Go Plus Ultra ( all might line )

The hidden sand camp that was razed to the ground is already in a mess.

There are traces of the cruelty of Shukaku's rampage everywhere, and the entire forest has been turned into barrenness, and it has long been difficult to see what the original camp looked like.

In the air that was originally a camp but is now a wasteland, the cold chakra of Shukaku still remains, and the pressure has not disappeared from here.

Where Shukaku stood before, there is now a ninja wearing a black overcoat standing.

This person is the current leader of the sand hidden ninja village, and also the most outstanding and powerful ninja in the sand hidden ninja village— 3rd Kazekage.

On the barren land, black dust was scattered, and he looked at a comatose Priest who fell to the ground next to him.

The skin of the Priest's whole body was burned, but his vitality recovered at an abnormal speed.

Even for him, the third Kazekage, it was an extremely surprising scene.

"If it were an ordinary Jinchūriki, he would be dead already... What a tenacious guy."

He muttered to himself.

Shukaku is a tailed beast that, their Sand village Ninja Village has, had since ancient the times.

But because the power of the tailed beast is too great, for ordinary ninjas, not to mention getting close, just looking at it from a distance will make everyone feel fear.

Therefore, it is necessary to seal the tailed beast in the human body with the sealing technique, treat this human being as a sacrificial jinchūriki, seal up the power of the tailed beast, and use it when necessary.

And this Priest is Jinchūriki of Shukaku, the one tail of Sand Village.

"Lord Kazekage!"

A large group of sand ninjas rushed here, roughly four to five hundred of them, all elite ninjas from Sand Village.

One of the jounin came up and saw that Jinchuriki's condition was fine, with a look of relief on his face, and looked at the leader 3rd Kazekage with admiration and respect.

3rd Kazekage nodded to these sand ninjas.

"As expected of Kazekage-sama, Shukaku should be stable for a while now."

Facing the judgment of this jounin, 3rd Kazekage shook his head and said: "How can it be so easy, Bunpuku is still unwilling to cooperate. If this guy is willing to cooperate, I will not use other methods to stimulate Shukaku."

Bunpuku is the name of this Priest.

As a jinchūriki, he has a very good relationship with the tailed beast Shukaku who is sealed in his body. Therefore, Shukaku has been sealed very stable for these years.

But there are problems.

Blessings and compassion, he is a person who doesn't like fighting.

For this reason, in the past when the Second Kazekage Shamon ruled Sand village, the Second Kazekage imprisoned Bunpukuku in order to militarize the power of Shukaku, studied the power of Shukaku in his body, and developed a series of Magnetic Style Ninjutsu.

Even so, Bunpuku did not succumb to the Second Kazekage.

After the death of the Second Kazekage Shamon, his disciple, the Third Kazekage, succeeded to the throne. Naturally, he also inherited the will of the previous Kazekage, thinking about how to militarize the Tailed Beast.

This time is an attempt, trying to use the power of the Tailed Beast to catch Konoha by surprise and skim over the rich resources of the Land of Fire.

However, the effect is not very good. Due to Bunpuku's lack of cooperation, Shukaku's mood has been very unstable recently. If he hadn't sensed that there was a problem with the sealing formula, he would not have rushed here immediately to seal the runaway Shukaku back into Jinchūriki's body.

"What should we do next, Kazekage-sama?"

The ninja asked.

"Ignore the matter of Jinchuriki, there is always a way to get this stubborn guy, Bunpukuku, to cooperate. What happened to the Konoha Ninja who appeared here?"

It didn't take much effort to suppress Shukaku, after all, his ninjutsu was developed for this.

Compared to the fact that Shukaku's position was exposed, the Konoha ninja suddenly came to attack here. 3rd Kazekage thinks this is the key point.

Dispatch the Tailed Beast to the battlefield. This matter must be done secretly, so that the Konoha Ninja can be defeated with lightning speed and invade the hinterland of the Kingdom of Fire.

"We don't know, the group of Konoha ninjas came to attack suddenly."

Jonin who answered was also a little ugly.

The matter of the Tailed Beast should be the top priority, and there is no risk of it being leaked.

"Re-investigate the personnel here."

3rd Kazekage issued such an order.

"yes!"

Jōnin nodded solemnly.

Currently, it is more likely that there are ghosts in the village.

"By the way, what should be done about those Konoha ninjas who escaped?"

"Don't worry about those Konoha ninjas, when I came, I already sent a force to hunt them down. I believe good news will come back soon."

3rd Kazekage looked into the distance with calm eyes, full of confidence in the sand ninja who was dispatched to hunt down the Konoha ninja.

