Konoha: Intentionally losing to Hinata at the start

This is quite terrifying.

At such a young age, he had already surpassed Itachi Uchiha in strength; such talent even terrified Nagato.

Kakuzu was also quite curious about Yu Ming, or more precisely, about the underground bounty on Yu Ming's head.

Somewhere in the ninja world, Kakuzu took out a notebook and looked it over.

Seeing that Yu Ming's bounty was only 5000 million taels, they found it hard to believe, "Such a powerful ninja, and the bounty is only 5000 million taels? Are you kidding me?"

In fact, in the bounties of the underworld, there are bounties on the elite ninjas of each village.

These are usually bounties offered by various countries.

However, there aren't many ninjas in the ninja world who become bounty hunters for the sake of bounties, since those with bounties are mostly elite ninjas.

Their abilities are all quite good.

For example, Asuma.

Killing such an elite Jonin for a mere 3000 million taels is simply not worth it.

There are only a few dozen A-level missions.

Having the ability to kill an elite Jonin would earn you far more than this bounty.

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They didn't care about the small bounty, and it would easily make enemies with various villages.

Not many bounty hunters would target a ninja of this caliber.

In other words, the bounties that various ninja villages set up to annoy each other's rivals.

However, Kakuzu is an exception. He seems completely unconcerned about making enemies with various villages, and he is quite enthusiastic about being a bounty hunter.

However, he felt that it was unreasonable for a ninja stronger than Itachi Uchiha to have a bounty of only 5000 million ryo.

No matter how you look at it, Yu Ming is a master among the Shadow level, and his starting point should be around 100 million taels, so how could he only have 50 million taels?

In reality, although Yu Ming has a great reputation in the ninja world over the years, he hasn't killed many people, and his relationship with various villages isn't that bad.

That's why the reward is so small.

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The size of the reward reflects how much each village values ​​or dislikes you.

Yu Ming's reputation in various villages is quite good, given that he has such a resounding name and outstanding achievements, yet he still has a bounty of 5000 million taels.

Kakuzu originally wanted to kill Yu Ming in exchange for the bounty, but when he saw that the bounty was so small, he gave up the idea.

"It seems this kid has a good reputation in various ninja villages, yet he only has a bounty of 5000 million ryo. However, given his strength, killing him for only 5000 million ryo is indeed quite unworthy."

Upon hearing Kakuzu's words, Hidan laughed loudly, "Kakuzu, you really are a money-grubber. You actually want to kill this guy for the bounty. Be careful you don't end up getting yourself killed."

Although Hidan was the weakest member of Akatsuki, his abilities were also the most terrifying.

Once he gets his hands on blood, it's practically the same as waiting to die. Even among the various Kage-level powerhouses of the Akatsuki organization, no one dares to underestimate him.

This is assuming others know about his abilities; those who don't know about him will end up like Yugito and Asuma.

However, Hidan found Kakuzu's behavior somewhat distasteful.

His hobby is killing, while Kakuzu's hobby is money.

Kakuzu felt he had absolutely nothing in common with Hidan: "Only money won't betray you, you don't understand."

Hidan chuckled, completely unconcerned about Kakuzu's contempt for him.

On the contrary, he always preferred to team up with Kakuzu because the two of them shared a common trait: they were both very difficult to kill.

Hidan is immortal, while Kakuzu has five hearts, and if one breaks, he can find another.

So as long as not all of his hearts were shattered at once, he could recover after the war.

Why not learn the Eight Gates Formation in Chapter 212?

Payne looked at Deidara and Sasori and said, "When they come in later, if you two can leave, then leave. There's no need to fight that guy to the death."

This time, neither Sasori nor Deidara objected.

They weren't very confident in facing Yu Ming.

Moreover, Yu Ming also has Kakashi and Chiyo by his side.

As for Naruto and Sakura, they are not included in this count.

The extraction of the One-Tailed Beast's chakra is still ongoing, but it's almost complete.

Because of Yu Ming's appearance, everyone in the Akatsuki organization noticeably sped up their pace.

As for Yu Ming, after Yu Ming defeated Uchiha Itachi, Chiyo clearly gained a much better understanding of Yu Ming.

She was already a veteran ninja, and one who had experienced three Shinobi World Wars.

It's very clear just how strong Yu Ming was when he fought Uchiha Itachi.

Moreover, she knew very well that Yu Ming had not exerted his full strength at all, and was completely at ease.

