Chapter 998

"Riri, calm down, your injuries haven't healed yet." Miye walked over, stuffing Qian Gong Yin Riri into Yuan Cun Lixu's arms, and her even-tempered tone also let the three of Sana relax.

"Earlier we did fight one of your Konoha squads to a draw, and the green kappa Riri faced gave her a bit of trouble, so seeing you all made her want to take it out on someone."

"Ugh, don't bring up that thick-eyebrow guy—he actually dared to do that to Lixu right in front of me, I'm absolutely going to flatten him!" Qian Gong Yin Riri suddenly puffed up like a bristling cat.

The person the other side described was absolutely Li Luoke, no doubt about it—those signature, still-okay features were something the three of them would never mistake, and as for why, it was probably because all three of them had been confessed to by Li~.

Even though the impression left was far from positive, the memory of him was far more vivid than that of Hyuga Neji, who kept a straight face all day, or Tenten, who was at the level of a random female passerby with her bun.

However, as the squad that graduated last term, after a whole year of tempering, they had earned the title of "Konoha's Strongest Genin," so probably, as long as they were Konoha ninja, everyone except Naruko would be familiar with it.

"Well, aren't you just amazing," Naruko almost blurted out these words, but was cut off by a single look from Sana.

Sana understood that, at least for now, this title had not yet been used to refer to their squad—not because of a gap in strength, but because as a team's coordination and complementary strengths, what Kakashi was now teaching them was lacking knowledge in that area; being able to withdraw unscathed from such a squad, the Moon Ninja Village that Young Yuanzi had established was full of extraordinary fellows.

When the numbing smoke stabbed at his throat, the Divine Long Zhili that Young Yuanzi had been suppressing finally erupted.

"You lot have already lost your reverence just because I relaxed a little? Then let me remind you again!" The roaring Divine Long Zhili directly blasted away the smoke covering most of the stands, and the poison senbon didn't even leave a trace behind—at the outermost edge of the dispersed smoke, there were even a few poor sods performing flying-man acts in mid-air.

These attackers' original target was indeed the Third Hokage, but upon seeing Young Yuanzi they knew they could not succeed; thinking of the missions each had been assigned before setting out, to achieve their objective they would not hesitate even at the cost of their own lives.

"Is that woman insane? An attack of this range…." In their eyes, Young Yuanzi had merely released her aura for an instant, yet could blow people away like cotton fluff—it was simply monstrous.

The Azure Long Zhili circulated around Young Yuanzi, and the flame-like, materialized energy enveloped the entire stand, but looking at the Third Hokage standing calmly to the side, he didn't seem to be affected, so presumably Young Yuanzi still had a good sense of measure.

"Please take action, this is our oversight." The Third Hokage sighed; Mizunai's disappearance and the massacre of the Uchiha clan had severely diminished Konoha's influence.

Not only that, because most of the Leaf Anbu had been dispatched to search for Mizunai's whereabouts, at this critical moment Sarutobi Hiruzen could not even spare extra hands to organize the evacuation of ordinary villagers.

"Report—a large number of invaders are approaching the Hyuga clan's compound!" A Root squad-leader-level member shunshined to the two of them when the gale had slightly dissipated; combining this intelligence with the information previously obtained from Orochimaru, Young Yuanzi quickly reached a conclusion.

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Her body tensed like a drawn bow; once she had roughly confirmed the direction of the Hyuga compound, Young Yuanzi's feet suddenly exploded with force, and the next instant she transformed into a streak of azure light, the force shattering the reviewing stand into rubble as she shot toward that direction.

I won't let you succeed.

? "Bah! These guys are as clingy as fleas! Just stand still and let me slash you once!" Zhao Afu complained as he hauled his greatsword, as wide as a door panel; at this moment his entire body shone with the light of "Dragon Pattern," and because these were genuine enemies, Tsukuyomi Xiaomeng had already lifted the ban, so all he needed to do now was fire at will.

Streaks of purple meteors kept flying from the top of the Hokage building, landing on enemies scattered throughout Konoha village.

Fujikawa Linnaizi barely needed to aim with any special precision—just roughly pointing toward places with fighting and firelight and firing arrows was enough; the fully activated "Dragon Pattern" made every arrow seem to possess its own consciousness, automatically locking on as it neared the enemy, refusing to stop until it pierced them through.

"Zhao Afu is being held up by enemies in the block ahead, huh? Is that Young Yuanzi?" Tsukuyomi Xiaomeng was directing Fujikawa Linnaizi to kill enemies when the azure ribbon of light streaking across the sky drew her attention.

That direction is?

"Xiaomeng?" At this moment Fujikawa Linnaizi's full attention was on the bow in her hands; constrained by the carefully drawn Dragon Pattern, the originally violent and untamable dragon-vein power was now resting quietly beneath her fair, pale skin.

"Ah, no no no, no particular target—Zhao Afu is at Electronics Street, enemy count plural." Perish.