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Chapter 729 The Beginning of Konoha's Collapse Plan

Everyone knew that Gaara was abnormal when he saw his neurotic look. Sasuke was no exception. He stepped back a few steps to create more distance, and sighed, "What's going on? This guy."

If it were just a change in appearance and Gaara's abnormal behavior, Sasuke wouldn't have looked so fearful, but the problem was that since his right half of the body had turned into a monster, his chakra had also changed greatly, giving people a feeling of tyranny, coldness and evil.

Sasuke, who had the Sharingan, could clearly see that the chakra in Gaara's body had changed from its original blue to an ominous blood-red.

This ominous scene was naturally also seen by the surrounding audience. Apart from the ordinary audience who knew nothing, some people with broad knowledge, or those who had directly participated in the Ninja World War, noticed something. Their faces changed drastically, and they looked incredulous.

"Hey, hey, hey, that's not..."

"There's no mistake. That look should be that of a Jinchūriki!"

"Has the Sand Village gone mad? How dare they release such a monster?"

"No! This is most likely done on purpose by the Sand Village."

"If you think so, then Sand Village and the others are thinking——!!!"

Many people with quick reactions immediately thought of something, and the face of Maki, the Sand Village senior ninja who was Gaara's team leader and teacher, also changed drastically.

He looked at Gaara, who looked like a monster, with a very unpleasant expression on his face. He muttered to himself, "Oh no, Gaara is injured, so he can't restrain Shukaku and let it out? This doesn't fit the plan, but since it's been exposed, we have no choice but to take action."

Although this sudden change was not in line with the original plan, Maki was also a decisive person. He signaled his companions lurking around to start the plan ahead of time. He also brought Temari and Kankuro directly to the competition field, and rushed to Gaara to block him. As for Temari and Kankuro, they came to both sides of Gaara's body to check on his condition.

"How is Gaara doing? Can we carry out the plan?"

Temari did not answer immediately, but used some unknown means, and Gaara's monsterized right half of his body instantly recovered, but his consciousness did not recover, and he continued to mutter something.

However, this was enough to allow Temari and Kankuro to approach. After some investigation, Temari immediately replied, "Gaara's condition is not good. In addition to the injuries on his body, he has also consumed a lot of chakra. It's best to let Gaara rest first."

"Is that so?"

Maki looked troubled after hearing this. At this time, the referee Genma Shiranui also reacted and hurriedly stepped forward to ask: "Hey! Everyone from Sunagakure, do you know what you are doing? Suddenly barging into the competition field like this..."

Before Shiranui Genma could finish his words, an unexpected incident interrupted him.

A bunch of feathers appeared out of nowhere in the sky and quickly descended. As the feathers fell, most of the audience, including nobles and wealthy businessmen from other places, and even some weaker ninjas were hypnotized and fell into a coma.

Only some powerful ninjas or some people who noticed it in advance survived.

This is an A-level illusion called the 'Nirvana Abode Technique'. Unlike ordinary illusions, this technique has a very wide range of effectiveness. However, as long as you are prepared in advance, you can easily break this illusion.

Seeing dozens of Sand Village and Sound Village ninjas appearing out of nowhere, Shiranui Genma didn't understand what was going on, and immediately asked Maki with an angry face, "People from the Sand Village, are you trying to betray the alliance between our two villages?"

"Oh, stop talking nonsense like that. Don't you understand now? Temari, Kankuro, you two should take Gaara away from here first. After he recovers, we can act according to the plan. Do you understand?"

In the face of Genma Shiranui's questioning, Maki remained unmoved and directly refuted, then he gave orders to Temari and Kankuro who had stood up.

Hearing this, Temari and Kankuro naturally would not object to the words of their team leader, and immediately wanted to leave with Gaara. Although Genma Shiranui, who also heard this, did not know why the other party did this, he decided to stop him. When he was about to stop him, he was stopped by Maki instead.

"Don't even think about it!"

"cut!"

Looking at Maki in front of him, Genma Shiranui knew that he couldn't get through, but at this moment he saw Sasuke out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly an idea came to his mind, and he immediately said to Sasuke.

"Uchiha Sasuke, the village is now invaded by the Sand Ninja and the Sound Ninja. Now I give you a mission in the name of a special Jonin. Go chase the three Sand Ninja and stop them. Can you do it?"

"Heh, it just so happens that the match between him and I hasn't ended yet, so I accepted it."

"very good."

Sasuke naturally had no intention of refusing this task and accepted it immediately. Maki was also shocked when he heard this and immediately wanted to kill Sasuke, but was attacked by Genma Shiranui with a Senbon sword who had anticipated it.

Maki had to stop and block the attacking Senbon, while Sasuke seized the opportunity to rush past Maki and chase in the direction where Gaara and the others left.

When Maki was about to catch up to stop Sasuke, Genma Shiranui stood in front of him. At this moment, the two people's positions were instantly switched.

Looking at this scene, Maki understood that he could not leave unless he got rid of the enemy in front of him, so he had to focus all his attention on Genma Shiranui in front of him. The opponent was doing the same thing, and the battle was about to break out.

As the incident occurred in the Chunin Exam examination hall, the Sand Ninja and Sound Ninja units outside Konoha Village also received the signal and immediately started fighting.

They collectively summoned a giant snake-like summoning beast and used it as a siege weapon to attack Konoha Village.

Although they were a little panicked because of the sudden attack, it was the leader of the five major ninja villages after all. So although the guards of Konoha Village didn't know what these suddenly appearing enemies were, they all took action.

With the help of the walls of Konoha Village and the defensive barrier, although it was a bit embarrassing, they finally managed to block those huge snake-like summoning beasts. However, such defense could not last long, so the guards quickly sent people to notify other ninjas to come for support.

Just as Konoha Village fell into chaos, some changes also happened to the Third Hokage.

It is not known if it was due to carelessness or some other reason, but the Third Hokage is now being held hostage by the Fourth Kazekage, looking like he is being captured.

(End of this chapter)