After half an hour of searching, Mitaraishi Anko, the examiner for the second stage of the Chunin Ninja Exams, finally heard fighting up ahead.
She immediately picked up speed and ran toward it.
Then she witnessed something she would never forget for the rest of her life.
A black-haired boy was chasing down a shinobi, relentlessly attacking him.
The boy's taijutsu was unlike anything she had ever seen, seemingly soft and harmless.
Yet every punch and palm strike he threw carried a ferocious burst of force.
That force could easily snap trees and shatter the ground.
Mitaraishi Anko knew the shinobi desperately defending himself all too well.
It was Orochimaru, her teacher, who had left her with a terror she would never forget!
Mitaraishi Anko's scalp tingled as she watched.
Who was that boy? How could he push Orochimaru this far?
He was one of the Sannin, a Kage-level powerhouse!
A boy who looked barely into his teens actually possessed strength beyond Kage level.
She could neither imagine nor believe it.
She moved closer to their battlefield again, caught a clear look at the boy's face, and froze on the spot!
"Impossible! It's him!"
"He's this strong?"
"He's only a genin!"
Once Mitaraishi Anko saw Zhou Cheng's face clearly, her mind reeled.
A genin beating a Kage-level powerhouse into submission was enough to overturn anyone's understanding of the world.
Never mind one genin-even a hundred genin were no match for a single Kage-level shinobi.
Neither their chakra reserves nor their physical strength were on the same level.
A single ninjutsu from a Kage-level powerhouse could easily kill over a hundred genin in an instant.
On the battlefield, Orochimaru grew more alarmed the longer they fought.
Zhou Cheng's bizarre taijutsu had shaken him deeply.
If Zhou Cheng's combat experience had not