Senior Brother of Konoha

"This path leading to the island in the middle of the lake is called the road of trial by the brothers."

Standing at the edge of the forest, Inuzuka Kiba pointed at the rugged forest path in front of him and said with a smile.

Seeing that Inuzuka Kiba could still maintain such joy, Naruto admired and chuckled to himself.

The Road of Trials is not only called the Road of Trials because of the presence of ferocious beasts. I hope you can still smile as brightly as you do now.

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The path is paved with three-foot-wide bluestones and winds toward the center of the forest.

Because of the magic that has been applied to it, this path, like the Naihe Bridge outside, has not been damaged for tens of thousands of years, and there are no common plants in the forest growing under the bluestone.

However, because there has been no human habitation for a year, the path is now covered with many vines, making it look deserted and very difficult to walk.

Several practitioners from the Blood Mist Sect had just walked over in front of them and used their water spells to clear away some vines on the path. However, when Naruto waited for the group to walk, he still needed to use knives and axes to chop down the path. Expand a little wider.

After all, there were three girls in their group, and it would be ugly if their clothes were torn by vines.

This task was left to Inuzuka Kiba and Naruto.

Naruto had often done this kind of thing in Chailin before, so he didn't feel any discomfort at all. He held the hatchet prepared in advance and cleared the vines unhurriedly.

At this moment, Inuzuka Kiba lost the joy he had before, and he was chopping the vines with a hatchet with a grimace, while also trying to comfort Akamaru, who was troubled by branches and vines.

Judging from his appearance, if he continues like this, he might go on strike or something.

After all, the performance of pampered and famous disciples in battle may be fine, but when doing such hard work, their performance is much worse, far inferior to that of disciples like us who are from common people.

Naruto neither envied Inuzuka Kiba nor sympathized with Inuzuka Kiba. He was just worried that if Inuzuka Kiba broke out, it would affect the upcoming battle on this trial road.

He had already felt the aura from the previous battle, which was the aura erupted by the practitioners of the Blood Mist Sect when fighting the wild beasts.

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"Aburame Shino, Uchiha Sasuke, you two replace Inuzuka Kiba and Naruto."

Kakashi ordered in a deep voice.

"Yahoo"

Inuzuka Kiba cheered for Kakashi's order, and then hurriedly carried Akamaru back to the back of the team, comforting Akamaru in a language that only Akamaru could understand.

Naruto didn't say much, just silently handed the hatchet to Aburame Shino.

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Speaking of Aburame Shino, Naruto had rarely heard of this name before his trip to the ruins of the Land of Waves, and he didn't have much information about this person.

All we know is that Aburame Shino is one of the few geniuses among the famous Aburame clan in Konoha. She is good at the clan's secret art of insect control, and can control various insects to fight enemies.

He usually doesn't like to talk much. He wears a pair of very wide black tortoiseshell glasses, which covers most of his face and prevents others from seeing his expression clearly.

During this trip to the ruins of the Land of Waves, Naruto's careful observation allowed him to discover some secrets about Aburame Shino, such as the fact that this guy is not as cold as he usually appears.

Also, he seems to like Haruno Sakura, and he blushes slightly every time he sees Haruno Sakura.

Although it's not obvious, if you look closely you can definitely tell it's a blush.

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When Uchiha Sasuke and Aburame Shino cleared the vines, they used a completely different method from Naruto and Inuzuka Kiba.

They did not rely on hatchets, but rather used powerful moves that consumed a lot of real energy without hesitation.

Shino Aburame summoned a group of flying beetles with sharp long claws, and then used a strange language that others could not understand to command the group of flying beetles to cut off the vines that were in the way. Finally, she took the cut vines away and threw them into the trees on both sides of the path. In the forest gaps.

Sasuke, on the other hand, used Phoenix Fire, an advanced technique among fire-attribute techniques, to directly burn the vines blocking his way.

It can be seen that this fire attribute spell is not very powerful, it can only burn the vines, and it requires extremely high ability to control the true energy, so that the fire cannot spread everywhere.

However, Sasuke's method is the most efficient when clearing vines, and it hardly affects the speed of everyone's progress.

Of course, the premise is that there must be Haruno Sakura behind him to use wind-attribute magic to blow away the ashes after burning the vines, otherwise everyone will be covered in ashes when they walk past.

The two of them controlled one side of the path, quite competitively, and naturally Aburame Shino was the better one. Although his beetle cut the vines in a slightly slower way, it was safer and much cleaner.

Kakashi greatly agreed with the two people's testing method. When Sasuke and Aburame Shino were about to run out of real energy, he motioned for Naruto and Inuzuka Kiba to step forward and take over.

"This is the real road of trial. If it is just to open the way, we will use a more efficient method, but it is definitely not a kitchen knife."

After hearing this, Inuzuka Kiba was very excited. He used the art of beast control on the spot and merged with Akamaru. One man and one dog used Gatoga's fighting method to frantically clean up the vines that were obstructing the path.

It has to be said that this method is overqualified to deal with vines. It can clear a path several feet away every time, and the efficiency is much higher than Sasuke's Phoenix Fire.

And the quality of the roads cleared is much better than that of Hosen Fire or even Aburame Shino's flying beetles.

However, behind the high efficiency is the crazy consumption of real energy. The efficiency is high, but the endurance may not be high. With Inuzuka Kiba's 12 years of real energy, he can only use it three times at most, and then he has to rest for a while. Only then can it be used again.

When Inuzuka Kiba took a break, Naruto took over from Inuzuka Kiba.

He has neither the violent methods like Inuzuka Kiba, nor the wonderful methods like Aburame Shino. What he has is just an ordinary, simple, but quite lasting method.

There were three shadow clones, plus Naruto's true body, a total of four people. Two people were holding hatchets in front to clear the way, and the two behind were clearing away the vines and branches cut by hatchets, clearing the forest path. Clean and tidy.

Although the speed is not fast, it is better than lasting, just like he usually works in Chailin, cleaning up continuously.

Only when Inuzuka Kiba is eager to show off, he will step back for a while, and then when Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru are tired and panting, he will continue to take over silently, like a machine without stopping at all.

The rest of the people were very surprised by Naruto's performance, and Aburame Shino also stood up at this time, summoning his flying beetle to assist Naruto's shadow clone in the air to cut the vines.

Naruto once again separated into two shadow clones, and the speed of clearing the vines was greatly accelerated, even beyond Kakashi's imagination.

At this time, the so-called trial road has actually determined the winner.

Naruto used his long physical strength and super endurance to defeat Sasuke and others.