Naruto: The Strongest Sage.

"Secret Technique. Thousand Killings Water Flying."

In the sky, countless water droplets turned into tiny ice spikes, covering Qingye's body.

A tornado rose up around him, blowing away all the ice spikes.

At this time, an ice wall rose behind Zabuza.

"Magic Mirror Ice Crystal."

A hand stretched out from the smooth, mirror-like ice wall and dragged Zabuza into the ice wall. Aoba instantly moved and drew his sword.

The sword directly cut through the ice wall. However, a few hundred meters away, the reflection of another ice wall flashed. At the same time, the figure of Zabuza was also reflected.

"Interesting, the magic mirror ice crystal can be used like this?"

Aoba watched from afar as Bai used the magic mirror ice crystal to take Zabuza on a continuous journey, and after a few breaths, he disappeared from sight.

He didn't chase after them, but turned back to check on the little guys.

The result was that apart from being soaked by water, there were basically no injuries.

"Okay, it's getting late, so we'll stop here for today. Find a safe place to set up camp and start resting. Then, the three of you will review today's battle."

The group left the woods where they had fought before and settled down. A few of the little brats started discussing why they had failed in today's battle.

"This failure was just a result of my carelessness. If that guy dares to show up again next time, I will..."

Replaying the battle was a bit beyond Naruto's scope. As soon as he sat down, he started to talk nonsense. As a result, he was punched on the head by Karin.

"Shut up right there. The three of us could have held out longer. But in less than three minutes, we were cornered. This shouldn't be the case."

"There was a problem with the tactical arrangement. To be exact, we failed to make any tactical arrangements at the beginning. Naruto suddenly rushed forward, how could I cooperate?"

"What? You're blaming me. It's obviously you, Sasuke, who's too slow."

Seeing the little brats arguing, Qingye did not step forward to referee them. Instead, he left a shadow clone and left the camp quietly.

Karin was very perceptive. She looked up at Aoba but didn't say anything. Instead, she lowered her head and continued arguing with the two idiots.

Dazna, who was standing by the side, had caught a cold from the water. He huddled by the fire and shivered. The daytime battle had really frightened him. It was completely different from the sword-fighting battle he had imagined.

When the waterfall rushed over, he was so scared that he peed himself. But he didn't expect that a few insignificant children could actually block it. He had never seen such a level of power in Cardo.

At this time, dozens of miles away, in a cave.

Zabuza was lying on the ground, coughing up blood.

"Uh-huh."

Mr. Zabuza, please hold on a little longer, the medicine will take effect soon.

"Ahem, Bai, help me up."

"Mr. Zabuza, you need to rest now."

"Ahem, no I have to get up. He's coming."

"Who?"

"Wind Chaser Shangchuan Qingye. He should be here soon."

"Mr. Zabuza, we've gotten rid of him."

"No, you are too naive. When we fought during the day, he held back. If he had used his sword, I would be dead now. He deliberately spared my life. He didn't even chase you, which means we are already under his control."

As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps were heard outside.

"It seems like this is it."

"Who is it?" Bai pulled out a kunai and stood guard at the entrance of the cave. He was extremely nervous. All the traps he had set around him didn't work at all. The other party had directly invaded at this distance.

Two figures appeared at the entrance of the cave. With the help of the firelight, Bai could see that they were wearing the same red-bottomed auspicious cloud uniforms. They were obviously from the same organization.

Bai originally thought that Mr. Zabuza was right. Kamikawa Aoba chased after him. But after a closer look, neither of them was Kamikawa Aoba.

There were two people, a man and a woman. The man was tall and masked. He had the Longnin's traitorous symbol on his head.

The other one was a young woman with a pretty face and lavender hair with a paper flower stuck in it.

The two had completely different styles. If they weren't wearing the same uniform, Bai would have found it hard to believe that they were from the same group.

The tall man took a step forward and saw Zabuza lying on the ground.

"Is this the guy? He was beaten like this, a waste. Isn't it a bit too bad for him to be my teammate?"

"Momochi Zabuza is not weak. He just met Kamikawa Aoba. The opponent is a master who can fight against the Raikage and remain undefeated."

"Tsk, it's not like I haven't encountered Kamikawa Aoba before. I beat him so hard that he ran away in panic. Has the current Kage fallen to this level?"

"Don't be careless, Kakuzu. According to our intelligence, Kamikawa Aoba is very likely hiding his combat power. His actual combat power may be much stronger than what he showed."

Zabuza was also confused. He originally thought that it would be Kamikawa Aoba who came. The other party had intended to let him go. It was obvious that he had some ulterior motive.

But he didn't expect that two strange guys who had nothing to do with him would come. And it sounded like they were here to recruit him.

Although Zabuza was seriously injured, his vision was not wrong. These two people must be extremely powerful. Even Bai might not be able to stop one, let alone two.

"Who are you?"

Kakuzu looked at Shiro, a hint of interest on his face.

"This kid seems to have a pretty good heart. I'm going to add it to my collection."

Although Bai didn't understand who these two people were, he understood that they wanted to keep his heart.

"Damn it. Secret Technique, Thousand Killings Water Flying."

Bai knew that the person coming was not friendly, so he took the initiative to attack.

"Fire escape, hard work."

Kakuzu acted faster and used powerful fire jutsu to block the entire cave.

"Mr. Zabuza." Bai didn't dare to dodge and could only take it head-on.

But at this time, Haku was far behind Kakuzu. Whether it was experience or chakra, there was a huge difference.

Kakuzu is actually stronger than Zabuza. Zabuza is an elite jonin, while Kakuzu has already reached the threshold of Kage.

In the shadow class, he is not considered strong, but he is not something that Bai can fight against now.

"Magic Mirror Ice Crystal."

Bai was in front of him, and he summoned six magic mirror ice crystals in succession, but he still couldn't stop Kakuzu's fire escape.

"Water escape, water wall formation." Zabuza forced himself to stand up and reluctantly cast the spell, together with Bai, he blocked the fire escape.

"That's enough Kakuzu, we are here to recruit members, not to kill people."

"Tsk, it's just so-so." Kakuzu withdrew his hand with a bit of disdain. It was obvious that he looked down on Zabuza.

Xiaonan took a step forward.

"As you can see, this is a recruitment operation. We belong to an organization called Akatsuki, which specializes in recruiting elite ninjas. You..."

Just as Konan opened his mouth to recruit Zabuza and Haku, he heard a voice coming from outside the cave.

"I'm sorry, I've already booked these two people."