Led by Sakumo, the Konoha's army rushed to the battlefield.
Before they could even see the shadow of the Sunagakure's forces, a towering yellow sand tsunami, dozens of meters high, blotted out the sky and surged towards them.
"Again with this move! A bunch of sand-playing bastards!" Faced with a powerful enemy, Tsunade had no mind to settle accounts with Jin anymore. She gritted her pink lips and cursed under her breath.
Looking at this calamity-level sand wave, Jin, the transmigrator, couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
'The attack range of this sand surpassed Gaara's during the Fourth Great Ninja War, didn't it?'
But it wasn't surprising.
The current leader of Sunagakure, the Second Kazekage, Shamon, was a sand user. He was also one of the developers of puppet techniques.
Coupled with the Jinchuriki, Bunpuku, who could control a portion of Shukaku's power, and the future Third Kazekage, that made three Kage-level sand users in Sunagakure during this period.
Therefore, it wasn't unusual for them to unleash sand manipulation on such a scale.
[Hatake-style Kenjutsu: Thunder Flash!]
In the next instant, Sakumo took the lead, suddenly drawing his short blade. His entire body transformed into a blue-white flash, shooting high into the air.
In the blink of an eye, he descended like a falling meteor, cleanly splitting the dozens-of-meters-high sand sea in two as if it were tofu!
The Sunagakure's army hidden behind the sand sea was also exposed by this single slash.
"So, so amazing! White Fang-senpai!" Minato's eyes shone with admiration.
Other Konoha's Ninjas also cheered:
"As long as Sakumo-sama is here, the Kazekage and Bunpuku are nothing!"
"Everyone, charge! Defeat Sunagakure, end the war!"
"Die, old hag Chiyo!"
Sakumo's stunning blow against Sunagakure gave the Konoha's side immense confidence.
Compared to his fellow villagers around him, who seemed pumped up and fervent as if injected with doping, Jin's expression remained as calm as ever.
After all, these people kneeling and praising the White Fang now are probably the same ones who later shouted for his death. He'll just take the words of fence-sitters with a grain of salt… never take them seriously.
…
In less than a minute, thousands from both sides were locked in fierce battle across the sandy expanse.
Sakumo, currently Konoha's top combatant and possibly the strongest in the Ninja World, single-handedly held off two Kage-level opponents: the Second Kazekage and future Third Kazekage.
But even so, Sunagakure still had two other Kage-level figures: Chiyo and Bunpuku.
At this time, they were held off by Tsunade and Jiraiya, two of the Sannin who had just touched the threshold of the Kage-level.
As for Orochimaru, he was currently stationed at another battlefield and wasn't here.
From the very beginning, Jin's target wasn't these Kage-level powerhouses. He wasn't an idiot.
He came here to use sandbags for leveling up, and he had no interest in being Hiruzen's free labor.
Therefore, Jin's target, from start to finish, was those Sunagakure's Ninjas whose strength hovered between Special Jonin and normal Jonin.
Opponents who posed no lethal threat but could still exert some pressure in battle were the best experience packages.
"Do you also wish to dance?" Jin stepped on a Sunagakure's Ninja beneath his foot. As he uttered these words condescendingly, he instantly triggered PTSD in Hashirama and Tobirama within the chat room.
"Brat! The battlefield isn't a place for you to play house!" Suddenly, a Sunagakure's Ninja charged from behind, thrusting his blade through Jin's abdomen.
"Jin!" Not far away, Minato, who was engaged in a fight with a Sunagakure's Chunin, paled dramatically.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
However, in the next second, Minato and many nearby Konoha and Sunagakure's ninja heard only a strange roaring sound of flames.
Focusing their gaze, they saw flames erupting from the abdominal wound where Jin had been pierced. The flames traveled along the blade, burning their way onto the body of the Sunagakure's Ninja.
"Argh!" Feeling the intense burning sensation on his hands, the Sunagakure's Ninja instinctively cried out in pain and quickly let go of the sword hilt.
"W-What is this!?"
"Flame Commandment: Fire Pillar." Jin's nonchalant voice suddenly rang out.
The sandy ground within a ten-meter diameter around him turned from light yellow to deep red due to the high temperature.
The Sunagakure's Ninja within the area stared in shock.
But before they could take any action-
Whoosh!!!
Flames surged upward from the reddened ground, transforming into a towering pillar of fire over ten meters high.
"Aaaahhh!!!" The agonized screams of over a dozen Sunagakure's Ninja were particularly piercing on the battlefield.
"So... so powerful. Is it an Uchiha Clan's secret technique?" Minato also stared wide-eyed in astonishment.
Thud!
Suddenly, a heavy impact sound was heard. Minato turned to look and saw a Ninja sent flying by a heavy blow from the Shukaku's arm controlled by Bunpuku.
After flipping once in the air, the Ninja stumbled and knelt on the ground.
Seeing this, Bunpuku immediately manipulated sand to form another Shukaku's arm, launching a pursuit attack, aiming to crush the Ninja to death!
Gaara would later use this technique too.
"Look out!" Without thinking twice, Minato hurled shuriken at the Shukaku's arm. The shuriken multiplied into dozens mid-air, raining down like a storm.
Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!
This was currently the strongest technique of Minato, who was only at the Chunin-level.
But how could it possibly harm Bunpuku, a Kage-level figure?
Just as the Konoha's Ninja was about to be crushed to death, and Minato was at his wits' end, he shouted towards Jin, who was still farming experience:
"Jin, save him! Use your Mangekyo Sharingan!"
Hearing this, Jin glanced casually in that direction, and then... continued farming experience.
If it were Tsunade, that would be a different story. But asking him to use his Mangekyo, degrading his eyesight, to save an extra whose name he didn't even know?
'Heh~ Just for a few hundred ryo a month, why risk your life?'