Chapter 369: New Tricks in the Chunin Exam
As Rasa began to perform the magnetic ninjutsu, Kankuro, who was hiding outside the examination room, frowned.

As a new-age puppeteer, Kankuro naturally used new-age cheating methods. Unlike the old-age puppeteers who hid in the examination room and used puppets to peek, he looked for answers directly outside the examination room.

As long as the answer is found, the chakra transmitter can be used directly to let the puppet in the examination room write down the answer.

Originally, for a puppeteer like Kankuro who was close to the level of a jonin, it would be easy to control the puppet from more than ten meters away, but this time an accident occurred.

Kankuro felt that his control over the puppet was restricted, as if someone was interfering with it.

Did someone in Konoha see through his puppetry? Considering Konoha's overall strength, it's not difficult to see through his disguise, but the Chunin Exam is for Genin, so the Chunin examiners should have this ability...

Could it be that a Konoha jonin was interfering, or was it that the other candidates were interfering with his cheating?

After thinking about it carefully, Kankuro felt that the latter was very likely.

Everyone comes here to compete for the first place in the Chunin Exam. In addition to eliminating opponents in the second round of team competition and the third round of arena competition, others can also be eliminated through the first round of exams.

And compared to the second and third rounds of exams, which are life-threatening, even if you fail the first round, you will not face too much risk and will not lose your life or ruin your ninja career.

Thinking of this, Kankuro sat cross-legged and tightly grasped the transmission of chakra in his hands.

When the chakra receiver is interfered with, he can only increase the output frequency to counter the interference.

After seeing that Kankuro's puppet started moving again, Luosha's eyes showed approval.

During the years he served as a rebel ninja, he still learned through many channels about Scorpion's reform of the puppetry technique, from the traditional chakra lines to chakra signal receivers.

The puppet can be controlled from a distance simply by transmitting signals.

Although it is not as good as chakra lines in terms of accuracy and speed, it is still a subversive change for puppet masters, and may even change the way future puppet masters fight.

It is for this reason that even though Scorpion is a hands-off boss in the Sand Village, he still enjoys extremely high prestige.

This also made Luo Sha feel inferior. He had worked so hard to use magnetic mining to make up for the financial losses of the village, but it did not actually improve the strength of the village.

But the Red Sand Scorpion did just that, increasing the village's strength and improving the environment of the Sand Village.

Sometimes, Luo Sha would doubt whether it was Scorpion of the Red Sand who killed the Third Kazekage, what the truth was back then, and what kind of conflict had broken out between the two.

Retracting his gradually dispersing thoughts, Rasa focused his attention on Gaara.

Gaara is in good spirits. The dark circles under his eyes from staying up late when he was young are almost invisible now. At this moment, Gaara is cheating with the Eye of Sand while transferring chakra to Temari.

After a thought, Rasa used wind jutsu to interfere with Gaara's Eye of Sand.

As the seal was successfully formed, a strong wind appeared in the examination room. A piece of draft paper accidentally flew to the ceiling, blocking the view of the Eye of Sand.

Gaara noticed this and frowned.

A wisp of light sand flew towards the ceiling, trying to take down the draft paper, but unexpectedly, Gaara's ninjutsu did not take off the draft paper, but instead made a lot of noise.

The unusual noises caught the examiners' attention, and they soon noticed the Eye of Sand above.

Gaara's face changed slightly, and he immediately released the Sand Eyes Technique and looked at his test paper. He had already copied half of the answers, and he still needed to look at the answers a few more times in order to pass the test.

However, the most urgent task is to find the ninja who stopped him from cheating and teach him a lesson.

As the successor of the Kazekage, Gaara would not provoke other ninjas at will, but if others deliberately caused trouble, he would never let them go easily.

While the examiner turned around and looked around, Gaara quickly locked onto Rasa's position.

This ninja, wearing a forehead protector from the Sound Village and wrapped in bandages all over his body, was looking at him with a playful look in his eyes, as if he had known him for a long time.

After seeing Rasa, Gaara was basically able to confirm that it was this Sound Ninja who was responsible.

Mobilizing Gourd Risako, Gaara decided to teach the other party an unforgettable lesson, making him withdraw from the Chunin Exam early and wait until half a year later to take part again.

The sand flew quickly towards Luosha, but for some reason it fell halfway.

