Only I can make Konoha Village great again.

The flames of war have engulfed the Sakurahara Fortress.

The shouts of battle, the clanging of swords against each other, and the explosions of ninjutsu clashes all blended together into a deafening roar.

In winter, there are no pink cherry blossoms, only broken branches and fallen trees.

Orochimaru muttered, "Oh ho ho ho, thank goodness there are no cherry blossoms."

"Without cherry blossoms, they wouldn't be stained black by gunpowder smoke, mixed with blood and dust, flying haphazardly in the wind."

"How lucky I am."

The Fourth Raikage roared, "Damn it, you stinking snake, get your act together!"

Orochimaru chuckled, "Hehehe: Fool, I'm fighting you properly!"

"But you're a muscle-bound guy, insisting that I, a ninja, go toe-to-toe with you. Don't you think you're the one who's gone astray?"

The Fourth Raikage continued his furious roar: "Die, Raging Thunder Axe!"

Splat!

Blood splattered, flesh flew everywhere, but Orochimaru's laughter continued: "Hehehe, wrong target, idiot."

The Fourth Raikage was even angrier, but the momentum of his roar had weakened considerably.

There's no way around it; the battle started in the morning and has been going on for a full six hours now.

After fighting Orochimaru, who is slippery and impossible to hit and impossible to kill, for six consecutive hours, the Fourth Raikage still has the willpower to fight. It's as if he has an iron will.

Look at Killer Bee, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki; he's already looking listless.

It's not that I'm tired, it's that I'm fed up.

Six hours!

But at the nearby Sakurahara Fortress, the battle was still raging.

The walls of the fortress were covered with scorch marks, and at several gaps caused by earth-release techniques, Konoha ninjas and Kumogakure ninjas were fighting to the death.

The Cloud Village ninjas, with their powerful bodies and sharp Lightning Release ninjutsu, forcefully breached the opening.

The Konoha ninja, relying on their solid strength and systematic ninjutsu, bravely resisted the enemy's attacks.

The two sides remained locked in a fierce stalemate at the breach, with corpses piled up in thick layers and blood flowing down the wall like a stream.

"kill!"

A Cloud Village ninja, wielding a short sword and sharpened with Lightning Release chakra, slashed open the Konoha ninja's headband and head.

Before he could even draw his sword, another Konoha ninja unleashed Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, blasting him into pieces.

The next second, the Konoha ninja was struck in the heart by a lightning rod from who-knows-where, his body convulsed and he collapsed, becoming part of the pile of corpses.

Overall, however, the more numerous and more aggressive Cloud Village ninjas gained the upper hand in this positional warfare.

Seeing that even more Konoha ninja were dying, including many clearly young children, the Fourth Raikage turned to Orochimaru and mocked, "Orochimaru of Konoha, what good is hiding all this time?"

"Your men are almost all dead!"

"Today, Sakurahara will surely be flattened by Kumogakure! Tomorrow, the Kumogakure army will march straight towards Konoha!"

The roar of the Fourth Raikage, A, echoed across the battlefield, drawing all eyes to him.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the muscles beneath his skin suddenly bulged, his entire body was enveloped in pale blue lightning chakra, crackling with electricity, and his aura rose to another level.

The next moment, Raikage transformed into a bolt of lightning, suddenly appearing at the breach in the Sakurahara Fortress and charging into the Konoha ninja.

A powerful blast slammed down, sending several Konoha ninja sprawling, the sound of bones shattering clearly audible.

Killer Bee shook his head with pity when he saw his older brother lose his composure and directly target an ordinary ninja as a Kage.

Orochimaru is too slippery. It's normal for the older brother to lose his mind, but if this gets out, the Raikage's reputation will definitely be greatly affected.

But there's nothing we can do; he's the eldest brother, after all.

No matter what his older brother does, Killer Bee will always step in to help!

Killer Bee pushed up his sunglasses and began to sing: "Yo~ yo~~ Raikage is leading the charge, the power of the Eight-Tails is boundless, the Konoha brats are so pitiful, they'll have to say goodbye soon!"

As he sang, he drew his seven swords, unleashing the Seven Swords Style of the "Wild Heron Blade" to its fullest extent, transforming it into a storm of blades that charged through the Konoha ninja with lightning speed.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen Konoha ninjas had their bodies slashed open, and blood gushed out.

The blood splattered on Killer Bee's sunglasses revealed his true nature as a fierce and cruel Jinchuriki, exposing his disguise as a comedic rapper.

Even more terrifying was the eight-tailed demon inside him, which, along with octopus tentacles that emerged behind him, lashed heavily at the ground and walls, widening the breach with each blow.

Seeing the Fourth Raikage acting unscrupulously, Orochimaru did not rush forward rashly, but instead turned his attention to the main force of the Cloud Village army.

"Hehehe, you guys have no shame? Do you think I, Orochimaru, am obligated to have any shame?"

"As Shan Zhong Chu Jiu once said, the best tactic is: you fight your way, I fight mine."

"You two can't handle me, so you slaughter weak Konoha ninjas? Do you think I, Orochimaru, am less efficient at killing than you?"

"I am Orochimaru, who fought against the demigod Hanzo!"

"Ninja Art: Ten Thousand Snake Formation!!"

A burst of cold chakra erupted, and countless venomous snakes surged out from the shadows beneath Orochimaru's feet, surging towards the Cloud Village army like a tide.

Ninjas are not afraid of snakes, but when their numbers become as numerous as a tide, everything changes.

These venomous snakes, summoned by spirits, not only have fangs and can spray venom, but also "explode" when killed, spewing out their venomous blood and turning it into a green poisonous mist.

This snake was deliberately cultivated by Orochimaru in imitation of Hanzo's poisonous mist. Its greatest function is not to bite enemies, but to create a highly toxic area after it dies, forming a battlefield environment that is favorable to him.

Unaware of the snakes' true nature, the Cloud Village ninjas killed a large number of them with remarkable efficiency, resulting in a pervasive green poisonous mist that even Wind Release techniques could not dispel.

Orochimaru's face remained expressionless, his golden vertical pupils flashing with a calm and cruel light as he quietly watched the struggles of the Cloud Village ninjas amidst the pervasive poisonous mist.

It was as if we were observing an interesting battlefield experiment.

The deadly efficiency of the highly toxic fog was extremely high; in the blink of an eye, hundreds of people were clutching their necks, collapsing to the ground in agony, convulsing and foaming at the mouth.

The Fourth Raikage, A, and Killer Bee rushed into the breach in the fortress and painstakingly hacked and slashed for several minutes, but even together they couldn't kill fifty Konoha ninja.

Raikage A glared at Orochimaru, his eyes instantly sharpening like knives, the lightning chakra emanating from his body becoming increasingly explosive and concentrated: "Orochimaru! You're courting death!"

Orochimaru sneered, "Ah, you were the one who shamelessly started this, and do you really think you can kill me?"

The Fourth Raikage was speechless.

Over the past few hours, he had tried everything: splitting Orochimaru vertically, slicing him horizontally, electrocuting him, tearing him to pieces...

But as soon as he stopped, a snake would appear out of nowhere, spit out an even bigger snake, and finally spit out a sticky, giant snake ball.

Honestly, Ai really doesn't know what to do to kill Orochimaru.