"You—"
The Fourth Raikage was being choked by the throat. Even though this was Impure World Reincarnation, there was no real sensation of suffocation.
But that extreme sense of humiliation drove the hatred in his heart almost to its limit. Of course, he knew how strong Kitagawa Gen was.
"But how is he strong to this extent? My body actually can't recover. What the hell happened after I died?!"
The Akatsuki only treated him as a "chess piece," and no one would tell him anything about "Yin-Yang Release."
Of course, even if he knew, it would be useless.
After all, even the Akatsuki's people felt that these two were simply not on the same plane.
"Die!"
However, just as Kitagawa Gen was choking the Fourth Raikage by the throat, the Third Raikage let out a furious roar.
[Woom—]
With lightning wrapping around his entire body, in an instant he seemed to cross space. He held his fingers together and stabbed straight at Kitagawa Gen.
"Hell Stab, huh. Seems like I can use that jutsu too."
Catching the Third Raikage in the corner of his eye, Kitagawa Gen gave a soft chuckle, and the hand choking the Fourth Raikage began to tighten.
At the same time, the chakra inside him began to surge, and only then did he speak in an unhurried tone.
"You should have heard how I destroyed your Kumogakure, right? Since you knew, why didn't you learn to remember that?"
"You—"
The Fourth Raikage was being choked to the point he couldn't even speak, and he discovered in shock that the power inside him was starting to be suppressed.
As someone under Impure World Reincarnation, he actually couldn't gather even a trace of chakra. That made his expression turn even uglier!
But Kitagawa Gen didn't pay him any attention at all. Just as the Third Raikage was about to reach him, in the next instant a massive "wood dragon" burst out of the earth with a roar.
"What?"
The Third Raikage's expression also froze when he saw the wood dragon, but now he couldn't pull his attack back. He could only stab viciously at the wood dragon.
Yet the wood dragon's power was extraordinary to begin with—how could it be something he could break through so easily?
"I heard you can deal with tailed beasts. I wonder whether you can deal with this wood dragon."
Amid Kitagawa Gen's soft chuckle, the Third Raikage's "Hell Stab" slammed heavily into the wood dragon.
[Boom—]
A dull roar echoed wildly through the raging flames, and the surging air currents carried billowing smoke as they rose into the sky.
The surrounding flames were violently whipped into a frenzy by that invisible shockwave, and the savage aura made quite a few White Zetsu—who still hadn't been burned to death—suffer badly!
[Bang—]
The Third Raikage crashed heavily to the ground. His entire right hand had already shattered, and cracks also appeared on the wood dragon's head.
But those cracks healed in a moment, while the Third Raikage's recovery speed was far slower than that!
"Heh!"
However, at this very moment, a golden long rope shot down from the sky, instantly winding toward his body.
Moreover, that rope contained some special chakra.
"This is Hagoromo's thing—seems like it's called the 'Kōkinjō'?"
Kaguya recognized what it was at once, and she couldn't help feeling a bit emotional.
"I never thought I'd still see something of Hagoromo's here. How truly pathetic."
'What are you thinking about now?'
Watching the "Kōkinjō" draw closer and closer, Kitagawa Gen couldn't help but grumble inwardly.
'Don't tell me you're going to think this is the 'Sage of Six Paths' plot' again?'
Kitagawa Gen really didn't know what to say. He felt that, at this point, the Sage of Six Paths might as well be called Ōtsutsuki Danzō.
As for these Six Paths ninja tools, Kitagawa Gen had originally been quite curious about them.
He had even thought before about whether he should dig them out and take a look.
Unfortunately, he didn't know where the bodies of Kinkaku and Ginkaku were buried, and he also hadn't triggered any similar quest.
So he felt more or less a bit regretful.
Still, considering that he had obtained the Uchiha's spirit tool and yet had looked rather indifferent while digging it up—
Most likely, with this thing, he would also just go dig it up sometime when the opportunity came as time went on.