Even "067" was fought very easily by him, and Chiyo estimated that if she were to take action, it would probably not be so easy to defeat Uchiha Itachi, and she might not even be able to defeat him, even if it was just a clone, even if it only had 30% of Uchiha Itachi's original chakra.

However, Chiyo could sense just how strong Itachi Uchiha was.

Actually, that ninjutsu was capable of using all of Itachi Uchiha's ninjutsu, but because he only had 30% chakra, he couldn't use the Mangekyou Sharingan, which put him under immense pressure.

So if Chiyo were to actually fight Itachi Uchiha, she might not necessarily be able to defeat him.

However, Yu Ming defeated Uchiha Itachi very smoothly, and even seemed quite relaxed.

Moreover, their combat experience is terrifying.

Most importantly, the speed was extremely fast; Chiyo felt she couldn't react to that lightning-fast movement.

Just like how Itachi Uchiha couldn't react at all just now.

Kakashi also felt that Yu Ming's strength had increased significantly over the years.

Sakura and Naruto were both like this, looking at Yu Ming with surprise.

However, back in Konoha, the two already knew that Yu Ming's strength was terrifying.

What was demonstrated today was Yu Ming's strong practical experience.

What was displayed that day was Yu Ming's immense power and control over that power.

Meanwhile, Kai had a tougher fight, even though Kisame Hoshigaki only had 30% of his original chakra.

However, his enormous chakra reserves were already quite large; even 30% of his chakra was still a Kage-level chakra reserve.

The fight lasted a long time before a winner was decided.

It was only when Kai opened the sixth gate of the Eight Gates Formation that he was defeated.

It is conceivable that Kisame Hoshigaki is extremely powerful.

After traveling for several hours, Yu Ming, Kakashi, Chiyo, and the others finally arrived outside the cave where the Akatsuki organization was located.

Outside the cave, there was a talisman pasted on it.

Just as Yu Ming and his group arrived, Kai Ban arrived.

Upon seeing Kai, before Yu Ming could even speak, Kai walked over and said, "Yu Ming, I didn't expect you to come too. Now that you're here, the rescue operation is a sure thing."

Kai highly approves of Yu Ming.

Although Yu Ming refused to learn physical skills from him back then, Kai had a very good impression of Yu Ming personally.

He is talented, strong, and most importantly, he can get along with these Jonin with ease.

Of course, the most important thing is that Yu Ming is Kakashi's disciple, and Guy knows that Kakashi's relationship with Yu Ming is completely different from his relationship with Sasuke and the other two.

Just like how he treats Lee differently from Neji and Tenten.

Yu Ming is a disciple of Kaka04278 Xi, while Xiao Li is a disciple of Kai.

Of course, at first, Guy actually wanted to treat the three of them as his personal disciples, but unfortunately Neji and Tenten couldn't learn the Eight Gates, so he could only pass it on to Rock Lee.

However, neither Kakashi nor Guy showed any favoritism towards their personal disciples or ordinary disciples.

However, for their personal disciples, they would teach them all the ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu they knew.

Because Yu Ming is Kakashi's personal disciple, Guy has a good impression of Yu Ming.

After all, he and Kakashi had a very good relationship.

Yu Ming looked at Kai and smiled, "Teacher Kai, it seems you were just going through a battle. Who was your opponent?"

Kai paused for a moment, then thought, "A shark-man, probably a ninja from Akatsuki, and quite strong."

For Kai, it's already quite an achievement that he can remember Kisame is a shark man.

Don't ask too much of him.

Neji and Tenten were speechless.

However, it's not entirely wrong to call Kisame a shark-man, since he has already fused with Samehada.

When Neji saw Yu Ming, he said, "I didn't expect that you would also be sent out by the Hokage for this mission."

It was only at this moment that Neji realized how important this mission truly was.

Konoha's strongest Jonin have been dispatched, which shows that they attach great importance to this mission.

Guy, Kakashi, and Yu Ming are currently among the strongest Jonin in Konoha.

If we count them all, Asuma is one, and so is Kurenai Yuhi.

Asuma's overall abilities are even higher than Kai's.

He's just not as good as Kai in pure physical combat, but he's not bad either...

He died at Hidan's hands purely because of a lack of intelligence.

Actually, he is very strong.

In Konoha, he was one of the few Jonin who could be ranked alongside Kakashi and Guy.

Currently, the strongest Jonin in Konoha is Yu Ming. Regardless of whether Guy opens the Eight Gates or not, Yu Ming is stronger than him.