Chapter 285: Past Kage, Instant Kill of the Second Tsuchikage!
Second Division Battlefield.
As the White Zetsu retreated, atop the trees, Mito's Mangekyo Sharingan appeared in his eyes. The large trees below extended their branches, entangling Allied ninja like Kitsuchi.
Kitsuchi and the others were startled.
"Don't resist!" Mito's voice echoed.
Immediately, Kurotsuchi and the others felt pure life force flowing into their bodies. Their fatigue vanished rapidly, and their stamina quickly recovered.
"This is amazing!" Kurotsuchi couldn't help but exclaim.
Neji and Hinata, however, were unfazed.
But other ninja were different; they had never witnessed such a technique. Not to mention, everyone was currently entangled by branches. Even ninja with minor injuries who hadn't been sent to the medical unit had their wounds healed in an instant.
Such a technique, on this scale, was truly astonishing!
"This… this healing technique has completely surpassed Lady Tsunade!" a seasoned Jonin from Konoha exclaimed.
"It's normal for it to surpass hers. After all, Lord Asuma is a Ninja Demigod!"
"I think that title needs to be revised. Not long ago, Lord Asuma defeated Uchiha Madara."
"That's right. Now Lord Asuma can be compared to the First Hokage, and he's defeated Uchiha Madara. He's a living god among ninja!"
This statement resonated with many Konoha ninja, who nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile.
The White Zetsu pierced by the Wood Release trees or entangled by the roots underground were rapidly shriveling. The energy Mito used to heal the Allied forces and replenish their chakra was, in fact, coming from these White Zetsu.
However, while his Wood Release could extract life force from the White Zetsu and convert it into chakra at will, he couldn't transfer this power to others using Wood Release. The reason he could do this was his Mangekyo ocular jutsu. His designation as Mito stemmed from his ocular jutsu being called Mito.
His left eye could steal the enemy's life force, and his right eye could convert life force into chakra or convert his own chakra into life force to heal others. This was an ocular jutsu with healing capabilities that Sarutobi Asuma had never seen in the original story. But this wasn't surprising; the Sharingan was originally a Kekkei Genkai formed by the combination of Yang Style and Yin Style, so various abilities were possible.
At the same time.
On the battlefields of the Third and Fifth Divisions, the two clones overseeing them, Uka and Henmei, had not intervened at all from start to finish.
Medical Unit Camp.
The original Clone Raijin was stationed here, but now that he had awakened his Mangekyo, his name had changed to Kagami, from his Mangekyo ocular jutsu, Dark Kagami. He had not intervened either. Currently, within the medical unit, there were Tsunade and Shizune, two powerhouses, along with the rising star Haruno Sakura, all fully occupied.
Konoha, Main Headquarters.
Information about the other two armies of White Zetsu kept pouring in. The movements of these two armies were erratic, causing Namikaze Minato and the others to frown.
"Why don't we take the initiative and intercept these two White Zetsu armies!" the Fourth Raikage blurted out impatiently. He was truly tired of waiting. Did those White Zetsu not get tired of running underground?
"This is indeed a viable option," Namikaze Minato mused. "But there's a problem. If the interception fails, the main headquarters will be in some danger."
As he spoke, he looked at Nara Shikaku and asked, "Shikaku, what are your thoughts?"
"It's indeed difficult for us to determine the true attack direction of these two White Zetsu armies," Nara Shikaku analyzed. "But without a doubt, they are definitely targeting us, aiming to draw out our forces outside of Konoha."
"Their ultimate goal is still the Nine-Tails, and for that, they will constantly try to lure our forces away from the main headquarters."
"The fact that the three major battlefields have entered a ceasefire indicates the enemy's objective of pinning down our armies."
The Fourth Raikage frowned upon hearing this. "So what are you saying?"
"We know all this. The question is how to intercept those two White Zetsu armies now?"
Mabui then said, "Raikage-sama, Shikaku-senpai's point is that if our remaining two armies are not tied down, the White Zetsu armies will have no way of breaking through to the main headquarters, no matter what."
"Or rather, those two armies of White Zetsu were prepared to deal with our two armies."
Onoki listened and said, "So, we can choose our own battlefield and seize the initiative."
Nara Shikaku nodded, "You could say that."
"But this will also test the mobility and endurance of our troops!"
"The enemy won't easily follow our plans."
