Chapter 91

With the help of Earth Release, Mizunuki Ryosuke quickly infiltrated underground; because he lost the disguise of the Secret Technique: Demonic Mirror Illusion, there was a certain risk of being discovered.

While descending, Mizunuki Ryosuke probed the situation around him and underground.

It wasn't until he descended to a depth of nearly one hundred meters underground that he detected a clear hollow area.

At this moment, Mizunuki Ryosuke's Earth Release had also reached its limit; if he still found nothing, he would have to return the way he came.

For an ordinary ninja, even an Iwagakure ninja skilled in Earth Release secret techniques, they could at most descend twenty meters at most.

When it came to "digging holes," Mizunuki Ryosuke could be considered an "expert."

After all, the secret room under Ryosuke's house was also dug out by himself using Earth Release.

It was precisely because of such experiences that Mizunuki Ryosuke's mastery of Earth Release was so high.

Even among the five attributes of ninjutsu, his mastery of Earth Release was second only to Water Release and Wind Release.

So searching for this hidden underground hollow was not entirely due to luck.

After exhausting all his efforts, Mizunuki Ryosuke finally squeezed into this huge underground hollow.

And the moment he entered the underground hollow, Secret Technique: Demonic Mirror Illusion was used by Mizunuki Ryosuke once again.

After confirming that the disguise was correct, he then checked the situation around him, not daring to be the slightest bit careless.

Mizunuki Ryosuke knew very well that Uchiha Madara had reconnaissance experts like White Zetsu by his side, and perhaps one careless move would lead to being discovered by the other party.

Ryosuke looked around cautiously.

This was an extremely dark tunnel, and there were clear traces of artificial reinforcement in the tunnel.

And one could faintly perceive the circulation of air in the tunnel, so meeting basic survival needs was not a problem.

The tunnel continued to extend toward the underground; looking at the endless black underground passage, a flash of solemnity crossed Mizunuki Ryosuke's eyes.

It seemed that his most worried situation had occurred.

"Hoo..."

After taking a deep breath and cheering himself up in his heart, Mizunuki Ryosuke continued to move cautiously toward the depths of the tunnel.

At the same time, by the Lake of Mist.

The replacement ceremony for the Three-Tails Jinchuriki had reached the most critical moment.

Four ninjas with sealing expertise were now sweating profusely from exhaustion.

The seal used to seal the Three-Tails on Okubo Genichiro's body had already been lifted by nearly 90%.

With another 10%, the Three-Tails would completely break the seal and reveal its true form.

At this moment, the Three-Tails inside the seal seemed to feel the weakening of the seal; this breath of freedom made the Three-Tails Isobu begin to move constantly.

This caused Okubo's already extremely weak life aura to become even more withered.

Mizunuki Taki on the side had a hint of worry in his eyes, secretly praying in his heart that Okubo must hold on.

If Okubo couldn't hold on and suddenly died at this moment, the seal would instantly fail, and the Three-Tails would immediately break the seal.

You have to know that unsealing and being broken out of a seal are two completely different concepts.

After unsealing, although the Tailed Beast gains freedom, most of its chakra remains in the Jinchuriki's body and will disappear along with the Jinchuriki.

Of course, the natural death of a Jinchuriki can also have the effect of taking away the Tailed Beast's chakra.

Even if the Tailed Beast breaks out, it is a Tailed Beast that has fallen into weakness.

But if the seal is forcibly broken, what will appear is a full-body Tailed Beast, and the rampaging Tailed Beast will cause huge trouble.

Okubo Genichiro seemed to know this very well, and he also clearly knew that he had to hold on.

Just then, a violent roar reached Mizunuki Taki's ears.

"It's here!"

Mizunuki Taki's gaze suddenly froze, and the next moment, a cold aura appeared around him.

But at the moment, the Three-Tails Jinchuriki replacement was at a critical moment, and he couldn't leave.

He had to wait at least until the Three-Tails seal was completely broken before he could leave here.

Fortunately, with Mizunuki Ryosuke's previous guidance, many backup plans had been laid.

Otherwise, if he were truly ignorant and Xuanwozhang Sect suddenly killed his way out at this time, Mizunuki Taki would inevitably be dead without a chance of survival.

"Please, everyone."

After silently chanting in his heart, Mizunuki Ryosuke coughed twice while covering his mouth, and then turned his gaze back to Okubo.

Edge of the Lake of Mist.

A large number of Anbu ninjas gathered here; ninjas who could join the Anbu were all elites in Kirigakure Village.

The entire Kirigakure Ninja Village currently had about ten thousand active ninjas, more than half of whom were just Genin with insufficient talent.

There should be about three thousand Chunin, and only about 3% of Kirigakure ninjas could reach the high-level tier of ninjas—Jonin.

In battles of this level, Genin basically couldn't play any role.

So whether it was Xuanwozhang Sect or Mizunuki Taki, they tacitly excluded the "Genin."

If this were in Konoha, it would be equivalent to losing a hundred million.

But who let this be Kirigakure...

Since Xuanwozhang Sect succeeded as Anbu Minister, the scale of the Anbu had been constantly expanding under his hands.

The number of people even expanded to more than one thousand, approaching one-tenth of the entire Kirigakure ninja base!

The proportion of high-level ninjas among them was even more exaggerated.

Besides nearly a hundred Jonin, the rest of the Anbu were at the Chunin level.

This was equivalent to directly occupying one-third of Kirigakure's high-end combat power, which was truly somewhat exaggerated.

It was precisely because of this that Xuanwozhang Sect dared to openly raise the banner of rebellion.

At this moment, except for about one-fifth of the ninjas inserted into the Anbu by the Mizukage, the remaining nearly one thousand Anbu ninjas were all gathered by the shore of the Lake of Mist.

Besides that, there was also a special squad full of fierce aura led by Kaguya Ichiro.

This squad was composed entirely of elite members of the Kaguya clan; besides the clan leader Kaguya Ichiro, there were four elite-level Jonin, more than ten Jonin, and dozens of Chunin.

Most of these people had awakened the Shikotsumyaku bloodline and were experts at one-versus-two among their peers.

Coupled with the Kaguya clan's characteristic of not fearing death in battle, this team was definitely a sharp knife for tearing through enemy defensive lines.

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