I, a cultivator, ended up in the Naruto world.

pain!

It hurts so much!

Longya's limbs, severed at the root, were immobile. He could only use his chin to push against the ground, inching his way into the grass like a worm.

Even though he knew it was just a futile, death throes, instinctive fear still drove him to make a final escape.

"Damn Konoha brats, ah!!!"

Longya cursed with all his might.

Yang Xiang stepped on the man's third leg, stopping him from crawling like a maggot.

Feeling the sensation under my feet, I couldn't help but be a little surprised.

His thigh was severed at the root, but this part was still intact, and the little thing was quite exquisite.

"Which country are these ninjas from?" Yang Xiang asked, lowering his eyes.

The excruciating pain in his lower body caused Longya to shake his head frantically, his eyes bloodshot.

"Die, you Konoha brats! Old Master Onoki will avenge us!"

Upon hearing the name and seeing the other person's sharp teeth and fangs, Yang Xiang fell silent for a moment.

Knowing he wouldn't get any more information, he slightly increased the pressure on his feet and sent him to his death.

The shuriken in the ninja tool bag leaped up lightly and precisely plunged into the throat of each corpse, preventing anyone from feigning death.

Watching Yang Xiang swiftly and decisively kill all the enemy ninjas present, and even skillfully finish them off, the three members of the Mirror Squad inwardly exclaimed that he was a monster.

Are all today's graduates... this ruthless?

Uchiha Kagami suddenly thought of another question.

broken!

With Yang Xiang's abilities, if I submit my application, the Third Generation will probably have second thoughts.

A thousand hands have harmed me!

At this moment, inside the Hokage's office.

Hiruzen Sarutobi happened to flip through an application tucked inside a mission file.

"Uchiha Kagami... Yang Xiang?"

That grandson of Senju Momoka?

He took a drag of his cigarette, the embers flickering in the pipe.

What are these two companies planning to do now?

After a moment's hesitation, he shook his head again.

He considered the magnanimity of the two men.

Uchiha Kagami's strength is nearing its limit, while Yang Xiang's performance at school is mediocre; at best, he's destined to be a special Jonin.

If this can truly ease tensions between the two tribes and the village, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

For the Uchiha and Senju clans today, it would be enough if no more figures like Hashirama and Madara emerged.

"Both of them are excellent companions in the village."

He tapped his pipe lightly, and finally stamped it.

After finishing off the enemy, Mirror Squad didn't linger and quickly set off again.

They still have their own tasks to complete.

This place isn't far from the village, and according to Uchiha Kagami, the guards will be coming to mop up the area soon.

"Yang Xiang-jun, are you injured? Do you need me to treat you?"

Mikoto Uchiha asked tentatively. Everything had happened so fast that she hadn't even had time to react before the enemy was wiped out.

Yang Xiang raised his eyebrows slightly, and a soft green light emanated from his body.

I might not be completely unfamiliar with medical ninjutsu either.

Mikoto understood and stepped back, but her gaze still occasionally fell on him.

Among her peers, Yang Xiang was the strongest ninja she had ever seen.

No, perhaps it's already beyond the scope of those of the same age.

Even Murakumo, and even Fugaku-sama, are far inferior.

Admiring strength is human nature. If anyone objects, it's simply because they haven't yet encountered their own strength.

And now, Mikoto Uchiha feels that her strength has arrived.

Shortly after the Mirror Squad left.

Another Konoha team arrived near the battlefield.

"Rope Tree, this operation is extremely dangerous. Three teams have already lost contact. You must stay by my side at all times, understand?"

The speaker was a thin, black-haired man who was giving instructions to his disciple in a low voice.

It was Orochimaru and Nawaki.

If it weren't for the emergency mission received during training, and Rope Tree's insistence on following along, Rope Tree's current qualifications would not have been sufficient to participate in an operation of this level.

"Don't worry, teacher! I'll definitely protect myself!"

Rope Tree adjusted his headband, his voice brimming with excitement.

This was his first mission since becoming a ninja, and it was already so exciting.

That's so cool!

He was a little jealous when he first learned that Yang Xiang was going on a mission, but now he just wanted to brag to Yang Xiang when he returned to the village.

Orochimaru nodded slightly and gave a hand signal to his two teammates beside him.

To be fair, although his disciple's strength was indeed somewhat lacking.

But for some reason, he is quite skilled at dodging.

Even he couldn't defeat Rope Tree quickly during training.

This is another important reason why he agreed to let Rope Tree come along.

The two teammates quickly arrived at the area marked by the intelligence and immediately spotted signs of a battle.

Oops!

Which squad encountered the Mist Ninja here?

The surrounding silence was excessive; it seemed more ominous than anything else.

They received the urgent intelligence in the late afternoon:

A ninja force of more than twenty men has broken through the border and advanced into the inland areas of the Land of Fire, annihilating at least three Konoha squads along the way.

If it weren't for the valuable intelligence left behind by a companion who sacrificed his life, the village would likely have been attacked.

Orochimaru's squad was therefore urgently dispatched to intercept them.

Apart from Nawaki, all three members of the team are Jonin, and Orochimaru, an all-attribute ninja who inherited the mantle of the Third Hokage, is also in charge.

Even against thirty men, they were confident they could hold out until reinforcements arrived.

Right now, a battle has taken place at such close range, and it seems to have ended a while ago.

It is highly likely that a small team from a certain village ran into a Kirigakure ninja.

The most troublesome thing is that this might force the Mist Ninja to change their route.

The three exchanged a glance, Orochimaru made a hand gesture, and simultaneously accelerated forward to probe.

A moment later, in a clearing in the woods.

Orochimaru stopped on the branch where Yang Xiang had stood, his gaze sweeping over the faint shoe prints on the tree trunk.

"Orochimaru, about thirty-eight people, all dead... Several of the bodies are unidentifiable and require the intervention of the interrogation team."

The smell of burnt flesh and blood filled the air, mixed with a strange sweet and fishy odor.

Witnessing such a scene for the first time, Rope Tree suppressed the churning in his stomach, staring intently at the corpses, forcing himself to adapt as quickly as possible.

"Probably? Hard to tell?"

Orochimaru was pondering the footprints on the tree trunk when he heard his teammate's words and couldn't help but ask a question.

The teammate stepped aside to avoid being seen.

Another person was pulling two thick branches out of the tree trunk. The moment they were pulled out, a thick, dark red sap gushed out.

Are tree resins red?

Rope Tree thought to himself, then looked through his rear end and realized that what he saw were not tree branches at all, but clearly the lower halves of the two people's bodies.

As for the upper half, it had long since fused with the tree trunk fibers, and what was slowly flowing down was not resin, but sticky rotten flesh.

The teammate then pointed to the other side: the ground and tree trunks looked as if someone had splashed a thick layer of tomato sauce on them.

"Over here... it's impossible to tell how many people there were, they were just blown to pieces."

Rope Tree's Adam's apple bobbed violently as he involuntarily filled in the blanks in his mind.

All previous restraint vanished, and stomach acid gushed from my mouth, drawing a rainbow.