Gaara said, "With our large-scale space-time transfer jutsu, we have an advantage over the enemy. I believe the Allied Forces can defeat those White Zetsu monsters!"
"The Kazekage is right!"
The Fourth Raikage shouted, "Those White Zetsu also need to expend energy. Are we going to be weaker than them?"
Namikaze Minato immediately shouted, "In that case, Shikaku, make the arrangements!"
Nara Shikaku nodded, then gazed at the map and said, "My recommendation is for the First Unit to deploy along the eastern coast of the Land of Fire."
"The coastline of the Land of Fire is extremely long, and there's a possibility for the enemy to land at any point, which is very advantageous for them."
"Therefore, I believe the right flank army of the White Zetsu will definitely choose to land from the sea."
Namikaze Minato and the others nodded slightly.
Nara Shikaku continued, "As for the Fourth Unit, led by the Kazekage, I suggest moving to the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind."
"The vast desert areas of the Land of Wind are also good places to conceal their movements."
Namikaze Minato nodded, then decisively ordered the remaining two ninja armies to move out.
Gaara immediately left the main camp, and under the protection of Kankuro and Temari, he went to rendezvous with the army and headed straight for the border of the two countries.
On the other side, the First Unit, led by Darui, also set out, heading east.
As Nara Shikaku had predicted.
These two armies began to be led around by two armies of White Zetsu, running back and forth without engaging in battle.
The Fourth Raikage snorted, "Now there are no armies left at the main camp. Uchiha Madara had better come directly, and we'll deal with him!"
"You brat, Uchiha Madara isn't that easy to deal with."
Onoki reminded him, "Their primary target is the Nine-Tails."
"Uchiha Madara was previously repelled by Asuma. Unless he is revived without the Nine-Tails, he shouldn't attack here directly."
Namikaze Minato nodded in agreement, "Next, Uchiha Madara will likely continue to manipulate our forces."
"At least until all of us are drawn away, they will raid here. While holding back Asuma, they will capture Kushina or Naruto!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen said, "The only beings who can draw all of us away are those of the same caliber!"
Onoki immediately understood, his expression turning somewhat grim.
The Fourth Raikage lightly snorted, "With the power of Konoha, shouldn't they be able to deal with Orochimaru?"
"Raikage, the reason we've obtained so much information about the Akatsuki Organization is because of Orochimaru."
Namikaze Minato revealed a secret.
However, neither Onoki nor the Fourth Raikage were surprised.
Without a spy in the Akatsuki Organization, how could they get so much information?
"What did the Akatsuki Organization use to attract Orochimaru and make him betray Konoha?"
Onoki was very curious.
"Rinnegan!"
Namikaze Minato sighed, "Even the Ten-Tails, it's possible!"
…
Just as Namikaze Minato and the others were issuing orders, on the three major battlefields where Kakashi and the others were, the White Zetsu that had infiltrated the Allied Forces and even the medical corps amidst the chaos finally began to act and cause trouble.
Although they didn't have Yamato providing internal intelligence like in the original story.
Orochimaru himself possessed a considerable amount of information; he understood Konoha extremely well.
But unfortunately, the Allied Forces were also very familiar with the White Zetsu and were extremely vigilant.
One by one, the White Zetsu were exposed and then counter-killed.
Soon, on each of the battlefields, Uzumaki Kushina descended with her son Naruto, and using their sensory abilities for good and evil, they easily found and eliminated the remaining dormant White Zetsu.
Border of the Land of Earth, Land of Wind, and Land of Birds.
Inside the underground base.
Orochimaru chuckled softly, "Both Nine-Tails Jinchuriki have been deployed. Are they all Shadow Clones?"
"Lord Orochimaru can find out with a test."
Kabuto suggested with a smile.
Orochimaru looked up at Kabuto and said, "So, where do you think is the most suitable?"
"Lord Orochimaru has already made up his mind, right?"
Kabuto pushed up his glasses. "The medical unit. Tsunade, one of the Sannin, is there, as well as Shizune. They are both wives of Lord Asuma."
Orochimaru chuckled, "If that's the case, we might not be enough on our own!"
"Besides, Konoha's power hasn't been fully mobilized yet."
...
Konoha Main Camp.
Ao suddenly reported loudly, "Several powerful chakras have appeared in the Land of Wind!"
Namikaze Minato and the others immediately became solemn upon hearing this.
