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Katō Dan, who was more concerned about Kenshi, didn't act rashly. He continued to observe, gathering more information about Kenshi, which would be more advantageous for future battles.
Kenshi didn't know that he was being watched by Katō Dan. His Chakra perception ability couldn't sense Katō Dan in his spirit form.
"Go."
After replenishing his Chakra again, Kenshi thought, and condensed eighteen ink eagles, flying in all directions to expand his visual perception range. He didn't want to be constantly tracked from ten kilometers away again.
Whew... fifteen kilometers away from Kenshi, behind an iceberg, Darui, who had self-destructed earlier, appeared unharmed.
Darui, leaning against the iceberg to rest and recover his Chakra, had already looked up towards the direction of the explosion, his brows furrowed.
The enemy who could force his clay clone, which contained most of his Chakra, to self-destruct must be very strong. It must be Kenshi.
After all, he was a powerful ninja who could fight the Third Raikage and escape safely from him. He had expected this level of strength.
But... wasn't this a little too fast?
After passing through the extreme cold region, Darui had used his telescope to see the silhouette of the mountains on the distant island, confirming that it should be the island where Kenshi was according to the intelligence. Being cautious, he didn't go there personally. Instead, he condensed a clay clone and infused it with most of his Chakra, sending it to investigate.
He didn't expect that it wouldn't be long before Kenshi forced his clay clone to self-destruct.
Did the clay clone not have any room to resist?
Darui was a little unhappy. He had heard that Kenshi was still a child, but he didn't expect him to be so strong.
But... heh heh.
Darui's furrowed brows suddenly relaxed. No matter how strong Kenshi was, the ninja world wasn't about who was stronger. It was about who was more cautious, who could survive and make their opponent lose everything.
It was clear that Kenshi's arrogance had led to his downfall due to his lack of caution.
"It seems I don't need the Tsuchikage-sama to make a move."
Darui smiled, retracted his gaze, and continued to sit on the ice, concentrating on recovering his Chakra. He didn't leave immediately.
He didn't believe that anyone could survive his ultimate bomb. Not even Kenshi.
...
"Huh... he's not dead?"
In the air, Kenshi, standing on the back of the ink eagle, suddenly sensed a Chakra flame figure appearing within five kilometers to his left. It was the Iwagakure ninja who had self-destructed earlier.
He was about to leave, but he immediately stopped.
"He's not dead... oh, right, it's a clay clone."
Kenshi remembered that Clay Release Explosion had this move, the Clay Clone.
But since he wasn't dead... then he should die.
Kenshi's face twisted into a cold smile. He immediately turned around and flew towards the Iwagakure ninja.
"This guy seems to have a lot of Chakra!"
Through his perception, the Iwagakure ninja four kilometers away still had about one "ka" of Chakra left. Combined with the three "ka" of his clay clone, this guy's main body should have about four "ka" of Chakra, which was pretty good.
Earlier, when he saw the clay clone with nearly three "ka" of Chakra, Kenshi hadn't even considered that it might be a clay clone. He had always thought it was the main body.
"His Chakra perception ability is the same as the intelligence. About five kilometers."
Behind Kenshi, Katō Dan, in his spirit form, maintained a distance of a hundred meters. He was recording Kenshi's current abilities along the way.
Chakra perception was his main focus.
Judging from the distance of the Iwagakure ninja's soul, Kenshi's Chakra perception ability hadn't changed.
That's right, Katō Dan was now certain that the current Kenshi was indeed Kenshi.
Earlier, he had been focused on the ink eagle and hadn't noticed the Black Iron feather coat that Kenshi was wearing. This was one of Kenshi's signature jutsu, condensed from black Chakra chains. It was also Kenshi's habit during battle.
After noticing the Black Iron feather coat on Kenshi's body, Katō Dan was certain that it was Kenshi.
"So cautious."
Kenshi was a little surprised. Through his perception, within a one-kilometer radius of the Iwagakure ninja, there were clay birds in the air and clay snow rabbits on the ice, completely denying the enemy any opportunity for a surprise attack.
But these clay birds didn't seem to have the long-range visual perception ability of the ink eagle. They couldn't see very far.
Kenshi entered a one-kilometer radius of the clay birds without being detected. He guessed that the clay birds' perception ability wasn't visual. It was probably Chakra perception or something similar. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to see him.
"Bang!"
Entering a five-hundred-meter range, the clay birds finally sensed Kenshi's presence. Then, as if a landmine had been stepped on, they detonated automatically.
It was clear that these clay birds were like warning landmines, used to alert the Iwagakure ninja.
As soon as the clay birds exploded, a deafening roar echoed around. Darui, sitting behind the iceberg, instantly woke up. He leaped onto the iceberg and then saw Kenshi, sitting on the ink eagle, swooping down towards him.
"Impossible!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
Darui's face froze, his eyes widened in disbelief. Kenshi hadn't been killed by his clay clone's self-destruction.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh... In the sky, ink senbon, as thick as fingers, poured down like a rain curtain, covering a hundred-meter radius around Darui.
