Inside the Hokage Tower.
Hiruzen Sarutobi was alerted by the continuous tremors.
He set down the Railgun scroll in his hand and walked to the window.
Dust kept rising in the distance.
Even from several streets away, he could hear the thunderous crash of stone hitting the ground.
"What happened?"
An Anbu swiftly appeared.
"A large quantity of stone has appeared at Jonin Fang Xu's house site."
"No transport convoy has been found."
"That stone was sent directly into the village through Space–Time Ninjutsu."
Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned.
He immediately walked over to the Telescope Technique, and the image within the Crystal Ball rapidly shifted.
Fang Xu's house site appeared within it.
Marble was still appearing without end.
Before each piece of stone landed, the Flying Thunder God Short Swords at the construction site produced fluctuations from their coordinates.
"Multiple coordinates carrying large objects at the same time."
Hiruzen Sarutobi stared at those techniques.
"A Flying Thunder God Array."
This was an advanced application method left behind by Tobirama Senju.
Even if ordinary ninja mastered the Flying Thunder God, they would find it difficult to bear the spatial pressure of transporting large objects over long distances.
Yet Fang Xu had transferred over a thousand pieces of stone in succession.
Not once had the coordinates become disordered.
Nor had a single stone fallen outside the construction site.
The hand gripping Hiruzen Sarutobi's pipe slowly tightened.
He had mastered the second stage of Flying Thunder God at seven years old.
His swordsmanship could cleave through Madara Uchiha's Complete Susanoo head-on.
His chakra reserves were several times greater than Hiruzen Sarutobi's.
Such talent could no longer be described as mere genius.
If Fang Xu wanted to contend for the position of Hokage, no one among Konoha's younger generation could compete with him.
Fortunately, Fang