The Otsutsuki Road from Kirigakure

Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, the "impersonation" of the White Zetsu clone can at least be delayed for a considerable period of time, until it encounters someone very familiar with it and is exposed because he has no memories of the Hyuga branches...!

In addition, the elite Anbu team that came to Kirigakure to support them was led by the Kage-level strongman, Anbu Minister Ken himself. Even if the most unfortunate and extreme situation happened that they were discovered by the border garrison of Konoha Village, Ken had enough strength to protect the safe evacuation of the Hyuga branch.

After all, no matter how powerful Konoha is, it will not use Kage-level strongmen to guard the border in the current peaceful times. What's more, it is now the period of the joint Chunin Exams, and the Kages of the other four major ninja villages are all in Konoha Village. Therefore, Konoha's Kage-level strongmen will definitely be left in the village for defense.

However, if the Hyuga branch's evacuation operation was really exposed to the border garrison of Konoha Village, then the two teams of elite Anbu who came with Jian might suffer casualties...!

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Konoha Village.

Inside the examination room of the Joint Chunin Exam.

With the end of the duel between Mei Terumi and Might Dai, the first round of battle officially ended.

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Half an hour later, the fifteen candidates who had had a rest were ready to start the second round of one-on-one competition.

The big screen flashed rapidly...

Sadly, however, civil war broke out again in the Hidden Mist Village, with two water-style jutsu masters, Yahiko and Hoshigaki Kisame, fighting against each other.

After all, the Hidden Mist Village had the largest number of remaining "Genin" at this time. Except for Uzumaki Kana who chose to admit defeat in the first round facing Nagato, the other five all won the battle, and their number accounted for one third of the remaining candidates!

However, it is gratifying that among the seven battles in the second round, Xiaonan became the only lucky one who received a bye, and was able to maintain his form and enter the third round intact...!

Although the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to continue to tamper with the second round of the draw, after all, his Might Dai, who he had high hopes for, was directly eliminated by the Hidden Mist Village in the first round, but then he gave up this idea.

He knew that in the first round, he had coincidentally caused the "Genin" of the other four major ninja villages to engage in a civil war, which had already made the other four Kage suspicious of him and Konoha. If he continued to do so in the second round, wouldn't it be a proof that there was definitely something wrong with the draw?

No matter how coincidental it is, it can't be a coincidence like yours. Our five families each have six "Genin" who entered the third round of the joint Chunin Exam, but Iwagakure, Kirigakure, Sandagakure, and Kumogakure all had civil wars in the first round. Only Konoha has nothing wrong, and you are sitting on the Diaoyutai...!

You tell us this is a coincidence, do you think we will believe it?

Moreover, Sarutobi Hiruzen also understood in his heart at this time that Konoha might not be able to win the final glory this time. The joint Chunin Exam that he conducted under the suggestion of Konoha Crouching Dragon and Konoha Phoenix Hatchling was a failure, and it did not play the role of demonstrating the overwhelming military power of their Konoha Village at all.

Fortunately, Might Tail displayed extraordinary strength in the battle with Mei Terumi. Although he was defeated by the opponent in the end, his opponent was a jinchūriki after all, and he also displayed the style of a Konoha ninja, so that Konoha did not lose face too much...!

Therefore, after much deliberation, Sarutobi Hiruzen finally gave up the idea of ​​secretly interfering with the drawing of lots and allowed the subsequent situation to develop freely.

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The battle between Yahiko and Hoshigaki Kisame once again shocked the other Kages, causing them to constantly raise their expectations of the overall threat level of the Hidden Mist Village and the overall strength of the Hidden Mist Village in their hearts.

At this point, they were already somewhat numb to the powerful strength displayed by the "Genin" of the Hidden Mist Village. These people from the Hidden Mist Village were simply here to fry fish in the small fish pond of the Chunin Exam...!

In the end, Hoshigaki Kisame, relying on his inhumanly huge amount of chakra, finally drained Yahiko's chakra in the water jutsu duel. After all, they knew each other very well.

During the battle, Yahiko also tried to get close to Hoshigaki Kisame and engage in close combat with him, but Hoshigaki Kisame didn't give him the opportunity and kept a distance between them, releasing water-style ninjutsu one after another crazily.

So, although the difference in strength was not too big between Yahiko and Hoshigaki Kisame, but the amount of chakra was much less, he knelt down magnificently and accepted the defeat helplessly...!

The other people from the Hidden Mist Village completed the battles one after another and won easily as expected.

At this time, there were only eight candidates left, and the Hidden Mist Village occupied half of them, far ahead...!