Naruto: By lying low and hiding, he eventually became the leader of the Legendary Sannin.

Hiruzen Sarutobi felt a chill run down his spine and rushed toward Tsunade.

However, compared to the Hidden Cloud Village, which is better at training taijutsu, Hiruzen Sarutobi's speed is far inferior to Kinkaku's.

Moreover, Kinkaku is closer to Tsunade.

Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi looked on in despair, Kinkaku had already rushed up to Tsunade.

He grinned maliciously and raised his right hand, the powerful punch even creating a whooshing sound as it landed.

Unable to move, Tsunade could only watch helplessly as the fist grew larger and larger.

However, right now.

A familiar figure suddenly appeared in front of her.

Chapter 20: A Battle of Kage Level

Looking at the familiar background before her, Tsunade didn't know why, but tears welled up in her eyes.

The person who arrived was Kagura, who had been rushing this way.

After defeating the clone in front of him, he instantly realized Jinjiao's purpose and rushed towards the three of them.

However, even Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't catch up immediately, so how could his speed be faster than Hiruzen's?

He watched helplessly as the three were shot down to the ground like cannonballs, and even as the three clones charged towards Tsunade.

Fortunately, Hiruzen Sarutobi's ninjutsu saved Tsunade, and he finally arrived in Tsunade's body at the last moment.

A wisp of electricity crackled around Kinkaku's raised right hand, clearly indicating that he had used some kind of lightning-style ninjutsu to enhance his physical body.

Seeing Uchiha Kagura suddenly appear in front of him, Kinkaku's sinister smile intensified, and he continued to swing his fist without the slightest hesitation.

The enormous fist, like a god descending to earth, charged fiercely towards the two of them, carrying streaks of lightning and the sound of air being torn apart.

Seeing the thunderous attack before her, Kagura gritted her teeth and gathered all her chakra into her right hand.

He threw a straight punch in the direction from which the blow had landed, with an indomitable spirit.

It was the superhuman strength he learned from Tsunade!

Tsunade's superhuman strength is not strictly speaking a type of ninjutsu.

She created that monstrous power effect only by combining the flow and application of her own chakra with her innate strength.

Kagura, who possesses the Sharingan, naturally learned this technique very easily.

To Hiruzen Sarutobi's astonishment, the two fists, one large and one small, finally collided.

At the moment of impact, the arena suddenly fell silent.

Then a tremendous energy burst forth from their fists, forming an invisible shockwave that radiated outwards from them.

However, the difference in their abilities was simply too great.

After a mere second of stalemate, Kagura's expression suddenly changed, and he slammed into Tsunade behind him like a cannonball.

The massive impact sent the two crashing through dozens of meters of trees in a straight line until they finally came to a stop after hitting a solid boulder.

A huge gap was smashed into the boulder, and the figures of the two finally appeared.

Tsunade behind him had collapsed to the ground, but thankfully she was still alive, judging from her rising and falling chest.

Compared to Tsunade, Kagura's condition seemed rather precarious.

His right hand was turned outward at an unnatural angle, clearly indicating a fracture.

A trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and he collapsed weakly to one knee on the ground.

Although it seemed like a crushing defeat, they ultimately managed to withstand the fatal blow from the Golden Horn.

Seeing that the Uchiha brat had once again blocked his attack, Kinkaku was not angry at all; instead, he burst into wild laughter.

However, before he could make any further moves, Hiruzen Sarutobi finally rushed in front of him.

A cold glint flashed in his eyes as he finished forming a hand seal.

The ground trembled, and suddenly an earthen dragon appeared in front of him, charging towards Golden Horn.

However, this was not the end. As the earth dragon charged, Hiruzen Sarutobi puffed out his cheeks and spat out a stream of flame.

Flames enveloped the earth dragon, creating a fire-breathing earth dragon.

It was the Composite Ninja Art: Earth Dragon Flame Flow.

However, despite such an attack, Jinjiao remained standing motionless with a sinister smile on his face.

The earth dragon, wreathed in flames, engulfed Golden Horn's body.

Despite his successful strike, Hiruzen Sarutobi showed no excitement; instead, his expression grew even more serious.

This is actually a clone!

Just as the thought flashed through his mind, Jinjiao's hoarse voice came from above and behind him again.

