"Big Sister Lin Long's ice arts are so powerful!" A young man also clad in an Akatsuki Robe gazed toward the ice-blue forest in the distance and spoke enviously.
Suddenly, a figure rushed out of the darkness and, before the young man could react, plunged a short sword into his heart. Spiritual energy surged into the young man's body at the same instant, instantly shredding his internal organs.
"Hmph! Just a guardian. Nothing but trash!"
After the successful assassination, the black figure sneered into the young man's ear. He was an assassin under the Land of Fire's royal family. He could not be bothered to deal with ordinary cultivators; from the very beginning, he had targeted the guardians of the [Akatsuki] Organization. Now that he had finally found an opportunity, he killed one in a single stroke.
Yet in the next moment, the young man's stabbed body strangely melted away. The dagger lodged in his heart fell to the ground, because what it had struck was not the young man's body at all, but a mass of water!
At such close range, the dark figure had no way to retreat in time. He had only just taken two terrified steps backward when he saw the young man turn around while forming hand seals in front of his chest.
"Sage Art Release Severing Wave!"
Pfft! An exceedingly thin stream of water shot from the young man's mouth, instantly piercing through the dark figure's body. Its tremendous penetrating force flung him into a nearby tree. Blood and water gushed out together, staining the surrounding forest red.
On a branch nearby, the water reformed into the young man's body. He was Suigetsu, the guardian Lin Chuan had recruited into the Ninja Sect.
Water Severing Wave was a ninjutsu that fiercely sprayed a rapid,