Boom—
A giant Fire Dragon lunged out, its target the Mist Village Chunin.
Feeling the scorching heat coming from above, the Mist Village Chunin's expression changed drastically as he dodged. He wanted to avoid the Fire Dragon's attack, but there was no time.
At the same time, because of his earlier move to break away from the fight, he had widened the distance between himself and the other Mist Ninja.
So the others had no time to help him either.
"No—"
As if foreseeing his own fate, the Mist Village Chunin let out an unwilling roar.
However, that did absolutely nothing.
The next moment, the Fire Dragon slammed into him, pinning him to the surface of the sea. Great amounts of seawater surged in, trying to swallow him up.
However, the raging flames produced after the Fire Dragon hit its enemy instantly evaporated the seawater, while also burning the Mist Village Chunin within to death.
Sensing the other party's life aura rapidly vanish, Qian murmured, "Who said Fire Release couldn't kill anyone? Didn't it just kill one?"
"Jounin Qian?!"
When several Leaf ninja saw Qian suddenly appear and instantly kill someone, they all cried out excitedly.
However, Qian paid them no attention.
After muttering, he gathered his focus and released "Wind Release: Wind Wings," letting himself drop onto the surface of the sea.
Indeed, launching asymmetrical attacks against enemies from the air could maximize his own safety, but the damage he could cause was extremely limited.
His goal was to free these Leaf ninja. Mere harassment would not do.
So he still had to fight head-on.
Bang—
Almost the instant his feet landed on the sea's surface, he drew the long blade at his waist, then used "Flash Sword Technique" and arrived in front of another Mist Village Chunin.
Whoosh—