The next day arrived quickly.
After searching all night, Ning Xue had practically turned the entire area upside down.
He searched from the dense forest in the east to the hills in the west, then circled from the river valley in the north to the wilderness in the south.
His Byakugan remained activated throughout, his vision piercing every tree, every rock, and every inch of soil as he tried to catch even the faintest trace of Yakushi Kabuto's chakra fluctuations.
Yet there was nothing.
Aside from encountering several groups of reanimated ninja and White Zetsu squads infiltrating toward the Allied Shinobi Forces, which he cleared away as nuisances, he found absolutely no trace of Yakushi Kabuto himself.
That guy seemed to have vanished into thin air, without even leaving behind a single strand of hair.
Ning Xue hovered above a barren valley, slowly deactivated his Byakugan, and let out a soft breath, his brow faintly furrowed.
"Why haven't I found him yet...?"
There was a trace of fatigue in his voice.
From yesterday afternoon until this morning, he had barely rested.
Although the chakra he had expended in battle had recovered, mental exhaustion was not so easily dispelled.
But just as he was preparing to change direction and continue his search, an urgent message suddenly entered his mind.
It came from his clone.
The instant Ning Xue received it, his pupils sharply contracted.
His body froze in midair, while gravity and a complicated emotion he himself had not noticed churned in his pure white eyes.
"...The Second Tsuchikage, the Second Mizukage, the Third Raikage, and the Fourth Kazekage?"
He repeated the names in a low voice, his tone carrying something that made sense, yet was still unexpected.
Four Kage Level experts, appearing on the Fourth Division's battlefield at the same