Grind is My Ninja Way

*Da da da~*

The sound of hurried footsteps echoed in the corridor.

Led by Hyuga Hiashi, Seimei and the other three navigated through the twists and turns of the underground space, getting closer and closer to Namikaze Minato's location.

Suddenly, Hyuga Hiashi stopped.

Seeing this, Seimei immediately asked, "What's wrong?"

However, before she could answer, a feeling of the earth shaking and the mountains trembling came. Seimei gathered chakra on the soles of his feet to barely maintain his balance.

The sound of "crack crack" kept ringing, and cracks appeared on the corridor and the dome. The entire underground space was shaking.

This wasn't the small-scale vibration caused by their previous battle at all. It was more like a major earthquake, affecting all areas.

In fact, it was almost the same.

When the shaking stopped, Hyuga Hiashi quickly said, "Someone above used an Earth Release ninjutsu to tear open the ground. Now four groups of enemies are entering this underground space through the cracks."

Speaking of this, she glanced forward and continued, "One of the enemy groups is right in our way."

Hearing this, Seimei frowned slightly and asked, "Can we bypass them?"

Hyuga Hiashi scanned the surroundings and shook her head, "No way to bypass them. There are also Iwa ninjas in other places. The enemy seems to roughly know our location."

"Is that so..."

After pondering for a moment, Seimei immediately said, "Then let's not worry about that. You lead the way according to the original plan, and we'll handle the enemies."

"Okay."

Hyuga Hiashi responded and continued running forward. Seimei and the other two followed without hesitation.

At the same time, the Yamanaka clan Jonin was also sensing Namikaze Minato's location. Once he sensed it, he could use the Mind Transmission Technique to contact him.

Unfortunately, the terrain here was too complex, and he couldn't focus on sensing, so he could only take it one step at a time.

...

Time passed by.

Soon, Seimei and the others encountered the enemy group that Hyuga Hiashi mentioned.

Seeing these people, Seimei didn't waste any words and immediately formed hand seals, using the ninjutsu - Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!

In the narrow corridor, Seimei opened his mouth wide, and a fire dragon roared out from him, pouncing on the Iwa ninjas ahead.

"Quick! Use Water Release!"

"No, it's too late!"

"Run!"

"Ah~~~"

Screams of pain echoed in the corridor.

Seimei's casting speed was too fast. The two sides had just met, and those Iwa ninjas couldn't react at all, immediately suffering heavy casualties.

This wasn't the end. Seimei flipped his hand and took out a handful of kunai from his ninja tool pouch, all wrapped with explosive tags.

The tomoe in his Sharingan spun rapidly, aiming at a few of the surviving Iwa ninjas. His hands danced, and he threw the kunai in an instant.

"Ah~ ah~ ah~"

Several screams rang out.

Immediately afterward, there were the sounds of explosive tags detonating one after another.

And after these sounds disappeared, the front became deathly silent. In the confined space, the power of the explosive tags was amplified several times.

And the few kunai that Seimei threw happened to surround all the visible Iwa ninjas.

In that situation, it was simply impossible for anyone to survive such a blast.

Well...

Saying that seemed a bit absolute.

But at least it wasn't something these Chunin and Genin could do.

"Let's go!"

After eliminating these people, Seimei said faintly.

Hearing this, Hyuga Hiashi swallowed and nodded, immediately running forward. Seimei and the others followed closely.

The people he had just killed weren't all the ones Hyuga Hiashi saw. This was just one of the search teams.

Subsequently, they encountered several more waves of such enemies, but they were all dealt with swiftly by Seimei and the two Jonin from the Nara and Yamanaka clans.

Despite this, the enemy still roughly locked onto their location and was constantly narrowing the encirclement.

However, this was no longer important because they had already contacted Namikaze Minato, and the two sides would soon rendezvous.

Ten seconds later, after turning a corner.

Seimei and the other three saw Namikaze Minato hurrying towards them. After a great battle, his clothes were still clean, just like when he first arrived here.

This showed that Kurogi Itto and the few Iwa-nin Jonin didn't pose much of a threat to him.

The reason they could drag it out for so long was probably just because they were familiar with the terrain here and managed to escape for a while.

In fact, this was indeed the case. Although Kurogi Itto initially acted righteously and was the first to attack Namikaze Minato,

In reality, this was just his way of boosting morale.

When the real fight started, he immediately called on the few Iwa-nin Jonin around him to fight and retreat, gradually disengaging from the battlefield.

Unfortunately, Namikaze Minato's target was them, and his strength was too great. Even though the few of them joined forces, they couldn't injure him, nor could they escape.

In the end, they all died in an unnoticed corner.

After killing these people, Namikaze Minato started to return along the original path, preparing to execute the last stage of the mission, which was to lead everyone out of here.

Initially, because he wasn't sure who would survive, he didn't distribute special kunai with Flying Thunder God Technique markings to them.

It wasn't that he was reluctant to part with a few kunai or that this kind of kunai was rare. On the contrary, he could easily make this kind of kunai.

The reason he did this was purely for confidentiality.

The Flying Thunder God Technique was not only his core combat technique but also an absolute forbidden technique recorded in the Scroll of Seals. There could be no risk of leakage.

Therefore, unless necessary, he wouldn't easily hand over related items to others.

Even after each battle, he would retrieve these special kunai one by one.

Although he didn't think anyone could decipher the Flying Thunder God Technique markings, he believed in being cautious. The five great ninja villages still had profound foundations.

If they obtained the kunai, even if they couldn't decipher the Flying Thunder God Technique, as long as they researched some countermeasures, it would be a huge problem.

Therefore, in this mission, apart from the initial special kunai for his positioning and teleportation, he didn't give any kunai to others.

And that kunai had already been retrieved by him after he teleported over.

This resulted in a situation where if he wanted to find Seimei and the others, he could only use conventional methods.

Of course, he could also leave marks on Seimei and the others beforehand for positioning.

But even if Seimei and the others trusted him, they wouldn't allow him to do such a thing where their lives were controlled by others.

So, Namikaze Minato didn't even mention it.

As for secretly doing it...

Not to mention what to do if he was discovered, Namikaze Minato's personality alone determined that he wouldn't do such things sneakily.

Fortunately, the outcome wasn't too bad. Not long after his battle ended, and he was returning along the original path, Seimei and the others came looking for him.

(End of this chapter)