"Oh, is that so?"
Here, the Cloud Village squad leader Jonin had only just let out his taunt when a soft voice, laced with a hint of teasing, suddenly sounded beside his ear.
"What?"
Shimazu Kosuke's expression changed sharply when he heard it.
Almost by instinct, he stepped forward, putting distance between himself and the person behind him. At the same time, the Kunai in his hand spun and was caught in a reverse grip as he stabbed toward the direction the voice had come from.
Ding—
A crisp clash of metal rang out.
Qian stood there holding a long blade, precisely blocking the other man's Kunai strike.
That was right. The previous two waves of attacks had been launched by Qian.
And the Shimazu Kosuke before him had most likely deduced his identity from that dense shuriken offensive just now.
After all, the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique was a Rank A ninjutsu no matter how one looked at it, and only a handful of people had mastered it.
And during the Third Great Ninja War, he just so happened to have used this technique before.
Because of that, it was not very hard to infer his identity.
It was precisely for that reason that the provocation just now had happened.
In truth, with Qian's current strength, even if he did not show himself, he still had ways to kill all of these people, and very easily at that.
But considering the matter of profit, he still had not chosen to do that.
Compared with directly taking their lives, he wanted to squeeze out the last bit of value they had left—that was, drain their Chakra dry, and then kill them.
Having his training interrupted and being forced to come carry out this kind of mission had left him extremely