Chapter 1003

So now for Young Yuanzi, this actually caused trouble, especially because the Hyuga clan's land was under attack—anyone who locked onto her would be sensed by Lin Cheng, who shared the same ability, and he would immediately start fleeing.

At this rate, wanting to find the other party amid such chaos could only come down to luck, couldn't it.

Meanwhile, after issuing some emergency arrangements from the roof of the Konoha Hospital as a temporary command center, Nara Shikaku rendezvoused with Akimichi Choza and Yamanaka Inoichi and immediately rushed toward the Hokage Building street. At this time most of Konoha was in combat, and they had to establish contact with the barrier corps through more convenient means of communication—clearing the invaders who had breached the walls was the top priority.

The Ino-Shika-Cho combination was, as expected, a shinobi team that had weathered many wars; from the hospital to the Hokage Building, there was simply not a single opponent who could match them.

"This attack came from the direction of the Hokage Building. Looks like someone has already taken control of that area first," Yamanaka Inoichi said, watching the purple light streaking across the sky and falling onto various parts of the village.

Beside him was Akimichi Choza, who had just used the Multi-Size Technique to take out several enemies blocking their advance. The massive shadow cast by his enormous frame had become Nara Shikaku's weapon—any enemy caught by the shadow along the way had nowhere to escape.

"It should be that girl from Tsukikage Village who came to participate—seems her name is Fujikawa Linnaizi."

Who would feel at ease letting shinobi from another village swagger deep into their own village?

In fact, for hosting this Chunin Exam, the information on every country's shinobi had to be reported in advance.

This time in Konoha was no exception. The Leaf Anbu in charge of investigation would usually, several months before the exam began, screen out the spies among them—but this time, because of what had happened on their own turf.

Even if no one said it out loud, in reality the Leaf Anbu's capability had already been called into question, and the Third Hokage, who had returned to the front lines at the last minute, had long since lost much of his former influence.

Affected by various factors, the Leaf Anbu's missions were all crammed full by the order "wash away the disgrace of the Uchiha clan's massacre—at any cost, find the Fourth Hokage," and the task of screening foreign shinobi was tossed to the Nara clan.

"Tch!"

Thinking of another troublesome matter again, Shikaku had no lead right now, but his teammates were still waiting.

"Although my lord Young Yuanzi has left Konoha, no matter how you look at it, the Tsukikage she established still stands on our side."

He merely glanced calmly at all the invaders he had restrained who were still struggling nonstop, then Shikaku activated his Shadow Strangulation Technique without the slightest mercy. Accompanied by a series of bone-cracking sounds, over a dozen more corpses joined those on the ground.

At that moment, accompanied by a rumbling boom, a two-story building not far from the Hokage Building in the distance collapsed with a crash. The eyesight of all three present had been enhanced by chakra, and they clearly saw a girl… a trap, covered in dust, waving a door panel as she burst out.

? "I remember two of them are finalists. Let's go meet up with them first, and along the way check on the Third's situation and the exam venue."

Konoha village now looked like a complete mess, but in reality most of the chaos was disturbances caused by invaders setting fires, and to scatter the attention of Konoha's shinobi, there were infiltration squads in many places carrying out sabotage to draw notice.

Manpower was already short, and now they had to wear themselves out dealing with these hit-and-run fellows. Konoha's shinobi no longer had the capacity to pay attention to anything else.

"Because Uzumaki Young Yuanzi intervened, the operation at the Hyuga compound failed. However, according to the last message they sent back, our primary target was not there." Through a communication device, a sensory-type shinobi hiding somewhere unknown relayed intelligence in real time back to the Kumogakure main force behind the lines.

The Fourth Raikage punched the table before him clean in half; at this moment he was so furious his eyebrows looked ready to catch fire.

"That BBA always ruins my plans!"

In the Raikage's eyes, the price now paid had already exceeded the value of the Hyuga clan's Byakugan, so he had no intention of committing his reserve force. Instead, he was hoping the other team, sent to the ruins of the Uchiha clan compound to snatch people, would come away with something.

Please forgive him for putting it that way—after all, now such a vast clan compound had only Sana left living in it, so calling it ruins wasn't wrong.

First, let's talk about the participants in the Raikage's Bloodline Limit plunder plan this time. Because of the daimyo and diplomatic considerations, the main Kumogakure force could not be deployed—at the very least, no overt movements were absolutely permitted. So the Raikage chose a combination of his own direct Anbu, hired shinobi, and rogue ninja to coordinate from inside and out, and even forced the Kusagakure, who had legitimate qualification to participate, to give up slots so his own people could disguise themselves and

enter Konoha.

The entire plan was solid, but unfortunately, any battle plan becomes a scrap of paper when it meets actual combat conditions.

All the Kumogakure shinobi the Raikage had sent in were completely exhausted during the second exam. He couldn't even understand what was in that jungle that could kill every last one of them, while the other shinobi villages, though they also suffered losses, none compared to his.