"According to the information sent by Lord Jiraiya before, we should be less than a hundred kilometers away from our destination now."

Tenzo, who served as the captain of the action force in this special mission, said these words solemnly according to the information Jiraiya had passed back through the toad not long ago.

The distance is less than a hundred kilometers, and judging from the fact that most of their troops are jounin, if everything goes well on the journey, they can arrive in less than an hour.

It will be several hours earlier than expected to arrive at the destination before this evening.

"Then, let's speed up from now on. Even if the Sannin is personally watching, accidents might happen."

Daru Yin, who is in charge of the Cloud Hidden Team, said this.

Although this mission was led by Konoha, he did not fully trust the abilities of Konoha ninjas. He wanted to end this mission quickly and pry out the information about the Two-Tails from Orochimaru.

In order to recover the two tails, Kumogakure and his team have wasted a lot of manpower and material resources. This time, nothing can be done to let Orochimaru go.

"Okay." Tianzang didn't object. He turned around and told the people behind him: "Everyone, let's speed up together."

Everyone agreed and began to exert force on their feet, increase their speed, and gallop through the forest.

Such accelerating flight lasted for about half an hour, and the mountains at the end of the forest ahead were already very close.

According to the information obtained, Orochimaru's stronghold is located among the mountains to the west of Tianno Country, adjacent to the country of samurai such as Iron Country.

Suddenly, one person from each of Konoha, Kumogakure and Sunagakure's troops jumped out and caught up with Tenzo, Daruyin and Hagura. The three looked at each other to confirm each other's thoughts, and Konoha Anbu spoke.

: "Be careful, there are eleven strong chakra reactions ahead. They are approaching us quickly and are coming towards us."

After Tianzang, Daruyin and Ye Cang heard this, their eyes froze. Ye Cang asked directly: "Can you be sure which side it is from?"

The three Anbu shook their heads.

They can only sense the powerful chakra reaction around them and cannot accurately determine the identity of the visitor.

However, with such powerful chakra, it is conceivable that these eleven people who suddenly appeared are not unknown people in the ninja world.

"He is a ninja from the land of ghosts."

In the team, a voice suddenly sounded.

Neji, who was in Kai's team, opened his white eyes and easily captured information that the sensing ninja could not detect.

However, in his Byakugan's observation, only one figure appeared. After a while, ten other people appeared in his Byakugan's field of vision.

"The land of ghosts?"

Upon hearing this answer, Tianzang and the other three people in charge of leading the team were stunned for a moment, and then their expressions darkened at any time.

Encountering ninjas from the Kingdom of Ghosts at this time, they didn't believe it was just a simple coincidence.

Moreover, according to the joint statement of the three Anbu parties, these Oni Country ninjas are obviously coming for them, which makes it even more impossible to be a so-called coincidence.

It's the other party's goal, which was them from the beginning.

"How is this going?"

Daruyin glanced at Tenzo with an unhappy look, his suspicious eyes seemed to be saying, 'Did Konoha leak the information?'

After all, it was not the first time that Konoha had leaked important information to the Kingdom of Demons.

If their action plan is exposed, it is obviously not the problem with Kumogakure and Sunagakure. They are confident that the spies planted by the Demon Country cannot become high-level officials in their village. Only Konoha, who was once the cradle of rebel ninja in the Demon Country,

Only a local village could leak such important information to the Kingdom of Ghosts.

Tenzo's face also turned ugly. He also thought of this, but as a Konoha ninja, he naturally couldn't question the higher-ups of the village.

What's more, the people involved this time were either from the ninja clan or close associates of the Hokage, and even the top executives who held the action meeting were only four people. Logically speaking, such a thing as leaking intelligence would be impossible to happen.

"Could it be that it was when we cooperated with the Kingdom of Ghosts in the last operation..."

Ye Cang couldn't help but think of something when he saw Tian Zang's ugly face.

Regarding the last battle to recapture Gaara, she did not participate. She was sitting in Sunagakure Village at that time. She only learned about some things after Gaara returned.

Tenzo shook his head and said: "Impossible. The information revealed by Scorpion was only known to us Konoha and Sunagakure at the beginning. At that time, we did not reveal anything to the people of the Kingdom of Demons."

"Did you learn about it from another source?"

Ye Cang also frowned in embarrassment.

From the current point of view, Konoha is the most suspicious, but it is not completely certain. Maybe there is a problem with Sunagakure and Kumogakure. Although the possibility is very small, it is not impossible.

