Konoha: Intentionally losing to Hinata at the start

Yamato walked over at this moment and said with a smile, "Yuming, how many do you have left? Can I have one too?"

Yu Ming's face darkened. "That's all. I only have one left."

Yamato was somewhat disappointed. "Sigh, if there were more of this kind of medicine, we could have more lives. What a pity."

This kind of medicine is extremely precious in this world. Generally, resurrection-type ninjutsu are forbidden techniques, and they are all controlled by Kage-level powerhouses, usually involving exchanging one's life for another.

Although Yu Ming's healing pills cannot bring someone back to life once they die.

However, it is extremely precious compared to those ninjutsu.

Kakashi and Guy still have their pills.

The two looked at each other and laughed.

"Yamato, thank you for letting us test the effects of this pill."

Yamato looked at Kakashi with a helpless expression and said, "Senior, you're so strong, why don't you give me your healing pills?"

Kakashi smiled at Yamato and said gently, "Keep dreaming."

After taking the pills, Yu Ming smiled and said, "Let's go, Kakashi-sensei. If we complete this mission, I can become a Chunin today."

"Although I don't think it's important whether I become a Chunin, I'm very curious about what the S-rank forbidden techniques in the Forbidden Techniques Book are like."

Kakashi sighed, "Sigh, this ninjutsu requires risking your life, it's really not worth it."

Kakashi's words silenced Guy, Yamato, and Uzuki Yugao.

If they could, they would rather find an S-rank ninjutsu for Yu Ming themselves than have him participate in this mission with them.

Chapter 53

Yu Ming smiled, not taking the matter to heart at all, because he was quite confident about this mission.

With his current strength, there's no way he can die, no matter what.

However, this time Yu Ming picked up the short sword that Kakashi had given him before.

This is the strongest opponent he has ever faced.

After the five of them set off together, the Third Hokage stood in the Hokage's room, looking at the entrance of Konoha Village, and remained silent for a long time.

Meanwhile, in the Land of Grass, there was a city that originally had a population of over 30,000.

However, the entire city has now become a ghost town.

Or rather, a dead city.

The air was thick with the stench of blood.

Bloodstains were everywhere in the city.

The corpses were all gone, or rather, some had escaped, while most had been burned by the ninjas still in the city.

They knew that rotting corpses could cause plagues.

On top of a tower in the city center.

There are seven ninjas in total: three Jonin and four Chunin.

The three Jonin had no names, their code names were A, B, and C, and the four Chunin had the same code names: East, West, South, and North.

Of the seven ninjas, the strongest was Kagami. Before he was promoted to Jonin, he already had the strength of a Special Jonin.

He is a survivor of the Third Shinobi World War.

He had witnessed the battle between the three legendary Sannin and Hanzo.

That time, he truly witnessed what top-tier combat power was like. After Pain took control of the Land of Rain, he stole a secret technique from the Land of Rain and spent more than ten years preparing in the Land of Grass to develop to the level of two Jonin and five Chunin. In the previous battle, one Chunin died.

Standing atop the tower, Kakashi gazed at the distant scenery, the stench of blood not eliciting any disgust in him. "Three Konoha ninjas have died, but their hearts have died too."

"Based on my understanding of Konoha, they won't give up besieging us. This time they will send even stronger ninjas. We don't have much time left."

"There are still over a thousand people locked up in the dungeon. Dong only needs the blood of 1000 more people to reach the level of Jonin. I'm entrusting the 1000+ people in the dungeon to you, Dong. I hope you can improve your strength as soon as possible. After you improve your strength, we'll leave here."

"Next time, let's go to a different country."

A is the strongest, and he's the one who calls the shots in this organization.

Therefore, no one had any objections.

The two men, B and C, standing behind him, both said, "I think they probably won't come anytime soon. They just lost three members of the Dark Guard, which is a huge loss for them. They will definitely investigate thoroughly before coming, so we still have some time."

A, with his hands behind his back, calmly said, "We should leave here as soon as possible, lest things get complicated."

Although both B and C felt that it would be a long time before the next batch of Konoha's ANBU arrived, they dared not disobey A's orders.

Both of them said "Okay" at the same time.

Dong stood behind him, feeling very excited.

He was just one step away from becoming a Jonin; he was twenty-five years old at the time.

Originally, he was just a practitioner of taijutsu. If it weren't for the secret technique provided by Jia, he might have remained a low-level ninja for his entire life.