"Not good."
Darui couldn't help but be shocked that Kenshi was still alive. Facing Kenshi's large-scale attack, looking at the ink senbon raining down from the sky, he quickly made hand seals, took a deep breath, and exhaled forcefully.
"Earth Release - Earth Wall."
Brownish-yellow earth spewed out of Darui's mouth, and then instantly rose into a hard rock wall that enveloped him.
Bang, bang, bang... The ink senbon hit the rock wall like raindrops hitting a beach, quickly eroding a layer of rock. But ultimately, it blocked Kenshi's attack.
"Earth Release - Earth Bullet... What!!!"
Darui, who was about to use the rock wall to launch an Earth Bullet attack to buy himself time to use the clay birds, suddenly felt his vision go black. His consciousness entered a dark place, completely losing all perception of the outside world and control of his body.
"Go!"
One hundred meters in the air, Kenshi extended his right hand. A Adamantine Binding Chain shot out from his palm, shattering the rock wall and piercing into the Iwagakure ninja's body. Then, he directly absorbed the Iwagakure ninja's Chakra.
This time, he wouldn't give the Iwagakure ninja another chance to self-destruct.
In a few seconds, the remaining Chakra in the Iwagakure ninja's body was completely absorbed. The Adamantine Binding Chain directly shattered the Iwagakure ninja's head, killing him.
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Retracting the Adamantine Binding Chain, Kenshi was about to continue flying forward when he suddenly saw a giant eagle with a Kumogakure forehead protector on its back through the ink eagles he had previously released.
"Kumogakure ninja, and only one?"
Kenshi was a little surprised. It was fine that the Iwagakure ninja came alone, after all, they didn't know much about him.
But Kumogakure shouldn't be unaware of the strength he had displayed in his battle with the Third Raikage.
Now, they dared to send only one person. Did they think he couldn't detect them?
"Heh!"
Kenshi sneered and turned to fly towards the Kumogakure ninja.
Since Kumogakure dared to come alone, why shouldn't he kill them?
If he didn't make these guys pay, they would think he was easy to bully. Everyone would want to hunt him down.
"He flew past." Inuzuka Akamaru sniffed.
"It seems they haven't discovered us." Biwako looked up at the distant sky, her brows furrowed. "It's really Super Beast Imitation Painting. What's going on with that guy?"
Earlier, Katō Dan had returned to remind them that Kenshi had been found and that he could also use the Super Beast Imitation Painting jutsu, and it was an improved version, just like Ayase's.
Biwako, knowing the visual perception ability of the ink eagle, knew how to deal with this kind of perception. She could just use the Hiding Technique to make the ink eagle unable to see them.
So, the two of them easily avoided the visual perception of Kenshi's ink eagles.
But now, Biwako was wondering where Kenshi had learned Super Beast Imitation Painting?
Didn't they say that Kenshi didn't know the Spiritualization Technique?
Then where did he learn all those secret jutsu?
If he was just a lucky soul who had possessed Kimura Yō, he wouldn't know so many secret jutsu.
Black Lightning was fine, but Super Beast Imitation Painting was a true Konoha secret jutsu. It was developed after Konoha was established.
Every person who learned Super Beast Imitation Painting was recorded. It was impossible for it to be leaked.
Could it be that Kenshi was one of the Konoha ninjas who had learned Super Beast Imitation Painting before he possessed him?
But what about the Third Raikage's Black Lightning?
That doesn't make sense either!
"Kenshi..."
Biwako's brows furrowed, her thoughts a little chaotic. She wasn't sure if Kenshi knew the Spiritualization Technique... no!
Biwako was startled. They had all been thinking wrong.
Kenshi didn't know the Spiritualization Technique, but that didn't mean he didn't know the Soul Possession Technique. Maybe he had developed a similar Soul Possession Technique, just not called Soul Possession but something like Reincarnation or something similar. That's why he always said he didn't know the Spiritualization Technique and had never heard of it.
If that was the case, then it would explain why Kenshi knew so many secret jutsu.
He might have already possessed and reincarnated several times. Maybe even someone in Konoha had been possessed and reincarnated, but no one had ever discovered it.
So... what were the conditions for Kenshi's possession and reincarnation?
Could he reincarnate immediately after death?
It shouldn't be possible. If that was the case, he wouldn't be afraid of death at all.
And she believed that this kind of secret technique, like Possession and Reincarnation, must have great limitations. It wasn't something you could do casually.
"Now should still be the best time to kill Kenshi."
Biwako thought that her eldest son's judgment was correct. The sooner they killed Kenshi, the better. The longer they waited, the harder it would be to kill him.
If they couldn't kill Kenshi this time... Biwako shuddered. Just thinking about the fact that Kenshi had already possessed Konoha ninjas before, and they had nothing, made her shudder.
"We must kill Kenshi, now!"
Biwako had made a decision to sacrifice herself. But for now, the two of them remained where they were, not moving. Katō Dan's soul perception was very far. They would follow from afar first and gather more information about Kenshi.
This time, they would never give Kenshi another chance to escape.
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