Chapter 153: The Mad Mist Ninja
A faint killing intent!
From the moment he mentioned the Hidden Mist Village, Li Jiexuan had clearly sensed it—Wu Jing Sanlang's intent to kill him. It was weak, but resolute…
"Why poison me?" Li Jiexuan coldly lifted the village chief into the air. "You'd better not try any tricks. If I didn't need you to guide me, you would've been the one who drank that cup just now!"
Hearing this, Wu Jing Sanlang shuddered and said tremblingly, "If you go to the Hidden Mist Village, you'll definitely expose our village's existence. And when that happens…"
It seemed this village had truly been scared out of its wits!
Li Jiexuan fell silent. In his view, this shabby little village wouldn't even sell for five hundred ryō. As a multimillionaire, would he care about something like this?
"You might not care, but those damned Mist ninja don't mind making a little extra money or finding some amusement." Wu Jing Sanlang clenched his fists in anger. "Do you know how many girls from Fog Whale Village were ruined by those beasts?!"
Tragic—truly tragic!
But so what?
He wasn't Naruto. Just because Wu Jing Sanlang told a pitiful story didn't mean he would lose his head and charge into the Hidden Mist Village alone, blade in hand, to slaughter them all!
Yet just as Li Jiexuan curled his lips inwardly, a sudden scream erupted from the entrance of the village—
"Ah! Run, Ah Zhen!"
"No, Ah Qiang! I can't leave you behind!"
The man's voice was filled with agony, the woman's firm and resolute. From those two lines alone, Li Jiexuan could already imagine an entire tragic romance between Ah Zhen and Ah Qiang…
Pushing open the door, the Hidden Mist forehead protectors gleamed under the sunlight. The bright crimson blood was just as vivid…
"Hahaha! Run! Run!"
A shuriken pierced Ah Qiang's ankle, drawing a howl of pain. Another kunai tore through Ah Zhen's thigh, completely severing their hope of escape. Watching this, the Hidden Mist genin cackled in satisfaction. It was obvious this wasn't their first time doing something like this.
These Mist ninja really were perverts…
Still, Li Jiexuan made no move. Even when the village chief was killed right in front of him, he didn't take a single step.
There was no reason to act.
If it came to body count alone, nearly ten thousand corpses were buried beneath Seven Treasures Town… But silence didn't necessarily earn respect.
"Ha! Everyone, look! There's a little ninja here!"
The Hidden Mist genin crowded around Li Jiexuan, laughing and teasing as if he were some rare curiosity.
He didn't like those eyes.
Just as Li Jiexuan was about to teach them some manners, the chunin leading the squad arrived.
"A Konoha ninja?"
Li Jiexuan was just about to present his identification when the Hidden Mist genin suddenly erupted in noise.
"Haha, Boss Yabao, no need to check. This guy must be one of these stupid villagers in disguise."
"That's right! Let's just kill him!"
The genin flung sharp kunai toward him, their crazed eyes brimming with bloodthirsty killing intent. It was clear they didn't care in the slightest whether Li Jiexuan was truly a Konoha ninja or not!
"A pack of mad dogs…"
Li Jiexuan frowned as he deflected the kunai. Facing such a lunatic group, he couldn't help but deeply doubt whether he could actually complete this peace negotiation mission.
"Well then, you'll do nicely to test a move!"
Li Jiexuan sneered and formed hand seals. Chakra flowed between his palms.
"Genjutsu—Darkness Technique!"
A terrifying black curtain, like a demonic god from hell, opened its abyssal maw in an instant, silently swallowing more than a dozen Hidden Mist ninja…
"What is this?"
"Am I blind?!"
"Who's next to me? Speak! If you don't, I'm attacking!"
In an instant, over ten Hidden Mist ninja descended into chaos. After a moment, the chunin finally stepped forward and shouted, "Don't panic! It's genjutsu. If we break it together, it'll be fine!"
"Release!"
More than ten Hidden Mist ninja simultaneously channeled chakra, trying to shatter the illusion's hold over their brains.
However—
"What's going on?"
"Why didn't it break?"
"Did my damn eyes really go blind?"
Even the lone chunin looked around in confusion. "That makes no sense. With the strength of ten of us, we should be able to break even an A-rank genjutsu."
Li Jiexuan sneered disdainfully.
The Darkness Technique wasn't just any A-rank illusion. It was a forbidden technique recorded in the Sealing Scroll. If it couldn't even trap a few genin and a single chunin, then all that studying would've been for nothing…