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"Sand crab versus stone bear!"

Shadow clone Kakashi stared closely at the battle field.

This is the last round of the qualifiers. After the qualifiers, there will be a day of rest before the knockout rounds begin.

Sand Crab walked into the battle arena with the same indifferent expression as before, not looking a bit nervous.

The sand crab's opponent, the stone bear, looked like he was facing a formidable enemy.

Although Sand Crab doesn't attack with exaggerated wide-range ninjutsu like Nagato, the way Sand Crab takes down the enemy with ease every time makes Shikuma dare not look down upon him.

"Earth Release: Rock Iron Cannon Technique!"

The stone bear quickly formed seals and spat out stones at the sand crabs, hitting them at high speed. The stones quickly grew in size as they flew, like fired cannonballs.

This is Iwagakure's legion ninjutsu. It has great power when used by Iwagakure ninja troops together. It is also a good offensive ninjutsu in single combat situations.

The indifferent expression on Sand Crab's face remained as he took out the scroll and dodged Iwagakure's attack.

The next moment, a stooped old man with an iron thorn on his back that looked like a scorpion tail appeared on the battlefield and ran towards the stone bear quickly.

"Puppet Master." Kakashi narrowed his eyes slightly and said in his mind.

This method is undoubtedly the puppet technique developed by the Second Kazekage.

"Isn't this guy a traitorous ninja from Sunagakure?" Kakashi felt suspicious in his heart.

Although the development of puppet masters is no longer unique to Sunagakure Village, there are basically no puppet masters who are not Sunagakure who have become famous, at least Kakashi has never heard of them.

The level of puppet master shown by Sand Crab is quite extraordinary. Just by releasing a puppet, it can quickly suppress the opponent Stone Bear.

Even a layman like Kakashi can detect the sand crab's proficiency in puppet manipulation.

With such a level of puppetry at no more than eighteen years old, it was hard for Kakashi to believe that the other party was born Noroko.

For the ninjutsu genre that has not been around for a long time, the level of the teacher is very important.

Of course, since there is no evidence, it is impossible for Kakashi to report the sand crab. At most, he should pay more attention to the other party.

Under Xie's superb puppetry, Shi Xiong was quickly forced into a desperate situation and lost the battle.

"The sand crab wins and advances to the knockout round!"

After the referee announced the result of the battle, Xion quickly put away the puppet, ignored everyone and walked directly outside.

He is not interested in anything here. The reason why Scorpion came here is just because the fourth one has a chakra knife worth tens of millions of taels.

He wanted to melt the chakra knife and use it for puppet making.

Scorpion doesn't care about other players and has no intention of gathering intelligence. His goal is only fourth place.

In fact, Scorpion felt that if he used all his strength, it would be easy to take first place. After all, he was one of the few people in the ninja world who had killed Kage.

However, Xie has no such idea at all. Firstly, the reward he needs is the fourth place reward, and secondly, he may not be able to receive the award even if he uses all his strength.

Scorpio can only participate in the competition using the identity of other people.

Although he is not wanted by Sunagakure yet, there are Sunagakure ninjas at the martial arts conference. If he takes out the human puppet of the Third Kazekage, Sunagakure will definitely summon ninjas to hunt him down immediately.

Scorpio doesn't want to be exposed before the goal is achieved.

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Since the shadow clone finished watching Scorpion's battle, Kakashi's main body went directly to the competition area where Nagato was.

Nagato's fighting style is still so simple and unpretentious, with powerful ninjutsu bombings forcing his opponents to surrender.

"Nagato, let's go. Yahiko's side should be almost over." Konan said to Nagato.

She and Nagato are players in the same division, but her number is very high.

Nagato nodded and went to the competition area where Yahiko was with Konan.

Kakashi showed a thoughtful expression when he saw this. This powerful female ninja should also be a member of the Akatsuki organization.

Because the Akatsuki organization was still harmless, Kakashi didn't think too much and went to find several other companions who had successfully advanced.

"The qualifiers have ended successfully." Nohara Rin put her hands together and smiled softly.

Before the battle, Nohara Lin was actually worried that she would not advance to the knockout rounds.

After staying with Kakashi and the others for a long time, Nohara Rin always felt that she was weak and just a powerless wet nurse.

After playing four rounds in the qualifying round, Nohara Lin's confidence suddenly returned.

She only felt that those opponents were extremely weak. Even the opponents in the fourth round could not withstand her explosive punch.

"Hey, Xiaolin, you performed very well. Many players were surprised."

Obito couldn't help but laugh when he thought of Nohara Rin's punch that cracked the ground and the stunned onlookers watching.

Obito felt that this could not be blamed on the other players' lack of experience. Who would have thought that Nohara Rin, a cute-looking girl, could have such strange powers.

