[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-water-shadow-is-strong-but-excessively-caut":3,"chapter-this-water-shadow-is-strong-but-excessively-caut-this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-495":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","This Mizukage Is Strong, but Far Too Cautious",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2194806,3774,"Chapter 495","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-495",495,"\u003Cp>Subsequently, Gari nodded directly, then closed his eyes and placed his hands on the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For a time, the situation in the vicinity was all fed back into Gari's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As the saying goes, if you survive a great disaster, there must be future blessings; know shame and then be brave. After experiencing the previous failure, Gari's strength officially stepped into the threshold of Kage, that is, the \"quasi-Kage\" rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Especially his perception ability, the improvement was extremely considerable.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sure enough, under Gari's quasi-Kage level detection ability, the situation in Waterfall Lake was already clearly perceived.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"There are about four thousand ninjas ambushed in and around the lake, the location is roughly at...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After the investigation, Gari told Kitsuchi the situation in the lake one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Very good!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Subsequently, a hint of relaxed smile appeared on Kitsuchi's serious and tight face.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In a situation where combat power already had an overwhelming advantage, and after Gari's \"cheat-like\" detection, the Waterfall Ninjas who originally occupied the concealment advantage were all exposed. Kitsuchi didn't know how this battle could be lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the lake, under the personal leadership of the Waterfall Ninja leader, the elite of the Waterfall Ninjas were all gathered here.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, the actions of both sides were unexpectedly synchronized.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Waterfall Ninjas in the lake were also using perception ninjutsu to perceive the movements of the outer Stone ninjas.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Leader, they are approaching, it's the main force of the Stone ninjas!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A Waterfall ninja who was good at perception reported to the Waterfall Ninja leader with a nervous expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But with his perception ability, he certainly could not be compared with Gari, so he could only vaguely perceive the arrival of the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But as for how many people came and from which direction the other side would launch an attack, he knew nothing about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing this, the Waterfall Ninja leader's face flashed a hint of solemnity, but his performance was still relatively calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Don't worry, wait until the other side approaches... then fight, use the Waterfall Lake's...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Waterfall Ninja leader talked eloquently, and his words had a bit of the style of a great general. But before he finished speaking, a dull and low echo began to reverberate in everyone's ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This sound was as if a monster of terrifying tonnage was stepping forward and approaching slowly at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This is...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Waterfall Ninja leader was suddenly speechless, and his face was suddenly a little panicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He couldn't wait to surface from the water and saw a scene that shocked him somewhat.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because he saw: the \"mountain\" moved!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>840..\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A breeze blew quietly over the originally calm lake surface, quietly setting off some ripples.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But suddenly, the calm lake surface began to ripple, until these ripples spread into waves and raging tides, causing the entire Waterfall Lake to seem to be shaking violently, and the lake surface set off continuous waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A huge earth mountain seemed to have grown legs at this moment, and it was constantly moving toward Waterfall Lake!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This kind of scene of mountains shifting and rivers collapsing, unless seen with one's own eyes, ordinary people absolutely cannot understand the shock they will feel when facing such a scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Before the Waterfall Ninjas in the lake could be shocked, one wave after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Leader, look!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A Waterfall ninja patted the Waterfall Ninja leader's shoulder urgently, signaling him to look back.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Waterfall Ninja leader turned around, and the fear in his eyes intensified.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because on the north and south sides of Waterfall Lake, there were two collapsed earth mountains moving horizontally toward Waterfall Lake!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The two earth mountains on the left and right, like the hands of the God of Earth, seemed to be about to slap the thousands of Waterfall Ninjas in the lake to the bottom of the lake in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Earth Release: Earth Mountain Technique!!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This move, even among all the group ninjutsu of the Hidden Stone, was famous enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Especially under the simultaneous execution of multiple Stone ninjas, it was not an exaggeration to describe this move as \"mountains and rivers collapsing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Hidden Stone's purpose was already very clear: you want to use the water system of Waterfall Lake to resist stubbornly? Fine, I'll just fill the lake with the Earth Mountain Technique and force you to come out and fight head-on.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In an instant, the Waterfall Ninja leader despaired.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Facing this power of moving mountains and filling seas, he felt incomparably lost in his heart. How could this still be fought?