Being ridiculed by An Qi, "Besides water escape, there are only forbidden arts", Hotaru pouted in a cute way.
In fact, An Qi is a bit of a textbook tsundere to praise Hotaru. You must know that the famous second-generation Hokage Senju Tobirama of Konoha Village is almost a person who "only has forbidden arts except water escape".
Seeing that the two of them seemed to be going off topic, Lin immediately stepped in to correct it: "Okay, experienced ninjas can judge their strength by just relying on their every move. But..."
Firefly: "But?"
Lin: "Generally speaking, if you reach that level, you won't take the Chunin Exam. It seems that even if Akatsuki doesn't take the bait this time, other things will happen. But the good thing is——"
As she spoke, Lin clasped her hands together with a smile and said: "Maybe those things have nothing to do with our mission. It just allows the candidates to conserve their physical strength while reducing the number of candidates who may interfere with the mission. Compared with encountering strong men who are targeting tailed beasts, the candidates
The casualties caused by the battle will probably be much smaller. In the past three days, we will walk in the desert according to the planned route and avoid other people as much as possible."
A lot of things really happened.
For example, on the first day of the exam, some ninjas from Sunagakure Village gathered together to fight against a single team. Although it was not impossible according to the rules, relying on the number of people to force the pass, those who lacked strength would not be able to pass the next round of exams that test their personal strength.
It's a meaningless behavior.
The ninjas in the Hidden Rain Village are also following Pain's orders, trying to investigate jinchūriki and ninjas from other countries who may have growth potential. They hit different teams a few times to confirm the information and then run away. They are not active in seizing the scrolls, which is suspicious.
.They also have sentient ninjas. Since it is safer to explore the team with sentient ninjas at the end, they are careful to avoid entering the mutual perception range with such teams as much as possible.
Therefore, Team 6 of Konoha Village, which was originally tasked with dealing with those people, did not meet them on the first day.
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Konoha's Team 9 team, which also had goblins, also tried to avoid the battle as much as possible, because they were originally reported by Anko without permission and had little motivation.
The examiner in charge of taking the scrolls, who relied on illusion manipulation from the beginning, gave them a pair of "Heaven and Earth" scrolls, and gave the other team fake scrolls.
Mary controlled a puppet sheep for Yakumo to ride, and she walked with Iglia.
"It has become so hot again during the day, but it was so cold last night." Yakumo looked up at the scorching sun and said.
"It's a desert after all." Mary, who was leading the sheep, replied casually.
"Well," Igria showed off a little, "it's nothing to us, right? The water and food specially prepared for Yakumo were also prepared last night."
Yakumo: "...I'm sorry, I'm relatively weak and I made you worry."
Mary: "But Lia did almost nothing. Even if you appointed yourself captain, you have never encountered a battle that required your command to win."
Yakumo: "But... Leah is the best at learning my genjutsu. I should be able to protect it better if there is a battle."
Mary: "..." She secretly thought that she was really sorry for not having the chance to use the maximum power of the Tenseigan. It was something that could open a hole or split the village in half if not careful.
"?!" Mary turned her head and looked in the direction of the city wall of the outer stronghold.
"What's wrong?"
"A super-sized sandstorm is coming from that direction." Mary grinned. Before she finished speaking, the sky began to turn yellow.
"Oh, this is not good. We need to find a place to take shelter from the wind." Yakumo was a little at a loss. With her ordinary body, she would definitely have difficulty breathing or even die of dehydration if she encountered a sandstorm.
Sandstorms rolled in, swallowing up everything along the way, whether it was large desert animals passing by, scattered green cacti, or oases that could be used as hunting and supply bases.
"It doesn't matter, leave it to me." Mary raised her hand and opened the magic circle, "[magic world·earth]."
A hemispherical earth-yellow translucent shield rose from the ground to protect the three people.
Yakumo poked the protective cover with his finger, and saw a ripple, and there was an entity, and worried: "Won't this be buried in the sand and become our tomb?"
The goblin complained: "No matter how hard a sandstorm is, it won't raise the altitude by a few meters, right?"
Soon, nothing could be seen except the sky full of sand.
This team relies on the reincarnation to detect the sandstorm in advance and prepare for it. Others are not so lucky. The team with the props and ninjutsu just to cope with this situation is lucky, but the other teams can only fall down one after another in this sandstorm.
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As for Class 6, An Qi and Lin had special physiques, but Yingying was unable to bear the strong wind and sand for a while before lying on the ground, holding her mouth and nose and gasping for air.
"Hoo, ho... I can't survive. Can I find a place to take shelter from the wind?"
"But this area -" Lin leaned down and patted Yingying on the back, telling her to calm down. She raised her head and looked around. Although she couldn't see clearly, she knew that there wouldn't be such a convenient place. If she could use earth escape to do it,
A shelter wall or even a cave would be fine, but there are no such ninjas here.
Suddenly, she thought of a plan, raised her head and said to An Qi with a smile: "An Qi, use the sealing technique to seal the space around us. This should be able to avoid the wind."
"What do you think of the sealing technique? Uzumaki ancestors know that the sealing technique is used as a tent, and the coffin board will not be able to cover it, hahahaha." An Qi muttered, took out four paper charms from his wide sleeves, and scattered them around
Open, form a seal with one hand, "[Four Directions Seal Barrier]."
The four surrounding paper symbols each unfolded a translucent single-sided barrier, and the two were connected and then capped, forming a cubic barrier to block the sandstorm.
Lin: "Although I don't like Danzo very much, it seems that he taught An Qi well."
An Qi: "In addition to expounding the knowledge and urging me to work hard, what else can he do? In the end, I have to understand it myself. Originally, this was a sealing technique used to suppress and imprison ghosts and evil spirits, and to block the wind and sand, hahaha."
Yingying: "It's a good technique if it can be used. Thank you An Qi. Unlike me, the techniques passed down from our family can't do anything except destroy."
Lin: "Okay, okay, don't worry about our different division of labor. Let's take a break now and replenish our supplies."
After An Qi heard this, she took out a few storage paper charms from her sleeves. Before the exam, Lin and Hinata worked together overnight to unblock the "big lobsters" that were dressed into countless large meat skewers and unsealed them from the paper charms.
After eating for a while, An Qi's hand holding the big bamboo stick trembled, and she turned to look in the direction of the stronghold of the Central Tower of the Demonic Desert and hurriedly ate up all the "big lobster" meat in her hand.
"The target appears?" Lin asked in a deep voice.
"No, it was Gaara, the Kazekage-sama who entered the Demonic Desert." An Qi said.