In the rainy border forest, Hidden Sand troops were marching rapidly.
Suddenly, with a loud boom, fire burst out from under the feet of a Hidden Sand ninja at the front of the team. An explosive trap was triggered, and the blast wave overturned the nearby bushes.
"Everyone on alert!"
The leader, Sarimaru, raised his hand and shouted lowly. The team stopped instantly, and all ninjas quickly spread out their formation, scanning the surroundings sharply.
Upon closer inspection, they immediately found quite a few traps.
"The traps are a bit rough."
A Hidden Sand ninja squatted down, examining the remaining traces: "The tripwire was buried so shallowly, yet someone still fell for it."
"Don't be careless. The enemy is not a child from the Ninja Academy. It's impossible for them to make such a mistake. These traps are likely set up hastily in a short time."
Sarimaru squinted at the surrounding environment, his tone cautious: "This also indicates that the enemy might not be far from us."
Just as he finished speaking, behind a rock on the roadside ahead, a small blond head quietly popped out.
Seeing Minato's appearance, the air suddenly became quiet.
"It really is a child—"
The ninja who just checked the trap couldn't help but complain.
Sarimaru glanced at the Konoha forehead protector on Minato's head and sneered: "Has Konoha declined to this extent? Actually sending such a small child to the battlefield?"
Although he teased verbally, Sarimaru did not relax at all in his heart.
However, after carefully observing the surrounding environment, he was surprised to find that there was really only this brat in front of him nearby!
This was basically sent to die!
"Brat, did you set these traps?"
Sarimaru observed Minato, having some doubts in his heart, but couldn't find anything wrong.
Facing Sarimaru's question, Minato had no intention of answering.
He calmly stared at the hundreds of ninjas in front of him, and slowly raised the Seal of Confrontation.
"Not good, it's a trap!"
Seeing Minato's posture, Sarimaru's face changed instantly: "Scatter!"
Swish swish swish—
In the blink of an eye, the originally slightly dense team quickly dispersed its formation.
However, after a brief alert, unexpectedly nothing happened.
"Pfft————"
Minato couldn't help laughing.
He didn't expect that a single movement of his would make this group of Hidden Sand ninjas react so violently.
Noticing Minato's smile, the Hidden Sand Village ninjas cast complicated and obscure glances at Sarimaru.
"Lord Sarimaru, he seems to be just making the Seal of Confrontation."
Hearing the straightforward remark from a subordinate beside him, Sarimaru's face turned black.
"Sorry, I misjudged."
Sarimaru rubbed his temples: "It's really a bit strange for a child from the enemy village to suddenly pop up on such a front-line battlefield."
"Hmph, eighty percent chance he got separated from his team, accidentally ran into us, found he couldn't escape, so he had to play tricks to delay time, right?"
"Speaking of which, being able to ambush and kill one of our Chunin with traps, this brat didn't die in vain."
At the front of the crowd, a Hidden Sand Jonin pulled out a kunai: "Let me give him a quick death!"
However, just as his voice fell, Minato suddenly waved his hand and shot three kunai at Sarimaru.
Perhaps due to the distance, the kunai were thrown a bit crookedly. Only one landed crookedly in front of Sarimaru.
The remaining two kunai landed on the empty ground in the crowd, one on the left and one on the right.
"Heh—"
Seeing this, Sarimaru was instantly amused: "Really, to be delayed by such a brat for our march of hundreds of people, I was even thinking————"
Pfft—
Before Sarimaru finished speaking, a sharp short sword slashed a white arc, like a fierce wolf fang, instantly cutting off his head!
In front of Sarimaru, Sakumo Hatake stood in a lunge, maintaining the posture of swinging the sword.
Minato's main body squatted halfway behind him, one hand resting on his thigh, the other hand retrieving the kunai on the ground.
In just an instant, the two completed the decapitation!
The moment Sarimaru's head flew up, taking advantage of the enemy not reacting yet, the figures of the two flickered again, appearing at the position of another kunai.
Still a flash of sword light. Aside from Sarimaru, the person with the strongest chakra in Minato's perception among the Hidden Sand team died on the spot.
Two high-level combatants died in succession, the whole process taking less than half a second!
Just as Minato retrieved the second Flying Raijin kunai, the group of Hidden Sand Village ninjas finally reacted.
"It's Space-Time Ninjutsu! Watch out for the kunai thrown by that brat!" A Jonin shouted immediately.
But without him saying, the surrounding ninjas had long scattered completely, and even threw a few kunai with exploding tags tied to them next to that kunai!
However, in the next second, Minato suddenly threw another kunai.
"Knock that kunai down!"
A nearby Jonin took over command temporarily and ordered.
Although Flying Raijin was treacherous and unpredictable, its combat mechanism was easy to understand and could be seen through almost at a glance.
But seeing through it was one thing; whether it could be defended against was another matter————
"Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Minato formed seals with one hand, completing them in less than half a second.
The three-pronged kunai in mid-air split into two, two into four, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into an overwhelming rain of kunai.
"Wind Release: Air Current Wild Dance!"
A Hidden Sand ninja carrying an iron fan stepped forward and waved the iron fan fiercely, blowing up the sky full of kunai shadow clones.
"Tsk tsk, space coordinates are useless now. Brat, we Hidden Sand lack Wind Release ninjas the least."
Seeing this, the commanding Jonin couldn't help sneering, his smile sinister: "And you, Konoha's White Fang! Even if you can scurry around like rats, can your camp also grow legs and run away?"
"Troublesome————"
Sakumo Hatake turned to look at Minato: "Didn't expect the counter method to be found so quickly. Retreat first?"
"Actually, no need to be that troublesome. Since they like to blow so much..."
Minato took out a scroll. With a poof of white smoke, a huge steel ball with a diameter of one meter appeared in front of the two!
The surface of the steel ball gleamed with a cold and hard metallic light, exuding a heavy sense of oppression.
Raising his hand to stamp the Flying Raijin mark on the steel ball, Minato then retreated half a step, twisting his waist.
Under the ghostly gazes of Sakumo Hatake and the group of Hidden Sand Village ninjas, Minato punched out fiercely!
Clang—!!!
A deafening metallic roar tore through the air. The steel ball turned into a blurred afterimage, shooting out with terrifying speed like a cannonball!
Wherever it passed, a deep gully was plowed on the ground. The whistling sound was like a dragon's roar, rushing straight at the Hidden Sand troops with an aura of destruction!
At this moment, the opposing Hidden Sand ninjas could even hear the Grim Reaper's chanting mixed in the wind!
"That————what the hell is that?"
"Scatter quickly—!!!"
The exclamations of the Hidden Sand ninjas were drowned out by the whistling sound of the steel ball, but this was only the beginning————
"Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Boom boom boom boom—!!!
In an instant, that huge steel ball split into two in the air, two into four—
In the blink of an eye, hundreds and thousands of steel balls of the same size filled the sky, blotting out the sun!
Just like that, carrying the whistling sound of breaking through the air, they smashed towards the Hidden Sand troops with the force of toppling mountains and overturning seas!
Under Sakumo Hatake's sluggish gaze, Minato suddenly couldn't hide the excitement on his face.
"This move is called, Training Steel Flying Thunder Meteor Extinction Pill Form One!"
Sakumo Hatake: "..."