Seimei immediately stopped, turned his head to Takeshi, and spoke with a solemn voice, "I sensed four ninjas about eight kilometers away, and they are in trouble."
"They are probably fighting multiple chakra beasts."
Takeshi, Mizuraha, and the aloof guy halted, too, and stared at Seimei with an astonished expression.
Mizuraha, a sensory ninja herself, looked at Seimei with some doubt.
She asked, "You sure, Seimei? How can you sense something this far away?"
Seimei chuckled awkwardly in his mind. He couldn't spill the secret about his Tenseigan now, could he?
Outwardly, he still had a solemn expression, though.
He didn't give her any chance to argue and just stated, "I'm a Senju."
Hearing this, Takeshi and the aloof guy nodded in understanding.
Takeshi and the aloof guy in their minds: Aha! I completely forgot that Senju ninjas are famous for their powerful sensory capabilities.
Mizuraha, however, still had a strange expression on her face.
Even if you're a Senju, that kind of sensory range is simply absurd, unless you have Uzumaki blood in you, too.
If my information isn't wrong, only Uzumaki clan ninjas or ninjas with Uzumaki blood can awaken a special sensory technique that allows them to perceive the chakra signatures of living organisms from kilometers away.
Even the Hyuga clan's Byakugan couldn't see that far.
But his eyes are not white, so it's not Byakugan.
Maybe his mother or some close direct relative had dormant Uzumaki blood.
My father said that members of the Senju and Uzumaki clans often married into each other's clans. Even the Lord First Hokage's wife is from the Uzumaki clan.
Unlike Takeshi and the aloof guy, who were first-generation civilian Shinobi, Mizuraha's father was already a seasoned Jonin of the village.
Mizuraha's father served the Yamanaka clan during the Warring States Era, and he became a part of the sensory unit of the village after Konoha was founded.
However, because of her father's close ties to the Yamanaka clan, Mizuraha was privy to a lot of superficial knowledge about several notable Shinobi clans.
So, she mistakenly believed that since Seimei was a Senju, his mother or a direct relative must have Uzumaki blood in their veins, leading Seimei to unlock the Uzumaki clan's powerful sensory technique successfully.
If Seimei knew what she was thinking, he would be utterly dumbfounded.
He would have certainly declared: In the realm of conspiracy theories and misunderstanding, I, Otsutsuki Seimei, acknowledge you to be the strongest.
Unaware of this, Seimei spoke again.
"Go to the village and report this incident to the mission department."
"If it's our fellow Konoha ninjas, I will help them. However, if those ninjas turned out to be rogue ninjas or Shinobi from the enemy nations, I would take action to either kill, detain, or leave Fuinjutsu marks to track them later."
Of course, Seimei identified the affiliation of the ninjas clearly with his Tenseigan's far-seeing ability.
But he couldn't say it out loud.
Sensing the chakra from far away was still within believable range.
However, being capable of seeing everything that was happening within a radius of tens of kilometers? And that was when their vision was clearly blocked by dense foliage?
Now, that was absurd and outright frightening.
What if the news about this ability spread?
Wouldn't others think that he could peep into the women's bathhouses and other people's homes to see every woman's naked body while they were bathing?
Wouldn't they feel that Seimei could peer into other people's nightly activities without them knowing?
Wouldn't women feel that Seimei had always been watching their naked bodies through the fabric of their clothes?
Now, that would be social death. He would never be able to find a girlfriend and stay single forever.
No, thanks. He didn't want to be a single dog like Jiraiya.
Even if he someday revealed all his Tenseigan ocular techniques and abilities, he would never talk about the X-ray vision and the farsight capabilities.
Never. Never.
Thinking this far, he just shook his head, handed a scroll with his direction marker to Takeshi, and said, "Okay. I'm going after them. You guys, quickly go to Konoha and report this to the mission departments."
"Also, give this scroll to them. It will help them track my location and find me quickly."
The scroll contained a special Fuinjutsu Seal that was linked to another scroll that Seimei was carrying.
After explaining how to use it, Seimei urged them to go.
Puff~
And before they could even say anything else, the Seimei in front of them disappeared with a puff of smoke.
It immediately left them dumbfounded once again.
Takeshi scratched his head and asked, "So, that was a shadow clone? If that's the case, when did he create it? How did he substitute it with his real body without us noticing anything?"
Mizuraha was equally astounded. She, a sensory ninja, couldn't detect exactly when Seimei left a shadow clone before vanishing as well.
Finally, the aloof guy broke the silence and said, "Let's not waste any more time."
"We should return to the village and report this as soon as possible."
"If we are too late, he might find himself in danger."
Takeshi and Mizuraha nodded repeatedly before the three of them departed toward the village at full speed.
