One Dragon Tail Kick will shatter your Susanoo dream!

Cao Zhi, looking like a man who couldn't get tanned even by the sun, entered the hidden stronghold of the gold exchange and looked at the toilet in front of him.

Cao Zhi looked at the map repeatedly with some doubt, then walked to the third squat toilet and kept feeling around against the wall.

With a "crack," the wall caved in, and then a hidden door appeared. Cao Zhi entered and found that the people inside were all masked or disguised in black robes.

A bald young man with a scar on his forehead walked up to him and said softly.

"A commission, or a task?"

"Accept the mission!"

The young man then took out a booklet from his sleeve, which contained the bounty amount and mission objectives, with a strength rating at the bottom.

Cao Zhi flipped through the pages for a while, then lightly tapped on one of the portraits.

Let's leave this for now!

The young man turned around and fiddled with something for a while, then took out detailed information and handed it to Cao Zhi.

"Are you sure this guy is a Jonin with a bounty on his head from Kirigakure?!"

Kusa nods in affirmation, then takes the intelligence from the other party. The target is located in a fishing village on the border of the Land of Fire, so he turns and walks towards the outskirts.

After Cao Zhi finished accepting the mission and left, the two men hidden in black robes at the gold exchange also followed him away.

When they reached a densely wooded area, Cao Zhi stopped.

"You've had enough of following me all this way, what brings you here?"

Two men in black robes jumped out of the forest, holding kunai and ninja swords.

"Hehe, it's been a long time since I've met a newbie like you. Hand over all your money, and I'll spare your life!"

"That's right, hand over all the money!"

Cao Zhi stared at the other person speechlessly and then complained.

"If I had money, would I still be going in to take on missions? Are you guys stupid?!"

The shorter, stouter ninja sounded displeased after hearing this.

"What? I thought they were some easy targets coming to commission a job. After all, who doesn't wear a mask when they come to accept a mission? What an idiot..."

Before the other party could finish speaking, Cao Zhi suddenly moved, followed by an explosion. Where he had been standing, a deep crater appeared, and an ugly-looking man could be seen cursing angrily in the smoke and dust.

"The ambush failed, the plan is risky, let's retreat!"

The three bounty hunters immediately scattered and fled. They had been making a living by killing and robbing, mainly hunting young clients or novice hunters. They never expected to encounter a pervert like Cao Zhi.

While the two distracted each other, he was able to launch an explosive tag attack on his companion, an ugly man whose strength was not weak even among Chunin.

The man who had suddenly fled only heard a whisper in his ear.

Do you know what the "grassroots triangle kill" is?

The man in black robes looked terrified, turning his head in shock to see the suddenly appearing grass vine, cursing loudly.

"Damn it, when did this happen...?"

With a "bang," a figure crashed into their fleeing companion on the other side. The two were struck as if by a speeding train, their bodies instantly torn to pieces, parts scattered all over the ground, their deaths extremely gruesome.

Cao Zhi sheepishly withdrew her leg.

"Damn, how can it be so powerful? Wait, there's also a little shrimp..."

After saying that, Cao Zhi disappeared from the spot and chased after it in one direction.

Not long after he left, a loud "bang" of smoke rose from a tall tree nearby, and the ugly ninja who had fled earlier pounded his chest and squatted on the tree.

"Damn it, thank goodness I used my shadow clone to lure that guy away and then turned into a tree branch to hide here, otherwise I'd probably be keeping those two good-for-nothings company!"

Just as the ugly ninja was about to leave in the opposite direction from Kusashi, he heard a soft laugh.

"You think you can fool my big, beautiful eyes?"

The ugly ninja didn't even turn his head before throwing a shuriken in the direction of the sound, only to find that he couldn't feel his arm anymore the next second.

Kusaji stepped on the ugly, one-armed ninja, looking at the bleeding wound, and chuckled softly.

"If you don't want to be tortured, then verbally recite all the ninjutsu you know!"

The ugly ninja lowered his head and remained silent, keeping his mouth tightly shut. Since he was going to die anyway, he would rather commit suicide than let the other party benefit.

Kusaji had anticipated that the ugly ninja would commit suicide, so he decisively dislocated the man's jaw and then pulled out all of the ugly ninja's teeth, whereupon he found the poison hidden between his teeth.

After stopping the bleeding and reattaching the chin, Caozhi took a pill and put it into the ugly ninja's mouth.

"This thing will take a while to work, but it will cause excruciating pain. Since you've already lost your arm, just tell me the ninjutsu you know, and I'll let you go!"

"really?"

"I, Long Aotian, swear to the heavens, you can rest assured!"

"Then I'll say it..."

A moment later, Cao Zhi put the scroll away.

"These ninjutsu techniques are a bit ordinary, but they're not bad!"

After releasing the other party, Cao Zhi looted their belongings and prepared to leave.

The ugly ninja immediately shouted.

"The antidote! I need the antidote!"

Cao Zhi smiled and turned around.

"Why don't you just pick up a couple of pebbles from the ground and eat them? They're just ordinary candy!"

Ignoring the grumbling, ugly ninja, Kusashiba pocketed the other two's belongings as well. Weighing the money pouch, he realized that the total wealth of one Chunin and two Genin amounted to only a little over 20 ryo.

Cao Zhi carefully put away the money pouch and also stuffed the scattered kunai into his bag. Normally, a bunch of kunai would cost 300-500 taels, and during wartime, the price would double. All of this was money!

The ugly ninja watched as Kusanagi walked up to him again, and then his throat was slit, his face full of resentment.

"Why...when...we agreed?"

Cao Zhi responded with a smile to the dying other party.

"It was Long Aotian who swore the oath, what does it have to do with me, Cao?

After saying that, he turned and left without even disposing of the corpse. Kusaji didn't want to waste his chakra, since the wild beasts would take care of it anyway!

After three days of trekking through mountains and rivers, Cao Zhi finally arrived at his destination. He saw that the ground of the small fishing village was littered with corpses with expressions of fear. So he slowed his pace and entered the village.

In a tiled house with its door wide open, a blind ninja was thrusting on a woman's body, and Cao Zhi's eyes dimmed.

Along his journey, even in the most prosperous Land of Fire, he encountered bandits and arsonist ninjas several times.

Hearing the noise, the man inside stopped what he was doing, and then a soft shout was heard.

"Water Release: Mist Shadow Technique!"

Soon the room was filled with thick fog, which continued to spread outwards. Cao Zhi confidently strode into the fog.

The reason he chose to hunt down these Jonin-level rogue ninjas was because they were all proficient in various ninjutsu, and being able to extract some advanced ninjutsu from them would be a huge profit!

Visibility was practically nonexistent in the dense fog. Upon seeing Kusashi strode into the fog, Kumamoto, the rogue ninja from Kirigakure, couldn't help but start mocking him.

"A newbie, huh? How dare you so brazenly enter the range of the Mist Concealment Technique? Remember, it's Lord Kumamoto who will send you to hell!"

The other person, disheveled, raised his ninja sword and quietly approached Kusashi from behind, a pleased smile on his face.

"it's over!"

Cao Zhi smiled and grabbed the other person's blade with one hand.

"Same as above!"