Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the beginning

Chapter 70 Decision

"Ok!"

In the Fire Country, inside a waterfall cave, Li Yao sat up and rubbed his forehead with both hands to relieve his headache.

He was falling asleep just now, when suddenly the chakra that returned after the shadow clone dissipated, brought with it a wave of memories that hit his mind all at once.

Fortunately, he had absolute control over chakra and filtered out most of the irrelevant memories in the chakra in time, leaving only the battle memories of the shadow clones and the four members of the Konoha hunting team.

Even so, the sudden influx of memories still gave Li Yao a headache.

After rubbing his forehead for a while, Li Yao finally returned to normal.

Huh... Li Yao took a long breath.

Although he was awakened by the stimulation of memory, he felt much more energetic after sleeping for seven or eight hours.

At least I don’t feel as mentally exhausted as before, as if I hadn’t slept for five days and five nights.

"The shadow clones in the north and east are still there. It seems that they only found the shadow clone in the east."

Li Yao sensed the shadow clone below, and the corners of his mouth raised in a slight smile.

When he was on his way at noon today, he passed by a river and suddenly thought that people always leave traces when walking on the ground, but they will not leave any traces when walking on the water.

Besides, he didn't have to walk, he could just lie on the river and float away with the current.

In this way, no chakra traces will be left.

So Li Yao immediately created three shadow clones, which ran in three directions, while he himself floated along the river to the waterfall. Fortunately, there was a small cave inside the waterfall, not big, about the size of a kitchen, but enough for one person to rest.

Li Yao immediately severed his conscious connection with his shadow clone and slept peacefully until the shadow clone in the east dissipated the memory shock, and then he woke up.

Now the shadow clone in the eastern direction has died in battle, but the shadow clones in the other two directions are still there.

Li Yao thought about it and quickly came to the conclusion that the only ninja team sent by Konoha to hunt him down might be that one team.

"Is it because of the war?"

Li Yao thought to himself.

The information about the Second Shinobi World War was only derived from the fact that Danzo had not visited him in two years.

He was not sure whether we were in the Ninja World War period or not.

However, what if the other two shadow clones never encountered other ninja teams chasing them, or the ninja who found the other two shadow clones and the ninja who found the dead shadow clone were from the same team.

Then it can be confirmed that Konoha really does not have the energy or the means to send more ninja teams to hunt him down.

In this way, it can be basically confirmed that it is now the period of the Second Ninja World War.

"If that's the case, then... we might consider not leaving the Fire Country in such a hurry."

Li Yao tilted his head slightly and thought about it. If it was really during the Second Ninja World War, then the Fire Nation should be in a circular state with a tight outside and a tight center but loose inside.

There must be a large number of ninjas stationed on the border between Konoha in the center and the Land of Fire, so it must be very difficult to break through the border.

And the situation outside might be even more chaotic than Konoha.

On the contrary, the border area between Konoha and the Land of Fire is relatively stable at present.

"Then don't rush out."

Thinking of the memories brought back by the shadow clone, Li Yao made a decision instantly.

He decided to stay and take advantage of this relatively peaceful time to see if he could copy the Super Beast Fake Chakra from the female ninja.

Li Yao now remembered that the female ninja used the ninjutsu used by Sai in the original work - Super Beast Fake Painting, a ninjutsu that created the flight of a large ink bird.

In fact, Li Yao had never thought that he would encounter flying ninjutsu other than Dust Release at this point in time.

After all, whether it is Deidara who controls the exploding clay bird to fly, or Sai who uses the super beast fake painting to draw the ink bird flying, both of them may not have been generated at this time.

This is because Li Yao's thinking is too one-sided.

In the ninja world, many ninjutsu are inherited, and very few are developed by individuals.

Many bloodline limits and special ninjutsu are inherited, but they are very difficult to learn and only a few people can learn them, so it seems that only that person knows them.

In fact, there may be people who will do this in every era.

It is understandable that Li Yao would encounter this situation now.

It was just that Li Yao, a time traveler, was influenced by his preconceived ideas, and at the beginning he was thinking about how to copy and condense the Dust Release chakra from the Third Tsuchikage.

But now, an unexpected surprise has arrived.

As long as he can copy the chakra that condenses the fake super beast painting, he will also have the flying ninjutsu.

As long as he can fly, the sky is the limit for him.

At least you don't have to worry about being besieged by ninjas.

After all, there are too few ninjas who can fly.

Moreover, there are more directions to escape in the air than on the ground, and there is no way to use barrier ninjutsu to tie up Li Yao like on the ground.

It can be said that as long as he has the ability to fly, Li Yao can be considered to have truly settled down in this world.

"Alas...what a pity!"

Just as he was thinking about the benefits of flying ninjutsu, Li Yao suddenly sighed.

The soul in his shadow clone is a simulation.

Even though the fluctuations of his soul energy were exactly the same as his original body.

But it is still fake after all. There is no way he can have the ability to instantly sense the changes in the nature and form of the corresponding chakra when his body touches the ninjutsu chakra.

Li Yao discovered that his ability to sense the changes in the nature and form of ninjutsu chakra was related to his soul.

The chakra perception ability was awakened only after the soul merged with chakra.

Before this, he couldn't even sense chakra.

This shows the importance of the soul in chakra perception.

The closer the ninjutsu chakra is to his soul, the clearer his chakra perception will be.

If his body is touched, it is equivalent to being touched by his soul, and he can instantly sense the changes in the nature and form of the chakra of the contact ninjutsu.

