Konoha's Hextech Ninja

Kunai slashes and ordinary ninjutsu were completely ineffective against these incredibly tough vines.

Whenever the vines wrap around a target, they grow sharp thorns that pierce into the target's body, greedily sucking its flesh and life force.

Amidst the cries and wails of countless Kusagakure ninjas and civilians, the entire village was instantly transformed into a hellish place.

Upon witnessing this astonishing scene, Kaori Uzumaki initially showed surprise, fear, and a hint of pity.

But then she quickly remembered the clansmen who died protecting her during the attack by the Kusagakure ninja.

The fear and pity on Kaori Uzumaki's face quickly disappeared, replaced by a sense of satisfaction after revenge.

[Kill enemy heroes, rewards...]

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One system notification after another popped up.

In less than ten minutes, the entire Kusagakure village was reduced to ruins, with not a single living person left.

"Thank you, Mr. Ye Yi..."

Tears streamed down Kaori Uzumaki's face as she knelt down in awe, declaring with utmost devotion, "From this day forward, I will be Lord Yoruichi's most loyal follower!"

Orphans in the ninja world are so easy to fool.

By helping her achieve her revenge, you can gain a loyal and powerful subordinate.

"Get up." Yagami Yoruichi pulled Uzumaki Kaori up, leaving one clone to plunder the Grass Ninja Village's wealth and secret techniques, while his main body activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, bringing Uzumaki Kaori to Uzumaki Takuto's grave.

“Let’s go and pay our respects to Takuto-senpai,” Yagami Yoruichi said.

"Yes, sir." Kaori Uzumaki wiped the tears from her face, knelt down in front of Takuto Uzumaki's tombstone, and laughed and cried at the same time, recounting the successful revenge.

Yoruichi Yagami waited patiently until Kaori Uzumaki, overwhelmed with emotion, fell asleep in front of Takuto Uzumaki's grave. Only then did Yoruichi Yagami pick her up and take her back to Konoha.

I took stock of what I gained.

The benefits of destroying the Grass Village were even greater than Yagami Yoruichi had anticipated.

In terms of money, they acquired goods worth nearly one billion taels, and this only includes the portion that can be quickly converted into cash.

Some things, such as the land deeds of Kusagakure, have no value since Kusagakure is gone. Yagami Yoruichi's clones didn't bother to take them at all.

In terms of ninjutsu and secret techniques, Yagami Yoruichi obtained all the ninjutsu and secret techniques recorded in Kusagakure.

However, after looking through it, Yagami Yoruichi found that there were no very powerful techniques here. Many of them were just common ninjutsu that were frequently seen in the ninja world, which were simply modified and renamed to become 'secret techniques' unique to the Grass Ninja Village.

This thing, at most, will only enrich Konoha's ninjutsu inventory; it's not of much value.

Regarding system rewards.

The total number of ninjas in Kusagakure was over a thousand, but because many of them were on missions outside, they were lucky enough to escape the calamity.

In addition, the system's judgment criteria are quite strict.

Within the Grass Ninja Village, only over six hundred units were classified as 'Hero Units' by the system. In addition, there were ten thousand 'Super Soldiers' and civilians classified as 'Ordinary Soldiers', which brought Yagami Yoruichi a huge sum of over 500,000 gold coins.

It has to be said that, with the blessing of the [Golden Coin Rain], the reward that Yagami Yoruichi gets for killing an enemy is now much higher than before.

This large sum of gold coins is enough for Yagami Yoruichi to exchange for more than a dozen hero templates, or to purchase a large number of [Attribute Forging Items] to improve her own attributes.

The number of layers in the [Supercranium] has increased by more than 900, which has significantly improved Yoruichi Yagami's strength.

Unfortunately, the overall strength of the Grass Village was too weak. Despite killing so many Grass Ninja, the [Soul Devouring] Hextech only increased Yoruichi Yagami's [Spirit] attribute by less than 9,000 points.

As for enemies classified as 'super minions' and 'regular minions', they cannot trigger the [Altered Dragon] Hextech, nor will they add any attributes to Yoruichi Yagami.

Back in the village, Yagami Yoruichi simply sorted out the spoils from the annihilation of Kusagakure and didn't rush to exchange anything for them.

Our current strength is sufficient.

There will be even more benefits after defeating Rock Village and destroying Cloud Village.

We can consider what to exchange it for later.

"By the way, there seems to be another group of people from Kusagakure who are in Hozuki Castle. The Box of Elysium left behind by the Sage of Six Paths is located there."

Recalling the content of the theatrical version, Yagami Yoru hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and muttered to himself, "Forget it, I'll make a trip after the war is over. The number of people in Hozuki Castle isn't worth a special trip."

