Dao Heart Shattered

"Don't kill her, don't kill this girl!"

In the past decade or so, Tsunade had fought against many powerful ninja, including top experts like Chiyo of Sunagakure and Demigod Hanzo.

But the pretty girl in front of her was still the most troublesome one she had encountered.

Her strength wasn't great, in fact, it was surprisingly weak. Her swordsmanship was completely unorganized, and due to her frail body and lack of strength, she was wielding her sword against Tsunade purely on instinct.

An instinctual hatred, thicker than blood.

She was probably truly from the Land of Rain.

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Tsunade parried and dodged in a flurry, while also carefully protecting the pretty girl from being harmed by her own sword or the Exploding Tags and Ninjutsu thrown by the assassins.

Jiang Feng gathered his Chakra and Internal Energy in his hands, and with a casual wave, unleashed a powerful burst of energy that stirred up Gale. This wasn't some powerful technique, just pure brute force.

The incoming Exploding Tags and various Ninjutsu were sent flying back by the Gale, and the two ninja who had charged to the front were also blasted away.

Kurenai Yuhi and Asuma reacted swiftly, using either Genjutsu or Taijutsu to subdue all the hidden assassins in an instant.

Their strength wasn't particularly high. By Konoha's standards, most of them wouldn't even qualify as Genin.

Facing an elite team led by Kurenai Yuhi and Jiang Feng, they were naturally subdued in minutes.

As the assassins were subdued, Tsunade finally subdued the pretty girl, knocking the short sword from her hand and restraining her wrists.

Even so, the pretty girl struggled desperately, unwilling to give up, trying to bite Tsunade. Her once clear and beautiful features had become distorted and terrifying.

"Who are you people, and why are you trying to assassinate Lord Tsunade!?"

Kurenai Yuhi released the restraint on one of the assassins and began her routine interrogation. If one was being assassinated, one should at least know the reason behind it.

"You Konoha murderers, you dogs, may you die a terrible death! You ruined our family and destroyed our home, I will curse you from hell..."

The interrogated assassin's sunken eyes were filled with hatred as he spat out a string of curses through gritted teeth.

The young Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi were completely bewildered. Why did these people hate Konoha so much? In their words, the righteous and glorious Konoha seemed to be responsible for every evil deed.

Tsunade and Kurenai Yuhi were both silent. The truth was already clear. These assassins were all from the Land of Rain back then...

Konoha didn't have many skeletons in its closet, but the Second Shinobi World War was one of them.

Even if you could find a thousand or ten thousand reasons to prove that Konoha had no intention of invading the surrounding small countries, the fact that the major ninja villages used the Land of Rain as their main battlefield and turned people's homes into ruins was undeniable.

Jiang Feng, on the other hand, remained expressionless. You're cursing the Konoha that participated in the Second Shinobi World War, what does that have to do with me?

I never participated in the Second Shinobi World War.

The assassin cursed, as if the illusion's restriction had loosened. He suddenly pulled a kunai from his sleeve, his face filled with hatred.

"Protect Lady Tsunade!"

Kurenai Yuhi instinctively shielded Tsunade.

Puchi!

The sharp kunai pierced the assassin's own throat. His hollow eyes still stared fixedly at Tsunade and the others. He had committed suicide.

His suicide was like a prairie fire. The remaining surviving assassins also began to kill themselves one after another, some by slitting their own throats, others by biting their tongues. For a time, blood flowed like a river, and their resentful, hollow gazes almost pierced Tsunade and the others.

Jiang Feng did not stop them. Kurenai Yuhi did not stop them either.

From a standpoint, they were enemies of Konoha. Letting them go would be causing trouble for Konoha. Crippling them and then letting them go was merely feigned mercy, and they couldn't bring themselves to kill them...

Allowing them to commit suicide was probably the best outcome.

"Puchi!"

Another sound of a sharp weapon piercing flesh, coming from behind Kurenai Yuhi.

Kurenai Yuhi suddenly turned her head, her eyes widening. She saw the invincible and awe-inspiring Sannin, Tsunade, inexplicably trembling and losing all combat power.

To the extent that a mere ordinary person, a Pretty Girl, could break free from Tsunade's restraint and stab her in the abdomen with a counter-attack.

Puchi!

The Pretty Girl gritted her teeth and pulled out the dagger, stabbing Tsunade's abdomen again. Her hatred was stronger and more resolute than those who had committed suicide.

Don't kill her...

Don't kill her...

Don't kill her!

Crimson blood flowers bloomed before her eyes, and a thick scent of blood assailed her nostrils. Tsunade's heart rate suddenly accelerated, her delicate body trembled violently, and she tried to shout that sentence with all her might, but with all her strength, only her thin lips moved a few times.

Pu!

Kurenai Yuhi instinctively struck the Pretty Girl's back with a palm.

The hand holding the dagger fell limply. The Pretty Girl collapsed into Tsunade's arms. Her internal organs were shattered by Kurenai Yuhi's palm. As a Jonin of Konoha, Kurenai Yuhi couldn't possibly know no Taijutsu.

She was dead.

She died with her eyes wide open!

My Dao heart!

Tsunade's Dao heart, already that of a walking corpse, shattered once more. Suffering from severe hemophobia, Tsunade felt dizzy, her delicate body trembling violently, and she couldn't stop retching, almost fainting on the spot. Yet, she forced herself to endure the instinctive discomfort, using all her strength to tightly embrace the corpse of the pretty girl in her arms.

The sudden chaos ended as suddenly as it began.

Kurenai Yuhi and the two young men stood there helplessly, watching the dejected and crestfallen Tsunade. It seemed as if they had done nothing wrong, yet also as if they had done everything wrong.

Jiang Feng took out a storage scroll and began placing the corpses inside. Finally, he walked up to Tsunade and pried open her pale arms one by one, placing the pretty girl's corpse into the scroll as well.

"Lend me some money..." Tsunade knelt in the blood, utterly lost.

Jiang Feng took out a stack of bills and stuffed them into Tsunade's hand.

That money wasn't enough for Tsunade to lose at a gambling table for half an hour. If it were an unlimited table, perhaps not even a minute would suffice, but it was enough to buy a dozen good coffins and prepare a solemn funeral.

"Thank you..." Tsunade's lips parted, her voice hoarse and strained.

"I'm sorry, I'm truly sorry. I didn't know she was an assassin..."

The Boss, who had returned to the kitchen to cook before the assassination began, finally emerged after everything had settled. He walked towards everyone, apologizing as he went.

Jiang Feng raised his hand and pointed at the Boss. Twenty-Four Solar Terms Shocking Spirit Finger, Awakening of Insects!

Instantly, spring thunder rumbled, awakening the dormant. A sharp bolt of lightning, a mixture of lightning-attribute Chakra and Internal Energy, shot towards the Boss.

In Say Hero Who Is Hero, this was Bai Choufei's most frequently used move, and one of the most powerful and fastest finger techniques among the twenty-four Shocking Spirit Fingers. It could also be chained with Spring Equinox and Grain Rain to form a continuous offensive.