Chapter 10: Old Site

In the family training ground of the Kusa Chi clan, two figures, one large and one small, were fighting rapidly.

"Earth Style Yellow Spring Swamp" Kusa Chi Liu Yu shouted, and Kusa Chi Yu in front of her had already fallen into the swamp.

After a successful attack, Kusa Chi Liu Yu did not relax her vigilance. Kusa Chi Yu on the opposite side made a seal and shouted: "Grass Style, Thousand Leaf Binding". The swamp that had just trapped Kusa Chi Yu began to grow a lot of grass leaves, and then the grass leaves pulled Kusa Chi Yu out of the swamp.

"You can actually use this ninjutsu that is used to bind the enemy like this!" Kusa Chi Liu Yu suppressed her surprise and immediately changed her seal with both hands to "Grass Style Thousand Leaf Extreme Killing"

Countless sharp leaves separated from the main body and shot towards Kusa Chi Yu with a faint chakra light.

"Grass Style Thousand Leaf Shield" Kusa Chi Yu calmly made a seal to defend.

"It's not over yet!" Kusa Chi Liu Yu immediately changed her seal after performing the Thousand Leaf Extreme Killing.

"Grass Style, Extreme Spear Break" Kusa Chi Liu Yu stretched out a hand and pointed directly at Kusa Chi Yu, and rushed forward at high speed. During Kusa Chi Liu Yu's forward charge, dozens of leaves of grass emerged from the hand she pointed at Kusa Chi Yu, and these dozens of leaves of grass quickly intertwined and woven into a grass spear. The entire grass spear exuded a deep blue chakra light, and rushed towards the Qianye Liu Shield that Kusa Chi Yu had just formed with the momentum of breaking through thousands of troops.

With a bang, Kusa Chi Liu Yu successfully broke the Qianye Liu Shield that Kusa Chi Yu had hastily cast, and stabbed Kusa Chi Yu. To be precise, it was Kusa Chi Yu's shadow clone.

This 'Grass Style, Extreme Spear Break' is a ninjutsu that Kusa Chi Liu Yu learned from the secret scroll of grass style in the family. Focusing chakra on the tip of the grass spear created by grass style, and charging at high speed at the same time, with a single point to hit the surface, with extremely strong penetrating power and illusion-breaking power. The single-target attack power is much stronger than the range attack ninjutsu such as Qianye Extreme Kill, and it is a move specifically used to break defense.

"Yes, Liu Yu, you can defeat my shadow clone now, which means that your strength has improved to a considerable level. You can start practicing bamboo escape, and it's time to take you there." Cao Qianyu said with satisfaction after watching Cao Qian Liu Yu's performance.

"Can I finally start practicing bamboo escape! But where is that place?" Cao Qian Liu Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead, thinking in surprise and confusion. Before, Cao Qian Yu always said that the time was not right, and he needed to master the grass escape thoroughly. Now his strength has reached Cao Qian Yu's requirements, but where is that mysterious place?

Looking at the direction that Cao Qian Yu was taking him, Cao Qian Liu Yu finally couldn't help but ask in confusion:

"Father, didn't you say that you would take me to a mysterious place to practice bamboo escape? But isn't this direction going to the family's ancestral hall?"

While he was wondering, Cao Qian Yu had already brought him to the front of the ancestral hall. However, he did not answer Kusa Chi Liu Yu's question, but explained to the black stone wall:

"This black stone wall is called the 'Black Stone Boundary Monument'. It is a special door and a treasure passed down from generation to generation in the family. The blood of the second bloodline awakener in the family can open this door." Kusa Chi Yu paused here.

"Remember, Liu Yu, the seals to open this door are Wei, You, Chen, Wu, and Mao. I will teach you how to open the 'Black Stone Boundary Monument' today." After saying this, Kusa Chi Liu Yu formed a seal to summon the grass leaf that opened the Black Stone Boundary Monument, cut his fingertips with a shuriken, and dripped his own blood.

Kusa Chi Liu Yu carefully wrote down the seals, but she felt a sense of inexplicable uneasiness from the bottom of her heart.

As the hole in the center of the black stone wall slowly expanded, in a burst of white light, Kusa Chi Yu and his daughter once again passed the Black Stone Boundary Monument and came to the original ancestral temple space.

"It is said that this ancestral temple space was created by our ancestor Cao Qian Lanyi. After awakening the second bloodline, the members of the Cao Qian clan can come to this space through the black stone boundary monument.

In this space, various forbidden techniques and secrets collected and developed by the clan members of the family for generations are stored. At the same time, it can also detect whether the clan members have the ability to open the second bloodline, which is the white jade stone pillar you saw when I brought you here last time." Cao Qianyu was still explaining there.

"But these are not the focus of bringing you here today. The focus is on the mysterious place we are going to next." Cao Qianyu finally got to the point. As he said that, he came to a stone wall: "But you need to take something before leaving." Cao Qianyu made a seal to open the stone wall and took out a scroll.