I waited another night.

The next day, Yagami Yoruichi sensed that the Flying Thunder God Mark had been activated, so she left a note, activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, and left.

At the border of the three kingdoms, Yagami Yoruichi appeared.

Through her senses, Yagami Yoruichi discovered that only Uchiha Fugaku and the few sensory teams he had brought were still there.

The person I was waiting for never came.

"Where is Jiraiya-senpai?" Yagami Yoruichi asked. "He should have arrived by the agreed time."

The reason for choosing the meeting place at the border of the Land of Earth, the Land of Rain, and the Land of Grass was to make it convenient for Jiraiya, who was in the Land of Rain, to come.

He was closer than anyone else, so he should have arrived long ago.

"This is a letter sent by the toads of Mount Myōboku at the request of Lord Jiraiya," said Fugaku Uchiha, handing over a scroll. "I haven't read it."

"A letter?" Yagami Yoruichi had a bad feeling and broke the seal on the scroll to open it.

Upon seeing the contents, Yagami Yoruichi immediately frowned.

Jiraiya not only rejected Yoruichi Yagami's invitation, but also did not intend to join Yoruichi Yagami in launching a war against Iwagakure.

Instead, she advised Yagami Yoruichi that she shouldn't have started a war before Iwagakure revealed its intention to attack Konoha.

The entire letter is filled with the beautiful fantasies of an idealist.

Seeing this, Yagami Yoruichi couldn't help but curse inwardly.

If you didn't want to participate, you should have said so earlier!

When the secret agents sent you a message, you didn't say anything. Now that the die is cast, you're saying you're not coming?!

If we were to be a bit more literal, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to accuse Jiraiya of deserting his post.

Out of respect for Tsunade, Yagami Yoruichi wouldn't do anything to Jiraiya over this, but her already low opinion of Jiraiya quickly diminished.

He spends all his time thinking about the prophecy of Mount Myōboku. Is he a ninja of Mount Myōboku or a ninja of Konoha?

Yagami Yoruichi cursed inwardly for a while, then said, "Jirai isn't coming either. Fujika-senpai, we need to change our tactics."

The original plan was for Fugaku Uchiha and Jiraiya to restrain the Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchuriki respectively, preventing them from escaping.

After defeating Onoki, Yagami Yoruichi would quickly arrive and capture the two Jinchuriki.

As for the remaining ordinary Iwa ninja, a single Wood Release technique could easily wipe them out; it would just require a little more chakra.

Wood Release is even more effective at countering the combined Earth Release techniques that the Hidden Hills ninjas excel at than Lightning Release, which is theoretically the most effective counter to Earth Release.

No matter what kind of earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of defensive technique), it cannot withstand the damage caused by the growth of plants.

But now, even Jilai doesn't come.

Yoruichi Yagami was unsure whether the Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchuriki were 'perfect Jinchuriki' in this era.

However, if that were the case, it would be very difficult for Fugaku Uchiha, with only the Mangekyou Sharingan, to restrain two perfect Jinchuriki.

With the addition of Kage-level fighters like Onoki and Kyoto, it's possible that one or two Kage-level powerhouses might escape from Iwagakure.

Yoruichi Yagami wasn't afraid of a head-on fight, but she feared that after the Kage-level ninjas of Iwagakure escaped, they wouldn't confront her directly, but instead would ambush Konoha's ordinary ninjas, attacking them and then running away.

If such a situation were to occur, Konoha would certainly suffer heavy losses.

So either don't fight, or if you do fight, you at least have to control all the Kage-level powerhouses.

With Jiraiya absent, the original tactics are no longer effective, and the plan must be changed.

After thinking for a moment, Yagami Yoruichi immediately looked at the sensory team and asked, "Can you find two Jinchuriki without alerting the Iwagakure ninja?"

After a pause, Yagami Yoruichi added, "According to the village's intelligence, the two Jinchūriki of Iwagakure Village have a bad relationship with the Tsuchikage, so they are rarely in the village. I need you to find them and subdue the two Jinchūriki before attacking Iwagakure Village."

“We can give it a try,” said a ninja from the Aburame clan. “However, it will take some time.”

Several other ninjas from different clans, or commoners skilled in sensory perception, also chimed in, expressing their willingness to give it a try.

“Then let’s do it.” Yagami Yoruichi took out a Flying Thunder God kunai and distributed it to all the members of the perception team, saying, “If you find a target that is suspected to be a Jinchuriki, contact me and I will go there immediately.”

The captains of several perception teams stepped forward to receive the Flying Thunder God Kunai, and led their respective members into the Land of Earth.

Chapter 220 The Corpse Demons Seal the Village, the End of the Rock-Hidden Village

The Land of Soup.

