Naruto: The Age of Ninja Swordsmen Begins from the Hidden Cloud Village.

Chapter 248: Being let go

The night passed quickly, and the next morning after a hearty breakfast, all the Konoha ninjas gathered in the open space in front of the camp.

Sarutobi Hiruzen stood on the high platform and used a wave of Fire Will to boost morale, and then led the way out of the camp.

All the Konoha ninjas rushed into the woods and jumped between the trees.

This way of running and leaping can use the elasticity of the branches to convert the impact force into propulsion, which can save physical energy to a great extent and is the most effective way to travel.

The Konoha Ninja Army set out, and the four major ninja villages attached great importance to it. The Third Kazekage even arrived at Kikyoyama Castle in person. After all, the Third Hokage had come, and this was their front line territory, and they could not let it be defeated.

Of course, their own ninja army cannot suffer too great a loss, so as not to end up like the Hidden Mist Village where the main force was almost wiped out and even the Mizukage disciple who served as the commander died.

The Iwagakure Village also sent an elite team to meet with Huangtu, mainly to protect Huangtu.

In the previous battle on the peninsula, they had already lost the Four-Tails Jinchuriki Murasaki and the four elites who accompanied him. They couldn't afford such a heavy loss this time.

Compared to the conservative Iwagakure Village, Tamura Hao and others, as representatives of the Kumogakure Village, are full of fighting spirit.

"What is the confidence of the Third Hokage in the decisive battle? Is the rumored forbidden technique that can resurrect the dead true?"

Hanzo, who had just arrived, still couldn't understand why Sarutobi Hiruzen had the confidence to lead the team into a decisive battle so quickly. This behavior was too abnormal.

He was invited by the Third Kazekage to help in the battle, and it was a war mission commissioned with a generous reward. Plus, the enemy was Konoha, so he came.

But I really don't understand Sarutobi Hiruzen's actions. The only thing I can think of at this stage is the news that came out some time ago.

It is said that the Third Hokage mastered the forbidden technique of resurrecting the dead to fight. It would be terrifying if those dead ancestors were resurrected to fight.

Especially the first Hokage. Once the first Hokage is resurrected, the Ninja World War will be over.

That is the supreme power that pacified the troubled times, which is incomparable to the current ninja world.

"No matter what means they use, we have gathered so many people to deal with it. Senior Hanzo will supervise the poisoning. We must leave those Konoha ninja soldiers here today."

Tian Cun Hao said this proudly, but he was actually laughing in his heart.

He knew that Sarutobi Hiruzen's confidence came from the Otsutsuki relic, but the Otsutsuki relic had been crippled by them. Even if he was rescued by Otsutsuki Hamura, it would be difficult for him to recover his combat power in a short period of time.

Only Konoha can go into battle this time, no one else will come.

"I have recently combined snake venom and salamander venom, and the effect is quite good. It is just right for use on Konoha."

Hanzo smiled, confident in his own poison.

Although he still failed to achieve the true Sage Mode during this period, he used the Sage Seal to integrate chakra into the body of the Salamander, allowing the Salamander to possess the power of Sage Arts and greatly enhance its strength.

At the same time, the salamander has incorporated the venom of the white snake, which has greatly increased its toxicity.

"coming!"

At this time, Uzumaki Kushina, who had been sensing, spoke, staring at the woods below the mountain city with hatred, and the two-magatama Sharingan appeared in her eyes.

After such a long period of training, her Sharingan was finally upgraded to a higher level, reaching the second level of Magatama, and her insight became even more powerful and precise.

As Uzumaki Kushina finished speaking, Rasa turned his head to look at his teacher. After getting the teacher's nod of approval, he commanded the entire army to be on alert and prepare for battle.

All the ninjas were nervous and stared at the woods below the mountain city. Various war machines on the city walls also started to operate, especially the large crossbows wrapped with a large number of detonating tags.

Not long after, a figure rushed out from the woods. It was Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Soon after, many figures rushed out and looked up at the mountain city on the top of the mountain in the open space in front of the woods.

Looking at the tall mountain city, everyone's heart sank.

The siege battle is the most difficult to fight, even if they have the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki on their side and can release a powerful killing move like the Tailed Beast Ball.

But they also have strong people over there who are good at using space, and they can transfer the Tailed Beast Ball away immediately. If they are not careful, it will be transferred above their heads, which will be fatal.

Therefore, this battle can only be fought by force, but the losses from a forceful attack are too great, so someone has to destroy the city wall first.

