Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 73 Lei Ke Tu

"It's finally here!"

Sarutobi Tenjuro entered the two-kilometer chakra perception range of Li Yaoying's clone and was immediately sensed by Li Yaoying, who secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

If the Konoha pursuit team doesn't arrive soon, his shadow clone won't be able to hold up.

Although the shadow clone looks exactly like a human, with body skin that has temperature, heart that has a heartbeat, and even the breath it exhales is real.

But these are all transformed by consuming chakra.

Therefore, every moment that a shadow clone exists consumes chakra.

An ordinary person's shadow clone cannot be maintained for twenty hours like Li Yao's.

Of course, overpowered characters like Naruto are another story.

The secret to Li Yao's ability to maintain his shadow clones for twenty hours is all thanks to his absolute control over chakra, which minimizes the consumption of chakra by the shadow clones.

Even so, twenty hours is almost the limit for Li Yaoying's clone.

If the Konoha pursuit team doesn't arrive soon, Li Yao's shadow clone will automatically log off in another hour.

"Hmm...it's those guys!"

At this moment, Sarutobi Tenjuro entered the one-kilometer perception range of Li Yaoying's clone. Li Yaoying's clone, who was sitting on the rock with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them, revealing a look of surprise in his eyes.

He had already sensed through his clearer chakra that the person who came was one of the ninja squad that killed his shadow clone yesterday.

"It seems that Konoha really doesn't have enough troops to hunt him down."

"In other words, it's definitely during the Second Shinobi World War."

"Judging from the fact that Danzo hasn't visited him for almost two years, the Fourth Shinobi World War has been going on for at least a year."

As he pondered this, Li Yao knew he had made the right decision. The rest was simply a matter of figuring out how to use these people's methods.

Li Yao looked at Sarutobi Tenjuro rushing towards him from afar, smiled slightly, and four chakra chains condensed behind him. He then took the initiative to run towards Sarutobi Tenjuro.

"Wow, that's fast!"

Using the four black iron chains on his back, Li Yao moved like a spider, making him incredibly fast. He rushed over like a black lightning bolt. Sarutobi Tenjuchi was slightly surprised when he saw this, but it was only a slight surprise.

He can still handle this speed.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Ball!"

When the two were twenty meters apart, Sarutobi Tenjuro launched the first attack. He quickly formed three hand seals, his chest swelled up like a drum, and then deflated like a punctured balloon, instantly spitting out three condensed wind-style chakra spheres towards Li Yao.

"Buzzing!"

The condensed wind-style chakra sphere is like a vacuum sphere formed by the compression of wind at high speed, possessing the power to shatter and annihilate everything in its path.

Three vacuum orbs streaked through the air in three vacuum trajectories as they shot toward Li Yao.

Faced with Sarutobi Tensuke's Wind Release: Vacuum Ball, Li Yao's response was simple: three black iron chains shot out from his back, directly hitting the three incoming Vacuum Balls.

When prepared, Li Yao's reaction speed is actually quite fast, and his control over the black iron chains is also quite fast, enough to match the attack of the Vacuum Jade.

"Bang bang bang!"

Instantly, the three Vacuum Jade Orbs collided with Li Yao's black iron chains. The condensed Vacuum Jade Orbs were indeed incredibly powerful, and the black iron chains that Li Yao had shot out with all his might were directly broken apart.

However, the exceptionally tough black iron chains also managed to shatter the three vacuum jades, instantly forming three enormous air-bursting spheres in mid-air.

The shockwave instantly whipped up the dust and smoke on the ground, obscuring Li Yao and Sarutobi Tenjuro's view of each other.

Take advantage of this moment when the view is blocked.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh...!"

The ink-wash birds that had been following Sarutobi Tenju immediately flew through the smoke and dust towards Li Yao, intending to launch a surprise attack on him.

Unfortunately, all of this was exposed to Li Yao's chakra perception.

"Sizzle sizzle..."

Accompanied by the sound of lightning flashing, white lightning instantly wrapped around the three black iron bars that Li Yao bounced back and the black iron chain on his back.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

With a thought, Li Yao swung four black iron chains crackling with white lightning like the wind, instantly turning the attacking ink-wash birds into puddles of black liquid.

"really……"

Seeing that the ink, after being shattered by the black iron chains wrapped in lightning, did not stick to the chains, Li Yao's lips curled up slightly.

"bump!"

With a thought, Li Yao turned around, and a black iron chain behind him lashed out violently, striking a short knife that suddenly came flying at him.

