Traveling through Nagato, from conquering Konan to dominating the ninja world

"Swish!" The terrifying absorption power turned Ding Zuo from a fat tiger into a thin dog in just a few seconds!

Without any other help, I should be thankful that I can do this. I should stop while I am ahead. When Lu Jiu reacts, he will be able to think of a way to target me immediately...

"Boom!!"

He kicked Ding Zuo, who had turned into a thin dog, with great force, and then threw a ninja smoke bomb and turned around and ran towards the dark alley! !

"Damn it!" Ding Zuo was unwilling to give up, so he got up and prepared to chase him.

"Boss Ding... there's no need to chase him." Lu Jiu stopped him. "Based on the ability he just showed, if he was someone who preferred to fight, I might be able to counter him. But, unfortunately, he's a very cautious guy, and we won't get any advantage."

"Alas, even Shikaku said so, then I'm really helpless." Ding Zuo said solemnly: "It made Shikaku's technique invalid, and in an instant it sucked away the calories I stored to multiply my body. If it was a trick to absorb chakra, then this absorption power is too terrifying!"

"Maybe so." But... Shikaku looked deeper: "Even more difficult than that is that the heart transformation is ineffective on him. Haiyi, you just said... he has no 'heart', right?"

Haiyi still hadn't recovered from the shock of his special skill being ineffective. With cold sweat on his face, he replied, "Yes... Turning the heart around is ineffective, so that's the only way I can understand it."

Lu Jiu looked deep in his eyes: "Hai Yi, think about it, what does it mean to have no heart?"

"This..." After thinking about it carefully, Hai Yi couldn't help but take a breath: "Puppet?"

"Ah, that's probably it." Lu Jiu didn't say anything. In his mind, a word that was even more terrifying and cold than 'puppet' popped up...

Ding Zuo was immediately filled with righteous indignation: "Damn it! A puppet! The invaders are from Sunagakure! What a two-faced fellow, sending representatives during the day to reach a peaceful consensus with the Fourth Hokage, and then launching a sneak attack at night! Damn it, it's really damned!!"

Shikaku said: "It's too early to draw a conclusion now. Haiyi, first pass on the ability of the man just now, as well as the information that the enemy may be a puppeteer, to the third and fourth generations!"

"Understood!" Hai Yi did not dare to delay and immediately used the "Mind-Reading Technique".

……

"Shh!"

In the central city of Konoha.

Minato had just evacuated the civilians from the attacked southern district and met Hitoshi here, and they both received the message from Haiyi at the same time!

"What... is there such a thing?"

After Hiruzen heard this, his expression suddenly became serious.

"If it is really the Sand Village that planned this invasion, then, Minato, we must carefully consider our strategy against the enemy, because this may very likely involve the two ninja villages and the diplomatic relations between the two countries!"

After saying that, he looked at Minato seriously, waiting for the latter to express his opinion, because Minato was now the Hokage of Konoha and the final decision maker!

"Third generation..." Minato was in a dilemma for a moment, "I... want to reserve my opinion for now, and make a decision after this crisis is resolved."

Hiruzen said sternly: "We must capture him alive and never kill him. The Third Shinobi World War has just ended. Although the Land of Fire and Konoha are the victors, they paid a heavy price. At this critical juncture, we must avoid any seeds that may spark war..."

"Besides, so far, there have been no substantial casualties in Konoha!"

"Third generation sir! Fourth generation sir!"

At this time, a Chunin hurried over and reported: "The warehouse where we stored the "Book of Seals" was invaded!!!"

"What!?"

Hiruzen seemed to be relieved amidst the tension: "So, the purpose of Sunagakure is just to obtain Konoha's 'forbidden jutsu'?"

Minato raised his cloak: "Let me go, Sandaime, it's faster this way!"

Hiruzen said, "Ah, please, remember...you must leave him alive!"

"I try my best!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Minato had disappeared from the spot.

As the Hokage who protects Konoha, Minato left "Flying Thunder God Kunai" in almost all strategic locations of Konoha as signposts and guides, ensuring that he could enter at any time at the critical moment.

There are three territories in Konoha that he cannot set foot in: the Root base, the Hyuga clan base, and... the Konoha Police Force, the Uchiha base!

