Chapter 347: Deep Forest Emergence
Boom!
The moment the chakra arrow made contact with the Tengai Shinsei, its form underwent a violent structural transformation. The star-like falling meteor, along with the second one hidden behind it, was instantly engulfed.
The shockwave, shaped like an arrow, pierced through the clouds, leaving a dark hole in the sky. Solar winds from outside the atmosphere punched through the rapidly repairing magnetosphere, colliding with the large-scale convection driven independently within the Shinobi World before dropping toward the edge of the desert battlefield.
Whoosh!
Bang! Bang!
Sizzle!
An aurora-like streak of light flashed across the horizon. In that instant, every sensor ninja within a hundred-mile radius experienced a momentary blockage of their sensory abilities. They lost their power to perceive for less than half a second.
Allied HQ.
Shikaku had just finished sending Tsunade and the Fourth Raikage to the dedicated room for the Heavenly Transfer Jutsu when he received a transmission from Inoichi Yamanaka.
"What? A momentary loss of perception? Was it the enemy's doing?" Shikaku's brow furrowed. A total sensory blackout across the entire battlefield for half a second was no small matter. It could very well be an enemy conspiracy.
"Hmm? Is Tonbo in trouble?" The Fourth Raikage, standing in the center of the teleportation array, noticed Shikaku's expression.
"No... it's this... Inoichi has another update. At the moment of the blackout, Ao sensed that the direction causing such an influence was exactly where Uchiha Madara's battlefield is."
Tsunade looked at Mabui: "Do it. Uchiha Madara is a ninja who was an equal to my grandfather. I'm afraid they won't be able to hold out for long."
Mabui nodded, her hands moving in a blur of signs.
Shoom!
Tsunade and the Raikage vanished, transformed into beams of light.
Whoosh, whoosh—!
Clang!
Kiba took down a White Zetsu with a kunai. His nose twitched. Woof!
"You noticed it too, Kiba?" Shino appeared silently at his side. Hinata looked confused: "What is it?"
"My nose stopped working for a split second just now. It felt like the scent particles in the air were disrupted," Kiba explained, using his years of training to make an educated guess.
"Yes. My parasitic insects outside my body lost coordination for a moment as well," Shino added.
"Was it an enemy attack, or some kind of natural anomaly?" Hinata asked.
Woof, woof!
Hana Inuzuka approached from a distance. "Everyone, don't panic! HQ has communicated. This was likely a large-scale anomaly caused by the battlefield where Uchiha Madara is located."
"What? It influenced things from that far away? What kind of jutsu was that?" Kiba was stunned. The distance between the Fourth Division and their current position was immense.
"It seems the Fourth Division has run into major trouble. Legendary ninjas are terrifying!" Shino muttered.
"What do we do now?"
"First, seal the reanimated enemies, then deal with these Zetsu. It's almost over; the enemy doesn't have much left in reserve," Kiba analyzed. With Tonbo's clones using Genjutsu to suppress the enemy, their advantage was overwhelming. The opposing forces were nearing total annihilation.
Whoosh!
Two figures were moving at high speeds.
"Hey, Nine-Tails kid, did you feel that?" Killer Bee suddenly had a strange sensation. Something had just happened.
Naruto replied, "Yeah. Just now, I felt a burst of natural energy in the distance. Even my Malice Perception flickered for a moment."
What on earth was happening? How could natural energy become so chaotic on such a massive scale?
Swoosh—!
Elsewhere, Obito—wearing the white mask, carrying the Gunbai, and dressed in a deep blue robe—was marching with a swarm of reanimated Jinchuriki behind him. He was heading straight for Naruto and Bee.
Suddenly, he looked in a specific direction. "Was that an illusion?"
The Dark Cavern.
Hiss!
"How did you find me?" Kabuto put down his game piece and turned toward the cave entrance.
Itachi Uchiha stood there, followed closely by Sasuke.
Itachi replied, "While I was under your control, I could sense the direction your chakra was coming from."
"I see. I didn't expect such a weakness. It seems the technique is still not perfect," Kabuto chuckled, standing up to face the two brothers. Suddenly, he froze, a look of surprise crossing his face before his gaze landed on Sasuke.
"Sasuke, Itachi is the one who massacred your clan and murdered your parents. We can join forces to..."
"Wind Style: Rasenshuriken!"
On the other side of the desert battlefield, the Second Tsuchikage Mu momentarily faltered. Naruto's Rasenshuriken slammed into him, his body instantly pierced by the microscopic wind-style chakra. Dust and debris flew from his form as his eyes turned toward Madara's direction.
"The coordination was disrupted..."
Before he could recover, the Allied sealing team swarmed him. Whoosh! Sealing bandages wrapped Mu tightly.
"Great! Another one down! Only Uchiha Madara is left. Is the Kazekage's side okay?"
Naruto shouted, "We're going back to help now!" He led the unit back toward Tonbo's location.
"That move... was a bit unexpected. It actually punched through the atmosphere..."
Even Tonbo was staring at the sky, dumbfounded. The jutsu he'd thought up on the fly was a bit too powerful. In his design, he only hoped to destroy the Tengai Shinsei; he didn't expect to "pierce the planet."
Fortunately, the world's magnetic field recovered quickly. Otherwise, even his own perception would have glitched out. That small burst of solar wind entering the atmosphere had scrambled the local magnetic field.
"Whoa—!"
"So cool—!"
"As expected of Captain Tonbo!"
The Alliance could feel their chakra had been heavily drained, but they had witnessed a miracle. Captain Tonbo's jutsu had literally hit the roof of the world.
Tonbo listened to the praise, his head tilted back at a forty-five-degree angle. This was the perfect validation of his sixteen years of effort. However, he knew deep down that while the power was great, the "piercing the sky" bit was mostly because the magnetosphere is designed to block cosmic radiation, not focused chakra beams. Still, it had shattered the meteor in one hit.
"Sand Waterfall."
"Particle Style."
Gaara and Ohnoki attacked Madara simultaneously. After witnessing that power, a part of their attention remained fixed on Tonbo. Seeing him solve the crisis with a single arrow, both were elated. He was coming through in a big way! They redoubled their efforts against Madara.
"Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!"
Madara dodged the pincer attack and counterattacked. Boom! After seeing his Tengai Shinsei broken, he too had witnessed the shocking arrow.
"It seems Konoha has worthy successors. I underestimated you."
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