After assessing the situation, Yechen turned his attention to finding Ito Miyuki.
"Oh, there she is."
Yechen breathed a sigh of relief when he spotted Ito Miyuki, but then his brow furrowed again.
She was in terrible shape, with wounds all over her body. Blood seeped from one side of her lower back in particular. She had clearly been badly injured.
Without wasting another moment, Yechen raced toward her, using the Flash Teleportation Technique repeatedly while throwing three shuriken.
The Iwagakure chunin fighting Ito Miyuki was just about to finish off the Konoha genin before him.
Suddenly, his hair stood on end. A sense of danger unlike anything he had ever felt closed in on him.
The Iwagakure chunin immediately abandoned his attack and used the Substitution Technique to escape.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The three shuriken exploded with thunderous blasts.
The Rock Ninja, who had escaped a short distance away, silently thanked his luck. He had dodged just in time. Otherwise, he would have been done for.
What he did not know was that Yechen had no intention of letting him go. How could Yechen not be furious after he had hurt Miyuki so badly?
Yechen formed three lightning balls and hurled them at him.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The lightning balls had an extremely wide attack range. At Yechen's current strength, their core energy erupted within a three-meter radius, gradually weakening beyond that. This was only the second level of the Nine Changes of the Thunder God.
The three lightning balls sealed off an area ten meters across. The Rock Ninja was still reeling in shock, and by the time he sensed the danger, it was too late to use another ninjutsu. He fled as fast as he could, but he was still a step too slow and was struck