Thinking of this, everyone looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen.

The decisive battle was proposed by the Hokage, and he seemed very confident and obviously had other means. They just had to wait for the Hokage to make his move.

And Sarutobi Hiruzen was also waiting, waiting for the appearance of the Otsutsuki relic.

Of course, he would not be so foolish as to rush up to attack the city immediately. He had to let Otsutsuki Shari take action first and use the opponent's power to destroy the mountain city. Then it would be much easier for them to attack.

He also believed that Otsutsuki Shari would definitely take action, because the other enemies also included the Hidden Cloud Village and the Third Raikage. This battle was a good opportunity to destroy the younger generation of the Hidden Cloud Village, and it was also possible to lure the Third Raikage over.

If he were Otsutsuki Shari, he would never miss this good opportunity.

But they waited for a long time, and when the sun was about to set, everyone looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen again in confusion.

"what's the situation?"

"What are you waiting for, Hokage-sama?"

"Do you want to wait until dark and launch a surprise attack under the cover of darkness?"

……

Everyone was talking in low voices, guessing at the Hokage's tactics and methods.

"Teacher, do you want to wait any longer?"

Jiraiya couldn't help but ask in a low voice. The sun was already halfway down, and it would be dark if they waited any longer.

"hold on!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen said this expressionlessly. He was also wondering in his heart, but he didn't think that Otsutsuki Shari would break his promise.

It is speculated that he is most likely waiting for dark. The other party also possesses a pupil technique similar to the Byakugan, and the night gives him an advantage, just like the Hyuga ninja.

"what the hell?"

On the wall of Yamashita City, Ye Cang didn't understand Konoha's operation. Did they really have to wait until dark to launch a surprise attack?

Luo Sha and others gathered together to discuss, but they didn't understand Konoha's operations.

“They must be waiting for something, either for someone or until dark.

Let's wait a little longer. If Konoha still doesn't make a move, we will try to attack them from behind to cut off their retreat and force them to use their trump card."

Tamura Hao controlled the Thor's clone and suggested that it would be better to strike first.

“You have to test it, but don’t be reckless and fall into the other party’s trap.

Although the Third Hokage's strength is relatively average, he is proficient in calculations, and he must have full confidence in leading the army to attack like this."

After discussing with Chiyo beside him, the Third Kazekage finally nodded in agreement.

Everyone discussed the details of the test attack in detail, then dispersed again to observe the movements of the Konoha ninjas and wait quietly for the opportunity.

"Is Scorpion not going to come back?"

At this time, Chiyo came to Tamura Hao and talked about her grandson.

She had read the letter sent back by Ye Cang before and was sure that it was written by her grandson himself. The tone of the words could not be wrong either. It was obvious that her grandson was living well in the Hidden Cloud Village and did not want to come back.

"Xiao Xie still misses his deceased parents very much, and has been using research to distract himself. To him, the Sand Village is his home, and once he returns to the Sand Village, he will miss his parents uncontrollably.

My opinion is to wait until Xiaoscorpion grows up and matures before returning to the Sand Village."

Tamura Hao expressed his concern for Sasori. As for letting Sasori return to the Sand Village, they would wait until their Cloud Village unified the ninja world. Then Sasori could come back to take a look.

I just hope that the Sand Village won't become a ruin by then.

"What are you planning to do to Scorpion?"

Chiyo didn't understand what the Hidden Cloud Village did. Although Scorpion had learned the true art of puppetry, puppetry was just that, a specialty of their Wind Country and the Hidden Sand Village. The Hidden Cloud Village did not have the conditions to produce a large number of puppets, especially high-level puppets.

What benefits can be gained by keeping Scorpion in the Hidden Cloud Village?

As for leaking the village secrets, although Scorpion is his grandson, he is too young to have access to the village secrets, and he has never revealed them.

I really can't understand the intentions of the Hidden Cloud Village.

"I just feel that I have a good relationship with Xiaoxie. It reminds me of my past self. In the future, Xiaoxie will become the bond that maintains the friendship between our two villages."

Tamura Hao sighed and showed a nostalgic expression, indicating that he is a man with a story.

As for Scorpion, he is really talented. Not long after he got the technology of the Sky Ninja Village, he upgraded his fighter planes. Now he has even started to study Gundam... no, mecha. If he continues to develop like this, he will definitely be able to develop high-tech products like Mecha Naruto and Mecha Nine-Tails in the future.

