The silence all around created an eerie atmosphere, heavy with menace and danger.
Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan followed nervously behind Xia Le.
Suddenly, Xia Le stopped and raised his eyes.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Concealed by the gloomy sky, pitch-black kunai reached him in the blink of an eye.
At that very instant, Xia Le leaped up and lashed out with his right leg.
"Tempest Kick!"
A tremendous force tore through the air, unleashing a massive slash.
Clang!
The kunai shattered outright, while the massive slash swept in an arc toward the three ninja hidden behind a large tree.
Slash!
The tree was severed, and two of the men were sliced diagonally through the waist, spraying a shower of blood.
The last man clutched his severed wrist and screamed, his eyes wide with terror and shock.
At that moment, Nagato and the other two felt as though an electric current had run through them, their scalps tingling.
The figure standing before them seemed imposing and dashing, and the kick he had unleashed was unimaginably powerful.
That move.
They wanted to learn it!
Chapter 449: Teacher
One simple Tempest Kick left Nagato, his two companions, and the surviving Rain ninja shaken to their cores.
But below them, Xia Le frowned as he lowered his right leg.
The power of his Tempest Kick had dropped considerably.
Naturally, that was because this body had yet to be trained and lacked the enhancement of haki.
Perhaps the different laws of this world played a part as well.
In that brief moment of distraction, the Rain ninja hiding on the tree trunk turned into a cloud of smoke and escaped.
"He got away!"
Yahiko cried anxiously.
"I saw."
Xia Le nodded calmly.
He did not care about letting one rat escape. What mattered more now was