greater.
Konoha assault squads continuously broke through the defenses, reaching the puppet masters and slashing them dead.
Purple Cat continuously recorded how many assault squads from each battalion succeeded, noting them all on a scroll.
After surveying the battlefield, Yoru said: “You record here; I’ll make another trip to thoroughly crush the Sand Ninja’s cornered beast fight.”
He body flickered away, heading straight to the most important battlefield: the battle between Sakumo Hatake and the Tuoci couple.
Sakumo Hatake’s strategist saw a Konoha ninja approaching and shouted:
“Don’t mess around! Your strength is insufficient! You’ll only drag down Lord Sakumo’s battle!”
In a battle between elite jonin, ordinary ninjas entering would only become a burden, forcing Sakumo Hatake to divert attention to protect the burden.
The strategist wanted to act to stop him but stopped hand sealing upon seeing the fox mask.
Anbu’s Copper Fox?
If it was Copper Fox, better not to stop him.
The strategist knew all frontline intelligence; the Anbu Copper Fox who had repeatedly appeared in recent battle reports was very strong, and command high brass considered him equivalent to a special jonin.
Though not at elite jonin level, against certain enemies specializing in sword technique, taijutsu, and puppet technique, his deterrence was comparable to an elite jonin.
The puppet master’s abilities were perfectly countered by Copper Fox.
Yoru entered the battlefield, heading straight for Tuoci’s wife.
Tuoci’s wife was gasping for breath; her hands had originally controlled six puppets, but now she only had strength for four.
She manipulated one puppet to fly toward Sakumo Hatake’s back.
However, the sharp blade in the puppet’s hand was grabbed by one hand.
The puppet immediately struggled, the sharp blade twisting in that person’s palm, yet emitting a teeth-gritting metallic friction sound.
Seeing a fox mask, Tuoci’s wife suddenly remembered that headquarters had once issued an order to be extremely careful upon encountering Copper Fox.
“Copper Fox?”
As soon as the words fell, Tuoci’s wife saw Copper Fox charging toward her.
She hurriedly manipulated a scorpion-shaped puppet to open the mechanism on its back, with densely packed kunai aimed at Copper Fox.
The kunai shot out; Copper Fox did not dodge or evade, letting the kunai hit his body.
Tuoci’s wife saw that ninja tools were indeed useless against Copper Fox and formed hand seals with one hand.
“Explode!”
Some of the kunai contained exploding tag kunai.
After four or five continuous explosions, Tuoci’s wife saw a figure rush out from the thick smoke.
Even exploding tags were useless?
One thing counters another; Yoru’s absolute defense countered puppet masters too well.
His internal organs were shaken with some dull pain, but it was not a problem.
Tuoci’s wife immediately retreated backward while taking out a new scroll.
Releasing the seal, three snake puppets rushed out from the sealing white smoke.
Yoru was stunned; Tuoci’s wife was clever.
Physical attacks were useless; Yoru’s absolute defense was relatively weak against capture.
