Huh... Huh...

He was panting violently, and the cold sweat all over his body had soaked his clothes. The scorpion came back to his senses and was immersed in the quiet bookshelf, as if everything just now was an illusion.

"No, no!" Scorpion was shocked and looked at his fingers. The transparent chakras appeared, connecting his three puppets. The human-shaped puppet stood on his left, and the tiger-like puppet was completely scrapped on his right, while the third puppet that had just been called was in front of him, looking a little similar to him.

All of this told him that what just happened was true.

"I, I will lose to a little girl about the same age as me, and she lost so badly!" He looked forward with complicated eyes. The girl named Xiaonan showed a proud expression in front of the man in black, as if she was seeking credit.

Xuan praised her a few words and turned to look at Scorpion. At this time, he was looking here with a complicated expression. Xuan understood his mood. A young man who has been called a genius since he was a child, his self-esteem was beyond imagination.

When a peer can easily defeat him, it is equivalent to smashing all his previous pride and trampling on it. Xuan has seen many geniuses fall down after being hit because he cannot get out of the shadow of failure.

"You are weaker than I thought." Xuan said calmly, "I thought you could hold on for a few more minutes, but it seems that I looked up to you."

Hearing these sarcastic words, Scorpion immediately held his hand and felt dissatisfied in his heart. He obviously had the strength to display, and he had many moves to cooperate. He even did not use the third puppet at the beginning to save him as a killer move...

As if seeing through his thoughts, Xuan sneered: "I won't say much about your stupid tactics. Without knowing the strength of the opponent, he actually dared to hide his weakness at the beginning. It would be a joke to use the third puppet to win unexpectedly. If I hadn't removed the space of God at the last moment, you would have been a dead person now. With this strength, you still want to take revenge, and you wouldn't even touch the fingers of your enemy!"

"Bastard! You don't kill me to humiliate me here!" Scorpion asked loudly, trembling all over because of anger.

"Hurt you?" Xuan chuckled, "I don't have that kind of leisure. I just want you to know that you are weak, very weak."

Scorpion was angry and annoyed, but helpless. As Xuan said, now he is like a baby. After the battle just now, he doesn't even have the courage to take action again.

"then."

"Huh?" Seeing the other party throwing something over and subconsciously catch it, a trace of doubt appeared in his eyes. It was a ring with the word "jade" in the center. I don't know what material it was made of, and the tentacles were warm.

"Boy, if you want to become stronger, put away the ring. When you figure it out, use chakra to activate it. This ring will tell you where you are going." Xuan said coldly, then turned around and left with Xiaonan.

Scorpion just looked at the backs of the two of them leaving, feeling complicated and couldn't speak. He looked down at the ring in his hand, and subconsciously clamped it tightly.

"By the way, I finally tell you, puppet technique is not the way you use it. puppets are something that brings happiness to people, and you have already stepped on the wrong path."

When he walked away, Xuan's voice came again. He did not look back or stop. After a moment, he led Xiaonan to disappear from his sight.

However, after hearing this, Scorpion's eyes suddenly contracted. He quickly walked to the front of the bookshelf and pulled out a book in the first row. It was not a ninjutsu scroll, but an introductory book for the puppet master.

He quickly opened the first page and the first sentence that caught his eye was, "Puppets are something that brings happiness to people - Monsaemon."

"Who is he?" Scorpion closed the book and whispered to himself, his thoughts turned around. He had no intention of staying to read the book anymore, put away the ring and quickly left.

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"Master, where are we going now?"

In the dark area of ​​the Sand Village, two figures left the Ninjutsu Hall and walked there. Compared with Konoha, Sand Village was obviously much behind. Things like "electricity" were not circulating in the dark area, and still maintained a dark and depressing style.

Two figures were walking among them, and the ninjas hidden in the shadows around them turned a blind eye, as if they were air. Even Xiaonan asked, no one looked at this place.

Xuan touched Xiaonan's hair and smiled, "Of course I'm going to do a serious business. I wasted some time with this kid. I just played well."

Xiao Nan immediately smiled happily and whispered: "It's him who is too stupid."

Xuan Wuyin chuckled, and the two walked out talking and laughing, without encountering any obstacles. Whether it was members of the Ancient Ministry or the traps in the Ancient Ministry, they all ignored the two.

Leaving the Anbu and walking on the streets of Sand Village, as time went by, the wind and sand became stronger. Both the ninjas and pedestrians looked hurried, with layers of yellow gauze wrapped around their faces.

Xuan took Xiao Nan to the north of Sha Hidden Village. When the sand and dust approached, it naturally separated and could not splash on the two of them.

When I came to the Hidden Village of Sa, Xuan had two purposes. One was to look at the Red Sand Scorpion in the original work. If possible, I would dig him into the Akatsuki organization. For this tragic young man, the feeling of gathering the characters in the original work was a bit similar to the achievements of collecting dragon balls.

Of course, Xuan did not have a habit of collecting, especially for male members. He generally did not take the initiative to find the Ao members in the original work, and this time he was just a simple walk. Even Xiaonan happened to meet him in the Kingdom of Rain and did not look for him too deliberately.

This time he came to Sha Hidden Village, he had to take out the wind-attribute artifact from Yiwei's body. As far as he knew, Yiwei's first generation, Juriki Fenfu, had died. Now Juriki belongs to the second generation, and is also an ascetic monk in his forties, and is the disciple of the monk Fenfu.

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Chapter completed!