"Hiruzen kid, you're still not careful enough!"

Have you forgotten that anger is a cardinal sin for ninjas?

The real Golden Horn had already leaped into the air.

The veins on his right hand, which was holding the banana leaf fan, bulged, and he swung it forcefully at Hiruzen Sarutobi's back!

Five different colored energy orbs appeared from the tip of the banana leaf fan.

After a brief pause, these orbs of light transformed into five giant dragons that roared toward Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Oh!"

With a loud explosion, a massive explosion occurred where Hiruzen Sarutobi had been standing.

The violent explosion instantly vaporized the trees within a radius of 100 meters, and the aftershocks created a gale that swept across the entire forest.

Orochimaru and the others who were originally lying on the ground were also blown far away by the explosion.

As he slowly descended from the sky, Kinkaku stared at the direction where Hiruzen Sarutobi had originally stood.

As the dust and mist slowly dissipated, a semi-circular earthen wall entwined with trees came into view.

However, most of the earthen wall was damaged, and looking through the ruins, one could see a cage made up of dozens of magic sticks.

The one inside the cage was Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Before the five attacks arrived, he instantly used Earth Escape and the Vajra Barrier formed by the summoned Monkey King, the Monkey Demon, to resist the wave of attacks.

Judging from his rapid breathing and the blood-soaked upper right side of his body, he was not able to completely resist all the impacts.

Kinkaku did not show any disappointment when he saw Hiruzen Sarutobi in the cage.

His eyes were fixed on Hiruzen Sarutobi, and his right hand, which was holding the Bashō fan, slowly rose again.

Although his face showed a trace of exhaustion, he still resolutely swung his fan down again.

Seeing the five familiar energy streams rushing towards him, Hiruzen Sarutobi did not sit idly by and wait for his death.

His eyes narrowed, and he quickly deactivated the Vajra Prison Barrier.

"Bang~ Bang~ Bang~ Bang~"

He quickly formed hand seals, and as four voices rang out, four shadow clones appeared around him.

He truly lives up to his title of "Professor of Ninjutsu".

The five Hiruzen Sarutobi each formed different hand seals and simultaneously attacked forward using ninjutsu of five different attributes: fire, lightning, water, earth, and wind.

Five Elements: Great Consecutive Bullet Technique

"Oh!"

Another deafening roar erupted, followed by an even more devastating explosion that rose across the battlefield.

It was as if a terrible natural disaster had struck; vast swathes of dense forest were instantly razed to the ground.

Several kilometers away from the battlefield, enduring excruciating pain, he put down the last Jiraiya he was holding.

Kagura collapsed to the ground, utterly exhausted.

Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya were lying neatly in front of him.

As the only one who could still remain conscious, he quickly grabbed Tsunade behind him and moved away from the battlefield before the first wave of explosions.

After settling Tsunade in, he went back to find Orochimaru and Jiraiya not far away and led them to a mountainside far from the battlefield.

In fact, when the system presented him with a choice between two tasks, he was able to deduce Golden Horn's formidable strength.

After all, if killing Golden Horn wasn't so extremely difficult, the system wouldn't have offered an alternative mission for us to choose from.

It was only when Kagura personally heard the continuous explosions in the distance and saw the forests being leveled that she truly understood the power of a Kage-level expert.

Gazing at the two figures in the distance, which were only the size of black dots but were constantly causing huge explosions, Kagura fell into thought.

First of all, Hiruzen Sarutobi cannot die.

At least I can't die here.

Given the current structure of Konoha Village, if Hiruzen Sarutobi were to die, the only possible candidate for the Third Hokage would be Danzo.

If Danzo becomes Hokage, then I probably will have no other choice but to defect from Konoha.

But that doesn't make sense. According to the original storyline, Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't have died during this period.

Ultimately, why did Golden Horn appear here?

Shouldn't he and Ginkaku be killed by the Third Raikage at this point?

Could it be that my time travel caused the butterfly effect?

Speaking of which, where did Silver Horn go?

Suddenly, Kagura felt as if she had grasped the key point.

After carefully recalling the entire process of encountering Golden Horn, an idea appeared in his mind.

"Could it really be like this?"

Just as he was muttering to himself, the battle not far away suddenly took an unexpected turn.