"Han Guang, that's too sneaky of you!" Morino Ibiki said in disbelief.
He had originally wanted to mooch a bowl of ramen from Team 9, but not only did he fail to get any ramen, he was kicked out.
"Stop the nonsense and disappear already!" Han Guang waved his hand, looking impatient.
Morino Ibiki had barely left.
Team 9 immediately ran back to the ramen shop.
Chapter 38: The Back Mountain Explodes! Orochimaru Takes the Fall!
After the ramen shop gathering, Team 9 disbanded.
Normally, Han Guang would have gone home to relax, but this time he didn't.
He ambled all the way to the back mountain of the village, once again circling to the shady side.
"Danzo won't come again this time, right?"
To be safe, he looked around again but found no one else.
Stomp!
Stopping in front of a rock face, Han Guang extended his palm.
"Gravity Sphere, it's time to test you."
This was an unknown Ninjutsu evolved from the Rasengan. Han Guang had never tested its power before.
Chakra surged within him as he unleashed the Gravity Sphere.
Vroom~~
A pure white Chakra ball condensed in his palm, looking no different from the previous Rasengan.
But the next moment—
A sudden change occurred.
"My Chakra?"
Han Guang was shocked to find his internal Chakra pouring madly into the Gravity Sphere in his palm.
It seemed to be completely out of control!
In just a short moment, the Gravity Sphere had already absorbed a tenth of his Chakra.
"My Chakra Amount is Kage Level, even beyond—"
His heart pounding in alarm, Han Guang directly tossed the Gravity Sphere in his palm into the air.
Vroom!!!
The sphere rose into the sky, instantly generating a terrifying gravitational pull.
Crack, crack.
The rock face exploded, turning into fragments of stone that were all sucked into the sphere.
The ground shook, and cracks appeared.
"What is this?"
Han Guang's pupils constricted sharply.
He saw a horrifying scene.
The sphere in mid-air was still the same sphere, but the large amounts of mountain soil and rock being pulled by the gravity, upon contact with the sphere, vanished completely.
Where did the stones go?
"Did they drill into the sphere's interior?"
What was even more unbelievable was that even though the Gravity Sphere had been thrown, he surprisingly still had some kind of connection to it.
"My Chakra is still being sent to the sphere, transmitted from a distance?"
"No! It must be gravity!"
Han Guang guessed that he and the sphere maintained their connection through gravity, and Chakra was also transported via gravity.
It was an extremely bizarre scene.
Han Guang stood on the ground.
The rocks and soil around him cracked and rose into the air, merging into the sphere in mid-air.
But he himself was completely unharmed!
"This can't go on, I need to cut off the Chakra supply."
Looking up at the pure white Gravity Sphere, Han Guang retreated rapidly.
BOOM!!!
Deprived of its Chakra supply, the Gravity Sphere exploded directly.
A massive explosion sounded, deafening.
A dazzling bright light, like a miniature sun, was enough to blind.
The earth shook and shattered.
Han Guang bolted, his scalp tingling.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Pieces of rubble, swept up by the shockwave, flew past his head at speeds too fast for even him to see.
No!
He wasn't looking at all.
He was afraid of being blinded by the light.
"This Ninjutsu is ridiculously overpowered. Thank goodness I chose the back mountain."
Han Guang sped away, filled with lingering fear.
If he had been any slower, he would have been caught in it.
He didn't even bother to look at the extent of the destruction caused by the Gravity Sphere's explosion.
"Hoo!"
Running back home, Han Guang collapsed onto a wooden chair.
"I was just lying here, it has nothing to do with me."
The back mountain of the village had exploded!
The moment the explosion occurred, the Third Hokage rushed to the scene with a large number of Anbu.
Danzo arrived shortly after, protected by several Root ninja.
Besides the two major powers, members of other clans also arrived.
From the village's perspective, the back mountain was still there. But if one went around to the shady side of the mountain, they would find it utterly destroyed, the peak collapsed.
Hiruzen Sarutobi's brow furrowed as he surveyed the scene.
"Someone just tested some kind of forbidden jutsu here!" Danzo walked over, offering his assessment.
"Of course I know that! The question is, who was it?"
Possessing such a forbidden jutsu meant they were an extremely powerful ninja.
But the problem was, did such a ninja exist in the village?
The names of various ninja flashed through Hiruzen Sarutobi's mind as he tried to identify the person secretly testing the forbidden jutsu.
Unfortunately.
After considering all the Jonin in the village, he found no answer.
Looking at the collapsed mountain peak and the devastated ground, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt a surge of relief.
If that person had chosen to test it elsewhere instead of here, the village would definitely have been affected.
"Hokage-sama, we found nothing in the vicinity!" Suddenly, an Anbu appeared, reporting.
"Keep searching. If not in the surroundings, search among the rubble," Hiruzen Sarutobi said gravely.
He didn't believe the tester had left no trace.
The back mountain was vast; some clues should have been left behind.
About ten minutes later.
A clue was found.
Amidst the chaotic rubble, an Anbu discovered a hidden passage.
"This..."
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