Completion and Return

East of the city.

Qian pulled his hand away from the leader of the last small society.

Then he snapped his fingers lightly, erasing the other man's memories of the past dozen or so seconds.

After that, he released "Genjutsu: Sharingan," activated Ame no Minaka, and vanished from the spot.

Three seconds later, the society leader came back to himself.

He looked left and right. Under the suggestion of Qian's genjutsu, he only thought he had spaced out for a moment, so he did not think any further about it.

In the shadows, Qian observed him for a while. After confirming there were no problems, he left the room.

After that, he did not stop for a moment. Once he appeared in a corner of an alley, he headed straight out of the city.

Next, he still had to hurry to the next city.

Just like that, Qian spent a day and a half using the ultra-fast flight speed of Wind Release: Wind Wings to travel through every large, medium, and small city within the Land of Earth.

That was right—every single one!

Unlike the Land of Fire, which occupied the most fertile plains in the Ninja World, the Land of Earth was mostly barren mountains and rock, so both its number of cities and its population were far lower than the Land of Fire's.

It was only because Qian had to be careful to avoid Iwagakure's surveillance while flying, often detouring through sparsely populated mountain regions.

Otherwise, he would have been even faster.

Even so, spending only a day and a half to weave a huge net across the Land of Earth was still extremely astonishing.

The only pity was that he did not know whether Roshi truly had not left Iwagakure, or whether he just happened to be