Chapter 519 Is the Ninja Master Related to Nagato's Darkening? (Double Update, Monthly Ticket Requested)

"Sand Crab vs. Stone Bear!"

The shadow clone Kakashi stared at the battlefield.

This was the last round of the preliminaries. After the preliminaries, there would be a day off before the knockout rounds.

Sand Crab walked into the battlefield with a calm face as before, not looking nervous at all.

And Stone Bear, Sand Crab's opponent, looked as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

Although Sand Crab did not use exaggerated large-scale ninjutsu like Nagato, the way Sand Crab easily solved the enemy every time made Stone Bear dare not underestimate him.

"Earth Style·Rock Cannon Technique!"

Stone Bear quickly formed a seal and spit out a stone at Sand Crab, which quickly grew in size as it flew, like a cannonball.

This was the legion ninjutsu of Iwagakure. It was extremely powerful when used together by the Iwagakure ninja troops, and it was also a good attack ninjutsu for a single player.

Sand Crab still had a calm expression on his face, taking out the scroll while dodging Iwagakure's attack.

The next moment, an old man with a scorpion-like iron thorn on his back and a hunched body appeared on the battlefield and ran towards Shi Xiong at a high speed.

"Puppet master." Kakashi narrowed his eyes and said in his heart.

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

"Is this guy a traitor from Sand Village?" Kakashi was suspicious.

Although the development of puppet masters is no longer unique to Sand Village, there are basically no powerful puppet masters who have made a name for themselves outside of Sand Village, at least Kakashi has never heard of it.

The puppet master level shown by Sand Crab is quite extraordinary. Just by releasing a puppet, he quickly suppressed his opponent Shi Xiong.

Even an outsider like Kakashi can detect Sand Crab's proficiency in controlling puppets.

With such a level of puppetry at the age of no more than 18, Kakashi finds it hard to believe that the other party is a wild one.

For a ninjutsu school like puppetry that has not appeared for a long time, the level of the teacher is very important.

Of course, since there was no evidence, Kakashi could not report Sand Crab, and at most he would pay more attention to the other party.

Under Scorpion's superb puppetry, Stone Bear was soon forced into a desperate situation and lost the battle.

"Sand Crab wins, and advances to the knockout round!"

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

He had no interest in anything here. The reason why Scorpion came here was just because the fourth place had a chakra knife worth tens of millions of taels.

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

Scorpion didn't care about other players, and had no idea of ​​collecting intelligence. His only goal was fourth.

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

However, Scorpion had no such idea at all. First, the reward he needed was the fourth place reward, and second, he might not be able to receive the prize even if he used his full strength.

Scorpion was able to participate in the competition using other people's identities.

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

Scorpion does not want to be exposed before his goal is achieved.

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Since the shadow clone has watched Scorpion's battle, Kakashi went directly to the competition area where Nagato is.

Nagato's fighting style is still so simple and unpretentious, and the powerful ninjutsu bombardment forced the opponent 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 competition area, but her serial number is very high.

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

Seeing this, Kakashi showed a thoughtful expression. This powerful female ninja should also be a member of the Akatsuki organization.

Because the Akatsuki organization is still harmless, Kakashi did not think too much and went to find several other companions who successfully advanced.

"The preliminaries are over." Nohara Rin put her hands together and smiled gently.

Before the battle, Nohara Rin was actually worried that she would not be able to advance to the knockout round.

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

After playing four rounds in the preliminaries, Nohara Rin's confidence returned all of a sudden.

She just felt that those opponents were too weak, even the opponent in the fourth round could not withstand her explosive punch.

"Hehe, Xiaolin, you performed very well, and many players were surprised."

Obito couldn't help laughing when he thought of Nohara Rin's punch cracking the ground and the onlookers were stunned.

Obito felt that this could not be blamed on the other players for their lack of experience. Who would have thought that Nohara Rin, a girl who looked soft and cute, had such strange power.

"It's okay, there is still a long way to go for you, and we need to keep working hard." Nohara Rin waved her hand and smiled. She did not swell up because of the preliminaries.