You must know that the intelligence system of the Kingdom of Demons has always been very developed. Unlike being limited to its own country, the intelligence system of the Kingdom of Demons has long been deployed in many countries in the ninja world, creating a huge and sophisticated intelligence network in the ninja world.

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Perhaps it is a result deduced based on scattered pieces of information, even if such a guess is a bit nonsense.

"We don't know what it is. It's pointless to argue and blame each other. Let's all prepare for battle."

Daru Yin sighed and said "It's boring", but there was nothing in his hand. Hu held the thick two-handed dagger behind his back with one hand, took a deep breath, and gathered all the chakra in his body.

There was faint lightning beating in the middle.

Ye Cang and Tian Zang looked at each other and nodded slightly.

Indeed, now is not the time for prevarication and argument. Removing the obstacles in front of you is the top priority.

Therefore, Tianzang put his hands behind his back and silently gestured to the people behind him.

After everyone saw it, they didn't hesitate. The originally dense team suddenly dispersed, leaving enough space between two people.

The entire team's action space suddenly expanded several times.

"Stop!"

At this time, there was no need to be reminded by the sensing ninja and Neji who had the Byakugan. The three Tenzos who were in charge of leading the team also felt a very strong and heavy pressure, permeating the air, like a mountain squeezing in, causing their shoulders to slam together.

Shen couldn't help but stop.

The people scattered around also stopped, either standing on the ground, hiding behind the trees, or standing separately on the branches, looking ahead.

A dark figure appeared in their field of vision, quietly landing on the thick branch of a tree not far away, and stopped like them.

"Good afternoon, everyone from Konoha, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure."

As her footsteps paused, the long black hair on the back of the girl's head fell, and she smiled and said hello.

"You belong to Teacher Liuli..."

Kai Dingding looked at the girl with a rather shocked expression.

"Here comes a really difficult guy."

Cold sweat ran down Tianzang's face, and he forced a smile on his face, which looked very forced.

The information about the girl has been clearly recorded in Konoha.

Especially on the battlefield of Konoha two years ago, the opponent easily defeated Konoha's supporting troops with almost one person. If Jiraiya, one of the three ninjas, hadn't arrived in time, the result would have been unimaginable.

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According to the inferences of the Konoha Intelligence Group, if you want to annihilate the opponent, you must dispatch at least one of the Five Shadows and more than 3,000 elite ninjas.

And it must be fought quickly, otherwise the opponent's chakra, which is comparable to the tailed beast, can exhaust thousands of ninjas to death.

However, with the opponent's ability to combine offense and defense, it is actually very difficult to achieve a quick victory.

And fighting a war of attrition with a ninja who possesses tailed beast level chakra is the stupidest thing to do!

The opponent's attack limit may not be as high as that of her mother Uchiha Ruri, but the amount of chakra is extremely large, which is enough to make up for her lack of attack. But even if it is the so-called lack of attack, it is relatively speaking. For a flesh and blood ninja, it is also mobile.

of natural disasters.

Apart from cracking her defense from the front, any tricks may be meaningless.

"Although I know it's nonsense, I still want to ask, what do the ninjas from the Kingdom of Ghosts do to come to us?"

Tianzang asked nervously.

To be honest, he didn't want to fight this kind of battle that he wasn't completely sure of, let alone face this kind of monster that could be called a 'humanoid tailed beast'.

This was not a pain that a ninja of his level could bear.

"Don't be nervous, everyone. I'm not here to fight. I just want to invite you all to talk here. I happened to have booked a few banquet tables in a small town hotel not far away. I wonder if you can come and pay me a favor?"

Yi Ji patted the non-existent wrinkles on her clothes and sincerely extended her invitation.

"Hey, now is not the time to discuss dinner, please get out of my way!"

If it weren't for the order, Naruto felt that his inner anxiety was uncontrollable.

Zuosuke was waiting for him in front, but now someone suddenly came to disrupt the situation halfway, and it was like he was trying to tease his little patience.

"Don't say that, I just want you to make friends and be harmonious in everything -"

Before Yiji could finish speaking, lightning flashed in front of her eyes, and a figure rushed in front of her in the blink of an eye. He held the handle of the knife with both hands and waved the heavy blade that carried the power of thunder and lightning.

Ding!

The sound of metal hitting metal.

Everyone's eyes dimmed as they saw Ichiki blocking the heavy blade with the Kusanagi sword on her waist.

Ignoring the thunder and lightning transmitted to her body by the heavy blade, Yiji still had a smile on her face, but it already revealed a cold meaning.
To be continued...