And now, to him, it really didn't have much value anymore.
'I don't need to rely on the Sage of Six Paths' chakra attached to this anymore.'
Watching the "Kōkinjō" draw closer and closer, Kitagawa Gen thought for a moment and still decided to show the Sage of Six Paths some respect.
With a casual motion, like tossing out trash, he directly threw the Fourth Raikage away, and only then did he leap up calmly.
"Die!"
However, in that instant, a vast chakra erupted above his head, and immediately countless bolts of thunder swept toward him.
Clearly, this was the "Bashōsen" unleashing its power—and along with those countless rushing thunderbolts came Ginkaku, holding the "Shichiseiken" and circling around behind him!
The two attacked from front and back, clearly trying to hit him hard in one wave.
"Somewhat interesting."
Kitagawa Gen looked at this scene, nodded lightly, and then let out a soft chuckle.
"But that's all it amounts to."
In an instant, the ground churned, and then a massive "wood golem" suddenly burst out of the earth!
The wood golem let out a furious roar and blocked behind Kitagawa Gen, while the short blade condensed from Yin-Yang Release in Kitagawa Gen's hand instantly went to meet the "Shichiseiken."
"Looking for death!"
Ginkaku still didn't know what he was dealing with. Gritting his teeth, he sped up as he charged at Kitagawa Gen, but in the next moment he suddenly sensed something was wrong.
Because within the chakra from the collision between his "Shichiseiken" and that black short blade, he discovered in shock that cracks had appeared on his "Shichiseiken"!
"How is that possible?!"
A Six Paths ninja tool was by no means ordinary. Over the years, he had used this weapon to roam the shinobi world, and he had never suffered a loss when clashing head-on with an enemy.
But at this moment, this Six Paths ninja tool had actually been cleaved with a single slash into cracks that were even continuing to spread, and a dazed look appeared on his face.
"The weapon is a good weapon, but it also depends on who uses it."
Kitagawa Gen's flat voice rang out once again, and his strength also began to increase at this moment.
"You're not the true owner of this weapon at all, so if it's like this, then it's completely useless."
[Crack—]
Under Kitagawa Gen's added force, the "Shichiseiken" suddenly snapped, and at some point his hand had already nurtured a streak of lightning—purple with black speckles.
"Damn it."
Although Ginkaku's face was full of shock, he still retreated backward in an instant.
However, that lightning still slammed into his body, and he could only watch as his chest was smashed open into a huge hole!
"Roar—"
At this moment, the wood golem also let out a roar. That towering wood golem instantly turned around and, toward Kinkaku in the rear, threw a heavy punch.
[Boom—]
Another piercing roar followed. Along with a shockwave that swept across the ground, in that instant Kinkaku was smashed flying.
His body was involuntarily flung toward the still-recovering Third Raikage, and the two slammed heavily into each other!
At that very moment, the ground cracked with sharp crack—crack sounds, and neither of them seemed to have recovered from the sudden turn of events.
"Th-this guy…"
These former high-ranking figures of Kumogakure all felt their faces go pale. They knew their own speed very well.
Yet even with such explosive speed, they still couldn't so much as touch this guy. That was something they found hard to accept.
If it had been the Flying Thunder God, that would have been one thing—but this guy clearly hadn't even used the Flying Thunder God!
"Since you want to play, then let's play it bigger."
However, Kitagawa Gen didn't pay them much attention. His gaze swept over the four of them once.
Then he looked at the White Zetsu army that was still charging toward him even while wreathed in flames, and he nodded casually.
"Then—Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees."
As his chakra surged, in an instant countless vines and tree roots burst out from the ground!
These vines were immediately ignited by the raging flames and began to burn fiercely, yet that still didn't stop them from continuously coiling and intertwining.
"Damn it—dodge!"
Seeing this, the Third Raikage shouted at once and began repeatedly chopping down the onrushing vines with his hand-blade.
