Konoha teaches, then stands in the sky

Kakashi didn't chat with Shisui for too long about the battle number, after all, this was generally more beneficial to them.

Thinking that it might be almost time for Nagato's battle, Kakashi went to Division 7 to watch Nagato's battle.

"The fifth battle of the second round, No. 17 and No. 19 Nagato."

Kakashi mourned for tenths of a second in his heart for Hakashi Raido. There was definitely no way to win Hakashi Raido. Let's see if he could hold on for a few more moves so that Kakashi could get more information about Nagato.

"It's a powerful enemy." Bingzu Leitong took a deep breath and walked onto the battlefield with a serious look.

"Raydo, come on!" Kakashi encouraged, hoping that Hido can hold on for a little longer.

"Since Kakashi you are here to cheer for me, I can't let you down too much." Namizu Raito was a little surprised to hear Kakashi's voice.

After the battle started, Mizurai immediately retreated and formed two shadow clones. The shadow clones, one on the left and one on the right, rushed towards Nagato in unison in order to create an opportunity for the main body to attack.

At this time, Nagato also created a shadow clone. The main body and the shadow clone formed seals quickly with no expression on their faces.

"Fire Escape·Tou Ke Ku!"

"Wind Escape·Press!"

Nagato's body spit out a compressed fireball in the center of the battle field. As soon as the fireball hit the ground, the compressed flames inside it burst out instantly, creating a sea of ​​​​fire.

Immediately afterwards, the shadow clone spit out a high-pressure wind ball. When the wind ball hit the sea of ​​​​fire, it turned into a large-scale storm. The wind assisted the fire. The fire in the sea of ​​​​fire immediately became extremely terrifying, engulfing the two shadow clones.

Bingzu Lei's eyes widened, and the hand holding the long knife almost lost its grip and let the knife fall to the ground.

What kind of excellent matching mechanism allows him to fight against opponents of this level.

"Referee, I abstain." Bing Zu Lei raised his hands and surrendered before the sea of ​​fire spread.

If he could get close to Nagato, he might still be able to fight as he was good at physical skills, but his speed was obviously not fast enough to rush to Nagato and give him a blow before Nagato released his ninjutsu.

"Nagato wins!" the referee announced the result of the battle.

"The fire escape is as good as the wind escape, and he can combine ninjutsu." Kakashi silently wrote down the new information, further increasing Nagato's danger level.

Next, Kakashi stayed in the seventh division until the end of the second round before returning to his first division.

Kakashi quickly dealt with his opponent as before and quickly rushed to the sixth division where the sand crab was.

Now Kakashi has some information about Nagato, but Sand Crab is really well hidden. Apart from a chakra line, it is just ordinary Taijutsu.

Zabuza found that Kakashi came to watch the battle again, and subconsciously puffed up his chest as he walked towards the fighting venue.

"The battle begins!"

"Kirigakure no Jutsu!"

As soon as the battle started, Zabuza immediately exploded with chakra and spit out thick mist to cover his sight.

He had also seen the battle between sand crabs and knew that the opponent was difficult to deal with, so he went all out as soon as Zabuza came up.

Kakashi frowned slightly. As the secret art of Kirigakure Village, the Kirigakure Jutsu has a very high upper limit. Not only Obito's Sharingan cannot see through it, but also his transparent world.

At this time, Kakashi could not see the battle scene in the thick fog, and could only judge the general situation of their battle based on the sound.

"Is there no way to deal with the thick fog, or is there no problem if we don't deal with it?" Seeing that the thick fog had not dissipated for a minute, Kakashi couldn't decide which possibility it was.

Another minute passed, and the sound of fierce fighting sounded. The thick fog gradually dissipated, revealing Zabuza who fell to the ground and the intact sand crab.

Kakashi felt helpless. It was not easy to collect information. After watching three games, there was nothing useful. The only thing that was certain was that the sand crab was not weak.

Kakashi watched for a while and felt that he should really be able to collect useful information in the fourth game.

The fourth round is the last round of the qualifiers. The strength of the ninja who wins the fourth round will not be too bad. And according to the serial number, the opponent of the sand crab in the last battle will be Iwagakure. If he doesn't start, he will create a fog to obscure his vision. .

The strength of Nagato's opponent in the third round was also average. Nagato still relied on the combination of wind and fire ninjutsu to kill his opponent instantly, and Kakashi received no new information.

After the third round, instead of immediately entering the final fourth round, there was a three-hour intermission, and then the final round three hours later.