The Jounin nodded, and carried the Priest who had fainted on the ground on his shoulders.

"Then, Kazekage-sama, I'll go down first and resettle Jinchuriki."

"Go, I will increase the guard strength appropriately in the future, so that there will be no more accidents like this time."

"yes!"

•••

The country of rivers, the bottom of the forest cliff.

"ah!"

Kunai was put into the enemy's chest, Shiraishi also took a heavy breath, took a step back, then sat on the ground tiredly, clutching his blood-red flank.

"These guys are really tough...Windblade?"

Easily leaving such a deep the mouth on his body strengthened by natural energy, the Wind Blade used by Sand elite ninjas is indeed an extremely sharp ninjutsu.

Shiraishi frowned, a faint green light lingered on the palm covering his side, and began to heal the wound.

Beside him, Ruri and Ayane were also sitting out of breath, their clothes were covered with dust, and they ate Food pills to restore the Chakra.

Around them, there were twenty-one sand ninjas lying in a pool of blood, and Kunai and shurikens were also scattered everywhere.

Among them, there are three Jonin who lead the team, and the rest are all Chunin.

To annihilate this army here, The 3 of them also paid a heavy price.

Shiraishi healed the wound on his flank, touched the ninja bag, and found that the contents were almost emptied, leaving only two sealed scrolls and an experimental bottle for collecting Shukaku chakra.

"Is there any more Food Pills left?"

Using physical jutsu will not consume chakra, but medical ninjutsu does require chakra, but there is no Food pill in his ninja bag.

Even if it is made with local materials, he has to take into account the sand ninjas can come to attack any time.

"It's gone, it was the last one just now."

Ayane replied apologetically.

Ruri also shook her head, the main function of the Food pill is to fill the hunger, and the chakra recovery is only used for emergency.

Even the special Food pill made by Shiraishi has a limited amount of chakra recovery.

Shiraishi sighed helplessly, had no choice but to prop up his body with difficulty, and walked to the sand ninjas who fell to the ground to see what equipment they could use in their ninja tool bags.

Luckily, he touched the first corpse. In his ninja bag, there were still a few unbroken kunai and two explosive tags.

Shiraishi put all these into his ninja tool bag.

Suddenly, a sand ninja who fell to the ground suddenly opened his eyes, with the sharp wind swirling around his hand, he swung the wind blade towards Shiraishi's body.

Shiraishi was taken aback, he didn't expect that there was another person pretending to be dead here.

Without even thinking about it, he tilted his body, and a few hairs fluttered down.

Shiraishi couldn't help but a trace of cold sweat dripped down his face, and rolled out in embarrassment.

The sand ninja was so powerful that his whole body was stained with blood, and his face was ferocious like a ghost, rushing towards Shiraishi.

Boom!

A fireball hit him.

Sand Shinobi had no time to defend, struggled and screamed in the fire, and finally collapsed powerlessly, turning into a black, charred corpse.

Ruri took a deep breath, looking even more exhausted.

The fireball just now had almost used up her last chakra.

Continuing to consume chakra will be fatal.

"Idiot, you can't even tell the difference between the dead and the living."

"I am sorry."

Shiraishi got up from the ground in embarrassment, and patted the dust on his clothes.

As he spoke, he continued to touch the corpse, but with the lessons learned from before, Shiraishi was much more careful when touching the corpse.

Before touching a corpse, throw a kunai out first, to see if someone is still cheating on the corpse.

Fortunately, this worry is unnecessary, only one of these sand ninjas did not die completely just now.

In the end, Shiraishi got 40 or 50 kunai and shuriken combined hits, 16 Food pills, and about 10 explosive tags.

He brought them in front of Ruri and Ayane, who no longer wanted to move, and began to distribute the spoils.

Ruri and Ayane were also not polite, mainly because they were too embarrassed this time.

16 Food pills, Shiraishi and Ayane took 4 each, and Ruri took half because of the high consumption of ninjutsu.

The three of them directly used up Food pills on the spot to replenish chakra.

After recovering, Shiraishi is going to use the healing technique to treat the wounds of Ruri and Ayane.

"No need, these are minor injuries, I can bear it."

Ruri picked up the white bandage and wrapped her bleeding calf and arm skillfully. Even though the pain from the wound was deep, she didn't frown.

"Ruri is right. Our current situation is not completely safe. These injuries will not affect our combat effectiveness for the time being. There is no need to waste Chakra."

Ayane nodded, imitating Ruri and wrapping the wound with a medical bandage, as long as it could stop the bleeding.

"Oh well."

Shiraishi didn't force himself.