"The seal to leave this space is the opposite of the seal to open it, which is the five seals of Mao, Wu, Chen, You, and Wei." After saying that, Cao Qianyu began to make a seal again to summon Cao Ye, as if he was planning to leave here.

Last time, Cao Qian Liuyu fainted in the ancestral temple space, so she didn't know how to get out of this space. But what puzzled her now was not the way out, but what exactly did her father Cao Qianyu want to do? Why did he leave after just a while? And he just said he was going to that mysterious place, how to get there? Why did he come here before going?

With a burst of white light, Cao Qianliuyu and Cao Qianyu left the ancestral hall space. When Cao Qianliuyu was about to ask Cao Qianyu her questions, she was stunned, and a breath of desolation and vicissitudes came over her.

Looking at the surrounding environment, this seems to be the ancestral hall of the Kusanagi clan, but it is much more dilapidated, as if it has not been repaired for many years and has no people. Kusanagi Liuyu walked out of the dilapidated ancestral hall with doubts, and what came into view was a large group of dilapidated buildings. It is not difficult to infer from the huge dilapidated buildings that a large group of people once lived here. The gaps between the buildings and outside the buildings are full of various kinds of bamboo. The Kusanagi clan loves bamboo, and they planted a lot of bamboo in the family residence in the Grass Country of the Hidden Grass Village, but it still looks too thin compared to what is in front of them. The layers of withered yellow bamboo leaves in the courtyard indicate that this is an abandoned place.

Turning his head and looking at the plaque on the ancestral hall when he just came out, Kusanagi Liuyu formed a seal and performed a small wind escape ninjutsu. Blowing off the dust that had been deposited for many years, the logo below was revealed. Two bamboo leaves intersected, which was the emblem of the Kusanagi clan.

"Where is this?" Liuyu looked around with a puzzled look at everything around him that should have been strange but mixed with inexplicable familiarity.

"This is the old site of the Kusa Sen clan in the Land of Fire." Kusa Senyu walked out of the ancestral hall and explained to Kusa Senyu.

"Father, are you saying that we are in the Land of Fire now?" Kusa Senyu was even more confused

"Yes," Kusa Senyu responded.

"But, how could this be? Weren't we still in the Land of Grass just now?" Although he vaguely guessed the answer, Kusa Senyu still couldn't believe it. Only time-space ninjutsu can do this, but the Kusa Sen clan has nothing to do with time-space ninjutsu. Could it be the black stone boundary monument?

Seeing Kusa Chi Liu Yu's expression slowly change from doubt to understanding, Kusa Chi Yu said: "It seems that you have guessed it. Yes, we came to the Fire Country through the Black Stone Boundary Monument."

"It has been said before that the Black Stone Boundary Monument is the key to open the ancestral hall space, but there is more than one key. When the whole family moved, on the premise of ensuring that both black stone boundary monuments have the function of keys, the original black stone boundary monument was cut. One piece was moved to the Grass Country with the family and placed in the ancestral hall of the Grass Country, and the other piece was left here. So we can use the ancestral hall space as a transit point to quickly travel between the Grass Country station and the old site of the Fire Country." Kusa Chi Yu explained.

After speaking, Kusa Chi Yu handed the scroll he had just taken out of the ancestral hall space to Kusa Chi Liu Yu and then continued: "Bamboo escape rarely appears in the family history. The only records are the first generation of bamboo escape users, Lan Yi and your mother Kusa Chi Yu Na." When talking about 'Kusa Chi Yu Na', Kusa Chi Yu's face flashed a trace of unnoticeable hatred.

"What I just gave you is the family's secret bamboo escape scroll, which records some bamboo escape techniques and some insights of Lord Lan Yi and your mother when they practiced bamboo escape. I have nothing to teach you now, so the next practice will depend on you. How much you can comprehend and master is up to you."

Kusa Qianliuyu took the scroll and was thinking about how to practice next. Kusa Qianyu continued: "This is already in the territory of the Fire Country. Few people in the family know about the secret of the Black Stone Boundary Monument, so it is impossible for the top leaders of Kusagakure Village to know. So don't worry too much about someone coming here to disturb you. You can practice bamboo escape with confidence in the old site of the Fire Country family. So you can practice here alone for the next few days, and I will go back to the family to deal with some things." After saying that, Kusa Qianyu planned to leave.

Kusa Qianliuyu understood that she could not always live under her father's wings. She needed to grow up, and the young eagle under the wings could not soar in the sky. Therefore, she did not object, but bowed respectfully and said: "Father, take care."

After walking a few steps, Kusa Qianyu stopped. As if thinking about something, he made up his mind and turned around. He took off the Kusagakure forehead protector tied to his left arm and threw it to Kusanagi Liuyu. "Take it, you are already a mature ninja." After saying that, Kusanagi Liuyu did not look back.

Just as Liuyu was thinking about whether the sentence "You are already a mature ninja" had a deep meaning, Kusanagi Liuyu had disappeared.

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