Behind the warehouse of the "Book of Seals"... Minato shuttled out from the Flying Thunder God Kunai in the tree shadows.

It was raining heavily, and he stood up...looking at the man who walked out of the warehouse carrying the "Book of Seals" on his back.

"stop."

"Da." The man stopped and turned... to look at the person who came.

On the high mountain outside Konoha, Nagato raised a clear arc at the corner of his mouth: "What is supposed to come has finally come..."

Chapter 22: Can those who should leave escape?

Thunder rumbled in the clouds. Through the intermittent rain, Minato stared at the man on the steps with a serious expression.

"The hair color has changed, and there are some strange decorations on the face, but this face is undoubtedly... Mizuki."

His eyes lowered slightly, and when he raised them again, he said something shocking: "Are you the Scorpion of the Red Sand?"

“……” Shuimu was speechless.

Namikaze Minato said in a deep voice: "The latest information is that the intruder is suspected to have a puppet body."

"He can manipulate puppets made of living people in multiple numbers, and hide his real body in an invisible place. The only puppeteer of this level that I can think of is the famous genius of Sand Village, Scorpion of the Red Sand!"

His intuition is indeed sharp... If it weren't for Pain's technique, this would almost be the only answer.

Nagato said through the mouth of Mizuki, "Who knows?"

"Compared to these." Minato's face was slightly stern, he raised his palm, and said in a serious tone: "Can you give me what you are carrying on your back? It is the condensation of the hard work of Konoha's predecessors. If you take it away like this, I will be very troubled."

Renjiandao glanced at the huge scroll behind him!

"Wow!" The rain began to surge, and the blond figure was already before his eyes!

"So fast! He just swayed slightly and surpassed Kakashi's full speed...!!"

Fortunately... I was prepared!

He suddenly turned sideways, brushing past Minato, jumped down the stairs, landed on the open ground, and said with a smile: "You really don't take me seriously, rushing towards me like this."

Minato turned around and said calmly, "Next time, I won't let you avoid me."

"Swish!" On his raised palm, the azure chakra condensed, rotated, compressed... and turned into a round sphere!

Renjiandao's pupils widened: "This move is..."

"Swoosh!" Minato arrived in an instant, close at hand, his mind was flowing: If... if Mizuki was not made into a human puppet by the Red Sand Scorpion, but was manipulated by someone else using illusions or something like that... maybe he is still alive. This time, avoid the vital point!

He turned in the air and aimed at Mizuki's left shoulder!

"Rasengan!!!"

"If you can't avoid it, then don't avoid it..."

"BOOM!!!" The Rasengan... hit the arm of the Human Path. Almost at the same time, the latter stretched out his right hand, pressed it on Minato's chest, gathered his five fingers inward, and his pupils suddenly focused!

——The way of the world!

"call out!"

"What...!? What is this feeling!?" Minato's pupils suddenly shrank, and at that moment, he became extremely alert to the danger!

"Swoosh!" A flash of white light just appeared in front of the five fingers of Renjiandao, and Minato disappeared out of thin air...!

"You're really alert." Renjiandao glanced at the spiral scar on his shoulder left by the Rasengan. The scar itself was insignificant, but the string of black curse patterns on it made his pupils narrow.

"The mark of the Flying Thunder God?" He smiled helplessly: "It's useless, useless, this Pain..."

He took down the "Book of Seals" and stood aside.

"Although this is not the main purpose of this trip, it is a rare trophy. Before this Pain perishes, we must find a way to transfer it to the original body!"

He raised his eyes to the sky at the end of the rain curtain, and saw the Yatagarasu flying in the sky, flapping its wings and swooping down towards this place!

"I hope... I can catch up!"

In Konoha, in an abandoned house far away from the residential area, he fell on the Flying Thunder God Kunai which was stuck on the muddy ground. Thinking back to the thrilling experience just now, he was still frightened.

"Just a moment ago, something like a soul came out of my body, accompanied by a feeling of weakness. It was a close call. If it was a second later, I might not even be able to escape with Flying Thunder God..."

He sat up from the mud and fell into deep thought.

"By the way, is this ability really something a ninja can do? At least, I don't think Scorpion's puppet technology can do this."

