Five days passed in a flash.
The results of the Survival Trial were soon out.
Beyond all expectations, ten teams-a total of thirty people-passed the test this time!
The Grass Ninja, Waterfall Ninja, and Rain Ninja were all wiped out, demonstrating both the brutality of this exam and the genuinely poor quality of the ninja trained by these small Shinobi Villages.
Yet of those thirty people, the host, Konoha, accounted for only nine, a truly shocking result.
Besides them, three Sound Ninja and three from Kirigakure advanced. All the rest were candidates from Sunagakure-a full fifteen of them!
When the results came out, the representatives of the various Shinobi Villages all wore different expressions, their thoughts unknown.
Even Konoha, which had organized these Joint Chunin Ninja Exams, probably never expected anything like this to happen.
After all that hard work, had they merely paved the way for someone else?
Fortunately, the exam was not over yet, and the final outcome remained unknown. Otherwise, Konoha would have suffered a tremendous loss of face.
In addition, rumor had it that after the Survival Trial ended, the Kazekage went alone to meet the Hokage. Outsiders did not know exactly what they discussed, only that the Kazekage looked very displeased when he came out. Was he dissatisfied even with these results?
Of course not!
Rasa had gone to see Hiruzen Sarutobi only because the person he sent to contact Orochimaru had disappeared.
He did not know exactly what had happened, so he took this opportunity to probe whether the Hokage knew anything.
But Hiruzen Sarutobi was already nursing a headache over Orochimaru. He largely suspected that Orochimaru was responsible for the disappearance of Sunagakure's assistant examiner, but there was no way he would tell Rasa.
Wouldn't that be handing someone leverage over him on