Chapter 1030

But as the origin of chakra, theoretically the ancestor of all ninjutsu, Kaguya, had many ways to control Sasori. Before Sasori could react, she forcibly extracted a wisp from his soul and warned him that the consequences of disobedience were absolutely unbearable. Thus Sasori had no choice at all. Knowing full well he was making a deal with a tiger, he had no option but to agree in order to survive.

That's right. Kaguya sent Sasori to attack the self who was about to leave the village—that is, the present Hyuga Lin Cheng, in whose body her consciousness now resided. This was itself a convincing act; only Sasori of the Red Sand was unaware of it, so her failure was doomed from the very start.

Lin Cheng's identity was certainly very advantageous, but if she wanted to gather more Tailed Beasts, then staying in Konoha any longer would prove too restrictive. Taking this opportunity, she had to find a way to leave Konoha, and Sasori was the method she had chosen. After all, the present Sasori could already serve as a new-generation scapegoat—one who, burdened with too many debts, ceases to worry, and, plagued with too many lice, no longer itches.

"I'm afraid Young Yuanzi has sensed something by now, and the most likely thing is that he's gone to the scene. You make a trip to Loran, keep a close eye over there, and send word back the moment there's any news."

Everything was within Kaguya's calculations; the moment of her 'freedom' was about to arrive.

Many things could only be done freely after that. Very soon, once the situation was completely in hand—

"That clan called Suikotsuki, how much do you know about them, Teacher Kakashi?" Kaguya did not know much about Tsukimi. Little Absolute had not mentioned this woman much; she only knew that the other party had always stayed by Young Yuanzi's side handling matters, though her shinobi status had not separated from Konoha the way Young Yuanzi's had.

A Kekkei Genkai clan, once one of the foremost great clans in the Land of Water, but it later declined amid a series of internal upheavals in the Land of Water. Nowadays in this world, this clan probably has only Suikotsuki Tsukimi and Suikotsuki Shiro left.

In truth, Kakashi did not know much. During his time in the Leaf Anbu, he had, from past engagements and assassination records, seen quite a few Mist shinobi of the Suikotsuki clan.

"Suikotsuki Tsukimi was raised by my lord Young Yuanzi at his side all along, and it is precisely because of this special reason that she, a person from the Land of Water, became a shinobi of Konoha."

"I see… Suikotsuki Tsukimi… someone who has stayed by Young Yuanzi's side since childhood, yet Little Absolute has never spoken about her in detail. Is she deliberately avoiding something?"

Kaguya narrowed her eyes. It seemed she would have to give Little Absolute a thorough interrogation—just how much had this little lass still not told her!

Carrying a jinchūriki who had lost the ability to resist, with relentless pursuers behind, no one could completely erase their own trail. They must have used some special method of escape. The first thing Young Yuanzi thought of was space-time ninjutsu, because multiple facts had proven that Sasori had long been able to use the Flying Thunder God. So she changed her line of thinking and began searching for coordinates. Space-time ninjutsu could indeed achieve ultra-long-range movement that ignored distance, but traces of the coordinates would still be left behind!

"It wasn't space-time ninjutsu. Could it be that Sasori's escape route—" Young Yuanzi raised her head and looked toward the sky. "—so someone is about to have bad luck."

"I say, old man, can't you just sit up here? You forcing yourself like this—do you still think you're young, huh?" At this moment, at the border of the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth, a strangely shaped creature was flying steadily. Notably, sitting on its broad head was a blond-haired youth.

· ·······Begging for flowers····· ······

He was asking with a look of impatience the old man beside him, who was flying at a certain distance from the great bird but in flight as well. Though this old man was short in stature, across the entire Shinobi World he was a figure of great renown—the still-not-retired Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki of the Two Scales!

"Brat, shut your mouth and watch ahead, don't let your guard down." They were not here on a picnic. Ōnoki of the Two Scales was not relaxed in the slightest. Choosing this little fellow Deidara to come with him was also because he had a way to quickly leave the battlefield; if he had chosen anyone else, he would rather have come alone.

A few years ago, the technicians of Iwa's Scientific Research Division had cobbled together a brand-new chakra locator that could accurately capture the traces of chakra eruptions—quite excellent as a means of defense and early warning.

The Third Tsuchikage was very satisfied upon receiving the test report's results. He would often recall the incident during the Great Shinobi War when the Konoha expeditionary force led by Young Yuanzi raided the main camp, and the humiliation of nearly being crippled from the waist up. Even now his waist still ached faintly!

Thus, at the Third Tsuchikage's special request, the Scientific Research Division recorded a special fluctuation in the locator—the Sage Art fluctuation of Uzumaki Young Yuanzi, which Iwa's Anbu had been keeping updated in real time over all these years.

And now, this device had detected, in the border region between the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth, traces of Young Yuanzi's chakra, and had also successively recorded Tailed Beast chakra. To be continued.