"Good. Then that's what I'll do!"
Once he had made his decision, Qian began dealing with the captives in his hands.
Of course, he did not kill them all outright.
That would inevitably cause no small amount of waste.
Qian would never be so extravagant.
Before killing these people, he still had to draw out their Spirit Energy and Body Energy one last time, squeezing out every last bit of their remaining value.
For this, he spent more than two extra hours.
It was not because the places where these people were held were that far apart, but because the chakra his body could contain was limited. He could not extract too much chakra all at once.
To avoid waste, Qian could only pause midway and expend the excess chakra by casting the Mind Reflection Technique.
Precisely because of that, it took him a full two-plus hours.
By then, the Cloud ninja had already retreated.
It was more or less as Qian had expected. The Cloud ninja had not had the Third Raikage cover their retreat from the very beginning.
Instead, they organized a portion of their manpower to tie down the Rock Ninja on the final defensive line, while the rest swiftly withdrew under the Third Raikage's lead.
By the time Qian arrived on the battlefield, the fighting here had already reached its end. The Cloud ninja responsible for covering the retreat were almost entirely dead or wounded.
Correspondingly, only a small portion of the Rock Ninja left here remained as well.
As for the rest, Qian swept a glance toward the northwest. They had basically all gone to pursue the Cloud ninja main force.
However, Qian was not in a hurry to immediately chase after them. There was a Shadow Clone watching over that side; when he needed