Facing the golden rings, the Abyssal Sage King was horrified. He felt an intense aura of divine power.
This was divine power!
A divine skill!
A deity was taking action!
While shocked inwardly, his heart was also filled with terror.
As expected, this incident was related to the God Realm.
The Abyssal Sage King now regretted it. He shouldn't have given the channel a chance to open; he should have severed it immediately.
What he didn't know was that even if he severed it, the channel from Douluo Star on the other side would still connect. After all, the Pioneering Will that appeared within the Abyss was to pinpoint it.
Since the opponent was the God Realm, he had been lured into establishing a spatial channel, and the opponent instantly demonstrated the ability to stabilize it, he naturally had no intention of holding back.
He directly reached out. From the depths of the Abyss, a massive halberd shot through the air, landing in his hand.
With the Heaven Saint Abyss-Cleaving Halberd in hand, the Abyssal Sage King felt a bit more confident.
He directly swung the halberd, slashing at the golden rings.
However, the golden rings couldn't be severed by the Heaven Saint Abyss-Cleaving Halberd.
These things could only be dodged.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
One ring after another ensnared the Abyssal Sage King, making it difficult for him to move.
He glared furiously towards the other end of the channel.
"What a pity, the distance is a bit far, beyond the Douluo God Realm's territory. Otherwise, he could be killed directly."
A voice faintly came through. The Abyssal Sage King didn't recognize it, but from the speaker's words, he inferred something, sending chills down his spine.
He was being targeted.
Damn it!
A prestigious God Realm was targeting actually his insignificant Abyss.
The Abyssal Sage King inwardly lamented.
Alas, woe is me.
He didn't stop to think that he himself was also constantly invading and devouring other planes, wasn't he?
Douluo Star.
Tang San wore a regretful expression, while Su Ming gave him a cold glance.
Just now, Tang San had suddenly acted, conjuring so many golden rings directly towards the tunnel entrance. Su Ming couldn't intercept them and had to let these Unfixed Wind and Waves rings enter the channel.
This Tang San was truly shameless, directly preemptively laying out his moves across the entire battlefield.
Su Ming glanced towards Shrek Academy's direction and sneered.
It seemed Shrek Academy was indeed in decline now, and Tang San couldn't hold back anymore. This planar war was Shrek's hope for resurgence.
Tang San also noticed Su Ming's sneer and saw him look towards Shrek's ranks, his heart sinking.
Oh no. This Su Ming isn't someone who follows reason. What if he attacks Shrek Academy's people indiscriminately?
What if he openly shows favoritism?
"Tang San!"
The God of Destruction shouted angrily, displeased with Tang San's sudden move.
Rong Nianbing also frowned, glancing at Tang San.
This Tang San always managed to do such shameless things.
Tang San, however, was nonchalant and said leisurely, "You two, let's act to stabilize the channel."
Hearing this, the God of Destruction and Rong Nianbing couldn't delay any longer and took action.
The God of Destruction directly sent his Destruction Divine Power into the Abyss on the other side, exploding it into a vast Destruction Forbidden Zone. Within the zone, violet-black lightning crackled unceasingly while thunderclouds churned, constantly absorbing energy from the Abyss, then transforming it into lightning, enveloping an area.
It didn't cause substantial damage to the Abyss. However, the Abyssal Sage King could sense the threat. Currently, the scale of the thunderclouds within this forbidden zone was increasing, meaning the contained energy was growing.
This wasn't actually a major threat, as this area still belongs to the Abyss. It was just affected at the rule level, transforming into a special zone.
In short, the environment here was directly altered by the strand of origin essence the God of Destruction sent.
Lacking an immediate threat was the greatest threat.
Once this thing exploded, the loss to the Abyss might not be huge, but the Destruction Essence contained within, if suddenly detonated in the universe, would allow the God of Destruction to directly pinpoint the Abyss's exact location.
Even now, with the channel established, neither side could actually confirm the other's coordinates. After all, this channel spanned space; the Abyss itself existed in a dimension not within the normal dimensions, similar to the God Realm, not in the most common material plane dimension.
A single channel, twisting who-knows-how-many times within the spatial layers, had no precise direction.
Normally, after opening a channel, injecting a strand of origin essence and detonating it to locate it in the universe would be a seamless process.
But the God of Destruction interrupted it, only injecting the essence without detonating it.
The implied threat was obvious. The Abyssal Sage King could sense this forbidden zone was connected to the spatial channel.
Once the spatial channel was destroyed, this forbidden zone would explode.
Tang San used Unfixed Wind and Waves to reinforce the spatial channel's structure, stabilizing it. The God of Destruction wasn't skilled in this, so he stabilized the channel in an alternative way.
At this moment, Rong Nianbing also acted.
He didn't mobilize much of his divine power but recited an incantation.
