The Sage Body
As it turned out, time could wash away anything. After Tamura Hiroshi had spent five days keeping Ye Cang busy, the anger in her heart finally subsided below the danger threshold.
In the end, they agreed to settle things in a fight to the death once her injuries had healed. They would fight until one of them died!
Meanwhile, at Kikyō Mountain Castle, Sunagakure finally confirmed that Ye Cang and the three squads she had led were dead. The Third Kazekage even personally led a team to investigate the destroyed and abandoned experimental base.
"There are quite a few tunnels in the area, dug with Earth Release. They're very deep and could use the earth to avoid sensory ninja detecting them as much as possible. There are a lot of footprints inside; by my estimate, there were more than a hundred people."
Rasa led his team around the area, then returned to the Third Kazekage and reported his findings.
"Judging from the traces, there was no fierce battle, and there are no signs of damage from Ye Cang's Scorch Release.
"This looks more like it was blown apart with Explosive Tags. There must have been at least a thousand of them. Could it have been some kind of trap? Or Space-Time Ninjutsu?"
Chiyo crouched in the explosion crater, feeling around and studying it. She was becoming more and more puzzled.
If Ye Cang had been killed here, the traces left behind were far too strange. She would have had to be killed instantly, but there was no one that powerful in the Ninja World at present.
Moreover, they had all trained specifically to counter techniques like Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God Technique. She could not have been killed instantly by Space-Time Ninjutsu, either.
What on earth had