Chapter 498 Just Go To The Central Tower

The roof of Academy's teaching building.

Hiruzen and Koharu are standing at the railing, watching more than 20 candidates rushed out of the teaching building and followed Kanpū towards the Forest of Death.

"He is really going to eliminate them directly like that?"

Koharu's face is sullen, the muscles on both sides of her cheeks had turned into two lumps of thin and soft flesh over the years, hanging weakly in her loose skin, showing her oldness.

The eight candidates who have just been eliminated by Kanpū are all excellent Shinobi who have withstood Ibiki's mental pressure and understood the importance of companions. However, they were eliminated because they did not respect Kanpū, who was younger than them, which seemed wrong.

It even gives people a feeling of them being bullied by Kanpū, who takes advantage of his position.

This makes Koharu very unhappy.

Hiruzen shook his head slightly, and said in a deep voice: "As a Shinobi, you must pay attention to collecting information all the time, whether it is during or outside the exam. When Kanpū appears, those candidates should collect relevant information about him, such as strength, personality, or hobbies from his words and deeds, but those candidates provoked him just by being older than the other party without knowing exactly the information… If this is a sneak into a spying mission to infiltrate an enemy country, these people would have already dead."

Koharu frowned: "Don't change the concept, this is just a Chunin Exams!"

"Do you plan to interfere in the Chunin Exams?" Hiruzen frowned.

"I just think that the head examiner selected by Yondaime is too casual."

Koharu's eyes flashed brightly. She seemed to be looking for trouble with Kanpū, but in fact, she aimed at Minato!

In the past few years, under Namikaze Minato's 'strict governance', Chunin Exams are only held once a year. Moreover, the candidates who passed the exam and successfully promoted to Chunin is also decreasing year by year. If this continues, how could the village develop their economy and show its 'muscles' to the Shinobi World?

Hiruzen sighed. He knew that the purpose of this old friend invited him to watch the Chunin Exams is not pure. In the final analysis, it was because of political differences.

Minato hopes that all those who are promoted to Chunin are elites, who are better than other people in terms of strength, psychological quality and other aspects!

However, Koharu hopes that there would be as many Chunin in the village as possible, so that they can receive more B-Rank missions and deter the enemy Shinobi Villages!

And there are many similar differences, such as how to treat the Uchiha Clan, as the two have completely opposite attitudes.

Koharu advocates vigilance, defense, and even monitoring, while Minato advocates inaction and decides to allow the Uchiha Clan to develop freely in the village like other Shinobi Clans. As long as they make no mistakes, they will not be targeted.

And with more and more similar disagreements, Koharu could not sit still anymore. She took advantage of this Chunin Exams to call Hiruzen, hoping to persuade him to check and balance Minato with herself.

"Yondaime is still young after all. He has too little life experience, so he doesn't even know how complicated it is to run a village."

Koharu looked towards Hiruzen, and said earnestly, "We old fellows should help him, lest he commit some principled problems."

Hiruzen chuckled and said: "Koharu, under the governance of Yondaime, both the village's economy and the population have escaped from the depression during the Third Shinobi World War and are becoming more and more prosperous. Although Yondaime is young, it is precisely because of this that Konoha can become like him, full of vitality!"

Koharu was not convinced, and wanted to say more, but when she saw Hiruzen's eyes looking at the sun, as they seemed to exude infinite expectations for the future of Konoha, she suddenly felt that nothing could change her old partner's mind.

She sighed silently and shut up.

...

Two hours later.

Outside the Forest of Death.

Two rows of examiners stood outside the green iron fence, staring coldly at the more than twenty candidates who arrived one after another.

Kanpū stood in the middle of the examiners. Seeing everyone has arrived, he smiled and said the rules of the second stage: "Go to the central tower of the Forest of Death within seven days, and those who exceed the time limit will be eliminated."

The rules are simple and crude, that's all.

More than twenty candidates look at each other in shock, among them, those Genin who have taken the exam before looking at Kanpū in disbelief.

It must be known that in the past, Earth and Heaven Scrolls will be distributed for the exam in the Forest of Death. All the teams must gather two scrolls and rush to the central tower within seven days to pass. In this case, at least half of the candidates will be eliminated. But now, without Earth and Heaven Scrolls, for them, this stage is simply guaranteed!

"Is there a problem?" Looking at the candidates with strange gazes, Kanpū's eyes flashed a strange light.

The candidates are still immersed in the simple rules and did not notice this scene, except for Itachi.

'The simpler the rule, the more variable there will be.' Itachi's heart sank, and he inexplicably felt the deep malice from Kanpū.

As for the other candidates, when they heard Kanpū's questions, they simultaneously shook their heads. Only fools will mention the matter of the scrolls.

"Since there is no problem, what are you waiting for? Just go in order." Kanpū waved his hand, driving them into the Forest of Death like a fly.

And the two rows of examiners standing at the entrance of the Forest of Death also found their own protection targets after they entered, and quietly lurked behind.

Kanpū then bit his thumb and formed hand seals to summon Tagorihime, one of the three divine maidens.

Suddenly appeared in the brightly lit Konoha, Tagorihime felt uncomfortable, and delicately raised her white jade arm to block the sun, but there was no displeasure on her face.

After all, if she was summoned by Kanpū once, she would be able to earn a five hundred crystals full of Chakra. Even though she had to pay 20% of the crystals to the b***h Ichikishimahime.

"Kanpū, there are no enemies around here, the reason you summon me, it shouldn't because you want to be with me…" Tagorihime rubbed her small waist against Kanpū's side, and shamelessly started to take advantage.

Kanpū showed righteous expression, and said: "Tagorihime-sama, I have a serious business to look for you this time, please be serious."

"I understand, but…"

After saying that, Tagorihime opened her mouth and spit out a scroll, then said with a lovable smile, "This is the sacrifice you need to provide."

Kanpū took the scroll and said:" No problem."

"So, what are you talking about?" Tagorihime stretched out her tongue and licked her face in excitement.

Kanpū's heart shuddered when he saw this, 'This girl couldn't be Orochimaru pretending to be her, right?'

'But Orochimaru is not a Summoned Beast, so even if I wanted to summon him, he can't come out.'

Kanpū smiled and said: "This is the Forest of Death in Konoha. In here, there are more than 20 Genin taking part in the Chunin Exams in here. I need you to help me set up some Genjutsu to hold them back."

"That's all?" Tagorihime was a little dissatisfied. She didn't expect that for mere Genin, Kanpū actually called her to come out in person. She felt that Kanpū didn't take Ryuchi Cave's higher-ups seriously!

Kanpū knew what she is thinking, and said with a smile: "You can devour the Chakra they released in the Genjutsu, but you are not allowed to hurt their lives."

Tagorihime curled her lips in disdain: "Just mere Genin, even if there's 20 of them, how much Chakra can they have?"

"Then, you refused?" Kanpū tossed the scroll in his hand, the threat was self-evident.

Tagorihime thought to herself that the five hundred crystals Chakra were not a small number. Since she finally came out, she couldn't come back empty-handed. Besides, there were more than 20 Genin's Chakra… No matter how small a mosquito's leg is, it is still meat.

"I agree."

Tagorihime nodded, and then asked with slightly glowing eyes, "Then, can I eat them?"

Kanpū stared at her fiercely and said: "No, otherwise, I will never give you a trace of Chakra in the future!"

Kanpū, who has mastered the three divine maidens' weak spot, is not afraid that they will be disobedient. After all, he is their powerbank!