Inside the giant water sphere, the isolated Five-Tails struggled wildly with all its strength, but it could never break free from the restraints of the vast sage water.
Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong.
Ryun's Water Release Sage Art could not only completely suppress the Four-Tails Jinchuriki's Lava Release magma, but also render the Five-Tails' great strength useless, perfectly achieving the miraculous effect of "using softness to overcome hardness."
The Five-Tails was not good at water combat at all. Ryun easily avoided its active attacks with his extreme speed in water, and used the Samehada to leave a huge wound on its body.
"Roar!!!"
The intense pain made the Five-Tails instinctively roar, but the moment it opened its mouth, it choked on water. Before it could even adjust, Ryun's next attack had already arrived.
The Samehada slashed freely across the huge body, and blood soon dyed red the area where the man and the beast were fighting.
In an open land area, the Four-Tails and Five-Tails might have had the strength to put up a barely passable fight against Ryun, but now, inside this great body of water, the two tailed beasts could only passively take a beating...
It wasn't that they weren't strong enough, but their abilities and intelligence had long been figured out. Ryun's attack on the Land of Earth was originally to lure out the Land of Earth's tailed beasts, and he had long conducted countless combat simulations in his mind. There was basically no possibility of him failing.
The Mangekyō Sharingan, sage arts and techniques, the Samehada, and even the sealing techniques not yet used—Ryun had far too many methods to use against the tailed beasts, and each method had a very strong restraining effect on them.
Facing such an opponent who could tank, fight, and plan ahead, this battle offered no possibility of victory for the Four-Tails and Five-Tails!
After Ryun repeatedly wore them down with successive attacks, the Five-Tails was soon forcibly forced back into its jinchuriki's body. Han, just like Roshi, was soon beaten until he lost consciousness and fell into a coma in the water.
"Easier than imagined..."
Looking at the two jinchuriki floating beside him, Ryun could not help but show a satisfied smile.
"Next will be facing the anger of Iwagakure..."
Ryun thought of this secretly in his heart, but not a trace of worry showed on his face, as if everything was under his control.
In truth, he had never thought he could capture these tailed beasts silently, and then silently obtain their chakra. This kind of thinking was itself unrealistic, so he had also prepared himself to offend the various major countries of the ninja world.
"Four-Tails and Five-Tails capture successful. It is time to leave now..."
After glancing at the group of Iwa-nin outside the water sphere, Ryun was not worried about his own situation. With his strength, leaving would not be difficult.
"Summoning Technique!"
Ryun bit his finger, formed a few simple hand seals, and then slapped his palm on Roshi's body. Summoning formulas instantly spread across his body surface.
As smoke dispersed in the water, a thick, giant snake soon appeared before Ryun.
This was just an ordinary giant snake from Ryūchi Cave. Ryun summoned the giant snake merely to find a means of transportation.
He first ordered the giant snake to swallow the two unconscious jinchuriki into its body, then commanded the giant snake to break through and advance in a certain direction.
"That guy is coming out. Everyone, prepare for battle. Do not let him escape!" an Iwa-nin jonin shouted urgently. Everyone outside the water sphere instantly stood ready for battle.
"Hmph, you mere ants actually dare to block my path."
Ryun coldly snorted, then formed several hand seals with both hands.
The giant water sphere suddenly exploded the next moment, and the colossal wave instantly engulfed everyone!
In the surging, rolling waters, a giant snake broke through the waves and swiftly swam into the distance. Some people saw this scene from afar but could only look on helplessly.
However, it wasn't so easy for Ryun to completely shake off the Iwa-nin, because there were Iwa-nin with flight capabilities locked tightly onto the giant snake swimming in the sea from the sky, and they immediately sent a request for support to the village.
The eye in the sky could not escape Ryun's perception, but he temporarily had no intention of eliminating it.
Keeping this small tail might help mislead Iwagakure, because the direction Ryun was currently moving in was towards the Land of Waterfalls, not the Land of Rice's Otogakure. By doing this, he could temporarily keep Otogakure out of it. The other side would not immediately dispatch a large army to the Land of Rice, but would instead prioritize finding him and sending experts to rescue the two jinchuriki.
Soon, half a day passed.
The information received completely threw Iwagakure into an uproar. The capture of the two jinchuriki made Ōnoki completely unable to sit still. All of Iwagakure's elites were fully mobilized.
"Bastard, the purpose of his attack on the port was to capture the Four-Tails and Five-Tails? Damn it, what does Uchiha Ryun want to do?" Ōnoki's face was ashen with anger, his teeth grinding audibly.
For a moment, he couldn't quite see clearly the reason behind the other party's attack on the port.
Was it to resolve Otogakure's crisis? Or was attacking the port simply to lure out the two jinchuriki?
If it was the former, then it proved the other party's main base was within Otogakure. Then he would immediately personally lead a ninja army in a direct attack on the Land of Rice.
But if it was the latter, then wasting limited military strength on the Land of Rice would be meaningless.
Intelligence showed that Uchiha Ryun had not gone to the Land of Rice, but had instead entered the Land of Waterfalls.
Of course, Ōnoki did not rule out the possibility that Uchiha Ryun was passing through the Land of Waterfalls to return to the Land of Rice, as the two countries were not very far apart.
Soon, famous jonin experts within Iwagakure received the Third Tsuchikage's absolute order. Large numbers of elites left the village, rapidly killing towards Ryun's location.
The Four-Tails and Five-Tails were the Land of Earth's "strategic heavy weapons." The capture of the two jinchuriki was truly a matter of life and death for Iwagakure.
"Should we send someone to Konoha? That damn guy is, after all, still a person of Konoha. Perhaps capturing the two jinchuriki was done under the orders of the Third Hokage," a Tsuchikage high-ranking official said in a low voice.
"That guy's relationship with Konoha isn't very good. I don't think the Hokage could even order him around. And judging by Sarutobi Hiruzen's character, it's also unlikely he would make such a radical decision as bombing a port and hunting another country's tailed beasts."
"That Uchiha Ryun is a madman. Only a madman would dare to offend three major countries at once!" a Tsuchikage advisor said, his eyes red. The three major countries he referred to were the Lands of Lightning, Water, and Earth.
Ōnoki also felt that Konoha would not be so radical, or that Sarutobi Hiruzen would not dare to give such a radical order.
Even though the relationship between the Lands of Fire and Earth was currently tense, Konoha was currently fighting hotly with Sunagakure and would not seek death by provoking a full-scale war with the Land of Earth at this juncture.
Everything must be the personal decision of that madman Uchiha Ryun.
Although Ōnoki knew this matter was unrelated to Konoha, he still sent a delegation to Konoha. It would be best if they could pressure Uchiha Ryun through Konoha to release the two jinchuriki.
As for how to make Konoha handle this matter? There was only the path of war threats left!
Ōnoki, while sending experts to rescue the two jinchuriki, also sent people to Konoha to apply pressure. Additionally, he sent handwritten letters to the other three Kage of Wind, Water, and Lightning.
For a time, the entire Iwagakure was mobilized!
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