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While Seimei's shadow clone was giving instructions to Takeshi and his team, the real Seimei was quickly moving toward the Konoha ninjas, who were struggling for their lives.
If this kept going on for five or more minutes, the chakra beasts might be able to kill them all.
So, he fully unleashed the Body Flicker Technique to move through the forest like a specter. With the combination of repeated high-speed Body Flicker and his natural agility, Seimei arrived at the location in less than one and a half minutes.
At that moment, he saw the Konoha Chunin fighting against three chakra beasts with a C-rank danger rating. All three were deep red serpent-type chakra beasts, who were roughly 6 meters long and as fat as 7-centimeter-wide wooden logs.
They were fast, agile, and attacked from tricky angles.
Meanwhile, the Genins were fighting against a similar C-rank serpent and seven D-rank serpent chakra beasts.
It's time to act.
Seimei thought internally and immediately sprang into action.
He moved the index and middle fingers of his right hand to create a single-handed cross-hand seal.
Shadow Clone Jutsu
Poof~ Poof~ Poof~ Poof~ Poof~
Five shadow clones who looked like exact copies of Seimei appeared around him with a puff of white smoke, and quickly used the Body Flicker Technique.
One shadow clone appeared beside the Konoha Chunin, formed one single-handed hand seal, and pointed his right arm toward the frenzied serpent chakra beasts.
Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique
A four-meter-wide horizontal crescent blade of wind formed in front of Seimei's clone and moved toward the chakra beasts like a reaper's silent scythe.
Although the wind blade was almost invisible, the snake-type chakra beasts immediately noticed it using their sharp beastly instincts and heat sense.
And that caused their danger instincts to ring alarms in their minds. They immediately tried to move away from the trajectory of the wind blade.
Unfortunately for them, the wind blade was not only difficult to see, but it also moved extremely fast.
Squelch~ Crack~ Squelch~
The wind blade hit the serpent chakra beast at the front and tore through its scales, flesh, spine, and bones, slicing its body in half. Blood gushed out from both halves of its body like some sick, corrupted fountain.
"Hiss!!"
"Hisssssssss!!"
The serpent beast that was dissected in half let out a loud, painful shriek. It looked at its dissected body in disbelief. It knew that it would die soon.
However, the wind blade that was responsible for its miserable state didn't stop.
Squelch~ Squelch~
Even after cutting the first serpent beast, the wind blade kept moving forward like a deadly scythe before hitting the right side of another serpent beast, tearing through its scales, skin, flesh, ribs, and lungs, leaving a huge gash.
Blood gushed out of this wound as well, staining the ground and grasses red.
"Hissssss!!" Screeched the second serpent-type beast while thrashing wildly in pain.
As for the last C-rank beast…
It was standing at the very rear, so it managed to move away in time, letting the wind blade pass beside it.
But before it could even celebrate its own survival, alarm bells suddenly rang in its mind as if they were trying to warn the beast about the incoming danger.
The beast tensed and tried to look around it.
Crackle~ Crackle~
Suddenly, it heard the sound of crackling lightning. And at the next moment, it felt the world spin.
It couldn't understand what was going on.
However, it got the answer soon.
When the world stopped spinning, the serpent chakra beast saw its headless serpentine body lying motionlessly on the ground, soaked in the pool of its own blood.
Beside it, stood a snow-white-haired and ocean-blue-eyed young boy who held a straight-bladed katana. Arcs of blue lightning slithered around the blade, ionizing the air around it while giving the blade powerful cutting and destructive power.
This was the last thing the serpent saw before its vision finally darkened.
It was clear now. The beast was decapitated by one of the shadow clones of Seimei, who was obviously using Chidori Katana.
While this was happening, the shadow clone that cast the Wind Cutter Technique had already placed his hand on the battered and bloodied Konoha Chunin's shoulder before retreating a hundred meters backward using the Body Flicker Technique.
At the same time, another shadow clone of Seimei arrived in front of the three Konoha Genin, formed a single-handed hand seal, and slammed his right hand on the ground.
Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld
The ground in front of the shadow clone of Seimei turned into a sticky swamp of mud, which quickly ensnared the serpentine chakra beasts the three Genin were fighting.
The beasts were stuck in the swamp. The more they tried to escape, the deeper their bodies sank into the swamp.
At that moment, the remaining two shadow clones appeared beside the three Konoha Genin, grabbed their shoulders, and instantly flickered away, retreating a couple of hundred meters.
Now that the area had no other Konoha ninjas and only the chakra beasts, the shadow clone that unleashed the Swamp of the Underworld Jutsu cracked his knuckles a little.
It was time to send the remaining chakra beasts to the Pure Land with some good ol' carpet bombing.
After that, he will leave the task of dealing with the unknown ninjas lurking in the shadows to his original body.
"Perfect! Let's end this," said the shadow clone of Seimei.
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