Nohara Rin felt that if the other disciples would not subconsciously exclude her during the civil war, her strength would be something to be proud of.

As the preliminaries were over, ninjas from the same ninja village began to communicate, and Konoha was no exception.

"There are many ninjas with good strength in this youth martial arts meeting. It is normal that they were unlucky and did not advance." Asuma comforted Yuhi Kurenai who was eliminated in the fourth round.

Only Asuma advanced in their team, and the remaining two were eliminated.

"Indeed." He sighed.

He was a typical person with bad luck, encountering a pervert like Nagato.

"I am afraid that only Kakashi and his friends have a chance to defeat that Nagato." He thought to himself.

In Heizu Leitong's mind, only perverts can defeat perverts. Although Asuma is still a genius, he is obviously not Nagato's opponent.

"Asuma, Aburame Shiwei..., Konoha has ten ninjas advancing, which is almost one-third of the positions in the elimination round." Kakashi listened silently and calculated the total number of Konoha ninjas advancing in his mind.

Kakashi estimated that someone would encounter a ninja from the same village in the first round of the elimination match, as there were too many ninjas from Konoha who advanced.

When the Konoha ninjas returned to the hotel, Kakashi exchanged information with other Konoha ninjas and told them the information they had collected.

After all, this was a competition within the ninja world, and there would be daimyos from the Land of Fire and the Land of Water watching the competition. The more Konoha ninjas advanced, the more face Konoha would have, and it would also be convenient to get the daimyos' gold coins.

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

"There are many geniuses from Konoha ninjas, including Hatake Kakashi, who is good at lightning escape swordsmanship. In the entire preliminaries, all opponents were killed by Hatake Kakashi in one blow."

"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 a bit bad for us to do this?" Yahiko scratched his head and said.

Although gathering intelligence is also a part of ninja fighting, using the referee's intelligence always feels like cheating.

"Why is it bad? They are all gathering intelligence, what's the difference? Hatake Kakashi performed very well in this regard. He ran around after the battle. He watched all of Nagato's battles." Kakuzu answered indifferently.

Nagato's face remained unchanged. The intensity of the preliminaries was too low. He didn't use any of his Samsara Eye abilities. It didn't matter if Kakashi saw it.

"Nagato, you can do whatever you want. For Yahiko and Konan, in addition to the Konoha ninjas I mentioned, you also have to be careful of Mei Terumi and Mangetsu Hozuki of Kisame Hoshigaki, Nagaseki of Explosion Release, and Sand Crab using puppetry..." Kakuzu continued.

Although Yahiko and Konan are strong, there are indeed many tough characters in the knockout rounds. Kakuzu estimated that Konan and Yahiko might not even make it to the quarterfinals.

"There are always people who are better than you." Yahiko sighed.

Before the game started, he felt that he would definitely get a good ranking.

But now, after listening to Kakuzu's information, Yahiko felt that even if he succeeded in the quarterfinals, the top 16 would be okay, and being eliminated in the first round meant that he was unlucky.

"I will take the first place." Nagato said in a deep voice.

Even if the opponent is Mu Yue's other disciples, Nagato will never give up the first place.

The more talented ninjas come, the more it can prove the value of the Youth Martial Arts Conference. He not only wants to take the first place, but also to take the first place in a strong posture, so that those ninja villages and ninja organizations know that the Ninja Sect is not only about Ninja Master Sosuke, but also his disciples are also excellent.

If you want to make trouble in the Rain Country in the future, first weigh your own strength to see if you can withstand the combination of the Ninja Sect and the Rain Ninja.

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The morning of the second day after the preliminaries, the Youth Martial Arts Conference knockouts officially began.

This time is very different from the preliminaries.

The battle site of the knockouts is the martial arts venue built by the Ninja Sect specifically for the Youth Martial Arts Conference.

The martial arts venue is a circular venue that can accommodate tens of thousands of spectators.

However, due to the short construction period, the style is relatively rough, and exposed rock walls and mud walls can be seen everywhere.

Fortunately, house decoration in the ninja world is not very developed at present, which can be explained as the characteristic architectural style of the Land of Earth.

