Seii imdiately stopped, turned his head to Takeshi, and spoke with a solemn voice, "I sensed four ninjas about eight kiloters away, and they are in trouble."
"They are probably fighting multiple chakra beasts."
Takeshi, Mizuraha, and the aloof guy halted, too, and stared at Seii with an astonished expression.
Mizuraha, a sensory ninja herself, looked at Seii with so doubt.
She asked, "You sure, Seii? How can you sense sothing this far away?"
Seii chuckled awkwardly in his mind. He couldn't spill the secret about his Tenseigan now, could he?
Outwardly, he still had a solemn expression, though.
He didn't give her any chance to argue and just stated, "I'm a Senju."
Hearing this, Takeshi and the aloof guy nodded in understanding.
Takeshi and the aloof guy in their minds: Aha! I completely forgot that Senju ninjas are famous for their powerful sensory capabilities.
Mizuraha, however, still had a strange expression on her face.
Even if you're a Senju, that kind of sensory range is simply absurd, unless you have Uzumaki blood in you, too.
If my information isn't wrong, only Uzumaki clan ninjas or ninjas with Uzumaki blood can awaken a special sensory technique that allows them to perceive the chakra signatures of living organisms from kiloters away.
Even the Hyuga clan's Byakugan couldn't see that far.
But his eyes are not white, so it's not Byakugan.
Maybe his mother or so close direct relative had dormant Uzumaki blood.
My father said that mbers of the Senju and Uzumaki clans often married into each other's clans. Even the Lord First Hokage's wife is from the Uzumaki clan.
Unlike Takeshi and the aloof guy, who were first-generation civilian Shinobi, Mizuraha's father was already a seasoned Jonin of the village.
Mizuraha's father served the Yamanaka clan during the Warring States Era, and he beca a part of the sensory unit of the village after Konoha was founded.
However, because of her father's close ties to the Yamanaka clan, Mizuraha was privy to a lot of superficial knowledge about several notable Shinobi clans.
So, she mistakenly believed that since Seii was a Senju, his mother or a direct relative must have Uzumaki blood in their veins, leading Seii to unlock the Uzumaki clan's powerful sensory technique successfully.
If Seii knew what she was thinking, he would be utterly dumbfounded.
He would have certainly declared: In the realm of conspiracy theories and misunderstanding, I, Otsutsuki Seii, acknowledge you to be the strongest.
Unaware of this, Seii spoke again.
"Go to the village and report this incident to the mission departnt."
"If it's our fellow Konoha ninjas, I will help them. However, if those ninjas turned out to be rogue ninjas or Shinobi from the enemy nations, I would take action to either kill, detain, or leave Fuinjutsu marks to track them later."
Of course, Seii identified the affiliation of the ninjas clearly with his Tenseigan's far-seeing ability.
But he couldn't say it out loud.
Sensing the chakra from far away was still within believable range.
However, being capable of seeing everything that was happening within a radius of tens of kiloters? And that was when their vision was clearly blocked by dense foliage?
Now, that was absurd and outright frightening.
What if the news about this ability spread?
Wouldn't others think that he could peep into the won's bathhouses and other people's hos to see every woman's naked body while they were bathing?
Wouldn't they feel that Seii could peer into other people's nightly activities without them knowing?
Wouldn't won feel that Seii had always been watching their naked bodies through the fabric of their clothes?
Now, that would be social death. He would never be able to find a girlfriend and stay single forever.
No, thanks. He didn't want to be a single dog like Jiraiya.
Even if he soday revealed all his Tenseigan ocular techniques and abilities, he would never talk about the X-ray vision and the farsight capabilities.
Never. Never.
Thinking this far, he just shook his head, handed a scroll with his direction marker to Takeshi, and said, "Okay. I'm going after them. You guys, quickly go to Konoha and report this to the mission departnts."
"Also, give this scroll to them. It will help them track my location and find quickly."
The scroll contained a special Fuinjutsu Seal that was linked to another scroll that Seii was carrying.
After explaining how to use it, Seii urged them to go.
Puff~
And before they could even say anything else, the Seii in front of them disappeared with a puff of smoke.
It imdiately left them dumbfounded once again.
Takeshi scratched his head and asked, "So, that was a shadow clone? If that's the case, when did he create it? How did he substitute it with his real body without us noticing anything?"
Mizuraha was equally astounded. She, a sensory ninja, couldn't detect exactly when Seii left a shadow clone before vanishing as well.
Finally, the aloof guy broke the silence and said, "Let's not waste any more ti."
"We should return to the village and report this as soon as possible."
"If we are too late, he might find himself in danger."
Takeshi and Mizuraha nodded repeatedly before the three of them departed toward the village at full speed.
