"Is this the 'Bear Abyss'? It is indeed a very rare natural barrier, but if the Fourth Hoshikage wants to rely on this place to resist us, it is too naive!"

Guan Liyuan was amazed at the canyon in front of him that was filled with miasma and poisonous gas and stretched for an unknown length.

The Bear Abyss is an underground canyon that almost covers all the borders of the Bear Country...

Unless they fly over or quickly build a bridge, even with gas masks, ordinary ninjas can't last long in the poisonous gas in this canyon.

Of course, a small number of ninjas can use ropes to pass through, but when the two armies are facing each other, ropes are obviously not very reliable...

Since the Warring States Period, the Bear Country has relied on the Bear Abyss to establish its country, so that the surrounding countries dare not invade.

However, it is also restricted by the "Bear Abyss" and it is difficult to fight against foreign countries. Once the supply line is cut off by the enemy country, the army outside will lose all support from its own country...

But the Star Ninjas are not subject to this restriction-because they can fly!

Legend has it that in the Warring States Period, when the Ninja Village had not yet appeared, a meteorite fell in the Bear Country. A Ninja from the Bear Country discovered the special effect of this meteorite, which was to practice next to the meteorite and use the power of the meteorite to activate the chakra violently...

and then possessed almost materialized star chakra that could be used as a weapon and turned into wings!

After the Warring States Period was ended by Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, and the Ninja Village Era began, this Ninja from the Bear Country also established the Star Hidden Village and named himself the first "Star Shadow". The

Star Ninja, who can fly for a short time, is a good match for the natural dangers of the Bear Abyss, and soon became an allied Ninja Village of the Bear Country.

Because of the special geographical advantages and relatively strong strength, the arrogant behavior of self-proclaimed "shadow" has not been sanctioned.

Although the strength of the so-called first generation of Star Shadow is far from that of the real first generation of the Five Shadows, due to the geographical advantages of the Bear Country, this region was also in a relatively stable and peaceful environment during the Warring States Period, so it accumulated a lot of mid-level combat power...

and the so-called "first generation of Star Shadow" was just a shout, and there was actually no sign of activity outside the Bear Country, so no one paid attention to him.

The "meteor" that can activate chakra did attract the attention of many ninja villages for a period of time...

But after getting the information about Konoha from Orochimaru, Guan Liyuan also understood why no one had bothered him!

Although the Star Hidden Village is not as good as the five major ninja villages, its strength can also be ranked in the second-rate. The smaller ninja villages are not its opponents at all, and the five major ninja villages know the side effects of the so-called "meteor".

The great activation of chakra is not so easy. Using external forces to forcibly achieve this goal will cause the practitioner's body to suffer a great backlash...

This is different from what Guan Liyuan saw in the animation... It seems that all the original parts of the animation are similar to the actual situation only in general, but there will be many differences in details!

After becoming Genin, Chunin, and Jonin, the ninjas of the Hidden Star Village will undergo the "Star Trial" around the "Falling Star". The Star Ninjas who have completed the Genin Trial can become extremely strong elite Genin, and the same is true for Chunin and Jonin. Legend has it that there is also the strongest "Final Trial", but there have been very few people who have passed it since ancient times...

The cost of the "Star Trial" is also very obvious, that is, the chakra of the unsuccessful trial will be strengthened, but it will never be improved.

The side effects for the successful ones are even more serious. According to the information of Konoha from Orochimaru, the five major ninja villages have long discovered that the average life expectancy of the ninjas of the Hidden Star Village is very low, and the probability of "sudden death" is extremely high...

The more powerful the Star Ninja, the more inexplicable their death...

Konoha once sent the Hyuga clan ninjas to explore and found that the bodies of all the Star Ninjas were eroded by special chakras to varying degrees!

Therefore, although the five major ninja villages are powerful, they are not very interested in the "Falling Star".

After all, in their view, the so-called "power of the stars" is just equivalent to a special bloodline limit with great side effects.

Just "the chakra of those who fail the trial will no longer be able to increase" is unacceptable to the five major ninja villages...

For this reason, there are a lot of Genin in the Hidden Star Village. According to the information Guan Liyuan has, there are only more than 30 Chunin among the nearly 1,000 ninjas in the Hidden Star Village... On the contrary, the proportion of Jonin is not small. Including the fourth generation of star ninjas who have just come to power, there are a total of six!

This proportion is the result of more than ten years of stable development under the cultivation policy of the third generation of star shadows, otherwise it would be lower!

Guan Liyuan remembered that in the animation, after the third generation of star shadows was assassinated by the hardliners in the village, the leader of the rebels was only nominally acting as a star shadow... But according to what he knows now, the Hidden Star Village already has a formal fourth generation of star shadows in power!

Before, he arrogantly cut off the arm of the envoy of the Hidden Star Village, and even clamored that the alliance was okay, but the Hidden Star Village must worship the fourth generation of star shadows as the leader... This particularly angered Guan Liyuan.

"Advisor Guan, we have calculated that the length and height of the siege bridge we brought are enough to cross the Bear Abyss! After that, as long as we and the Second Generation Four, wearing chakra armor, fly to the opposite side and occupy the holding point, we can build a bridge to let the large army pass!" Huanyoumaru reported to Guan Liyuan.