Not only him— the Fourth Raikage, Kinkaku, and Ginkaku also moved immediately. But no matter how they counterattacked, even more vines surged toward them.
Meanwhile, those flame-wreathed vines were already charging madly toward the White Zetsu, and at the same time the wood dragon and the wood golem continued launching frenzied attacks against all living beings.
For a time, flames and vines intertwined, and the massive wood dragon and the roaring wood golem flickered constantly amid the firelight.
Kitagawa Gen stood atop a burning tree, his arms crossed over his chest, calmly watching everything below.
It was as if the one trapped in layers upon layers of encirclement was not him, but the tens of thousands of White Zetsu instead!
Roars and screams echoed together. Flames and towering trees seemed to cover the entire battlefield. The earth trembled without cease, and the sky was dyed a scorched crimson.
"What kind of battle is this, exactly?"
Watching everything before them, the Allied Shinobi Forces in the rear all fell into a daze.
They had truly never seen such a terrifying battlefield—this had already far surpassed their imagination.
Tens of thousands of troops—even if they were all a group whose combat ability wasn't very good, and who could only rely on taijutsu: chūnin and genin.
But with numbers like that, even swapping in a Kage would be in danger!
Yet Kitagawa Gen was acting so casually. At this moment, numbers seemed to be completely useless.
"Could it be… back then, was the First Hokage like this too?"
"Wood Release… is this the power of Wood Release?"
"Fire Release and Wood Release—could this be the meaning of 'Konoha'?"
"Too terrifying. With the Fifth Hokage here, the very nature of war might be changed…"
All the shinobi couldn't help murmuring inwardly. Everything in front of them was simply far too unbelievable.
And they also realized something else now: the legends they had heard back then about Wood Release seemed to be true!
Looking at everything before them, they seemed to understand why Senju Hashirama was praised as the shinobi who "pacified an age of chaos."
With power like this, he truly could pacify an age of chaos!
"So terrifying…"
Not only them—Jiraiya and Tsunade were also watching with their scalps tingling.
Although they had seen similar battles before, and they also realized that if Kitagawa Gen and the First Hokage were truly to fight one against many, the effect most likely wouldn't be much different.
But imagining it was just imagining it. The feeling of seeing this scene was completely different from imagination!
"It's just… why does the scene Gen set up look like hell?"
Only after quite a while did Jiraiya mutter, and he realized his throat was already a little hoarse.
"It really is too terrifying."
Tsunade couldn't help nodding as well, and only then did she speak with a somewhat strange expression.
"But Gen looks like he's playing with them. Does he hate Kumogakure to this extent?"
"Who knows about him."
Jiraiya wasn't too sure either.
Aside from the Akatsuki, the ones he hit the hardest were the Raikage—though that Kazekage wasn't much better.
"Maybe, just like he hates toads, he hates those dark-skinned guys too?"
"You do know you're really annoying, right?"
"?"
"Alright, stop talking nonsense. The battle here is probably about to end, and we should also think about how to split our forces and go reinforce other places."
"Seems like that too."
Jiraiya pursed his lips and didn't continue thinking about Tsunade's words. No matter how he looked at it, the battle here also seemed to be more or less over.
Kitagawa Gen held every advantage. Even if the other side was Impure World Reincarnation, it actually meant nothing to him.
Jiraiya knew that Yin-Yang Release was very effective against Impure World Reincarnation.
The fight wasn't over yet mainly because Kitagawa Gen was cleaning up the White Zetsu, but now it seemed it was almost over as well!
[Boom—]
Just as he was thinking, a massive rumble came from the distant earth once again.
Immediately after, four figures were instantly blasted away. The flames were also whipped up into rolling waves of air by the gusting winds, and the irregularly churning fire was so suffocating.
And Kitagawa Gen was still standing at the top of the tree canopy with his arms crossed over his chest. His gaze looked down at the four below, and there was no expression to be seen on his face at all.
