Konoha teaches, then stands in the sky

In addition to the basic perception function, Observation Haki also has an advantage that ordinary perception ninjutsu does not have, which is the ability to perceive attacks during battle.

Even if the attack comes from a direction that cannot be observed by vision, the Observation Haki can still sense it.

Observation Haki is the same as Armament Haki in that it does not require hand seals. It can be used continuously during battle as long as the output of chakra is maintained.

Mu Yue tested it and found that if the range is not pursued, the chakra consumed by ordinary use of observation Haki is within an acceptable range. If you have to compare, it is less than the chakra consumed by the Uchiha clan ninja using the Sharingan.

If you maintain the maximum perception range at all times, the chakra consumption will be very high, but this is not necessary under normal circumstances.

"Secret Technique: Observation Haki!"

Mu Yue let the shadow clone attack himself, and then condensed a large amount of chakra to change the nature of the Yin chakra, and tried his best to activate the observation Haki.

In the world of One Piece, there are masters of Observation Haki who can see a period of time into the future. Mu Yue wants to see if the localized Observation Haki also has this ability.

"Is it because of lack of proficiency, or is it some other problem?" Mu Yue, who failed regretfully, started thinking subconsciously.

Mu Yue shook his head and gave up. He was afraid that only when his proficiency in observation Haki reached the perfect level could he verify it.

In the world of One Piece, only a few masters have the ability to see the future through Observation Haki.

"Teach it again tomorrow and try it."

Like Armament Haki, Observation Haki is a universal skill that can be useful to anyone who practices it.

Although Shisui and the others have the Sharingan, the Sharingan's strength lies in dynamic vision, which allows it to capture enemies within its line of sight, but cannot detect attacks outside its line of sight.

So it doesn't mean that you don't need Observation Haki if you have the Sharingan. Observation Haki that can detect attacks outside of your line of sight can even complement the Sharingan.

Of course, doing this has a problem for Shisui and the others at the moment, as it consumes a lot of chakra.

After all, there are too many places where their chakra needs to be distributed. They need breathing chakra patterns, Sharingan, and powerful ninjutsu. Moreover, they are still young and have not yet reached the period of rapid development.

However, the current problem is not a big problem. You can just learn it casually first. Once you have learned it, your chakra will naturally improve.

……

Land of Earth, Iwagakure Village

Tsuchikage Building, Tsuchikage Office.

"Konoha has dispatched an assassination team to launch an attack in the western part of the Land of Grass." Looking at the latest intelligence from the front line on the table, Ohnoki frowned.

He felt that this was abnormal and a bit radical, and not in line with the style of the Konoha Ninja Force in the Land of Grass.

"Did they change the commander?" Ohnoki wondered.

The overall style of the ninja troops is influenced by the commander. A radical commander will make the troops' combat style radical.

However, it is very difficult to find out whether there have been any personnel changes with the commander, unless a major war breaks out and the commander has to take part.

Or their intelligence personnel may win a great victory in the intelligence war and may be able to obtain intelligence on the commander.

"Go and notify other senior executives to come to the conference room." After looking at the intelligence for a while, Ohnoki stood up, walked to the door and said to the Anbu guarding the door.

The next decision to be made will affect the basic strategy he has set since the war in Iwagakure Village, so he has to hold a high-level meeting and invite the elders and advisors to discuss the decision together.

"Let's look at the intelligence first." Oonoki said when all the senior executives arrived.

A piece of organized intelligence is placed in front of each senior executive's seat.

"What do you think about the request from the Grass Country troops?" Oonoki asked after the senior executives read the intelligence.

There was silence in the meeting room, and no one responded to Oonoki's words for a while.

Ohnoki was not in a hurry and just looked at the senior executives quietly.

"If we send ninjas to support the Grass Country troops now, won't all the disguise we did before be in vain?" said the bearded Iwagakure high-ranking official after thinking for a while.

Iwagakure has been enduring and playing the pig game, waiting for the opportunity to "eat the tiger", but now, it is obviously not the time yet.

"Elder Muhua, you are being too cautious." A gray-haired senior member of the Iwagakure shook his head.

"No matter how weak a large ninja village is, it can provide a ninja force of several thousand people. How can it overturn all our previous efforts just to support the front line?"

He didn't think that simply sending more ninjas to the front line would lead to such serious consequences. It was not like sending out a large army to attack multiple ninja villages at the same time.

"I think what Consultant Chongjing said makes sense. As long as we don't send out too many ninjas, it won't have much impact on the previous arrangements." The burly Iwagakure executive agreed.

"Moreover, if we withdraw the troops to the Land of Earth, not only will Iwagakure lose face in the ninja world, but it will also be too obvious that they want to preserve their strength."

