But what happened next truly shattered their composure.
Mo Wu and the other two rose, gathered their things, and looked ready to leave.
The Konoha shinobi found their eyes drifting toward Konoha. They all assumed the three would head for its defensive line.
Instead, to their astonishment, a Space-Time Portal slowly opened before the three. They vanished into thin air, as though they had simply evaporated, leaving no trace behind.
Neither their chakra signatures nor their figures could be found.
The six panicked, though they had not lost their judgment. One of them asked in a trembling voice, "That was Space-Time Ninjutsu, wasn't it?"
"Yeah. How are we supposed to track them now?"
For a moment, they were all shaken. As far as they knew, only Lord Yin could wield Space-Time Ninjutsu with such mastery.
While they were at a loss, a deep voice rang out. It was the captain of the operation. "One stays here and scouts. Four search the area. One goes back to report to Lord Itachi!"
The moment he finished speaking, five figures shot off in different directions.
Otsutsuki Mowu and his companions opened the other end of the Space-Time Portal directly inside Konoha's Forest of Death.
It was not that the three knew the Forest of Death particularly well. Their Byakugan had simply shown them that only one person was inside.
And from the look of it, that person was just a child with little training. She posed no threat to them.
When the three emerged from the Space-Time Portal, they no longer looked as they had before. Each had used the Transformation Technique to change their appearance and clothing.
They looked like ordinary Konoha villagers. Calmly, the three walked out of the Forest of Death and headed toward the streets in the village center.