"Cough, cough, cough..."
Yin Jie erupted into a series of ragged coughs, blood continuously spilling from the corner of his mouth.
Even so, he forced himself to stay conscious and laboriously pointed toward the direction Yagura had been blasted away, signaling Moonshade to hurry and finish him off.
After all, they had already fought to this extent. There was no reason to spare the other side, even if it caused changes to the original plot...
Moonshade looked in the direction Yin Jie was pointing. Though she could not see anything and Yin Jie had said nothing, she roughly understood what he meant. She temporarily set aside her worries for him and swiftly searched in that direction.
A few breaths passed in an instant. After dashing several hundred meters, the fast-moving Moonshade found Karatachi Yagura, whose mask had also shattered, his entire body soaked in blood as he lay unconscious on the ground.
However, just as Moonshade fired a wind blade at the unconscious Yagura, one powerful enough to completely extinguish his life, a thick water arrow shot over at incredible speed from afar and blocked the wind blade at the critical moment before Yagura could die.
Another Kirigakure ANBU had arrived in time!
It turned out that after Yagura realized Yin Jie would inevitably pose an enormous threat to Kirigakure in the future, he had secretly used the Kirigakure ANBU's unique method to call for the teammates who had come here with him on their mission, ensuring that Yin Jie could be eliminated without fail.
Three days ago, a spy confirmed to be from Kumogakure in the Land of Lightning had stolen a piece of vital intelligence from Kirigakure.
Enraged, the Third Mizukage immediately ordered Yagura, who possessed elite jonin strength, to personally lead a team in hunting down that