The correct way for the Uchiha to rise

Hui picked a weak opponent, killed it swiftly and cleanly, and put its corpse into a scroll.

This drew angry glares from the other five attackers.

Shouldn't prisoners of war be treated well? Killing them outright might just provoke even greater conflict.

At this moment, the five of them had no idea what their fate was about to be.

Being a test subject is no better than being dead.

"What are you looking at? Envious? How about I show you?" Hui said disdainfully, glancing at them.

The other five dared not utter a sound. Then, Hui left Konoha and headed to Kumogakure.

That's how efficient it is.

Everyone else was dumbfounded.

Why did you leave so abruptly? Weren't you in such a hurry? Shouldn't we have a meeting to vote on this and see how far things should go?

Forget it, he's already gone, there's no way to bring him back.

"It seems Hui has been itching to get his hands dirty in the village lately."

Minato Namikaze made a joke to lighten the mood.

Hui took the matter upon himself and had already set off, clearly indicating that they were no longer needed, and the others dispersed.

Leaving behind the three legendary Sannin and Minato Namikaze, Nawaki observed the cause of this incident.

"It seems that Nawaki's strength has improved quite a bit recently. Among these six attackers, at least two were elite Jonin, and you managed to defeat them all. And you did it in such a short time."

Scratching his head, Rope Tree didn't know how to answer.

The trauma Orochimaru inflicted on him still lingers. As a child, he feared no one except Orochimaru. He'd even provoked Tsunade, but he never dared to do anything excessive with Orochimaru.

"Nawaki recently awakened his Sage Body and his strength has improved. Otherwise, it would be hard to say how things would have turned out tonight," Tsunade explained to them.

Everyone present is trustworthy; there's no need to hide anything.

"Not bad!"

Faced with everyone's praise, Rope Tree proudly raised its head.

boom!

"You've only awakened the immortal body, it's not like you obtained it through your own cultivation, what's there to be so arrogant about?"

Tsunade's fist hurt as much as ever.

The Land of Thunder.

Hidden Cloud Village.

Today, an uninvited guest arrived.

Or rather, someone came to collect a debt and demand an explanation.

In just one day, Hui traveled from Konoha to the front of Kumogakure. The total distance was more than twice the distance between the farthest points in the New World, north and south. In the old New World, even a priest-level expert would need two or three days to travel from south to north.

This is the convenience that transportation brings.

The significance of the pilgrimage route to the New World far exceeded the imagination of its inhabitants.

The three major tribes harbored ambitions to unify the continent, but they were never prepared from the start. How could they unify the continent when transportation was so inconvenient?

Back to the topic.

Hui arrived not far from the Hidden Cloud Village.

He had no intention of negotiating or reasoning directly.

After all, he's up to no good.

Even if negotiations are to be held, the Hidden Cloud Village should be inflicted with a significant loss first.

The hands begin to form hand seals.

"Water Release: Summoning the Ocean"

Now, Uchiha Kiyoshi and his clones no longer adhere to strict formats when using ninjutsu. They usually form corresponding hand seals or simply put their hands together in prayer to achieve the desired effect. The names of their ninjutsu are also quite casual.

Time shouldn't be wasted on this.

If it weren't for the fact that the most important cycles need to be passed between both hands to complete, there wouldn't even be a clasped-hands gesture.

You can just use whatever you want. Why bother putting your hands together? It interrupts your weapon and other actions, which is too troublesome.

Uchiha Kiyoshi has now begun to develop techniques, or attack methods, in this direction.

It doesn't require hand seals, or even a so-called chakra circulation. At least it's not performed inside the ninja's body, but rather outside the body, or rather, by constructing a model in some way, and then injecting and circulating chakra to perform the technique.

It's a spell model, I suppose.

"not good!"

The moment Hui formed the hand seals, his chakra leaked out, and the Fourth Raikage in the Raikage's office in Kumogakure immediately sensed the danger.

"Enemy attack!"

The terrain of Yunyin Village is treacherous, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, all these advantages vanished in front of Hui.