"Damn it—how did this guy suddenly become so strong…"
The Fourth Raikage's face was full of pain. He had absolutely no idea what was going on.
Not only him—the other three also looked grim to the extreme. It wasn't that they hadn't considered that the guy in front of them was strong.
But they had never imagined that this guy could be strong to this extent!
"This is bad. If this keeps up…"
The White Zetsu around them were already—no matter how fearless the White Zetsu were, under this guy's attacks they had no room to resist at all.
Quite a few White Zetsu had already burrowed underground, and nobody knew where they had gone. As for their current situation, it was becoming rather unfavorable.
"Looks like things here are about done too."
Kitagawa Gen naturally noticed all of this. After nodding lightly, he raised his head and spoke down to the four from on high.
"The game is basically over. I can only say you didn't even let me reach the level of a warm-up."
"You damn bastard…"
The Fourth Raikage muttered in a low voice with an ugly expression, but seeing his left arm vanish once again, and Ginkaku's empty chest, he was left momentarily speechless.
Meanwhile, the Third Raikage and Kinkaku and Ginkaku had all fallen silent. They seemed to have experienced what it meant to face an "insurmountable mountain."
"Konohagakure can also use Impure World Reincarnation, and with this kid… has Konohagakure returned to—or even surpassed—where it was more than sixty years ago?"
But no matter what they thought, Kitagawa Gen stretched lazily at this moment, then asked with a smile.
"Let me ask you a question. Do you know what the Kumogakure shinobi were feeling when I took over Kumogakure back then?"
"What… what do you mean?"
The Third Raikage clenched his fists and spoke almost instinctively, but at the same time a bad premonition rose in his heart.
Kitagawa Gen didn't pay him any attention. Instead, he raised one hand upright, and the chakra within his body surged once more.
[Woom—]
Driven by that vast chakra, Kitagawa Gen's clothes billowed upward, his hair began to move without any wind, and the earth itself started to shake violently at that very moment.
Along with that shaking, countless flame-wreathed vines continuously converged and intertwined.
In the next instant, the entire world seemed to fall into silence. The land was shrouded beneath a layer of dark clouds carrying raging flames.
Under those clouds, the four—including the Fourth Raikage—fell silent at the same time, their eyes staring blankly at the scene before them.
At this moment, they seemed to understand what Kitagawa Gen had meant by his words.
Because before them, a gigantic Buddha was slowly taking shape—its back layered with countless arms, towering into the clouds, and its entire body engulfed in blazing flames!
"What… what is this?"
The Third Raikage murmured softly. He had never imagined that his son would end up provoking such a terrifying existence.
"Wood Release… is this Wood Release that's even stronger than Senju Hashirama's?"
Kinkaku and Ginkaku had seen their share of things, yet even they were stunned by what lay before them.
"This isn't even on the same level at all!"
Only the Fourth Raikage remained silent. He stared wordlessly at the colossal Buddha that continued to rise—looking like a deity, yet also like a demonic asura.
After a long while, he finally shook his head with a bitter smile.
"You bastard… what you want us to experience—is the despair everyone in the village felt back then, isn't it?"
However, Kitagawa Gen didn't give them much time to dwell on it.
In a heartbeat, heaven and earth seemed to collapse, as if divine punishment had descended.
...
"Alright—feels about right."
Inside Konohagakure, Naruto felt the Nine-Tails within his body and couldn't help smiling in pleasant surprise.
Beside him, Kushina stayed with Naruto the whole time, likewise sensing the state of the Nine-Tails within him.
After a while, she nodded.
"Mm. For now, it really doesn't seem like a big problem. Your control over the Nine-Tails looks pretty good."
"Hehe, you're amazing as always, Mom!"
Naruto knew his mom's situation far too well, so he immediately raised his thumb at his mom.
And that was the truth. If his mom hadn't helped, controlling the Nine-Tails probably wouldn't have been so easy.
