Chapter 126: Challenges Welcome Anytime
"Hoo—"
Raging sea winds howled as the vast, surging ocean showed off its might. A tall, upright figure appeared above the sea, calmly plunging a hand into the water and saying coldly, "Ice Age!"
Terrifying cold spread outward, effortlessly freezing the entire ocean into solid ice…
As his consciousness slowly receded, Li Jiexuan opened his eyes. An additional A-rank ninjutsu had appeared in his character panel.
Character: Li Jiexuan.
Title: Undying Destroyer.
Ninjutsu: Eight Gates (S), Dragon Thunder Chidori (S), Orochimaru's Immortality Secret Technique (S), Ice Age (A)…
"Aokiji's ultimate move is only A-rank?"
"Aokiji's Ice Age has no upper limit. Its rank is determined by the maximum power the host can currently unleash."
Hearing this, Li Jiexuan suddenly understood. In the One Piece world, power has no ceiling. In other words, this technique's strength was tied to Li Jiexuan's own bloodline limits…
"Looks like I'll need to find some other clan members when I get the chance!"
If he remembered correctly, it should be in the Land of Water—in a village where it snowed year-round. With such obvious traits, it shouldn't be hard to find. Locate those who possessed the Ice Release bloodline limit, then cultivate more bloodline inheritors…
Thinking about this gave Li Jiexuan a headache. Even if he found Ice Release inheritors, without Orochimaru's core technology, it would all be meaningless.
As for Orochimaru himself, he was still just a little kid at the moment…
But a child-raising plan? While Li Jiexuan was puzzling over this, an ANBU operative suddenly knocked on his door.
"Lord Li Jiexuan, greetings!"
"ANBU? What is it?" Li Jiexuan was a bit puzzled. ANBU answered directly to the Hokage—since when were they this polite?
"Your appointment has come through. You are now the Commander of ANBU!" The ANBU wearing an elephant mask looked at Li Jiexuan—who barely reached his thigh—and couldn't help feeling awkward.
He never would have imagined being led by a child this young…
Worse still, not long ago he had been responsible for monitoring Li Jiexuan. From Li Jiexuan and Tsunade falling in love to relying on each other through life and death, he had seen everything. Would he get targeted later on…
"ANBU Commander?"
Li Jiexuan was also surprised. This position was no small thing—almost equivalent to the commander of the imperial secret police in ancient Earth terms. Truly second only to the Hokage, standing above tens of thousands…
Aside from the Hokage, no one else mattered. Uchiha, Hyuga, or even the Ino–Shika–Cho—none of them had any status here.
"Alright, I understand."
Still, Li Jiexuan wasn't overly excited. For a man whose goal was the sea of stars, an ANBU commander was nothing special. Danzo had led Root, and he'd still been blasted into dust.
All things are illusory—only power is real! Arriving in the heavily guarded ANBU chamber, the first thing to be assigned was a mask. Casually picking a white fox mask, Li Jiexuan officially took over ANBU affairs.
"Commander Jiexuan, these are the ANBU squad leaders. They report directly to you." The squad leaders' masks were equally distinctive: octopus, panda, mantis, and raccoon.
The panda captain spoke first, her crisp laughter chiming like silver bells. "Greetings, Commander. I'm responsible for intelligence across the various nations. I look forward to working with you."
A female panda handling intelligence—indeed, quite deceptive.
Li Jiexuan grinned. "I'm new here. I'll be relying on Captain Panda's support going forward."
At this moment, the mantis-masked captain curled his lip in disdain. "Tch. Who would've thought the parachuted commander would be a snot-nosed kid. Boring…"
As he spoke, the mantis ANBU turned as if to leave.
"I'll give you three seconds to return to your spot."
Hearing this, the mantis scoffed provocatively. "And if I don't?"
"Dragon Sage Mode. Eight Gates—First Gate, Open!"
Li Jiexuan intended to give these arrogant ANBU captains a proper warning and unleashed nearly his strongest state. Terrifying chakra surged skyward!
"What is this?!"
The mantis ANBU snapped his head around—but before he could make any move, Li Jiexuan had already seized him by the throat.
"Ugh—"
The mantis ANBU lifted his head in agony, his lips moving as if to beg for mercy. Li Jiexuan showed no hesitation, snapping all four of his limbs and tossing him into a corner…
Seeing this, the other ANBU all lowered their heads. So the rumors were true—Li Jiexuan really did possess Kage-level strength! Li Jiexuan dusted off his hands and sneered disdainfully. "Maybe you think I'm not qualified for this position. Maybe you think your jōnin-level strength is impressive."
"Then from today on, ANBU will speak with strength!" Li Jiexuan bared his teeth in a feral grin. "Aside from the intelligence division, all ANBU will be ranked by combat power. Any one of you who wants my seat—"
"Challenges are welcome anytime!"
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