Chapter 049: Voyage

After signing the contract in Kumogakure of the Land of Lightning, Wang Bo did not leave immediately but spent a few days wandering around the village.

He treated it as a sightseeing trip.

Work should be balanced with rest, after all.

He stayed in Kumogakure for about a week, during which he got to know many ninjas from the village. Aside from the Raikage A, the one who left the deepest impression on Wang Bo was his younger brother.

The Eight-Tails jinchuriki, Killer B, who loved rap.

Wang Bo had been dining at a restaurant in Kumogakure when he happened to encounter this Eight-Tails jinchuriki. Recognizing Wang Bo, the man immediately launched into a rap, his spittle nearly flying into Wang Bo's face.

Wang Bo had no choice but to quietly step back to avoid the spittle, but this also left him with a deep impression of Killer B, this goofball.

What made Wang Bo even more helpless was that after finishing his rap, Killer B asked, "How was it?"

"How was what?" Wang Bo was completely baffled, having no idea what the man was talking about.

Killer B swayed to the rhythm and said, "My rap, isn't it awesome!"

Wang Bo: ...

If it were someone else, out of consideration for the man being the Raikage's brother, they might have given insincere praise. But Wang Bo showed no such courtesy and replied bluntly, "It's really just average."

Before his transmigration, he had heard rap before.

Many people's raps were explosive, making Wang Bo's blood boil. In comparison, Killer B's rap was truly average.

Unsurprisingly, this comment dealt a heavy blow to Killer B.

This guy was the perfect Eight-Tails jinchuriki, able to fully control the Eight-Tails, with extremely formidable strength. He had once completed training at the Waterfall of Truth and defeated his own inner darkness.

Thus, he had a certain grasp of human hearts. Though he couldn't read minds, he had rich experience in discerning whether someone was telling the truth or lying.

But precisely because of this, he was deeply hurt.

Because he could tell that Wang Bo's words were not at all insincere; they were a genuine evaluation from the heart.

Was his rap really just average?

Killer B fell into a state of self-doubt, and soon after, he was pulled away by another ninja who suddenly appeared, Samui.

Probably his brother couldn't stand seeing him act foolish and had someone take him away.

After this little episode, Wang Bo stayed in Kumogakure for a few more days. After a full week, he set off, leaving Kumogakure and even the Land of Lightning, heading to other countries to continue expanding his business.

By now, he had visited four of the five great nations in the ninja world: the Land of Wind, the Land of Fire, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Lightning.

This time, Wang Bo planned to go to the last country.

The Land of Water!

However, on the way to the Land of Water, Wang Bo passed through several small countries and simply expanded his business along the way, eventually arriving at the seaside.

Next, he and the little brats with him would take a ship to the Land of Water.

The Land of Water was different from the other great nations. It was a large island nation, located overseas, not adjacent to the continent of this world.

For ninjas of the Land of Water to reach other countries, they had to take a ship. The same applied vice versa.

After arriving at the seaside, Wang Bo stayed for a day. The next day, he boarded a ship bound for the Land of Water, but along the way, he noticed a small incident.

On the third night of the voyage.

Wang Bo was sleeping when he suddenly felt the ship shake violently, as if it might capsize at any moment.

In fact, not only Wang Bo but all the other passengers noticed the problem.

Panic began to spread, and chaos erupted on the ship. Waking from his sleep, he stepped out of his cabin and saw a group of sailors trying to calm the frightened passengers.

"Please rest assured, we've only entered a storm zone. It's nothing serious."

"The captain is an experienced captain. He will surely lead us safely through the storm zone."

"Please trust us and return to your cabins to rest."

"It'll be fine in a little while."

The sailors nonchalantly reassured the passengers, but Wang Bo saw deep fear in their eyes. So he told the little brats to rest, while he himself nimbly avoided the sailors and made his way to the ship's wheelhouse.

The captain of the ship looked grimly ahead, directing the helmsman to avoid the waves.

The ship rocked and swayed, struggling to advance through the towering waves.

But Wang Bo soon realized that this was no storm; ninjas were fighting.

Moreover, the ones fighting were no ordinary ninjas; otherwise, they couldn't have created such massive waves. The ship had merely been caught in the area where two ninjas were battling.

Understanding this, Wang Bo did not alert the captain. Instead, he left the wheelhouse, and amid the raging storm, he activated Void Step, sprinting through the air, charging forward all the way.

In an instant, Wang Bo crossed several hundred meters and saw the two sides engaged in battle.

But what Wang Bo hadn't expected was that one of the combatants wasn't human at all, but a turtle covered in spikes, with three tails.

This creature was none other than one of the nine tailed beasts, the seventh-ranked Three-Tails, Isobu.

And the Three-Tails' opponent was a strange man wearing a mask.

Wang Bo quickly recognized that this man was none other than Obito Uchiha, though at this point he probably called himself Madara Uchiha.

Seeing this, Wang Bo suddenly understood: if nothing unexpected happened, the Three-Tails should be the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura.

Mizukage Yagura was one of the few perfect jinchuriki in this world.

Like Killer B, he could fully control his tailed beast, using partial or full tailed beast transformation.

However, Wang Bo remembered that Mizukage Yagura should have already been controlled by Obito Uchiha by now. Otherwise, the Village Hidden in the Mist wouldn't have implemented the Blood Mist policy, turning the once good village into a mess.

The content of this policy was actually simple: it forced students in the Mist's ninja academy to kill each other, and only the last one standing could become a ninja.

This policy effectively reduced the Mist's strength to a freezing point.

Many people were victims of this policy.

Including Zabuza.

And the young Zabuza, to change this situation, single-handedly killed all the students in his class, thereby altering the exam.

In a sense, Zabuza was also a decent ninja, who made great efforts for his village.

As an adult, Zabuza served as a member of the Mist's Anbu, a master of silent assassination techniques.

Well, that's getting a bit off track.