In a sense, it is true that this was indeed built with the help of the Iwagakure ninja.

A large number of spectators took the tickets they bought in advance and passed the inspection to enter the venue one by one. Among them were ninjas and nobles and wealthy businessmen.

When ordinary spectators entered the venue, the daimyo of the Rain Country and the daimyo of the Fire Country were surrounded by a group of noble officials and ninjas and went to the best position in the first row. Mu Yue's shadow clone was also among them.

At the same time, Mu Yue and Hanzo also began to enter the venue.

However, their position was not in the audience, but a high point where they could observe the overall situation of the venue.

It's not that the daimyo is not worthy of sitting there, but that the daimyo can basically only play with fingers when sitting there, and can't see the game clearly at all.

"Teacher Sosuke!" A ninja who had attended his class before greeted Mu Yue loudly.

Many ninjas who passed the course came to the martial arts meeting, just to show their support for Mu Yue.

"But this front row seat is really expensive." A ninja sighed.

"Just think of it as paying for a course from the top ninjas, and a ticket to a ninja-level event is also included." The ninja next to him replied.

The ninja who complained about the price really thought about it carefully, and it was not a waste of money.

Mu Yue smiled and responded to the ninja who greeted him.

"Hanzo-sama." There was also a rain ninja who thought that he couldn't let his leader lose his reputation, so he shouted out.

Hanzo kept a straight face and didn't say anything, just wanted to quickly walk to where he sat and watch the game until it was over.

He didn't want to hear anyone discussing that he was defeated by the first reward.

At this time, the battle had not started yet, and the contestants were also at the venue. When they heard that the ninja master Sosuke and the demigod Hanzo had arrived, they all looked towards Mu Yue.

"This is the Ninja Master. He looks older than Mu Yue. As expected, Mu Yue is stronger." Obito opened his Sharingan and looked at him carefully for a few times to draw a conclusion.

Kakashi's initial observation focus was also on Sosuke, until he noticed the expressions of Nagato Yahiko and others not far away.

Kakashi found that Nagato and Yahiko looked at Sosuke with extraordinary respect, just like Obito looked at Mu Yue.

"Could it be that the Ninja Sect and the Akatsuki Organization have some origin?" Kakashi had a guess in his mind.

Kakashi has always been puzzled as to why the Akatsuki Organization, which is concerned about peace and looks extremely positive, will become an evil terrorist organization in the future.

He thinks that the Ninja Sect may have played some unknown role in it.

"There is still too little information. Yamato should write down all the future events." Kakashi wanted to deduce, but found that the amount of information was not enough.

He didn't know what the end of the Ninja Sect would be, nor did he know what happened to the Ninja Master Sosuke in the future, so naturally he couldn't infer the relationship between the Ninja Sect and the Akatsuki Organization.

Kakashi decided to train Yamato well after returning to Konoha. He was so ignorant that he unconsciously wrote down all the future.

Looking at Yahiko and then at Obito, Kakashi thought of a way.

Kakashi secretly poked Obito who was chatting with Nohara Rin with his finger.

Obito, who was interrupted, looked at Kakashi with an unhappy face.

Kakashi glanced at Yahiko, then at Sosuke on the high platform, and finally at Obito.

"You really know how to order people around. Why don't you ask yourself." Obito couldn't help but complain.

Kakashi's meaning was very clear. He asked him to ask what the relationship between Yahiko and Sosuke, the leader of the Ninja Clan, was.

But now Kakashi didn't have any vice-captain status. How could Obito listen to Kakashi's orders? He Obito liked to say no to the self-righteous Kakashi the most.

Kakashi didn't say anything, but silently took out a photo from the ninja tool bag.

Obito's face suddenly changed and he grabbed Kakashi's hand and pushed it back. There were so many people at the scene. If the news got out, it would be embarrassing for the ninja world.

"Oh my god, I love asking questions to people the most." Obito could only curse Kakashi in his heart and then agreed.

Only then did Kakashi put the photo back into the ninja tool bag.

Fools have their uses. Obito's innocence can sometimes work wonders. Once in the Land of Rain, Yahiko had a very pleasant conversation with Obito.

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