Testing All the Way

Within the Land of Fire.

The Hidden Sound Village group was traveling.

The Sound Four carried a palanquin in the middle.

Yakushi Kabuto sat inside it.

They had arrived in grand force, but only a dozen or so people remained on their return.

It was rather shabby for the leader of a village.

"Stop. Stay alert!"

At Kabuto's command, all the Hidden Sound Village ninja stopped and swiftly went on guard.

The fifteen people in the woods ahead looked at one another. "What's going on?"

"Did they notice something?"

"Ah, forget it! The leader of a new village is worth a hundred million. Let's go together."

"Together!"

This group leaped out of the woods.

"Go!"

"A hundred million bounty! Hahaha!"

"A village leader with so few people? I'm meant to make this money!"

While shouting, the bounty hunters hurled numerous Kunai and Shuriken.

Everyone at the front of the group retreated, while Jirobo leaped forward and slapped the ground ahead!

Earth Release: Earth Shore Return!

With a rumbling roar, the ground ahead flipped up into a massive stone slab that blocked the attack.

After a bout of chaos, all fifteen bounty hunters lay scattered across the ground.

The Sound Four had only used a few ninjutsu.

Not all so-called bounty hunters were experts. Some banded together to rob and plunder.

Sometimes, they were lured in by information deliberately leaked by interested parties and used as cannon fodder to test their opponent's strength.

This was already the seventh group the Hidden Sound Village members had encountered on the road.

As a newly established village that dared to call itself a hidden village, many forces had been probing its strength.

But the leader of a village rarely left it, and when the Sound Shadow went to Konoha this time, more than a