Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the beginning

But now comes the problem.

The two directions, north and south, are going in opposite directions. Which one is Li Yao's real body and which one is Li Yao's shadow clone?

Or maybe... they are all shadow clones.

Thinking of this, Sarutobi Tenju immediately said: "Ayase, Xika, the two of you expand the search range to ten kilometers, and make sure that Li Yao has created several shadow clones."

"clear."

Sarutobi Ayase and Hyuga Shika expanded the search range again.

None of the four wanted to make the same mistake as before and waste time with a shadow clone.

ten minutes later.

Sarutobi Ayase and Hyuga Shika came back, and they both shook their heads at Sarutobi Tenju at the same time. There were no other traces within a ten-kilometer radius.

Li Yao and his shadow clones headed towards the north and south.

"Do we need to split into teams?" Echizen Ryoma, who had always had little presence, suddenly asked. Sarutobi Ayase and Hinata Shika looked at the captain Sarutobi Tenju.

Sarutobi Tenju frowned slightly, and his old man's instructions before leaving began to echo in his ears.

"Don't underestimate Li Yao. He is not the kid he appears to be. Apart from the powerful sealing technique and shadow clone that have been revealed now, we don't know what other abilities he has."

"But the only thing that is certain is that Li Yao at least has the ability to be immune to illusions below the Mangekyō Sharingan."

"You must be careful of his illusion abilities."

People who have a strong ability to resist illusions generally have a strong talent for illusions, just like the Uchiha clan.

As for how terrifying ninjas with terrifying illusion abilities are, you can also refer to the strong ones in the Uchiha clan.

Sarutobi Tenjuu knew very well how to deal with a ninja with powerful illusion abilities, and the more people the better.

On the contrary, the fewer people there are facing an illusion-type ninja, the more dangerous it is.

"But... does Li Yao really possess such a strong illusion technique?"

Sarutobi Tenju was a little skeptical. Before leaving, he heard his old man say that Li Yao could perform the Shadow Clone Technique. He was very surprised and thought that Li Yao had some special ability that allowed him to easily copy other people's ninjutsu.

Otherwise, how could Li Yao, an outsider, have a shadow clone that only Konoha has.

You have to know that the Shadow Clone Technique is not an easy ninjutsu to learn. Even among the senior ninjas in Konoha, only a few people can do it.

Among the four people in their team, he is the only one who can create shadow clones.

This shows how difficult the shadow clone technique is.

At that time, Sarutobi Tenshu was very afraid that Li Yao would use his special ability to copy the Darkness Walking Technique, and even asked his father Li Yao if he knew the Darkness Walking Technique.

If so, it would be too troublesome.

Sarutobi Tenshū was well aware of the power of the Darkness Walking Technique.

Unlike other illusions, once you are hit, you will be trapped in the illusion and unable to move.

For those who have been hit by the Dark Walking Technique, only their vision is blocked, but their other senses are still there, and they can even release ninjutsu.

This resulted in the usual method of disrupting one's own chakra flow to break the illusion being ineffective.

Because you can mobilize chakra by yourself to release ninjutsu, this is already an act of disrupting the flow of chakra.

But this level of chakra disturbance is obviously not enough to break the Dark Movement Technique.

Precisely because it is so difficult to crack, the Dark Walk Technique was qualified to be developed by the second generation to specifically restrain the Uchiha clan's Sharingan illusion.

After all, the goal of the second generation is to restrain the Mangekyō Sharingan, so how could it be so easily cracked by conventional means?

In fact, until now, there are only two ways to crack the Dark Walk Spell: either kill the caster or stay away from the caster.

All other methods are useless against the Dark Arts.

Once Li Yao also possesses the Dark Walking Technique, coupled with his unparalleled resistance to Ninjutsu and Taijutsu, he also has the Black Chakra Chain Sealing Technique that can imprison and seal the chakra in other people's bodies.

Then... Sarutobi Tenju could only say that it was too tricky.

Fortunately, his father said that Li Yao learned the Shadow Clone after reading Kimura Takuya's ninjutsu research notes, and saw how the Shadow Clone was developed from beginning to end, and memorized the seal of the original Shadow Clone technique.

