Now, with the Shadow Clone's Chakra returning, Ling's Chakra level has also recovered to the Jonin level, and is still continuously recovering.
Curse Power is also accelerating its recovery due to the restoration of mental energy, under the transformation of the Sharingan, and will be full again in no time.
This is also related to Ling only using physical strength to travel, maintaining the recovery of cellular energy. Now, with abundant cellular and mental energy, he can extract Chakra for replenishment at any time.
Even when only using physical strength to travel, Ling was ahead of the Anbu Ninja, which shows that the Anbu Ninja's strength was somewhat lacking. After several major battles, they also had little Chakra left.
Ling then sped up and moved to the middle of the pursuit team, planning to see if he could give Danzo a chance to escape.
At this time, Danzo was not in good shape. One of his arms was cut off by Ling, and after a long period of running, Danzo was now at the end of his rope, his face pale, and cold sweat constantly breaking out.
"Lord Danzo, we are almost at the border. Where do we break through?"
The accompanying Root Elite Jonin was also very concerned about Danzo's condition at this time, but awed by Danzo's long-standing authority, he dared not ask out loud.
"Hmph! Hiruzen must have arranged for Ninja at the border defense line to intercept me at all times. We must constantly change direction before reaching the border line, so they cannot figure out our breakthrough point in advance."
Danzo knew Hiruzen Sarutobi too well, just as Hiruzen Sarutobi knew him well. At this point, he was confident that he could successfully break through.
Hiruzen Sarutobi's face was extremely solemn at this time. Their communication method to notify the border defense Ninja was not as convenient as Danzo's method of notifying the Root Ninja.
This meant that they might not have enough time to gather a large number of border defense Ninja to intercept Danzo, which was undoubtedly bad news.
"Lord Third, I sensed a Flying Thunder God Mark placed at the border outpost. I can go to the border ahead of time to gather Ninja, and perhaps we can intercept Danzo."
Minato Namikaze naturally placed many Flying Thunder God Marks in the Land of Fire, but most of them would become invalid over time.
Because most of his marks were placed on rocks or large trees, they would become invalid due to rock weathering or other reasons.
Flying Thunder God Marks on trees were similar; they would become invalid as the trees grew and the marks became twisted and deformed. For example, insect infestation or tree decay would also cause such results.
"Go, Minato! I'll handle things here."
The Third Hokage was also desperate; he had little confidence in catching Danzo.
The defection of such a close person was absolutely fatal, especially the defection of Danzo, a Konoha elder with great power, which was no less than an internal rebellion in the Village.
Minato Namikaze split into three Shadow Clones, instructing them to notify him of Danzo's escape route. Having a communication toad made things convenient.
As for why there were three, first, it was to deal with special circumstances, in case a Shadow Clone was broken. Second, if the communication toad couldn't use the Reverse Summoning Technique in time, then the Shadow Clones could disperse themselves to transmit information.
Minato Namikaze left using the Flying Thunder God Technique, leaving only one Kage-level expert in the pursuit team.
A Village's Kage personally leaving the Village to pursue someone showed how weak the Village had become. Apart from Jiraiya and Minato, the Third Hokage probably couldn't find any other Kage-level experts he could command.
Orochimaru was busy with experiments and incorporating the Root's legacy. Tsunade simply didn't want to deal with Hiruzen Sarutobi. Uchiha Chiri completely ignored the Hokage.
If Sakumo Hatake were still alive, Danzo probably wouldn't have escaped far before being cut down by the White Fang. Unfortunately, the Third Hokage and Danzo were responsible for that tragedy.
Sasori of the Red Sand felt very unlucky. He was in a small city in a small country, completing his greatest art, the Third Kazekage Human Puppet.
But for some reason, Sunagakure began searching for his location, and he was relentlessly pursued by Sunagakure Anbu, which was extremely annoying.
It made him think that his grandmother, Chiyo, had died, and no one in Sunagakure was protecting him anymore, so he was being purged to establish authority.
He never even considered the Third Kazekage, because at the time, he did it very secretly, choosing a very remote location, and no third person knew about it.
Because it was a poisoning assassination, it didn't cause much commotion, and it was naturally easy to clear traces in the desert.
He believed that what he did was flawless and impossible to be discovered, at most he would only be considered a suspect.
So he didn't want to cause trouble and began to change his location. As a result, he was actually pursued by Sunagakure Anbu along the way. Although he was a puppet master genius, due to his age, his strength had not yet reached Kage-level.
In a crisis, he had no choice but to use the Third Kazekage Human Puppet to fight. Once used, he naturally had to silence witnesses. However, because it was his first time controlling the Third Kazekage Human Puppet, one person managed to escape.
He knew at that moment that he was in trouble, so he quickly fled that small country and headed towards the Land of Fire. He believed that Sunagakure would not dare to harass the Land of Fire's border.
As for why it was the Land of Fire, it was because the two great Ninja Villages of the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning actually sent Anbu to pursue him as well.
For more than a month, he had been on the run, but he still hadn't shaken off the three groups behind him, only able to run for his life.
He also tried to make the three groups collide, letting them fight among themselves, but it only succeeded once.
That time, it caused heavy casualties for them, but not long after, the three parties seemed to tacitly begin cooperating, seemingly intending to cooperate to catch him first.
In reality, Iwagakure and Kumogakure put pressure on Sunagakure, which ultimately led to this result, and Sunagakure had no choice but to accept it reluctantly.
However, what angered Sasori the most was that Kumogakure and Iwagakure actually dared to openly recruit him, and at the same time declared that the Iwagakure (Kumogakure) Anbu pursuing him were actually disguised enemy Ninja.
Later, he learned that these two shameless Ninja Villages disguised themselves as each other's Anbu to pursue him, while also announcing to the Ninja World that they were recruiting him.
If he couldn't defeat their group, he would have wanted to kill them all and turn them into Human Puppets. After being pursued for about two months, he was also extremely annoyed.
Although the Ninja World also knew his name because of this, Sasori of the Red Sand's prestige spread throughout the Ninja World.
Although it was a bad reputation, because the entire Ninja World knew that he had killed his Village's Kage and even made him into a Human Puppet.
Sasori of the Red Sand was extremely angry about exposing his murder of the Third Kazekage. At first, he didn't know which bastard had spied on him killing the Third Kazekage, leading to his pursuit.
Later, he controlled the Sunagakure Anbu through genjutsu and then learned that it was Orochimaru, that bastard, who sold the information about him killing the Third Kazekage.
So Orochimaru was also on his hit list, although he didn't know how Orochimaru discovered that he had killed the Third Kazekage.
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