Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 82 Terrifying Perception Ability

night.

The bright moon shines.

Above a forest, a black iron eagle gleamed with a faint silver metallic luster under the silvery moonlight.

"what……"

Inside the belly of the Black Iron Giant Eagle, Li Yao, who had slept for ten hours, stretched out his arms and woke up, making a comfortable sound as he got up.

After ten hours of deep sleep, Li Yao felt refreshed, comfortable, and full of energy.

Emerging from the belly of the Black Iron Giant Eagle and standing on its back, Li Yao created a shadow clone, which entered the Black Iron Giant Eagle's belly to take over control of it.

The other shadow clone simply vanished.

"Should we dispel the shadow clone on the other side?"

Li Yao suddenly realized that after so much time, even if they realized what had happened, he would have already flown far away, and dispelling the shadow clone wouldn't affect him.

"But... let's see if they're still there?"

Li Yao's mind stirred, and he transmitted his thoughts to the shadow clone on the other side through a consciousness connection.

Li Yao's ability to connect with his shadow clones through consciousness is quite abnormal, much like quantum communication. No matter how far apart they are, he can sense their presence.

Part of his consciousness is always integrated into the chakra of his shadow clones. His main body can connect with this part of his consciousness at any time or disconnect from it without affecting each other.

Thanks to this bizarre connection, Li Yao was able to escape Konoha's pursuit.

Ten minutes later.

Li Yao, who was originally proud of his consciousness having a quantum communication connection, was no longer so proud, and his face turned somewhat ugly.

the other side.

Li Yaoying's clone had been hiding in a tree hole for ten minutes.

However, there was still no trace of chakra within a two-kilometer chakra sensing range.

Before, less than a minute after he landed, ink-wash swallows appeared within his chakra perception range, but now, ten minutes have passed and there is nothing there.

"Could it be that those guys have developed new sensory abilities...? No, that can't be."

Li Yao shook his head. He was certain that the two Konoha ninjas did not have chakra sensing abilities or any other similar scent sensing abilities.

Otherwise, when flying over the waterfall, it would have been impossible not to notice the shadow clone that remained in the waterfall.

So... is that Hyuga clan ninja with the Byakugan here?

Li Yao thought that only if Bai Yan could see through objects from a distance and observe him would the people in the pursuit team ignore his hiding.

Their mission objective should have shifted to simply tracking their movements, rather than seeking kills.

However, these are all just Li Yao's guesses.

He needed to confirm for himself whether the Byakugan ninja had arrived or not.

Peng!

Li Yaoying's clone once again summoned the condensed Black Iron Giant Eagle from the acupoint space, flew into the sky, and fully controlled the Black Iron Giant Eagle to accelerate its flight, flying back in the direction it had come from.

Ten minutes later.

Li Yao still couldn't sense any chakra fluctuations within a two-kilometer chakra perception range.

Li Yao finally realized that he had been tricked by the Konoha ninjas.

The other party stopped tracking his shadow clones at some point.

Why?

Li Yao couldn't understand why the other party would give up tracking the shadow clone over there, since shadow clones were impossible to see through.

Moreover, the other party rushed over to search for Li Yaoying's clone as soon as it landed.

Clearly, the other party has not given up on tracking Li Yaoying's clone.

Then something unexpected must have happened while he was asleep, causing the two Konoha ninjas to give up tracking Li Yaoying's clone.

"Since we've given up on shadow clones, then... this is bad."

On Li Yao's side, he suddenly turned around and looked behind him. The horizon under the white moonlight seemed clearer than during the day.

The scene was completely still, with nothing moving in sight.

But Li Yao dared not relax at all.

The only reason the other party gave up tracking the shadow clone was to confirm that the one on his side was the real body.

How was that determined?

Li Yao didn't know, but he knew that he was most likely being targeted again.

"Boom!"

The giant black iron eagle turned around, creating a gust of wind, and flew back.

Li Yao's eyes flashed; he needed to confirm whether someone was following him.

"Oh no, Li Yao has spotted us."

"He suddenly flew towards us."

Standing on the back of the ink-wash bird, Sarutobi Ayase saw Li Yao suddenly turn around and fly towards her. She immediately stopped the ink-wash bird and spoke to her husband, Jessica, and the others beside her.

On their way back, they picked up Hyuga Sika and Echizen Ryoma, and the four of them formed a team again to track down Li Yao.

Upon hearing his wife's words, Sarutobi Tenjuchi's gaze sharpened, his brows furrowing slightly. After a moment's thought, he immediately said to his wife, "Ayase, let's turn back too. He's probably just testing whether we're following him, not discovering us."

If he discovers they are tracking him, Li Yao will not fly back, but will fly forward and create several shadow clones to mislead them.

Unlike now, it doesn't fly straight towards them.

"it is good."