Kakashi and others used this intermission to eat together and exchange information with each other.

Kakashi first informed him of all the information he had collected, and then waited for the other disciples to answer.

"It turns out that there are other members of the Akatsuki organization who also participated in the martial arts tournament. I saw Yahiko, the leader of the Akatsuki organization, in my competition area." Obito said after hearing Kakashi talk about Nagato's information.

"He seems to be good at water release ninjutsu. I've only seen one of his battles, so I'm not particularly sure." Obito said honestly.

Kakashi looked sideways. He thought Obito would spend all his time in the competition area where Nohara Lin was. Unexpectedly, Obito still collected intelligence, although not much.

After Obito finished speaking, Nohara Rin and Shisui also talked about the situation of their respective divisions.

"I feel like there aren't any noteworthy opponents in the division I'm in." Metkay touched his chin and thought seriously.

No one in the eighth division of Metkai can catch his golden skyline.

If it was Obito who said this, Kakashi would think that Obito was pretending, but if it was Metkai who said this, there's really nothing wrong with him.

After all, when Metkai bursts out with all his strength and uses the Eight Gate Dungeon and Rock Breathing Chakra modes together, he is more powerful than the Four Ninja Swordsmen.

After the start of the fourth round, since Sand Crab was also the first game, Kakashi directly separated a shadow clone to collect intelligence in the sixth division, and returned to the first division to compete in the first division to prevent missing key information.

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I checked it again today and found that there was an error in yesterday's content, which has been corrected.

Kakashi has actually met Nagato, but they haven't communicated with him. Yahiko and Obito have also met, but only Shisui has met Konan.

Chapter 519: Is the Ninja Master related to Nagato’s dark transformation?

"Sand crab versus stone bear!"

The shadow clone Kakashi stared at the battle field.

This is the last round of qualifiers. After the qualifiers, there will be a day of rest before the knockout rounds begin.

Sand Crab walked into the battle arena with the same indifferent expression as before, without looking a trace of nervousness.

The Sand Crab's opponent, the Stone Bear, looked like he was facing a formidable enemy.

Although Sand Crab doesn't have an exaggerated range of ninjutsu like Nagato's, the way Sand Crab takes down the enemy with ease every time makes Shikuma dare not look down upon him.

"Earth Release: Rock Iron Cannon Technique!"

The stone bear quickly formed seals and spat out stones at the sand crabs, hitting them at high speed. The stones quickly grew in size as they flew, like fired cannonballs.

This is Iwagakure's legion ninjutsu. It has great power when used by Iwagakure ninja troops together. It is also a good offensive ninjutsu in single combat situations.

The indifferent expression on Sand Crab's face remained as he took out the scroll and dodged Iwagakure's attack.

The next moment, a stooped old man with a scorpion-tailed iron thorn on his back appeared on the battlefield and ran towards the stone bear quickly.

"Puppet Master." Kakashi said in his mind with narrowed eyes.

Such a method is undoubtedly the puppet technique developed by the Second Kazekage.

"Isn't this guy a traitorous ninja from Sunagakure?" Kakashi felt suspicious.

Although the development of puppet masters is no longer unique to Sunagakure Village, there are basically no puppet masters who are not Sunagakure who have become famous, at least Kakashi has never heard of them.

The level of puppet master shown by Sand Crab is quite extraordinary. Just by releasing a puppet, it can quickly suppress the opponent Shi Xiong.

Even a layman like Kakashi can detect the sand crab's proficiency in puppet manipulation.

With such a level of puppetry at no more than eighteen years old, it was hard for Kakashi to believe that the other party was born in Noroko.

For a ninjutsu school that has only been around a short time, the teacher's level is very important.

Of course, since there is no evidence, it is impossible for Kakashi to report the sand crab. At most, he should pay more attention to the other party.

Under Xie's superb puppetry, Shi Xiong was quickly forced into a desperate situation and lost the battle.

"The sand crab wins and advances to the knockout round!"

After the referee announced the result of the battle, Xie quickly put away the puppet, ignored everyone and walked directly outside.

He is not interested in anything here. The reason why Scorpion came here is just because the fourth one has a chakra knife worth tens of millions of taels.

He wanted to melt the chakra knife and use it for puppet making.

Xie didn't care about other players and had no intention of gathering intelligence. His goal was only fourth place.

In fact, Scorpion felt that if he used all his strength, it would be easy to take first place. After all, he was one of the few people in the ninja world who had killed Kage.

