Chapter 126 A powerful opponent

"Chouji is wearing five centimeters thick armor." Shikamaru explained patiently. Ino grumbled a few words in dissatisfaction and turned to seek help from Choji, but the boy from the Akimichi family just smiled and shook his head.

"Okay, okay." She compromised, shifted the spear to her other hand, and lifted the top of her silk armor. Shikamaru walked forward and checked the bruise below her ribs. The wound was still blood-red, but it was slowly turning purple. He quickly made a few seals, and light green chakra flowed out of his hand, gently pressing on her wound.

Ino took a breath lightly but did not dodge. After a while, the chakra penetrated into her skin and the redness on the wound slowly faded, finally turning into a light purple. She finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, Shikamaru."

"You're welcome." Shikamaru said, changing the subject. "Well, let's go. We have to find another team before dark."

The more you fear something, the more it will come to pass. The next team they encountered was Ya and his group.

"I'm so unlucky!" Ya roared in dissatisfaction and punched the tree trunk beside him, leaving a deep dent.

"I feel insulted," Shino drawled, his hands in the pockets of his steel jacket. "We had fifteen choices, and those guys just ran around like scared rabbits."

"You haven't caught anyone yet?" Ino jumped onto a branch, stood next to Hinata and asked.

Hinata shook her head.

"No, we did encounter a team, but they didn't have the scroll we wanted."

"So are we." Choji said. "Did you see those three guys? They are the three guys we met at the beginning."

Ya shook his head.

"No, they ran away as soon as they saw us, and we haven't seen them since."

"Have you already got the two Scrolls of Heaven?" Shikamaru interrupted him. Shino raised his eyebrows when he heard this, then took out two Scrolls of Heaven from his jacket pocket and waved them in front of them.

Shikamaru also pulled out the Scroll of Earth they had found from his hip pocket.

The corners of Shino's mouth twitched slightly, revealing a faint smile - this was already a very bright smile for him.

"Swap, Shikamaru?"

Shikamaru said nothing as he threw the scroll into the air, and Shino threw theirs as well.

"Great!" Ya caught the Scroll of Earth and said excitedly.

Shikamaru caught the Scroll of Heaven firmly with both hands and happily tossed it back and forth.

"Thank you, Shikamaru." Hinata said sincerely. "This should help us save a lot of-"

At this moment, a powerful chakra wave suddenly descended, interrupting Hinata's words. The branches under their feet shook violently, and angry energy surged in the air, unstoppable.

The chaotic energy is eerie.

Sakura's chakra was surging like a river, Sasuke's chakra was hot like a flame, and Naruto's chakra was violent like a storm. At this moment, these three kinds of chakra were wrapped and twisted by another force. This reminded Shikamaru of the bottles and jars in his mother's room, which contained various medicines and poisons, some natural, some synthetic, and some extremely toxic.

This force is too strong to appear in this exam. There must be something wrong.

"Shikamaru!" Ino shouted, and Shikamaru's brain instantly came back to work. He turned around and said to Kiba:

"Ya, can you trace the source of this chakra?!"

Kiba nodded quickly and unzipped his jacket, motioning for Akamaru to hop down and sniff the air, which shouldn't be hard considering the chakra still permeated the air.

Akamaru growled and ran off in a certain direction, followed closely by the six others.

Because no matter who they are, no matter how strong the other party is, as long as they dare to attack their companions, they will definitely regret it.

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It all happened so fast that Sasuke didn't even see who the enemy was or where the attack came from before he was knocked away by a huge force.

One second ago, they were still leaping through the dense canopy of trees, having already found five scrolls, with less than eighteen hours until the exam began, and they had easily avoided all traps and enemies.

The next second, Naruto pounced on him, one arm tightly wrapped around his waist. He heard something whizzing past his head at an incredibly fast speed. He could even feel the air flow almost brushing his scalp.

They fell heavily to the ground, tumbling several times on the huge branches of Konoha's legendary Bodhi tree - this tree was huge and sacred, containing an ancient power, and it was this power that made the entire forest full of danger.

Sakura jumped down from the tree without hesitation. Apparently, she saw something they didn't, because her hands were already forming seals quickly. As she pounced towards the two of them, she used her other hand to grab the branch to steady herself.

"Water Escape·Water Formation Wall!"

A stream of emerald green water gushed out from the air above her head, dyed dark green by the chakra around the Bodhi tree, forming a huge sphere that tightly wrapped them inside. Just before a spell was about to hit them, the water wall instantly hardened and burned the surrounding branches.

"What the hell?!" Naruto roared. They jumped up without hesitation and the three children of Team 7 stood back to back, forming a triangle formation. Chakra surged in their young bodies, rubbing against each other and making crackling sounds of electric sparks. Mixed with the chakra of the Bodhi tree, the air was filled with the smell of ozone.

"Oh my..." A low and greasy voice sounded, with a hint of teasing. The water array wall dissipated, and Sasuke could see the enemy's appearance clearly. He saw a figure standing on a straight branch not far away. It was a pale-skinned guy with long black hair and a bamboo hat on his head.

"I have to admit that your performance just now was indeed impressive. Even I may not be able to do better than you."

"That was a ninja from the Hidden Kusagakure Village." Sakura lowered her voice and said to Sasuke, who felt Naruto shake his head.

"Impossible, I've seen that woman from Kusagakure before, and this isn't her chakra."

Sasuke stared at the figure in the tree. The ninja from the Hidden Grass Village stood straight, his eyes hidden in the shadow of his hat, and his arms hung limply at both sides of his body like two overcooked udon noodles.

"You three are very talented..." The strange voice rang out again, and the figure slowly raised his hands and put them together, as if to express appreciation, but his movements were very strange and the angles of his joints were not right. Sasuke suddenly felt a chill running down his spine to his forehead.

A pair of snake-like eyes appeared, narrow and cold, flashing with yellow light. Sasuke suddenly felt creepy, as if a cold nitrogen gas was poured into his stomach, making him unable to move.

For a moment, he even forgot where he was and who he was. All that was left was the fear that penetrated deep into his bones, which tightly gripped his heart and made him unable to move like a mouse being stared at by a poisonous snake.