In a small village near Kirigakure, Water Country.
"Ha... ha... ha..."
Heavy panting echoed through the air. A figure sat in the gap between two houses, his body covered in mud and water, blood still visible on his face. One of his arms had already been severed.
"One section of the formation was destroyed. That bastard."
The brown-haired, warm-hearted man leaned against the wall and growled under his breath. He had spent a long time painstakingly setting that thing up.
"Even if it's destroyed, I can keep working on it. If you've got the guts, come after me again."
The warm-hearted man forced himself to stand despite the excruciating pain. He actually wasn't worried about Su Xiao coming after him, because the distance between the Land of Lightning and Water Country was too great. He had sacrificed combat power to gain such powerful mobility.
The warm-hearted man had actually expected the Hunter to come knocking long ago. He had been preparing for it for a long time, but unexpectedly, the Hunter had appeared very late.
That made the warm-hearted man sigh in relief. The other party finding him at this point in time wasn't much of a problem. He had already set up many psychic nodes in the Naruto World, and he could transmit himself freely between those nodes. As long as he still had images in his mind of the surroundings around those psychic nodes, he could transmit himself there.
After transmitting to any given psychic node, the warm-hearted man's transmission ability would enter a forty-seven-minute cooldown. Moreover, within seventy hours, he couldn't transmit to the same node twice. Doing so would trigger a psychic backlash, destroying his neurons and turning him into an idiot.
The warm-hearted man rested for a while in the gap between the houses. He