Instantly Killing the Snow Ninja

As the woman had predicted, the day after they deliberately spread the news, a group of pirates, under the cover of night and braving a blizzard, stormed the beach and headed straight for Snow Curtain Village.

The pirates numbered as many as fifty or sixty, and each one of them was fierce and menacing.

This terrified the villagers, who kept their doors tightly shut and huddled in their homes, trembling with fear.

"Why are you chasing me? I'm penniless. You won't get anything valuable from robbing me..."

In Snow Curtain Village, in a narrow alleyway wide enough for three people to walk side by side, the woman was surrounded from both sides, clearly having no chance of escape.

The woman appeared terrified, but inwardly remained calm and composed.

Two masked men stepped out from between the two groups of pirates.

"Princess, you've hidden yourself really well! We've been searching for you for years, and we never imagined you'd be hiding in this godforsaken place!"

The man walked towards the woman from the front, his voice filled with wild joy.

"In search of you, Princess, we have drifted at sea for years, and were eventually forced to become pirates. But even so, of the fifty men who came here, only the two of us remain."

The person behind the woman spoke with resentment in their voice.

God knows what they've been through these past few years.

The Land of Water is controlled by the Kirigakure. This group of people, being newcomers and relying on being the king's confidants, did not take the Kirigakure seriously at all. Therefore, on their first landing, they clashed head-on with the Kirigakure Ninja.

The consequence was that more than half of the once-mighty fifty royal guards were wiped out, and they had to flee back to the sea in disarray.

Having failed in their mission, they naturally lacked the courage to return. However, even if they were to venture into the Land of Water again, they would no longer have the same courage. Therefore, they could only drift along the coast, searching for an opportunity.

But things didn't go as planned; the coastal waters were teeming with pirates.

Their group was well-equipped and swaggered around the coastal waters, naturally making them easy prey. In the following month, they were attacked by no fewer than ten waves of pirates.

Despite their formidable strength, they were outnumbered and outgunned. After more than a dozen rounds of fierce fighting, their numbers were reduced by more than half.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the group had no choice but to abandon their pride, gather a motley crew, and become pirates, which gradually helped them gain a foothold.

However, after several years, despite their best efforts, they still had no news of the woman.

Just when they were beginning to give up and were considering making piracy their life's work, they unexpectedly received some news in the last few days.

This delighted the two, and they devised the plan overnight.

"So you're that traitor's henchmen." A smile appeared on the woman's lips.

Caught up in their excitement, the two failed to notice the change in her expression.

"Heaven has eyes. After all these years and at a heavy price, we have finally found you. We can finally report back to the King..."

One person became so emotional that he looked up to the sky and cried out in despair.

"Princess! Given the current situation, your chances of escape are almost zero. You'd better come back with us obediently. The King intends to help you ascend to the throne as the next Queen. What an honor that would be!"

The woman's aloof expression suddenly melted like Iceburg, revealing a smile, "I'm going back, but not with the two of you."

What does this mean?

Just as the two of them asked the question in unison, a short, sharp scream suddenly came from the group of people directly in front of the woman.

The person at the front of the line was startled and quickly turned around.

The twenty or thirty fierce pirates who had followed him were now lying on the ground, some convulsing, others looking as if they had been roasted, bleeding from their seven orifices.

"This... is impossible!!"

The man's pupils trembled with fear.

From the moment he heard the scream to the moment he instinctively turned to look, less than a third of a blink of an eye had passed.

In such a short distance, a group of no less than thirty people lay on the ground, powerless to resist. What kind of horrific method of killing is this?

At the end of the alley, bathed in wind and snow, a figure appeared.

All the remaining pirates, including the two leaders, had serious expressions, their Samurai Sword held horizontally in front of them, ready to fight.

Pushed by the wind and snow, Long Ye walked step by step.

"Boy! Who are you? Do you really intend to meddle in the affairs of my Land of Snow?"

The leader glanced at the corpses scattered on the ground, charred like charcoal, and his expression turned slightly solemn. He suppressed the urge to attack and decided to probe the enemy's strength first.

But in Long Ye's eyes, he was already a dead man, and she had no interest in wasting words with him.

The man's eyes turned sinister. "Since you're so determined to die, I have no choice but to grant your wish..."

Whoosh!

The man rushed forward and threw a punch.

This person's fist was encased in a thick layer of armor of unknown material, and the armor was shrouded in white Chakra.

Without any visible Hand Seals in the Long Ye, a current of electricity shot out from beneath his feet, like a shark fin breaking through the water, plunging across the ground.

"Lightning Release! So that's how it is!!"

Seeing this, the man immediately understood the cause of his men's deaths.

But in his view, this person succeeded only by sneak attacking, taking advantage of their unpreparedness to launch an attack from behind. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to use Lightning Release to kill no less than thirty of his men in an instant.

He did not underestimate his opponent. Seeing the lightning that plowed the ground, like a lightning serpent darting across the earth, rushing towards him, he quickly stopped his running and jumped back.

He was in mid-air, rapidly Hand Seals.

"Ice Release: Swallow Blizzard!!"

The falling snowflakes, manipulated by his Chakra, condensed into more than a dozen palm-sized snowflake-shaped darts, which flew through the air and attacked.

Long Ye cleverly dodged.

More than a dozen darts were thrown, but none of them touched his body; he dodged them with ease.

A smug smile crept across the man's lips as he changed his Hand Seals.

The darts, which should have been lost forever, miraculously returned mid-air in a "Swallow Return," heading straight for Long Ye's back.

"Hahahaha... Foolish brat! You think the Ninjutsu of my Land of Snow is so simple?"

There was no chance for Long Ye to dodge; more than a dozen darts struck his body.

The man's smile suddenly froze.

With a "bang," Long Ye's body turned into a wisp of smoke.

"This is... Clone Technique!"

The man was shocked.

"You found out too late!"

A Chakra Scalpel emerged from behind the man's neck and hooked around it, without the man noticing.

"Friend! Let's talk this out..."

The man's forehead was covered in cold sweat.

He knew he had been fooled today, encountering an unprecedented master who had appeared behind him without him even noticing.

"Laugh!!"

The knife was drawn, and blood splattered.

The man's eyes were wide with terror, and he gripped his neck tightly with both hands.

But it was clearly futile. Long Ye's scalpel, using the technique of bloodletting, had no power to stop the flow of blood.

The man fell to the ground, struggled for a moment, and then became motionless.

"Attack him together! Kill him!!"

Another Snow Ninja, witnessing the tragic death of his comrade, was so terrified that he used his Samurai Sword as Tact, shouting at his twenty-odd subordinates to launch an attack.