Asahi clearly felt that when Orochimaru appeared, all the bad mood around suddenly vanished, and he also noticed that whole the group was deeply convinced that with Orochimaru, one of the Sannin leading them to execute this mission. It gave the confidence that this mission now could be easily completed.
Some of the ninjas standing beside Orochimaru seemed very excited, as if they had received a great glory.
"Let's depart!"
Orochimaru didn't say any nonsense, he just made a hand sign, immediately taking the lead and ran out in the direction of the Land of Wind.
The sun casted a shadow on the ground through the lush foliage of the towering trees. Between the tree and the tree shadow, more than five hundred ninjas galloped on the branches of the trees and left behind afterimages. In this dim light, this small afterimages were almost invisible, even the most sensitive birds in jungle might not notice it.
A ninja's speed was very fast. If they run from the Konoha to the Sunagakure at full speed, it would only take about three days, which was explained in the original anime. It only takes about one to two days to reach the border.
Orochimaru took everyone all the way, without giving any resting-time at all, except for a break during the meal time. Over time, many bad genins had started complaining inwardly, but no one dared to raise any objections in front of Orochimaru.
He just felt too scary to them.
Near the border, Orochimaru made a 'scattered' hand sign, Ueno saw it, and shouted his small group of three, "Follow me!"
Then he left the army.
The Land of Fire and the Land of Wind were separated by the Land of Rain and the Land of Rivers.
This time, Konoha dispatched a total of five hundred ninjas. Some of these ninjas were on border alert, some entered the Land of Rain and the Land of Rivers, and some needed to sneak inside the Land of Wind, and try to gather information about Sunagakure.
And these were just ninjas in the open, only those on the high level understood just how many Anbu had Konoha secretly dispatched.
The mission that Asahi's team received was to be responsible for guarding at the Land of Fire border. Once a ninja of Sunagakure was found, there was no need to report about it. They could be captured alive. If they could not be caught alive, then they could just be killed and then the corpse would be sent back to Konoha.
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After arriving at the designated mission location, Ueno immediately took out the map and began to assign the mission, "Our mission is very simple. We are responsible for patrolling this area. As soon as we find any ninja of Sunagakure, whatever the reason, the course of action is to immediately kill."
"Our team has four people, you guys will be patrolling in this zone, and I am in charge of another one. As for Keita, you have to work a little harder. You have to patrol the locations that our two groups are responsible, and open the Byakugan every half an hour to investigate. Is everything clear? "
"Clear!"
The three of them replied.
"Very well, our team will be on guard until tomorrow morning, at that time someone will come to take our place, and now let's start to execute this mission." With the mission already signed, Ueno shouted, "Let's go!"
"So boring…" An hour later, Shinohara started to complain, "Asahi, do you think we will meet Sunagakure ninjas?"
To be honest, this mission was really dull. Based on the situation of Konoha's deployment this time, it would be very difficult for sand ninjas to sneak into the Land of Fire territory. If nothing else, Asahi' group would definitely be involved once Konoha and Sunagakure formally starts a war, and then they could add a B-rank mission credit to their mission record.
There was no lack of talents in Sunagakure, and there might be someone who successfully breaks through the defensive line and sneaks into the land of Land of Fire.
And the sand ninjas who could break through the Konoha's defensive line and sneak into the Land of Fire would definitely be among the elites. According to the strength of their group, once they meet such an enemy, unless they ask for reinforcements, they would get wiped out.
"Are you looking forward to meeting them?" Asahi asked back.
"Of course!" Shinohara said, "Don't you want to make a contribution to the village?"
Weakly shaking his head, Asahi indifferently said, "It would take my life just to get enough credit to count as a contribution."
Although Shinohara's character was not that of a brainless fool, it was also on part the type that usually had no good ideas and couldn't come up with what to do in case of an accident. Ninjas like Shinohara, who had no talent, their limit was normally that of a chunin.
Asahi was now thinking about how to get the information about Sasori of the Red Sand being guilty of murdering the Third Kazekage.
On this kind of thing just knowing the facts was of no use. He must obtain substantial evidence before he could accuse Sasori of his crimes, and even accuse Chiyo of sheltering the criminal and provoking a war.
But Asahi doesn't even know where Sasori was right now, or where or how he could find evidence.
And even if Asahi finds Sasori, it's estimated that the result would just be being killed directly.
The night passed quickly. On the next day early in the morning, they transferred the mission to another team, and Ueno took Asahi and others back to Konoha's camp.
The camp was first built, with only a dozen tents and twenty ninjas.
The ninjas in this camp were all ninjas in charge of nearby areas. There were many camps like this around the border.
After a brief wash, Asahi walked out of the camp, found an uninhabited place, sat down and tried training to improve cell activity.
Chakra was a kind of irritable energy, and human cells were very fragile. Tsunade's method to increase cell activity was very demanding on regards to chakra control. If his chakra control doesn't meet the requirements, and he were to rashly train this method, it would cause injuries.
Unlike [Raikiri], which directly stimulates the cells with lightning-attribute chakra, this method of Tsunade uses medical ninjutsu to stimulate his own cell activity with raw chakra, thereby improving his taijutsu's fundamental power.
About half an hour later, Asahi slowly got up and controlled chakra flow to his right arm, and punched a big tree using the method as recorded in the scroll.
*Bang*
The huge power of the punch caused the whole tree to shake a few times, and the place hit by the fist was broken into several large pieces, showing that the offensive power was really good.
The tree bark made a few fine marks on Asahi's fist, but under the action of medical ninjutsu, he recovered quickly and healed in less than a moment.
After a simple try, Asahi found that this method of increasing cell activity was mainly aimed at stimulating muscles, which had a significant effect on increasing muscle strength, but does not increase the speed by much, which was the opposite of the effect of lightning-attribute chakra on stimulating cells.
Although he had mastered this method, if he wanted to use it in battle, he must continue to practice.
In a dangerous fight, there was no spare time at all, and no experience in fine control of chakra could hold back the enemy for him to gather strength, so Asahi must turn this method of increasing cell activity into an instinct, and only then it could be used in combat.
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