Uzumaki Riori's Rise to Fame

While Shironeko and his two squads were entangled with the Sunagakure, Yichen stood quietly in a tree not far from the town, observing their battle through his Mind's Eye.

However, Yichen did not come to be a protector for the Shironeko and the others.

After the Shironeko and the others left, Yichen remained in the same spot, waiting for the person who was waiting to appear.

About ten minutes later, a figure cautiously approached the town from underground in the distance.

What arrived was a White Zetsu clone.

After carefully scouting and confirming that there were no more ninjas in the town, the White Zetsu clone then explored the surrounding area.

It focused its investigation on several locations where previous battles had taken place.

It has to be said that the White Zetsu clone is quite professional. Judging from the positions it moves in and out, its analysis of the battle situation should not be too inaccurate.

"I wonder how Black Zetsu or the White Zetsu main body taught them? Or are these abilities that the White Zetsu clone were born with?" Yichen wondered to himself.

Without disturbing the White Zetsu clone, Yichen stood quietly on the tree, using Mind's Eye to observe the White Zetsu clone busily gathering information.

After a while, the White Zetsu clone finally finished its investigation and then quickly darted off in a certain direction.

Yichen did not move, remaining quietly standing in the same spot.

Yichen's sensing range was large enough that unless the White Zetsu clone fled far away, it would be impossible for it to escape Yichen's lock-on.

The White Zetsu clone was going to check the villages near the town, all of which were within Yichen's perception range.

The full map view isn't just for show; Yichen knows exactly what the four members of the White Cat Squad are doing right now.

The White Zetsu clone also had a strong awareness of counter-tracking. When heading to the next target point, it changed direction several times and looked back several times, always on guard against being followed.

A few minutes later, the White Zetsu clone finally left completely and headed towards the nearest village guarded by Sunagakure.

It wasn't until White Zetsu clone arrived at the village that Yichen took a long detour before finally arriving at the edge of the village.

Without getting too close, Yichen observed from a distance in the shadows.

By the time Yichen arrived near the village, White Zetsu clone had barely finished his inspection.

Afterwards, Yichen followed this White Zetsu clone to all the nearby villages.

Only after White Zetsu clone finished its reconnaissance, burrowed deep underground, and disappeared completely in a certain direction, leaving Yichen's perception range, did Yichen finally smile.

As expected, this White Zetsu clone should have returned to the new base to report to the White Zetsu main body.

Yichen took out the map he had drawn lines on in the office from his Ninja Tool Pouch.

Then, using his current position as a reference, he drew another line in the direction that the White Zetsu clone had just left.

The two lines intersect at one point, and if I'm not mistaken, that location is Obito Uchiha's newest base.

"You're something else, Obito Uchiha," Yichen sneered.

However, two routes were not enough to be safe, Yichen did not go directly to the location marked on the map. Instead, he used the Light-Weight Rock Technique to quickly fly towards the Land of the Moon.

That was the main battlefield where the Iwa Ninja Anbu) surrounded and killed the Cloud ninja.

The White Zetsu clone will definitely go there too.

Although Yichen was delayed in the Land of Bears for some time, the Land of the Moon is relatively far from the Land of Earth, Iwa ninja's operation will not be short-lived, so it should still be possible to go there now.

Sure enough, when Yichen arrived in the Land of the Moon, a large-scale battle was still taking place there.

With full map vision enabled, Yichen easily located the only place in the Land of the Moon where a battle was taking place.

Unlike the Sunagakure Village, Cloud ninja Village ninja who remained in the Land of the Moon were brought together by the influence of the incident where Yichen infiltrated the Kumogakure.

The Cloud ninja were on guard.

The Iwa ninja's Anbu and the Cloud ninja engaged in a small-scale battle in the Land of the Moon.

One hundred Cloud ninja held their ground in a makeshift camp, while approximately two hundred Iwa ninja were besieging them.

Of course, this was the initial number of people. When Yichen arrived, the number of Cloud ninja had been reduced to about fifty, while the Iwa ninja had only lost less than ten.

The casualties of the Iwa ninja were mainly due to their initial underestimation of the Cloud ninja's concentration in one place.

In this battle that lasted for most of the day, one person stood out: Uzumaki Riori.