The icy cold wind was blowing between the valleys, blowing head-on, making the three of them clutch their collars tightly, and their bodies were a little cold.

In order to slow down the pursuit of Sand Ninja, the three of them took a long detour and entered the cliff bottom of the river valley in the country of rivers.

The terrain here is complex, the environment is harsh, and it is covered by thick fog.

It looked like a white mist up close, but deep in the mist was pitch black, like a huge black hole hovering above everyone's heads.

The three rested for a while, finally regained some strength, and began to look for the exit.

There are rock walls with heavy moisture all around. The further you go, the darker the environment becomes. The deep valley is filled with cold and thick mist, which makes the skin cold.

The three of them walked forward dully without saying a word.

The main reason is that I don't want to waste unnecessary energy. At this time, it is also good to be able to retain a little more energy.

Ayane opened her eyes.

In this dark environment, there are actually very few visible things, but you can judge whether there are people ambushing around according to the chakra flowing meridian system.

"Someone is coming. It should be Sand Shinobi."

Ayane stopped and said something.

Shiraishi and Ruri just exhaled lightly, without saying anything.

"How many people?"

After being silent for a while, Ruri spoke.

"Eleven."

"I have a way to deal with them in one go, Ayane, find a place with a narrow intersection for me. Annihilate them here."

Ruri's words surprised Shiraishi and Ayane.

But seeing Ruri's face which was full of confidence, Ayane chooses to believe that she has this ability.

"I see."

Sand Shinobi still has some distance to get here, and within this time, it is enough for them to find a place with a narrow intersection.

Although I don't know what Ruri's specific method is, but as the core combat power among the three, Ruri will not be the kind of person who just exaggerates.

Soon, Ayane found a place with a narrow intersection. There were only two trails to walk on, and there were tall and rugged rock walls on both sides, blocking the retreat.

"Is this the right place?"

"Enough is enough, how long before they arrive?"

Ruri's face was dignified, as if she had made up her mind.

"At this speed, there are still two minutes left."

"Remind me in the last ten seconds."

Ayane nodded in agreement.

Shiraishi frowned. Although he believed in Ruri's strength, he had never heard of Ruri's practice of more powerful ninjutsu, and there was no information disclosed before.

Therefore, Shiraishi is skeptical that Ruri's quick solution is the solution of an elite sand ninja.

But now I can only hope that Ruri's method will work.

Time passed by, and Ruri stood at the front.

Facing the storm, like a flower on the mountain, the stalwart figure is more admirable than anything else.

"coming!"

Ayane spoke, and the last ten seconds came.

Ruri was not polite, and began to do hand signs, These hand signs are very standard signs of Fire Style technique.

She gathered all the chakra and natural energy in the mouth, and forced the fusion without safety tests.

Then, Ruri felt a very terrifying energy flooding his whole body.

This powerful feeling is something that Ruri has never felt before.

Just as she thought, although Shiraishi completed the experiment of guiding natural energy, Ruri thinks that she has already surpassed Shiraishi, in the use of this kind of energy.

It is precisely because of this that she has the confidence to fuse the remaining chakra with natural energy without any safety experiments to form a Sage chakra with multiplied power.

"Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame!"

"Wait, Ruri—"

Shiraishi discovered the problem.

With Ruri's current Chakra, it is simply not enough to launch the large-scale Attack like Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame.

If the supply of chakra is insufficient, not only the power of the attack will be reduced, but it may also cause backlash to the caster.

However, by the time the sea of fire appeared, Shiraishi's voice had already been covered.

And even if she heard it, Ruri didn't intend to act according to Shiraishi's method.

She is not good at methodology and experiments, but in terms of combat, she will not obey anyone.

In the depths of the valley, a torrent of flames surged like a tsunami, and in the posture of a beast that devoured everything, the area that was originally filled with cold air immediately gave people the illusion of being in a hot hell.

The group of sand ninjas were stunned before meeting the enemy, and their consciousness fell into a blank.

Can't hide.

Can't resist.

Darkness is burning.

The air here becomes bent, which is a horror picture caused by the high temperature.

Time and space fell into a deathly silence, only the surging sound of the sea of flames could be heard.

The high temperature that makes the skin dry and cracked is still sublimating, and the sea of fire continues to grow in the narrow space, devouring all living things in front of it.

Standing beside Ruri, Shiraishi and Ayane couldn't help taking a breath, only to find that their throats seemed to be filled with scalding boiling water, and it became oppressed and painful.

The rock walls washed by the sea of fire turned into bright red flame spars, shining brightly.

In front of them, the eleven sand ninjas who had no road surface had been wiped out, even the corpses could not be found, and they were cremated into the air and disappeared.