One Dragon Tail Kick will shatter your Susanoo dream!

His attack missed, and his ninja sword was snatched by Kusashiba. Kumamoto reacted quickly and used the Substitution Jutsu to get away from his opponent.

Sweat dripped down his cheek, and Kumamoto's mind was in turmoil.

"Damn it, it's just luck! With the Mist Concealment Technique, I shouldn't be able to see anything!"

Seeing Kusashi playing with his ninja sword, Kumamoto quietly approached him again, but this time from a slightly greater distance.

He quickly formed hand seals.

"Water escape, water dragon bullet technique!"

The dragon-shaped water flow rapidly approached the central grass and mushroom, and the resulting waves dispersed the mist concealment technique.

Kumamoto, shirtless, crossed his arms over his chest and spoke calmly.

"That's it! I knew I was just imagining things!"

The water jet, with unstoppable force, crashed against the grass, sending dust flying everywhere.

Just as Kumamoto was quietly enjoying his victory and preparing to return to his room to continue playing with women, a mocking voice rang in his ears.

"Water Dragon Bullet, a B-rank ninjutsu. Are there any higher-rank ninjutsu?"

"No, I'm about to fight back!"

Kumamoto quickly used the Body Flicker Technique to leave his original spot, looking at Kusashi, who had reappeared in the place where he had just been.

"You're definitely not some nobody. State your name!"

Cao Zhi smiled slightly, pointed to herself, and said softly.

"I'm just a ninja who does it for fun..."

Before he could finish speaking, the other party threw out several shurikens, each with an explosive tag attached.

Upon seeing this, Cao Zhi cried out in pain.

"No way! Explosive tags are so expensive in combat, don't waste my ninja tools!!!"

Cao Zhi looked at him with heartache as she fidgeted with her fingers.

"Shuriken cost 500 taels, and explosive tags double that to at least 600 taels during battle, which rounds up to 1 taels..."

"You idiot, don't use ninja tools recklessly!"

Before the smoke from the explosion had even cleared, Kusashiba's voice could be heard. Kumamoto did not have the habit of exposing his back to the enemy.

So he used the Shadow Clone Technique, and an exact replica of Kumamoto appeared in the field, one forming hand seals and the other striding towards Kusashi.

Cao Zhi's perception was not weak, but he was not in a hurry to defeat his opponent. He wanted to make his opponent reveal more of his trump cards.

In just one exchange, Kumamoto's shadow clone vanished into a cloud of white mist. Kusashiba looked at the anxious Kumamoto and comforted him.

"Take your time, don't rush, and don't get the order wrong..."

Kumamoto's pupils widened, and he cursed inwardly.

"Damn it, how dare he underestimate me like that!"

As the last seal fell, Kumamoto took a deep breath and then exhaled a large amount of water towards Kusashimi.

"Water Escape, the Great Waterfall Technique!"

The area is vast, with a volume of water so large it resembles a natural disaster, and it forms a waterfall...

The waves swept across, destroying most of the village. Kumamoto, panting heavily, half-squatted on the ground.

"Hehe, if it weren't for offending that guy because of this ninjutsu, how could I have betrayed the village!"

"That damn guy should be dead by now!"

"This is my biggest trump card!"

Suddenly, Cao Zhi's voice came from the other side.

"I think the strongest ninjutsu is Flying Thunder God Technique + Thousand Years of Death..."

"what?"

Kumamoto stared blankly as Kusashiba emerged from the forest, her body shimmering with white runes. The other man reached out his hand.

Kumamoto felt as if he had been struck by a silent attack, and immediately used his last bit of chakra to escape using the Substitution Jutsu.

As a result, Cao Zhi's foot still left an imprint on his cheek.

Looking at the unconscious Kumamoto Jonin, Kusashiba tied him up with a rope, and sighed softly as he looked at the devastated village.

In the small fishing village, only two reasonably attractive women and a child hiding at the bottom of a well remained.

Kusashiba stopped the women from their impulse to chop up Kumamoto with various farm tools and handed them a sum of money.

"You should leave now, go to the countryside, it's better than staying here..."

The two women pleaded desperately to stay by his side and serve Caozhi, but he resolutely refused.

The two men and one child packed some luggage, drove the oxcart away, leaving only Kumamoto, who had been silent since waking up, in the village.

Cao Zhi looked at the other person curiously.

"What, aren't you going to struggle a bit? At least show some of the spirit of a Jonin..."

Kumamoto grinned, his words full of nonchalance.

"I fled that hopeless village and never thought I'd live much longer. Let's get this over with!"

Upon seeing this, Cao Zhi spread out his hands.

"Choose one: either hand over all the ninjutsu you know, or suffer endless torment and be turned into an idiot in excruciating pain by my soul-extraction technique!"

Kumamoto grinned, saying nonchalantly.

"If you know the so-called soul-extraction technique, then go ahead and use it. Even though I've betrayed the village, I'm still a member of Kirigakure!"

As a newly promoted Jonin of Kirigakure, Kumamoto couldn't resist his greed and tortured a second-generation ninja of Kirigakure to extract an A-rank ninjutsu, which led to him being hunted down.

However, no matter how much Kusashi threatened him, he refused to hand over his ninjutsu. Helpless, Kusashi, who was not proficient in torture, had no choice but to give up.

She had no choice but to pull out all of the man's fingernails one by one, then apply honey to attract ants, and even took a kunai and aimed it at the man's genitals.

Then the other party still refused to confess, and since Kusagakure Village didn't have anyone like the Yamanaka clan, they had no choice but to give up.

After decisively wiping away the pitiful state of Kumamoto, Kusashiba sealed the corpse with a scroll, packed up the spoils, and left the abandoned fishing village.

One month later…

Within the Land of Grass, a ninja hawk landed, and Kana removed the scroll wrapped around its foot, her previously worried face breaking into a smile.

Kana sat back down in the shadows of the office and spoke to the shadowy figure.

"Tell Minister Qian that the funding has been secured!"

Kana opened the report and examined the scrolls and Caozhi's letters.

He then wrote on it.

"Income of 137 million taels!"

In the years that followed, at the end of each month, ninja hawks would appear in the skies above the Grass Ninja Village.

Every month, Cao Zhi would send the bounty hunters' earnings back to the village. During the first month, which was a trial-and-error phase, the earnings were not high.

Starting from the second month, as he gradually became more knowledgeable, his abilities increased exponentially, and he also developed a certain amount of ruthlessness and a growing, deep-seated murderous intent.

Six months later, they had raised nearly 3000 million taels of grass and were preparing to return to the Grass Country to assess the results.

He had endured wind and rain for the past six months, during which he grew rapidly. He also faced many desperate situations, but fortunately, he had strong strength to support him and avoided any accidents, after all, this was the world of Naruto.

It's a world of high offense and low defense. As long as you have the right intelligence, it's easy to overthrow the strong and defeat the weak!

Walking along the forest path, Cao Zhi suddenly vanished from her spot, and a bolt of lightning exploded where she had been standing.

"Thunder Escape, Pseudo Darkness!"