Ninja's First Appearance

And so, time passed amidst Xuan Ye's conversation with the people in the carriage.

Ten days later, a caravan appeared in a desolate area. The caravan had many wagons, and these wagons were carrying a lot of goods, all of which were very important commodities.

In a carriage in the middle of the caravan, a richly dressed middle-aged man with a broad smile looked into the distance with great delight. "We've been escorting this shipment for ten days, and we're finally almost at our destination. Now we can finally give it our all. When we sell it, we must sell it for a high price. That way, it will be worth all the hard work we've put into escorting this shipment."

The middle-aged man sitting in the carriage is Nakagawa Itta, the leader of this caravan, and a relatively successful businessman.

"Yes! Yes! I didn't expect it would take ten days to reach this small town. It was really a bit tiring!" Sitting next to Nakagawa Itta, Daigen Isseki, with a simple and honest face, nodded in agreement.

The other member of the Nakagawa Clan, Nakagawa Ichihara, who was sitting in the carriage, had a cold face, snorted, and then said nothing.

Sitting in the carriage, Xuan Ye shook his head helplessly. When he arrived at this caravan, he never imagined that they would travel for ten days straight. At one point, Xuan Ye considered leaving the caravan, but after calming down and thinking it over, he realized, "Leaving alone like this doesn't seem like a good idea!"

So I stayed quietly in the carriage. Ten days passed and we were finally almost at the caravan's destination. Once we reached that small town, I was finally able to leave.

But that afternoon, something unfortunate happened, something no one had anticipated.

Since this place was not far from the next town, there shouldn't have been any bandits around. However, just as a group of people were fantasizing about making money by buying these goods, nearly thirty people suddenly approached Xuan Ye's caravan.

Once these people approached the caravan, they surrounded it completely, so tightly that not even a mosquito could escape.

Judging from the appearance of this group of people, they were all big and burly, and some of them had several scars on their faces. The leader was carrying an eye patch, as if he had lost sight in one eye, which was why he was wearing an eye patch.

Xuan Ye, in any case, did not believe it. He did not believe that the bandit wearing the eye patch did so because he thought it was cool. After all, wearing an eye patch would affect eyesight and would be very troublesome during combat.

When Xuan Ye's caravan saw the bandits and realized they were slowly surrounding them, they stopped in their tracks and cautiously watched the bandits, as if afraid they might suddenly attack.

Xuan Ye, who was resting with his eyes closed against the carriage, opened his eyes after noticing this situation and focused all his attention on the group of bandits surrounding the caravan.

With a serious expression, he said to the people in the carriage, "A group of people have surrounded our caravan. It seems that they are bandits who have their eyes on our goods and want to rob us."

After hearing what Xuan Ye said, everyone in the carriage looked rather grim and began to secretly be wary of the bandits.

The number of guards in this caravan was actually not very large, only a dozen or so, which was almost half the number of the thirty-odd bandits. Moreover, the bandits were people who often fought and killed, and their combat experience should be much higher than that of the guards.

Therefore, everyone in the caravan gradually turned pale, and they were very wary of these bandits.

In addition to the dozen or so guards, there were nearly a hundred servants in this caravan. These people were hired by Nakagawa Itta to escort the goods. They had no fighting ability whatsoever and didn't even have a single weapon on them.

Sitting in the carriage Nakagawa Itta glanced at the bandits surrounding them outside, and then occasionally looked at the spot where Xuan Ye was sitting.

The one-eyed One-Eyed Dragon stepped out from the crowd and stopped when he was about ten meters away from the caravan, holding a bright silver broadsword in his hand.

He slightly raised the bright silver broadsword in his hand, pointed the tip of the broadsword at the location of the caravan, and shouted loudly at the caravan members, "Hand over all your valuables, or I'll let you taste what death is like."

Xuan Ye watched the group of bandits from afar. He saw the bandit leader, One- One-Eyed Dragon, step out and utter such a domineering statement. After witnessing this scene, Xuan Ye helplessly propped his head up with his hand, "Why do I run into bandits so easily? It doesn't seem like it was that long ago when I last encountered bandits!"

"Could it be that I'm the kind of person who easily attracts bandits? No, that shouldn't be the case."

Xuan Ye, who was observing the group of bandits, suddenly shouted that something was wrong. Before Nakagawa Itta in the carriage could react, he took a step and suddenly jumped onto the branch of a large tree and hid.

Nakagawa Itta and the others knew Xuan Ye's identity. They knew that Xuan Ye was actually a Genin, and Genin at that, from Konoha Village. Therefore, he must have very strong abilities. So Nakagawa Itta wasn't particularly worried when he saw the group of bandits.

After all, the number of Jonin in this world is still very small. There are basically no ninjas in remote places. Therefore, Nakagawa Itta believed that it would not be difficult for Xuan Ye to deal with this group of mountain bandits.

But why did Xuan Ye suddenly jump onto a tree branch and hide? It was because when Xuan Ye was observing the group of bandits, he suddenly noticed a faint chakra fluctuation among them.

The faint chakra fluctuations that Xuan Ye discovered meant that there must be ninjas among these bandits. However, Xuan Ye did not know whether the ninja he discovered was a wandering ninja or came from a ninja village.

If the owner of the chakra fluctuations you sense is a wandering ninja, that's fine. But if the owner of those chakra fluctuations is a ninja from a ninja village, then this matter is not so simple.