It's normal to get a kaleidoscope as a first deposit of six yuan, right?

"Alright, it's time to end this role-playing game." Zhi Xue walked over and removed Yashamaru's veil, then fed him a pill.

"Cough cough cough, what did you give me to eat?"

"It's nothing, just some pills to help you recover."

"Yashamaru!?"

Gaara's pupils dilated as he looked at the familiar figure whose face was revealed under the clear moonlight.

Was the assassin sent to kill him his uncle, who usually liked him the most?

Seeing Gaara's incredulous expression and trembling pupils, Yashamaru coughed a few times, wiped the blood from his face, and said softly, "Lord Gaara, it seems... my assassination attempt failed."

After seeing Zhixue nod, Gaara ran up to her, grasped Yashamaru's hand, and said with a hint of refusal, "Yes, Father sent you to assassinate me, didn't he?"

Faced with Gaara's questioning, Yashamaru just smiled.

"It was Lord Kazekage who ordered me to act."

After hearing Yashamaru's admission, Gaara's emotions finally stabilized somewhat, but the next sentence shattered his illusions.

"But... if I wanted to refuse, I would have already refused. As expected, I still can't get rid of the hatred I feel for you from the bottom of my heart." Yashamaru said with his eyes closed, feeling the strength gradually returning to his body.

"Can...can you tell me something?" Gaara asked, feeling as if a piece of his heart was missing, after hearing Yashamaru's answer.

"Of course it's because your birth brought about the death of my dearest sister, your mother. I hate why you were born, I hate why my sister died because of you!"

As Yashamaru spoke, he pulled out something resembling a sand ball from his waist behind him, a subtle movement that Shiyuki noticed.

"My mother's...death?" Two clear tears slid down Gaara's cheeks, but just as Gaara's mental defenses were about to collapse, Shiyuki stepped between the two and interrupted the conversation.

"Gaara, you can't judge things by appearances," Shiki said with a smile, snatching Yashamaru from behind her back and showing it to Shiki.

“This is…” Gaara, who was originally heartbroken, suddenly frowned as he looked at the eyeball in Zhixue’s hand that looked quite realistic.

This one carries a trace of the father's chakra.

"Wait, this can't be..." Seeing Zhixue take out Rasa's Sand Eye, Yashamaru rushed towards the Sand Eye, but Zhixue crushed the Sand Eye in her hand first.

Want to secretly record videos in her college? No way!

At this moment, Rasa, who was still a thousand miles away preparing his army and waiting for the trachoma to dissipate so that Gaara's condition could be transmitted, suddenly felt a phantom pain in his left eye.

Luo Sha: ! ! ?

Chapter 167, Assembling the Troops

"Is this the guard protecting our academy? Why does it look so dull-witted?" Several students said, pointing to the tall puppet that was circling the academy in the distance in the morning.

"I don't know. It's best not to pry into the things ninjas research. If we ordinary people are accidentally injured, our lives will be over."

"That's true. I heard that assassins have recently infiltrated the academy, and someone even saw ninjas fighting yesterday. It's best to stay safe."

Several students watched the patrolling puppet leave, but some mischievous students wanted to play a trick on it. However, because the guardian possessed the ability to sense malice, he didn't bother with it much.

……

Ding! Congratulations, host, for completing the system task and receiving the reward: Magnet Release (Third Kazekage version).

In the academy dean's office, Yashamaru had been controlled by Zhixue using illusion magic, while Gaara, after being enlightened by Zhixue, was now sitting in his room contemplating the great principles of life.

"From now on, it's up to you and the one in the woods to keep an eye on things here. Sigh, I never thought that someone who likes to slack off every day would end up exploiting my shadow clones." Zhi Xue said with some regret, looking at the shadow clone in front of her.

"But even when the main body didn't have this much work, weren't you still exploiting her?" The shadow clone muttered softly, looking at the somewhat weathered Zhixue in front of him.

Stop Snow: ...

She was just doing it for convenience, really. Besides, desert forest farms are very profitable. She only worked there for a month. Even if she didn't make hundreds of millions, she made at least 0.8 Asma.