"Who is it?"
The Fourth Raikage eagerly asked.
Ao broke out in a sweat. "The Second Mizukage, the Third Mizukage, the Fourth Mizukage, the Second Kazekage, the Third Kazekage, the Fourth Kazekage, and also the Second Raikage, the Third Raikage, the Second Tsuchikage!"
"Damn you, Orochimaru!"
The Fourth Raikage roared in anger, almost wanting to smash the table in front of him with a single punch.
The Third Tsuchikage, however, was not as angry this time; this was a situation they had anticipated. He looked at Namikaze Minato and said, "With this kind of power, even with Asuma's clone, the Fifth Kazekage will likely be in a very bad situation!"
Before Namikaze Minato could speak, the Fourth Raikage stood up. "Then it's time for us to make our move!"
"Mabui, use the Heavenly Transfer Jutsu immediately to send me to the front lines!"
Namikaze Minato shook his head. "Raikage, don't be too hasty!"
"It's not time for us to intervene yet. Don't forget, we formed a special unit to deal with Impure World Reincarnation ninjas from the very beginning!"
Nara Shikaku also chimed in, "Lord Hokage is correct. Moreover, this is likely the enemy's method of drawing out our forces."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yamanaka Inoichi shouted, "The White Zetsu army in the Land of Wind is moving rapidly eastward!"
Nara Shikaku's expression changed slightly. "Their target is the First Unit!"
Ao's voice came through, "The Fifth Kazekage and the others are about to engage the Impure World Reincarnation ninjas!"
Namikaze Minato said no more and immediately gave the order, "Order the standby Uchiha Fugaku and the others to deploy immediately. Use the Space-Time Transfer Jutsu to head to the battlefield and support the Fifth Kazekage and the others!"
...
The Land of Wind, in the desert.
Gaara, Baki, Temari, and the others all wore solemn expressions.
Although there were only nine people in front of them, each one was a Kage, and each had once stood at the pinnacle of the ninja world.
"My goodness, it's the Second Mizukage, the Third Mizukage, and the Fourth Mizukage!"
"The Second Kazekage has also joined the battle!"
"Damn it, it's the Third Raikage!"
...
The Allied Shinobi Forces were in an uproar.
A veteran Jonin from the Cloud Ninja, a ninja with the Lava Style Kekkei Genkai, looked at the Third Raikage with a grim expression. "This is a huge problem!"
He was well aware of this Raikage's formidable offensive power, and beside him was the Second Raikage, who was no less powerful than the Third Raikage.
Even with tens of thousands of soldiers behind him, Dodai felt no hope of victory.
"I never thought I'd see people from the Five Great Shinobi Villages standing together one day. Truly, the world is unpredictable!"
The Second Mizukage looked at the ninjas in front of him, who wore different attire but the same forehead protectors, and sighed with emotion.
But then, his tone shifted, and he said with some disappointment, "However, there isn't a single familiar face among them."
"By the way, can these people stop us?"
As he spoke, he had already begun to worry for the Allied Shinobi Forces in front of him, and then he shouted, "Hey, hurry up and run away!"
The Second Tsuchikage, Mu, who was hovering in the air, said speechlessly, "It's too late to warn them now!"
As soon as he finished speaking, his gaze shifted. He then brought his hands together and then opened them, and a transparent barrier of Dust Release appeared, rapidly extending towards Gaara and the others.
"Be careful, it's the Kekkei Tōta, Dust Release!"
The Fourth Kazekage shouted a warning.
But immediately after, his body involuntarily moved, and rolling sand surged, rushing towards Gaara and the others, covering everything.
It was at this moment.
A clone of the ninja leading this army appeared in the air. With a raise of his hand, the same Dust Release barrier was opened, but with a larger range, not only encompassing Mu's Dust Release but also engulfing him.
Boom!
With a blinding flash of light and a deafening roar, Mu's Dust Release, along with his very being, was completely annihilated.
At the same time, Orochimaru, who was manipulating things from behind the scenes, had his pupils contract: "How is this possible?"
He wasn't shocked that someone other than the Third Tsuchikage in the Allied Forces could use Dust Release, but that the Second Tsuchikage, resurrected via Impure World Reincarnation, had actually died!
The Impure World Reincarnation had been broken!
But it wasn't due to sealing, nor soul extraction, nor even Yang Release techniques!
