The Chunin Ninja Exams soon got underway in full swing.
The exam was still divided into three parts.
Reconnaissance, survival, and combat.
Together, those covered ninety percent of a ninja's missions.
Only those who proved themselves in all three could qualify for promotion to Chunin.
Kazan still hadn't left the Forest of Death, but his Haki kept watch over the village and its surroundings.
He watched the entire first round of the Chunin Ninja Exams.
Just as he remembered, the candidates showed off every trick they had.
Gaara's Sand Eye, Sasuke's Sharingan, Kankuro's Puppetry, the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan, and more.
The written test was difficult enough that only a handful of top students could pass it on their own.
Of course, the point wasn't to pick out top students. Konoha had planted people among the candidates who knew the answers.
The candidates first had to find those people, then obtain the answers by whatever means they could.
In other words, the real test was of a ninja's powers of observation and intelligence gathering.
Kazan had taken part in a similar test years ago. The difference was that
Ibiki Morino was the examiner this time. He had added a question to test the Genin's resolve: anyone brave enough to stick it out to the end would pass.
The children from the Forest of Death weren't afraid of that, so they all passed the first round.
The second round was more interesting.
With the Forest of Death turned into a Sacred Land, Konoha had to find another way.
In the end, they chose Konoha's Impel Down as the venue for the second round.
The prisoners were cleared out ahead of time. Each team was placed somewhere in the prison and given either the Heaven Scroll or the Earth Scroll.
To pass, they