Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 183 The Battle of the Hidden Mist

"Lord Mizukage!"

"Where is the Mizukage?"

Violent explosions echoed throughout the village. Exhausted villagers and ninjas, at this moment, the only thing they could believe in and that brought them hope was the Third Mizukage.

At this moment, the Third Mizukage stood on the top of the Mizukage Building, searching for the enemy in the air with all his might. He understood that only by finding and eliminating the enemy could he prevent the village from suffering greater losses as quickly as possible.

But it was too late.

The enemy's attack was too fierce, and they were high in the air, so his attack couldn't reach them at all.

There was no other way but to block the enemy's attack.

"Pass down the order: once I use the Hidden Mist Technique, all ninjas who know Lightning Release should use their weakest Lightning Release technique on the dense fog," the Third Mizukage ordered.

"Understood!" The ANBU and a group of Jonin behind him accepted the order and left.

Soon, orders from the Mizukage were received throughout the village.

The Third Mizukage quickly clasped his hands together, opened his mouth and took a deep breath, his entire chest swelling up like the belly of a pufferfish.

"Water Release: Hidden Mist Technique!"

A thick fog was exhaled from the mouth of the Third Mizukage, quickly enveloping the entire Hidden Mist Village, reducing visibility to less than half a meter.

"Lightning Release - Earth Walk!"

"Lightning Release - Gratitude Wave!"

"Lightning Release..."

Throughout Kirigakure, ninjas skilled in Lightning Release followed closely behind, unleashing their weakest forms of Lightning Release.

In an instant, under the conductive effect of the dense fog, the entire Hidden Mist Village seemed to be in a layer of lightning clouds, constantly flashing, with countless arcs of electricity flowing, enveloping the entire Hidden Mist Village.

These electric arcs are not fatal; they only temporarily paralyze ordinary people and have no effect on ninjas with chakra.

But it is fatal to clay birds.

An electric arc flashed by, and the clay birds lost their vitality, turning into duds and falling to the ground.

The entire Misty Cavern fell silent instantly, with only the sound of flowing electric arcs and the sound of clay birds landing.

"As expected of the Mizukage!"

"To think they could come up with such a method, and even use a large-scale mist concealment technique to cover the entire village, they're truly reliable!"

The disappearance of the explosion sound made all the Hidden Mist ninja cheer, and their trust in the Third Mizukage reached a new level.

At this point, Mist Shadow was not yet the Blood Mist Shadow that would later become.

The ninjas of all races have a high level of respect for the Mizukage, and the villagers also love and protect each other.

Sensing the cheers of the Hidden Mist Village ninjas below and confirming that the Hidden Mist Village had no anti-air capabilities high in the sky above, Li Yao shook his head, a strange smile appearing on his face.

"How could I not see such an obvious weakness as Clay Burst Release?"

With a thought, Li Yao sent out clay birds flying from the clay sphere. A layer of wind-style chakra condensed on their bodies flowed at high speed, like a wind armor that not only protected the clay birds but also made them fly faster.

soon.

These clay birds, clad in wind armor, entered the dense fog crackling with electric arcs. The arcs struck the clay birds, but were instantly deflected by the high-speed flowing wind armor, preventing them from being electrocuted.

Rektu.

Wind Kree.

Li Yao is also adept at playing the chakra attribute counterplay, and he's even more well-rounded in it.

However, only Li Yao, who possesses absolute chakra control, could wrap each clay bird in wind armor.

No one else could perform such intensive and precise remote control.

"not good!"

On the top of the Mizukage Building, the Third Mizukage's expression suddenly changed as he sensed that the electric arcs in the thick fog were being blocked.

Unfortunately, while a powerful lightning release could break through the wind release armor on the clay bird, the weak electric current permeating the thick fog couldn't penetrate it.

"Water Release: Black Lotus!"

Upon seeing this, the Third Mizukage instantly formed hand seals, and black water spewed from his mouth, instantly forming a huge black lotus flower that blocked most of Kirigakure.

