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Chapter 506: Tang Ping: Madam, You Don't Want To...!
Chapter 506: Tang Ping: Madam, You Don't Want To...!
A village located at the border between the Bear Country and the Bird Country.
In the Ninja World, borders are only valued by great nations.
For smaller countries, aside from a few boundary markers, there's nothing else to hinder them.
Not only is it an unbearable expense, but it's also pointless.
If ninjas were to invade, unless you guard all the borders, it would be too easy for them to enter.
For non-ninjas, you would naturally detect them in advance, and there's no need to guard the borders.
"So you're hiding here?"
Hyuga Cangyue surveyed her surroundings.
She found that this place was indeed hidden enough, and it was also convenient to escape. After all, the Bird Country was to the right, and beyond that was the Rain Country. Once there, it would be incredibly convenient to go anywhere.
"The place mentioned in the intelligence report is here, but the people should have left!"
Tang Ping nodded and jumped to the top of a tree, looking towards the distant village.
The other party was over there, but no one was inside.
Apparently, they had temporarily left.
Upon hearing this, Hyuga Cangyue began to quickly explore the various abilities of the Reincarnated Eye.
Although Tang Ping had a rough idea about the Reincarnated Eye's intelligence, she didn't know the details and could only rely on her own exploration.
The real Ninja World was vastly different from what was portrayed in the anime, so Tang Ping couldn't help her much.
The good news was that her Reincarnated Eye was her own, and unlike Nagato, it wasn't someone else's eye, so developing it wasn't difficult.
After experiencing the Chakra Mode of the Reincarnated Eye once, she would definitely find it easier next time.
Naturally, ninjas wouldn't lack patience, so even if Tang Ping waited outside the village on a tree for an entire day, he didn't show the slightest impatience.
After all, he didn't have anything else to do.
His ace had already been completed and was in the nurturing stage. It required a long time and vast resources to perfect it, so there was no need to waste further time and energy on it.
As for other research, he could 'outsource' it to Orochimaru.
In terms of research efficiency, he couldn't compete with Orochimaru's work ethic.
Tang Ping's strength wasn't in efficiency, but in his creativity, space-time pills, and the ability to delegate tasks. Therefore, he assigned the time-consuming research work to Orochimaru, freeing himself up.
So, he wasn't in a hurry at all.
However, they didn't have to wait too long, as the person they were waiting for had returned.
"They're here!"
Tang Ping reminded Hyuga Cangyue, who was exploring the abilities of the Reincarnated Eye.
"Finally, they're here!"
Hyuga Cangyue's right hand hovered over a bird egg.
She was trying to control 'Repulsion'.
After truly obtaining the Reincarnated Eye, she could genuinely master the repulsion aspect, unlike Nagato during his pregnancy, who could only use 'Divine Hellfire' in a rigid manner.
Nagato, the possessor of the Eternal Eye, couldn't achieve this level of control, not because he didn't want to, but because the eye wasn't his to begin with, and he never had the chance to continue developing it.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have had the Eternal Eye for so long, and his repulsion abilities would have been limited to levitating and flying.
Hyuga Cangyue had already achieved this during her pregnancy.
A brown-haired woman, accompanied by a boy around ten years old, approached the small village (a significant deviation from the original plot).
The woman was naturally Natsu Hoshi!
Yes, people from the Star Village often had the word 'Star' added to their names.
Tang Ping only remembered 'Natsu', the name she changed to after escaping the village.
Whoosh, whoosh!
The two of them blocked Natsu Hoshi and her son.
It wasn't that they had seen through their disguise, but at this moment, they were wearing shabby and tattered clothing, their faces aged, and they looked like ordinary peasant women, with not a trace of a female ninja about them.
However, the chakra on their bodies couldn't be hidden, and the boy beside them, around ten years old, had already started refining his chakra. It would be difficult not to recognize them.
"Who are you?"
Looking at the two figures in black cloaks and bone masks before them, Natsu's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately protected her son behind her.
As for why she didn't continue her disguise? Well, since they had come to her, what was the point of pretending?
"Hand over the 'Star'!"
Tang Ping was too lazy to say more and directly reached out his hand to demand the item.
