Naruto: I became a super shadow in the Anbu.

Chapter 156 White Fang Blade Light

Upstream of the Hakuno River, a special Konoha squad is trying to break through the Sand Village's defenses and reach the river.

This special brigade was filled with many Water Release ninjas.

If we rush into the canyon of Shirono River and create a great flood using water-based techniques, we can force the puppeteer hiding in the canyon to come out.

The puppeteer's body is relatively weak, while the puppet is impervious to pain and does not bleed, making attacking the puppeteer the best option.

The Sand Village also knew that the puppeteers hidden in the river valleys were their weakness, so they deployed a large number of defensive forces to protect the upper reaches of the Hakuno River.

The Konoha Water Release ninja team encountered strong resistance and was unable to break through the defense line composed of hundreds of puppets in a short time.

There were too many puppets, so I dared not use physical combat skills to fight them.

A row of Sand Ninja stood on the canyon bank, using Wind Release and Earth Release to defend against the Leaf Village Ninja's ninjutsu, preventing the ninjutsu from destroying too many puppets.

Earthen walls rose up, serving both to block the impact of Konoha's water-style ninjas and to provide a barrier for the puppets to dodge water-style attacks.

The battle reached a stalemate, and beads of cold sweat dripped from Konoha Captain Gu Yang's chin.

Damn it, I'm the one who's holding us back. It's been half an hour and we still can't get past Shirano River.

Should we go upstream again and take a detour?
The Sand Ninja will follow.

I didn't have any good ideas.

Just then, Captain Gu Yang suddenly spotted a line of water.

The Sand Ninja stood on the shore in a row, originally using ninjutsu to hold off the Konoha's Water Release squad.

The waterline shot upwards at an angle from below the canyon.

After sweeping through, they cut most of the Sand Ninja on the canyon bank in half!
That's Water Escape... Water Severing Wave?
Captain Gu Yang thought to himself, "Isn't that one of the Second Hokage's signature Water Release techniques?"

Even as a Jonin specializing in Water Release, I never had the chance to learn that ninjutsu.

Gu Yang quickly shouted, "Opportunity! Use Water Release to break through all obstacles!"

The Konoha ninjas used Water Release techniques to break through the unmaintained Earth Flow Wall, sending the puppet back to the Hakuno River.

The Water Release team finally arrived at the banks of the Hakuno River and saw the Sand Ninja at the bottom of the canyon.

The Sand Ninja did not give up, and the puppeteers, after being exposed, desperately manipulated their puppets to fly upwards.

Another wave of water swept across, slicing the twenty-odd puppets in mid-air in two.

Captain Gu Yang looked along the waterline and saw an undercover agent wearing a fox mask standing on a rock below the canyon.

He was surrounded by puppets attacking him, but he remained motionless.

The puppet's poisoned needles, kunai, and various traps could only slit open the fox's dark guard's clothes.

It was a bronze fox!
Gu Yang had heard of the name Copper Fox, but he didn't know how strong Copper Fox was.

No wonder it was valued by the Sand Ninja Command; Copper Fox is simply the nemesis of puppeteers.

The puppet's advantage lies in its lack of fear of damage, but its strength and attack limits are too low to break through its defenses; the bronze fox didn't even try to dodge.

The Water Release ninjas of Konoha jumped into the canyon and unleashed a combined ninjutsu within it.

"Water Release·Water Crush Wave!"

The water blasts unleashed by more than thirty water-style ninjas instantly created a flood peak over thirty meters high in the Hakuno River.

Wave after wave surged forward and downstream.

The thunderous roar of the floodwaters caused the Sand Ninja downstream to freeze for a moment.

Subsequently, some Sand Ninja jumped upwards, while others were directly swallowed by the flood.

All the puppeteers hiding in the canyon will lose their hiding place.

Mission accomplished. Gu Yang turned to look at the bronze fox, only to find that the rock was now empty.

After providing crucial assistance, Copper Fox should be heading to the second battlefield.

As expected of the Hokage's elite.

Nightlight's vest had turned into strips of cloth again, almost revealing everything. After returning to the Fox Squadron, Nightlight changed into a new vest.

One's own absolute defense is good in every way, except for protecting clothes.