"This Dust Release is no simple matter!"
Orochimaru smiled, his long tongue flicking about, thinking to himself, "Asuma truly never stops surprising me!"
"Now that he's mastered Dust Release, he must have mastered other Kekkei Genkai as well, right?"
"It really is his doing that Konoha has produced so many Kekkei Genkai users in the past decade!"
"It seems I can't let him down!"
...
The desert.
Gaara raised his hands, and rolling waves of sand collided with the sand waves of the Fourth Kazekage.
Immediately after, Temari, followed by many Sand Ninja, unleashed Wind Release, blowing away the surging sand waves.
Gaara was ultimately a bit weaker; he couldn't quite match his father on his own.
However, after that single blow, the Fourth Kazekage didn't attack again. Instead, he looked up at the sky, extremely surprised: "He didn't recover?"
The Third Kazekage said: "His Dust Release is very different. I'm afraid even his soul was decomposed!"
The Second Mizukage was also very surprised and couldn't help but ask: "Hey, you guys seem to know this person well!"
"Who is he? When did such a powerful figure appear in the Ninja World?"
"Could it be the Fourth Tsuchikage of Iwagakure?"
In the sky, the clone, the former Tsuchikage, now named Kamui after his Mangekyo Sharingan, looked down at the Second Mizukage and said: "I am a Konoha ninja, Sarutobi Asuma!"
The Dust Release he had just used was naturally the Kekkei Mōra Dust Release that his main body, Sarutobi Asuma, had mastered not long ago. It could decompose all energy, matter, and even souls.
This was why the Second Tsuchikage couldn't recover, as his soul had been completely broken down to the atomic level and could no longer be restored.
"Konoha?"
"The Sarutobi Clan?"
The Second Mizukage was even more surprised and chuckled, "Did Iwagakure's Dust Release get stolen by Konoha?"
The Third and Fourth Mizukage beside him had complex expressions.
The clone Kamui bore a seven or eight-tenths resemblance to Sarutobi Asuma's true appearance. They had felt something was off before, and now it turned out to be him.
"Lord Second Mizukage, he is the new Ninja Demigod. He defeated Hanzō of Amegakure during the last Ninja World War, and he was only in his teens back then."
Said the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura.
"So that's how it is. I didn't expect such a powerful young man to appear in the Ninja World again. Konoha's luck is truly enviable!"
With that, the Second Mizukage looked at the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura, and asked, "Speaking of which, you are the Fourth Mizukage, how did you die?"
Yagura honestly replied: "I was controlled by the Sharingan of an Akatsuki member. After the genjutsu was dispelled, I succumbed to my severe injuries."
On the other side, the Third Raikage pinpointed Dodai of the Cloud Ninja in the crowd and asked: "Dodai, how is the village doing?"
"Lord Third Raikage, the village is currently led by your son. Lord Killer B has been captured by the Akatsuki Organization, and the Two-Tails has also been captured by them."
"The Akatsuki Organization, led by Uchiha Madara, wants to gather the power of the Nine Tailed Beasts to unleash an ultimate genjutsu, pulling everyone in the Ninja World into an illusion."
Uchiha Madara?
The many Kage were all shocked.
Uchiha Madara, that name was truly astonishing!
"Uchiha Madara, isn't that guy dead?"
The Second Mizukage couldn't help but ask.
"Like all of you, he was resurrected via Impure World Reincarnation, but there's a chance he could be fully revived by the legendary Rinnegan!"
Dodai said tersely, "Esteemed Kage, we hope you can cooperate with us to win this war!"
"Although we'd love to help, our bodies are not under our control."
The Second Mizukage spread his hands helplessly.
"You should use whatever means you have to stop us immediately."
The Second Raikage said, looking up at the clone Kamui in the sky: "Your technique just now..."
Before he could finish speaking, dense arcs of electricity appeared on his body, and he instantly vanished from his original position.
BOOM!
A resounding explosion.
The Second Raikage, who had just disappeared, was sent flying backward, crashing through a rock pillar that had been severely eroded by the wind.
The Third Raikage, startled, exclaimed, "Such speed, such power!"
And just then.
Beside Gaara, figures suddenly appeared.
Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Kōta.
Behind them were members of the sealing team, including Uzumaki Karin.
"Reinforcements have finally arrived..."
Baki let out a sigh of relief.
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