After seeing this scene, Gaara frowned. He didn't expect that the other party was so strong that he could stop his sand remotely. This strength must have exceeded that of ordinary Chunin.

But even so, Gaara did not intend to let the other party go. Instead, he became more interested in him.

He originally thought that the first Chunin Exam would be very boring, but he didn't expect it to be so much fun.

……

In the monitoring room of the examination room, the Third Hokage was watching the first exam with Byakuya and Sasori.

Under the all-round surveillance of eight cameras, the three of them were able to clearly see the cheating process of all the ninjas, and were discussing new ways of cheating with relish.

After seeing Yamanaka Ino cheating by using the Mind Transformation Technique, he passed the answer to Akimichi Chouji.

Bai Ye smiled and said, "Third-generation master, this should be the legendary Heart Transformation Technique. As expected of the famous Ino-Shika-Chou in the ninja world, they even cheated in the exam together."

"I believe it won't be long before Konoha will have three more elite jonin."

The Third Hokage stroked his beard. He was very satisfied with Ino-Shika-Chou's performance and silently accepted Bai Ye's compliment.

The Ino-Shika-Chou family is indeed a special existence in the Konoha Village.

If the Ino-Shika-Cho members are taken out individually, each one is only as strong as an ordinary jonin, but once the Ino-Shika-Cho members unite together, they will be able to possess strength comparable to the Five Kage in a short period of time.

It is precisely because the three of them work together to possess the combat power of Kage level that Ino-Shika-Chou has never been a major threat.

When necessary, they can also split the Ino-Shika-Cho alliance by suppressing two families and winning over one, thereby reducing the threat of the Ino-Shika-Cho alliance to the Hokage series.

After seeing Ino-Shika-Chou's cheating method, Byakuya looked at Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura again.

Sakura is a top student and one of the few honest people in the entire first exam. She is the only one who answers the questions conscientiously and treats this Chunin Exam as an ordinary exam.

Sasuke originally wanted to answer the questions using his actual strength, but there were a few difficult questions that he just didn't know how to answer.

It can only be copied using the Sharingan, and by imitating the writing movements of others, a one-to-one replica is completed.

Naruto silently accepted the gift from Hinata and filled in all the answers.

Naruto is not a fool. Under Black Zetsu's education, Naruto soon learned that Hinata's true identity is the eldest daughter of the Hyuga family, and she has admiration and respect for him.

Hinata's personality is really not suitable for becoming the next heir to the main family.

Hinata's father, the Hyuga clan leader, acquiesced to Hinata's love for him, most likely because of his identity as the son of the fourth generation and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Judging from Hinata's behavior, Hinata probably doesn't know her identity yet.

Of course, Hinata's existence also brought trouble to herself. A senior named Hyuga Neji had set his eyes on her and seemed to want to challenge her in the Chunin Exam.

I don't know if defeating Hyuga Neji can ease the conflicts within the Hyuga clan.

If he wanted to become Hokage in the future, he could not do without the assistance of the Hyuga clan. After all, the Hyuga clan was one of the largest clans in Konoha.

Orochimaru on the side looked in Sasuke's direction from time to time with a covetous look in his eyes.

Bai Ye took all of this in and felt that this examination room was a bit boring. There was nothing fun about it. It was just like a normal Chunin Exam.

Those examiners turned a blind eye to the cheating of the Konoha ninjas and allowed it to happen.

At this time, the Third Hokage, who was paying attention to another examination room, fell into deep thought, and then said to Scorpion: "Lord Kazekage, the examinee named Kankuro should be using the latest puppet technology of the Sand Village."

“Even though no one was in the examination room, he was still able to control the puppet to complete the exam.”

"What's even more surprising is that I didn't see any chakra lines. Could it be that the puppeteers of the Sand Village no longer need chakra lines?"

Having said that, the Third Hokage was filled with shock, far from appearing calm.

As the Hokage of Konoha, he also participated in front-line battles in his youth, and even fought against the legendary puppeteer Monzaemon of Sand Village, suffering a lot at his hands.

The puppeteer is very strong in combat ability, and most Genin and Chunin have no ability to resist a puppeteer.

The way for a puppeteer to improve his strength is also very simple. He only needs to create more and stronger puppets, so that he can exert huge advantages in ninjutsu on the battlefield and achieve the scale of one person forming an army.

