In the blink of an eye, several hours passed.
It was evening.
A torrential downpour began to fall from the sky.
Qian and the others walked through the rain and arrived in a stretch of forest.
A whole journey of slaughter and flight had left everyone utterly exhausted. They urgently needed to rest.
"Aoyama!"
Nara Sishui looked at Hyuga Aoyama beside him and spoke.
Hyuga Aoyama understood what he meant. He nodded, forced himself to focus, raised both hands before his chest, and activated his Byakugan again.
In the next instant, veins bulged on both sides of his eyes, and everything within a kilometer around him entered his field of vision.
A long while later, he deactivated the Byakugan and said in a low voice, "There are no large enemy forces within a one-kilometer radius, only a few scattered ninja keeping watch."
"Good."
Hearing this, Nara Sishui let out a slight breath of relief. Then he turned to Qian and said, "Qian, I'll leave those watchers to you. Aoyama, assist him."
"Got it."
Hyuga Aoyama answered, while Qian said nothing at all and walked straight out of the group.
The successive killings had already left him exhausted in both body and mind. Right now, Qian did not want to say a single extra word.
Seeing Qian leave, Nara Sishui nodded to Hyuga Aoyama, signaling him to follow.
Soon, the two of them left the main force.
Well.
Calling it the main force was actually no longer quite accurate.
Over the past day, to avoid being bogged down and then surrounded, they had barely stopped fleeing.
However, while this had raised their marching speed, it had also meant that many Leaf ninja who were entangled along the way received no backup. In the end, they could only be swarmed by the