The Salamander's Whereabouts

Long Ye returned to the Shinobi World and reunited with Pakura and the others.

The group went to Cedar Village and returned the Secret Ninjutsu Manual they had obtained to the village's leaders.

While at Mount Myoboku, Long Ye had already made a copy of the training method and given it to Mi Xiang to practice.

The manual was no use to him. Not just anyone could master it, and by returning it to Cedar Village under the Xuanyuan Group's name, he could collect a bounty of one hundred million.

Cedar Village had spared no expense to recover the secret art passed down through generations.

Besides, the one who had taken the Ninja Art Manual was the Raikage. Ordinary ninja organizations would never dare accept such a job. Only the Xuanyuan Group had risked trying, tempted by the hundred-million bounty.

When the village leaders saw that their ancestral secret art had truly been recovered, they were overjoyed. They kept their promise and paid the group one hundred million.

Whether the group really belonged to the Xuanyuan Group meant nothing to Cedar Village. As long as the scroll was back, they did not care who had retrieved it.

Since Long Ye had wiped out the Xuanyuan Group single-handedly, he naturally kept the entire sum.

With the hundred million he had extorted from Candle last time, his fortune now approached three hundred million—a sum an ordinary ninja could never earn in a lifetime.

The group was about to leave when an elder among Cedar Village's leaders called out to them.

"You recovered our village's Secret Ninjutsu Manual from the Raikage, so you must be formidable. I have another job I'd like to offer you, though I don't know whether you'd dare take it."

The Xuanyuan Group's leader, accustomed to this sort of