His voice echoed between heaven and earth. The three thousand Spirit Masters below couldn't understand what he was chanting, but Su Ming knew it was magic.
Rong Nianbing didn't use his divine power to manipulate anything; he merely used his spiritual power to communicate with heaven and earth, stirring Douluo Star's elemental laws.
Su Ming's eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't obstruct it.
As Lord of the Plane, he could stop it at any moment.
Preventing it offered no benefit; instead, he would miss an opportunity to observe.
Multicolored radiance condensed, swirling around Rong Nianbing's body, transforming into illusory blade-like shapes.
Seeming to realize this wasn't a fight, Rong Nianbing changed the multicolored elemental blades into airflow forms.
The multicolored airflow converged from below upwards onto the tip of his raised right index finger. As he pointed towards the Abyss channel, the multicolored airflow surged into the spatial channel.
After entering the channel, this airflow rapidly swirled and intertwined.
Using his authority as Lord of the Plane, Su Ming perceived where this power went and detected subtle changes within the spatial channel.
These represented elements Douluo Star's laws.
The three deities each displayed their prowess. Tang San stabilized the channel's form, the God of Destruction intimidated the Abyss, and Rong Nianbing fixed Douluo Star's laws within the channel, making it simultaneously possess two sets of laws.
Su Ming couldn't help but click his tongue in admiration.
If it were him, he could certainly accomplish Rong Nianbing's operation, but it would require time. For Douluo Star's laws to extend over would take considerable time.
His approach was like gentle rain moistening all things silently; Rong Nianbing's was a violent, direct intrusion.
"Since you've all done so much, I can't just stand by and do nothing either."
Su Ming's smile deepened as he took out a seed.
He directly tossed the seed into the air above.
Mid-air, the Seed of Life didn't fall downward but actually hovered suspended.
Su Ming made a grabbing motion towards the channel entrance, then a guiding gesture towards the Seed of Life.
A massive surge of black energy emerged, pouring into the Seed of Life in the air.
Irrigated, the Seed of Life instantly emanated a jade-green radiance. Wherever the light reached, vitality flourished. The Spirit Masters below all felt a surge of vigor injected into their bodies, as if they had become younger. Their spirit power circulation became smoother and more natural.
Assign Minato to assassinate the Kazekage? Nara Shikaku looked at Minato with disbelief.
Minato was the most brilliant student of their generation. Back in school, he was indisputably first in both theoretical classes and combat classes.
After graduating from the Ninja Academy, Minato became a disciple of Konoha's White Fang.
After the White Fang's sacrifice, Minato became an important subordinate to Advisor Tsunade.
Was Minato's strength already at such a level now?
Strong enough that the Head of Konoha's Anbu thought Minato could assassinate a village Kage?
Sarutobi Hiruzen spoke at this moment, "Namikaze Minato is the village's future. He's only 17 this year, isn't he?
The Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, is renowned for his Gold Dust's absolute defense. Assassinating Rasa doesn't seem like a good choice, does it?"
Yōkō's tone was firm. "Rasa has many political enemies.
The Secret Technique faction and the Puppet faction have been in conflict within Sunagakure for decades.
The Third and Fourth Kazekages, both from the Secret Technique faction, have held the position for years. The Puppet faction, led by Chiyo, has always been quite discontent.
Besides the Puppet faction, the civilian ninja and those with Kekkei Genkai are not strongly inclined towards war.
Rasa wants to use this war to unify Sunagakure.
Sunagakure has relatively few top-tier powerhouses. If we assassinate Rasa, Sunagakure will naturally withdraw from the war."
Where there are people, there are conflicts. The methods ninja use to resolve conflicts are often bloody, frequently resorting to force.
Internal strife within a ninja village inevitably evolves into bloody conflict.
Nara Rokaku said, "Logically, that makes sense, but feasibility must also be considered.
Fox, if it were you going to assassinate Rasa, I would wholeheartedly agree. But if it's Namikaze Minato... it's too risky. If the assassination fails, it could completely enrage Sunagakure."
Yōkō said, "Minato has mastered the Forbidden Flying Thunder God Technique. I believe he can complete the mission."
Tsunade also said, "I believe in Minato too."
Seeing the two of themso resolute, Nara Rokaku calculated the time and said,
"The Suna-nin have already begun mobilizing towards the front lines. If we can assassinate Kazekage Rasa within a week, we won't need to mobilize forces on our western front in the Land of Rivers.
Give Minato a week at most. If the assassination isn't successful within a week, we must quickly dispatch a Commander-in-Chief and troops."
Namikaze Minato quickly spoke up, "I don't need a week, I..."
"How long do you need?" Yōkō turned his head to remind him, "Think carefully, Minato. How long do you actually need?"
Only then did Minato realize that in his eagerness to prove himself, he had almost exposed the Calamity Organization's secret technique of using altars for rapid teleportation.