The hand seals of the Dark Walk Technique have been simplified. Even if Li Yao saw the third generation making hand seals to perform the Dark Walk Technique, he would not be able to learn it.

The hand seals of many powerful exclusive ninjutsu have been simplified in order to prevent someone from copying the corresponding ninjutsu through the hand seals and sequence.

This can be said to be to restrain the Uchiha clan's ability to copy ninjutsu through the Sharingan.

The second generation took this into consideration when developing the Dark Walk Technique, and even simplified the original Dark Walk Technique, which required hundreds of seals to perform, to an insane degree, so that it only required one seal to perform.

In this way, even the Uchiha clan's Sharingan cannot be copied.

Li Yao is even worse.

Li Yao didn't know the Dark Walking Technique, Sarutobi Tenjou was sure of that, but he doubted whether he knew other illusion techniques.

Especially when dealing with Li Yaoying's clone, Li Yao did not use illusion at the first moment, and he had no intention of using illusion at all in the critical moment.

Generally speaking, a ninja with strong illusion skills will release illusion skills first when facing the enemy, and then use other ninjutsu to attack.

The ninjutsu that Li Yaoying's clone subconsciously used during the battle did not seem like someone who could use powerful illusion techniques.

Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that Li Yao deliberately hid it.

The best way is actually not to separate.

The four of them together can attack from a distance and in close combat, and they can deal with it even if Li Yao has powerful illusion skills.

But if they were separated into two teams with only two people, once one of them was caught in an illusion and the other one was attacked, both of them could be easily controlled with Li Yao's powerful sealing technique.

But... if they don't separate, we can only bet that the direction they are heading is the direction where Li Yao's real body is going.

If they bet wrong, they would most likely lose track of Li Yao.

At this time, the words of the Third Hokage's father resurfaced in Sarutobi Tenshu's ears.

"The first priority is to track Li Yao's whereabouts, not to kill him."

After all, he was still afraid that Li Yao would use the spirit transformation technique to leave and take over other people's bodies, so the third generation did not ask his son Sarutobi Tenju to kill Li Yao.

Of course, it would be best if we could kill him.

It’s okay if we can’t kill him, as long as we can keep tracking Li Yao. Then a strong man who is greedy for the art of immortality will come looking for Li Yao.

They are just responsible for providing Li Yao's location.

Thinking of this, Sarutobi Tenju sighed, and finally put aside his pride and decided to follow his old father's advice.

"Let's split into teams."

"Ayase and I will go north, and Xica and Ryoma will go south."

Sarutobi Tenju warned Ryoma and Sika, "Remember, for this mission you just need to follow Li Yao from a distance. You don't need to fight him."

After being tricked by Li Yao's shadow clone, Sarutobi Tenju realized that Li Yao was not easy to mess with and had hidden a lot of things.

And one of their tactics has been discovered.

Fighting with Li Yao before understanding his abilities will only expose more tactics, which is not worth it.

"Understood, Captain." Echizen Ryoma and Hinata Sika nodded.

The four then split into two pairs, each heading in the direction of Li Yao's two shadow clones.

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Chapter 72 Absolutely impossible

night.

The Sarutobi Tenju couple, who had been tracking Li Yaoying's clone, were one step ahead of Ryoma and Sika from another team and found Li Yaoying's clone heading north.

In a valley full of golden fallen leaves, Li Yao's shadow clone sat on a huge rock in the middle, with his eyes closed, concentrating fully on maintaining his chakra perception state.

After receiving the idea from Li Yao's original body, the shadow clone did not move forward, but stayed in the valley waiting for the ninja team to arrive, so as to determine whether it was the period of the Ninja World War.

However, because the shadow clone's chakra perception ability is not as strong as the original body, Li Yao's shadow clone must concentrate to expand the chakra perception range.

"Why haven't you found it yet?"

Li Yao was somewhat puzzled. The whereabouts of the shadow clone were very obvious along the way, so someone should have come looking for him by now.