The Hidden Cloud Village will never let go of such a rare talent.

"Don't let him go down the path of no return of becoming a human puppet. That path won't make much sense to your Hidden Cloud Village."

After looking at the boy suspiciously for a while, Chiyo could only give him a warning in the end.

Human puppets themselves are not a big secret, not to mention that they have long been deployed on the battlefield on a large scale. For example, a lot of human puppets were made from the corpses of Sarutobi Shimura's elite soldiers sent by the Hidden Cloud Village. They were lost in wars one after another. They must have been secretly taken away by some people.

The secret of the human puppet is bound to be difficult to keep secret. High-level chakra cores are difficult to make, but low-level chakra cores are easy to make.

However, this human puppet is still a system that is only suitable for their Sand Village. Daily maintenance alone requires a lot of medicines. Many of these medicines are specialties unique to their Sand Village and cannot be used in other ninja villages.

Especially now that all major ninja villages are stepping up their research on limb transplants for bloodline ninjas, their Sand Village has also conducted research and has achieved some results, which can allow ordinary ninjas to obtain a certain degree of bloodline power.

This is much more valuable than human puppet technology, and the Hidden Cloud Village must have also conducted research in this area.

"We'll keep an eye on the little scorpion."

Tamura Hao responded solemnly that he would certainly not let Scorpion follow the artistic path in the original work, and it would be fine for him to be a normal scientist.

Chiyo didn't say anything else and turned to go into the city to take charge of logistics affairs.

They waited like this for a while, until the bright moonlight shone down, and seeing that there was still no new movement from Konoha, the coalition of the four villages decided to attack and test the waters.

Tamura Hao pretended to use up a huge amount of chakra to open a space gate that led directly to a location a thousand meters behind the Konoha Ninja Army, and the assault team quickly passed through.

"Hanzo-senpai!"

Tamura Hao first signaled to Hanzo, and Hanzo understood, and immediately raised his hands to form seals and perform the summoning technique.

"Oh!"

A large cloud of mist exploded, revealing a huge creature, which was the summoning beast Salamander that made Hanzo famous.

Compared to the last time I saw it in the Hidden Rain Village, the current Salamander is much larger, no smaller than the original Ten Thousand Snakes. It has an extra layer of pale snake scales on its body, and its entire body looks more like a snake.

This is the result of Hanzo integrating the power of his own magic seal into the body of the salamander, as well as the incorporation of snake venom.

After the hook passed, the salamander opened its mouth wide and spewed out poisonous gas while running quickly, using the poisonous gas to form an isolation zone.

Today's poison gas can not only penetrate the body through breathing, but also through the skin. At most, the efficacy is a little lower, but it is enough to kill a Chunin instantly, and it will be very troublesome if a Jonin is contaminated.

Naturally, this sudden attack was reported immediately by the sensory ninjas of the Konoha Ninja Army, and everyone felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.

"Does he want us to fight the Four Villages Alliance first so as to draw out their trump cards? Or does he want to wait until the Third Raikage appears before taking action?"

A thought flashed through Sarutobi Hiruzen's mind, and he realized that there was going to be trouble.

Judging from the number of people, this must be a test by the coalition forces of the four villages. Once the test is over, it will be a large-scale attack, which will be very deadly.

The most important thing is where is the Otsutsuki relic?

Will they act according to the agreement this time?

"teacher."

Jiraiya asked again, with a hint of urgency on his face.

The others also looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen, waiting for the Hokage's orders.

Should we fight or should we retreat?

"Deal with them first and make sure the retreat route is open. Minato, keep a close eye on that Uchiha Hikaru. Don't let her have the chance to lead those people to retreat. At least hold everyone back."

After some consideration, Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to fight.

Although the Otsutsuki Shari has his own plans, they now have no way out.

If they retreated back to the camp in disgrace at this moment, not only would their own prestige be severely damaged, but it would also be difficult to deal with the coalition forces of the four villages here, and the overall battle situation would become even more difficult to control.

Once the warrior armies of the four major countries enter the Fire Nation and start to divide it up, everything will be over.

We cannot retreat from this battle, we must fight.

He also believed that Otsutsuki Shari would definitely not miss this opportunity.

Seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen giving the order, everyone decisively attacked to the rear.

Whether fighting or retreating, the retreat route must be guaranteed and must not be cut off by the opponent.

Jiraiya, the most active one, took action first. After entering the Sage Mode, he transformed himself into a lava giant and ran forward to launch a brutal charge.

