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The red-haired woman was now in tears. She scooped up her daughter and ran towards the place where the golden chains converged.
Who in the entire ninja world would use golden chakra chains?
Without a doubt, it must be someone from the Uzumaki clan.
To be able to use such a wide-range Adamantine Binding Chains, it must be a strong member of the Uzumaki clan.
She didn't know who this strong person was, but there was no doubt that they had come to save her and her daughter.
The Kusagakure base camp wasn't very large, with a diameter of about two kilometers.
Kenshi's furthest range for releasing genjutsu was five hundred meters, meaning that within a circle with a radius of five hundred meters centered on him, everyone was under his genjutsu.
To instantly kill all the ninjas within a two-kilometer diameter, Kenshi only needed to create five clones.
In the middle of the base camp, Kenshi placed his hands on the opened giant scroll.
Countless golden chakra chains shot out from the scroll, piercing into the bodies of the Kusagakure ninjas who had been deprived of all their senses by the Perception Deprivation Technique, absorbing their chakra.
"Mom... this is..."
The little girl Yezi finally sensed something from the golden chakra chains, but she was afraid it was just a dream. She tried her best to suppress the joy of surviving a disaster and looked at her mother with expectant but anxious eyes.
The red-haired woman nodded forcefully and said, "Yezi, our clan members are here to save us. It's really our clan members who are here to save us."
Along the way, the Kusagakure ninjas in the camp remained motionless, allowing the golden chakra chains to devour and plunder their chakra.
The golden chakra chains didn't react to the mother and daughter as they passed by.
It was clear that their clan members knew them and had come to save them.
"That's great, Mom."
"Wuwuwu... Mom, you won't have to keep biting those bad guys anymore, wuwuwu..."
The little girl Yezi finally couldn't hold back her joy and excitement. She cried, sobbing uncontrollably. Her tears were no longer dry.
"Okay, we won't have to anymore."
The red-haired woman ran, holding her daughter's thin hand tightly. "Yezi won't have to go hungry anymore."
Boom, boom, boom... As soon as the mother and daughter reached the center of the camp, the sound of watermelons exploding suddenly rang out around them.
In an instant, a bloody mist filled the air.
Under the moonlight, the entire camp was silent. The bloody mist enveloped the surroundings, like a defense.
"Who is it?"
At this time, Kenshi suddenly looked up sharply towards a position one hundred meters above him on his left. There... was nothing.
"An illusion?"
Kenshi furrowed his brow. Just now, he clearly sensed a nearly transparent chakra flame figure flashing past that position one hundred meters in the air. How could it disappear instantly?
Was it really an illusion?
No!
It couldn't be an illusion.
Kenshi recalled what had just happened. After the Adamantine Binding Chains had absorbed all the chakra of the ninjas in the Kusagakure camp, he controlled the Adamantine Binding Chains to shatter the heads of all the Kusagakure ninjas. The moment he sensed the blurry chakra flame figure in the air was almost simultaneous with the moment he shattered the heads of the ninjas.
It was clear that there was indeed a humanoid chakra there, or rather, someone was using some kind of secret technique that he didn't know about to observe him from a very long distance.
This person must have been overwhelmed by the bloody scene of him killing so many Kusagakure ninjas instantly. He couldn't control his emotions for a moment and experienced a violent fluctuation, causing the secret technique to become unstable, which is why he sensed the anomaly.
That must be it.
His chakra perception ability couldn't be wrong.
"But... there's actually a jutsu that can escape my chakra perception ability!!!"
Kenshi's heart trembled. This wasn't hiding underground, but in the air. Someone could actually use jutsu to observe him from such a close distance, and he couldn't detect it.
If it hadn't been for this accidental emotional fluctuation on the other side's part, he might never have discovered that he had been under surveillance all along.
"Who is it?"
"Konoha's... or... it should be Konoha's people."
Kenshi had seen the people from Iwagakure and Kumogakure. That left only Konoha. They were the only ones who would leak his whereabouts and not make a move themselves.
Konoha probably still had the same idea as Sarutobi Tenjū and his wife before. They were planning to let Iwagakure and Kumogakure exhaust him, and when he erupted again, like he did in his last battle with the Third Raikage, and was weak, Konoha would make their move.
If Sarutobi Tenjū and his wife hadn't been unable to resist his genjutsu, Kenshi would have already fallen.
This time, Konoha must know about his powerful genjutsu. If they make a move again, they must have a way to resist his genjutsu.
