Chapter 159: Landing

Watching the figure flying in the sky.

He had just been dazed for a moment, but Ye Cang, the team-leading Jonin, immediately reacted.

Although he marveled at the opponent's response, he didn't understand why the opponent could fly in the sky.

But these couldn't change the fact that the opponent was a Leaf Village ninja, his enemy.

There's no time to be dazed now!

"Kenichi! Send the signal immediately, notify the other teams to come and capture him together!"

"And Sha Cheng! Don't worry about the ballista over there, capturing him now is urgent!"

"Yes, Captain!"

The two subordinates who received the order had no hesitation; one began to retrieve a signal flare from his belongings, preparing to fire it.

The other also put down the scroll in his hand, no longer continuing to seal this machine.

"He flew off to the southeast, Sha Cheng! You come with me to pursue him. Kenichi, when reinforcements arrive, you'll be responsible for explaining the situation to them~"

"We'll leave markers along the way!"

Before he finished speaking, Ye Cang had already stepped forward, chasing after Dong Shilang.

His flying speed was truly too fast; if they didn't move quickly, they would soon lose his trail.

Although a ninja's sprint speed is quick, how could it compare to Dong Shilang flying in the sky!

Moreover, as the opponent's altitude kept dropping, the distance between her and him kept widening, and he would soon disappear from her sight.

"Damn it~"

She exerted force, leaping onto a taller treetop, hoping to keep him in her sight longer, while she dejectedly muttered a curse.

She really never imagined that the opponent had such a method, being able to land safely even from thousands of meters in the sky.

Although she hadn't yet seen the opponent land, just this brief observation let her be certain that he would definitely escape safely.

She had already recovered from her initial shock; by now she could be certain that the opponent wasn't truly flying, but was in a gliding state like a bird.

It would gradually lose altitude over time, until finally approaching the ground, at which point his speed would likely be very great.

Using ordinary means to land safely was obviously impossible, but she believed that since the opponent had prepared such a setup, he must have made ample preparations for what comes next.

In that case, wouldn't this ambush of hers end in futility……

While thinking these thoughts, her long legs began to exert force; without waiting for her subordinates behind her, she sprinted at top speed toward the direction where the figure was about to disappear from her field of view.

"Captain! Wait for me…… you're consuming chakra like this…… it'll be dangerous when you get close to the target!"

Behind her, the puppeteer Sha Cheng, straining with all his might to barely keep up with her steps, saw his captain once again quicken his pace.

He couldn't help but worry and said……

At the captain's current speed, by the time he catches up to the opponent, his own chakra consumption will likely be substantial.

"Sha Cheng! I'll go ahead; you follow behind~"

Completely ignoring the other's well-intentioned reminder, Ye Cang went on his own way; after just a brief word to him, he gradually faded from the other's sight.

Border of Huo Zhi Guo.

In a small river branching off from Chuan Zhi Guo, an arm at this moment protruded from beneath the water surface.

With the continuous output of chakra in his hand, a figure gradually emerged from the water.

It was Dong Shilang, who had descended from the high sky.

At this moment his whole body was soaked by the river water, and the strange-looking outfit he wore was now on him.

If an ordinary person from his previous life were here now, he would surely recognize this as the wing‑suit flight gear that often appeared on the internet in his former life.

However, compared to the wing‑suit flight gear of his previous life, his set is really rather crude.

Not only does it lack a parachute for landing, but this flight suit also has many problems, even lacking the designs that help flyers catch the wind.

If it were his previous life, an ordinary person wearing this suit and jumping from high altitude would surely be dead to a man.

It's not that he didn't want to arrange these; after searching all of Leaf Village, he simply couldn't find a suitable place to manufacture them.

The merchants who specialized in making ninja gear, upon seeing his design drafts, all shook their heads and said they were powerless.

Even the Cat Granny from Cat Village found it difficult; she merely said she could try, but…… she'd need extra pay!

This left the increasingly impoverished Dong Shilang in a bind; but thinking of his own life, he gritted his teeth, pulled out his savings, and ordered this set of equipment worth five hundred thousand taels.

When taking delivery, seeing the Cat Granny's smug smile and then watching his savings slip in half, Dong Shilang's heart was twitching nonstop—those really were his last savings!

He hadn't not considered using a parachute directly; with the technological level of this era, making a large parachute was still barely doable.

But with a parachute, once opened in midair, controlling his landing point becomes difficult; at that point, landing would likely mean being surrounded.

According to the Cat Granny, a parachute made this way would be larger than Dong Shilang imagined, and there's no guarantee it could definitely open in midair……

It might not open at all!

This……

At the same time he also considered using an unpowered hang glider, but its bulk and the need for a runway made Dong Shilang reluctantly give up, choosing instead this piece of equipment he had hardly encountered in his previous life.

Actually, his flight process wasn't, as Ye Cang imagined, relying solely on his own strength and wind; in places she couldn't see, Dong Shilang used a degree of Wind Release, which allowed him to glide smoothly through the air.

Moreover, when landing, because his speed was truly too great, he had no choice but to use this small river as a buffer, and before truly landing he also employed a Fire Release ninjutsu to slow himself down.

He was immensely relieved that he could form seals with one hand to cast ninjutsu; otherwise, he wouldn't know what state he'd be in at this moment.

Even so, he had made himself a miserable mess!