Naruto: From Novice to Grave

Chapter 314 - The Ten-Tails Wakes Up and Attacks People

In the morning, village leaders gathered at the coalition headquarters, awaiting developments.

In the newly built intelligence room next door, people would come out from time to time to deliver information sent back by the various reconnaissance teams.

This all depends on the battlefield real-time communication methods that Konoha has developed in recent years, which is a combination of ninjutsu and technology.

In the world of ordinary people, radio communication has become widespread, and ninjas naturally utilize it as well.

Luo Sha glanced at the intelligence summary and asked worriedly, "Have they still not found where the enemy is?"

Mei Terumi: "There's nothing we can do. The intelligence teams only set off yesterday afternoon. The Land of Rice Fields is quite large, and the Sound Village is almost empty. Who knows where the Akatsuki is hiding? It will take some time to find them."

Rasa: "I'm afraid that before the Akatsuki even appears, our own troops will fall into chaos."

Raikage: "Wasn't this all Konoha's decision? Our respective ninjas could have just operated separately, why did we have to scatter them and regroup?"

Minato smiled slightly, unconcerned by the other party's question.

Higashino Makoto: "These are just minor skirmishes, they won't affect the overall situation. We've been fighting and killing each other for decades, it's a rare opportunity for us to get together and exchange ideas, isn't that great?"

Onoki: "Hmph, I understand what you two young people are thinking, but it's a bit too naive. Hatred accumulated over generations is not so easy to resolve."

Raikage: "Old man, you have absolutely no right to say such things!"

His beloved father was beaten to death by Onoki and his men, and he had always kept this grudge in his heart, knowing he would settle it when the opportunity arose.

Minato: "It's not naivety. Some things you have to start doing before you can see the way forward. We don't expect to resolve hatred, we just want to provide everyone with another perspective on hatred."

Mei Terumi: "I agree with the Tsuchikage's statement. The actions of the Akatsuki have proven that forcibly changing the status quo will only provoke resistance from everyone."

Makoto Higashino: "Therefore, force is only a last resort, but it cannot be the only means."

Onoki: "I'm glad you're not like Madara Uchiha, someone who values ​​strength above all else. It's a pity, though. The world has always been cruel. Without bloodshed, nothing can be changed."

Higashino Makoto: "Huh, senior, are you inciting me to wipe you all out?"

Ohnoki:

Damn it, that's not what I meant at all! I meant for you to learn from Hashirama Senju's style, you bastard!

Just then, Jiraiya walked in: "I think I heard someone mention the name Madara?"

Onoki: "What? Can't I mention him in front of you Konoha ninjas?"

Jiraiya: "No, you've brought it up very well. According to the intelligence that just came in, Madara Uchiha appeared in Konoha yesterday, attempting to capture the Nine-Tails."

Onoki jumped to his feet in shock: "What? That guy's still alive?"

Jiraiya: "No, he died, but he has temporarily returned to the mortal world through some forbidden technique."

Mei Terumi: "He didn't succeed, did he?"

Jiraiya: "Don't worry, Kurama is perfectly safe now. However, according to intelligence, Madara is the true mastermind of Akatsuki, and those two Rinnegan were left behind by him before his death."

Everyone felt it was outrageous. How could someone who died still leave behind their methods in the world? What kind of mastermind's spirit is this?

Onoki: "Why is this guy always haunting us? Even though he's dead, he still causes us living people so much trouble."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a messenger rushed in to report: "The frontline intelligence team has located the Akatsuki base."

Raikage: "What? We finally found those bastards?"

Once the location was confirmed, the command immediately ordered the fully reorganized combat troops to set off in several columns to encircle and attack the target location.

In this battle, we must completely annihilate this organization; not even a fly should be allowed to escape.

Besides the staff who remained behind, the Five Kage would also follow closely behind, since the leader of the Akatsuki and those S-rank rogue ninjas were not people that ordinary ninjas could deal with.

Especially Madara Uchiha; for an ordinary ninja to deal with him is practically suicide.

But just as they left the command post, everyone vaguely heard a roar.

It wasn't a sound transmitted through the air, but rather seemed to resonate in everyone's mind, originating from the resonance of chakra within the body.

The Ten-Tails is the source of chakra for ninjas in the ninja world. When it fully recovers, it expresses a strong desire to reclaim all its chakra.

The roars were filled with anger, chaos, and destruction.

The atmosphere became very oppressive, and people sensed an unease.

Soon after, the feeling of oppression intensified, and this time it became tangible.

A huge black chakra ball rapidly grew larger in the sky, heading straight for the location of the Allied Forces Command.

It is a super-large tailed beast ball of the Ten-Tails, its size is frighteningly exaggerated.

Nagato controlled the Ten-Tails and presented it as a greeting gift to the five great ninja villages. If it were to fall, the entire command center, including most of the ninjas in the vicinity, would be blown to pieces and wiped out.

Raikage: "Is this a Beast Ball?"

Mizukage: "Yes, but why is the Tailed Beast Ball so big? That's excessive!"

Minato: "It seems the Ten-Tails has been resurrected."

After he finished speaking, he prepared to fly into the sky and use the Flying Thunder God Technique to transfer the trouble away. He was very familiar with this; he had done it more than ten years ago.

"I'll do it."

Higashino was a step faster than Minato, instantly teleporting into the flight path of the giant tailed beast ball.

He can naturally use Flying Thunder God Technique, but this time Higashino really doesn't plan to move it to the sea to wreak havoc on aquatic creatures, nor will he change direction to circle back like he did when facing the Four-Tailed Beast Ball in World War III.

He wanted to use a different method to process it, and also to get a feel for the composition of the Ten-Tails' chakra.

As he approached the Tailed Beast Ball, Higashino Makoto sensed that the yin-yang balance within it was rapidly becoming unbalanced, and that it would explode upon impact upon landing.

He controlled the repulsive force, greatly slowing down the flight speed of the Tailed Beast Ball, while simultaneously creating a special Wood Release clone.

Higashino Shin's chakra rushed into the Tailed Beast Ball, forming a seal inside, adjusting the yin-yang ratio, and preventing it from becoming unbalanced.

The special Wood Release clone stuck directly to the Tailed Beast Ball, and its entire body generated a crazy suction force. It was as if a gap had been opened in the Tailed Beast Ball, and the energy rushed into the clone body and was converted into secondary white natural energy and dispersed into the world.

A clone is essentially a humanoid converter.

Thus, the ninjas along the way witnessed a peculiar spectacle: the enormous Tailed Beast Ball was shrinking at an astonishing rate.

As he approached the coalition command post, he vanished completely, as if he had never existed.

However, many Konoha ninjas who have mastered the True Immortal system can sense that the natural energy in this area has become more active.

That was something they had been cultivating. Although they couldn't see colors at the level of consciousness like the founder, Makoto Higashino, they could still truly feel them.

The danger was resolved smoothly. Even without Higashino Makoto, Minato would have intervened. Nagato's plan never had a chance of being realized from the beginning.

After completing the mission, Higashino's Wood Release clone consciousness returned, but as his body fell, it began to become chaotically woody, with roots and branches growing haphazardly.

When it fell to the ground, it completely transformed into a twisted wooden monster, resembling both an old tree root and some strange creature.

It's like an abstract work created by a wood carving artist.

So here's the question: Is the Divine Tree actually a tree? Is it a plant or an animal?