Just as the fighting in the waters of the Land of Whirlpools temporarily came to an end, the Mist Village Hunter-nin Squad led by Karatachi Yagura completed its mission as well.
Over the past few days, the mist blanketing the entire Land of Water had carried a thick stench of blood.
One small clan after another—Steel Release, Dark Release, Crystal Release, Swift Release, and more—was either intercepted while migrating or surrounded within its own territory.
And at this moment, Karatachi Yagura finally revealed his iron-blooded, ruthless side.
The most elite killing demons of the Anbu, whose reins he had personally loosened, began their revelry.
For those clans that had already begun migrating en masse, he mercilessly issued extermination orders, slaughtering every clan member who was not a ninja.
As for the ninjas with Kekkei Genkai, aside from a few whose resistance had been too fierce, the rest were captured alive by the Anbu.
This idea had only occurred to Karatachi Yagura after he obtained Konoha's Scroll of Seals.
He had originally intended to slaughter these ninja clans completely as a warning, but several Cursed Seals in the Scroll of Seals that could forcibly control and brainwash others changed his mind.
Ordinary clan members could be killed without issue, but letting all those ninjas with Kekkei Genkai die like this would be rather wasteful.
Though these bloodline ninjas were not particularly powerful, most possessed strength somewhere between chunin and jonin. Killing them merely for intimidation was far too wasteful, especially at a time when a storm was brewing.
The original Kirigakure simply had no good methods for controlling others. Otherwise, it would not have produced so many rogue ninjas.
But things were different now.
The [Scroll of Seals] recorded quite a few Cursed Seal techniques capable of brainwashing or restraining people.