Starting with the Uchiha clan, they began cultivating demonic arts.

Chapter 88 The Pursuit of the Fourth Raikage

How Orochimaru should deal with the Third Raikage is a matter for him, the commander, to consider; Uchiha Touyu has no time to concern himself with that.

Since the Third Raikage has appeared in the southeast of the Konoha camp, Uchiha Touyu might as well go hunt him down somewhere else. If I can't beat you, can I at least avoid you?

Once he had collected a sufficient number of ninja corpses, Uchiha Touyu planned to go to the Blood Pool for further purification to enhance his bloodline and aptitude.

"If I could awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan directly, I wouldn't be afraid even if I faced the Third Raikage."

Once the Uchiha clan awakens the Mangekyou Sharingan, they are guaranteed to reach the Kage level, and this is not solely due to the eye techniques granted by the Mangekyou Sharingan.

More importantly, the influence of the Mangekyou Sharingan greatly develops the Uchiha bloodline.

This causes the Mangekyou Sharingan user to make rapid progress in all aspects, including chakra reserves, nerve reflexes, physical attributes, and chakra control, reaching the Kage level in terms of physical attributes.

As for Uchiha Touyu, who was already a Kage-level fighter, if he were to awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan, he would naturally reach even greater heights. While it's not certain that he could defeat the Third Raikage, he would at least be able to fight him for hundreds of rounds and then retreat unscathed.

If the activated Mangekyou Sharingan ability were exceptionally powerful, it wouldn't be a problem to directly defeat the Third Raikage.

"The only problem is that these ordinary ninjas are not very effective in improving my bloodline. To raise my bloodline to the Mangekyou Sharingan level, I would probably need at least a thousand people, and they can't all be ordinary genin."

"So... the Fourth Shinobi World War was a good thing!"

"Normally, let alone killing thousands of ninjas, even killing a few dozen or a hundred ninjas would probably get you wanted by the five great ninja villages, and might even attract the attention of a Kage-level expert."

"Only during the Ninja World War can I continuously replenish my corpses, souls, and the black energy used as sacrifices. No matter who wins or loses the war, I will definitely not suffer any losses."

After changing direction, Uchiha Touyu remained cautious, first using camouflage to conceal his figure before resuming his hunt.

However, this time, Uchiha Hiyu had only hunted down a few squads of Cloud Ninja when he noticed that these Cloud Ninja were beginning to shrink their ranks, turn around, and gather together.

"Is it because I've killed too many people? Have the Cloud Ninja become aware of my presence?"

Seeing that the Cloud Ninja were beginning to withdraw their forces, Uchiha Touyu frowned slightly, but did not intend to continue the attack.

The ability to hide is incredibly useful when hunting down small teams of ninjas, but if there are enough ninjas, they can easily find your location even if you have to sacrifice your life.

Moreover, now that they know of his existence, it's possible that powerful Cloud Ninja will arrive at any time, and Uchiha Touyu doesn't want to get entangled with them here.

Thinking of this, Uchiha Touyu silently prepared to leave, but after retreating only a kilometer or two, he sensed several powerful soul flames rushing towards him.

Uchiha Hiyu changed directions several times, but no matter how he changed direction, his opponent always seemed to be aiming straight for him, which immediately startled him.

"Oh no, we've been detected!"

Generally, chakra-sensing ninjas have the ability to sense each other, meaning that while they sense each other, the other person also senses that they are being sensed.

However, Uchiha Touyu possessed soul perception, which is different from chakra perception, so he didn't initially realize he had been discovered. It wasn't until he discovered the other person had been locking onto his location that he realized he had encountered a sensory ninja.

Despite being locked onto by a sensory ninja, Uchiha Touya did not stop. Instead, he continued to rush towards the Konoha camp. The closer he got to the Konoha camp, the higher the chance of encountering Konoha ninjas, and the fewer Cloud ninjas would be nearby.

Although ordinary ninjas, few in number, are unlikely to intervene in battles of this caliber, they still play a role to some extent.

"But the guy behind him is really fast... This soul radiance doesn't seem like that of the Third Raikage, so it must be the future Fourth Raikage, A!"

Each generation of Raikage in Kumogakure has their name changed to A. This generation's Raikage candidate was awarded the title of A by the Third Raikage very early on because of his outstanding performance.

This candidate for Raikage, lamenting that he lacked the talent of the Third Raikage and could not forge the strongest spear and the strongest shield, devoted all his energy to speed.

In fact, if we disregard the underhanded space-time ninjutsu, the true fastest ninja in the ninja world should be the Fourth Raikage.

As Uchiha Touyu ran towards the Konoha camp, he sensed that the clusters of soul flames behind him were beginning to split. Two of the soul flames suddenly increased in speed, becoming even faster than Uchiha Touyu himself. The remaining soul flames simply stopped chasing.

"The people behind me have stopped, and only two people are still chasing me... It must be A with that sensory ninja; the others simply can't keep up with my speed."

As the speed behind them continued to increase, they gradually caught up with Uchiha Touyu's tail. Uchiha Touyu frowned slightly and stopped abruptly.

Maintaining a high-speed mode continuously consumes a lot of chakra and stamina. The Raikage lineage is renowned for its monster-like chakra reserves and stamina; otherwise, the Third Raikage in the original story wouldn't have been able to fight the army for three days and three nights.

The Fourth Raikage may not be as monstrous as the Third Raikage, but in terms of physical strength alone, he is definitely far superior to Uchiha Tou.

Therefore, after realizing that he couldn't possibly enter the Konoha camp before being caught, Uchiha Hiyu decided not to waste any more energy. Otherwise, not only would he fail to hide in the Konoha camp, but he would also be in real danger if he exhausted most of his energy.

After Uchiha Hiyu stopped, only a dozen or so breaths later, a blue bolt of lightning flashed in front of him, and a giant man with a majestic figure, very similar to the Third Raikage, slowly walked out from the lightning.

"Damn little mouse, why aren't you running away?!"

The giant in front of him roared, then reached out and put the blond-haired, white-skinned man on the ground. Clearly, the Fourth Raikage had been dragging this sensory ninja along while chasing after Uchiha Touya.

"Tsk... I'm not a beauty, why are you guys chasing after me so relentlessly?"

Uchiha Touya joked, but he had already gripped the Kusanagi sword tightly in his hand, slowly aiming it at the Fourth Raikage.

(End of this chapter)