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"Lord Kitahara, there's no way out. It feels like a huge force has altered the underground terrain, causing a break in the passage!" the guard said to Kitahara Kaede.

"Let me take a look!" Kitahara Kaede walked to the front. There were many huge rocks blocking the entrance to the cave, and behind them, there seemed to be continuous collapses, with no idea how far the damage had spread.

"Phew!" Kitahara Kaede let out a long breath, squatted down in front, and placed his palm on the ground.

"What is Lord Kitahara doing? There's no trace of chakra on him," the guard said cautiously.

"I don't know, but Lord Kitahara must be doing something, we just can't understand it, just like the Fourth Lord back then." The guard said, looking at Kitahara Kaede.

The villagers, having witnessed the strength of these guards, were essentially numb and followed them here, like robots simply watching without any thought or action.

Chapter 626 Clues

"Crack!" A crack appeared on the stone between Kitahara Kaede's fingers. Kitahara Kaede pulled his fingers back and a look of displeasure appeared on his face, but he quickly covered it up.

“The fault line here is too large, but this passage seems to be a winding structure. There is still space below us. We can go down and take a look,” Kitahara Kaede said to the guard beside him.

"Alright! Leave it to me!" The spirit beast dog under the guard said, then used its hands and claws to spin rapidly downwards like a drill, and soon an opening appeared in front of it.

"No problem, there's a fairly large space below, we should be able to go even further!" came the voice of the summoning beast.

With a flick of the guard's wrist, a kunai fell directly to the ground.

"Lord Kitahara, let's go. This was left behind by the Fourth Hokage. For short distances, we can use it by simply channeling some chakra!" the guard said.

In the blink of an eye, everyone found themselves in an open space, surrounded by the lingering scent of blood. Countless strange corpses lay scattered on the ground, some without even a complete body.

"This!" The villagers were speechless at the sight before them.

“That’s right! The aura of the Otsutsuki clan permeates everywhere, so it seems we’re on the right track!” Kitahara Kaede said, looking down.

"Wait a moment, I need to check if there's anything left behind here!" Kitahara Kaede said. His guards stood silently by, and the villagers behind him dared not utter a word.

The corpses were surrounded by dark red blood, and small insects were now crawling on the blood, greedily sucking it up.

"Fire Release! Fireball Technique!" A large amount of flames suddenly appeared on Kitahara Kaede's palm, and the surroundings became much clearer, with a breeze suddenly appearing.

The flames began to flicker in the breeze, and at that moment, Kitahara Kaede noticed that there were murals on the surrounding walls where they were.

It's called a mural, but it's really just some dark shadows with what look like charcoal marks.

"Can you understand it?" Kitahara Kaede asked the guards beside him.

"This seems to be from the earliest era, the carvings only appeared back then. I heard him talk about it when I was with the Third Generation. It seems that the owner of this tomb was also a very wealthy and noble person."

“This! It seems somewhat similar to something that came from our village,” a villager said, looking at the mural.

"Your village? What's that?!" Kitahara Kaede immediately asked.

"These are things passed down from generation to generation. The murals above look similar to this place. Look at this one, this means mountain. And here are also enemies, battles, treasures, and terror!" That's roughly the meaning. We don't know any more specific details because so little has been passed down.

"After listening to the other party's words, Kitahara Kaede pondered for a while, but these words were so disjointed that he had no way of discerning their meaning."

"Can you see any locations or anything like that from it?" Kitahara Kaede asked.

"There's no description of the location, but we can see that this is our direction, and there seems to be something important here!" The villager pointed a few times.

"Is this our location? Are you sure?" Kitahara Kaede asked immediately.

“Of course, the depiction here is exactly the same as what has been passed down in our village,” the villager immediately affirmed.

"Take a look, isn't this direction the same as the direction the Otsutsuki and the others are heading?" Kitahara Kaede immediately said.

"Alright!" The guard pointed with his hand and then nodded to Kitahara Kaede.

"As expected, it seems we've come here with some results. Looking at this map, there are places with water and mountains, which narrows down our target by one more thing! At least there are no trees over the swamp," Kitahara Kaede said.

“Okay, I’ll report to Lady Tsunade immediately and have her withdraw her forces,” the guard said.

Kitahara Kaede nodded: "Is Konoha responsible for scouting that swamp?"

"Yes! After all, that area is a swampy region, making travel difficult, and there are also poisonous obstacles. Lady Tsunade is quite adept at dealing with these things, so she sent us from Konoha to explore it. I didn't expect that she would rule it out so easily," the guard said.

"It's alright. Being able to eliminate one place is a good thing for us. Have we found anything in the other places?" Kitahara Kaede asked.