"It's so heavy!"

Sarutobi Tenjuro, who had used the attack of the ink-wash birds to attract Li Yao's attention and then attacked from behind Li Yao, suddenly changed his expression.

Sarutobi Tenjuro's right hand, which was gripping the sword, went numb as he felt the immense force emanating from it. A look of shock and confusion flashed across his eyes.

This is not the reaction speed that Li Yaoying's clone should have had... Well, no, that's not right.

Li Yao had previously flown into the air using black chakra chains, making it difficult to dodge their attacks even if one reacted in time.

His stance truly demonstrated his reaction speed, which was on par with that of an elite Jonin.

"Boom!"

Li Yao also wanted to control other black iron chains to attack Sarutobi Tenjuro.

However, Sarutobi Tenjuro had already used the power of the black iron chains to retreat quickly, creating a safe distance between himself and Li Yao.

"As expected, you have a good understanding of my abilities."

Seeing that Sarutobi Tenjuro retreated immediately after his attack, giving him no chance to use the black iron chains to attack his body, Li Yao frowned slightly.

In this way, without revealing many of their abilities, it seems a bit difficult to probe the strength of each ninja in the pursuit team.

While Li Yao found Sarutobi Tenjuro and the others troublesome, Sarutobi Tenjuro was also marveling at Li Yao's fighting talent.

Seeing the ink-like liquid sliding on the ground, and then looking at the lightning chakra wrapped around Li Yao's black iron chains, Sarutobi Tenjuro instantly understood that Li Yao had already seen through his wife Ayase's weakness in the Super Beast Imitation Painting after only a few seconds of fighting last time.

It is characterized by the fact that fire jutsu cannot be evaporated but instead becomes stronger.

Li Yao did react very quickly.

Fire Release doesn't work, but Water Release is strengthened instead, which means that Water Release's chakra nature is not Wind Release, because fire counters wind.

It couldn't be Lightning Release either, because Lightning Release chakra is too violent and unsuitable for condensing ink to create Super Beast Imitation Painting.

In reality, only Water Release and Earth Release are suitable for condensing ink and water to create Super Beast Imitation Paintings.

Water escape is the most suitable.

That's why Li Yao initially thought of using fire jutsu to evaporate the ink and remove its stickiness.

However, it is clear that Sarutobi Ayase used Earth Release chakra to condense ink, successfully misleading ordinary people into thinking that ink is related to water release chakra as their first thought.

Li Yao was one of those who were misled.

But he quickly realized that ink painting is not just water, but can also be earth, so it was natural for lightning to counter earth.

As Li Yao had expected, after being wrapped in lightning chakra, the ink could no longer stick to the black iron chains, losing its adhesiveness.

"Where?"

Li Yao turned his head and looked around. His brows furrowed instantly. He had resolved the trouble with Shui Mo using his lightning technique, but his core target was still the woman who used the Super Beast Imitation Painting.

But right now, my chakra perception only detects the man in front of me. Where are the other women?

"Could it be...?"

Li Yao's expression suddenly changed slightly. He realized that the enemy's perception range was wider than his own, and that they could attack him from outside his perception range.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

As expected, Li Yao's prediction remained unchanged, and another large flock of ink-wash birds flew into his chakra perception range from afar.

Meanwhile, Sarutobi Tenjuro was not idle either, shooting out Vacuum Jewels from his mouth one after another.

The couple had decided not to approach Li Yao to attack, but to use ranged attacks to deplete Li Yao's chakra in order to determine whether the Li Yao here was a shadow clone.

After enduring the attacks of the two for a minute, Li Yao's shadow clone ran out of chakra and dissipated into a cloud of smoke.

"It really is a shadow clone!"

Sarutobi Tenju arrived at the spot where Li Yaoying's clone had disappeared. He frowned, his face grim, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.

Leaving aside the fact that Li Yao was able to withstand such a massive memory shock from the shadow clone that existed for more than twenty hours.

After existing for such a long time, and then fighting him fiercely for more than a minute, isn't that a bit too much chakra consumption?

Didn't the intelligence report say that Li Yao used a forbidden technique similar to the Eight Gates when he fought Mito-sama, which destroyed all the pressure points on his body? Even if he didn't die, the amount of chakra he had was restricted and became very small?

How can a shadow clone possess such a massive amount of chakra?

Sarutobi Tenjuchi couldn't get an answer, but his fear of Li Yao grew stronger.

(End of this chapter)