“What?!”
“This exam rule is so unfair!”
“We’re eliminated whether we accept it or not!”
“If the deciding question is placed at the end, then what was the point of the questions before?!”
“Who made this rule? I’m reporting this!”
“Unfortunately, I made this exam rule.”
Morino Ibiki’s face was cold and imposing, radiating an undeniable pressure.
All the examinees present immediately fell silent, as quiet as cicadas in winter.
This proctor seemed like someone you didn't want to mess with.
“You have three minutes to decide whether you will stay. I hope you will consider this carefully and not drag your teammates down!”
Ibiki finished speaking, and the three-minute countdown began.
Faced with this difficult choice, some in the exam hall began raising their hands.
They raised their hands for themselves, and also because they didn’t want to be the reason their teammates lost their chance at the Chunin exam forever.
Ye Yu looked at Naruto again.
He used Mind Transmission to communicate with Naruto, urging him not to easily give up on the exam.
Now that he could communicate with Naruto through Mind Transmission, it meant that as long as he could solve the final question, Naruto and Sasuke wouldn't be eliminated.
And years of endless practice had filled Ye Yu with confidence.
No matter how tricky Ibiki’s question was, he would find the solution!
If even he couldn’t solve it, then no one in the exam hall could!
This was Ye Yu’s unyielding confidence in the exam!
In the blink of an eye, the three-minute countdown ended.
More than half of the people in the exam hall had left!
Ibiki’s gaze swept across the remaining examinees.
“Now I announce that everyone present has passed the first round of the Chunin exam’s written test! You have successfully advanced to the next round!”
The classmates: What the heck?!
We passed?!
Hearing Ibiki’s announcement of their advancement, everyone was stunned.
“But the last question hasn’t been tested yet?”
One examinee raised a question, and the surrounding examinees echoed him.
“The choice I gave you just now was the final question.”
Ibiki began to explain.
“Only those who chose the correct answer to the final question can pass this round. Those who chose wrong are immediately eliminated.”
“Placing your hopes on an uncertain future exam is an attitude I dislike.”
“Then what were the nine questions we answered before?”
Another examinee said indignantly.
“Those were to test your reconnaissance and information gathering abilities. You may have also noticed that cheating was allowed during the written test.”
“Those who were eliminated simply didn't have advanced enough cheating methods.”
“Therefore, those of you who successfully endured the first forty-five minutes and chose the correct answer on the final question have naturally advanced to the next round.”
Ibiki announced loudly, “Congratulations everyone! The doors to the Chunin Exam are open to you!”
As soon as Ibiki finished speaking, Ye Yu saw a black shadow rushing towards them through the window of the exam hall.
“Boom!!”
The black shadow directly smashed the window, flipped into the exam hall, and struck a pose: “Hey! Everyone!”
“I’m your proctor for the second round of the Chunin Exam, Mitarashi Anko!”
Ye Yu looked at this second proctor who suddenly appeared and thought this woman’s style was a little like that goofball Naruto.
“No one’s responding to you. Embarrassed?”
Ibiki mocked from the side.
Mitarashi Anko: “Hmph!”
Then, this competitive woman retorted with a hint of playful malice, “How come there are still so many people left from the first exam? Ibiki, did you cheat for them?”
A satisfied smile spread across Ibiki's face: “This batch of examinees has quite a few good seeds.”
Mitarashi Anko’s lips curled up in a playful smile: “Oh? Is that so? I wonder if they’ll be able to survive my exam.”
After a brief exchange, Mitarashi Anko waved: “Okay! Everyone follow me to the location for the second exam!”
......
In front of the Fourth-Four Training Ground in Konohagakure.
Mitarashi Anko looked around at everyone and began introducing the rules and location of the second exam.
“Before you is Konohagakure’s Fourth-Four Training Ground, also known as—the Forest of Death!”
“The training ground is surrounded by fences and forty-four gates, with a river running through the middle, and dense forests on both sides.”
