Chapter 667: Go Talk to the Kazekage

The only thing he knew was that Kakashi left about three months after he disappeared, and the current Ninja World seemed to think he was dead.

"I should have left a Sand ninja just now."

Lu Chen touched his chin.

Loulan was located at the border between the Land of Wind and the Land of Fire, so it was normal to be attacked by ninjas. Previously, it could rely on the power of the Dragon Pulse to resist, but now that it had lost the power of the Dragon Pulse, it was inevitable that it couldn't withstand the attacks of those ninjas.

He killed all the Sand ninjas at once. It was estimated that when the Sand ninjas found out that this advance team had lost contact, they would immediately send other teams over.

If he had left one, it would have been fine to let the other party go back to report.

After thinking for a while, Lu Chen decided to stay in Loulan for a few more days, on one hand to continue adapting to his newly acquired abilities, and on the other hand to do a good deed to the end; he had to protect Loulan no matter what.

After all.

It was he who absorbed the Dragon Pulse energy of Loulan, causing Loulan to lose the power to deal with external enemies. Otherwise, Sara controlling the Dragon Pulse would not be something ordinary ninjas could deal with.

In the original work, the destruction of Loulan was also caused by Minato Namikaze completely sealing the Dragon Pulse, making Loulan unable to use the power of the Dragon Pulse anymore... It seemed like a good deed, but in reality, it led to the final demise of the entire Loulan.

It was equivalent to sacrificing Loulan for the stability of the Ninja World.

After Lu Chen made his decision, he looked at Sara and said, "The Sand ninjas should come again, so I will stay for another period of time. Hmm... by the way, I'll take a look at your ninjutsu practice level. Kakashi's ninjutsu is very average, so it probably won't work if you learn from him."

"Are you going to leave?"

Sara said hesitantly.

Lu Chen nodded and said, "I am a ninja; I won't stay in any place. You have to think clearly."

He naturally felt Sara's intentions, and he also learned from the other party that she had been waiting for him to return, so he had to make some response, but he couldn't stay in Loulan forever.

There were still many things he needed to do in the Ninja World.

"..."

Sara bit her lip, then took a breath, looked at Lu Chen again, smiled brightly, and said, "I am the Queen of Loulan; I don't need you to stay here forever."

Lu Chen tilted his head and looked at Sara. He was suddenly a bit curious about who Sara's father was. It seemed that Loulan had always had a queen system.

But forget it.

Don't think about those things.

Sara's will was so firm, so as a man, he shouldn't do anything that wasn't manly.

Ten days later.

In the desert outside Loulan.

Lu Chen killed a ninja of the Sand ninja team with one sword, leaving only the last one. After looking at the other party coldly, he didn't continue to chase and kill, letting the other party escape.

"Is this okay?"

Sara walked over worriedly.

Lu Chen looked at the ninja who disappeared into the desert, put away his Kusanagi sword, and said, "It's hard to say about those wandering ninjas, but in the short term, the Hidden Sand Village should not easily invade here again."

With his reputation in the Ninja World, his reappearance was enough to make the Hidden Sand Village not easily attack Loulan in the short term. However, Loulan was located at the border of two major countries, so it was inevitable that wandering ninjas would pass by.

Chunin and Genin were fine.

Sara now had the strength of an elite Chunin, and those guards were about the same, probably able to deal with some wandering ninjas, but it would be hard to say if they encountered a Jonin.

And as time went on, Loulan would sooner or later be involved in the war, so further processing was needed.

"Then..."

Sara looked at Lu Chen worriedly.

Lu Chen smiled slightly, reached out and patted her shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, I will solve this problem. I'll just go talk to the Kazekage."

"Eh?"

Sara was stunned for a moment.

Go talk to the Kazekage...?!

Although she didn't know much about the ninja world, she also knew that there were five major countries and five major ninja villages in the Ninja World, and the supreme leader of the five major ninja villages was a ninja called Kage.

If it was the Kazekage, wasn't that the leader of the Hidden Sand Village?

Sara hesitated and said, "Um, I remember you are a ninja of the Leaf, right? I heard from Kakashi that your Leaf seems to be at war with the Hidden Sand Village, so how could..."

"That is indeed the case."

Lu Chen smiled lightly and said, "The war should not be over yet, but just because the war isn't over doesn't mean we can't 'talk.' Don't worry, I will solve it."

Sara still couldn't understand, but Lu Chen's words still made her trust him instinctively.

She looked at Lu Chen and said, "Are you leaving?"

Lu Chen nodded, then smiled and said, "I will come often when I have time, but if you want to protect Loulan, you also have to become a powerful ninja."

"Yeah!"

Sara nodded vigorously.

One day later.

Lu Chen left Loulan, crossed the desert alone, and headed west.

Goal—

Land of Wind, Hidden Sand Village!

Land of Wind.

Temporary camp.

This was a small temporary camp with a total of more than two hundred people stationed there, with the purpose of harassing the border of the Land of Fire and inquiring about the intelligence of the Leaf at any time.

Ever since the Leaf's Silver Flash disappeared and the Yellow Flash replaced him, shaking the Ninja World, the offensive of the major ninja villages against the Leaf had also slowed down a lot, and they almost dared not launch a large-scale war.

Because the leaders of the major ninja villages all knew that a ninja like Minato Namikaze would exert extremely terrifying combat power once he was on a large-scale battlefield.

Small-scale battles could at least make the other party exhausted.

In a certain camp tent.

As the leader of this camp, the elite Jonin of the Hidden Sand Village, Yumura Kanzaburo, was very annoyed now.

A twenty-person detachment sent to the Land of Fire for reconnaissance lost contact a month ago, and until now, no information had been obtained. It was guessed that they had encountered Leaf ninjas and had already been defeated by Leaf ninjas.

Then.

Half a month ago, another ten-person unit he sent to occupy Loulan and prepare to transform Loulan into a front-line camp also disappeared.

This made him a bit confused about the situation, and he even suspected that the Leaf had already occupied Loulan. After hesitating for a long time, he sent a team of scout ninjas to Loulan to check the situation.

"Why haven't they come back yet..."

Kanzaburo hammered the table angrily.

The task of the scout ninjas he sent out was only to scout, not to fight. As long as they checked the situation in Loulan and the situation of the previous small team, they would return immediately. It was said that calculating the time, they should have come back long ago.

"Damn it!"

After hammering the table, Kanzaburo couldn't help but curse again.

This sentence was not cursing the scout team, but cursing the Leaf. Originally, the Third Kazekage was the strongest Kazekage of their Hidden Sand Village, and with his leadership, they were not afraid of any village.

But the Third Kazekage disappeared inexplicably, suspected to be the work of the Leaf, and the subsequent war against the Leaf also failed because a monster ninja, the Silver Flash, rose in the Leaf.

Finally...