The commander of the frontline ninja force had two requests: to send support troops to launch a major war or to transfer them back to the Land of Earth to lure the enemy deeper into the country.

On the surface, this is a multiple-choice question with two choices, but for the top leaders of Iwagakure, they are the ones who make the final decision.

They can reject Lishi's request without making any choice and let it execute the previous order, or they can reject the request and issue new instructions. This is their right.

"In that case, maintaining the status quo is also a good option. Now the movements of Kumogakure and Sunagakure are unclear, and undercurrents are surging in the ninja world. It is not appropriate to show too much strength." Muhua felt that he could reject the request of the front-line troops and continue to observe the situation.

This may not be the best, but it is definitely the most stable.

"Muhua, you are too conservative. The troops on the front line are already dissatisfied. If this continues, morale will drop." Chongjing said with dissatisfaction.

Although he is younger than him, he turns out to be a stubborn conservative.

"Tai, what do you think?" Ohnoki ignored the two senior executives who were arguing and looked at the slightly plump, round-faced Iwagakure who was sitting at the last seat on the right and had not spoken.

That was the leader of the Jonin squad of their Iwagakure Village.

In terms of position, the captain of the jonin squad was the lowest among all the higher-ups in the meeting room.

However, Hui is quick-witted, and during meetings, Ohnoki pays more attention to his ideas.

"I think we can send more troops this time. On the one hand, it can calm the resentment of the ninjas on the front line, and on the other hand, it can further hide our strength." Hui said after thinking for a while.

"As one of the five largest ninja villages, the power displayed by Iwagakure is too little. This may make other large ninja villages more wary of Iwagakure."

"We sent out reinforcements so that the frontline troops can fight normally. We should try to win as much as possible and there is no need to hold back."

"Wait until Konoha is worried that we will launch a large-scale attack on the Land of Fire, and therefore sends a large number of ninjas to the border to fight against the Iwagakure troops. At this time, we will show weakness to the enemy and deliberately get defeated to preserve our manpower."

"Konoha's strength is deeply rooted in people's hearts. Since the war began, all of the five major ninja villages have been defeated by Konoha, except for Sand Village, which has not declared war on Konoha. Winning and then losing again will not affect the reputation of Iwagakure."

After listening to Hui's explanation, Oonoki nodded subconsciously.

If the Iwagakure troops can successfully defeat the Konoha ninja troops, there will even be a very important effect, which is to arouse the offensive desire of other ninja villages that are hostile to Konoha.

Twenty minutes later, the high-level meeting approved the request to send reinforcements to the front-line troops to start the war.

However, the meeting was not over yet. How many reinforcements to send, which ninjas would be among them, and who would lead the reinforcements were all matters that could not be decided lightly.

When the high-level meeting ended and the information was passed to Lieshi, he couldn't help laughing.

"Haha, we can finally fight back. This time we will let them know how powerful our Iwagakure Explosive Force is!" A cruel smile appeared on Lieshi's face.

The frustration of continuous retreat, the anger of being assassinated by ninjas from the same village, and the dream of making the Iwagakure Village great, all these mixed together made Liesi extremely eager to blow up the Konoha ninja army.

"Don't take any offensive actions for now. When the reinforcements arrive, we will give them a big blow." Lishi quickly convened a meeting of the Iwagakure jonin and issued an order to withdraw the forces.

There are two advantages to doing this. First, it can create the illusion that Iwagakure is about to retreat.

The second is to preserve strength. As Konoha sent out a team to carry out the assassination, Konoha's main force also showed unusual movements.

In order to avoid being found an opportunity to consume their strength, they had to make a final retreat before the great war.

"Konoha, Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze..." Riishi clenched his fists.

Chapter 564: Reinforcements Arrive, Battle Turns Around

The Land of Grass, South.

Because it borders the Fire Kingdom and has a beautiful environment, the southern part of the Grass Kingdom is considered to be a relatively developed place in the entire Grass Kingdom.

Of course, this is limited to before the war.

After the war broke out, the southern part of the Grass Kingdom was the area most affected by the war in the entire Grass Kingdom.

Various factors, including residents fleeing, caravans not daring to travel, and the destruction caused by ninja fighting, caused the south to lose its peacetime prosperity.

"It's really unacceptable. These big countries started a war on our land, causing our economy to decline, and we still have to help them."

The patrolling grass ninja looked at the deserted village and couldn't help but express his resentment.

Their Kusagakure Village is not as well-known as the five major ninja villages. There are not many foreigners who would come to Kusagakure Village specifically to issue commissions, and they mainly rely on support from their own people.

