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It was because this stretch of valley was filled with yellow miasma, full of poison.

"Chirp."

A bird passed by Kisame, flapping its wings and tried to cross the valley, but it inhaled poisonous gas and struggled while falling into the deep valley.

Not even a bird can fly across, let alone a human being.

In fact, if looked closely, anyone will find that at the bottom of the valley, a large number of bones of animals are faintly visible, which is enough to show that this is a forbidden area for life.

Hoshigakure, not only sits on the treasure named star meteorite, but also has a Kage. For a long time, he has been provoking neighboring countries and Ninja Villages, and there is no limit to his actions.

However, due to the existence of this valley surrounding them with poisonous gas, the Hoshigakure has a natural barrier that can prevent the invasion of other Ninja villages.

Konoha, Suna and Kirigakure who were "sanctioned" by Hoshigakure not long ago, all had the idea of destroying it, but when the ninjas of the major Ninja villages came to this valley of death, they had to stay away and can only go back in vain.

Therefore, Hoshigakure was safe and sound, and survived independently to this day.

Until Kisame arrvied.

This little valley can't stop him, after all, he can fly. Even if he can't to fly, with the inhuman steel body he cultivated, if he swaggered through the valley, there is a high probability that he will be fine.

After crossing the valley and continuing to fly forward, Kisame saw a huge crater in the distance.

This crater is very spectacular. It is the largest one Kisame has ever seen, with a diameter of more than 300 meters and a depth of more than 100 meters. At the bottom center of the big pit, there is a tall building of earth red colour, which is a few years old at first glance.

It is the place where the meteorite has been worshipped in Hoshigakure for two hundred years and the ninjas in the village can practice.

Kisame's plan is very simple, just walk in, see the meteorite, take it and leave.

Of course, considering that he is now a Demi-God of the Ninja World, the ruler of the Land of Water, and a perfect sage in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people, if he engages in robbery in an open and out manner, the matter will spread out, and the impact will be somewhat bad.

Therefore, Kisame put on the cloak and mask again, and temporarily transplanted Obito's Sharingan and the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan.

'Whoosh.'

He jumped off the edge of the big pit, and after a few ups and downs, he came to the building.

'Huh?'

After he arrived, Kisame found that the defense force here seemed to be very lax. Although Hoshigakure had never been invaded by foreign enemies, after all, it was an important place in the village, but there was not even a guard.

He didn't encounter any obstacles, so he swaggered open the door and walked in, passed through the courtyard, and soon came to the main hall where the meteorite was worshipped.

Here, Kisame understood why.

Because the base that should have been enshrined with meteorites was empty at this time, with only a thick layer of dust.

Star meteorites have been stolen, and it was not recent.

Seeing this, Kisame frowned slightly. Just then, he noticed someone in the next room.

'Creak.'

Kisame opened the door and saw a dozen ninjas at a glance. The oldest was only about 20 years old, and the youngest was even in his early 10s, but all of them had no youthful vitality and were all lying on the hospital bed.

"Cough cough..."

These people kept coughing, coughing up black blood from their throats, all of them looked miserable, and some people even fell into a coma, their situation unknown to all.

Kisame saw through the bodies of these Hoshigakure ninjas, and he found that the tenketsu points in their bodies were disordered, and the chakra was activated to the limit, making the body unable to withstand it.

This is the symptom after being irradiated by a meteorite.

Kisame just glanced at them and knew that these people were no longer saved, so they were thrown here by other villagers to die - this is the price mortals paid for stealing the power of the Ten Tails.

He walked to the nearest patient, grabbed the latter's collar, lifted him from the bed, and asked in a deep voice:

"Hey, you aren't dead yet, right? Tell me, who stole the meteorite."

The man was frightened by Kisame's aura, and quickly replied with a horrified expression: "It's the Jonin couple, Natsuhi and Hotarubi from the village. They stole the meteorite and were expelled from the village by the Kage."

'Oh?'

When Kisame heard these two names, he frowned, recalled the plot again, and finally remembered.

During the third HoshiKage period, there appeared a genius female ninja in Hoshigakure called Natsuhi.

With her super talent, she practiced the Mysterious Peacock Method to the extreme, but in the process, she discovered that meteorites can cause huge damage to the human body.

Her husband, Harutobi, was a victim who was seriously ill from the radiation of the meteorite and died soon.

Under such circumstances, in order not to let the power of the meteorite hurt more innocent villagers, they made up their minds to steal the meteorite from the village and seal it up.

It seems that Kisame is a step late.

But according to his speculation, the couple must not have run far away, maybe they are near Hoshigakure.

After all, they are seriously ill and are not far from death, they can't stand the long journey. Besides, if the two left the Land of the Bear with the meteorite, it is estimated that they will be targeted soon.

So, they can only stay and hide.

However, although it is said that the Land of Bears is not big, it is not small either. It is definitely not easy to find them in the vast crowd.

Unless he finds the third HoshiKage.

This person must know where the husband and wife are, because as far as Kisame knows, he deliberately let them go.

Thinking of this, Kisame released his hand and threw the terminally ill Ninja of Hoshigakure back to the hospital bed. For this uninvited guest who suddenly broke in, all the patients in the room looked at him in panic at this time.

"Look into my eyes."

Before Kisame left, he used his chakra and said to a group of patients. Immediately afterwards, he used his Sharingan to create a deadly illusion.

In an instant, all the patients who looked at Kisame were shocked, and then they slowly closed their eyes with smiles on their faces, as if they had entered a sweet dreamland.

Kisame, ended the suffering of these people in advance and let them die in bliss.

'Creek.'

