Hyuga Hoshishaku and Uchiha Rinne stood behind a massive boulder on the cliff across from the Sand Ninja camp.
Hoshishaku's eyes were half-closed as he maintained the jutsu, but he kept talking:
"Put on your Konoha forehead protectors. Something's off about this mission to eliminate the rogue ninja. It looks like the Sand Ninja are our real targets."
A moment later, he continued giving orders:
"We can't kill them later. Rinne, do you know the Temple of Nirvana Technique?"
Uchiha Rinne hurriedly replied, "I do. Uncle Kaku taught me."
"Good. That's all that matters. Use the Temple of Nirvana Technique to take down the Chunin and Genin later, then Yuto can use Earth Release to trap them."
As he spoke, his eyes suddenly opened. He turned to the two beside him and said:
"They've spotted us. Let's begin."
At once, Uchiha Rinne activated her Three-Tomoe Sharingan and formed hand seals, casting a large-scale mass genjutsu.
Genjutsu: Temple of Nirvana Technique!
Snow-white feathers appeared out of nowhere, drifting down from the sky.
It was a large-scale hypnotic genjutsu. Anyone who saw the feathers would fall asleep.
Only Chunin skilled in genjutsu and Jonin with resistance to it could avoid its effects.
Ordinary Chunin and Genin couldn't resist this A-rank genjutsu at all.
By then, the snow-white feathers had drifted down over the camp across the ravine and the surrounding area.
More than twenty Sand Ninja guarding the perimeter were hit and collapsed to the ground.
A few Chunin and Jonin skilled in genjutsu noticed what was happening and immediately shouted a warning: "We're under attack!"
The warning was useless.
Under the mass genjutsu, the affected ninja couldn't wake themselves.
At best, those who hadn't been caught could stir the chakra in the victims' bodies and force them awake.
Just then, two