It looked as if a huge rift had been torn open in the sky, and countless drops of seawater poured out.

The seawater split into streams, transforming into waterspouts that surged towards all parts of Cloud Village.

Meanwhile, most of the remaining seawater, under Hui's control, formed a waterfall and crashed down towards the Fourth Raikage.

Hui's attack came unexpectedly. The water tornado broke through the barrier in an instant, rushed into the interior of Kumogakure, and swept away.

The final, towering waterfall also surged into it when the barrier was broken.

"Damn it! Activate the barrier at maximum power!"

With the Cloud Village's barrier team activating it to its maximum power, they finally managed to withstand Hikaru's attack.

However, at this moment, most of the buildings in Kumogakure had been destroyed by the waterspout that fell from the sky, and the casualties were even more severe.

"Hui! How dare you!"

The Fourth Raikage stared in horror at the devastation of the village.

"Hmph, this guy is a ninja from your village, isn't he? The Fourth Hokage came to Konoha to cause trouble before taking office, are you looking down on Konoha? Today, Kumogakure will have to give him an explanation!"

Hui's voice carried throughout the entire Hidden Cloud Village, and everyone heard it clearly.

Chapter 381 The Fourth Hokage

At this moment, the Fourth Raikage also thought of the operation that had taken place not long ago.

It now appears that the operation has failed.

The key point is that Konoha did not tolerate it as expected, but instead resorted to violence.

The brilliance before them was their answer.

Damn!

Why is it this guy?

If I had known this would happen, I would have been more careful when making this decision.

The powerful members of Kumogakure have now realized what's happening, and the village's barrier is being activated at full power. If Hui wants to continue causing damage to Kumogakure, he must break the barrier.

This is clearly inconsistent with his public image.

The strength he has revealed so far is not yet sufficient to break through the barrier of a ninja village at full power.

Moreover, there's also the Eight-Tails. If you really push them too far, releasing the Eight-Tails won't be good for them either.

Acting is too mentally taxing.

It was also very tiring.

Faced with the Fourth Raikage's questioning, Hui chose to take the initiative.

My actions were entirely a counterattack, using their own methods against them.

Moreover, since the Hidden Cloud Village had already signed a defeat agreement after the war, it was wrong of them to attack Konoha.

Adding to the fact that, on the eve of the Fourth Hokage's appointment, Hikaru accused him of interfering in the appointment and removal of the Hokage, leaving the Fourth Raikage truly speechless.

"What do you want?"

The Fourth Raikage gritted his teeth.

The losses this time were too great.

Despite the various troubles the Hidden Cloud Village is causing now, they don't actually want war to break out. Before the Third Shinobi World War, they were just looking for an excuse to start a war; after the Third Shinobi World War, they were just taking advantage of Konoha's fear of starting another war.

The ruthless fear the stubborn, and the stubborn fear the reckless—that's the principle.

The Hidden Cloud Village is the one in the middle; on the surface, they seem fearless, but deep down they are still afraid of death.

Outwardly fierce but inwardly weak.

This is the most accurate depiction of Hidden Cloud Village.

Do they want to start a war now?

In no mood.

Especially since Konoha has six Kage-level shinobi, who knows if Kirigakure and Iwagakure will join in if another war breaks out. If only Kumogakure fights against Konoha, Kumogakure will undoubtedly lose.

At this moment, the Fourth Raikage actually had two choices.

One option is to join forces with Killer Bee to defeat Radiant, but in that case, there would be no chance to reconcile the relationship between the two sides.

Hui's visit already indicated something, and this reminded the Fourth Raikage that Konoha was different now. The Konoha of compromise, like that of the Third Hokage, was gone forever.

With Tsunade in power and the hardliner Akira, Konoha was quite formidable.

If this stalemate continues, Konoha might very well have to start another war right after returning from its year-long conflict. Konoha fears war, and so does Kumogakure; the village has suffered considerable losses in this war as well.

The other option, naturally, is compromise.