This time, Guan Liyuan led Huanyoumaru, Jūgo, and the Second Generation Cursed Four, who were imitated by Orochimaru using the genetic data of the Four. There were a total of six ninjas with the strength of Jonin, fifty ninjas with the strength of Chunin, of which thirty-five were Chunin with cursed seals or special physical abilities, and fifteen Chunin from the Taketori clan. There were

also three hundred Genin troops composed of Hara-Oto-nin, Ta-nin, a small number of specially summoned Taki-nin, Snow-nin, and a mess of ninjas from the small ninja villages that had formed an alliance...

In addition, there was Fu who might not obey orders.

The reason why they brought along a few Taki ninjas who were not very strong in combat, as well as the snow ninjas who could not use ice escape after leaving the Snow Country, and the ninjas from the small villages, was undoubtedly to demonstrate the strength of the alliance and enhance their sense of identity with the alliance.

With the technical support of the Snow Ninja Village, the portable siege bridge that can cross the "Bear Abyss" has long been built. It looks like several large siege equipment vehicles, but once the carriages are unfolded, they will form a temporary bridge...

It is much more stable than ropes, and the efficiency of passage is much higher!

In addition, they also brought several sets of chakra armor. If the Star Ninjas think that they are the only ones who can fly, they will probably die miserably!

"Wait a minute, we will rest here for a day. If the opponent wants to defend here, we will fight the Star Ninjas here... If they don't dare to do it here, we will push the front line directly over tomorrow." Guan Liyuan said confidently.

In the terrain of "Bear Abyss", it is obvious that the defending party has the advantage.

However, Guan Liyuan is confident that he has a great advantage with the flying dragon riding on his face, and he is ready to completely crush the opponent when the Star Ninjas have the most objective advantage!

The Star Ninjas, who are used to being so arrogant, will have a greater chance of surrendering, and will also have the strongest deterrent effect on other ninja villages that have not yet joined the alliance!

In fact, the perception ninjas who were exploring the surroundings have already discovered that many ninjas from other ninja villages are lurking around at this time. There are not many of them, and they have no intention of getting involved in the battle. Obviously, all parties are paying attention to the result of the battle between the Northern Alliance and the Star Village...

Guan Liyuan's goal is no longer to win, but to win beautifully and deter the northern countries in one fell swoop!

After discovering the actions of the Northern Alliance, the Star Ninjas will naturally not have no reaction. If they are so timid, they will not have the previous arrogant behavior.

Since more than half a month ago, Tianyin Village began to recruit ninjas, and the Star Ninja Village also shrank its strength...

On the afternoon of the day when Guan Liyuan arrived at "Xiongzhiyuan", the number of Star Ninjas, which is almost twice the number of the Alliance Army, appeared opposite Xiongzhiyuan...

"There are really a lot of them..." Guan Liyuan said.

"Indeed, Advisor Guan, this should be the peak period of Star Ninjas!" Huan Youwan always followed Guan Liyuan, looking very adoring of him.

Guan Liyuan also understood the reason why the Star Ninja's strength had increased dramatically recently...

Compared with the previous two generations of hard-line Star Kages, the previous three generations of Star Kages were much more conciliatory. During his tenure, he abolished the rule that all Star Ninjas must be forced to undergo the "Star Trial" and made public the side effects of the "Star Trial".

Therefore, the number of Star Ninjas increased significantly during the tenure of the three generations of Star Kages... However, there were very few ninjas who underwent the "Star Trial", and they were all ordinary ninjas.

More than a year ago, the Third Hoshikage died suddenly. After the hard-line Red Star came to power, he has been advocating theories of bullying and threats, making the Star Ninjas believe that the title of "Hoshikage" is not recognized by the five major countries, which is an outrageous act of contempt. He claimed that all countries are eyeing the Bear Country, the Hidden Star Village, and the "Meteorite", and they can't help but want to describe the situation as being surrounded by enemies... Under

his instigation, the Hidden Star Village, which had been silent for a long time during the reign of the Third Hoshikage, has once again become very visible, and the number of ninjas who have undergone the "Trial of the Stars" has continued to improve. A few months ago, Red Sun completely abolished the policies of the Third Hoshikage, officially came to power as the Fourth Hoshikage, and began to force all ninjas to take the "Trial of the Stars" again.

The three previous generations of Star Shadows had been recuperating for more than ten years, accumulating the number of ordinary ninjas, and transformed them into real "Star Ninjas" with stronger combat power...

Although according to Guan Liyuan's thinking logic, after converting the income of the upper, middle and lower ninja tasks, this behavior of reducing the lifespan of the middle and upper ninjas is undoubtedly a "loss", but from the perspective of combat power, it is indeed the peak of the strength of the Star Ninjas in history...

Even without Guan Liyuan's active attack, Hongxing would probably be actively exaggerating, otherwise if he continued to "lose" like this, he would soon ruin the foundation left by the third generation.

Originally, Konoha's deterrence against the north made him dare not act rashly, but Uchiha Itachi's unexpected rise to power also gave Hongxing an opportunity...

"Then at this peak, let's smash their pride in one breath!" Guan Liyuan said, staring at the Star Ninja opposite.