If you add the 7000 million taels in your own system's savings, you'll have a whopping 1 million taels. If you just find a few more "tools" to create, then making money while lying down isn't impossible.

"Alright, take a look for me first. I'm going to the interior of the Land of Wind, and I won't be back for several days." Zhi Xue pressed the troubled shadow clone into a chair, but before she could even set off, she sensed a familiar chakra.

"You seem to be in a hurry?" Obito said as he walked in from the outer corridor.

"What's wrong? What news are you asking me about this time?" Zhi Xue leaned against the table and asked Obito.

"Heh, not this time. I just wanted to give you a heads-up. The Daimyo of the Land of Wind wants to get rid of you, and the mission has already been posted on the underground exchange. It just so happens that it almost fell into the hands of the Akatsuki."

Seeing that Obito didn't seem to be joking, Zhixue asked expectantly, "So, do you agree?"

Obito gave Zhixue a strange look. "How could you have such a thought? Do you think everyone in Akatsuki is like Kakuzu?"

"Of course I didn't agree. Do you actually enjoy being arrested?"

"Sigh, if only I had accepted it. That way, I could have pretended to be captured by Akatsuki, earned the bounty, beaten up the daimyo, and escaped. From the outside, it would just look like the daimyo was negligent in his duties, and it wouldn't have affected Akatsuki's reputation, right?" Zhi Xue said excitedly, her eyes sparkling with excitement as she opened her arms.

Seeing Zhixue's greedy little face, Obito felt a bead of cold sweat drip down his forehead.

How could he have been so impulsive last night as to slaughter the underground organization trained by the Daimyo of the Land of Wind for this guy?

"Alright, let's not talk about that now. What do you want to do now?" Obito leaned against the white wall and asked Zhixue.

"Of course we're going to beat up the daimyo of the Land of Wind and let him taste the power of our fists!" Zhi Xue said, symbolically waving her little pink fists twice.

"Leave this to me."

"Okay, huh?" Zhixue looked at Obito with three question marks above her head, not quite understanding what this meant.

"You don't need to worry about the Daimyo of the Land of Wind for now. What you should be worried about now is your personal safety. Just half an hour ago, White Zetsu, who was gathering intelligence in the ninja world, discovered that the Sand Village's army had moved out in the desert in the north. There were as many as 500 people. Judging from the direction they are heading, they are very likely coming for you."

After hearing what Obito said, Shiki was also somewhat confused.

Before she left, Rasa told herself that the gates of Sunagakure would always be open to her, but only a few days later, they're already bringing an army to push their way in? Even the King of Hell can't change his mind this quickly!

"What do you plan to do? You should know that you are the only strong one. Although the number of enemies is not large, they can still hold you back without any problem. At that time, this academy will not be as wonderful as you wish."

Seeing that Shiki didn't seem worried at all, Obito spoke up.

After a moment of silence, Zhi Xue finally spoke up, saying, "It's just 500 people. Back in the Land of Water, there were twice as many, and I still came out unscathed."

Looking at Zhixue, who stood arrogantly with her hands on her hips, Obito sighed.

"Fine, do as you please. But I'll accept the title of Daimyo of the Land of Wind for you. I hope he'll be as sensible as the Daimyo of the Land of Water." After giving Shiki a final message, Obito's figure disappeared into the vortex.

After watching Obito leave, Zhixue gave up her idea of ​​traveling far away and instead sat down at the table to start thinking about her next strategy.

Since Rasa wants to fight, then let's have some fun together...

……

While Zhixue was still pondering how to deal with the Sunagakure army, Rasa, hundreds of miles away, had already led his troops to complete nearly three-quarters of the journey.

Standing on the sand-gold cloud, Rasa looked at the locations marked on the map and the sun gradually rising on the horizon. He also summoned Yura, Maki, and other high-ranking members of Sunagakure, including Chiyo, an elder advisor of Sunagakure.