But... heh heh!
Kenshi sneered, controlling all the Adamantine Binding Chains to return to the giant sealing scroll, then he put the scroll back into the black water space.
He wasn't the same as he was a year ago.
In this era where Nagato hadn't grown up and Madara was still hiding, his strength was no longer afraid of anyone.
Even the weakness of not having enough chakra was no longer a fatal flaw with the giant scroll as a tool.
"Come on, come as many as you want, I'll kill as many as you send!"
Kenshi's heart hardened. This time, he wouldn't run away in a panic when he encountered the Third Raikage like he did before. He would fight back fiercely.
Even if he encountered the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki, who knew Dust Release... uh... he still had to run.
Kenshi suppressed the resentment in his heart.
Currently, in the ninja world, the only one who could pose a threat to him was the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki.
Thinking about the Fourth Shinobi World War in the future, when Ōnoki used the "Dust Release - Detachment" technique to directly cover a radius of several kilometers, instantly wiping out Madara's twenty-five incomplete Susanoo, the terrifying attack power and range... even with Kenshi's speed, he wouldn't be able to do anything against such a wide-range Dust Release attack.
But Ōnoki wouldn't use that kind of ultimate move right away.
If Kenshi could copy Ōnoki's Dust Release Chakra before that, then he would truly be invincible in the current ninja world.
But Dust Release is different from other jutsu. It has a terrifying attack power that causes injury upon contact.
For Kenshi to copy it, he might have to sacrifice a finger or an arm, but it would be worth it.
With Wood Release Chakra, he should be able to regrow a finger or an arm by consuming a lot of chakra.
Thinking about this, the resentment in Kenshi's heart dissipated. He actually looked forward to the Third Tsuchikage coming.
But for now, he should learn sealing techniques first.
After all, a giant scroll is not as convenient as a swallowing sealing array engraved on his own body.
Kenshi turned to look at the target of his trip, the woman from the Uzumaki clan.
She was a woman, a big woman, a big and beautiful woman, and she had a little... firewood.
Kenshi paused for a moment on the little girl's joyful yet slightly timid face, then his gaze fell on the red-haired woman. He got up and walked over.
The red-haired woman and her daughter ignored the bloody mist beside them and walked towards Kenshi step by step.
"Hi, you..."
When they were five meters apart, Kenshi was about to greet them friendly, but he saw the red-haired woman suddenly rush towards him and hug him.
Kenshi's brows furrowed instantly. He subconsciously wanted to stop, but he finally held back. He didn't dodge and let the woman open her arms and hug him tightly.
The little girl also hugged Kenshi and her mother with her thin arms.
A mother and daughter who had lost their country and were stranded in a foreign land, experiencing endless despair, suddenly received rescue from their clan. The joy they felt was too intense to express.
They could only express their heartfelt gratitude for Kenshi's appearance at this moment through a tight embrace.
Kenshi slowly stretched out his hands. He hesitated several times before gently placing them on the hair of the mother and daughter.
He had actually found this place during the day.
Because he had once sensed the unique life-giving chakra of the Uzumaki clan on Uzumaki Mito and Uzumaki Kushina.
Kenshi quickly determined that the mother and daughter were the Uzumaki clan members he was looking for from among the hundreds of ninjas in the camp.
But he was cautious and didn't immediately make a move.
Later, he observed from the air, sensing how the red-haired woman was bitten by Kusagakure ninjas, leaving rows of bite marks on her arms and legs. He watched her numbly return to the wooden house and cuddle up with her daughter, staring blankly out the window.
She wanted to die, but she couldn't.
She wanted to live, but she couldn't.
Pain and despair surrounded the mother and daughter, leaving them no room to breathe.
Kenshi had experienced this feeling.
The three months of torture he had endured from the Third Hokage was the same feeling the mother and daughter were experiencing now.
He wanted to die, but he couldn't.
Kenshi couldn't commit suicide, so he couldn't die.
The mother and daughter were attached to each other. They didn't want the other to die, so they couldn't die.
As for wanting to live, the mother and daughter, like Kenshi at that time, knew very well that once their usefulness was gone, they would still have to die.
Perhaps it was this feeling of despair that resonated with Kenshi, so he didn't refuse the mother and daughter's embrace.
He had realized that they might have mistaken him for someone else, mistaking him, who was using the Adamantine Binding Chains, for someone from the Uzumaki clan.
That's why they were so excited.
But it was fine if they were mistaken. It was easier to communicate.
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