"Yay! Great! We've repelled the enemy once again!"
"Yeah, yeah, we're just too strong and awesome!"
...
Seeing that the enemy had retreated, the Konoha ninja cheered. Even Chiba cheered. Originally, winning would have required a lot of sacrifice, but now they won with almost no losses. How could everyone not be happy?
"Huff! Huff! Huff!..." Seeing that the Iwa ninja had retreated, Tianqi also started panting heavily, clearly showing that his energy expenditure was not as low as he had shown before.
"Father, are you alright?" Seeing her father panting heavily, Qianyu quickly stepped forward to support him.
"I'm fine. This body is really weak. I only used a few ninjutsu and stimulated my cells with lightning release, and the consumption is so great!" Tian Qi clenched his fist and felt that seven-tenths of his chakra had disappeared from his body. He was speechless.
He had only used a dozen or so ninjutsu, most of which were B-rank ninjutsu, yet he had almost exhausted all his chakra. If it were his real body, he could use hundreds of ninjutsu without any problem. Through this incident, Tianqi realized even more that his consciousness body really did not have the power to protect his family.
“It’s normal to be exhausted. You held off more than ten Jonin by yourself, which is already quite remarkable!” This time, Chiyu didn’t complain about her father anymore. Instead, she acknowledged his strength.
Such high-speed combat was something he had never experienced before. His father followed the path of prioritizing speed and believing that speed was the only way to break through defenses, while he followed the path of using brute force to overcome all other methods. Their paths were different, and being able to see combat styles that were completely different from his own, Qianyu benefited a lot.
"Alright, there's no use talking about this now. Order everyone to quickly clean up the battlefield, leave a few people to defend, and the rest of you should retreat and rest for a day!" Tianqi said to the messenger next to him.
"Yes, I'll pass it on!" The messenger received Tianqi's order and went to deliver it.
"Qianyu, let's go back to camp and rest!"
The order was quickly passed down. After cleaning up the battlefield and leaving a dozen or so people to defend the area, Tianqi, Qianyu, and the other ninjas returned to the camp to rest.
Half a year passed quickly. Tianqi and his group of ninjas continued to defend the border against the ninjas of the Land of Earth. During this time, Konoha Village continued to send reinforcements to the border, and the positions of the dead ninjas were filled by replacements. Tianqi's force still consisted of about five hundred people.
Meanwhile, in the basement of Konoha Village, the true form of Ten-Tails has been restored for a full year since the Ten-Tails was activated. Even this half of Ten-Tails' true form is now invincible in the current ninja world.
At this moment, Chiba is 15 years old and is beginning to walk the path to 16. At the age of 15, he already has the strength of a Kage. It has to be said that Chiba's talent is indeed remarkable. If he were to awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan, the power of Wood Release combined with the Sharingan could directly push Chiba to the level of Super Kage.
Just a few days after the Lunar New Year, the border was unusually quiet for half a month due to the holiday. The Konoha ninjas, who were on the defensive, did not return to Konoha for the New Year, but continued to guard the border.
Tianqi was lying on his bed with his eyes closed, his face contorted in a grimace, and beads of sweat constantly dripping from his forehead. It was clear that he was dreaming, and it was a bad dream at that.
"No! No! No! Don't!" Tianqi cried out as he woke up from his dream.
"So it was all a dream!" Tianqi woke up to find himself resting in his room. He wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, then frowned. "I rarely dream. Usually, nightmares mean something bad is going to happen. This time, I even dreamt of my own death. Does that mean something is about to happen?"
After thinking for a long time, Tian Qi still couldn't figure it out. With his Shadow-level strength, he was practically unbeatable. Even if he encountered an opponent he couldn't defeat, he could escape quickly with his speed. He really couldn't understand why he would have such a death dream.
"This, this, this is!" Just then, Tian Qi suddenly had a strange feeling, and at the same time, he also discovered that the chakra in his body was slowly draining away.
"This situation only happened during my last battle with Hashirama Senju. Could it be that it's happening now...?" Thinking back to his last battle with Hashirama Senju, Tianqi finally understood what was going on.
"It seems that God is reminding me that it is time to face my destiny, hahaha..." After figuring it out, Tianqi burst into laughter. Of course, he knew what the fate of his consciousness was.
Tianqi woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep. He stared blankly at the woods and starry sky outside his window for the entire night.
After daybreak, Tianqi arrived at the camp's tactical command post. He sat in the main seat, his heart pounding unusually fast. Clearly, he was not prepared for the fate that was about to befall him. Even a person who had developed independent consciousness was still afraid of death.
"I never expected this day to come so soon. Maybe it will be today, maybe tomorrow, or maybe the day after tomorrow. I thought I still had a year to be with Qianyu, but now I don't even have a few days left. I really don't want to face this!" Tianqi said with a sigh as he sat down.
"Huh? Lord Tianqi, why are you here so early today?" Tanaka asked, somewhat surprised.
Tanaka, an elite Chunin, arrived at the tactical command post carrying a stack of documents. He was slightly surprised to see Tian Qi arrive so early, as Tian Qi usually wouldn't come until late afternoon. It was no surprise that he arrived before dawn.
"It's nothing, I just slept too much yesterday and got up early today. How are things, Tanaka? Any intelligence from the front lines?" Tianqi looked up and asked Tanaka.
"Not for now. Everyone's been busy celebrating the New Year for the past two weeks, and there's absolutely nothing going on at the front lines. The border is eerily calm!" Tanaka spread his hands and shrugged helplessly.
The border, which had been constantly embroiled in conflict, suddenly fell completely silent. How could it not be eerily quiet?
"Is it eerily calm? The New Year has been over for several days now. It's best to be careful lately. Who knows, the Iwa ninja might suddenly launch a surprise attack!" Tianqi said, half-jokingly and half-seriously.
“That’s true. The New Year is over now, so we should be more careful. Let’s send a notification to the ninjas on the front lines to remind them!” Tanaka nodded and said.
"Okay, go and give them a heads-up!" Tianqi waved his hand and agreed, since Qianyu was also on the front lines, it would be good for him to give her a heads-up.
Having obtained Tianqi's consent, Tanaka immediately went down to send a messenger ninja to inform the Konoha people at the front lines.
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