On the other side, deep in the Forest of Death, Kaoru's figure slowly emerged.
"Successfully arrived in the Forest of Death!" A smile appeared on the corner of Kaoru's mouth, and then he clapped his hands lightly: "Very good, the next step is to find Wan'er first. But before that, I have to do a transformation first, it wouldn't be good if I was recognized."
Thinking of this, Kaoru made hand seals.
"Poof!" His body erupted in a cloud of smoke, and after the smoke cleared, Kaoru turned into an old man with wrinkled face.
"Hmm, an old man, in that case, no one will associate this image with me," Kaoru nodded, very satisfied with his current look.
"Next is, Shadow Clone Technique!"
With a poof, one old man turned into five old men, this was the limit of Kaoru's Shadow Clone Technique, his chakra amount could only allow him to create four shadow clones.
The bodies of these four shadow clones were all written with Kaoru's Flying Thunder God seal, so that after the shadow clones discovered Wan'er's whereabouts, Kaoru's main body could immediately provide support.
"Very good, let's go!" The five Kaoru, who had transformed into old men, nodded, and then moved their bodies, and ran towards different directions at the entrance of the Forest of Death.
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After running for more than ten minutes, Kaoru's main body encountered the first team he saw in the Forest of Death.
Just as Kaoru stepped into a cedar forest, three figures suddenly appeared out of thin air on a big tree in front of him.
These were three ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village, they all wore the Hidden Rain Village forehead protector on their foreheads, and each ninja carried a black umbrella used as a weapon on their back.
When they saw Kaoru walking into this cedar forest, their eyes burst out with a sharp light, and then they laughed excitedly.
"Tsk tsk, I really didn't expect it, we would actually meet an old man in this Forest of Death!" One of the Rain Ninja said sarcastically.
"That's right, that's right!" Another Rain Ninja echoed, and then looked at Kaoru: "An old man like you shouldn't learn from others to participate in the Chūnin Exams, the Chūnin Exams are very dangerous, go back to your nursing home!"
Their words were arrogant and presumptuous, as if Kaoru had already become the prey they had captured.
"Troublesome." Kaoru saw these three Rain Ninja who had suddenly appeared, and was too lazy to stop his body at all, he flipped his right hand, and directly took out three shurikens, and shot them towards these three Rain Ninja.
"Bang bang bang!!!" These three shurikens made a whistling sound of breaking through the air, and none of them were flying in a straight line, but instead drew strange arcs in the air.
"Puchi!" The speed of the shurikens was too fast, the three Rain Ninja couldn't dodge, and in addition to the erratic trajectory, they couldn't resist, so each of these three shurikens directly hit their ankles.
The three Rain Ninja, who had just been arrogant and domineering, felt pain in their right feet, and all fell from the tree.
"Damn it, you hateful old man....."
The three Rain Ninja were both shocked and pained, and were about to curse this old man who had popped out of nowhere, but they saw that there was no trace of the old man in front of them......
"He's already left, this old man is so fast..." The three Rain Ninja were completely stunned.
At this time, Kaoru had already darted out dozens of meters away, protecting Wan'er was important, there was no need to fuss with those shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
Of course, Kaoru didn't kill them either, he just took it as giving them a lesson.
After traveling several hundred meters further, Kaoru once again discovered something unusual.
"Left front, there's quite a heavy killing intent!" Kaoru frowned, in this forest, being able to emit killing intent, I'm afraid not many people can do it!
You must know that when Sasuke and Sakura first met Orochimaru, just because Orochimaru emitted a trace of killing intent, these two children's bodies were numb, and they trembled with fear and couldn't move, it was Sasuke who forcibly stabbed himself in the thigh, and used the pain to suppress the fear in his heart, before he escaped.
But this killing intent was much weaker compared to Orochimaru, and it seemed that it was not caused by Orochimaru.
In any case, Kaoru still decided to go over and check the situation.
"So that's how it is ah....." Arriving at the scene, Kaoru finally knew what was going on.
This was a grassy area in a forest, and the new generation of students from Konoha, except for Wan'er's team, were all here.
Naruto and Sasuke were unconscious on the ground, Lee and Sakura were also injured, and the Ino-Shika-Cho trio had worried faces.
In the field, apart from the Konoha's little strong ones, there were also the three guys from the Sound Village.
They triumphantly looked around at the Konoha ninjas, and while Naruto and Sasuke were unconscious, they easily defeated the other Konoha little strong ones, even Lee was defeated in their hands.
"I remember there was this scene in the original story, after Orochimaru gave Sasuke the curse mark, he sent three Sound Ninjas to stimulate Sasuke to use the power of the curse mark." Thinking of this, Kaoru turned his head to look at Sasuke, who was still unconscious on the ground, and sure enough, he found three tadpole-shaped curse marks behind his neck.
"Orochimaru's first choice is still Sasuke, in that case, Orochimaru should be on his way to find Wan'er now......" Kaoru frowned tightly.
"Hmm? Another guy who's looking for death has come." The three guys from the Sound Ninja turned their heads to look at Kaoru, who was in the shadows.
"What, it's actually an old man." Dosu, one of the Sound Ninjas, saw the face of Kaoru who had suddenly appeared, raised his eyebrows, and immediately laughed.
"He's so old and he's still coming to participate in the Chūnin Exams, it seems that he's a waste with no talent for ninjutsu," Kin, one of the Sound Ninjas, laughed.
The little strong ones from Konoha on the side also had puzzled faces, they didn't expect that there would be such an old person participating in this Chūnin Exam.
"Strange, why have I never seen this old man before." The most intelligent Shikamaru among them thought this, he was a little suspicious of Kaoru, because he had no impression of this old man at all.
"Tell me which direction Orochimaru went," Kaoru, disguised as an old man, slowly walked into the field, and asked the three Sound Ninjas, his voice low and hoarse.
They were Orochimaru's subordinates, and maybe they knew Orochimaru's whereabouts, as long as he caught Orochimaru in advance, Wan'er would be safe.
"You old man, how would you know Orochimaru-sama?!" Zaku, one of the three Sound Ninjas, asked.
"Answer my question," Kaoru said faintly, as soon as he finished speaking, his figure had already appeared behind Dosu.
Dosu was horrified, because in just an instant, Kaoru had appeared behind him, and even his vision hadn't reacted, this terrifying speed had exceeded his understanding.
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