Especially since the Nine-Tails inside him was far stronger than before!
"A whole big fox… seriously."
Although he also knew that the Nine-Tails inside him was only half, with the other half inside his dad, he actually had no real sense of how strong a complete Nine-Tails was—until now, anyway.
Now, he more or less understood.
This complete Nine-Tails was much stronger than he had imagined.
The strength of a complete Nine-Tails far surpassed his imagination. That vast chakra even left him surprised.
Now he understood just how amazing his mom was. Sealing such a huge Nine-Tails inside her body and being fine, and now she could even help him control the Nine-Tails.
His mom really was not ordinary at all!
"Alright, stop talking nonsense."
Kushina rolled her eyes, but she still felt very comfortable with her son's "flattery."
"Although I strengthened some of the seal, there's no problem with you using its power, but you should know the Nine-Tails isn't ordinary. You still need to be careful."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Naruto sprang to his feet excitedly. Clenching his fists, he spoke with excitement.
"But now it's about time. I can go reinforce Dad—I've been waiting a long time for this!"
He knew very well about the great war that had erupted in the shinobi world, and he had always longed to join the war as soon as possible.
It was just that he needed to re-form the Nine-Tails, which kept him from joining the fighting quickly.
That made him especially anxious, yet there was nothing he could do.
But now it was fine. He had finally gotten it done, and he could finally move!
"Tch, you really are something. What's there to look forward to about this kind of thing?"
Seeing her son like this, Kushina immediately felt both helpless and annoyed.
War was not something to joke about. If you were careless even for a moment, people would die!
And leaving aside those bastards in the Akatsuki, that Ōtsutsuki Genshiki wouldn't let the tailed beasts go easily either. She was worried about her son, too.
"Alright, Mom, it's fine."
Naruto looked at Kushina with a grin and said softly.
"I'll take care of myself, and solve this war as soon as possible—then we can enjoy peace, right?!"
"Minato taught you to say that, didn't he?"
"No way."
"Don't think I don't know your situation. Your grades are terrible. I really don't know how my and Minato's child ended up like you."
"..."
Naruto stopped grinning. He only felt that his mom's words were a bit hurtful.
But he couldn't figure out how to refute it either, because "Naruto's grades aren't very good" had already become a bit ingrained in people's minds.
'If I'd known back then, I would've studied seriously—damn it!'
Naruto couldn't help complaining inwardly, but facing his mom, he could only scratch his head awkwardly, then immediately changed the subject.
"By the way, Mom, how's Sasuke doing?"
"I don't know. Lady Tsunade has already gone to the front line. Sasuke should be being watched by Karin and Sakura."
Kushina wasn't really willing to let her child go to the battlefield, but she could still distinguish the bigger picture.
Even if she wasn't happy, she could control her emotions—especially since Naruto was a member of the "Special Operations Unit."
The First, the Second, and Minato, along with other powerful experts, were in it, so Naruto would be relatively safer there.
"Tch, that guy still isn't better?"
Naruto didn't know what his mom was thinking, but after learning about Sasuke's situation, he immediately stood up.
"Alright, even though I really want to go find Dad right away, I'll go take a look at this guy first. I don't even know how he is right now."
"Hey, slow down a bit."
Kushina pressed her lips together. She felt that Naruto really wasn't ordinary in the problem department.
But before she could say anything more, she suddenly saw Naruto freeze, then stare blankly downward at his lower abdomen.
"What's wrong?"
She asked in confusion, but the next moment, she felt the ground seemed to be gently swaying.
"This is?"
"It seems a great battle broke out very far from here, and…"
Naruto murmured. He involuntarily raised his hand and covered his lower abdomen.
"The Nine-Tails seems unusually afraid. What on earth is going on…"
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"Tch, Konoha is still the same damn way."
In Konohagakure, Uchiha Madara was quietly heading toward the Hyūga Clan.
