Return to the Earth (Part One)

After Suigetsu, the second round of the third stage of the Chunin Ninja Exams finally ended after a full day of fierce battles.

Only a dozen or so candidates remained for the third round.

There should have been at least twenty-something, but some had been injured too severely during the second-round battles and simply couldn't continue participating.

And so, only that many remained.

At the inn, Mei Terumi said worriedly, "The Six-Tails has been lost, and the Akatsuki has begun moving. We need to hurry with the matter of joining forces with the Five Great Shinobi Villages!"

"No rush, no rush!"

Qi Shuang waved his hand and continued, "Although we don't know the situation of the other tailed beasts, we can at least be certain that the One-Tail, Eight-Tails, and Nine-Tails are still in Konoha, and are still safe!"

"As long as the Akatsuki hasn't gathered the Nine Great Tailed Beasts, we don't need to worry too much."

"Besides, we can use the pressure brought by the Akatsuki's gradual capture of the tailed beasts to make the other four villages see reality clearly and push the Five Great Villages to join forces!"

"Otherwise, relying on nothing but our empty words, I'm afraid it would be difficult to convince them!"

No matter how much information Qi Shuang had mastered, if he couldn't make the other four villages recognize the threat posed by the Akatsuki, they would only think it was an ordinary rogue-ninja organization and wouldn't take it seriously at all.

Now that the Akatsuki had begun moving to capture the tailed beasts, in a sense, it had helped him.

The only thing to watch out for was that the Akatsuki couldn't gather all nine tailed beasts. As long as even one of them remained in the hands of the Five