A Clash of Powerhouses!

Body Flicker Technique!

Kakashi lunged at Baki.

For shinobi, speed truly let them do whatever they wanted.

The future Fastest Shinobi in the Ninja World, Minato Namikaze, had made his name through speed.

With the Flying Thunder God in one hand, he had beaten the Raikage brothers until they lost their nerve.

At this stage, Kakashi was following the same path.

"Summoning Technique!"

Tang Ping stopped and performed the Summoning Technique, calling out Taiyi.

Poof!

White mist dispersed.

A Three-Legged Crow covered in Dark Gold feathers appeared on the battlefield.

"What a huge crow!"

"It's a Summoning Beast!"

Under countless watchful eyes, the summoned Taiyi began to move.

Caw!

It spread its wings and soared into the sky.

Previously, it had always been summoned for ground combat, but they must not forget that Taiyi could fly.

Whoosh, whoosh!

As fierce winds howled.

Taiyi had already risen into the air, casting an enormous shadow below.

Taiyi's size now was utterly different from when it had taken the graduation exam a few months ago.

Back then, it had only been nearly as tall as a person, with a wingspan of merely a few meters.

Before his transmigration, it would have counted as a large bird of prey, but in the ninja world, it had been no more than small.

Now, things were different!

Its wingspan had surpassed ten meters, creating a truly astonishing spectacle.

It looked huge.

But in truth, birds had a lot of empty space in their proportions.

Its wingspan really was over ten meters, but with its wings folded, it stood only around six meters tall.

Well, that was not short.

But compared to those massive Summoning Beasts that were easily over ten meters tall, it was not even half their size—at most, around a third.

So Taiyi still had plenty of room to grow.

Caw!

Taiyi began its attack from the sky.

It spat out fireballs the size of soccer balls.

Its target?

The giant black bear on the ground, roughly two stories tall.

The reason for choosing it was naturally because attacking any other target would have been pointless.

With shinobi having their evasion abilities practically maxed out, dodging such fireballs was truly easy.

But the black bear was different.

With that cumbersome body, there was no need to worry about missing.

Boom, boom!

Fireballs exploded one after another, turning a huge stretch of ground into a sea of flames. Their power seemed World-Destroying.

Some people were even accidentally killed by this indiscriminate barrage of fireballs.

This was the terror of massive Summoning Beasts!

Their attacks grew along with their size.

If Taiyi had been the same size as during the graduation exam, it could never have caused such massive destruction.

But now that its body had grown several times larger, its destructive power had increased by more than tenfold.

And for Taiyi.

Such a terrifying attack did not consume much energy, only about as much as a C-rank ninjutsu had in the past.

Roar!

A furious roar rang out from within the sea of flames.

The enormous black bear charged out of the flames and barreled toward where Tang Ping stood.

Clearly, its beastly instincts had sensed the connection between the two.

It could do nothing to Taiyi in the air, but could it not deal with this summoner?

"It really is thick-skinned and tough,"

Tang Ping muttered from atop a tree as he watched the black bear charge toward him like a tank, smashing through trees along the way.

Yet he showed no intention of dodging.

These large ninja beasts were extremely difficult to deal with.

Because they possessed the extraordinary power known as Chakra.

They could use it to enhance their attacks, defenses, and more. That was why it had been able to charge out despite Taiyi's attacks.

An ordinary beast would have died no matter how large it was.

Just as the black bear closed in.

Boom!

A massive explosion erupted beneath it.

Exploding Tags!

Their power was no weaker than high-level Fire Release ninjutsu. Even Kage-level experts did not dare disregard their threat.

But their price was equally outrageous.

30,000 ryo per tag!

This time, Tang Ping had Yamaa Koji use five of them to set the trap.

One tag would not have done much against something this huge, so they had used up all of Team 3's stock in one go.

Oh, and Exploding Tags had a shelf life. There was no such thing as buying them once and using them forever.

When the smoke and dust from the explosion cleared.

The black bear lay on the ground in front of Tang Ping, already at death's door.

Hit at point-blank range by a trap of five Exploding Tags, even a large ninja beast was doomed.

An intelligent Summoning Beast would have dodged or defended itself.

But although this black bear possessed Chakra, it had almost no intelligence. That was why it had fallen for such a simple trap.

Otherwise, no one knew how much effort it would have taken to kill it head-on.

Of course, that was also because Team 3 had no sense of martial ethics and had directly used a devastating weapon like Exploding Tags.

It was not that the other examinees did not want to use them, but that they could not.

Poverty limited their imagination!

At 30,000 ryo apiece, they were simply beyond what genin could afford.

Even jonin would not carry many, if any at all.

But Tang Ping was different.

To him, staying alive mattered most, so naturally, the more devastating weapons he had, the better.

And he had connections, which was why he had managed to obtain five as trump cards.

Now, the results were astonishing.

In an instant, they had severely wounded the black bear that even Baki had been unable to handle.

"Tang Ping, watch out!"

At that moment, Yamaa Koji suddenly shouted.

An examinee wearing a Yugakure Ninja forehead protector had silently appeared behind Tang Ping and stabbed him with a kunai.

Poof!

Tang Ping's entire body turned into smoke and vanished.

Clone Technique!

A standard D-rank ninjutsu.

If someone possessed a Kekkei Genkai like the Byakugan, they would certainly have been able to see through it.

The problem was that the ambusher did not have such a thing.

Judging from his skill and presence, he was definitely an experienced professional assassin, not an ordinary shinobi.

Yet despite that, he had still failed miserably.

Although the D-rank Clone Technique was far inferior to the B-rank Shadow Clone Technique, if the clone merely stood motionlessly in a tree, its ability to deceive was truly impressive.

More importantly, no one had expected Tang Ping to have been using the Clone Technique as bait from the very beginning.

"Fire Release: Flame Bullet!"

A Flame Bullet the size of a wagon wheel blasted in from the side, smashing apart the Yugakure Ninja who had just launched the sneak attack.

It was Tang Ping!

As a master of the Follow-Heart Style, he would not be foolish enough to actually stand somewhere so exposed.

He had done it entirely to lure someone into attacking.

And someone had truly taken the bait.

A single C-rank ninjutsu cleanly dealt with the assassin.

Yes, the man definitely was not an examinee, but an assassin sent by another ninja village.

The entire fight ended in an instant. There was no such thing as battling for hundreds of exchanges.

This was shinobi combat.

Dangerous and fast!

This was not peacetime. The Chunin Exams were a legal killing ground, and the casualty rate of the Chunin Exams in anime was practically child's play by comparison.

"Cloth Binding Technique!"

At that moment, a strip of white cloth swept toward Tang Ping.

"Wind Release: Rending Wind Palm!"

Yamaa Koji also moved to help.

Whoosh!

A kunai shot toward Tang Ping.

The other two members of Baki's team, Juan and Yura, had made their move as well.

Kakashi and Baki were also fighting nearby. The intermittent sounds of metal clashing showed just how perilous their battle was.

Taiyi could not interfere in this kind of fight either.

Its body was too large.

If it attacked, not only would it fail to deal with the enemy, it could easily injure its allies.

Team 3 versus Baki's team!

At last, one of the biggest highlights of this exam had begun.