A ninjutsu creation of this size does not require any skills or tricks, just rush forward.

Although his lava giant does not have the ability to absorb chakra like Wood Release, the high temperature of the lava is also terrifying.

"Your opponent is still Namikaze Minato, and I will take care of Jiraiya."

Looking at the lava giant rushing towards him, Tamura Hao said something to Uchiha Guang, and then quickly created a statue of Mutan Buddha, with two long swords appearing in his hands.

There was no way. His physical condition had not recovered yet, making it difficult for him to fight personally. He could only temporarily switch to being a Gundam pilot.

Because it is a pure energy form, coupled with the levitation ability obtained from the Longdi Cave Snake Immortal, the speed of the Wujitian Buddha statue is very fast.

This also allowed Tamura Hao to demonstrate amazing flexibility in controlling the Wu Tian Buddha statue, which helped to unleash his swordsmanship.

He took a step forward, and when he was about to collide with the lava giant, he leaned his body and ran close to the ground, and the two swords in his hands slashed at the lava giant's legs one after another.

The lava giant's thick legs were instantly cut off by the double swords, but Jiraiya had already prepared for it. He quickly extended new lava calves from the knees to continue supporting the lava giant's inertia, then he braked suddenly, turned around and raised his hands to block the double swords.

The two behemoths fought like this. Jiraiya relied on his powerful fairy chakra and fought hard without hesitation, without any reservation.

The others also faced their respective opponents, but Ye Cang went to find Orochimaru first. Not only were they old rivals, Ye Cang also had murderous intent towards Orochimaru.

It has been confirmed that Danzo Shimura and Orochimaru used the ninjas from their Sand Village for experiments, and no one knows how many of their compatriots died tragically at their hands.

This beast must pay with blood!
Orochimaru also felt Ye Cang's murderous intent, but did not take it to heart.

There are so many people who want to kill him, not just one.

Moreover, he can do a better job against this woman, mainly because he is familiar enough with her methods and can deal with them better.

Everyone else was engaged in a fierce battle, except Sarutobi Hiruzen and Thor who was holding Thor's hammer, who did not take action. The two just stared at each other from a distance.

They are the commanders of the two teams, so naturally they won't act rashly.

Of course, the main reason why the Thunder God clone did not take the initiative to attack was that Sarutobi Hiruzen was too far away. Now Tamura Hao can perfectly control the Thunder God clone to fight within 150 meters. Once it exceeds this distance, the control will drop rapidly.

Even if he could seal a shadow clone in advance and control it remotely, the ability of the shadow clone is still far behind his own, and he would not be able to fully unleash the strength of the Thor clone.

So it is better to confront them like this, and Tamura Hao does not want to deal with these people immediately. The stalemate will be more helpful for the Third Kazekage and others to observe and decide.

Once he sees through Sarutobi Hiruzen's confidence, he will definitely lead his army to attack. Then it will be a melee and the casualties will be difficult to stop.

Sarutobi Hiruzen had no idea what the person opposite him was thinking, and he became more and more anxious.

The battle has already begun, but the Otsutsuki Shari, whom he had high hopes for, still has not appeared. Could it be that he didn't come?
Thinking of this, his old face instantly turned dark. He was actually stood up.

If you think about it carefully, it is not impossible. After all, everything before was just my guess, and I have no way to contact the Otsutsuki Shari. I couldn't communicate before, so who knows whether the other party has come.

"Was he injured in the fierce battle with Hyuga Hiashi, or is he still chasing Hyuga Hiashi?"

His mind was racing, and Sarutobi Hiruzen was becoming more and more annoyed.

If Otsutsuki Shari didn't come, we would be in trouble.

Moreover, we have already clashed with those people. The main force of the four-village coalition forces on the mountain city behind us may attack us at any time to launch a siege. The situation is extremely critical. If we are not careful, all the people we brought with us will be wiped out.

The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, but Sarutobi Hiruzen did not show it. On the surface, he still appeared very calm, as if he had everything under control.

"Do I need to use the Impure World Reincarnation here?"

He was thinking about how to break the impasse. If the Otsutsuki Shariu did not come, he could only use the Impure World Reincarnation to defeat these people, and even severely damage or even destroy the coalition of the four villages.

However, once the Impure World Reincarnation is used, it will bring about a series of problems and the future situation will become even more difficult.

However, if we don't use it, this level will be difficult to overcome. Once the people we brought here are destroyed, the situation in the future will become even more difficult.

(End of this chapter)