Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 396 Konoha Destroyed Again

In an instant, the entire world fell silent, and Tsunade, who was running and looking back, froze in mid-air.

The large bird that had been drawn to Li Yao, which was only a hundred meters away, froze instantly as it flapped its wings, and the huge shock in its small eyes also froze.

Jiraiya, who was closest to Li Yao, stared wide-eyed, his face frozen in horror.

Sand and stones flew.

Dark clouds and lightning descended.

Everything seemed to freeze in that instant.

click!

Only a cracking sound rang out between the two men's fists and feet clashing.

A sharp white crack spread out from between the two men's fists and feet, extending to the left, right, up, and down. Then, just like a sapling rapidly growing into a towering tree, countless sharp white cracks emerged from it, densely packed like a spider web, covering the space around the two men. Only the ground beneath their feet remained unaffected.

Crackling sounds echoed as the air shattered.

Invisible ripples emanated from these shattered white cracks, and wherever the ripples passed, the space was as if under the pressure of water 100,000 meters below the sea, crushing all surrounding matter.

Jiraiya, who was closest, instantly turned into a piece of paper and sank with the ground.

*Crack...* As if a moment had passed since time had stopped, countless sharp white cracks in the air suddenly expanded.

Then... boom!

The hundred-meter space around Li Yao and Matt Kai was like a circular submarine made of reinforced glass that had fallen to the bottom of the sea at a depth of 100,000 meters. The terrifying water pressure caused the space to crack in countless places.

In the instant these cracks completely burst open.

It's like the water pressure at the bottom of a 100,000-meter-deep ocean suddenly exploding within a 100-meter space, releasing energy like a nuclear bomb explosion.

In an instant, white light filled the entire space, illuminating the surroundings.

A kilometer away, Tsunade and the others could only see a white light, and could see nothing else.

On the ground, a white sphere of light, 100 meters in diameter, suddenly expanded and then exploded.

The terrifying shockwave surged outwards like a tsunami wave thousands of meters high, swallowing and sinking everything in its path.

Wherever the shockwave passed, the ground sank tens of meters in an instant, like a rolling wave.

"Ah... Konoha was really destroyed by that boulder?"

On the top of a mountain, in a three-person team that had come from Kumogakure to gather information on Konoha ninja Uchiha Sasuke, a young white-haired, black-haired ninja with a lollipop in his mouth stared blankly at Konoha in the distance.

He had accidentally let out a fart, which led him to imagine that the airflow caused by the fart had moved a huge rock on a mountaintop. The rock slid down the mountainside, causing geological subsidence, which ultimately led to the destruction of Konoha Village by sinking it underground.

But... that was just his imagination.

The white-haired, black-haired guy never expected that a giant rock would actually fall, causing geological subsidence and destroying Konoha.

"Idiot, that's clearly not a boulder!"

A red-haired, black-clad female ninja who had come with them changed her expression upon hearing this, slapped the white-haired, black-clad man on the head, and loudly complained. Then, she immediately became serious and said solemnly, "But you are right, Konoha was indeed destroyed."

The three of them were standing on a large mountain more than ten kilometers away from Konoha, with a wide view.

The distant Konoha and the earth were like a ten-thousand-meter-high mountain suddenly falling from the sky onto a calm lake, and the towering waves that rose up swallowed and destroyed everything in their path.

In the eyes of the three, the terrifying shockwave was like a white wave of air spreading towards them, and it didn't seem to be weakening much.

"Earth Release-Earth Formation Wall!"

The fierce, blond, fair-skinned female ninja, the one among the three main characters of Kumogakure, instantly changed her expression and immediately formed hand seals to unleash an Earth Release ninjutsu.

bump!

Bang!

Just as an earthen wall rose in front of the three people, the shockwave that had spread from more than ten kilometers away rushed here and crashed into the earthen wall, making a huge roar.

The three instinctively turned their heads and saw that the surrounding trees instantly bent in the same direction. Many of the trees couldn't withstand the shockwave and snapped with a crack.

The three people behind the earthen wall listened to the sound of the wall being hit and saw the sound of the tree breaking, their expressions becoming even more serious.

"What kind of attack did Konoha suffer?!"

"Has the Nine-Tails gone berserk?"

Even after being weakened over such a distance, the shockwave that spread from more than ten kilometers away could still snap large trees and smash earthen walls with a clanging sound.

Such a powerful attack could probably only be achieved when a Tailed Beast's Tailed Beast Ball explodes!

The three of them were thinking.

"..."

"..."

"..."

After the shockwave subsided, the three emerged from the earthen wall on the left, and the scene before them once again shocked them.

The flying rocks were stuck in the mountainside, and the trees that hadn't fallen were all bare, their leaves blown away.

Looking towards the direction of Konoha, the ground was a scene of utter devastation.

Gravel, broken tree branches, and cracked debris lay scattered on the messy ground.

"What terrifying power this is!"

"Luckily, we took a lot of detours along the way and didn't arrive early, otherwise..."

With a toothpick dangling from his mouth, the white-haired, black-haired Yunyin was filled with lingering fear. He was thankful that the three of them hadn't arrived earlier; otherwise, they would already be on their way to heaven after the attack.

"Walk!"

"Hmm...what?"

Just as the white-haired little black guy was feeling lucky to have escaped a disaster, he suddenly heard the voice of the blonde, icy older sister next to him. His expression changed, and he quickly jumped in front of the blonde, icy older sister.

"Hey, Samui, are we really going to Konoha right now?"

Samui, the icy and aloof older sister who always carries two large watermelons, is a capable assistant to the Fourth Raikage. She has milky white skin, which is different from the black skin of many Cloud Village ninjas. She appears cold and capable, but in reality, she is a caring older sister.

Looking at his subordinate, the young fantasy man Omoi, who was blocking his way, he inwardly complained, "Young subordinates are so hard to manage." But on the surface, he maintained a cold expression, as if the mission had to be completed as soon as possible, and said, "Let's go."

The words are few, but the meaning is very firm.

After saying that, Samui took long, milky-white legs and ran around Omoi down the mountain.

"Hey, Samoi, didn't you see that?"

As soon as Samoi left, Omoi and her companion, the little black woman Karui, immediately followed. As Omoi ran, she gestured with her hand to indicate danger, saying anxiously, "That terrifying attack, once it gets close, we can't stop it at all, we'll be dead instantly."

"Yes, you'll die instantly, Samui."

The red-haired, black-haired girl, Karui, stood beside Samoi, her face contorted with grief, as if the words "I don't want to die" were written all over her face.

Omoi suggested, "We can wait a while, and go to Konoha after we're sure there won't be a second attack like that."

Karui nodded frantically, "Mmm-hmm."

Neither of them wanted to go to Konoha right now, fearing they would be caught up in the attack they had just witnessed.

"Fool."

Samui was thoroughly annoyed by the entanglement of his two young subordinates and couldn't help but curse. He then explained, "It's precisely because the attack just now was so terrifying that we should gather intelligence immediately. Otherwise, what if we have no information when such a terrifying attack strikes the village again? Should we let our comrades and innocent civilians pay for our mistakes with their lives?"

(End of this chapter)