Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 156 What are you doing here?

"Mother, what about us?"

Little Yezi looked up at her mother, at a loss, not knowing what to do next.

"Let's go first."

Gui Mo led her daughter towards the edge of the barrier. They were already close to the edge, so they quickly reached it.

"Ye Zi, you stay here... Don't go anywhere unless it's dangerous. Wait for the barrier to be removed and then leave on your own. Do you understand?"

Uzumaki Takamo squatted down, gently stroking her daughter's hair on her forehead, and solemnly gave her instructions.

"And what about you, Mother?" Little Yezi asked, her expression changing slightly.

Gui Mo looked at the large tree in the distance, which was surging like an earth dragon turning over, and said with a firm expression, "I'll go and check on Lord Li Yao."

If Li Yao dies here, the mother and daughter will also be in grave danger. Only if Li Yao lives can they... at least their daughter have a chance to survive.

Uzumaki Takama saw this very clearly.

Even if it meant sacrificing herself, she wanted Li Yao to live.

"I..." Xiao Yezi wanted to say that she would go too, but under her mother's sharp gaze, she knew that she would only be a burden if she went, so she lowered her head and said in a deep voice, "I understand, Mother."

"Good girl." Gui Mo smiled and patted her daughter's head, then stood up and said, "Don't worry, your mother and Lord Li Yao will come back for you."

After saying that, Gui Mo ran towards Li Yao's main body, leaving only a few tears floating in the air.

How could one escape from a combined attack by the five Kage?

She didn't know how she could help Li Yao, but she was willing to sacrifice her life if she could give him even the slightest bit of help.

"Onoki, Li Yao's main body is trapped. Go and kill him. I'll hold off Li Yao's shadow clones here."

The Third Raikage flew to Onoki's side and spoke to him.

Onoki looked at the Third Raikage, a strange feeling rising in his heart. Why did he feel a little uncomfortable with the Third Raikage's help?

"it is good."

Onoki nodded and, without hesitation, immediately ran towards Li Yao's main body.

With the Third Raikage present, Li Yaoying's clone was no longer able to stop Onoki and could only watch him leave.

However... Li Yaoying has more than one clone.

Two shadow clones that split off from Kimo rushed towards Onoki and blocked him halfway.

five minutes.

Four minutes left.

Onoki silently kept track of the time. Five minutes had passed since the barrier was activated. In four more minutes, he could use his wide-range Dust Release to kill Li Yao. At that time, the barrier would be deactivated, and he would still have a chance to escape.

Boom boom boom... At this moment, the shadow clones that were fighting the Mizukage and Raikage were exhausted and destroyed.

There was no other way; the chakra consumed to block the Mizukage and Tsuchikage was terrifying. The fact that the shadow clones lasted for four minutes was already quite impressive.

"Shadow Clone Technique".

One of Li Yaoying's shadow clones flew high in the sky along the edge of the barrier. After getting rid of the married woman Ayase, he once again took out a huge scroll from the black water space and continued to create shadow clones to absorb chakra, preparing to transfer chakra to his main body at any time.

Sensing this, Kato Dan quickly said to the married woman Ayase, "Ayase-senpai, Li Yao's shadow clone has started transferring chakra to Li Yao's main body again. We must interrupt him."

Upon hearing this, Ayase, a married woman, frowned slightly. She looked at the relaxed and smiling Li Yaoying clone in front of her, and then at the other Li Yaoying clones that had already flown far away. Her strength was not enough to stop even one Li Yaoying clone; she would need Kato Dan's help as well.

She really couldn't care less about the other shadow clones.

Unless… she looked toward the edge of the barrier in the distance, where she remembered a mother and daughter from the Whirlpool Clan.

call out!

The married woman, Ayase, decided to take a gamble, betting that Li Yao cared a lot about the mother and daughter and would send more shadow clones over for the little girl.

This way she can control more shadow clones.

"Ayase-senpai, what are you trying to do?"

Kato Dan's angry voice echoed in Ayase's mind. She remained expressionless, parrying Li Yaoying's clone's attacks while moving towards Xiaoye's location, ignoring Kato Dan's words.

"Wake up, senior!" Kato Dan said angrily. "Li Yaoying's clone didn't use his full strength to stop you at all. He didn't care about the life or death of that mother and daughter. He was just conserving his chakra to stop us for as long as possible."

It must be said that Kato Dan has a strong fighting talent and saw through Li Yaoying's clone's intentions.

Li Yao really didn't want to expend a lot of chakra to stop the married woman Ayase. The chakra in the giant scroll wasn't inexhaustible, and it had to be used at crucial moments.

If Ayase, a married woman, wants to kill Koyo, then let her kill her.

