Chapter 300: Chakra Reserves
The three genin saw the teacher in front suddenly stop and all stopped as well.
One of them was about to speak when he suddenly noticed the ground rising beneath his feet!
He looked down and saw three gecko-type puppets!
It was the teacher’s puppets.
Frightening whooshing sounds appeared around them as earth spears burst out from the ground, drilling out from the sand and stabbing toward the group.
The gecko-type puppets extended side panels from their abdomens, protecting the three genin.
Tada jumped high into the air, dodging the earth spear.
He looked toward his subordinates, shocked in his heart.
The side panels of the three gecko puppets had been completely pierced through by Earth Release: Earth Spear.
The three sand ninja genin had different parts of their bodies pierced by the earth spears. Thanks to the gecko puppets’ blocking, none of them were in life-threatening danger.
Who possessed such powerful earth release ninjutsu?
Stone ninja?
Tada pulled out a scroll in mid-air and unsealed three puppets of varying forms after unfurling it.
A fat puppet holding a shield, a thin puppet with saw discs on both hands, and a two-headed puppet with two heads and four arms.
A human figure rushed over from the distance.
There were few obstructions in the desert, so after Yoru charged over, the sand ninja jonin Tada had ample time to react.
The three puppets rushed toward Yoru from different directions.
Yoru thought to himself that simultaneously controlling three powerful puppets showed considerable strength.
The saw disc accurately struck Yoru’s throat, and Tada was delighted in his heart.
The saw disc spun at high speed, about to cut, but in the next instant, the saw disc shattered directly.
Tada saw the red copper-colored sheen at the throat at that moment.
“Copper Fox!”
Tada felt bitter in his heart.
In the Second Ninja War, the first nemesis of Hidden Sand Village’s puppet masters was Konoha’s White Fang, whose blade aura could shred all puppets.
The second nemesis was Konoha Anbu’s Copper Fox.
With all physical attacks ineffective, the puppets became useless.
Tada hurriedly manipulated the fat puppet and thin puppet to retreat.
The two-headed puppet advanced, its two heads spewing different kinds of poison smoke.
The red and purple poison smoke was unusually dim in the night.
With physical attacks ineffective, poison smoke it was.
However, the Copper Fox burrowed into the ground.
Tada was stunned, and the poison smoke lost its effect.
He hurriedly jumped up as the fat puppet rushed under his feet and slammed the shield into the ground.
With a loud clang, the thick shield shattered.
The Copper Fox’s palm turned red copper-colored, incredibly hard, and no match for the iron shield.
The Copper Fox thus crashed into the fat puppet’s embrace.
The hidden weapons inside the fat puppet’s massive frame stabbed out simultaneously, but unable to breach the defense, these poison needles and kunai had no effect at most tearing the clothes.
Tada saw the Copper Fox’s hands tear open the fat puppet.
Tearing a puppet apart with bare hands…
Parts from inside the fat puppet scattered across the ground.
The thin puppet promptly moved up to fill the gap.
However, the Copper Fox once again performed a bare-handed puppet tear.
He grabbed and stopped the saw disc with one hand; that high-speed spinning saw disc was utterly ineffective against the Copper Fox’s iron hands.
Yoru tore off the thin puppet’s arm, kicked the puppet flying, and charged right up to Tada.
One punch struck Tada’s chest, and Yoru’s expression changed.
This feel…
Tada’s chest was smashed, but inside it was not flesh and blood, but various mechanisms.
Other kunai, poison needles, and such mechanisms were useless, but a steel cable shot out from his chest.
The steel cable tightly locked Yoru’s arm and shoulder.
More and more steel cables appeared, binding Yoru tightly.
At that moment, Yoru noticed Tada’s abnormality.
Tada’s chest cavity had a heart, but the lungs, liver, and other organs were empty, all mechanisms.
Tada had actually modified himself? Or after some severe injury, had he replaced parts of his internal organs with puppet mechanisms?
Such exquisite puppet technique—not unworthy of an elite puppet master; he already had a fraction of Scorpion’s peak strength.
The two-headed puppet appeared behind Yoru, its two heads smashing into Yoru’s shoulders.
Two bursts of poison smoke erupted.
Tada was stunned: the Copper Fox was greedily inhaling the poison smoke? Was the Copper Fox actually poisoned to death like this?
【Host death detected. Moon Arc System activating…】
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Yoru’s vision shifted, returning to the previous full moon night.
Verification successful—Tada’s strength was very strong, truly at elite jonin level.
An ordinary ninja facing Tada would be worn down to death by his endless tricks.
This time, he had to kill Tada without leaving any future trouble.
【Moon Arc activated!
Host has only one resurrection opportunity per month, resurrecting on the previous full moon night after death.
Reward: one lucky draw opportunity…】
Yoru chose elite jonin level chakra amount; his chakra amount reached 4 times elite jonin level.
The feeling of increased chakra amount was truly comfortable.
Replaying the plot, Yoru and Nara Baika arrived outside Kyoto of the Land of Wind.
Yoru said, “I’ll go set up the ambush. You stay far away and don’t move around.”
Nara Baika watched the fox leave and used earth release to burrow under the sand.
Then…
For the entire night, that patch of sand remained completely still.
Nara Baika could hardly imagine that the Anbu’s top expert would stay motionless underground for hours just to complete a mission.
The wind blew for hours, scattering the sand over the hiding place to blend perfectly with the surroundings—no one could possibly discover a Konoha Anbu hidden under the sand.
Tada led the three genin out of Kyoto of the Land of Wind.
Tada in front, the three genin behind, traveling through the desert.
“Traveling at night in the desert, always pay attention to the night sky. We can use the stars to determine direction.”
Tada pointed to the night sky for the three genin, identifying different stars.
Determining direction at night in the endless desert was a required course for sand ninja.
At that moment, an earth flow wall suddenly burst out from underground.
This earth flow wall was over ten meters high and dozens of meters long, separating Tada from the three genin.
Who could have imagined a ninja hiding underground!
Yoru burst out from the earth and used Karma Seal of Retribution.
The curse mark began climbing upward from Tada’s feet.
Tada was shocked in his heart, but before his hands were locked, his fingers twitched slightly.
Yoru charged toward Tada.
He targeted Tada’s right chest, where the lungs had long been removed and replaced with puppet mechanisms.
Tada was not panicked in his heart; his weaknesses were few—only the head and heart. Even if ambushed, he wouldn’t die.
His fingers had just twitched slightly, connecting to the mechanisms in his chest cavity.
As the enemy approached, Tada secretly exerted force.
A steel cable shot out from his right chest, about to bind the enemy.
However, shock appeared in Tada’s eyes!
The enemy dodged the steel cable proficiently by dropping his shoulder, as if he knew the move!
The enemy’s right hand held a kunai, stabbing into Tada’s heart.
Why did the enemy seem to know all his intelligence?
This was Yoru’s second time fighting Tada; everything was within Yoru’s expectations.
After confirming Tada was dead, Yoru hoisted Tada’s corpse and dashed north.
Nara Baika hurriedly followed.
She looked toward the three pursuing genin and asked, “Should we ruthlessly kill the witnesses now?”
Yoru said, “No need. I only used one earth release and one kunai stab—who could tell it was Konoha Copper Fox who killed him?
Keep the three genin and lure them toward the Land of Earth, letting them misjudge it as stone ninja killers—this way we can divert disaster eastward.
To avoid Hidden Sand Village retaliating against Konoha in kind, these three sand ninja genin are somewhat useful.”
Nara Baika’s eyes flickered.
As expected, Anbu’s Copper Fox certainly wasn’t sparing the genin out of mercy.
