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"We've already found quite a few traces of humans in these places. If that thing existed, it would have been discovered long ago, so we don't need to pay too much attention for now. Just have the spirit beast keep an eye on things. Next are the remaining four places: the Enchanted Forest, the Sky-Reaching Waterfall, the Illusionary Plains, and the Poisonous Swamp!"

“This isn’t a good place at all. We only know roughly how big the edge of this place is. None of the Jonin we sent to scout it out came back,” Tsunade said, frowning.

"As you know, our village was in turmoil before, and there was no time to investigate those things."

"Our Sand Village is about the same!"

“We’ve explored this place, but we didn’t find anything. But you need to be at least a Kage level to survive there!” the Tsuchikage said.

“In that case, I suggest we do some searching. Each village can be responsible for one area, and the extras can be in charge of coordination and rescue. The personnel should be at least a standard combat unit, and at least at the Kage level. I think our safety should be guaranteed that way,” Kitahara Kaede said.

“Alright! We’ll lead the medical ninja team this time,” Tsunade said immediately.

“No! You have to cooperate with Orochimaru’s side. Oh, and let me mention this too: count the spot for cooperating with Orochimaru this time together with this spot. Orochimaru’s side has priority first,” Kitahara Kaede said, after all, Orochimaru’s side has already shown results.

"Okay! We'll go make the arrangements!"

“Oh right, I remember there are still the Fourth Hokage’s guards in the village, all of them are elite Jonin. I need three of them!” Kitahara Kaede said.

"No problem! What are you going to do?" Tsunade asked, puzzled.

“I want to go and see where the Otsutsuki and the others were before. Since they found clues there, there must be some things left behind,” Kitahara Kaede said.

"Alright! When do we move out?" Tsunade asked.

"The sooner the better. By the way, we need to establish our joint command post. We must ensure communication now," Kitahara Kaede reminded him.

The rest was left to the Kage-level figures present and their advisors, while Kitahara Kaede went outside.

"Lord Kitahara!" Three Konoha ninjas dressed in green approached.

"I'm counting on you guys from now on!" Kitahara Kaede said.

543 “It is our honor to be able to help you, sir!” These people said earnestly to Kitahara Kaede.

"Sir, what do you need us to do?"

"I need to get to the place where the Otsutsuki clan last arrived, but for some reason, I can't use my powers right now, so I need your help!" Kitahara Kaede said.

“No problem. Do we need to use space-time ninjutsu? We studied with the Fourth Hokage for a while, and the three of us are enough to activate it. Please give us the spatial coordinates, sir!” the three said.

Kitahara Kaede shook his head: "Only summoned beasts have been to that place; we didn't leave any spatial coordinates."

"Huh?" The three looked at Kitahara Kaede, and then an embarrassed look appeared on one of their faces.

"Lord Kitahara, we are powerless to help without spatial coordinates," the man said with a troubled expression.

“It’s alright, I’ll help you. You guys take care of controlling the power, and I’ll control the space and coordinates!” Kitahara Kaede said to the three of them.

"Is that so, Lord Kitahara? If there's a deviation, the consequences could be enormous!" A look of worry appeared on his face.

"It's alright! Let's go!" Kitahara Kaede insisted, as they looked at Tsunade's clone beside them.

"Just listen to Kitahara Kaede. Do whatever Kitahara Kaede says this time."

Chapter 624 The Fourth Generation's Personal Guard

"You must remember, even if you all die, you cannot let Kitahara Kaede suffer any harm!" Tsunade reminded him, in her eyes Kitahara Kaede was probably seriously injured and unable to use his power easily.

"No, no! I'm not that fragile!" Kitahara Kaede quickly waved his hand and said, but he saw a serious expression on the faces of the three of them.

"Alright, alright, let's go!" Seeing this, Kitahara Kaede didn't say anything more and called to the people next to him as they walked towards the spatial array of the Rainin Village.

"Lord Kitahara Kaede!" As soon as Kitahara Kaede arrived, the Hidden Lightning Village's guards appeared.

"I need to activate the spatial array!" Kitahara Kaede said.

"Please, sir!" The two also adopted a respectful attitude, after all, the village's Kage had previously given orders that everyone must unconditionally cooperate with Kitahara Kaede.

"Come on! Take a look, you guys. This spatial formation is complete. According to the information we received earlier, the enemy's location is very close to the edge of Konoha, and it's at the junction of the edges of the Water Village and the Earth Village. We can roughly pinpoint their location on the edge of Konoha!"

Both of them had some spatial ninjutsu skills. Kitahara Kaede gave them simple instructions and they knew what to do. Soon the formation shifted, but to someone who wasn't skilled, it seemed no different from before.