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"There have been no discoveries yet. The chakra in these four places seems to be particularly unstable. Communication becomes very poor after our people go in, and sometimes it even disappears, so the transmission of information is much slower," the guard said.

"Okay! I understand, let's continue down!" Kitahara Kaede said, and the villagers quickly followed.

In fact, the cave was extremely safe. As they walked down, they encountered mostly various corpses and some inexplicable traps.

With the violent invasion of the Otsutsuki clan, all these dangers were basically eliminated, with one exception, of course!

... .... ......

It was a huge black hole, with some strange light flashing inside. Ahead was a fork in the road, and they chose the left one.

As they walked ahead, a loud cracking sound was heard.

"Squeak!"

"Crack, click, click!"

The sound of gears turning could be heard.

"This mechanism is still working? Could it be that the Otsutsuki clan didn't destroy it?" a villager asked疑惑地.

"Whoosh!" As soon as he finished speaking, a sickle that looked like it was made of wood suddenly came down on his head and slashed at him.

"careful!"

Fortunately, Kitahara Kaede's personal guards reacted quickly and rushed to his side, pushing him aside.

"Sizzle!" The huge wooden scythe fell to the ground, producing sparks that resembled metal.

"Fire Release! Great Fireball Technique!" Kitahara Kaede's bodyguards immediately activated their ninjutsu. At this moment, they finally saw the monster hidden in the dark. It looked only as tall as two people, but its hands had turned into two large scythes!

"Puppetry! No, it's mechanical manipulation!" The guards immediately realized what they were facing.

"I'll go help, you take good care of Lord Kitahara!" another guard said and rushed forward, while the remaining guard took another step closer to Kitahara Kaede.

"bump!"

"boom!"

"Wind Release: Windmill!"

"Fire Release! Dragon Fire Technique!" Wan.

Chapter 627 Dragon Vein Qi

The two attackers continued to strike the mechanism, but the puppet seemed unaffected by the ninjutsu, showing no damage whatsoever. In fact, it appeared to be even more agile at this moment.

"Fire Release: Intensified Flame Technique!" The guards attacked once again.

"Wait a minute! It seems to be made of a material with excellent chakra conductivity. It can not only greatly weaken the power of chakra, but also convert it into its own energy. Don't use ninjutsu, use taijutsu to deal with him!" Kitahara Kaede immediately reminded him.

"The adults are thinking about the same thing as us!" Kunai appeared in their hands, and then their hands spun and jumped rapidly, leaving clear marks on the puppet.

"Crack! Crack!" The puppet seemed to sense something and retreated a little to protect its body. The environment around "547" looked rather dark, and it was unknown whether there was anything else strange about this thing, so the two of them did not chase after it directly.

"Crack!" Just then, a sound like lightning suddenly struck, and at the same time, they could feel some kind of power surging out in front of them.

"Boom!" A burst of fire appeared, and everyone could see the scene in front of them clearly. Behind them were no fewer than a hundred puppets, and the puppet they had damaged earlier was constantly spewing out chakra.

"Oh no! It's the power of the dragon vein, but how is that possible!" The villager exclaimed in horror.

“Dragon Vein!” Kitahara Kaede pondered for a moment. He could also sense that the chakra flowing from the robot’s body seemed to act as a medium, directly attracting extremely powerful energy.

"Destroy!" The guard instantly appeared next to the robot and slammed his hand down, the massive attack creating a huge gash in the puppet's body.

"Boom!" A sound like an explosion came, and suddenly a force more than ten times stronger than before came out. At the same time, all the puppets around moved and slowly moved towards the position of Beiyuan Feng and the others.

"My lord! We'll escort you out first." The guard standing in front of Kitahara Kaede said to him, then took out a kunai inscribed with runes.

"It probably won't be so easy to leave now," Kitahara Kaede said.

Sure enough, the kunai seemed to have lost its effect. The guard tried to force it, but when he focused his chakra into it, it almost caused an explosion.

“The power of the surrounding dragon veins has already affected the space. With your level of skill, it’s not easy to use coordinate teleportation in an unstable space,” Kitahara Kaede said.

"Damn it, it looks like we can only deal with these trash in front of us first. Fortunately, they're not very strong, so we should be able to clear them out with a little effort," the guard said.

"We'll help too!" the villagers said. Although they couldn't take on several robots by themselves, they could still gang up on one.

"Don't go up there and get yourself killed!" Kitahara Kaede said directly.

"Going to our deaths? Don't underestimate us, sir. Although we are not as good as your guards, we are all at least Chunin." The villager said. Kitahara Kaede had hardly done anything on his own along the way. In their eyes, he was just a theorist with low strength. If it weren't for the guards beside him, they would hardly have given him a second glance.

Hearing these words, Kitahara Kaede said nothing more.