Sarutobi Ayase thought about it and agreed. She immediately controlled the ink-colored bird to turn around and fly back, increasing her chakra output to accelerate her flight and maintaining a distance of seven kilometers from Li Yao.

Li Yao flew back, but there was no trace of the ink-wash bird in his sight, nor any chakra fluctuations within his chakra perception range.

After flying back to a distance of about seven kilometers, wisps of almost transparent flames finally appeared in the sky within the chakra perception field of vision.

This is the chakra flame that Li Yao sensed with his unique chakra.

Li Yao stopped in front of the almost transparent chakra flames, carefully sensing them.

"Four people!"

"It's those four from the Konoha team!"

After a short while, comparing the chakra fluctuations of the four Konoha ninjas that the shadow clone had sensed earlier, Li Yao determined that the four Konoha ninjas who had just been there were indeed those four.

Li Yao turned his head and looked around. There was no one there, and no one was within his chakra perception range either. However, he had already guessed that the four Konoha ninjas had been observing him from outside his chakra perception range.

"Heh, you think you can fool me like that?"

Li Yao smiled slightly, then directly controlled the Black Iron Giant Eagle to turn and fly away.

"Huh... why did he suddenly stop where we were just now?"

"Have they discovered something?"

"Hmm... why did he fly back?"

Sarutobi Ayase saw Li Yao suddenly pause at the spot where they had just been for a moment, and then, as if realizing something, suddenly return.

"not good."

At this moment, Hyuga Sika exclaimed in surprise, suddenly realizing what was happening, and said, "Li Yao has a powerful chakra sensing ability, and can sense the chakra that naturally emanates from our bodies and remains in the air."

Upon hearing this, the other three's expressions changed. Echizen Ryoma frowned and said, "His chakra perception ability is that strong too?"

The chakra within a ninja's body will naturally dissipate; this is unavoidable, and even the most powerful ninja cannot control the unnatural dissipation of all the chakra within their body.

The natural dissipation of chakra, like heat transfer, is irreversible. One can only slow down the rate of dissipation, not completely eliminate it.

Wherever a ninja passes, traces of chakra will remain for a short time.

These chakra traces are very faint, especially those left by ANBU ninjas who are skilled at chakra concealment.

Moreover, its existence time is very short, and it will soon be dissolved and disappear by the natural environment.

Even the Byakugan would have difficulty detecting these traces of chakra that would soon be dissipated.

Especially since they were in the air, the faint traces of chakra that naturally dissipated would be quickly dispersed by the airflow, making the already faint traces of chakra even fainter and almost impossible to detect.

However, judging from Li Yao's reaction, he has clearly detected traces of chakra that even the Byakugan would have difficulty detecting.

This demonstrates just how terrifying Li Yao's chakra perception ability is.

With this level of chakra perception ability, combined with soul perception ability, it's practically impossible to ambush him.

Only overwhelming power can defeat him and seal him away.

"Ayase, send the information back to Konoha," Sarutobi Tensuke said.

"Understood," Sarutobi Ayase replied.

Their mission was primarily to track Li Yao and gather intelligence on his abilities; the more troublesome abilities Li Yao revealed, the better.

To avoid being caught off guard when the day of life and death truly arrives.

However, the four of them couldn't help but feel a little heavy-hearted when they thought about the abilities Li Yao had just revealed.

The four stood atop the ink-wash bird, maintaining a seven-kilometer distance as they continued to track Li Yao, their eyes constantly darting around, pondering how to deal with the current Li Yao.

He possesses high resistance to both ninjutsu and taijutsu, as well as a special constitution that grants immunity to genjutsu, and is also proficient in sealing techniques.

Now their perception is so powerful.

To be honest, based on the abilities Li Yao has revealed so far, even without powerful ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu, he is already a powerful ninja without any obvious weaknesses.

At least if the four of them faced Li Yao like this, they wouldn't find any way to defeat him.

The only chance might be to find a weakness in Li Yao's defenses during the battle and deliver a fatal blow, which would be the only way to win.

However, just considering that even the Third Hokage and Lady Mito couldn't find such an opening in the battle to deliver a fatal blow to Li Yao, it's clear that Li Yao's combat talent is definitely not weak.

Let's think back to the process of tracking Li Yao.

He used shadow clones to toy with them several times.

Just now it suddenly occurred to me that we might be following him, so I went back to confirm whether they really were following us.

This cautious personality, coupled with good combat talent and combat ability without any obvious weaknesses.

Aside from overwhelming strength and the tactical choice of attacking unexpectedly, the four of them couldn't think of any other way to defeat Li Yao.

"I hope Father can find a way to deal with Li Yao soon!"

Sarutobi Tenjuchi sighed inwardly. Li Yao's growth rate was too fast, and every time he revealed his abilities, they exceeded his comprehension.

If this continues, Li Yao will have no way to deal with it.

Only by quickly finding a tactic to eliminate Li Yao and sealing him away can we completely and permanently prevent future troubles.

(End of this chapter)