Naruto: The Progenitor of Demons Starting from Kirigakure

Mind reading is a very annoying and disgusting skill.

This applies to both the one whose mind is being read and the one who reads it, at least for Jieluo.

Jieluo dislikes mind reading. Her perception of negative emotions is a kind of imprecise mind reading skill. She doesn't know what the target is thinking, but she can guess roughly based on their mood and some clues. So sadly, Jieluo can easily read people's minds.

The darkness in people's hearts is more monstrous than any monster.

Under the moonlight, sitting on a treetop in the woods, Jieluo played with a strand of hair in her hand, her fingers slightly curling.

Suddenly, a scream erupted from somewhere in the forest, then vanished without a trace.

Lucy, with a nutritionally balanced but unpalatable soldier's ration stuffed in her mouth, looked at Jieluo curiously. Having come this far, she knew it was best not to stray too far from Jieluo, as this forest was now teeming with danger.

Somewhere in the woods, a ninja was using Earth Release to burrow several meters underground, moving swiftly along the way.

But as a ninja, as a human being, one must breathe. Even if one can remain hidden for a long time, chakra cannot sustain it.

"Is this distance enough?" If we can easily break through the blockade using Earth Release, then the rest will be easy.

As the ninja was thinking this, he began to rise. A moment later, he emerged from the ground. In the nearby dark forest, only the cold moonlight shone down from the treetops and branches, and all around was quiet.

There was no invisible attack, which made me breathe a sigh of relief, but I still couldn't let my guard down.

The ninja, standing on the ground, took a tentative step forward. He didn't encounter the attack, and a look of joy appeared on his resolute face.

Jie Luo slightly raised her eyes, feeling the ground tremble, and locked onto a tiny flame of emotion in a distant place in her heart.

"They really ran quite a distance."

but...

Jie Luo slightly hooked his fingers.

Suddenly, the ninja's joy froze, and his hair silently slipped through his fingers, turning into a pile of fragments that fell to the ground. Amidst the mournful cawing of crows, crows that had discovered fresh food flew down to the ground and pecked at the fragments of the corpse.

Jieluo's hair was never a fixed, inanimate object, but a living thing that could move.

Before the hidden passage of the waterfall outside Takigakure Village lies a lake. There are several other waterfalls that connect to the village. At this moment, four teams of ninjas gathered on the lake, standing on the water's surface. Behind them, the waterfall roared, and the Chunin's expressions were solemn.

"Did it fail?"

"Half an hour has passed, well past the agreed contact time. He must be dead."

After he finished speaking, the group of ninjas became somewhat agitated.

A ninja looked up at the dark forest before him, a hint of fear in his eyes, as if there were demons in the forest that would devour their prey. The shadowy figures swayed in the moonlight in the dense forest, the bodies of his companions who had ventured into the forest earlier to test the waters and were then killed and hung up.

"What should we do?"

"We must find the caster!"

"How do I find it?"

"Still can't sense any chakra!?"

A ninja shook his head with a look of difficulty and bitterness, saying, "I can't sense any special chakra at all."

The strands of hair, formed from demonic energy, wriggled in the forest.

"hateful!!!"

"What the hell is that thing?! Are we completely helpless?!"

Fear was slowly building, churning and boiling endlessly.

"We can't give up yet! Even if it means death, we must complete the mission!"

"Even if we run out of chakra, we'll use ninjutsu to clear a path! The village's hope rests on our shoulders!"

Earth Release: Earth Rock Spear

A giant earthen spear rose from the ground and roared forward. Since it didn't know where the target was, it could only aimlessly fire forward. After the roar, the earthen spear stopped. Seeing this scene of shooting at thin air, the other ninjas' eyelids twitched violently.

That's a really stupid thing to do.

But what followed was a pervasive despair that gently gripped my heart.

"Did it...work?"

Nobody knew.

Until the next instant, the towering earthen mound, several meters high, slowly shifted and disintegrated in mid-air before everyone's eyes, with heavy rock fragments falling to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

Good news, we hit something.

The bad news is, it didn't work at all.

Jie Luo raised her eyelids slightly and smiled faintly.

"Another little flying insect has crashed into us."

Seeing this, a ninja knelt on the water, somewhat dazed.

"What the hell is that?! What the hell is that thing?!"

Everything was too bizarre and illogical.

He couldn't understand it.

How can we fight this invisible enemy?

Some things simply stand there quietly, and no matter how hard you try, you can't defeat them in the slightest.

"Damn it! We have to retreat!"

The moment the words were spoken, accompanied by a sudden cry of alarm, one of the ninjas seemed to be suddenly grabbed by a monster. His entire body disappeared into the water under the immense force. In the cold moonlight, everyone could still see that the person was struggling desperately in the water. Lake water poured into his mouth and nose, and he struggled incessantly in pain. However, he was being pulled by some kind of ghost and was unable to break free. He was gradually dragged to the bottom of the water.

Ninjas are human, and humans are very fragile things.

"Get out of the water! Get out of the water!"

With fear in their eyes, the ninjas immediately took action.

"It's here! That monstrous thing is here!!!"

In the treetops of the forest, Jieluo stretched out her hands, her palms adorned with intricately patterned ropes, her fingers twitching slightly.

In an instant, the ninjas who had scattered and fled were broken into pieces in mid-air. Accompanied by the roar of the waterfall and the spray of water, the blood mist exploded in mid-air and then fell into the water.

The ninja who witnessed this scene stopped in his tracks, drenched in sweat, too afraid to move, his eyes filled with fear, trembling and helpless as he looked around at the empty void.

"It's here..." A ninja muttered, his face contorted in a mixture of tears and laughter.

Suddenly, a terrifying scream ripped through the body. The ninja, who was originally a man, let out a shrill and terrified cry like a woman. In the blink of an eye, he seemed to be grabbed by a demon and sank into the water with a splash.

Then, the second ninja was pulled into the water...

Following closely behind, the third...

One after another, distorted and terrified faces struggled underwater, and one companion after another vanished before their very eyes.

Everything is happening as it was destined to happen, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

"Hahaha...hahahaha..." Accompanied by a devastating laugh, a ninja raised his sword and committed suicide. Blood splattered on his neck, and his body collapsed in front of him, silently sinking into the water.

"It's so delicious..."

Under the moonlight, a pair of scarlet eyes grew even more crimson; the killing had not yet ceased.

The following morning, the atmosphere in the village grew increasingly heavy. Overnight, all the civilians had evacuated to hidden shelters. The streets were lifeless and desolate, as if immersed in some kind of immense fear. An uneasy atmosphere lingered on the faces of every ninja who flashed by on the street.

Inside the high-rise building in the center of the village, the elderly men and women who hadn't slept all night, unlike the young people, had faces full of fatigue and dark circles under their eyes. What was even more tormenting was the enormous mental pressure they were under.

Perhaps it's because I'm getting older, but I'm increasingly aware that death is quietly approaching...

A tremendous sense of panic and fear was swirling in the air above the conference room, coalescing into a vortex of unease.

"My lord..." A ninja suddenly burst in, kneeling on one knee, his face covered in fear and tears, and said in a trembling voice, "The reconnaissance team was completely wiped out; not a single one survived."

After he finished speaking, a deathly silence echoed throughout the hall.

In the eyes of every elderly man and woman, there was a deep sense of fear.