After Neji subdued everyone, he turned his gaze toward the distant castle.
Dark clouds filled the sky as lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.
The scene looked far too much like the final stage of a dungeon-crawling game.
"Hahaha!!!"
A burst of unrestrained laughter came from within the castle.
A huge hole suddenly opened in the clouds overhead.
Bright moonlight shone down from the sky.
The beam of moonlight fell upon the castle.
An incredibly terrifying chakra surged out from within the castle.
However, because Neji had released his chakra earlier, this equally powerful chakra did not seem quite as overwhelming by comparison.
"Could that guy really have completed his training?" everyone cried out in alarm.
As everyone stared in shock, a white figure flew out of the castle.
The white figure floated in midair, bathed in moonlight. Who else could it have been but Hiruko?
"Is that the guy who declared war on the Five Great Ninja Villages? If we kill him now, will this all be over?" Yugito Nii said as she looked at Hiruko in the air.
"He seems to be absorbing the chakra within the moonlight, or carrying out some kind of ritual," Mei Terumi said, watching Hiruko.
Temari asked, "Neji, what do you think? Has he completed his training?"
"He has," Neji said calmly.
Temari looked worried. "Then what do we do? Has he become very powerful?"
"And what exactly does that jutsu of his do?"
"It sounds incredibly formidable. It can even grant immortality."
Neji smiled. "It's a jutsu riddled with flaws. There are at least eighty, if not a hundred, jutsu like that in the Ninja World."
Neji's words made Temari somewhat incredulous. "But he feels incredibly powerful. Are you sure?"
"You'll see soon enough."
Temari said nothing more.
Baki, Chiba, and Kankuro had