Border Rescue

After a hurried night at the border camp in the Land of Rain.

Tsunade acted decisively and swiftly assembled the elite members of the Medical Corps, including Hyuga Tianyi, the moment dawn broke.

Traveling light and with minimal supplies, the group quietly left the border region of the Land of Rain.

They headed west into the arid hills, then stepped onto the endless expanse of the Gobi Desert.

Eventually, yellow sand began to dominate their field of vision.

The journey was long, tedious, and pressed on day and night.

The squad maintained a ninja's traveling pace.

Hyuga Tianyi silently followed at Tsunade's side.

For most of the time, he was silently practicing Electromagnetic Force.

He channeled thin strands of refined Lightning Release chakra inward.

He converted them into that faint magnetic induction.

He carefully controlled the pulling sensation of the kunai in his pack, trying to carve this feeling into his instincts.

During a brief rest stop along the way, Tianyi found Tsunade.

Master, he requested in a low voice, I need a blank sealing scroll.

Tsunade glanced at him, asked no further questions, pulled a medium-sized blank scroll from her pack, and tossed it to him.

"Don't lose it. This thing isn't cheap."

"Understood."

Tianyi caught the scroll and walked around to the far side of a sand dune, away from the others.

He untied his pack, took out the disassembled sniper rifle components, formed hand signs, and channeled chakra into the scroll's preset jutsu nodes.

Then he pressed his hand onto the disassembled sniper rifle parts.

"Seal!"

Days later, the border of the Land of Wind was already in sight.

The dryness and scorching heat in the air were even more intense, and the wind carried coarse sand grains that rattled sharply against their forehead protectors.

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