Konoha, was reported by the Fourth Hokage at the beginning

Chapter 72 Simplification of seals

"North..." Sarutobi Tianzhu frowned slightly.

North of Konoha is the direction where small countries such as Grass Country are located. In this direction, there are the fewest ninjas stationed on the Konoha border.

Most of the ninjas are in the Kingdom of Rain in the northwest, and on the border in the northeast, there are several small countries facing each other from the Kingdom of Thunder, one of the five major countries.

"Did someone provide Li Yao with information on the deployment of Konoha ninjas?"

Sarutobi Tianzhu was puzzled. Just as he was thinking about why Li Yao went north, Hyuga Hika followed and said: "Captain, I also saw the traces of Li Yao's black chakra chain falling to the ground one kilometer away in the south, heading straight to the south. And go."

Sarutobi Tianzhu: "..."

Sarutobi Tenzhu took a deep breath and took a deep look at Hinata Sika.

Hyuga Nika shrank her head. It's not his fault. It can only be said that the captain's mind was moving too fast and he was thinking too much.

Facts have proved that Li Yao had no information at all and he just split the route at will.

But now comes the problem.

Two directions, north and south, go in opposite directions. Which one is Li Yao's true body and which one is Li Yao's shadow clone.

Or... they are all shadow clones.

Thinking of this, Sarutobi Tenzhu immediately said: "Ayase, Sika, you two are expanding the search range to ten kilometers. You must make sure that Li Yao has several shadow clones."

"clear."

Sarutobi Ayase and Hyuga Nika re-expanded their search.

None of the four people wanted to make the same mistake again and waste time with a shadow clone.

10 minute later.

Sarutobi Ayase and Hyuga Nika came back. They both shook their heads at Sarutobi Tenzhu. There were no other traces within ten kilometers.

Li Yao and his shadow clone went in two directions: north and south.

"Do you want to separate into a team?" Echizen Ryoma, who had never had much presence, suddenly asked. Sarutobi Ayase and Hinata Nika looked at the captain Sarutobi Tenzuka.

Sarutobi Tenzhu frowned slightly, and his old man's instructions before leaving began to echo in his ears.

"Don't underestimate Li Yao. He is not the child he appears. Apart from the powerful sealing technique and shadow clone that are now exposed, we don't know what other abilities he has."

"But the only thing that's certain is that Li Yao at least has the ability to be immune to illusions below the Mangekyō Sharingan."

"You must be careful about his illusion abilities."

People who have a strong ability to resist illusions generally have a strong talent for illusions, just like the Uchiha clan.

As for how terrifying ninjas with terrifying illusion abilities are, you can also refer to the strong men in the Uchiha clan.

Sarutobi Tenzhu knew very well how to deal with a ninja with powerful illusion ability. The more people, the better.

On the contrary, the fewer people facing genjutsu-type ninjas, the more dangerous they are.

"But...does Li Yao really have strong illusion skills?"

Sarutobi Tenzhu was a little skeptical. Before leaving, he was surprised to hear his old man say that Li Yao knew the art of shadow cloning. He thought that Li Yao had some special ability that could easily copy other people's ninjutsu.

Otherwise, how could an outsider like Li Yao have a shadow clone that only Konoha has.

You must know that the shadow clone technique is not an easy ninjutsu to learn. Even among Konoha jounin, there are only a few people who know it.

Of the four in their team, he is the only one who can shadow clones.

This shows the difficulty of the shadow clone technique.

At that time, Sarutobi Tenzhu was afraid that Li Yao would also use his special ability to copy the Dark Walking Technique, and even asked his father Li Yao if he knew the Dark Walking Technique.

If so, it would be too troublesome.

Sarutobi Tenzhu is very aware of the power of the Dark Art.

Unlike other illusions, once caught, you will be trapped in an illusion and unable to move.

For people who have been hit by the Dark Art, only their vision is blocked, but other perceptions are still there, and even Ninjutsu can be released.

This makes the usual method of disrupting the flow of chakra to break the illusion useless.

Because you can mobilize chakra to release ninjutsu, this is already an act that disrupts the flow of chakra.

But disrupting chakra to this degree obviously cannot break the dark art.