But now he is about to be promoted to Jonin level, and he can't be more excited.

Two days later, Yu Ming and his group of five appeared in the city occupied by Jia and his group.

Standing on a large tree outside the city, Uzuki Yugao pointed to the tower in the city and said, "They are there. There is a large prison under the tower, which holds most of the city's residents."

Yu Ming activated his perception ability and frowned. "Sister Xi Yan, were you discovered as soon as you entered this city?"

Uzuki Yugao paused for a moment, "Yes, we found it strange at the time, since we hadn't revealed our whereabouts."

"I don't know how they found out."

Kakashi then asked, "Yu Ming, do you mean there's an early warning barrier outside this city?"

Yu Ming nodded. "Yes, there is an early warning barrier surrounding the entire city."

Kakashi looked very serious, while Uzuki Yugao and Yamato were somewhat incredulous. "How is this possible? How much chakra would such a large-scale warning barrier require?"

"They're just Jonin."

Although Kakashi guessed that the city must have a warning barrier, he didn't know how they managed to do it.

The warning barrier requires a huge amount of chakra and a large number of ninjas to maintain.

Even now, Konoha's early warning barrier is not perfect.

But the opponent only has three Jonin, how could they possibly do that?

Yu Ming looked at the eight city gate towers and could roughly guess what was going on.

He frowned and said, "I'm afraid it really is possible. These ninjas need the blood of ordinary hot people, and chakra is hidden in the cells of the human body. In other words, the warning barrier of this city is made up of their corpses. They must have some kind of device that extracts the chakra from these corpses."

As soon as Yu Ming finished speaking, everyone, including Kakashi, was completely stunned. "A corpse?!"

To support such a massive early warning barrier, one would need an enormous number of corpses.

Several people felt a shiver run through them.

Yu Ming frowned as well, finding it hard to believe that these people could be so ruthless.

“Look at those city walls, aren’t they a bit strange? They were created using earth-style ninjutsu. Those city walls are the eight chakra support points of this barrier. There must be a lot of corpses piled up in those city walls, or rather, there should be a lot of corpses under those city walls.”

As soon as Yu Ming finished speaking, the group was once again shocked by the cruelty of the situation.

Although Kakashi experienced the Third Shinobi World War, he had never seen anything like using the corpses of tens of thousands of people as chakra-extracting nutrients.

Uzuki Yugao frowned. "Doesn't that mean that Suigetsu and the others are among them?"

This made Uzuki Yugao feel extremely angry.

Yu Ming nodded. "Probably, since the amount of chakra in their bodies is much higher than that of ordinary people."

Kai was furious and clenched his fists, wanting to rush in.

Kakashi frowned. "We need to find a way to sneak in, which means we have to avoid this warning barrier."

Kakashi still wanted to use ninja methods.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Yu Ming shook his head. "No, this barrier is the same as the Leaf Village barrier. It defends the ground, the air, and even the underground."

"So the best way is to just charge in."

Kakashi was somewhat disagreeing, but he didn't know how to sneak in.

In the end, they had no choice but to agree to this solution.

After everyone had made their decision, Kakashi led the four of them through the main gate towards the tower in the city center.

Just as Yu Ming and the others crossed the barrier, Yi in Tower 37 felt that 1729119 had arrived.

He walked up to A and said, "Someone has come in."

Jia was stunned, frowning. "How could it be so fast? I estimated they wouldn't arrive for at least another week. Don't they even bother to investigate us?"

Intelligence is extremely important to ninjas.

If you have the intelligence and the right methods, even a Jonin can kill a Kage-level powerhouse.

This kind of thing happens all the time in the world.

Chapter 54

Jia never expected that Yu Ming would know the secret technique he used as soon as he heard Uzuki Yugao's description.

Actually, this so-called secret technique is not a secret technique at all for someone who has mastered medical ninjutsu.

A thought for a moment and said, "Let everyone gather together and see who they are."

Although the warning barrier can detect when a stranger enters, it doesn't know exactly who it is.

B nodded.

Meanwhile, Dong, who was sucking human blood in the underground cell, was very unhappy when he received the order.

He wasn't happy about being handed over before he even reached the level of a Jonin.

Soon, at the top of the tower, A led two Jonin, B and C, and four Chunin from the east, west, south, and north towards the location of Yu Ming and the others.

Upon entering the city, Yu Ming, Kakashi, and the others were enraged.

The entire city was stained black; these are what the bloodstains look like after they've dried.