He pushed open the door and went straight to Hoshigakure.

As night fell, the lights in Hoshigakure were sparse, and many villagers had fallen asleep.

A figure, bypassing all the guards, silently sneaked into HoshiKage office.

"Who?!"

An old man who was working at a desk suddenly raised his head and found in horror that a mysterious man wearing a cloak and a mask appeared in his office.

This person is the third HoshiKage. He has lived for more than 100 years and is the longest-lived person in the entire Hoshigakure.

"For the sake of the lives of your subordinates, I advise you not to call anyone, otherwise there will soon be more than a dozen corpses in this office."

Kisame saw through his intention and said lightly, "You don't need to know who I am, just know that I am here for the star meteorite."

When the HoshiKage heard these words and quickly calmed down. He shook his head and said solemnly, "Unfortunately, you are late. The meteorite has been stolen by traitors of the village, and its whereabouts are unknown."

"You're talking about Natsuhi and Harutobi, aren't you? Didn't you let them go on purpose, HoshiKage?"

Kisame looked at HoshiKage with a sharp look in his eyes, and as soon as he said this, the latter's expression changed.

Yes, he deliberately let go of the husband and wife.

Because, he discovered the drawbacks of cultivating the Mysterious Peacock Method at an early age. He wanted to stop this in the village many times, but as HoshiKage, he hesitated for a long time and never made up his mind.

Until the couple stole the meteorite, HoshiKage realized that the opportunity was coming, so he expelled the two on the grounds of protecting the village.

In this way, he can justifiably stop the villagers from practicing the Mysterious Peacock Method, after all, the meteorites are gone.

"I do not understand what you are saying."

Faced with Kisame's questioning, Hoshikage tried to pretend to be confused.

It's a pity that it was dismantled by Kisame in the next second.

"You could have ordered someone to kill them and get the meteorite, but instead of doing so, you used two people to take the meteorite away from the village. Your purpose, like the husband and wife, is to protect the villagers and let them leave the village. So that they are no longer harmed by meteorites, right?"

Kisame not only dismantled his lie, but also revealed the latter's true intentions in one go.

HoshiKage was shocked when he heard this, and he stood up as he shivered and said, "You, who are you?"

"Don't care who I am, old man. Have you ever thought that even though you want to stop practising the Mysterious Peacock Method, but will those who have tasted strength give up easily? To solve this matter once and for all, you have to rely on me, a Kind man. I came to help you out of the sea of misery."

Kisame didn't hold back and laughed out loud.

Ten minutes later.

Kisame quietly left Hoshigakure and flew above the night sky.

After "persuading" HoshiKage painstakingly, he got the information he wanted.

To the southeast, in the mountains fifty kilometers away, there is a hidden cave. According to him, the couple and the star meteorite are hidden there.

'Swiii.'

Kisame looked in their direction, flapped his wings and galloped away.

…

In the distance, the outlines of the mountains loomed in the darkness.

Kisame came to the sky above the place HoshiKage said. Although he didn't find the cave immediately, he heard a lot of movement in the woods below.

There are ninjas fighting.

Kisame looked down and found that more than a dozen ninjas of unknown origin were besieging a woman.

The woman has long red hair and delicate facial features. She is a beautiful woman, and her body emitted strong chakra fluctuations, indicating that she is at least a Jonin .

She is the genius of Hoshigakure, once in a hundred years genius, Natsuhi.

"Hand over the star meteorite!"

The group of ninjas besieging Natsuhi shouted sharply, pressing her step by step.

"You want to take away the meteorite, but unfortunately you don't have that ability."

Natsuhi said coldly and quickly formed hand signs, a substantial purple chakra appeared on her body, and formed into a beautiful peacock's tail behind her.

This is the Mysterious Peacock Method.

Its principle is to combine the energy absorbed by the ninja from the meteorite with their own chakra, and then transform it into peacock tail feathers behind the caster to exert a powerful force.

However, from Kisame's perspective, the Peacock tails behind Natsuhi are more than ten.

"Haaa!"

Natsuhi let out a clear shout, and as her hands clasped together, the tail behind her turned into beasts. These chakra-shaped beasts, with their teeth and claws, roared and charged towards the enemy.

After a series of screams.

Under the gorgeous ninjutsu counterattack in by Natsuhi, all the enemies fell to the ground one after another, and no one was spared, turning into cold corpses.

"Humph."

Natsuhi snorted softly, put these corpses into the big pit she had dug a long time ago, and buried them. Then she raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.

Neither she nor the ninjas who fought her were unaware that Kisame was right above their head and was watching all this.

The one-sided battle with a huge disparity in the numbers of the enemy has ended soon, with the final winner is the one with fewer people. This shows how much of a genius Natsuhi is

"These guys are really persistent."

After Natsuhi buried them, she muttered to herself. Ever since she and her husband, Harutobi, took the star meteorite out of Hoshigakure, many covetous people chased after them.

This is the sixth batch of enemies she has killed.

There is no other way, the temptation of meteorite to ninjas is too great. Almost everyone knows that this meteorite contains an incomparably huge amount of energy. As long as they can get it, they can get a powerful force that surpasses all living beings.

But if they want to get that power, they have to pay the price with thei life.

This meteorite has made countless people crazy.

Fortunately, this is the Land of Bears, and there is a valley full of poisonous gas, which isolates the passage from the outside world. Otherwise, if the five Ninja villages get the news, after they send the elite troops, Natsuhi will not be able to resist alone.

She rested in place for a while, and after regaining some energy, she looked around vigilantly, until she confirmed that no enemy was hiding in the dark, she turned and walked into the depths of the woods.