Zongman: Capturing the goddess from Demon Slayer

Regarding the giant humanoid wooden figure that was constantly wreaking havoc in the village.

Neither the Third Hokage nor the Fourth Hokage knew what it was.

Moreover, the monster was situated within the Hidden Leaf Village, preventing many large-scale destructive techniques of the Leaf ninja from being used.

For example, the Akimichi clan's Super Size Technique.

As for Konan, Tsunade, Kushina, Mikoto, Nonoyu, and others, because they lived together with Lan Mingang.

The presence of various shielding formations around the house meant they were unaware of the major events happening outside.

Lan Mingang floated in the sky above the Hidden Leaf Village, overlooking the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path below.

He had no intention of taking action, as there was no need.

Without absorbing the chakra of the Tailed Beasts, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had limited mobility and attack methods, and its duration was inherently short. The reason it could still attack now was because some of Nagato's chakra remained within it.

Whoosh!

A kunai pierced the top of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's head, and Minato Namikaze used the Flying Thunder God Technique to instantly arrive above the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's head.

Just as he was preparing to use the Flying Thunder God Technique once again to teleport the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to a location far away from the Hidden Leaf Village.

Bong~

The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, having exhausted the chakra of Nagato within its body, was summoned back by Nagato.

Minato Namikaze felt the ground disappear beneath his feet and quickly used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to the ground.

"It disappeared!"

"A summoning technique?"

Minato Namikaze narrowed his eyes slightly, seemingly lost in thought, and then instructed the personal Anbu at his side:

"Crane! Tanuki! Lead a team to search within a hundred miles radius of the Hidden Leaf Village for any traces of attackers."

"The rest of you, fully commence rescue operations!"

"Quick!"

Although the extent of the damage brought to the Hidden Leaf Village by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was far less than the Nine-Tailed Fox Incident in the original story.

It still caused considerable casualties.

Next to a house with only one high wall remaining, Uchiha Izumi covered her face with one hand, weeping, while using the other hand to feel her way along the wall.

She constantly called out for her mom and dad.

"Come with me, I'll take you to find your parents!"

Lan Mingang appeared in front of Uchiha Izumi.

Uchiha Izumi looked up and saw the older brother who often lined up with her to buy tri-colored dango.

"Big brother!"

Lan Mingang smiled slightly and extended his palm towards Uchiha Izumi.

"Let's go, this wall is about to collapse, I'll take you to the shelter."

"Okay!"

Izumi reached out and grasped Lan Mingang's hand, walking towards the direction of the shelter.

Thump!

A loud noise suddenly came from behind, startling Izumi, who trembled and involuntarily tightened her grip on Lan Mingang's hand, moving closer to Lan Mingang.

Looking back, thick smoke was billowing from the alley she had just been in.

The wall had collapsed.

Lan Mingang brought Izumi to the location of the shelter.

Because the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had already disappeared, many people were not staying inside the shelter, but were waiting outside the shelter for their loved ones.

Izumi's parents were no exception.

It wasn't that they didn't bring Izumi with them when they ran, it was just that Izumi lived at home, while Izumi's parents lived in the store.

Every other day, the two of them would return home to be with Izumi.

Yesterday, the two of them had already returned home to spend the night with Izumi, so they were not at home today and were not with Izumi.

After seeing Izumi, Izumi's parents shouted loudly:

"Izumi!"

"Over here!"

After seeing her parents, Izumi's face lit up with joy, and she released Lan Mingang's hand, taking a step forward.

But she immediately stopped, turned around, and looked at Lan Mingang.

"Thank you, big brother!"

Izumi waved goodbye to Lan Mingang as she ran towards the direction where her parents were.

The next day.

The rescue operation basically ended.

Because there was no situation of Sharingan controlling the Tailed Beasts this time, the Uchiha clan was not affected, and there was no need to relocate from their ancestral land.

On the contrary, because they contributed a lot to the post-war rescue operations, they received praise from Minato Namikaze.

Danzo was very angry about this.

"Evil Uchiha, don't think that you can gain the trust of the villagers by doing this. As long as I, Danzo, am still here, don't even think about stirring up trouble!"

A month later, the Ninja Academy began a new round of admissions.

Izumi naturally signed up.

And successfully passed the assessment to enter the school, becoming Lan Mingang's student.

Only this one person.

"Big brother!" Izumi exclaimed in surprise after seeing Lan Mingang enter the classroom.

At the same time, she was puzzled:

"Big brother, why are you here?"

"Because I am your teacher, here to teach you!"

Izumi was extremely surprised.

"Really?"

"Of course!"

"Let's go, I'll take you out for class!"

Lan Mingang took Izumi away from the Ninja Academy and came to the outside of the Hidden Leaf Village.

On a piece of grassland outside the Hidden Leaf Village, two young girls had been waiting for a long time.

They were Mitarashi Anko and Uzuki Yugao respectively.

After seeing Lan Mingang arrive, they went forward to greet him.

"Teacher!"

"Is this your new student?" Mitarashi Anko asked.

"Yes, I was worried about leaving her alone at the Ninja Academy, so I brought her out to be with you."

"Hello, I am Uchiha Izumi!" Izumi greeted politely.

"So cute~ My name is Anko, Mitarashi Anko!"

"Hello little sister, my name is Uzuki Yugao, and I am also the teacher's student."

Mitarashi Anko and Uzuki Yugao also introduced themselves to Izumi.

Afterwards, while Lan Mingang lectured Izumi, he also watched Mitarashi Anko and Uzuki Yugao's training.

In the following months, Lan Mingang personally taught Anko, Yugao, and Izumi outside the Hidden Leaf Village during the day.

At night, he lived a life of revelry with Tsunade, Konan, and other women in the villa, having a good time.

Anbu.

Minato Namikaze led a group of people to surround Danzo's Root organization.

They took away the Wood Release ninja 'Kinoe' (Yamato) that they found, and also searched out Orochimaru's human laboratory.

Minato Namikaze didn't pursue Danzo too much, firstly because he couldn't do anything about it, and secondly because Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted to protect him.

But Orochimaru was in big trouble.

Orochimaru was surrounded by a crowd of ninjas, layer upon layer.

Minato Namikaze also sent someone to call Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Seeing his former student actually doing such a thing, Hiruzen Sarutobi had the intention to kill.

But when the past times with Orochimaru flashed before his eyes.

Hiruzen Sarutobi clenched his fists tightly, not knowing what to do.

Seeing everyone hesitating, Orochimaru took the opportunity to transform into a snake, swallowed the bottles and jars on the side in one gulp, dispersed the crowd, and fled into the distance.

Anbu ninjas stepped forward to pursue him one after another, only Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi stood in place, not pursuing.

The reason why Minato Namikaze didn't go after him was also because he saw that Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't bear to kill Orochimaru.

Otherwise, he would have left a Flying Thunder God mark on Orochimaru no matter what.

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