With the war having erupted to this point, he still had not officially entered the battlefield. His purpose was naturally for the relic left behind by the Sage of Six Paths's younger brother.
To be honest, he had never believed the Hyūga Clan would be the descendants of the Sage of Six Paths's younger brother.
Because those guys really were weak beyond belief!
But since Black Zetsu was so certain, he had no other options, and he was willing to trust Black Zetsu's judgment for once.
"After all, that was born from my will!"
He sped toward Konoha, looking at the streets and alleys that carried his past memories, and at the towering Hokage Building.
And at the statues standing atop the Hokage Building, he couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion.
"Back then, the first statue almost ended up being mine!"
But his gaze shifted to the last one in the line. It was the fifth statue, and it seemed to have only had its outline carved, still needing constant polishing.
Yet he also knew very clearly who that statue belonged to.
"Kitagawa Gen."
Uchiha Madara could not forget how he had been beaten senseless by that guy in Iwagakure, nor could he forget how terrifying it was for that guy to wield Hashirama's power!
Even he could not bring Hashirama's power to that level.
"More importantly, he can face Ōtsutsuki Genshiki head-on, and is even defined as an 'Evolver'?"
Uchiha Madara did not know what the specific definition of an "Evolver" was, but he did know that Ōtsutsuki Genshiki regarded Kitagawa Gen extremely highly.
He had even given a "suggestion," but that kind of "suggestion" most likely would not be accepted.
"Dragged down by others? In some sense, maybe that's true, but if you're strong enough, what is there to fear about being dragged down?"
Uchiha Madara let out a cold snort. His gaze fell on the Hyūga Clan ahead, and in the end he slowly clenched his fist.
"Besides, as long as there's a method, it's still possible to defeat someone like you. I want to see how the Sage of Six Paths dealt with you back then!"
As he thought, he was already heading into the Hyūga Clan compound. Black Zetsu was waiting for him now, and all he needed to do was obtain what he wanted.
"Hm?"
However, at that moment, he suddenly sensed something, and his eyes instantly turned toward the distance!
"That is…"
Even from so far away, he could still clearly sense an immense chakra soaring into the sky in the Land of Hot Water region!
Even in Konoha, he could feel the ground tremble faintly.
"Kitagawa Gen?"
Uchiha Madara murmured, and suddenly a White Zetsu emerged beside him.
"Madara-sama, it's Kitagawa Gen."
"Hmph. Just as expected—only he can unleash power like that."
Uchiha Madara wasn't surprised at all. In his view, this was simply Kitagawa Gen's normal level.
"I wonder which unlucky bastard ran into him."
"It's people from Kumogakure."
White Zetsu said with a grin, then squeezed his eyes and continued.
"But, Madara-sama, we also need to speed up, because if nothing unexpected happens…"
[Whoosh—]
Before he could finish speaking, a kunai shot toward them. In the next instant, a figure flickered!
[Boom—]
A piercing roar rang out along with flashes of purple lightning, and the ground was instantly torn open.
But Uchiha Madara's figure had already vanished from where he stood. He appeared atop a high platform, looking down at the figure below.
"Brat, it's you."
"So that's who it was—sneaking into Konoha."
The figure lifted his head, revealing a pair of scarlet eyes. It was Sasuke!
But Sasuke was also a little different now. His aura had grown much stronger, and the Mangekyō in his eyes had quietly changed shape.
Clearly, he had completed the fusion.
"So it's you, Uchiha Madara."
"Those are very nice eyes."
Uchiha Madara was also somewhat surprised. Sasuke's changes did catch him off guard, but that was all it was—surprise.
"I have to say, you've made some progress, but at this level, do you really think you can deal with me?"
"If I don't try, how would I know?"
The short blade in Sasuke's hand flickered with lightning, making it clear he was already prepared to fight.
"Sigh. Looks like I can't do anything unless I deal with you first."