If they were unwilling, he could play a very interesting trick.
He could kill them and then use 'Summoning of the Dead' to summon them from their souls and directly interrogate them.
"You... you're Star Shinobi!"
Natsu assumed a combat stance, and a kunai appeared in her hand.
Usually, she took on missions discreetly, or else how could she possibly support herself and her son? She couldn't treat being a ninja the same as an ordinary person.
If she were like an ordinary person, there was no way she could survive in the cruel Ninja World.
Being a ninja was an incredibly demanding profession.
Without sufficient food and medicinal herbs to sustain her, her strength would continuously decline. So, she took on missions not to live a comfortable life but to maintain her strength and survive.
Of course, it was also for her son's sake.
Without ample food and medicinal ingredients, the idea of becoming a ninja was just a dream.
But she hadn't expected that Star Shinobi would come knocking on her door.
"That kind of evil thing shouldn't see the light of day again. Have you forgotten the price our Star Ninja Village paid for it?"
Natsu could only refuse.
She regarded the two in front of her as Star Shinobi.
After all, aside from them, no one else would have been searching for her whereabouts for so many years.
"Don't worry, from now on, no Star Shinobi will suffer because of the 'Star'!"
Tang Ping shook his head.
From their response, he knew they weren't aware of what had happened a few days ago.
But thinking about it, it made sense. Although their strength wasn't weak, their intelligence network naturally wouldn't be that good, after all, she was now a rogue ninja.
"???"
Natsu vaguely sensed something amiss.
"Because a few days ago, the entire Star Ninja Village was destroyed, and everyone died!"
Tang Ping told the truth.
With his current status and position, there was no need to deceive them. Moreover, he genuinely wasn't worried about them refusing to hand over the Star.
"How... is that possible!"
Natsu muttered, unable to believe that the powerful and terrifying Star Ninja Village in her heart had disappeared like this.
"So, are you willing to hand over the Star in exchange for your and your son's survival?"
Tang Ping directly presented the choice to them.
As long as they uttered half a word of 'no,' he would take action immediately.
He hated hypocrites the most and would never become one, so when it was time to be ruthless, he was more so than anyone else.
"I..."
Natsu was stunned.
If asked about her feelings for the Star Ninja Village, she did have some. After all, it was her hometown.
Later, to 'protect' the village from the influence of the Star, she directly stole and sealed it away with her husband.
The Third Star Shadow had also been killed by the Crimson Star and others while trying to help them.
So, the Star Ninja Village was, in a sense, her enemy.
"His talent is not bad, but it's a pity he didn't receive the best cultivation. Don't you agree?"
Tang Ping's gaze fell on the boy protected behind the woman.
Awesome! He had long wanted to try being the bad guy.
After all, who wouldn't want to hear a line like 'Madam, you wouldn't want to...'
In this day and age, no one wanted to be a good person, and even the term had become derogatory.
"I won't let you harm Ang!"
Natsu instantly became agitated, like a desperate mother wolf.
But soon, she couldn't say another word.
Because her entire person had fallen into Hyuga Cangyue's hands.
Ten Thousand World Attraction!
He directly sucked her into his palm and then used the Reincarnated Eye's light sphere to drain her chakra, leaving her without the slightest power to resist.
"Let go..."
Upon seeing his mother's state, Ang naturally wanted to take action first, but he was 'frozen' by a bone-chilling killing intent.
Even Orochimaru could use his killing intent to subdue Kakashi, so Tang Ping subduing a boy at the level of a low-level ninja was a piece of cake.
"Stop, I'll hand over the Star..."
In the end, Natsu compromised.
There was nothing more to say. Tang Ping and the others went to the hidden location to retrieve the Star and also took a copy of the Peacock Technique. Even if they didn't learn it, it would be a good reference.
"Ang, let's go to Konoha!"
Natsu suddenly spoke up.
After being targeted by such a terrifying person, it was no longer safe to stay here.
In the entire Ninja World, only the strongest, Konoha, could give people a sense of security.
As Tang Ping went to retrieve the Star from its hidden location, he didn't know that under his influence, Natsu and Ang, this mother and son pair, would actually head to Konoha.
(End of Chapter)
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