A dark, skinny Stone ninja suddenly sat up. He was extremely sensitive to vibrations in the ground.
He had just felt an unusual tremor, as though someone had landed after using the Body Flicker Technique.
He scanned his surroundings but saw nothing.
Dawn was whitening the sky, but everything around him remained dim. Everyone was a dark silhouette.
"Aah!"
A scream came from behind him to one side. The dark, skinny Stone ninja hurriedly turned and saw a sword thrust through one of the night sentries from behind.
He saw an extra shadow behind the sentry. Then that shadow vanished again!
"Who's there?! Who is it?! Enemy attack!"
The dark, skinny Stone ninja rushed over to the sentry, only to discover that all five night sentries were already corpses!
The first four had been stabbed to death without making a sound. Only the last had managed to cry out.
Uchiha Ling realized that Transparent Release was excellent at concealing his body, but it could not change his weight. Enemies could detect him through vibrations.
Transparent Release transformed his body into pure water, making it difficult to exert force. At the instant he attacked, he had to deactivate
Transparent Release.
Those were its two weaknesses.
Uchiha Ling used Transparent Release to sneak behind one Stone ninja after another, severing each ninja's cervical spine with a slash before disappearing again.
After several rounds, only seven or eight members of the Stone Ninja Squadron remained.
"Stand back-to-back! Don't give the enemy a chance to ambush you!"
Hearing his captain's shout, the dark, skinny Stone ninja hurriedly stood back-to-back with a nearby teammate.
But he saw two Stone ninjas a short distance to one side lose their heads at the same time!
Human necks were tough. Anyone who regularly beheaded people knew how difficult