Chapter 350: Hyuga Branch Evacuation

Afterwards, after removing the "bird in a cage" curse from the twenty-two Hyuga branches, Seiji's shadow clone disbanded on its own initiative.

This scene gave a strong shot of adrenaline to Hyuga Mukai and other Hyuga branches present. Although they were gambling with their future, it was obvious that they had won the bet and had earned a return rate of several hundred percent!

The fact that he could use a shadow clone to easily remove the "Bird in a Cage" curse that their branch family had been studying privately for who knows how long, all shows how terrifyingly powerful the Fourth Mizukage, who was much more low-key than the other Kages in the ninja world, was...!

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So, under Qingji's arrangement, when almost all the attention of Konoha Village was on the Chunin Exam, the twenty-two White Zetsu clones used the "disguise technique" to transform themselves into the appearance of the Hyuga branch family, and replaced them to continue their activities in the Hyuga clan's territory.

The twenty-two Hyuga clan members were wrapped in another White Zetsu clone and used the "Mayfly Technique" to pass through the Konoha barrier silently without being noticed, and then quickly headed towards the eastern coast of the Land of Fire...!

Waiting there was the Kirigakure Anbu team led by Anbu Chief Ken himself.

Although with the help of White Zetsu's clone, there would basically not be any major problems with this evacuation, but in order to prevent any unexpected situations, Qingsi still gave the Anbu the task of coming to support them.

The speed of "Mayfly Technique" is extremely fast. Before long, White Zetsu's clone connected with the sword and other members of the Mist Hidden Anbu who came to support him.

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"Hello!" Bai Zetsu's slightly frivolous tone lingered in Jian's ears, while at the same time channeling chakra into the Yin-Yang escape mark left by Qing Si on his body, "Master Qing Si ordered us to transport these people here!"

Jian was initially shocked when he heard Bai Zetsu's voice. He didn't expect that someone could get close to them quietly. You know, the two elite Anbu teams he led have strong perception abilities.

But soon he let down his guard a little when he heard White Zetsu calling out Qingsi's name. After that, he saw the figures of a group of White Zetsu emerging from the ground, and clearly sensed the unique and inimitable chakra mark of his own Mizukage on the body of the leading White Zetsu. Only then did he completely believe that these White Zetsu clones were actually their own people from Kirigakure!

It suddenly dawned on him that this was the great helper that his own Mizukage-sama had mentioned to him when he gave him the task...!

Only then did he finally realize why Qingsi told him not to be nervous and to relax...!

As the head of the Anbu and also a sword of the Kirigakure high-ranking officials, he certainly knew about White Zetsu who first appeared with Uchiha Madara, and Seiji had also informed them, the Kirigakure high-ranking officials, about White Zetsu's abilities before.

Therefore, Jian is very clear about how powerful White Zetsu's abilities are in camouflage, stealth, etc., and with the help of White Zetsu, their rendezvous mission this time is really just "rendezvous"...!

Although Jian didn't know when his own Mizukage had instigated or subdued the White Zetsu who originally belonged to Uchiha Madara, but as a qualified subordinate from the Anbu, he would not take the initiative to explore these extra secrets. After all, in the Hidden Mist Village, Qingsi would never conceal the information that he should know and was allowed to know...!

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After handing over the sword, these White Zetsu clones immediately left and returned to Loulan. After all, the meeting point here was not far from the eastern coastline of the Land of Fire, and the White Zetsu clones would not play a big role in the subsequent return to the Land of Water and even the Hidden Mist Village by water.

Therefore, under Seiji's arrangement, these White Zetsu clones would immediately return to Loulan and continue searching for Uchiha Madara's hiding place after sending the Hyuga branches to the Kirigakure Anbu who came to support them. After all, Seiji had not originally expected that as many as twenty-two Hyuga branches would choose to escape from Konoha to Kirigakure with Hyuga Mukai.

You have to know that there are not many White Zetsu clones at this time. In fact, the number of White Zetsu clones is not even a fraction of the 100,000 White Zetsu that appeared in the Fourth Ninja World War in the original future...!

After all, these White Zetsu clones were only used to collect intelligence from all over the Ninja World when Uchiha Madara was sleeping in the underground base. With the ability of White Zetsu, a number of just over a hundred was enough to complete the collection of intelligence from all over the Ninja World, so Uchiha Madara did not deliberately "cultivate" many of them at that time.

Although Black Zetsu, who was in the dark at that time, wanted to awaken more White Zetsu to help realize the plan of saving his mother that spanned a thousand years, he was helpless. Without the cooperation of Uchiha Madara or the Rinnegan, Black Zetsu could not awaken more White Zetsu from the body of the Outer Path Statue.

In addition, over the years, a lot of White Zetsu clones had been lost in the hands of the Hidden Mist Village or Seiji, so when Seiji "took over" White Zetsu from Uchiha Madara, there were only a little over a hundred left...!

Therefore, the twenty-two White Zetsu clones used to stay in Konoha Village to perform the "disguise technique" plus the twenty-two White Zetsu clones used to escort the Hyuga branches out of Konoha, now there are forty-four White Zetsu clones, which is almost half of the total number of White Zetsu clones. This makes Loulan a little stretched, and the progress of searching for Uchiha Madara has slowed down suddenly...!

Although Loulan's land area is not very large, Uchiha Madara is hiding too deeply, and his whereabouts are not easy to find. Moreover, with his strength, if he wants to hide deliberately, ordinary ninjas can't find him at all. Therefore, for White Zetsu, he can only conduct a carpet search inch by inch of land until he finds the barrier set up by Uchiha Madara to isolate perception and chakra aura...!

It is for this reason that these twenty-two White Zetsu clones are of great help in improving the efficiency of searching for Uchiha Madara's specific location in Loulan.

As a result, these White Zetsu clones immediately returned to Loulan after completing the orders given by Qing Si.

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As for those Hyuga branches, of course there is no need to worry too much. On the one hand, most of Konoha's attention and defense forces have been directed to Konoha Village where the Five Kage have gathered at the request of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

This gave the Hidden Mist Village an opportunity to fish in troubled waters, which was also the reason why Seiji chose to have the Hyuga branch evacuate Konoha at this point in time.

On the other hand, there are still those Hyuga branches "impersonated" by White Zetsu's clones active in Konoha Village, and the Konoha side, whether it is the insight of the Byakugan or other ways of perception, does not have the ability to distinguish White Zetsu's "disguise technique".

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(In the original work, during the Fourth Ninja World War, the Inuzuka clan's sense of smell, the Aburame clan's sense of insects, and the Byakugan's insight were all unable to distinguish the White Zetsu who used the "Disguise Technique" to transform into the Ninja Alliance. They could only rely on their familiarity with each other's teammates to barely distinguish them. After all, the White Zetsu could only copy the opponent's appearance, ninjutsu, and chakra aura by absorbing the opponent's chakra, but could not copy the opponent's memory.)