As Li Yao had said before, whether the mother and daughter lived or died depended on luck.

There's nothing you can do if you're unlucky.

Hearing that Li Yao didn't care about the life or death of the mother and daughter, the married woman Ayase stopped and asked in her heart, "What should we do now? It's difficult for us to escape from Li Yao's shadow clones."

"There's no other way, senior, you should get away from Li Yaoying's clone first," Kato Dan said.

Only by getting Ayase-senpai away from the range of Li Yao's illusion could he notify the other shadows to hunt down Li Yao's clones.

Especially that clone with the giant scroll; only by eliminating that clone could Li Yaocai stop obtaining chakra to maintain his Wood Release.

If it weren't for the Wood Release technique, Senior Moonstone would have already reached Li Yao.

"Understood."

The married woman, Ayase, glared hatefully at Li Yaoying's clone before flying away on her own.

"Trying to leave?"

Li Yaoying's clone sneered. He wouldn't allow him to leave now, and immediately sent the Ink Eagle flying over.

"Ink-wash waterfall!"

The married woman, Ayase, expended a large amount of chakra to condense a towering waterfall of ink that surged towards Li Yaoying's clone.

Faced with such a wide-range attack, Li Yaoying's clone did not want to waste chakra, so he simply controlled the ink eagle to fly into the sky to evade it.

In this way, the married woman Ayase instantly widened the distance between him and 600 meters.

"Okay, I'll be right back."

After speaking, Kato Dan left the body of the married woman Ayase and quickly told the Mizukage and the Third Raikage about the information that Li Yao's shadow clones were continuously feeding Li Yao's main body with chakra through a giant scroll and the Shadow Clone Technique, and ordered the Mizukage and Raikage to kill Li Yao's shadow clones.

"Shadow Clone Technique... what a troublesome ninjutsu!"

The fact that the Shadow Clone technique transfers the remaining chakra to the original body after dissolving the Shadow Clone caused the Mizukage and Raikage to frown slightly.

The Third Raikage glanced at Onoki, who was still entangled with Li Yao's two shadow clones in the distance. Seeing that Onoki was only trying his best to avoid Li Yao's attacks and had no intention of retaliating, he suddenly realized that Onoki was accumulating chakra.

"That guy's holding back a killer move!"

Thinking of this, the Third Raikage's eyes flashed slightly, and he instantly made a decision: to follow Kato Dan's advice and deal with Li Yaoying's clone instead of going to Li Yao's side for the time being.

The Third Mizukage looked slightly surprised upon seeing this, and then followed Kato Dan's instructions to find Li Yao's shadow clone.

"Two cunning fellows!"

Seeing the Third Raikage and Mizukage moving away from Li Yao's body in the distance, Onoki cursed inwardly.

If all four Kage can be defeated in one fell swoop, then the final victor in this great ninja war between the five great nations will surely be Iwagakure.

Pity.

The Mizukage and Tsuchikage sensed his intentions; the Hokage... they hadn't expected him to be so weak.

To be honest, Onoki was quite surprised by the scene where the Third Hokage was almost killed by Li Yaoying's clone. He didn't expect the Third Hokage, who had the title of the Greatest Hokage of the Ninja World, to be so weak. Now he was even hiding away and didn't care about surrounding and killing Li Yaoying.

Honestly, if Li Yao's survival hadn't posed such a significant threat to Iwagakure, Onoki would have turned around and left long ago.

Unfortunately, they're all in the game now, so killing Li Yao is the only option.

Where are the current third generation?

"What are you doing here, Third Hokage?"

The Raikage's guards stared in shock at the Third Hokage inside the barrier. The other four Kage were all fighting, but the Hokage had appeared here instead.

What's going on?

What does that mean?

The Third Hokage was somewhat embarrassed, fearing that the Raikage's guards would misunderstand that he had prematurely lifted the barrier. He couldn't care less about anything else and quickly explained, "Li Yao is heading this way, so I came here ahead of time to prepare the forbidden technique."

After saying that, the Third Hokage sat down and gathered his chakra, looking like he was really preparing a forbidden technique.

The Thunder Shadow Guard looked somewhat suspicious, but seeing that none of the other three Shadows had taken the initiative to remove the barrier, he hesitated for a moment and did not remove the barrier either. However, he was already very vigilant and would immediately remove the barrier if anything went wrong.

Biwako's eyes flickered slightly as she noticed the look her husband had given her earlier, which made her realize something was wrong. She used her summoning beast to summon the ape demon, asking it to use a reverse summoning technique to bring him out of the barrier.

Inside the barrier, without the protection of Kato's broken spirit body, the Third Generation had no confidence in resisting Li Yao's illusion.

(End of this chapter)