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While Seii's shadow clone was giving instructions to Takeshi and his team, the real Seii was quickly moving toward the Konoha ninjas, who were struggling for their lives.
If this kept going on for five or more minutes, the chakra beasts might be able to kill them all.
So, he fully unleashed the Body Flicker Technique to move through the forest like a specter. With the combination of repeated high-speed Body Flicker and his natural agility, Seii arrived at the location in less than one and a half minutes.
At that mont, he saw the Konoha Chunin fighting against three chakra beasts with a C-rank danger rating. All three were deep red serpent-type chakra beasts, who were roughly 6 ters long and as fat as 7-centiter-wide wooden logs.
They were fast, agile, and attacked from tricky angles.
anwhile, the Genins were fighting against a similar C-rank serpent and seven D-rank serpent chakra beasts.
It's ti to act.
Seii thought internally and imdiately sprang into action.
He moved the index and middle fingers of his right hand to create a single-handed cross-hand seal.
Shadow Clone Jutsu
Poof~ Poof~ Poof~ Poof~ Poof~
Five shadow clones who looked like exact copies of Seii appeared around him with a puff of white smoke, and quickly used the Body Flicker Technique.
One shadow clone appeared beside the Konoha Chunin, ford one single-handed hand seal, and pointed his right arm toward the frenzied serpent chakra beasts.
Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique
A four-ter-wide horizontal crescent blade of wind ford in front of Seii's clone and moved toward the chakra beasts like a reaper's silent scythe.
Although the wind blade was almost invisible, the snake-type chakra beasts imdiately noticed it using their sharp beastly instincts and heat sense.
And that caused their danger instincts to ring alarms in their minds. They imdiately tried to move away from the trajectory of the wind blade.
Unfortunately for them, the wind blade was not only difficult to see, but it also moved extrely fast.
Squelch~ Crack~ Squelch~
The wind blade hit the serpent chakra beast at the front and tore through its scales, flesh, spine, and bones, slicing its body in half. Blood gushed out from both halves of its body like so sick, corrupted fountain.
"Hiss!!"
"Hisssssssss!!"
The serpent beast that was dissected in half let out a loud, painful shriek. It looked at its dissected body in disbelief. It knew that it would die soon.
However, the wind blade that was responsible for its miserable state didn't stop.
Squelch~ Squelch~
Even after cutting the first serpent beast, the wind blade kept moving forward like a deadly scythe before hitting the right side of another serpent beast, tearing through its scales, skin, flesh, ribs, and lungs, leaving a huge gash.
Blood gushed out of this wound as well, staining the ground and grasses red.
"Hissssss!!" Screeched the second serpent-type beast while thrashing wildly in pain.
As for the last C-rank beast…
It was standing at the very rear, so it managed to move away in ti, letting the wind blade pass beside it.
But before it could even celebrate its own survival, alarm bells suddenly rang in its mind as if they were trying to warn the beast about the incoming danger.
The beast tensed and tried to look around it.
Crackle~ Crackle~
Suddenly, it heard the sound of crackling lightning. And at the next mont, it felt the world spin.
It couldn't understand what was going on.
However, it got the answer soon.
When the world stopped spinning, the serpent chakra beast saw its headless serpentine body lying motionlessly on the ground, soaked in the pool of its own blood.
Beside it, stood a snow-white-haired and ocean-blue-eyed young boy who held a straight-bladed katana. Arcs of blue lightning slithered around the blade, ionizing the air around it while giving the blade powerful cutting and destructive power.
This was the last thing the serpent saw before its vision finally darkened.
It was clear now. The beast was decapitated by one of the shadow clones of Seii, who was obviously using Chidori Katana.
While this was happening, the shadow clone that cast the Wind Cutter Technique had already placed his hand on the battered and bloodied Konoha Chunin's shoulder before retreating a hundred ters backward using the Body Flicker Technique.
At the sa ti, another shadow clone of Seii arrived in front of the three Konoha Genin, ford a single-handed hand seal, and slamd his right hand on the ground.
Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld
The ground in front of the shadow clone of Seii turned into a sticky swamp of mud, which quickly ensnared the serpentine chakra beasts the three Genin were fighting.
The beasts were stuck in the swamp. The more they tried to escape, the deeper their bodies sank into the swamp.
At that mont, the remaining two shadow clones appeared beside the three Konoha Genin, grabbed their shoulders, and instantly flickered away, retreating a couple of hundred ters.
Now that the area had no other Konoha ninjas and only the chakra beasts, the shadow clone that unleashed the Swamp of the Underworld Jutsu cracked his knuckles a little.
It was ti to send the remaining chakra beasts to the Pure Land with so good ol' carpet bombing.
After that, he will leave the task of dealing with the unknown ninjas lurking in the shadows to his original body.
"Perfect! Let's end this," said the shadow clone of Seii.
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