"Alright, carefully input your power, I'll adjust the coordinates!" Kitahara Kaede said.

"Yes!" The three took a deep breath, and their power was constantly being transferred forward, with the three types of chakra controlled at basically the same frequency.

"Not bad! As expected of those who served as the Fourth Hokage's personal guard, each of them is an elite Jonin, and their control over power is also very refined. No wonder the three of them can use Flying Divine Lightning." Kitahara Kaede nodded inwardly.

"Alright! Leave the rest to me!" Kitahara Kaede's fingers slid through the air, and with each slid, the three of them quickly coordinated, and ripples began to appear in the space.

"Be careful! Don't make any big mistakes!" Kitahara Kaede warned, but he quickly realized that he was being a bit redundant. As expected of the fourth generation's personal guard, their control over power was much more refined than he had anticipated.

"Go!" With the word "go," the space suddenly contracted, and the three of them saw the scenery rapidly changing into the desolate frontier.

"Whoosh!"

The scene before them suddenly changed; it appeared to be a forest, with the roars of wild beasts echoing around, as if the three people had been startled by the sudden arrival.

"Where is this?!" Kitahara Kaede and the others looked around.

"It seems we haven't reached the exact location, but we don't know how far we've deviated."

Kitahara Kaede felt a little curious, as many of the towering towers around him seemed somewhat familiar.

"this!"

He looked around and sensed a power that was completely different from chakra, yet incredibly powerful. This power didn't feel terrifying in terms of its quantity, but it had a continuous, inexhaustible quality, like that of a tailed beast.

"This place! It seems to be Loulan, right?" the three guards standing in front of Beiyuan Feng said uncertainly.

“That’s right! It’s pretty much what the Fourth Hokage said!” the three said.

At that moment, Kitahara Kaede suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen a similar theater before. As for Loulan, that peculiar power should be the power of the dragon vein. He just didn't know whether this place was far or near the place that Otsutsuki and the others found.

"Judging from this, the location should be correct. There was indeed a ninjutsu power similar to time travel in the theater."

"Let's go ahead and check the location first," Kitahara Kaede said.

"Yes!" The two immediately went to explore to the side, leaving one person standing in front of Kitahara Kaede.

“You should have a summoning beast, right? Ask us how far it is from here!” Kitahara Kaede said.

"Woof woof woof!" The person used a summoning jutsu, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be a chakra dog similar to Kakashi, a master at gathering intelligence.

"Lord Kitahara!" The summoning beast had a nonchalant expression when it appeared, but it immediately greeted Kitahara Kaede respectfully upon seeing him.

"Okay! Thank you for your help. We'd like to know roughly where this is and how far it is from the Otsutsuki clan," Kitahara Kaede said.

“Leave it to me,” the summoned beast said.

Then he looked as if he were sniffing something: "We're not far apart, it seems to be less than ten kilometers under my nose!" The summoning beast then looked at Kitahara Kaede with a shocked expression, knowing that the other party seemed to be in the Raikage Village just a moment ago.

It is said that many of their summoned beast kings went to the Thunder Village to attend some kind of meeting.

"Phew! Looks like we're in luck!" Kitahara Kaede smiled, while his bodyguards were shocked. They didn't have any spatial coordinates, and the error was within 20 kilometers. It was a miracle.

Especially since they only had a general idea of ​​the location, without much specific information.

"Whoosh!" Just then, a guard returned with a somewhat grave expression: "Sir, I have made some discoveries."

"Hmm, what discovery? Let's go take a look!" Kitahara Kaede said.

The group moved quickly and soon reached one side of the forest, where many corpses lay scattered about. Beside these corpses were many people with sorrowful expressions, and some were even guarding the area.

When they looked at Kitahara Kaede and the others, they clearly showed their wariness. Kitahara Kaede and the others did not rush forward, but instead observed their surroundings.

"This! Could it be made by the Otsutsuki clan?! It actually killed so many people." The guard said in shock.

"It looks like there was a conflict with these people." Kitahara Kaede looked around.

"One move! What a pity, these people are probably only at the Chunin level at most." Kitahara Kaede sighed.

"Damn Otsutsuki!"

"Who are you people!" At this moment, a man holding a hoe walked up to Kitahara Kaede and his group, asking angrily.

"We are ninjas from Konoha, here to investigate a dangerous individual!" Kitahara Kaede said.

"A dangerous person! What does he look like! When did he come here?" the old man immediately asked fiercely.

At the same time, several ninjas appeared beside him: "Old man, be careful, these people are not ordinary!" They cautiously watched Kitahara Kaede and his group.

Chapter 625 Intuition

"Don't worry, we mean no harm. But, may I ask what exactly happened here?" Kitahara Kaede said, looking at the corpses below.