If he does not touch his body, but is very close and spends a certain amount of time, he can also clearly sense all the changes in the nature and form of the ninjutsu chakra.

Although Li Yao's soul has been integrated into the chakra, it cannot leave the body.

Therefore, once chakras like black iron chains and shadow clones leave the body, the soul in the chakra will automatically withdraw.

Li Yao's soul always remains in human form and will not leave the body.

This made it much more difficult for Li Yao to copy and condense other people's ninjutsu.

"If the real body was here... uh... forget it."

Li Yao shook his head fiercely. He thought it was a bad idea to have such dangerous thoughts. If the person heading east tonight was not a shadow clone but the real person, he would be dead now.

I have to say something here again.

Intelligence is really important to a ninja's battle.

Like the immortal duo in the original work, people who didn't understand their abilities, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki, and the monk Chilu who protected the Twelve Ninjas, all failed.

Asuma, the son of the third generation, also died.

Then the abilities of Hidan from the Immortal Duo were revealed, and when he encountered the Revenge Team led by Kakashi, Hidan was also defeated.

Once the capabilities are understood, targeted tactics can be customized, and if successful, it will be a decisive blow.

Hidan's ability was used against him by Shikamaru, who almost killed Kakuzu.

Unfortunately, Kakuzu has multiple hearts, and he won't die if one heart dies. Shikamaru did not gather this information at the beginning.

As a result, in the end, if Naruto hadn't arrived to finish it off, Kakashi, Shikamaru and the others would have had to sacrifice at least one of their men to kill Kakuzu.

So, intelligence is really important.

As soon as Li Yao's black iron chain was exposed, Konoha immediately had a corresponding tactical response.

Knowing that the black iron chain has high resistance to both physical and ninjutsu attacks, it is not very useful against general ninjutsu and physical attacks.

They thought of using ink to penetrate to avoid the two advantages of the black iron chain, directly attacking Li Yao's body, while also being able to entangle Li Yao's black iron chain.

Li Yao could even feel that even if he could get rid of the ink penetration attack at that time, the short time he had was enough for the pursuit team to launch subsequent measures against him.

If it is really Li Yao's real body that is in the east tonight, then his journey through time will end here, without any accidents.

Fortunately, the shadow clone is really awesome.

Thanks to his predecessor Kimura Yo’s father, he learned how to create shadow clones.

Li Yao felt somewhat fortunate, because if he didn't have the Shadow Clone, he wouldn't have been able to escape from Konoha.

Now the shadow clone, fire escape and black iron chains have been exposed, but the Diamond Seal and Dark Walk Technique have not been exposed yet.

Li Yao has to use these two ninjutsu, especially the dark jutsu, at critical moments.

"Let's first determine how many teams are chasing us."

"Then use the shadow clones to force out more abilities from the ninja team chasing him."

Li Yao thought to himself that he would not show up in person to fight unless he was sure of victory. The risk was too great.

After all, he still has too little experience in ninja combat.

There are all kinds of weird and unconventional ninjutsu in the ninja world. Sometimes they seem to be weak in power, but they can become a fatal blow at certain critical moments.

Li Yao knew too little, so he could only use his shadow clone to find out the enemy's strength before he could use his real body to copy the super beast pseudo-painting chakra of his female ninja.

……

after one day.

By the river where Li Yao created his shadow clone, Sarutobi Tenju's team finally found the place and started searching the surrounding area.

After a while, Sarutobi Ayase and Hinata Sika who were searching came back.

The four gathered on the river bank.

"Is it here?" Sarutobi Tenshu asked with a serious face.

In order to avoid being fooled again, they returned along the path they took to track the shadow clone and expanded the search range, but it still took a day.

This meant that Li Yao had created a shadow clone long before, and they had been deceived for at least seven or eight hours.

How could the proud Sarutobi Tenshu bear this?

At this moment, I was already suppressing my anger.

He swore that he would kill the bastard Li Yao himself in the future.

Sarutobi Ayase jumped down from the big bird and replied, "We found traces of Li Yao's black chakra chain falling to the ground one kilometer to the north. He should have gone north."

The ninjas of Konoha were very observant and had strong intelligence gathering abilities.

Someone in Konoha had already analyzed what traces Li Yao would leave on the ground when he escaped from Konoha using the black iron chain.

As soon as Sarutobi Ayase saw the cross-shaped holes on the ground, he knew that they were traces left by Li Yao's black iron chain.

Chapter 71: Simplified Seal

"The North..." Sarutobi Tenzhu frowned slightly.

To the north of Konoha is the direction where small countries such as the Land of Grass are located. In this direction, there are the least ninjas stationed on the Konoha border.

Most of the ninjas are in the Rain Country in the northwest, facing the Lightning Country, one of the five major countries, across several small countries and on the border in the northeast.

"Did someone provide Li Yao with information about the deployment of Konoha ninjas?"

Sarutobi Tenju was puzzled. Just as he was wondering why Li Yao was heading north, Hyuga Sika followed up and said, "Captain, I also saw traces of Li Yao's black chakra chain falling to the ground one kilometer to the south, heading straight south."

Sarutobi Tenjou: “…”

Sarutobi Tenshu took a deep breath and looked deeply at Hinata Xika.

Hinata Xika shrank his head. It was not his fault. It could only be said that the captain thought too quickly and thought too much.

It turns out that Li Yao had no intelligence at all and he just randomly divided the routes.