Ten minutes later, as the high-ranking officials of Sunagakure gradually gathered, Rasa used gold dust to fix the map in mid-air, took out a gold dust staff and began to formulate a battle strategy for the surprise attack on the southern region.

However, before taking this action, Chiyo asked Rasa a question.

"Fengying, although we left in a hurry this time without making a plan in advance, is our target just an academy and a factory? According to the intelligence, our enemies are only two young girls, right? Most of the other employees or teachers are ordinary people or locals. Isn't it a bit of an overreaction to mobilize so many people?"

At this moment, Chiyo's question was also something that most of the Jonin present were puzzled by.

Deploying the Sand Village's elite forces just to fight two people seems like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Seeing the puzzled looks on the faces of the ninjas present, Rasa's expression also turned serious.

Although he was instantly defeated by illusion magic in one move, he didn't really know his actual strength, so it was always better to be cautious.

Chapter 168, Magnet Release

At 8 a.m., Zhi Xue's shadow clone slowly arrived at the top of a house in the forest, carrying a folding chair and a suitcase, and opened the parasol that was placed on the ground.

"Sigh, my main body isn't here, so I'll continue slacking off!" Just as the shadow clone had prepared a series of slacking-off items such as snacks, comics, and drinks, the old mayor suddenly rushed over in a panic.

The shadow clone, who had been leisurely lounging in a chair with his two legs, encased in white stockings, resting on the table, also looked distressed upon seeing the old mayor appear.

She had just lain down, how could she be alive again? (Sad)

"No, this is terrible, girl! I heard from the boy from the village who went out to buy goods that there seems to be an army from the Wind Kingdom fighting with someone on the other side of the desert, dozens of kilometers away. The fighting is terrifying!"

Seeing the old mayor's flustered appearance, the shadow clone felt relieved and then shrugged and removed the cap from a bottle of cold drink.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen. It won't bother us. You can continue with your work."

"what?"

The old town mayor was dumbfounded as he watched the shadow clone remain completely unmoved.

Is that a military battle? Or is it relatively close to us? What if the fighting escalates and ends up here, or what if some ruthless criminal has designs on this place…?

"Don't worry, nothing will happen. If you're still a little uneasy, I'll take you for a walk around the forest. Even if someone tries to come over, I'll figure something out, okay?"

"Well... alright then." The old town mayor scratched his head as he looked at the unperturbed shadow clone.

After all, this person can reason with Feng Ying, so he would feel more at ease if she were willing to take action.

After letting out a sigh of relief, the shadow clone also stood up from the chair, put on his shoes, and went for a stroll around the forest farm with the old town mayor.

……

An hour ago…

"Wow, quite a few people, huh?" Zhi Xue said, looking down at the large group of ninjas who were still resting, as they flew above the clouds while the sky was still slightly dark.

Unexpectedly, Fengying was two-faced, so it's no wonder she retaliated.

……

While Rasa was still discussing battlefield strategies with many Jonin, a kunai with a smoke bomb attached to it was thrown from the sky and planted on the ground.

Luo Sha, who was still explaining his strategy with the sand stick, was also stunned when he saw the smoke bombs on the ground emitting bursts of red smoke. Then, a thick red smoke came out of them.

"Cough cough cough, why is this even so spicy?"

"Damn it, did they put chili powder in it? Why does it taste so awful?"

Sensing the unidentified dust floating in the air mixed with sand, Rasa closed his eyes and unleashed a major breakthrough, blowing away the tear-inducing smoke.

However, when Rasa opened his eyes, he found that the battle map floating in mid-air had been taken by a little girl. Under her white legs, he could see several Sand Village Jonin who had been knocked unconscious.

"Hmm, I didn't expect that Sunagakure, one of the five great ninja villages, would actually launch a sneak attack on a desolate area that doesn't even have a handful of ninjas," Zhixue said sarcastically, pointing to the red dot marked on the map.

"So you're the Dean of the Western Desert Academy? I didn't expect you to find us so quickly." Luo Sha covered his left eye. The last image transmitted by the Eye of Sand in the early hours of this morning was the scene of this brat being crushed.