However, Xie didn't have this idea at all. First, the reward he needed was the fourth place reward, and second, he might not be able to receive the award even if he used all his strength.

Scorpion can only participate in the competition using the identity of other people.

Although he is not wanted by Sunagakure yet, there are Sunagakure ninjas at the martial arts conference. If he takes out the human puppet of the Third Kazekage, Sunagakure will definitely summon ninjas to hunt him down immediately.

Scorpio doesn't want to be exposed before the goal is achieved.

……

Since the shadow clone finished watching Scorpion's battle, Kakashi's main body went directly to the competition area where Nagato was.

Nagato's fighting style is still so simple and unpretentious, with powerful ninjutsu bombings forcing his opponents to surrender.

"Nagato, let's go. Yahiko's side should be almost over." Konan said to Nagato.

She and Nagato are players in the same division, but her number is very high.

Nagato nodded and went to the competition area where Yahiko was with Konan.

Kakashi showed a thoughtful expression when he saw this. This powerful female ninja should also be a member of the Akatsuki organization.

Because the Akatsuki organization was still harmless, Kakashi didn't think too much and went to find several other companions who had successfully advanced.

"The qualifiers have ended successfully." Nohara Lin put her hands together and smiled softly.

Before the fight, Nohara Lin was actually worried that she would not advance to the knockout rounds.

After staying with Kakashi and the others for a long time, Nohara Rin always felt that she was weak and just a powerless nanny.

After playing four rounds in the qualifying round, Nohara Lin's confidence suddenly returned.

She only felt that those opponents were extremely weak. Even the opponents in the fourth round could not withstand her explosive punch.

"Hey, Xiaolin, you performed very well. Many players were surprised."

Obito couldn't help but laugh when he thought of Nohara Rin's punch that cracked the ground and the onlookers were stunned.

Obito felt that this could not be blamed on the other players' lack of experience. Who would have thought that Nohara Lin, a cute-looking girl, could have such strange powers.

"It's okay. I'm still a long way from you guys. I need to keep working hard." Nohara Lin waved her hand and smiled. She didn't get cocky because of her performance in the preliminaries.

Nohara Lin felt that the day when other disciples would not subconsciously exclude her during the civil war, then her strength would be something to be proud of.

Since the qualifying rounds were over, ninjas from the same ninja village started communicating one after another, and the same was true in Konoha.

"This youth martial arts association has many good ninjas. It's normal to be unlucky and not advance." Asuma comforted Yuhi Kurenai who was eliminated in the fourth round.

Only one person from their team, Asuma, advanced, and the remaining two were eliminated.

"Indeed." Bing Zu Lei sighed.

He was a typical unlucky person to meet a pervert like Nagato.

"I'm afraid only Kakashi and the others have a chance to defeat Nagato." Namashi Rai thought in his heart.

In the heart of Amaizu Raido, only the abnormal can defeat the abnormal. Although Asuma is still a genius, he is obviously not Nagato's opponent.

"Asuma, Aburame Shimi... In this way, ten ninjas have advanced to Konoha, occupying almost one-third of the positions in the knockout rounds." Kakashi listened silently and calculated in his mind the total number of people in Konoha to advance.

Kakashi estimated that someone would encounter ninjas from the same village in the first round of the knockout round. There were too many ninjas in Konoha who advanced.

When the Konoha ninja group returned to the hotel, Kakashi conducted a wave of information exchanges with other Konoha ninjas and told the other Konoha ninjas the information they collected.

After all, this is a competition within the scope of the ninja world, and there will be daimyo from the land of fire and the daimyo from the water country watching the game. The more Konoha ninjas advance, the more face Konoha will have, and it will be easier for the daimyo to earn gold coins.

At the same time, Nagato and the others were also listening to information.

"There are many talented ninjas from Konoha, including Hatake Kakashi, who is good at lightning sword techniques. Throughout the preliminaries, all opponents were killed instantly by Hatake Kakashi."

"In addition, there is Uchiha Shisui who is good at illusion fire escape, and Might Guy who is good at physical skills..." Kakuzu said the information collected by the Ninja Clan referee.

"Minister Kakuzu, isn't it good for us to do this?" Yahiko said, scratching his head.

Although gathering information can be considered a part of ninja combat, using the referee's information always feels like cheating.

"What's wrong? It's all about gathering intelligence. What difference can there be? That Hatake Kakashi did very well in this regard. He ran around as soon as the battle was over. He completely watched all of Nagato's battles." Kakuzu said. They all replied with indifferent expressions.