"It's okay. I'm still a long way from you. We need to keep working hard." Nohara Lin waved her hands and smiled. She was not inflated by the random killings in the qualifiers.

Nohara Rin felt that the day when other disciples would not subconsciously exclude her during the civil war, then her strength would be something to be proud of.

Since the qualifiers ended, ninjas from the same ninja village started communicating one after another, and the same was true in Konoha.

"This youth martial arts association has many good ninjas. It's normal to be unlucky and not advance." Asuma comforted Yuhi Kurenai who was eliminated in the fourth round.

Only Asma from their team advanced, and the remaining two were eliminated.

"Indeed." Bing Zu Lei sighed in unison.

He is a typical unlucky person who met a pervert like Nagato.

"I'm afraid only Kakashi and the others have a chance to defeat that Nagato." Raizu thought to himself.

In the heart of Amaizu Raido, only a pervert can defeat a pervert. Although Asuma is still considered a genius, he is obviously no match for Nagato.

"Asuma, Aburame Shimi... In this way, there are ten ninjas in Konoha who have advanced, occupying almost one-third of the positions in the knockout rounds." Kakashi listened silently and calculated in his mind the total number of people in Konoha who have advanced.

Kakashi estimated that someone would encounter ninjas from the same village in the first round of the knockout round. There were too many ninjas in Konoha who advanced.

When the Konoha ninja group returned to the hotel, Kakashi conducted a wave of information exchanges with other Konoha ninjas and told the other Konoha ninjas about the information they collected.

After all, this is a competition within the scope of the ninja world, and there will be Daimyos of the Land of Fire and Daimyos of the Water Country watching the competition. The more Konoha ninjas advance, the more face Konoha will have, and it will be easier for the Daimyos to earn gold coins.

At the same time, Nagato and the others were also listening to information.

"There are many geniuses from Konoha ninjas, including Hatake Kakashi, who is good at the lightning sword technique. Throughout the qualifiers, all the opponents were killed by Hatake Kakashi with one blow."

"In addition, there are Uchiha Shisui who is good at genjutsu fire escape, and Metkai who is good at taijutsu..." Kakuzu said about the information collected by the Ninja sect referee.

"Minister Kakuzu, isn't it good for us to do this?" Yahiko said, scratching his head.

Although gathering information can be considered a part of ninja combat, using the referee's information always feels like cheating.

"What's wrong? It's all about gathering intelligence. What difference can there be? That Hatake Kakashi did very well in this regard. He ran around as soon as the battle was over. He completely watched all of Nagato's battles." Kakashi said.

They all replied with indifferent expressions.

Nagato's expression remained unchanged. The intensity of the preliminary round battle was too low. He didn't use any of his Rinnegan abilities. It didn't matter if Kakashi saw him.

"Nagato, you should feel free to do it. As for Yahiko and Konan, in addition to the Konoha ninjas I mentioned, you also have to be careful of Kirigakure's Terumi Mei, Oniden Mangetsu, Gangui Kisame, Feldspar who uses the explosive escape technique, and Sand who uses the puppet technique.

Crab..." Kakuzu continued.

Although Yahiko and Konan are good in strength, there are indeed many ruthless ninjas entering the knockout rounds. Kakuzu estimates that Konan and Yahiko may have a hard time even reaching the top eight.

"It's true that there are people outside the world and there is a world outside the world." Yahiko said with emotion.

Before the competition started, he felt that he would definitely get a good ranking.

But now after listening to Kakuzu's information, Yahiko feels that even if the top eight are successful, the top 16 are still okay. If they are not in the first round, it means they are not lucky.

"I will take action to win the first place." Nagato said solemnly.

Even if the opponent is Mu Yue's other disciples, Nagato will never give up the number one spot to him.

The more talented ninjas come, the more it proves the gold content of the Youth Budokai. Not only must he win the first place, but he must also win the first place with a strong attitude and let the ninja village ninja organizations know that the ninja sect is not the only ninja master Sosuke

, and his disciples are also excellent.

If you want to cause trouble in the Land of Rain in the future, you should first weigh your own strength to see if you can withstand the alliance between the Ninja Sect and the Rain Ninja.

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The morning after the qualifying rounds ended, the Youth Budokai knockout rounds officially began.

This time is very different from the qualifiers.

The knockout battle takes place at the martial arts venue specially built by the Ninja sect for the Youth Martial Arts Association.

The martial arts venue is a circular venue that can accommodate tens of thousands of spectators.

However, due to the short construction period, the style is relatively rough, and exposed rock walls and mud walls can be seen everywhere.

Fortunately, house decoration in the Ninja world is not very developed at present, which can be explained as the characteristic architectural style of Earth Kingdom.

In a sense, that's true. It was indeed built with the help of the Iwagakure ninjas.
To be continued...