A Hall Full of Flowers Slaughters Three Thousand Guests

"The women you brought back last time were all quite pretty. You've been gone for over a week this time, so you must've been holding it in for ages, right? I get it. You should hurry on in." The bandit grinned wickedly and waved Ye Wuyue onward.

Ye Wuyue understood what he meant. He gave a vague response and headed into the stronghold.

As soon as he entered the stronghold, Ye Wuyue hid behind a tree.

"Binding Spell #58: Tracking the Sparrow!"

Ye Wuyue closed his eyes and sensed the area, discovering a place where a large number of people were gathered.

That should be the prison.

He then headed toward the place he had sensed. When he arrived, he found that it was an underground chamber.

Ye Wuyue walked straight in. None of the other bandits tried to stop him when they saw him.

Belowground, numerous women were imprisoned in the cells. Most had vacant eyes as they huddled together and sobbed quietly. Beside the cells were several rooms from which lewd sounds drifted out.

Ye Wuyue's hatred for these bandits deepened even further.

"Everyone, the chief has ordered you to gather at the gate! Anyone who isn't there in three minutes will be chopped up and fed to the dogs!" Ye Wuyue shouted.

The bandits in the cells immediately fell into chaos. Curses rang out, and after a moment, the bandits rushed out of the cells with their clothes in disarray.

Seeing this, Ye Wuyue stopped maintaining the Transformation Technique, returned to his original appearance, and drew his Zanpakuto.

"Damn it! You little bastard, how dare you trick me? I'll fucking kill you!"

When the bandits leaving the cells saw that the person delivering the message was an unfamiliar brat, they flew into a rage and charged at Ye Wuyue without a second thought.

"Scatter, Senbonzakura!"

Ye Wuyue coldly recited the Shikai command. The Zanpakuto in his hand suddenly scattered into thousands of tiny blades, beautiful as flower petals beneath the underground chamber's lights.

The next instant, every bandit charging toward Ye Wuyue was covered in countless wounds, and a line of blood appeared across each of their throats.

The group of bandits was slaughtered before they could even scream. Some of the hostages in the cells screamed in terror at the sight.

"Hado #54: Haien!" Ye Wuyue released a disc-shaped flame with one hand, burning the corpses on the ground to ashes.

Afterward, Ye Wuyue controlled Senbonzakura and destroyed the locks on every cell door.

The imprisoned hostages could hardly believe what they saw, but they did stop screaming.

Ye Wuyue was not good at dealing with people, and in a situation like this, he had even less idea what to say.

But... if I kill all the enemies, won't the problem be solved?

Without saying anything, Ye Wuyue walked out of the underground chamber. On the way, he ran into the two guards who had come rushing over. The outcome went without saying.

In less than three minutes, Ye Wuyue had dealt with every bandit in the stronghold. They were merely ordinary people; to Ye Wuyue, their combat ability was about the same as that wild boar from last night.

After Ye Wuyue opened the cell doors, the imprisoned hostages all fled down the mountain. However, just as he was preparing to leave as well, something unexpected happened.

More than a hundred bandit corpses lay scattered across the stronghold's main hall. Ye Wuyue flicked the blood from his Zanpakuto and prepared to head down the mountain.

"Water Release: Wild Water Wave!"

A small pool of water suddenly surged from Ye Wuyue's side and crashed toward him.

Ye Wuyue was instantly alerted.

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"Binding Spell #39: Circular Shield!"

A round protective barrier appeared at his side, blocking the rushing torrent.

At that moment, five ninjas wearing Kusagakure forehead protectors appeared in Ye Wuyue's field of vision. When he had used Tracking the Sparrow earlier, he had only sensed the approximate number of people and could not distinguish ninjas from ordinary people.

Ye Wuyue looked at the five ninjas before him. He could not understand why Kusagakure shinobi were here, much less why they had attacked him.

He was still wearing a Konoha forehead protector. Ordinarily, Kusagakure shinobi would not dare provoke ninja from major villages like Konoha, yet these people seemed to have no such reservations.

"Are you crazy? Have you forgotten what our mission is?"

One Kusagakure ninja suddenly shouted at the one who had attacked Ye Wuyue.

"Whether we can complete that mission or not, we're dead anyway. If we kill him now, we might still have a chance to live. Besides, we can't fulfill the conditions for completing the mission now." The ninja who had attacked Ye Wuyue gripped a kunai and stared at him as though he were about to strike again.

Listening to their conversation, Ye Wuyue was utterly confused. He had no idea what mission they were talking about.

"Forget it. If I can't figure something out, I won't think about it. You... are enemies, right?" Unable to come up with any clues, Ye Wuyue gave up thinking and asked the five Kusagakure ninja before him.

Of course, he was only asking. Since they had attacked him, he had already decided they were enemies.

The other four, who had still been hesitating over whether to attack, felt looked down upon by Ye Wuyue's words, and a hint of displeasure rose within them.

"Enemies? You've got some nerve saying that. Are Konoha brats always this arrogant? In our eyes, you're nothing more than a little bug, the kind that can be crushed with ease."

The Kusagakure ninja who had shouted earlier made his decision. He intended to try this possible way to survive. He had only joined that organization a few years ago and did not have any overwhelming commitment to completing its missions.

The five Kusagakure ninja exchanged looks and reached an agreement.

Although the hand-signless ninjutsu from earlier had startled them, they still did not take the brat before them seriously.

"Go die, brat!" One Kusagakure ninja used the Body Flicker Technique to appear beside Ye Wuyue, a cruel gleam in his eyes as the kunai in his hand slashed toward Ye Wuyue's throat.

Yet in the next instant, his target suddenly vanished from his sight. A chill ran down his back, and a bead of cold sweat slid from his forehead as his throat bobbed involuntarily.

Impossible! How could he be this fast?

"Crushed with ease? I'll return those words to you exactly as they are."

Ye Wuyue stood behind the Kusagakure ninja, his blood-stained Zanpakuto slashing down toward him.

Everything happened too quickly. The ninja's four companions had not even had time to react.

Ye Wuyue's blade came down, and two severed logs fell to the ground.

Pretty quick reflexes. Around chunin level, perhaps? Too bad. The feint failed.

Ye Wuyue turned his head. The ninja who had just been beneath his blade had already reappeared beside his four companions.

Although he had avoided Ye Wuyue's attack, that Kusagakure ninja still felt a trace of fear at Ye Wuyue's speed.

"This brat is fast. Good thing I dodged it." The ninja looked at the blade in Ye Wuyue's hand with lingering fear.

"Dodged it? Then what about this?"

Ye Wuyue extended one hand. White light swirled in his palm as a terrifying amount of energy gathered there. Although the five Kusagakure ninja had never seen such an ability before, they could sense the power behind the attack.

"Hado #88: Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō!"

A massive beam of light shot from Ye Wuyue's palm, engulfing all five Kusagakure ninja. The blinding radiance made the main hall seem as though it had no roof, as if sunlight were shining directly down from above.