The small, man-made sandstorm swept westward and struck a small village that very night.
The villagers thought it was an ordinary sandstorm, but it blew all night long.
Their houses were nearly buried in sand.
Lin Guang had no idea his actions had nearly wiped out a village, but even if he had known, he would not have admitted it.
A Konoha Anbu Ninja had caused the sandstorm. What did that have to do with him, Lin Guang?
"Come on, let's see whether the things have been blown out."
Once the wind and sand had passed, Lin Guang took Hyūga Jō back to the spot.
"Just about. We can get them out with a little digging."
With his Byakugan active, Hyūga Jō saw those things just twenty or thirty centimeters beneath their feet.
"They certainly ought to be close by now. I've shaved a whole pit out of this patch of sand."
Lin Guang laughed.
"Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm!"
Hyūga Jō suddenly struck toward the ground with his palm, blasting out a Ninja Forehead Protector.
Seeing this, Lin Guang silently grumbled to himself, Using Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm to dig things up-you're probably the first in the Hyuga Clan.
"This forehead protector is rather unusual. It has a musical note design."
Lin Guang spoke.
"None of the major villages would make a forehead protector like this. It was probably custom-made by some newly established small village."
Hyūga Jō spoke.
Although the forehead protector had been buried in the sand for who knew how long, it still looked very new. Lin Guang put it in his small backpack.
"Jō, dig out some of the snake corpses and gold dust too."
Lin Guang spoke.
Hyūga Jō nodded at his words, then sent another two Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palms into the ground, controlling