Escaping the Mist Ninja starts with backstabbing your teacher.

Yekura, who had landed on the tree trunk, frowned slightly as she looked down at the Sand Ninja who had formed their battle formation.

As people from the same village, the other party knew her, and she knew the other party well, so it was clear that the other party had come prepared.

However, she has a backup plan and assistance, but she doesn't plan to use them for the time being. If she wants to become stronger, she has to push herself.

The battlefield has shifted, and there's no need to worry about involving the disciple scroll anymore, so she doesn't intend to be polite.

One after another, scorching fireballs emerged from his palm, looking at Maki and the others in the distance, and merged directly together, the orange-red fireballs instantly turning into blazing white.

"Scorching Escape. Steam Kill!"

The blazing fireball, like a small sun, scorched and distorted the surrounding air, radiating waves of heat.

With a single push forward, it swept away everything in its path, burning and scorching the trees, soil, and rocks in its way.

"Watch out!"

Maki shouted in a deep voice. A member of the Anbu ninja next to him jumped up in front of the group, formed a hand seal, and slammed his hands on the ground.

"Earth Release. Earthflow Wall!"

The fireball arrived as expected, and the scorching flames and temperature engulfed everyone. The rock-like walls began to turn red and soften.

This caused everyone's expressions to change slightly. Another person pulled out a roll of cloth from behind his back, pulled it forward, and at the same time formed a hand seal and spat out water from his mouth.

The water-soaked cloth roll revealed that the user was a rare Water Release ninja among the Sand Village, and also possessed a special secret technique.

"Yashamaru!"

"Um!"

The power of the Scorching Release was astonishing; apart from the place where they were, the rest of the area was turned into scorched earth, and the trees were reduced to withered, black charcoal trunks.

After the rock wall was half melted, the white cloth strips that had been used as defense were now charred black.

As soon as the cloth strip was removed, Maki and Yashamaru immediately sprang into action, along with the last member of the Anbu, who took out the scroll from his back and unsealed it.

Two puppets, resembling two scorpions, were released. After landing, chakra threads connected and the deck behind them opened, releasing thousands of gunshots towards Yekura.

"A mere puppet!"

Ye Cang snorted coldly and unleashed an orange fireball. The swirling air currents disrupted all the Senbon needles, scattering them in various locations.

The puppeteer's attack was just a cover; the real main attackers were Maki and Yashamaru.

With his fingertips swirling with air currents, Maki's movements were anything but polite, instantly unleashing countless turbulent wind blades that slashed towards him.

Yecang sensed the fluctuations in the air with his eyes, shifted his body and dodged the pushes one after another. The trees on both sides were cut down with a soft cracking sound and fell down with a thud.

At the same time, a whooshing sound rang out in the air, and Yashamaru moved, dozens of kunai came out from his sleeve, accompanied by a slight twitch of his fingertips.

The trajectories of those kunai began to become unpredictable, making it difficult to pinpoint their attack locations. This prompted Yekura to condense a small fireball at her fingertips and fire it directly.

The small orange fireball darted past at incredible speed, and in the light of the flames, the threads behind the kunai were reflected in Yekura's eyes.

really!

Ye Cang muttered to himself, but it was too late to stop him.

He tilted his head slightly, and a wind blade grazed his cheek, leaving a tiny wound on his face from which a little blood flowed. A strand of his hair also fell out.

The kunai fell around her, and those barely perceptible threads began to spread all around.

Meanwhile, the member of the secret service, holding a roll of cloth, was also waving and spinning it, and the cloth he shot out began to wrap around and seal off the area.

Constructing routes, two puppet scorpions landed on the cloth, moving nimbly and swinging their giant pincers to smash Ye Cang.

Ye Cang flipped and leaped into the air, then spun around and pressed down a fireball in his hand. As he landed back on the ground, billowing flames erupted behind him, engulfing the puppet scorpion.

"Wind Release: Wind Blade!"

Maki's attack came again, maintaining a certain distance, using the Wind Blade to press Yekura into the predetermined position.

With a slight twitch of his fingertips, Yashamaru pulled the threads of the wind blades, causing the trees severed by the wind blades to be propelled toward Yekura.

Meanwhile, the puppet scorpion, which was originally engulfed by the scorching flames, only had a patch of black marks on its back, clearly indicating that it had been specially prepared to withstand the heat.

"As expected, they all came prepared!" Ye Cang thought to himself as he looked at the silk threads and strips of cloth scattered all around him.

Yashamaru and the ANBU member holding the cloth roll nodded slightly to Maki, and the two of them suddenly pulled backward, the threads and strips of cloth tightening, completely wrapping Yekura.

The two puppet scorpions raised their giant pincers, ready to strangle each other and smash down.

boom!

Rolling flames swept out, and a blue chakra-infused bone claw appeared, instantly tearing through the white cloth and threads.

Ye Cang threw a fireball in each hand, blasting the two puppet scorpions away.

Two more fireballs rose, flames swirling around Ye Cang. His cold gaze swept over Maki and the others, and he said in a low voice, "Sorry, I overestimated myself. Help me!"

In the distance, Izumi, who was already prepared, slowly smiled as the bone bow in his hand was fully drawn.

The moment the sound rang in my ears, the spiral spine arrow I was holding immediately loosened!

The white arrow pierced the air and shot away like a shooting star.

Maki and the others were immediately startled and looked up at the attack coming from afar—an attack of chakra magnitude.

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

Maki took a deep breath and then exhaled sharply forward, both as an attack and a defense.

"Earth Release. Earthflow Wall!"

This Rock Release ninja didn't hesitate at all this time, directly lifting up a huge rock wall, which took a considerable amount of chakra.

"Puppet. Scorpion Claw Steel Wall!"

The two scorpion puppets, pulled and controlled by chakra threads, flipped over and sprang to the front of the puppet technique, their four crab claws intertwining to form a defense.

The remaining Yashamaru went to the cloth-strip ninja, who tore off the cloth strip, rolled the two of them up, and spun them deeper into the ground.

Faced with the terrifying attack, the Sand Ninja team displayed their unique abilities, like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea.

boom!

The powerful explosion, comparable to a nuclear explosion, caused the spiraling arrows to fall, and the detonation runes on each vertebra lit up, merging the series of explosions into a single strike.

Trees fell, the ground rippled, and a powerful shockwave swept across the land. Yekura's disciples grabbed onto the trees beside them, and were lifted into the air.

Yekura also placed the puppet dog Bruce in front of her to withstand the strong shockwave, and was impressed by the amount of chakra the other party possessed.

With enough chakra, no ninjutsu will be too weak; it's a matter of numerical superiority.

To achieve an attack of that magnitude, she would need to expend at least most of her chakra.

Looking up slightly, a giant bone bird made of skeletons appeared, with two figures on it, while Izumi's figure was falling from above.