However, the war between Iwagakure and Konoha in the Land of Grass had a very bad impact on the Land of Grass. The economy of the Land of Grass declined, and the money that the Grass Village could earn also decreased.

The leading Kusanagi quickly looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when he didn't see any Konoha ninjas.

They are a team from Kusa Village supporting the Konoha Ninja Forces. Before returning to Kusa Village, they must obey the command of the Konoha Ninjas.

"Who made our top leaders incompetent? The damned Yokogawa Tsutomu cooperated with Iwagakure for his own selfish interests, which led to the hostility between the village and Konoha." The leading Kusanagi ninja bluntly scolded the former Kusanagi leader who was already dead.

If it weren't for Yokogawa Tsutomu's trouble, they, the Grass Ninja, might have lived a better life if they had just stayed quiet.

In order to make up for the miss of Yokogawa Tsutomu, the Kusagakure Village was forced to become an ally of Konoha and help Konoha fight against Iwagakure.

"There's nothing we can do now. Besides, it's better to follow Konoha than Iwagakure. Konoha is more powerful, and Lieyang Muyue has also helped the village solve problems before." A Grass Ninja said helplessly.

If we look at it from the perspective of who is worse, Iwagakure is still a little worse.

"Let's rest here. It will be dangerous if we really encounter the Iwagakure ninja." The leading Kusanagi said after jumping to a high place and observing the surroundings.

Nominally they came to help Konoha, but he didn't want to really help Konoha, he just wanted to pretend.

After all, if they died at the hands of Iwagakure, Konoha would definitely not provide any compensation to their families.

The other Kusanagi immediately sat down after hearing this without any hesitation.

It's fine to fight for your own village, but if you're still actively fighting for Konoha, that would be a bit problematic.

puff!

The leading Kusanagi was about to say something, but the next moment, he felt a piercing pain and a black kunai pierced through his chest and into his body.

The leading Kusanagi's eyes widened in disbelief, "How could it be, clearly..."

Before the leading Kusanagi could finish his last words, he collapsed, his body still wide-eyed with a look of confusion on its face.

"Captain! Damn Iwagakure, when did they come here?"

The Kusagakure ninjas were trained ninjas after all, and they quickly noticed the killing of the "Iwagakure ninjas".

Their expressions were as confused as the leading Kusagakure ninja's. They had clearly already investigated, so how did these Iwagakure ninjas get here?

The unprepared Kusanagi team was quickly wiped out.

Whoosh!

A blond figure kept flashing in the forest, moving forward at an extremely fast speed.

Sensing the dissipating aura, Minato Namikaze frowned slightly and used the body-flickering technique with all his strength to speed up again.

But when he arrived, there were only corpses of Grass Ninjas on the ground, and no sign of other ninjas.

"It's like this again. What kind of ninjutsu is it that even I can't sense it?" Namikaze Minato looked unhappy.

Just half a minute ago, he could still feel the chakra of those killers, but when he was about to arrive, the chakra aura disappeared.

Although Minato Namikaze is not a full-time perception ninja, his excellent perception ability is enough to defeat many perception ninjas in the perception class.

In other words, most of Konoha's sensory ninjas were unable to detect the Iwagakure assassination teams that were hiding using ninjutsu.

"I wonder if the Hyuga clan's Byakugan can be cracked." Namikaze Minato fell into thought.

The Hyuga clan's Byakugan is different from ordinary perception ninjutsu. The Hyuga clan's Byakugan uses their eyes to see. Theoretically, ninjutsu that eliminates aura is useless against the Byakugan.

Namikaze Minato tried to search carefully within a ten-kilometer radius, but still failed to find the Iwagakure ninja who had just killed the Kusagakure ninja.

After searching in vain, Minato Namikaze finally used Flying Thunder God to return to the camp and report the information he had discovered to Jiraiya.

"He was able to escape from your hands, Minato. It seems that Iwagakure is serious about this." Jiraiya said, touching his chin.

If Jiraiya had previously only guessed that Iwagakure might have a great war with Konoha in the Land of Grass in the near future, now Jiraiya is almost certain that Iwagakure will launch an attack on Konoha.

"It's not a big problem. Among the ninjas coming to support us this time, there are three from the Hyuga clan, and two of them are Jonin." Jiraiya told Minato Namikaze the information about the reinforcements he requested.

Taking into account the current situation on the battlefield, Jiraiya not only called in the perception team, but also some Anbu to conduct intelligence work.

In the battles of ninja troops, intelligence is a crucial point.

For a ninja like Minato Namikaze, even if the opponent is a team of hundreds of people, as long as he knows the exact location, Minato Namikaze can kill them all by himself.