Deep within the dense forest, the scorched earth was still smoking, and the air was thick with the stench of blood and charred flesh.
Moonlight streamed through the torn clouds, illuminating the ravaged land—trees had been uprooted, deep furrows had been carved into the ground, and shattered stones and broken timber lay scattered everywhere.
Several corpses lay strewn across the ruins, their blood already congealed and glinting dark red beneath the moonlight.
Dai's body lay quietly on the scorched ground.
Tianyi descended from the sky, crouched down, and gently closed those still-open eyes.
After a brief silence, he took a scroll from his robe and unrolled it on the ground.
Forming hand seals, he used Sealing Technique. The sealing runes on the scroll began to glow, slowly drawing Dai's body inside.
He rose to his feet and swept his gaze over the ninja swords scattered across the battlefield.
Nuibari, Kabutowari, Shibuki, Kiba—four ninja swords, four corpses.
He walked over to them one by one, sealing the ninja swords into the scroll along with their owners' bodies.
Of the seven ninja swords, he had obtained four. Three remained.
Magnet Release Sensory expanded to its limit, and his Byakugan opened. Invisible ripples spread outward, piercing through the forest, the hills, and the darkness.
He found them. Three chakra signatures were fleeing in different directions.
Suikazan Fuguki, Biwa Jūzō, and Hozuki Mangetsu.
He chose a direction and shot into the air.
Boom! A ring of air exploded in the sky as his figure became a streak of white lightning, flying at supersonic speed.
Suikazan Fuguki was running for his life.
He glanced back at the distant red light shooting into the heavens and cursed inwardly.
*Leaf Village had hidden itself far too well. How could someone this powerful appear by coincidence? This had