<divclass="contentadv">It is also because it is so difficult to crack that the Dark Walking Technique is qualified to be developed by the second generation to specifically restrain the Sharingan Genjutsu of the Uchiha clan.

After all, the goal of the second generation is to restrain the Mangekyou Sharingan. How can it be cracked so easily by conventional means.

In fact, until now, there are only two ways to break the dark spell, either killing the caster or staying away from the caster.

All other methods are useless against the Dark Arts.

Once Li Yao also possesses the art of Darkness, coupled with unparalleled resistance to Ninjutsu and Taijutsu, he also has the Black Chakra Chain Sealing Technique that can confine and seal the chakra in other people's bodies.

Then... Sarutobi Tianzhu can only say that it is too difficult.

Fortunately, his father said that Li Yao learned how to create shadow clones after reading Kimura Takuya's ninjutsu research notes, watching how shadow clones were developed from beginning to end, and memorizing the seals of the original shadow clone techniques. of.

The seals of the Dark Movement Technique have been simplified. Even if Li Yao saw the third generation of seals performing the Dark Movement Technique, Li Yao would not be able to learn it.

The seals of many powerful and exclusive ninjutsu have been simplified to prevent someone from copying the corresponding ninjutsu through the gestures and sequence of the seals.

It can be said that this is to restrain the ability of the Uchiha clan's Sharingan to copy ninjutsu.

The second generation took this into consideration when developing the Dark Walking Technique, and even simplified the original Dark Walking Technique that required hundreds of seals to be performed to a crazy level, requiring only one seal to be performed.

As a result, even the Uchiha clan's Sharingan cannot be copied.

Li Yao is even worse.

Sarutobi Tenzhu is sure that Li Yao doesn't know how to move in the dark, but does he know other illusions?He expressed doubts.

Especially when dealing with Li Yaoying's clone, Li Yao did not use illusions at the first time, and he had no idea of ​​using illusions in times of crisis.

Generally speaking, ninjas with strong illusion skills will release illusion skills immediately against the enemy, and then use other ninjutsu to attack the enemy.

The choice of ninjutsu that Li Yaoying's clone subconsciously used in the battle did not look like someone who knew powerful illusions.

Of course, we don't rule out the possibility that Li Yao hid it deliberately.

The best way is actually not to separate.

The four of them together are capable of both ranged and close combat, and even Li Yao's powerful illusion skills can handle them.

But if they are divided into two teams and there are only two people, once they are hit by the illusion and the other person is attacked, both of them can be easily controlled with Li Yao's powerful sealing technique.

It's just...if they don't separate, they can only bet that the direction they are looking for is the direction Li Yao's body is going.

If the bet was wrong, they would probably lose Li Yao's whereabouts.

At this time, the words of the Third Hokage's father came to Sarutobi Tenzhu's ears again.

"The first priority is to track Li Yao's whereabouts, not to kill him."

After all, he was still afraid that Li Yao would directly use the technique of spiritual transformation to leave and seize someone else's body. The third generation did not ask his son Sarutobi Tenzhu to kill Li Yao.

Of course, it would be best if you can kill them.

It's okay if he can't be killed, as long as he can keep tracking Li Yao. Then there will be strong men who are greedy for the art of immortality and come to Li Yao.

They are responsible for providing Li Yao's location.

Thinking of this, Sarutobi Tenzhu sighed, and finally put aside his pride and decided to listen to his old father's instructions.

"Let's team up."

"Ayase and I will go north together, and Shika and Ryoma you two will go south."

Sarutobi Tenzhu warned Ryoma and Sika: "Remember, for this mission, you only need to follow Li Yao from a distance, and there is no need to fight with him."

After being tricked by Li Yao's shadow clone, Sarutobi Tenzhu had realized that Li Yao was not easy to mess with and had hidden a lot of things.

And their tactics have been discovered.

Before Li Yao's ability is fully understood, fighting Li Yao will only expose more tactics and is not worth it.

"Understood, Captain." Echizen Ryoma and Hinata Nika nodded.

The four of them then divided into two pairs, each heading in the direction of Li Yao's two shadow clones.

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