A standard feature of Kage-level powerhouses: Kage-level chakra reserves.

Boom boom boom... In an instant, countless clay birds landed on the black water lotus and exploded.

Despite the intense explosions, the Black Water Lotus only showed ripples on its surface, without disintegrating, demonstrating its terrifying defensive capabilities.

When the Five Kage surrounded and killed him, Li Yao experienced the terrifying defensive power of the Third Mizukage's Water Release: Black Water, which is why he came to replicate it.

However, the Third Mizukage was not Li Yao after all, and his control over chakra was not as meticulous as Li Yao's.

Li Yao's clay birds are not so rigid; they only fly from top to bottom.

Although the black water lotus was large, it was not yet able to form a barrier that could completely cover the entire Hidden Mist Village.

Li Yao manipulated countless clay birds to fly around the black water lotus and into the Hidden Mist Village from all sides.

In an instant, the sound of explosions echoed throughout the entire Hidden Mist Village once again.

"Who is it?"

"Who is it?"

The Third Mizukage's face was contorted with rage, filled with anger at his own powerlessness and hatred at the cruelty of his enemies.

What's most infuriating is that, to this day, he still can't think of anyone in the ninja world who possesses such a terrifying amount of chakra and the ability to control it.

The Iwagakure Explosives Squad is a renowned ninja unit in the ninja world, with each member being a figure recorded in the annals of various hidden villages.

None of them were as powerful as the enemy that attacked the village at that time.

The ability to continuously release such a large number of clay birds indicates that the enemy's chakra reserves are comparable to those of a tailed beast. The ability to cover each clay bird with wind-style chakra and the control over chakra are unprecedented, even to the Third Mizukage himself.

I've never heard of anyone possessing such terrifyingly powerful chakra control.

"Who is it?"

The Third Mizukage did not believe they were from Iwagakure; otherwise, Iwagakure would not have been invaded on its homeland after the war had just ended.

With such an offensive ninja comparable to a tailed beast, which ninja village would dare not increase its defensive capabilities?

"Could it be him?"

For some reason, Li Yao's image suddenly entered the mind of the Third Mizukage.

During the last battle where the five Kage joined forces to kill Li Yao, he noticed from the Raikage's unusual behavior that Li Yao might possess the terrifying talent of copying other people's ninjutsu.

This kind of replication includes the replication of ninjutsu like Black Lightning, which is comparable to a bloodline limit.

If it were Li Yao, then the Third Mizukage would find it perfectly reasonable that he could unleash an attack of this scale after replicating the Clay Explosion Release.

After all, more than four years have passed, and Li Yao, who possesses Wood Release, must have increased his chakra reserves to a terrifying level, comparable to a tailed beast, which makes perfect sense.

Moreover, if it were Li Yao, he would also have a reason to retaliate against the village.

Who told him he was one of the five Shadows who joined forces to kill Li Yaozhong?

"So...is it Li Yao?"

The Third Mizukage still harbored some doubts. Onoki's Dust Release: Detachment Technique was an even more powerful ninjutsu than the Primordial World Detachment Technique, arguably the strongest offensive ninjutsu in the ninja world. Even the Third Raikage, with his Lightning Release Armor activated, couldn't withstand that kind of attack. He didn't believe that Li Yao could survive such an attack.

Otherwise, Li Yao should have first looked for Iwagakure or Onoki.

After all, it was Onoki who caused Li Yao the most harm.

This made the Third Mizukage somewhat uncertain whether the attacker was Li Yao.

Unfortunately, the Third Mizukage was unaware of the destruction of the Daimyo's residence in the Land of Water at this time; otherwise, he would have been certain that the attacker was Li Yao.

However, at this moment, it doesn't matter who the attacker is.

The only thing the Third Mizukage could do was save more villagers and let them hide in the underground shelter to withstand the enemy's continuous clay explosion attacks.

(End of this chapter)