Clang!
Just as Haruhi was about to meet her end, a thick, snow-white male arm shot out from the ground!
With a casual flick, as though snatching up a little white rabbit, he firmly caught the shuriken in his hand.
Haruhi's life was saved!
"How could a beauty like Miss Haruhi possibly go without a gentleman's protection?" A pleasant male voice drifted up from the earth.
Then—
That man appeared!
Ye Liang burst directly out of the ground. He had used an ordinary Earth Release Ninjutsu; the Tsuchikage's estate was simply too vast, and ambushing from underground was his only way in.
"A mere insect dares control humans?" Ye Liang muttered. A vast stretch of ground began sinking, and then countless earthen spikes suddenly erupted from the churning soil!
Earth Release: Earth Prism Spike!
Not only were the two jōnin blocking the way pierced through, even the spectators who had been there were impaled through the heart by Ye Liang's attack.
"Damn bastard!"
Kitsuchi could not tolerate this. He instantly evaded Ye Liang's attack, then grabbed an emerging spike and hurled it at him.
At the same time, Ye Liang vanished from where he stood!
He touched the dancers in the courtyard, and everyone disappeared together!
As though they had never been there at all!
Kitsuchi glared furiously at the empty space, then turned his gaze into the distance. "You can't escape!"
Whoosh!
A gust of wind swept past.
In the residential district where Yahiko was, Ye Liang steadily teleported everyone there.
He had just used the Flying Thunder God Technique.
Ever cautious, Ye Liang had left shuriken engraved with seals in the residential district before setting out. Later, to prevent the dancers from being accidentally injured, he directly activated the Flying Thunder God and teleported everyone over.
"Are you