In Konoha, they wiped out the Sarutobi clan at the start.

Chapter 309 The Strange Everlasting Girl

"Damn it." Tsunade gritted her teeth and immediately issued an order, "Chika, Hinata, while Naruto is chasing Pain away from Konoha, you two come with me to rescue Sakura. Karin, Yamato, be prepared to seal the Nine-Tails at any time."

"The rest of you should hurry back to the village to search for survivors and be prepared to deal with any unknown dangers."

After saying that, Tsunade took the lead and leaped down the earthen wall, rushing towards Sakura's direction.

"Yes!" came the response from the Konoha ninjas behind Tsunade, followed closely by Karin, Chinatsu, and Hinata.

Yamato, who was taking care of Kaiban, heard the noise and quickly handed the unconscious Kaiban to the medical staff next to him before following them.

Tsunade's beautiful brows furrowed as she hurried along, inwardly annoyed.

How dare he force Naruto to let the Nine-Tails go berserk! What on earth is that guy Chiya thinking?

"Cough cough."

Amidst the billowing smoke, an arm suddenly burst forth from the rubble, revealing Jiraiya's figure.

He lay on the ground, sometimes panting heavily, sometimes coughing from the smoke.

Clearly, he was affected by the hurricane caused by the Nine-Tails' chakra.

"How do you feel?" Chiya's voice suddenly rang out, and his figure slowly emerged from the ground, looking down at Jiraiya from above.

Jiraiya glanced at Sakura, who lay motionless to the side, her brows furrowing even more deeply. He frowned and said, "Is this what you wanted to see?"

"No, the real excitement is yet to come." Chiya turned her gaze towards Konoha. "Tsunade and Chika are coming soon. It seems this woman named Sakura is quite lucky. Next, I plan to watch the battle between the Rinnegan and the Nine-Tails. Are you interested?"

"Do I even have a choice?" Jiraiya gave a wry smile.

If he says he wants to stay here, Qianye will probably seal him back into that deadly alternate dimension.

Even if they stayed here, they wouldn't be of any help to Konoha.

Rather than doing that, we might as well go and take a look.

He was also very curious about what fate awaited his two disciples.

Not long after the two left, Tsunade and her group arrived.

Standing in the giant pit, witnessing the exaggerated destructive power, everyone was filled with lingering fear.

If this move were used in the center of the village, who knows what would happen.

The battle between Pain and Naruto, who had unleashed the power of the Nine-Tails, did not last long.

After Naruto, in his Nine-Tails form, broke through both the Universal Pull and the Almighty Push.

Pain then took him to the area closest to Nagato's safe zone.

He unleashed the Earth Explosion Star.

"Is this the power of the Rinnegan and the Nine-Tails? It's truly astonishing, far exceeding the capabilities of ordinary ninjas."

Chiya stood at a distance with Jiraiya, watching the Chibaku Tensei that almost blocked out the sun in the sky, and the Nine-Tails struggling to break free with its eight tails outstretched.

Even with Jiraiya's composure, he couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

"Of course, after all, it is the eyes of the legendary Sage of Six Paths and the Nine-Tails, the strongest of the nine tailed beasts."

Qianye smiled, but did not show the slightest surprise or solemnity. He could cleave a planet of this magnitude with just one strike.

"To be honest, you should be grateful that Pain unleashed the Almighty Push, a power capable of destroying the entire Hidden Leaf Village, before engaging Naruto in battle. Otherwise, even if Naruto had fully transformed into the Nine-Tails, the outcome would have been uncertain. Although, this was also part of my plan, wasn't it?"

"Your plan is to have Naruto unleash the Nine-Tails to fight Pain?" Jiraiya looked at Chiya with a serious expression, his tone filled with dissatisfaction. "But do you know that once the Nine-Tails is fully resurrected, it will take over Naruto's body, and Naruto will die."

"By then," Jiraiya dared not think any further.

He couldn't imagine the tragedy of the Nine-Tailed Night repeating itself.

Moreover, it is the Nine-Tails, which possesses the power of a Jinchūriki.

At that time, it might truly be the end of Konoha.

"Of course I know, it was part of my plan." Qianye countered with a question, "And do you really think the Fourth Hokage wouldn't have left a backup plan for Naruto? He even left behind the key to undo the Eight Trigrams Seal, wouldn't he have considered the possibility of the Nine-Tails going berserk?"

"You mean...?" Jiraiya's pupils contracted, as if he had realized something.

Qianye nodded slowly, a mysterious smile on his face.

He then added, "And the Nine-Tails isn't as strong as you think."

At this moment, the Nine-Tails is only one step away from being fully resurrected.

Inside the dark and dimly lit sealed space.

Naruto lay on his back in the blood, muttering words of pain over and over again.

In front of Naruto was a huge iron gate covered with sealing talismans, and the Nine-Tails was imprisoned inside the gate.

It kept tempting Naruto.

Under the influence of Kurama, Naruto's eyes turned blood red, and the seal on his abdomen dissipated, turning into black ink that flowed out of the sealed space.

He slowly walked toward the iron gate where the talismans were posted. Just as he was about to make his move, the Fourth Hokage's chakra, which had been sealed into Naruto along with the Nine-Tails, appeared.

The Fourth Hokage stopped Naruto.

Poor Nine-Tailed Fox, a professional lock picker for sixteen years, has been reduced to nothing in a single day.

It unleashed a furious, resentful rage: "Fourth Generation."

"You are... the Fourth Hokage." Naruto exclaimed in shock as he looked at the strange man who suddenly appeared before him and the words "Fourth Hokage" on the back of his white Hokage robe.

"Naruto, once the seal on all eight tails is broken, I will appear in your consciousness. I really don't want that to happen, because I don't want to see Kurama again."

The Fourth Hokage ignored the Nine-Tails' feeble barking inside the cage and continued explaining to Naruto.

Then, as if remembering something, she sighed softly, turned to look at Naruto, and smiled with a gentle and gratified expression. "But being able to see my son grow up is a mixed blessing."

"Son." Naruto was stunned, still recovering from the shock. He pointed to himself and asked uncertainly, "Son? Me? And how do you know my name?"

"Ah, Naruto, you are my son, and naturally I named you after the protagonist of Jiraiya's novels." The Fourth Hokage nodded with a smile.

Naruto was stunned again. Having lost his parents at a young age, he didn't know what family was. For a moment, he didn't know how to respond, and tears streamed down his face uncontrollably.

At that moment, the Nine-Tails roared from inside the sealed cage, "Fourth Hokage, come here, I'm going to tear you to pieces."

"You want to tear me apart, but you can't." The Fourth Hokage turned his head and said something infuriatingly blunt to Kurama, then looked at Naruto again with a gentle smile. "This isn't the place to talk. Let's find somewhere else."

As he spoke, the Fourth Hokage casually flicked his little finger, and the dark and blood-red sealed space disappeared, replaced by a peaceful world filled with warm sunlight.

(End of this chapter)