The upper reaches of the Hakuno River were captured by Konoha, and wave after wave of floodwaters rushed downstream.

The Sand Ninja were forced out of the canyon, and the puppeteer was exposed to the Leaf Village ninja.

Konoha held a significant advantage. Nightlight focused on the most crucial battle: Hatake Sakumo versus the Camelthorn couple.

Sakumo Hatake moved with incredible speed, wielding his chakra short sword, with streaks of white light hovering around him like thin ribbons.

The white blade light continued uninterrupted; before the blade light from five previous strikes had even disappeared, a new blade light had already been unleashed.

Sakumo Hatake seemed to be in a whirlwind composed of several arc-shaped blades.

The puppet was shattered by the chakra dagger's edge and broke upon impact.

Camelthorn's original 10 puppets had long been damaged, so he was now using puppets that Nightlight had never seen before.

The ground around Hatake Sakumo and Camelthorn was littered with puppet fragments, discarded poison needles, and traps.

Camelthorn's physical skills were surprisingly high; Hatake Sakumo hadn't been able to land a hit on him yet.

Konoha's advantages are becoming increasingly apparent.

Konoha assault teams kept breaking through the defenses, reaching the puppeteer, and killing him.

Purple Cat kept a record, noting how many raiding squads from each brigade had successfully succeeded, all of which were recorded on the scroll.

After surveying the battlefield, Ye Guang said, "You all record this here. I'll go again and completely destroy the Sand Ninja's desperate struggle."

He vanished in an instant, heading straight for the most important battlefield: the battle between Hatake Sakumo and the Camel Thorn couple.

Sakumo Hatake's advisor, seeing Konoha ninja approaching, shouted:

"Don't act recklessly! You're not strong enough! You'll only hinder Lord Sakumo's battle!"

In a battle between elite Jonin, ordinary ninjas would only be a burden, and Sakumo Hatake would have to be distracted to protect them.

The staff officer wanted to stop them, but stopped forming hand seals as soon as he saw the fox mask.

The Copper Fox of the Dark Division?
If it's a bronze fox, it's best not to stop it.

The strategist knew all the intelligence from the front lines. The Anbu member, Copper Fox, who had been appearing repeatedly in the battle reports recently, was very powerful. The high command believed that Copper Fox could be regarded as a special Jonin.

Although not at the level of an elite Jonin, his intimidation is comparable to that of an elite Jonin when facing certain enemies who primarily use swordsmanship, taijutsu, and puppetry.

The puppeteer's abilities are precisely what the bronze fox counters.

Ye Guang entered the battlefield and headed straight for Camel Thorn's wife.

Camelthorn's wife was panting heavily; her hands, which had originally controlled six puppets, now only had the strength to control four.

She manipulated a puppet to fly behind Sakumo Hatake.

However, the dagger in the puppet's hand was caught by a hand.

The puppet immediately began to struggle, and the sharp knife stirred the man's palm, producing a metallic scraping sound that made one's teeth ache.

Upon seeing a fox mask, Camel Thorn's wife suddenly remembered that the command had once issued an order to be careful when encountering a bronze fox.

"Bronze Fox?"

No sooner had she finished speaking than Camelthorn's wife saw Copper Fox rushing towards her.

She quickly manipulated a scorpion-shaped puppet to activate the mechanism on its back, and a dense barrage of kunai aimed at the bronze fox.

The kunai was shot out, but the bronze fox neither dodged nor avoided it, letting the kunai hit its body.

Camel Thorn's wife saw that the ninja tools were indeed useless against Copper Fox, and formed a hand seal with one hand.

"burst!"

There were some explosive tag kunai mixed in with the kunai.

After four or five explosions, Camelthorn's wife saw a figure rush out of the thick smoke.

Even the detonating tags didn't work?

Everything has its counter; the absolute defense of the Night Glow is too effective against the Puppeteer.

My internal organs felt a dull ache from the shock, but it wasn't a big deal.

Camelthorn's wife immediately stepped back, while taking out a new scroll.

The seal was broken, and three snake-shaped puppets burst out of the white smoke from the seal.

Ye Guang was taken aback; Camel Thorn's wife was indeed clever.

Physical attacks are useless; the absolute defense of the glowing light is more vulnerable to capture.

(End of this chapter)