The northwest border of Land of Fire, adjacent to the Gobi area of Land of Wind, is the key defense area of the Konoha border patrol team.
After Pain invaded, Konoha's border defense force was once empty. As the village was rebuilt and the ninja system resumed operation, Tsunade immediately dispatched additional manpower and strengthened border patrols to prevent other ninja villages from taking advantage of the situation and to guard against the remaining forces of Akatsuki.
That afternoon, a ten-man team patrolling this area encountered an unprecedented and strange attack.
The team was led by an experienced Jonin. It was originally just a regular border patrol, but in a canyon in the Gobi, the corpses of three Land of Wind ninjas were discovered. They died in miserable conditions, and the wounds on their bodies were very strange, not like those caused by regular Ninjutsu.
Just as the team was carefully exploring the scene, the ambush suddenly broke out.
Three men in black cloaks rushed out from the shadow of the canyon. Without any nonsense, they launched an attack directly. What made everyone in the team horrified was that the Ninjutsu used by these three men were all already in use. The famous secret technique of the dead ninja - one of them actually used the famous Magnet Release ninja move of Sunagakure who died in Third Shinobi World War ten years ago.
"Be careful! It's Magnet Release!" Jonin, the leader of the team, immediately shouted and activated the defensive barrier. However, Iron Sand's heavy rain-like attack instantly shattered the barrier. Two Genin, who were half a beat too slow to react, were penetrated by Iron Sand on the spot and fell into a pool of blood.
The battle instantly became intense. The patrol team of Konoha were all battle-experienced ninjas, and they cooperated with each other tacitly. However, facing these three strange enemies, they fell into unprecedented despair.
The most frightening thing is not the opponent's weird Ninjutsu, but the body that cannot be killed at all.
A Chunin seized the opportunity and used Explosive Tag to blow up the upper body of one of the enemies to pieces, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. According to common sense, even a strong Kage Level would suffer Even with such a severe injury, death was inevitable. But the broken body, in full view of the public, white dust quickly gathered, and the shattered body regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and recovered as before in just a few seconds, without even a trace of injury.
"How is that possible?!"
"What the hell is this?! Immortality?!"
The ninjas in the team panicked for a moment. They tried their best to attack, and even if they pierced, exploded, or cut off the enemy's body, the opponent could recover intact in an instant, as if their attacks had no effect at all. The opponent's Ninjutsu moves were fatal, and the combined attacks of Magnet Release, Puppet Technique, and Wind Release continued to increase the team's casualties.
In just ten minutes, half of the ten-man team was lost, and the remaining people were all injured and completely passive. Jonin, who led the team, knew very well that if the fight continued, the entire team would be wiped out. They didn't even understand who the other party was.
"Retreat! I will retreat and take the situation here back to the village!" The leader Jonin gritted his teeth and used all his strength Chakra to launch a wide range of Earth Release Ninjutsu, temporarily blocking the attacks of three enemies, and roared at the remaining team members.
The team members had red eyes, but they also knew that staying here would only lead to death, so they could only grit their teeth and turn around to retreat. The leader Jonin used his life to hold off the enemy. Before dying, he used Kunai to cut off one of the enemy's severed arm fragments, sealed it with a seal scroll, and threw it to the retreating team members.
In the end, only two Chunin rushed out of the canyon with all their might, taking with them the seal scroll that the captain had paid for with their lives and the horrific experience of being attacked, they ran like crazy in the direction of Konoha, not daring to stop for a moment.
Early the next morning, two injured and embarrassed Chunin finally rushed back to Konoha and broke directly into Hokage's office. They didn't even bother to salute, and gasped and roared, "Lady Tsunade! It's not good! Something happened on the northwest border! Our patrol team was attacked!"
Tsunade was processing documents. When he heard this, his expression changed instantly and he stood up suddenly. "Why are you panicking! Speak slowly, what is going on? How is the patrol? Who is the enemy?"
One of them, Chunin, choked up and recounted his experience of the attack in the border canyon, from the strange deceased Ninjutsu, to the terrifying regeneration ability that cannot be killed or blown to pieces, to the squad The whole army was wiped out, and he spoke clearly, and finally took out the seal scroll tremblingly and handed it over. "This is what the captain brought back with all his life. The enemy's body fragments, we saw with our own eyes that even if they were blown to pieces, they can grow back instantly and cannot be killed at all!"
Tsunade's face became more and more solemn. He took the seal scroll and inserted Chakra with his fingertips. He instantly felt the strange Chakra fluctuations in the arm fragment inside, as well as a very uncomfortable and cold breath.
She immediately pressed the communicator on her desk and said in a deep voice, "Immediately notify the person in charge of Shikaku, Kakashi, Shikamaru, and Anbu to go to the conference room for an emergency meeting, immediately!"
A few minutes later, all the core executives of Konoha rushed to the conference room. After they listened to the patrol team's report and looked at the arm fragments, everyone's faces became extremely ugly.
"The Ninjutsu of the dead Sunagakure ninja also has the ability to regenerate without death..." Kakashi's brows furrowed tightly, Sharingan narrowed his eyes slightly, his tone full of concentration. Zhong, "This is too weird. I have never heard of such a secret technique. Even Orochimaru's Living Corpse Reincarnation cannot achieve this level of instant regeneration, let alone the Kekkei Genkai of a long-dead ninja."
"Could it be someone from Akatsuki?" the person in charge of Anbu asked, "After Pain died, the remaining forces of Akatsuki have been operating in the dark. Could it be a new trick they came up with?"
"It's not like that." Shikaku shook his head and tapped his fingers on the table, "We all have detailed information on the members of Akatsuki. No one has the ability to use the dead Ninjutsu and regenerate without death. And the other party used Sunagakure's dead ninja's Magnet Release. This is not something that ordinary secret techniques can do."
Shikamaru stood aside with a serious expression on his face, and he quickly sorted through all the possibilities in his mind. He searched through all the forbidden spell records and Shinobi World secrets in his mind, but could not find any corresponding spells. Undying regeneration and using the dead Kekkei Genkai, these two characteristics combined together completely exceeded their knowledge of Ninjutsu.
"The most troublesome thing is this immortal regeneration ability." Tsunade said solemnly, "Even if the body is blown to pieces, it can recover instantly, and conventional attacks cannot kill them at all. If there are more than these three enemies and appear on a large scale, we have no way to deal with it. The top priority is to first figure out what this thing is, what its regeneration mechanism is, and whether there is a way to crack it."
"Medical Squad and the research team are already waiting. I will send this fragment over first and let them conduct a comprehensive inspection to see if they can find any clues." Shizune said immediately.
"Okay, go immediately." Tsunade nodded and handed the seal scroll to Shizune, "Use the highest priority and get the test results out as quickly as possible. If you find anything, report it immediately."
Shizune took the scroll and ran out quickly. Everyone in the conference room was still discussing various possibilities, but all the speculations had no sufficient basis, and they could only wait for the test results to come out.
But none of them expected that this seemingly ordinary body fragment would bring an unprecedented impact to Konoha's research class.