Instant Kill

The sky was gradually brightening; Ye Yuexin checked the time and saw it was already past five o'clock.

The personnel assignments remained unchanged after they had split up.

He was still teamed with Might Guy and Ebisu.

However, Ye Yuexin felt this lineup was more than sufficient.

Judging by Might Guy's performance, Ye Yuexin felt he likely possessed the strength of a Chunin by now.

As for Ebisu, it seemed he even knew a few Earth Style techniques.

They had been at the Rock Ninja's forward base for nearly half an hour by now.

They had essentially mapped out all the hidden sentries.

They had been waiting for this exact hour, as their operational plan was set for five o'clock.

At the transition between night and day, this was the time when people were at their most exhausted. In a state of fatigue, both reaction time and physical strength would be diminished to a certain degree.

Suddenly, Ye Yuexin hadn't expected their luck to be so good; just as they were preparing to make their move, some Rock Ninja arrived for a shift change.

This made things even better—they could take them all out in one go.

Ye Yuexin and his team were currently hiding in a sparse patch of woods not far away.

Because of the distance, the hidden sentries had yet to discover them.

Ye Yuexin and the others stared intently at the situation ahead.

They watched as the person coming for the shift change walked up to a mound of dirt, and a figure emerged from beneath it.

The Rock Ninja's hidden sentry had been lurking under that mound.

This was a position Ye Yuexin and his team had detected long ago.

The moment the sentry appeared, Ye Yuexin's Flying Dagger Mode was instantly activated.

"Attack."

With a sharp shout, he flashed his footwork, and his body vanished in an instant.

At the same time, the two Rock Ninja immediately discovered their position and turned to look.

However, one of them would never be able to make another move, for a flying dagger radiating a cold glint was already embedded in his neck.

Ye Yuexin's control over his flying daggers had reached a terrifying level.

The moment he threw a blade, he already knew whether or not it would succeed.

Due to the distance, Ye Yuexin used his footwork to close the gap rapidly, and as soon as Flying Dagger Mode locked onto one of them, he launched the blade.

Once the dagger was released, it undoubtedly signaled the end of a life.

By now, the remaining Rock Ninja had reacted, but Ye Yuexin had already charged over.

Seeing Ye Yuexin's speed, which was so fast it appeared blurred, the ninja panicked and immediately began to retreat.

At the same time, he began to weave hand seals.

However, all of this was still too slow under Ye Yuexin's Flying Dagger Mode.

With a "thud," the retreating Rock Ninja hadn't even finished his seals before he collapsed to the ground, a flying dagger similarly lodged in his neck.

It turned out that while moving at high speed, Ye Yuexin had used the Void Rotation Technique to recall the dagger and then launched it again simultaneously.

Both of them only had the strength of Genin, so Ye Yuexin found dealing with them to be incredibly easy.

There was no need to even look for an opening.

When the flying dagger was in his hand, he could clearly feel that this strike would absolutely not miss.

Given their strength, they probably wouldn't even understand how they died.

This was the terrifying aspect of Ye Yuexin; if an opponent lacked a specific specialty, Ye Yuexin was absolutely invincible among his peers.

Furthermore, when it came to challenging those of a higher level, as long as he seized the opportunity, Ye Yuexin felt he could kill them in a single strike.

At this moment, Might Guy and the others had also reached the hidden sentry on the other side of the Rock Ninja's position, and that sentry had already discovered the situation here.

The alarm had already been sounded.

Might Guy launched straight into a Konoha Hurricane, sweeping toward the two ninjas.

But the two ninjas were no pushovers. Because they had discovered the threat early, one of them had already finished weaving hand seals in advance.

Just as Might Guy was about to kick the two of them, several earth spikes flew up from the ground.

Still in mid-air, Might Guy twisted his body, using his core strength to change his move in time.

He transitioned into the Konoha Gale, a low-spinning kick.

Might Guy's rhythm in taijutsu combat was mastered to perfection; this allowed him to successfully dodge the earth spikes while simultaneously launching an attack.

And at this moment, the other ninja's ninjutsu was also complete.

Once the ninjutsu was released, it successfully blocked Might Guy's attack.

However, it seemed there was no chance left, as a pair of hands suddenly emerged from beneath the feet of the ninja who was about to cast his own technique.

Ye Yuexin recognized this; it had to be the Earth Style: Headhunter Jutsu that Kakashi would use in the future.

The Rock Ninjas were instantly dragged into the ground by Ebisu. Snap! The necks of the two Rock Ninjas were broken with a kick.

This assault could be described as incredibly smooth.

It wasn't that Might Guy and his team were too strong, but rather that these Rock Ninjas were simply too weak.

After all, unlike genin like Might Guy and his team, these Rock Ninjas were essentially cannon fodder.

Just think about how large Konoha was and how many ninjas it possessed. Yet, how many of them actually appeared in the original story?

Not to mention those who actually had a significant role. Therefore, the elite would always be the elite.

"Boom... rumble."

A massive sound echoed, and Ye Yuexin and the others immediately looked toward the direction of the base.

The base had actually vanished.

No, it would be more accurate to say it had been encased in a spherical mass of earth.

Chakra flowed across its surface, giving it a very sturdy appearance.

It was likely that the alarm from earlier had alerted these Rock Ninjas, and after witnessing the strength of Ye Yuexin's group, they hadn't come out to rescue their comrades, but instead activated a defensive ninjutsu.

Ye Yuexin felt that this was akin to abandoning their teammates, but in the ninja world, wasn't such a thing perfectly normal?

Not everyone was like the Kakashi of the future.

To put it bluntly, it was knowing they were outmatched and fearing death.

But to put it nicely, it was called prioritizing the big picture.

"Yuexin, what do we do now?" Might Guy asked as he approached Ye Yuexin's side.

Having just witnessed Ye Yuexin's strength, both of them held him in high regard.

Any doubts they had regarding his reputation as a genius had long since vanished.

Since he was the team leader, they waited to hear Ye Yuexin's thoughts first.

"Let's go take a closer look." Faced with the current problem, Ye Yuexin had no immediate solution and could only inspect it first.

This earth sphere was almost like Gaara's Absolute Defense from the original series, with the only difference being that it lacked defense from beneath the ground.

But a problem arose.

Other than Ebisu, no one here knew Earth Style.

Ye Yuexin truly didn't dare to let Ebisu go in.

After all, they were facing Rock Ninjas, a village where almost everyone possessed Earth Style techniques.

They likely wouldn't leave such a massive loophole in their defensive technique.

There might even be traps waiting underneath.

And even if it were safe to enter, Ye Yuexin still wouldn't dare let Ebisu take the risk, as there were at least three people inside.

Furthermore, there was likely a chunin among them.

The chakra distributed across this Earth Style technique was very uniform; a genin's chakra simply wouldn't be enough to sustain it.

He didn't believe that, with Ebisu's current strength, he could handle them all at once.

The closer they got, the more they could feel the power of this earth defense. Upon closer inspection, the surface of the earth wall was incredibly smooth, feeling almost like solid stone.

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