Seeing this, these people rushed forward, but Kitahara Kaede shook his head.

"Boom!" Sure enough, before Kitahara Kaede could finish shaking his head, a group of people were thrown back. Behind them, a number of arrows followed. To avoid these attacks, the people rolled on the ground to escape, looking extremely disheveled.

"How could this happen!" The villagers' faces turned quite grim.

"Of course that's how it is. It's a wonder you've guarded the dragon vein for so long, didn't you know that the dragon vein can bring these things a huge amount of energy, causing their strength to increase!" Kitahara Kaede said.

"This! Hmm! How did you know we were protecting the dragon vein?!" The villagers immediately became much more cautious.

"I know that, but I have no interest in that thing. You don't need to look at me like that. If I were interested, not only you, but your entire village combined wouldn't be a match for me," Kitahara Kaede said with an indifferent expression.

After thinking for a moment, the villagers agreed with Kitahara Kaede's statement: "Then, sir, what do we do now? Although we are guarding the dragon vein, it is always sealed, and we don't actually understand it..." the villager said somewhat embarrassedly.

"You guard the ley lines, so you must know something about the seals on them!" Kitahara Kaede looked over.

"This!" A look of hesitation appeared on the man's face. This was a secret of their village and could not be easily revealed to outsiders.

"Fine, I won't ask you anymore. Since you already know something, just find out what this place is and what it's connected to the dragon vein, and shut it down!" Kitahara Kaede said, and began to slowly walk around.

Meanwhile, two guards were doing their utmost to hold off the surrounding puppets. They were quite strong, but these puppets, empowered by the dragon vein, were no less formidable and possessed terrifying regenerative abilities. It was uncertain how long they could maintain this state.

"bump!"

"Bang!" Explosions began to occur around them.

"Be careful, the surrounding walls aren't as sturdy as they used to be, especially after the Ōtsutsuki was destroyed. It would be terrible if they couldn't withstand it!" Kitahara Kaede warned.

"Understood!" the two guards replied, inwardly groaning that there were too many things to pay attention to, preventing them from acting freely, in addition to the densely packed puppets around them.

“Use the 3.6 one!” one of the guards said.

“Alright! Using that one is indeed the best choice!” another guard responded, their chakra constantly gathering, and a Rasengan appeared in one of their hands.

The other person held a fireball that also resembled a Rasengan, and they threw out both types of power simultaneously.

"Boom!" The wind and fire intertwined, and if they could perfectly merge, their power would be greatly enhanced, but it was clear that the two of them had not yet reached that level of control.

"boom!!!"

"Bang!" The two forces exploded violently after trying to merge together.

However, because the two had planned the location of the explosion, a large part of the puppet was instantly cleared, causing the surrounding area to shake and sand to fall from above.

Chapter 628 Dragon Vein Sealing Technique

However, this attack was worthwhile, as it eliminated at least half of the puppets.

"Now we can relax a bit!" the guard said, but before he could finish his sentence, he saw the puppet beside him quickly heading towards the destroyed puppets.

Then the good puppets and the bad puppets merged together, and the merged puppets moved towards the center of them. In just a short while, a puppet as tall as a small house appeared in front of them.

Moreover, his body looked even more intricate, and the scythe in his hand had transformed into a huge long staff, with many scythe-shaped spikes on its top.

"Be careful, his strength is probably already at the Kage level, and in some aspects he may even surpass the Kage level!" Kitahara Kaede warned, and then quickly searched the surroundings.

"It seems I underestimated this place. I thought that since the Otsutsuki and the others had already been here, the danger should have been eliminated. But I didn't expect this place to be so dangerous. After all, it's a place where even the Guardians were injured. I can't be careless anymore." Kitahara Kaede thought to himself.

"Kage-level!" The expressions of the two guards became much more serious. They hadn't expected that their attempt to use a trick had actually created an even more powerful enemy for them.

However, the advantage is that there are fewer opponents, so I don't have to be as distracted as before.

"I'll take the lead, you cooperate, let's test the enemy's methods first!" One of the guards said as he rushed forward, a Rasengan already appearing in his hand.

"Whoosh!" The monster's attack came down, and the person next to him immediately stepped in front to block it with his kunai.

"Take off one of his arms first!" The two coordinated well, and when the opponent attacked, one of them blocked the attack while the other's Rasengan landed on the mechanical arm.

"boom!"

"What!" the two exclaimed in unison, then quickly jumped away. Unexpectedly, their Rasengan only left a dark mark on the tree, which looked like a sizable hole burned by flames.

But they didn't even break the other person's arm.

Moreover, with the blessing of the dragon vein, such injuries disappeared completely in the blink of an eye, and then the puppet continued to attack without any effect.