Without Uzumaki Riori, the Cloud ninja's casualties wouldn't have been so high. If the Iwa ninja had wanted to control their losses, they might not have even been able to capture the Cloud ninja camp.

As for Uzumaki Riori, she didn't do anything special. After her Purple Lightning Squad searched the original target town without success, they quickly received intelligence and arrived at the Cloud ninja camp.

When Uzumaki Riori saw the conspicuous target at the Cloud ninja camp, she immediately created hundreds of Shadow Clones.

Each Shadow Clone unleashed the only Fire Style Ninjutsu she knew: Great Fireball Jutsu, towards the Cloud ninja camp.

The Cloud ninja were stunned. In their eyes, a huge sea of fire was rapidly spreading towards their camp.

The Cloud ninja were not skilled in Defensive Ninjutsu, and they failed to completely defend against the first wave of attacks.

Fortunately, the Cloud ninja were generally very fast, and apart from a few unlucky ones, most of them managed to dodge through the gaps between the Great Fireball.

The Cloud ninja originally intended to use this wave of Great Fireball to end their counterattack, but Uzumaki Riori didn't give them the chance.

The little girl probably felt that her previous attack hadn't gone well because she didn't have enough Great Fireball, so she created a hundred more Shadow Clone.

Two hundred Uzumaki Riori and two hundred Great Fireball simultaneously slammed into the Cloud ninja camp.

This attack was repeated five times before Uzumaki Riori, after learning from her teammates that her attacks seemed to be having little effect, gave up on continuing the offensive.

Afterwards, other Iwa ninja squads arrived one after another, and began a back-and-forth war of attrition with the Cloud ninja.

There was nothing they could do; the Cloud ninja were completely taken aback by Uzumaki Riori's actions.

Both sides were engaged in a fierce back-and-forth battle.

At one point, the sound of an Exploding Tag drew the attention of Uzumaki Riori, who was throwing Shuriken.

She seemed to remember something, and created hundreds more Shadow Clone. Then, her main body gave each of these Shadow Clone an Exploding Tag.

Then, hundreds of Uzumaki Riori rushed towards the Cloud ninja camp.

After losing dozens of Shadow Clones, the remaining Shadow Clone finally stormed into the Cloud ninja camp.

These Shadow Clone did nothing else but ignite the Exploding Tag in their hands and rush towards the Cloud ninja in the camp.

Boom boom boom boom.

After that, the Cloud ninja camp was never quiet again. Hundreds of explosions rang out, eventually destroying all the camp's fortifications.

That's how the dozens of casualties among the Cloud ninja came about.

Uzumaki Riori wanted to launch a second wave of human bombs to quickly end the battle, but was stopped by Purple Lightning.

There aren't many Cloud ninja left, and most of the survivors are injured, so it's not worth wasting Exploding Tag on them.

Moreover, the Cloud ninja still have combat power; they are all powerful ninjas, and cannot be dealt with by human bombs.

However, Purple Lightning didn't let Uzumaki Riori sit idle. Instead, he patiently explained to her how to arrange the Shadow Clone's positions and how to coordinate their attacks.

Actually, the Cloud ninja were able to hold out until Yichen arrived should be attributed to Uzumaki Riori's relatively low intelligence.

It took Purple Lightning almost half a day to teach Uzumaki Riori how to attack.

When Yichen arrived at the battlefield, this was the scene he saw: hundreds of Uzumaki Riori were arranged in a square formation, shouting neat slogans, and launching wave after wave of attacks on the Cloud ninja camp.

Through his Mind's Eye, Yichen could sense that hundreds of Uzumaki Riori were standing in five rows, and they Great Fireball Jutsu in waves, row by row, from front to back.

After the last row finishes their attack, the first row will launch a second wave.

Five rounds, twenty-five rows of Great Fireball Jutsu, swept neatly towards the Cloud ninja camp.

The Cloud ninja probably had never seen Great Fireball arranged in rows. By the time the twenty-five rows of Great Fireball Jutsu ended, there were hardly any survivors left in the Cloud ninja camp.

Three powerful Elite Jonin were also standing in the camp.

There were six Jonin outside the camp. These six were quite clever and, seeing that things were not going well, they fled the camp.

Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, Yichen could sense through his Mind's Eye that the three remaining Elite Jonin in the Cloud ninja camp were standing motionless.

Yichen could guess their frustration and confusion.

With their keen eyesight, they should be able to tell that Uzumaki Riori's individual strength is not strong; an ordinary Chunin could probably defeat her.

This can be seen from Uzumaki Riori's less-than-perfect Great Fireball Formation from the very beginning.

But why would such a Chunin bring about the annihilation of these hundreds of elites?

Uzumaki Riori was truly unable to participate in the following battles, but that didn't mean she was alright.

On the contrary, after a brief moment of grief, the remaining three Cloud ninja Elite Jonin did not choose to flee. Instead, they exchanged a glance and, with remarkable coordination, charged towards Uzumaki Riori.

Just after the five rounds of the Great Fireball Jutsu were completed, the hundreds of Shadow Clones had disappeared, leaving only the last one, Uzumaki Riori, on the scene.

Three Cloud ninja Elite Jonin abandoned their chance to escape; they intended to use it to kill Uzumaki Riori.

If it were just Uzumaki Riori alone, their idea might actually have come true, but she also has Purple Lightning by her side.

With just one sentence, Purple Lightning Elite Jonin the three Cloud ninja into despair.

"Riori, use Multiple Shadow Clones to hide yourself well and don't let them find you."

"Hmm." Uzumaki Riori effortlessly created hundreds more Shadow Clone.

All the Iwa ninja present saw that the three Elite Jonin Cloud ninja Jonin paused noticeably at that moment.

But in the end, they still chose to rush towards Uzumaki Riori and the others.

As expected, the three Elite Jonin who ignored everything and focused solely on killing Uzumaki Riori's Shadow Clone were quickly killed by Purple Lightning and the others.

The three of them managed to eliminate just over a hundred Shadow Clone before they died. They didn't even know where Uzumaki Riori's real body was.

Even from a distance, Yichen could sense the despair of the three people.

As for the six Jonin who escaped from the camp earlier, three of them were already surrounded and killed by Iwa ninja.

After the battle, Purple Lightning let out a sigh of relief and said to Uzumaki Riori, "Alright, Riori, you can dispel the Shadow Clone now."

"Okay!" hundreds of Uzumaki Riori responded in unison.

But after a while, they were still there, without any response.

These Uzumaki Riori... you look at me, I look at you, both of us are a little strange.

Before the Iwa ninja could ask any questions, they started chatting amongst themselves.

Are you the original body?

"No, it's not me, are it?"

"Me neither!"

The entire arena was filled with the sounds of Uzumaki Riori asking each other who was the Shadow Clone.

Yichen:...

Purple Lightning:...

Other Iwa ninja:...

Yichen had originally planned to go out and chat with Purple Lightning for a bit, but now he gave up on that idea.

How embarrassing!

After a while, Purple Lightning finally snapped out of her daze and loudly called out to all the Uzumaki Riori, "Riori, all Shadow Clone, dispel your illusions!"

"Okay!" all the Uzumaki Riori responded in unison.

The next moment, a cloud of smoke rose. When the smoke cleared, only a bewildered Uzumaki Riori remained in the arena.

Judging from her expression, it's not hard to tell what she's thinking, "Huh, why am I still here? Why didn't I disappear?"

Everyone:...

Because the battlefield had been ravaged by Uzumaki Riori's twenty-five rows of Great Fireball, there was hardly anything left to clean up, so Purple Lightning and the others quickly left the Land of the Moon and returned to the Land of Earth.

Yichen let out a soft breath and began to wait in the shadows.

After a long time, the White Zetsu clone indeed arrived. Unlike the previous clones from the Land of Bears, this time there were more than a dozen White Zetsu clone.

They first thoroughly investigated the area to confirm that there were no ninjas before they began gathering intelligence.

The efficiency of the dozen or so White Zetsu clone was significantly higher.

They finished gathering intelligence in no time.

Finally, these dozen or so White Zetsu clone all disappeared underground, using Earth Release to leave in a certain direction.

They didn't take any detours, continuing to flee in that direction until they were eighty kilometers away, completely disappearing from Yichen's perception range.