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the situation where the Hidden Stone's opening move was a \"royal bomb,\" the Waterfall Ninjas' will to fight had been instantly disintegrated, and the subsequent battle process did not need to be mentioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A few hours later, the extremely embarrassed Waterfall Ninja leader, with the remaining soldiers and defeated generals beside him, was fleeing desperately toward the direction of the Waterfall Ninja Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This group of people looked extremely embarrassed at this moment, throwing away helmets and armor was the norm, and one of them even lost his shoes while running.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although this Waterfall Ninja leader was indecisive, he still had some means. While retreating, he gathered the retreating Waterfall Ninjas. When he fled to the Waterfall of the Waterfall, there were already more than a thousand retreating Waterfall Ninjas gathered beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The sun was setting, and the time was twilight. The Waterfall Ninja leader's face had a somewhat numb expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He never expected that the resistance gathering all the power of the Waterfall Ninjas would eventually lead to such a tragic failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>More than four thousand Waterfall Ninjas, after one battle, only more than one thousand remained. Such a defeat was probably second only to the annihilation of the entire army.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If the Waterfall Ninja leader still had a glimmer of lucky psychology before, then this bleak reality was undoubtedly equivalent to a slap in his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thinking of this, this Waterfall Ninja leader, who had the titles of \"Small Nation Overlord\" and \"Uncrowned King,\" could not help but shed tears of regret.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In a trance, he seemed to recall everything that happened on the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For a time, his body trembled slightly, and a look of fear flashed in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Mountains collapsed, rivers poured backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The vast Waterfall Lake, under the collapse of two huge earth mountains, instantly flooded, and large areas in the lake were occupied by mud and gravel. Some Waterfall Ninjas hiding in the lake were instantly crushed to pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Afterward, countless Stone ninjas suddenly killed out. The Waterfall Ninjas who met the battle in a hurry were almost routed at the first touch. Even he, the leader, had no will to fight after releasing a few ninjutsu, and collapsed and retreated.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The remaining time was basically the time for the Waterfall Ninjas to constantly flee and be chased.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In general, the gap in combat power between the Waterfall Ninjas and the Stone ninjas was objectively existing and could not be made up for, but the reason why the Waterfall Ninjas lost so miserably also had a lot to do with the Waterfall Ninja leader's improper command.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>One must know that even the Cloud ninjas, who were also one of the Five Great Nations and occupied an advantage in attributes, would try to avoid head-on confrontation with the Stone ninjas in the early stages of their previous battle with the Hidden Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Waterfall Ninjas' idea of defending by the lake was not wrong, but the mistake was that the Waterfall Ninjas wrongly estimated the Stone ninjas' ability and the strategy of full defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As the saying goes, soldiers come to block, water comes to cover; the Stone ninjas already occupied a huge advantage in attributes when facing the Waterfall Ninjas.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>With the Waterfall Ninjas' combat power, how could they fight head-on with the Stone ninjas on the battlefield?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Being routed in one battle was also a matter of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And facts also proved that commanding large-scale ninja battles was not within the ability range of this Waterfall Ninja leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In fact, although the shinobi world is vast, there are not many who possess the ability to command large-scale ninja battles.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Nothing else, the ninja's battle is fundamentally different from ordinary battles, and the Waterfall Ninjas had never experienced any decent major battles before, so it was natural for this Waterfall Ninja leader not to understand strategic command.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Perhaps it was \"no face to see the elders of Jiangdong\" after a big defeat, or it was directly hit hard in spirit by a battle and completely lost confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Waterfall Ninja leader did not rush to return to the Waterfall Ninja Village, but stopped in front of the Waterfall of the Waterfall and did not move.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As the sky turned completely dark, the Waterfall Ninjas received one good news and one bad news.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The good news was that the Stone ninjas did not choose to continue the forced march overnight like the previous few days after winning.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This meant that the Waterfall Ninjas had an extra night to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The bad news was that if there were no accidents, the Hidden Stone army, which had experienced a round of rest tomorrow, would still mercilessly break through the gates of the Waterfall Ninja Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Regardless, this news still calmed the uneasy hearts of the remaining Waterfall Ninjas.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the same time, other defeated and fleeing Waterfall Ninjas on the battlefield gradually gathered more and more at the Waterfall of the Waterfall. Finally, combined with the defeated Waterfall Ninjas gathered by the Waterfall Ninja leader at the beginning, there were actually two thousand of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In other words, in the battle of Waterfall Lake, the actual number of people lost by the Waterfall Ninjas was actually more than two thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And as for whether these two thousand people were really killed in battle, or seeing that the Waterfall Ninja building was about to collapse, knowing that there was no way to save it, they simply ran away from the battlefield and escaped into the dark side of the shinobi world to become rogue ninjas, who can say clearly?\u003C\u002Fp>",1703,"2026-06-17T05:01:42.922Z","2026-06-17T09:00:23.248Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","ef63828756ca89cf609c05d1b5a4079c2ec2968865a5d735296380722381dd40","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-496","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-494",533,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-cover.jpg"]