Jiraiya went to the Land of Rain, and Konoha lost a powerful Kage-level wielder on the northern battlefield. After repeatedly testing and confirming that Jiraiya was indeed not there, Kumogakure seized the opportunity and almost desperately committed all its forces.

Furthermore, by using the Six Paths Treasures, a precious treasure found in Kumogakure, they severely injured Minato Namikaze.

Originally, he could have fought the AB team to a draw by himself using the Flying Thunder God Technique.

However, after being seriously injured, even with emergency treatment, his combat ability only recovered to a small fraction. He struggled to deal with either member of the A or B team, let alone fight two against one.

Relying on the advantage of its top-level experts, Kumogakure successfully destroyed Konoha's main base on the front line, severely damaging Konoha's troops and killing at least a thousand ninjas.

After struggling to get out of his hospital bed, Minato Namikaze, along with Hiruzen Sarutobi and others, barely managed to repel the Cloud Ninja's attack before leading a small group of ninja to stay behind and cover their retreat.

The remaining wounded were evacuated to the battlefield further back.

However, the Cloud Ninja continued their relentless pursuit.

Left with no other choice, the rearguard could only fight back desperately to block the advance of the Cloud Ninja and try to delay the arrival of reinforcements to the village.

In the middle of nowhere.

In order to avoid affecting the battle between ordinary ninjas, the two Jinchuriki who had fully transformed into Tailed Beasts, the Fourth Raikage, were fighting against Hiruzen Sarutobi, Minato Namikaze, who were leading the rearguard, as well as two former elders, Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane.

"We can't hold on any longer."

Minato Namikaze's injuries continued to worsen, and they had begun to significantly affect his reaction speed.

Just now, he tried to sneak up behind the Fourth Raikage using the Flying Thunder God Technique, but he almost had his head smashed by the Fourth Raikage's punch.

If he hadn't used the Flying Thunder God Technique again at the last minute to escape, he might have really died here.

"My chakra is also running low. We can't outlast the Tailed Beasts in a battle of attrition," Hiruzen Sarutobi said, panting heavily.

He was already old and his physical functions were severely declining. After a series of high-intensity battles, he had very little chakra left.

The two tailed beasts on the other side, however, seemed to have hardly expended any energy, freely unleashing their chakra and releasing terrifying attacks.

After Mitomon Homura barely managed to repel the Fourth Raikage's attack by throwing out a series of explosive tags, he immediately shouted, "Hiruzen, think of something quick! This can't go on!"

The current situation is very unfavorable for Konoha.

Originally, the goal was to hold off the enemy for at least an hour.

However, because both of their most crucial combatants were in extremely poor condition, Konoha's side showed signs of defeat after less than half an hour of fighting.

Once their defenses are breached and the Hidden Cloud Village ninjas catch up with the retreating main force, it will be a massacre!

"Minato, switch! I'll deal with the Eight-Tails!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi approached Minato Namikaze and said rapidly, "I have one last desperate move..."

"Is it the Reaper Death Seal?" Minato Namikaze's left hand hung awkwardly at his sides, while his right hand barely gripped a kunai. He smiled slightly. "You're thinking the same thing. At this point, only the Reaper Death Seal can change the course of the battle."

"Minato, you're still young!" Hiruzen Sarutobi saw that Minato Namikaze also wanted to use the same method to drag the enemy down with him, and quickly advised him, "I'm old, dying on the battlefield is my destiny. You are the future of the village, there's no need for you to die here with this old man!"

"Third Hokage, your chakra reserves are no longer sufficient to seal the Eight-Tails, are they?" Minato Namikaze said bluntly, "In your current state, even if you use the Reaper Death Seal, you can only seal the Two-Tails at most. As for sealing the Eight-Tails, only I can do it."

Upon hearing Minato Namikaze's words, Hiruzen Sarutobi fell silent.

In less than two days, three consecutive high-intensity battles had already drained his body.

Although they are both tailed beasts, after fighting for so long, everyone knows that the strength of the Two-Tails and the Eight-Tails is not on the same level at all, and the difficulty of sealing them is also vastly different.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's remaining chakra was indeed insufficient to seal the Eight-Tails.

Even sealing the Two-Tails would be extremely difficult.

"What about the Raikage?" Hiruzen Sarutobi asked.

His original plan was to use the Reaper Death Seal to seal the two tailed beasts himself. Without the pressure from the tailed beasts, Minato Namikaze, together with his two old teammates, would be able to hold off the Fourth Raikage and buy enough time.

But if both of them were to die, even if Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane were combined, they wouldn't be a match for the Fourth Raikage; they would even have difficulty stalling him.

Wouldn't the Fourth Raikage be invincible on the battlefield by then?