Are You Out of Your Mind?

Ye Liangnai's side.

"Good thing the Kaguya Clan are battle-crazed maniacs who aren't good at sensing."

"Otherwise, my Mist Concealment Technique wouldn't have been nearly this effective!"

"If it had been a ninja of the same level who specialized in sensing, this battle would probably have been much harder!"

After all, without the Mist Concealment Technique, his strength was only barely enough to protect himself.

And he would have been seriously injured, with far too much Chakra consumed.

"Then it's time to give him the final blow. To be safe, I'll use a Water Clone to test him!"

As the saying went, a centipede did not stop wriggling even after death.

Better to be careful. He could not joke around with his own life.

Whoosh!

The Water Clone charged out.

Just as it closed in, Kaguya Ryumura roared, "I won't fall for it again! The attack must be coming from the direction opposite the sound!"

"Don't think I can't see through your trick just because you distorted the direction of the sound!"

Then, under Ye Liangnai's bewildered gaze, he actually chose to run in the direction opposite the Water Clone.

Splurt!

The result was obvious. He missed again.

The Water Clone naturally fired another two water bullets from behind him, severely damaging his heart.

"Weren't you supposed to... attack from the direction... opposite the sound...? Why... aren't you following the pattern...?!"

Kaguya Ryumura looked at Ye Liangnai, who had appeared before him, his eyes filled with both confusion and fury.

This time, Ye Liangnai had truly attacked head-on. The direction of the sound was the direction of his attack.

"Well, I didn't expect you to choose that either!"

"I was planning to have the Water Clone feint from the front while my real body delivered a killing blow from behind!"

Ye Liangnai rubbed his nose sheepishly, sounding rather helpless.

Then, with a slash across the throat, he completely took Kaguya Ryumura's life and dispelled the Mist Concealment Technique.

Maintaining the Mist Concealment Technique consumed quite a bit of Chakra!

"Hey, hey, no way. This kid actually took down Kaguya Ryumura, who was at the Special Jonin level?"

When the Mist Ninja saw Kaguya Ryumura lying at Ye Liangnai's feet with his eyes still wide open in death, they were all utterly stunned.

Was this guy using cheats? Juzo Biwa thought.

"What concerns me more is that he was able to use the Mist Concealment Technique to kill an enemy at the Special Jonin level despite being weaker."

"When I was his age, I probably wasn't even half as monstrous as him!"

Zabuza the Demon thought this as he looked at Ye Liangnai, his gaze growing grave.

He realized that a new genius had appeared!

"The gap is a little too big! It really makes me unwilling to accept it!"

Ringo Ameyuri clenched the hilt of her blade, feeling rather powerless.

"I knew that guy hadn't gone all out during the graduation exam!"

Hozuki Suigetsu gritted his teeth, deeply unwilling to accept it.

The members of the Kaguya Clan, meanwhile, looked at Ye Liangnai with nothing but rage.

"Damn brat, give me your life!"

In an instant, several figures rushed straight at him.

Ye Liangnai was too great a threat. He had to be eliminated!

But too many people refused to let them kill Ye Liangnai.

Mei Terumi was the first to act!

"Water Release: Water Wave!"

A torrential flood surged forth, carrying overwhelming force as it swept away every member of the Kaguya Clan charging toward Ye Liangnai.

Splurt, splurt, splurt!

Naturally, Ye Liangnai would not miss the chance to finish them off.

They had wanted to kill him, so there was no reason for him to show them mercy.

In the other battle zones, the Kaguya Clan did not hold much of an advantage either.

Against the military strength of all Kirigakure, a single clan was simply too weak.

There were too many Jonin in the village. The Kaguya Clan could not hold on alone!

They were continuously forced back, their battle lines constantly shrinking as the situation became exceedingly unfavorable.

"Damn Karatachi Yagura, may you die a miserable death!!!"

In the end, after a vicious curse, the Kaguya Clan met its tragic end.

"Hah!"

"Hah!"

"Hah!"

Once the battle ended, Ye Liangnai collapsed onto the ground and began gasping for breath.

His head was covered in sweat, which continuously dripped onto the ground.

He truly did not have a single drop of Chakra left. The feeling was awful.

"Hehehe, what's wrong? Already can't go on, great genius of Kirigakure?"

Mei Terumi's teasing voice came from nearby. Yet she too looked utterly exhausted, and her condition did not seem much better than his.

As for Mei Terumi's teasing, Ye Liangnai did not even have the strength to respond.

After Tian Jia gave the order to disperse, he barely dragged his exhausted body home alongside Mei Terumi.

Then, after laboriously pulling off his clothes, he fell into the hot spring.

At that moment, only this place could make him happy.

Elsewhere!

If one had to name the greatest gain the Mist Ninja had made that day,

it was probably witnessing the rise of a monstrous genius, as well as Mei Terumi's terrifyingly resilient Water Wall Technique.

They had never seen such a frightening defensive Water Wall Technique. Not even the Kaguya Clan could break through it.

"It seems that throughout the entire battle, Mei Terumi's Water Wall Technique was never broken even once."

"Is this the strength of the Anbu commander? It's terrifying enough to make one's scalp tingle!" Juzo Biwa thought.

"Mei Terumi, a contender for Fifth Mizukage? Heh, it doesn't matter!"

"As long as she can offer me enough benefits, there's nothing wrong with pledging loyalty to a woman!"

Suikazan Fuguki, with his fierce and sinister appearance, said this.

The others mostly had similar thoughts!

But one person was focused on Ye Liangnai's Mist Concealment Technique.

That person was Zabuza Momochi!

"Most of his accomplishments today came from the Mist Concealment Technique. There must be something unusual about it!"

"One day, I must pay him a visit and ask about it. Perhaps this will be a major opportunity for me to improve my strength!"

In Kirigakure, if there was anyone who used the Mist Concealment Technique best, it was undoubtedly Zabuza.

Most of his reputation had been earned through the Mist Concealment Technique and the Silent Killing Technique.

Yet today, he had seen someone who used it even better than he did.

It stirred a powerful desire to learn within him.

Elsewhere, in the Mizukage's Office!

"Mei Terumi and Ye Liangnai, what an excellent pair of siblings!"

"In that case, let's properly 'temper' this Ye Liangnai!"

Fourth Mizukage Karatachi Yagura said with a dangerous smile on his lips.

Yuan Long was stunned at first upon hearing this, then indicated that he understood.

Yet inwardly, he was shocked. Has the Mizukage lost his mind?

Instead of rewarding a meritorious contributor, he's going to keep assigning him dangerous missions? Isn't that just chilling people's hearts?

Of course Yuan Long understood what this "tempering" meant.

It meant assigning Ye Liangnai to every dangerous mission that came up.

The more dangerous it was, the more it could "temper" a person!

But doing this would accomplish nothing except intensifying conflicts and breeding discontent.