The puppeteer is not without weaknesses. The puppeteer's biggest weakness is his body and chakra lines.

As long as the chakra line can be cut, the connection between the puppet and the puppeteer can be cut off, and then the puppeteer hiding in the dark can be found through the chakra line.

He didn't find the chakra line, but Kankuro still controlled the puppet.

This shows that the Sand Village has found a way to get rid of the chakra lines.

Scorpion glanced at Kanjiro and said slowly, "This technology is still in the development stage. No one except me, Elder Chiyo, and Kanjiro can use this new technology yet."

"The Konoha ninjas gave me quite a few surprises. In terms of basic qualities, we are far inferior to Konoha."

What Scorpion said is true. The average quality of the Sand Ninja at the Genin and Chunin stages is indeed higher than that of Konoha, but they are far inferior in terms of the number of Jonin.

Simply put, the Sand Village trains powerful cannon fodder, while Konoha trains elite jonin who are feared by all.

After hearing this, the Third Hokage was not less concerned about the improvement of Sand Village's strength, but he still wanted to brag about it on the surface, so he said:

"Compared to Sunagakure, we are far behind."

"Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro from your village, I'm afraid they can all be promoted to jonin after returning from this exam."

Scorpion's expression changed, and just as he was about to say something.

The contest between Gaara and Rasa has reached a white-hot stage. Both sides have changed from using simple little ninjutsu at the beginning to using real ninjutsu now, which has seriously affected the other candidates.

Morino Ibiki, the examiner, also noticed this and narrowed his eyes.

He originally did not want to interfere with the cheating of these candidates. After all, as long as the cheating level exceeded the scope of Genin, it would be considered that the ability to obtain intelligence was qualified.

But the mutual interference between the two has obviously affected the exam.

If these two continued to use ninjutsu at random, he would intervene.

Seeing this scene, Bai Ye said with a smile: "Hokage-sama, if you don't take care of Kazekage-sama's subordinates, Gaara seems to be going to fight with the Sound Ninja."

The Third Hokage said nothing and looked at Scorpion of the Red Sand beside him.

Scorpion of the Red Sand frowned. He felt that the ninja who was competing with Gaara was a little serious, as if he had seen him somewhere before.

Soon, a name flashed through the Red Sand Scorpion's mind, and then he looked at Bai Ye.

Bai Ye remained subtle, as if he had already given the answer.

Thinking of this, Scorpion of the Red Sand said to the Third Hokage: "It's nothing more than some children's fighting, let them be. If the Chunin Exam was a normal exam, I would still find it boring."

Bai Ye also added: "I have the same idea."

Seeing that Scorpion and Byakuya were so interested, the Third Hokage couldn't stop them. He could only notify the Anbu to guard outside and prepare for a serious situation.

In the examination room.

After seeing Gaara and Rasa perform ninjutsu again, Morino Ibiki could no longer bear it. He stood up and prepared to disqualify the two.

Just then, Gaara noticed Morino Ibiki's movements and began to perform ninjutsu with both hands.

After the seal was completed, the sand in Gaara's gourd poured out and covered the entire examination room at an extremely fast speed. All the examiners were blinded by the wind and sand.

After a few breaths, the light was regained.

During these few seconds, Gaara copied all the answers and sat in the examination room as if nothing had happened, glancing in the direction of Rasa and Morino Ibiki from time to time.

Rosa also completed the whole scene and stared at Morino Ibiki in front of him with interest.

After getting rid of the raging sand, Morino Ibiki was about to explode, but an Anbu appeared at the door. He walked over and exchanged a few words with the Anbu.

Morino Ibiki looked in Gaara's direction with a very ugly expression, but there was nothing he could do.

There is no restriction on cheating in this exam, and any method of getting the answers is acceptable.

They can use cheats, use their own strength, or even use force. They did catch Gaara cheating, and they also found evidence of Gaara and Rasa cheating.

But in the actual execution of the mission, what matters is strength.

With someone as powerful as Gaara, he can easily obtain information even if he is exposed. If it doesn't work, he can just kill everyone present and no one will know when the information was leaked.

Gaara possesses this kind of strength, and Morino Ibiki knows that he is no match for him.

But it was normal for a few geniuses to appear in the Chunin Exams, but why would a monster like this with the strength of a jonin appear in the Chunin Exams?

Does he, the examiner, still have any face left?
(End of this chapter)