“The entire training ground is irregularly shaped, and there is a task handover tower in the center.”
“The distance from any fence to the tower is about 10 kilometers, which means that the entire training ground covers about 310 square kilometers.”
“You will be carrying out a five-day, one hundred and twenty-hour scroll competition in the vast Fourth-Four Training Ground.”
“Each team will receive a scroll with ‘Heaven’ or ‘Earth’ written on it.”
“Your task is to reach the central tower within five days with both the Heaven scroll and the Earth scroll, and only then will the exam be considered complete.”
“Wait, five days? In this place, won’t we starve to death?”
Naruto looked at the towering trees in the training ground through the wire mesh and squinted, frowning.
“That’s right, we’ll probably starve to death before five days are up.”
After listening to Mitarashi Anko’s explanation of the rules, Akimichi Chouji’s little eyes were also wide with surprise.
“Don’t worry, the forest is full of poisonous insects and wild animals. You won’t go hungry.”
Anko smiled and said with narrowed eyes.
Unlike Naruto and the others who were worried about food, Ye Yu was more concerned about the elimination rate for this competition.
Each team only had one scroll, but they needed to have both scrolls to pass the exam.
In other words, half of them would definitely be eliminated after the exam.
This was assuming everything went smoothly and everyone survived.
Because in the Fourth-Four Training Ground, there were poisonous insects and ferocious beasts unique to the Land of Fire, and one wrong step could be fatal.
Mitarashi Anko looked proudly at the chattering Genin.
This Chunin Exam would be more difficult than any mission these rookies had ever taken on!
Then, she picked up a thick stack of documents from a table beside the training ground: “Next, everyone will be given a death liability waiver.”
“Because fighting between ninjas is allowed during the exam, serious injuries and death are commonplace...You have half an hour to consider whether to sign it.”
“After half an hour, each team of three will receive a scroll from the hut with three signed waivers.”
Soon, the death liability waiver was in Ye Yu’s hands.
Ye Yu didn’t even bother reading the content, he just signed his name.
Since he had decided to take the Chunin exam, he couldn’t back down!
Sasuke and Naruto beside him were equally resolute.
After handing in the waiver, Ye Yu remembered that he hadn’t collected the money he owed for helping others cheat in the first round.
So, he walked to the front of a Grass Ninja village team and stretched out his hand: “I gave you the answers for the first exam. We had an agreement, one thousand copper coins per person.”
Unexpectedly, they didn’t keep their promise, instead they pretended to be clueless: “What answers?”
“We did all the questions in the first exam ourselves, there was absolutely no cheating.”
“Yeah, you’re being really weird.”
“You’re not giving me the money?”
Ye Yu sneered: “Because you broke your promise, the price has gone up now, five thousand copper coins.”
The Grass Ninja village ninja team had mocking expressions on their faces: “Let’s be real, we’re not giving you that kind of money.”
“You’re saying we bought your answers? Go ahead and prove it!”
Ye Yu didn’t say anything, he just remembered their faces and walked away quietly.
There were no restrictions on fighting in the Forest of Death, it was too much trouble to collect debts here.
Then, Ye Yu went to find a few more people who had promised to pay him for cheating.
Out of the thirty-plus people, only one team thanked Ye Yu and paid him.
The rest of them, following the lead of the Grass Ninja village ninjas, denied it.
Ye Yu didn’t say a word.
What was his, no one would be able to escape from him!
Soon, half an hour passed.
It was two o’clock in the afternoon, and all the teams entered the Fourth-Four Training Ground through any gate they chose.
Mitarashi Anko waved her hand.
“Chunin Exam, begin!”
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(PS: Thanks to all the great readers for your support. The author guarantees that the story will become more and more exciting from now on, with a grand plot unfolding. There’s a backlog to ensure that the story won’t be abandoned, feel free to read, there’s an outline, it will be written to a million words and then complete!)