However, within the two-kilometer range of chakra perception, there was no chakra fluctuation.

What Li Yao didn't know was that four kilometers above the valley, Sarutobi Tenju and his wife had already arrived and were looking at Li Yao who was standing on the stone in the valley from the air.

"Is it Li Yao?"

Sarutobi Tenju asked, but he couldn't see because the distance was too far.

Sarutobi Ayase closed one eye and nodded, "It's Li Yao."

Sarutobi Ayase can communicate with the eyes of the super beast fake bird under his feet and obtain the vision of one eye of the big bird, and can see objects four or five kilometers away as clearly as an eagle.

She saw Li Yao sitting on the stone clearly and there was no way she would make a mistake.

"Then let's go down." said Sarutobi Tenshu.

"Don't you want to test it out?" Sarutobi Ayase asked, "We still don't know if this Li Yao is a shadow clone."

"No need." Sarutobi Tenju shook his head and said, "The shadow clone can't last too long. When we see if Li Yao is still there tomorrow, we will naturally know whether he is a shadow clone or not."

The reason why the shadow clone technique, especially the multiple shadow clone technique, is listed as a forbidden technique is that after the shadow clone is released, the memories experienced by the shadow clone will be brought back to the original body.

Once the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique is used to display more than ten shadow clones for more than an hour, after the shadow clones are released, what will attack the main body at once are the memories of more than one hour of the ten shadow clones.

This memory is huge.

Most people simply cannot withstand this instantaneous memory shock. Their brains will be directly damaged by this memory shock, turning them into fools.

If the Li Yao here is a shadow clone, then it means that this shadow clone has existed for at least more than ten hours.

The memory accumulated during this time is no less than the memory accumulated by ten shadow clones in one hour.

If he hadn't known that Li Yao's soul was special and could use the spirit transformation technique, Sarutobi Tenshu would have directly determined that Li Yao in the valley ahead was the real body.

Most people simply cannot withstand the shock of memories after a shadow clone has existed for ten hours.

Even for him, being instantly impacted by the memory of the shadow clone that had existed for more than ten hours would cause mental damage, and it would take him a week to recover.

Sarutobi Tenju didn't believe that by tomorrow morning, Li Yao would be able to withstand the memory of the shadow clone existing for more than twenty hours.

It's not as simple as one plus one.

The longer the shadow clone exists, the stronger the impact of the accumulated memories on the original body's brain will be, multiplied.

The shadow clone has the memories accumulated over twenty hours. Even if Li Yao has a special soul, Sarutobi Tenju believes that Li Yao cannot withstand it.

If the Li Yao here is a shadow clone, then it will automatically disappear at midnight at the latest.

Soon, it was midnight.

Seeing that Li Yao was still in the valley, Sarutobi Tenzhu raised the corner of his mouth, smiled slightly, and said: "It seems that the one here is Li Yao's real body."

Sarutobi Ayase smiled and affirmed: "The shadow clone cannot exist for such a long time."

Both of them were certain that the Li Yao in the valley at this moment was the real Li Yao, and on the other side, Longma and the others found Li Yao's shadow clone.

Half an hour after Sarutobi Tenju and his wife found Li Yao in the valley, Echizen Ryoma and Hinata Sika also found Li Yao in a small village in the south.

They were connected through the eagle drawn by Sarutobi Ayase, and both knew that they had found Li Yao. The only thing they had to confirm was which side had the real one.

Now it seems that the ones on their side are Li Yao's real body, and the ones on Echizen Ryoma's side are shadow clones.

Sarutobi Tenju and his wife thought so until the sun rose the next morning.

It was not until the sun rose in the morning that they received the letter sent by Echizen Ryoma and Hinata Shika through the Super Beast Fake Eagle, and they were completely stunned.

"impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

Sarutobi Tenju had an expression of disbelief on his face.

Sarutobi Ayase's beautiful eyes were also filled with shock at this moment.

The letter said that the Li Yao found by Echizen Ryoma and Hinata Sika was still there this morning and had not disappeared. The two asked whether the Li Yao they found was still there and whether he was a shadow clone?

"This……"