Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 390 Divine Art: High Soul Control

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The Fourth Raikage pulled his fist from the broken table, letting out a heavy, thunderous snort: "Hmph! That shark-faced guy from Kirigakure was right!"

"Konoha, what good luck!"

“Every time! Every time we get to this critical moment, there’s always this unpredictable ‘monster’ who appears.”

"First it was the Legendary Sannin of Konoha, then Minato Namikaze, and now, Hyuga Kumokawa has arrived." The Fourth Raikage's expression was a mixture of admiration and displeasure.

"Lord Raikage?" The two Yugitos were completely taken aback by the Raikage's reaction and stammered, "You mean..."

"Is there even a need to ask?" The Fourth Raikage suddenly raised his head, his gaze sharp, and said, "The Allied Shinobi Forces, our Hidden Cloud Village, has joined."

“But…” the two Yugitos began instinctively, “the position of the Allied Forces Commander-in-Chief…”

"Captain?"

The Fourth Raikage glanced at her, frowned, and said, "That kid is a madman who dares to go head-to-head with even 'gods,' and you're still arguing about who should be the Captain-Commander?"

The two wooden figures were momentarily speechless, unable to utter a word.

"Pass on my orders," the Fourth Raikage said in a deep voice. "Kumakuha, immediately enter a state of high alert and fully prepare for the Fifth Shinobi World War!"

"Yes!" Seeing their Raikage's resolute attitude, the two Yugitos could only swallow all their doubts and turn to leave.

"Wait." Suddenly remembering something, the Fourth Raikage called out to her.

The two wooden figures subconsciously turned their heads and saw two scrolls being thrown at them, so they quickly reached out and caught them.

"Since it's not a ninjutsu, let's not hide it anymore. Let's just reveal it and see if anyone can master this so-called 'Kido' as soon as possible," the Fourth Raikage said.

The two Yugito nodded and left, leaving only the Fourth Raikage in the office.

He slowly walked to the window, gazing at the towering mountains outside. On his rugged face, an expression never before seen by the Cloud Village members appeared.

That was jealousy.

"Why are people like this always born in Konoha? Why can't people like this appear in Kumogakure?" he sighed, looking down.

The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, shared the same idea as the Fourth Raikage.

"...That concludes the account of what happened at the Konoha meeting."

The towering figure of Huang Tu cast a shadow under the dim light, looking at the back of the chair behind the desk.

With his back to the yellow earth, Onoki sat on a large chair, his short body facing away, looking out the window at Iwagakure, which was built against the mountain in the night.

A moment of silence fell over the office.

After a long while, Onoki slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

"Given the Fourth Raikage's temperament, he would probably have made the decision to join on the spot."

He didn't turn around, his voice low and hoarse as he said, "Sunagakure, their only tailed beast has been taken by Akatsuki, they can't give up."

"Although Kirigakure's Six-Tails Jinchuriki was just a rogue ninja, the death of the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, was the work of the 'Kage' of Hueco Mundo. They can't possibly forget this debt."

"As for us at Iwagakure..." Onoki slowly spun his chair, turned around, and looked at the tall, muscular man, "Do we have any other options?"

"That Byakugan kid from Konoha, although he's infuriatingly arrogant, he's right about one thing."

"We now have only two paths before us."

"Either kneel down and wait to die, watching helplessly as those aliens take away our world and our lives."

"Either we have to choose resistance, or we have to choose war."

“However…” Onoki said in a low voice, “the position of commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces will not be given to Konoha so easily.”

After a moment's thought, he looked up at the yellow earth and ordered, "Report back to Konoha and Iwagakure that they agree to form the Allied Shinobi Forces!"

"Effective immediately, the entire village is on high alert!"

"Of the seven scrolls we obtained from the underground palace, we, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure each only received one, while Konoha and Kumogakure received two, right?"

He glanced at the black scroll on the table and said with dissatisfaction, "Tsk, if I had known it was such a precious thing, I should have argued for it back then, letting Konoha and Kumogakure benefit from it." "Forget it, let's find someone to try learning these 'Demon Arts' and see how effective they are. Let that brat Deidara try it too, so he won't be thinking about causing trouble every day!"

"Yes!" Huang Tu accepted the order in a deep voice, picked up the scroll on the table, turned around and strode away.

Watching his son's departing figure, Onoki slowly leaned back in his chair.

He knew that by taking this step, Iwagakure would be completely engulfed in an unpredictable torrent.

But, as Hinata Kumokawa said, they had nowhere to retreat.

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Meanwhile, in Konoha Village, atop Shadow Rock.

Hinata Kumokawa sat alone atop his own stone statue, the blazing sunlight casting an unobstructed, solitary shadow.

He tilted his head back, closed his eyes, as if feeling the warmth of the sunlight.

However, what he truly sensed was another, warmer, invisible torrent.

That was a surge of trust, reliance, awe, and even a gradually growing fanatical worship originating from the hearts of people throughout Konoha and beyond...

A torrent of intense emotions and spiritual energy are converging on him, transcending the barriers of space.

Like rivers flowing into the sea, it entered his body, was absorbed by the Hogyoku, and transformed into power, propelling his body to break through its limits once again and evolve towards a higher level of life...

Snapped!
A dull thud echoed in my ears, carried by the sound of the wind.

Hinata Kumokawa tilted his head slightly to look at the source of the sound.

Not far away, a sparrow crashed into the rock wall and fell helplessly to the ground, its body twitching slightly, a pool of bright red blood spreading beneath it.

One of its wings was twisted at an unnatural angle, clearly broken, leaving only the other intact wing, which was flapping futilely in its final struggle.

Hinata Kumokawa's eyes were calm as he slowly raised his right hand, extended his index finger, and gently tapped it at the dying sparrow from a distance of several meters.

There were no hand seals, and it didn't even cause any air ripples; it was completely silent.

Then, as if an invisible finger gently plucked the strings of time.

The next moment, the pool of bright red blood on the ground began to flow back!

Drop by drop, thread by thread, defying gravity, it flowed back into the sparrow's broken body.

Immediately afterwards, its twisted and broken wings made a faint "crack" sound, the broken bones automatically reconnected, and the torn feathers healed and restored at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Time, in the sparrow's life, has been reversed!
A few breaths later, the sparrow, which had been on the verge of death, suddenly opened its eyes.

It flapped its wings, which had fully recovered, and turned its little head in confusion, completely unaware of what had just happened.

"Wow!"

It let out a clear cry, flapped its wings, and lightly took off from the ground, drawing an arc in the air before quickly disappearing from Hinata Kumokawa's sight.

The sun was still shining brightly.

The square remained empty.

It was as if that life-or-death reversal had never happened.

However, Hinata Kumokawa knew that he had also achieved his third goal.

[Item: Hogyoku (positive 29% → 33%; negative 18% → 24%)...]

[Bloodline: Otsutsuki Clan (44% → 50.1%)]

[Divine Arts: 'Growth' → 'High-Level Soul Protection', 'Death' (Evolving)]

Hinata Kumokawa stood up, his divine robes fluttering in the wind. He looked down at the bustling scene in Konoha, a deep, almost imperceptible light flashing in his eyes.

It touches upon the realms of "life" and "time".

This is the realm of "God".

—Divine Art: High Soul Control!
(End of this chapter)