Seeing this, Uchiha Madara shook his head, but soon he started laughing.
"But this is fine too, because…"
As he spoke, Uchiha Madara's expression turned serious. He stared at Sasuke and spoke with extreme displeasure.
"Why do you have a face like that, yet you insist on studying under that insidious little man, Senju Tobirama? You really deserve to die!"
"?"
...
"Something's going on."
At the border of the Land of Fire, Senju Tobirama spoke with a grave expression.
"What a strong chakra fluctuation—and this chakra fluctuation seems somewhat similar to yours, big brother."
"It's probably Gen making a move, right?"
Hearing that, Senju Hashirama immediately had a guess, and he couldn't help laughing.
"Then there's no need to worry about that side. If he moved, there naturally won't be any problems."
"Idiot. The key issue is who he's facing!"
Senju Tobirama's expression looked unpleasant. He really felt his big brother had something wrong with his head—couldn't he understand something that simple?
"It could be Uchiha Madara, or Uchiha Obito—those vicious criminals—or even… Ōtsutsuki Genshiki!"
When Senju Tobirama said Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito, Senju Hashirama didn't react much.
After all, he still trusted Kitagawa Gen's strength, but the moment Ōtsutsuki Genshiki was mentioned, he could no longer stay that calm.
That guy… was not someone to be taken lightly.
"Probably not."
Senju Hashirama grew serious as well. He stood up and carefully probed for a moment.
"I didn't detect any even stronger chakra eruption. He probably ran into some trouble, and—"
"And? Did you discover anything else, First Hokage-sama?"
Namikaze Minato asked curiously, while Senju Hashirama wore a slightly odd expression as he looked in Konoha's direction.
"How is it that in Konoha, I can sense Madara's chakra? Honestly…"
"Konoha? Madara?"
Senju Tobirama was still wondering who Kitagawa Gen was beating down, but when he heard that, he immediately snorted coldly.
"That evil Uchiha Madara—I knew he wouldn't behave. No wonder we couldn't find him. So he went to Konoha!"
"In that case…"
Namikaze Minato's expression also turned serious, but Senju Hashirama still kept smiling.
"Let's go back. After all, he's our target."
As he spoke, he placed his hands on Senju Tobirama's and Namikaze Minato's shoulders, and deep down, he was also faintly looking forward to it.
"Are we finally going to meet, Madara…"
"I've been waiting a long time!"
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"Cough, cough, cough—what on earth…"
Meanwhile, within the Land of Hot Water, the Allied Shinobi Forces had been thrown into complete chaos.
But they were basically fine, since they had only been caught up in a slight spillover.
Still, their faces were pale, their minds filled with those scenes from just now.
That thunderous earthquake, that giant Buddha a thousand meters tall, its entire body burning with raging flames—this was simply like a nightmare!
And right before their eyes, the collapsed earth, the blazing inferno, and that hellish scene of corpses strewn everywhere—some even gone without a trace.
They truly felt as if the end of the world had arrived.
It was also the first time they had felt that a shinobi's strength could actually reach this level?!
"Looks… not bad."
In the center of the battlefield, Kitagawa Gen stood atop that giant Buddha. Looking at the scene below, he merely nodded lightly.
After being infused with the power of Yin-Yang Release, that giant Buddha's relentless barrage would leave no one in good shape no matter who they were.
By now, he had basically wiped out the White Zetsu in this area, and those four Kumogakure Edo Tensei had long since vanished into smoke.
However, he didn't choose to leave. Instead, he looked toward the distance with amusement.
"Another old acquaintance is here. Not bad either. Then…"
As Kitagawa Gen was thinking, his system suddenly gave a slight jolt, and a wave of information immediately appeared before his eyes.
[Completed Sasuke's exclusive side quest 3: The night gave me black eyes, but I made them red.]
[Reward obtained: Part of Sasuke's special Yin Release.]
And at that very moment, several figures quietly appeared before him.
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