The Land of Bears, Hoshigakure 2 (Continued)

But Ang paid no attention to Naruto and the other two, leaving first instead.

Inside a room in Hoshigakure, a group of children stood gathered in a circle.

They appeared to be cultivating. In their midst, what looked like a small meteorite fragment was giving off a purple glow.

Just then, the door opened, and Ang, who had witnessed the scene outside Hoshigakure, walked in.

Ang froze for a moment before his expression changed drastically. "What are you doing?"

Hearing his voice, the youths immediately snapped awake and stopped cultivating.

They all turned to look at him.

No one spoke. They only looked at him uneasily.

Ang seemed angry. "I know that everyone wants to become stronger and fight to defend Hoshigakure's honor."

"But that doesn't mean you have the right to gamble with your lives."

"You all know what excessive cultivation with this thing will lead to. Many of our companions have already collapsed because of it."

"Some of them may never be able to cultivate again. So I don't want any of you to end up like that."

No one could refute those words.

After all, it was the truth. They naturally knew that Ang was doing this for their own good.

But they were deeply unwilling to accept it. Not long ago, their Acting Star Shadow had told them that Hoshigakure was weak.

Because of that, Hoshigakure could only hide away in Death Valley and endure the contempt of others.

And because of certain problems within Hoshigakure this time, they could only post bounties to other ninja villages and ask ninjas from those villages to complete their missions for them.

At that moment, a little girl spoke up. "Ang, don't be angry. We know we were wrong."

"But if we don't become stronger quickly, Lord Akaboshi said