Seeing Kitahara Kaede's state, the two reluctantly believed that they had nothing to do with the matter.

"Damn it! I don't know where these beasts came from, but they killed so many of our village's scout teams!" a ninja said angrily.

"Have you seen each other? Where?" Kitahara Kaede immediately asked.

"Who exactly are you people?!" the ninja on the other side asked cautiously once again, and Kitahara Kaede and the others patiently explained to them, which finally earned their approval.

"So, the people in our village were all killed by that Otsutsuki!" The people became somewhat silent after learning about Otsutsuki's strength.

“That’s right, we came here to find out what the Otsutsuki obtained here, so please tell us what you know,” Kitahara Kaede said.

"Alright! We suddenly heard a huge noise coming from the northwest. We didn't know what happened, so we sent 543 teams to check it out!"

"I don't know what happened, but they fired a signal arrow, a warning of danger. So the village sent out a lot of people, but as you can see, we haven't heard from them for half a day. Sigh!" The ninja sighed.

"Please accept my condolences!" That was all Kitahara Kaede could say.

"It's nothing, they're just unlucky. I heard the ninja world is about to be at peace. Sigh, I'm telling you this news in the hope that you can handle that Otsutsuki and avenge them!" the man said.

"Don't worry! It will definitely happen," Kitahara Kaede said, before turning to leave.

"Wait! If you encounter any of our village's ninjas, please don't tell them the truth," the man suddenly said.

Kitahara Kaede understood what the other party meant after a moment's thought. The truth was too cruel. They had enemies, yet they had no power to take revenge. This was too negative for the entire village.

"Don't worry!" After saying that, Kitahara Kaede and his guards left.

"Wada, how can you be sure what they said is true?" someone asked cautiously after Kitahara Kaede and the others left.

"You should know that I was recently promoted to Jonin!" the old man said, looking at the person next to him.

"Yes, it's good news, but it's a pity!" The man glanced at the corpse behind him, a sad expression on his face.

“Any one of those guys could have defeated me, or even killed me instantly,” the old man said.

"No! That can't be! You're a Jonin!"

"Believe me, my intuition is always very accurate," the old man sighed.

Meanwhile, Kitahara Kaede and the others followed the direction the old man pointed out, which was actually the direction the summoning beast had indicated to them.

Soon they saw bloodstains on the road, as if some battle had taken place. A little while later, they met the people from the village the old man had mentioned.

However, none of this stopped them. Before long, they saw the village ninjas again. Behind these ninjas was a huge crater, and the area within hundreds of meters around them had been blasted flat.

"We've arrived!" Kitahara Kaede said.

Those around them immediately looked at them cautiously. Kitahara Kaede could only give a brief explanation of the matter. Fortunately, the old man had mentioned these people earlier, which increased the credibility of what Kitahara Kaede and the others said.

“We need to go in and check it out. We don’t know if there’s any danger here. I suggest you go back to the village first!” Kitahara Kaede said.

Unexpectedly, the other side did not heed their advice. Instead, they split into two teams. One team took some of the corpses on the ground back for burial, while the other team prepared to enter the black hole with Kitahara Kaede (bddg) and the others.

"According to what you said, that Otsutsuki is so powerful that we are not without any room for resistance!" The man walking next to Kitahara Kaede and the others suddenly asked.

"Of course not, with Lord Kitahara Kaede posing a threat to the Otsutsuki clan, it's nothing!" one of the guards said.

"Oh! Is this person so powerful? Didn't you say that the Otsutsuki possess the power to destroy the world?" the man continued to ask, clearly skeptical of what Kitahara Kaede and the others had said.

"That's because you haven't seen Lord Kitahara in action!" the guard said.

Just then, a cracking sound came from ahead, followed by the whistling of arrows. Arrows began to fly from all around the walls toward Kitahara Kaede and his companions.

"Watch out!" a villager hurriedly warned, and the ninja next to him immediately assumed a defensive stance.

Just then, a guard suddenly rushed forward. It seemed that the man disappeared for a moment, and then all the arrows around him vanished.

"What was that just now?!" the villager asked.

"It's nothing, just a crude application of a space-time ninjutsu," the guard said casually upon returning.

Since that incident, the villagers there have become much more serious when they look at Kitahara Kaede and his group. They are no longer as casual as before, and there is even some wariness.

"Let's go!" Kitahara Kaede continued walking forward, encountering several more traps along the way.

"Has anyone really been here? So many traps haven't been destroyed," the villager said skeptically.

“Of course there’s no need to destroy it. It doesn’t have much power over the Otsutsuki anyway. Just lie down and it will be fine,” Kitahara Kaede said.

While everyone else was paying attention to the traps around them, Kitahara Kaede was focusing on the traces around them, especially some newly appeared traces.