"If it's not Scorpion, who could it be? The second Kazekage, Shamon, who created the puppetry technique, or Monzaemon, the first puppetry practitioner?"

"No... those two should have died a long time ago."

"Perhaps, I shouldn't have preconceived that the other party was a puppeteer from Sunagakure. The ninja world is full of talented people. In unknown places, there are always people who cannot be judged by existing common sense."

"Through the fight just now, I determined that his ability to pull souls is activated by touching with his palms. As long as you are careful and don't get caught by him, this enemy will not be difficult to deal with!"

He grasped the Flying Thunder God Kunai beside him, stood up, looked at himself, and a helpless smile appeared on his handsome face.

"Ah... the cloak is all dirty. Even during Kushina's pregnancy, I took care of all the housework, except for this Hokage's cloak, which she would wash by hand for me every time."

"I'm going to cause her trouble again..."

Putting away his smile, Minato looked into the distance solemnly: "Quickly calm down this commotion and return to Kushina!"

At this moment, every second counts for the "Human World"!

"Hurry!!"

Fortunately...Yata Crows arrived successfully!!

Human Dao picked up the "Book of Seals" and threw it into the sky with all his strength, and the Yatagarasu opened its sharp beak and bit it...!!!

"Swoosh!" Minato rushed out and caught a glimpse of this scene.

"Want to use air support to take away the "Book of Seals"?"

“Don’t even think about succeeding!!!” He threw the Flying Thunder God Kunai into the air with all his strength... and at the same time when his sharp beak caught it, he “whoosh” flew out and grabbed the scroll!

"Swoosh!" The next second, he jumped back to the ground carrying the "Book of Seals".

Seeing the crack on the "Book of Seals", he looked up at the sky and saw that the Yatagarasu was clearly holding something in its mouth.

Minato stared and said, "A few pages from the last volume...were they torn off by its beak before I flashed back?"

On the back of the Yatagarasu, Perrin looked at him from a distance...then it turned around and flew into the sky outside Konoha!

Minato didn't chase after him, but instead turned his gaze to 'Mizuki'.

In his mind, the safety of his companions is a higher priority than the forbidden techniques in the village.

"Shui Mu, whether you were made into a human puppet or controlled by other means, I can't leave you alone. Sorry, I might use some heavy hands, at least to make sure that you can't get up in this body for a short time!"

Minato carried the "Book of Seals" on his back, condensed the "Rasengan" again, and hit the kunai in his hand into the ground at his feet. "Swoosh!" He flew out from the Flying Thunder God mark on Mizuki's shoulder!

"Are you here? Then it's time to say goodbye!"

Human Dao Shui Mu smiled, tore off his upper body robe, revealing the "detonating stickers" that covered his entire body, emitting hissing flames! !

"What!?" Minato's pupils suddenly contracted, he could never have imagined that the other party would actually intend to die together with him!

Of course... we won't die together!

This is the insurance that Nagato asked Nanga to give him. If Pein encounters a situation where he cannot escape and is doomed to die, he will be completely destroyed by self-destruction, so as to prevent Konoha from deciphering Pein's most core information through research! !

“Boom boom boom…!!!”

In the bursting flames... Human Dao Shuimu was shattered to pieces!!

"Whoosh!!"

Minato jumped out from the kunai behind him.

"..." The flames faded away, and Minato's eyes became heavy as he looked at the pouring rain, the crater left by the explosion, and the scorched forehead guard.

"Swish!" He clenched his fists and cast his sharp gaze towards the back of Yatagarasu!

"No matter who you are, I will never let go of the guy who hurt my companions!"

He bit his finger, leaving a bloody mark!

——The art of spiritual communication!!!

Chapter 23 Minato, Perrin, attack and defense!

"Bang!" The psychic smoke screen rose high, and the big toad Wenta came down in the cloud of smoke, holding a giant pipe in his mouth. The huge tonnage made the clearing in the forest seem extremely small, and even the hut where the "Sealed Book" was stored was squeezed down.

Bunta Shehui said, "Guguagua~! Jiraiya, you old brat, you summon me again in such a narrow place! Believe it or not, I will throw you off my head!"