Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 388 The Hokage's Resolve

"What's wrong, Granny Tsunade?"

Naruto asked in confusion, unaware that Li Yao would be coming to find him in an hour; Tsunade hadn't had a chance to tell him yet.

"Naruto, Li Yao will be back to find you soon." Tsunade told him about the one-hour agreement with Li Yao, and continued, "Naruto, hurry up and go to Mount Myōboku to prepare Sage Mode. This time we will fight alongside you. The enemy's genjutsu is too strong. You can't defeat Li Yao alone."

Only with a large enough group can they prevent Naruto from being affected by genjutsu at any time... um.

boom!

Tsunade's expression suddenly changed, and she immediately unleashed a terrifying burst of chakra.

"Don't worry, I won't use genjutsu on Naruto."

Just now, Li Yao's voice suddenly appeared in Tsunade's mind.

Tsunade instantly realized that Li Yao's body-controlling ninjutsu was still being applied to her, but even after unleashing her full chakra, she still found nothing and could not find the ninjutsu chakra that Li Yao had applied to her body.

This made Tsunade's face extremely gloomy.

Naruto was startled by Tsunade's sudden burst of chakra and quickly approached, asking, "What's wrong, Tsunade? What happened?"

Huff... Tsunade took a deep breath, suppressing her emotions, and waved her hand, saying, "It's nothing."

She is the Hokage; she absolutely cannot panic.

"Naruto, you..."

Tsunade wanted to tell Naruto to hurry up and go to Mount Myōboku to prepare for Sage Mode, but then she suddenly realized that Li Yao might be watching her and Naruto from that special space, without them being able to detect it.

That means Li Yao heard the entire conversation between the two of them.

This intractable ability left Tsunade truly desperate; she didn't even know how to explain the arrangements to Naruto.

"Grandma Tsunade...could it be...?"

Naruto was very perceptive at this critical moment. From Tsunade's sudden burst of chakra and her hesitant reaction, he guessed that the enemy might be monitoring them using some unknown means.

Tsunade nodded slightly to Naruto. Without saying a word, Naruto understood everything and realized the power of her space-time ninjutsu.

"Spiritual communication!"

Naruto immediately summoned the communication toad from Mount Myōboku, instructing it to return and tell Lord Shima to summon him back using the Reverse Summoning Technique. At the same time, he left a Reverse Summoning Scroll for Tsunade.

Once Li Yao launches an attack, Tsunade uses the reverse summoning scroll to summon Naruto back.

Naruto didn't hide any of this from Li Yao, because he had already guessed that the enemy wanted to defeat him head-on this time.

If it says one hour, then it should be one hour.

"Come out!"

A short while later, Naruto was summoned away, and Tsunade immediately spoke to the air, believing that Li Yao must be around her.

call out!

Li Yao revealed himself; he had followed Tsunade the entire time and had witnessed their conversation.

"What exactly is your purpose?"

"Is it also the Nine-Tails inside Naruto?"

Tsunade didn't make a fuss about Li Yao's appearance, because there was no need to. She questioned Li Yao, hoping to find out more information.

Li Yao came over and put his arm around Tsunade. Tsunade's body stiffened, and just as she was about to resist, her body suddenly went limp, allowing her pride to be taken advantage of.

Tsunade's eyes blazed with fury, but she remained silent and did not resist, allowing Li Yao to pull her onto a wooden chair and play with her.

She is the Hokage, and these are things she must endure.

If she rebels and breaks the one-hour agreement, causing the battle to begin ahead of schedule, Konoha is very likely to be defeated.

Tsunade couldn't afford to gamble, and Konoha couldn't afford another defeat.

Therefore, Tsunade could only silently endure the humiliation alone.

"As expected of the Hokage, he has a sense of responsibility! He's willing to sacrifice himself!"

Li Yao chuckled, feeling the fullness overflowing from his five fingers. He had to admit, a woman with Tsunade's figure was really comfortable to play with no matter how you played with her.

"You still haven't answered my question?" Tsunade suppressed her inner impulse and continued to ask.

"Nine-tailed!" Li Yao said, making no attempt to conceal his purpose.

"You also want to collect the Tailed Beasts... Hmm!" Tsunade suddenly frowned and lifted her buttocks up.

"Mmm." Li Yao nodded, let go of his hand, and lay back comfortably.

"Where's your Sharingan?" Tsunade asked anxiously.

Li Yao patted Tsunade's thigh and laughed, "You think I'll tell you if you do it yourself?"

"You... fine." Tsunade endured the humiliation, thinking to herself that everything she did was for Konoha.

"Can you tell me now?" Tsunade asked again after a short while. She wanted to gather as much information as possible about Li Yao to give Naruto a chance to defeat this bastard.

This bastard's eyes aren't Sharingan, where did he put his Sharingan?

If we can find his Sharingan, perhaps we can find a way to defeat him.

As Tsunade pondered, Li Yao smiled and uttered a sentence that made Tsunade tremble.

"Actually, I'm not the masked man!"

"What?!?"

Tsunade couldn't help but scream, but the scream was accompanied by an indescribable sense of pleasure, which was strange. Fortunately, Li Yao had put a soundproof barrier on the house, otherwise everyone else would have heard it.

"Impossible, if you're not the masked man, then you..."

Tsunade suddenly couldn't speak, because the two of them had suddenly arrived in a dark space with floating stone pillars.

On a stone pillar, Tsunade saw Obito's clone and noticed the crimson Sharingan in its eyes.

She was certain that this was the masked man Naruto had mentioned, while Li Yao, who was currently connected to her via microphone, was clearly another man.

call out!

After taking Tsunade for a walk outside and letting her experience aerial combat, the two returned to Tsunade's house.

"Who...are you?"

Tsunade asked the question again.

Just now, Li Yao demonstrated three different space-time ninjutsu, one of which was a space-time teleportation ninjutsu similar to the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Who exactly is Li Yao?

How can someone master such terrifying space-time ninjutsu while also possessing powerful genjutsu abilities?

Which ninja village is Li Yao from?

Why has there never been any trace of Li Yao in the ninja world?

Even the masked man has left traces in the ninja world, but Li Yao seems to have sprung up out of a rock... Hmm, wait a minute!

It popped out of the stone... Could it be!

Suddenly, Tsunade had a flash of inspiration, and a thought struck her. She stared in horror at Li Yao, who was sitting cross-legged with her.

"You...you came from a dragon vein!"

"You're from another world!"

"That's right, you're not from this world!"

Tsunade finally realized that someone as powerful as Li Yao couldn't possibly leave no trace in the ninja world. The only possibility was that he wasn't from this world, but rather someone from another world, someone who had just come from another world, and who came from the Loulan Ruins, which Naruto and the others had visited, by borrowing the power of the dragon vein.

Just as she guessed that Yamato might have gone to the past or the future, Li Yao must have come from the past or the future.

Only in this way can we explain why Li Yao has absolutely no intelligence information in the ninja world.

(End of this chapter)