He hurriedly said, "A week! Within a week, I will definitely assassinate Kazekage Rasa!"
Yōkō nodded, thinking to himself that even Orochimaru could kill Rasa in his prime, so Minato shouldn't have much of a problem.
Nara Rokaku said, "The threat from Sunagakure in the west is temporarily arranged this way. What about enemies from other directions?
The number of Iwa-nin in the Land of Grass will be terrifyingly high. We must be prepared to face tens of thousands of Iwa-nin.
Not to mention Ōnoki, besides Kage-level powerhouses like Kitsuchi and Bakura, Iwagakure also has the two powerful Jinchūriki, Roshi and Han."
Tsunade said, "Jiraiya has returned to the village. Myself, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru, the three of us can go to the Land of Grass to deal with the Iwa-nin. We need..."
After frowning in thought, she said, "We need at least 5,000 Konoha ninja."
Nara Rokaku mentally assessed and approved of this plan.
With the Sannin plus 5,000 ninja, even Iwagakure couldn't achieve a swift victory.
"Kumogakure will invade the Land of Hot Water. The Third Raikage is very strong, but they have fewer Kage-level ninja." Nara Rokaku glanced at Fox and said,
"Thanks to Orochimaru killing the previous Eight-Tails Jinchūriki, and Fox killing the previous Two-Tails Jinchūriki,
Kumogakure's Jinchūriki are all very young, their combat power shouldn't be that strong. The concept of a perfect Jinchūriki was first proposed and practiced by Kumogakure. They are skilled at controlling Tailed Beasts, but they also rely too heavily on them.
The only one to be careful of when dealing with Kumogakure is the Third Raikage."
Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Fox and asked, "Fox, will you take the position of Commander-in-Chief for the Land of Hot Water battlefield?"
In Sarutobi Hiruzen's view, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse. Kumogakure is relatively weak now, but still stronger than Kirigakure.
Sending Konoha's strongest, Fox, to deal with the Third Raikage was most appropriate.
Hanzo called himself the Demigod of the Shinobi World, but the top few in the shinobi world knew that the Third Raikage was truly the number one.
Yōkō shook his head and said, "I won't go, but I can recommend a more suitable candidate."
Everyone else looked at Fox, wondering who he would recommend.
The pressure from Iwagakure on Konoha was too great, forcing the Sannin to join forces, which led to a shortage of personnel on other battlefields.
Yōkō said, "It's time to use this Great Shinobi War to integrate the forces within Konoha.
Uchiha Madara and his subordinates have not only killed Guardian Ninja of various Daimyō multiple times but also caused the Susano'o Catastrophe.
Because of the Susano'o Catastrophe, the Uchiha clan's situation in the village is very bad.
I believe we can have Uchiha Kane serve as the Commander-in-Chief for the Land of Hot Water battlefield.
Let Uchiha Kane lead the Uchiha clan into battle. I believe they will fight with their lives on the line to secure victory for Konoha.
The Kumo-nin excel in Taijutsu and sword techniques. The Sharingan of the Uchiha clan happens to counter Taijutsu-type ninja, giving them a significant advantage on the battlefield.
As for the still immature Two-Tails and Eight-Tails Jinchūriki, they will also be affected by the Sharingan."
Nara Rokaku hurriedly interrupted Yōkō's argument, saying,
"Fox, let's not talk about the technical advantages of the Sharingan for now.
The Uchiha clan doesn't even have a Kage-level ninja. How could Uchiha Kane possibly serve as the Commander-in-Chief for the Land of Hot Water battlefield?
Since the founding of Konoha, only Uchiha Madara, before his defection, held a position at the Commander-in-Chief level. Ever since Uchiha Madara defected, the Uchiha clan has been a key target of the village's vigilance.
Even with such vigilance, a terrible event like the Susano'o Catastrophe still occurred.
Fox, I oppose making Uchiha Kane the Commander-in-Chief for the Land of Hot Water battlefield!"
Nara Shikaku looked at his father with some surprise.
His father had always said to maintain good relations with the Fox and Tsunade faction.
The Fox and Tsunade faction not only had powerhouses like Wood Release users and the Sannin but also Konoha's future like the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki and Namikaze Minato, making them highly valuable to invest in.
But in this high-level meeting, his father was the first to stand up and oppose Minister Fox.
Had his father forgotten the development direction he had set for the Ino–Shika–Chō Trio Clans?
However, the candidate recommended by Minister Fox was indeed surprising and hard not to oppose.
According to Konoha's tradition, the Uchiha clan had always been a major concern for the village. How could they be given a position like Commander-in-Chief?
Even Tsunade glanced sideways slightly. Fox hadn't discussed this matter with her beforehand; it seemed to be a decision he had made in the past few days.
Tsunade thought to herself that they had both been too busy lately and hadn't had any in-depth conversations.
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