Chapter 261 Snake’s Space-Based Weapons
Although Ai had thought from the beginning that the war with Konoha would be extremely difficult, he never expected that the progress would be so fast.

From the very beginning of the Tripartite War, the three families of Yun, Yan and Sha completed the exchange of intelligence at the fastest speed. However, due to time and geographical conditions, the originally anticipated Tripartite Alliance Army could not be established, and the three families still launched offensives against Konoha in their respective directions.

However, Sawara Kiri’s progress in the direction of Sunagakure was so fast that it frightened everyone.

In just one month, the Sand Village, which had tens of thousands of ninja soldiers and completed an emergency general mobilization, suffered a number of consecutive defeats in its own territory. In the end, even two Kage-level powerhouses, Sasori and Garuru, were killed in battle without even being able to escape.

The war had only been going on for three months, and Konoha was almost on the verge of integrating the entire Wind Kingdom.

Looking at the Land of Earth in the west, they hadn’t even fully connected with Konoha yet, and they were already in a stalemate under the offensive of the Moon Organization. The old guy Ohnoki, who was usually known as the best attacker in the ninja world, couldn’t even fart now, as he was completely blocked from all directions.

Looking around, Ai discovered that the war had just begun not long ago, and their Hidden Cloud Village had actually become Konoha’s most important enemy.

God knows when that monster Sawara Kiri will rush into his village?
Under such circumstances, he could no longer sit still and immediately asked the General Staff to formulate a plan to attack the Konoha Ninja Army on the Thunder and Fire Front.

Until today, after confirming that Sawara Kiri’s true identity was still in Sunagakure and knowing the location of Minato Namikaze on the front line, he immediately made a decisive decision to launch a surprise attack.

Judging from the current situation.

Obviously, the operation was successful.

“Hey”

A ferocious smile appeared on Ai’s dark face, and his hair stood up like iron wires under the stimulation of lightning. Three fragments of the Four Souls Jade dotted the center of his brow like petals, providing a constant supply of strength to his already strong body.

If we only talk about absolute strength, he is confident that even his father back then would not be able to match him now.

His eyes swept ahead.

Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, the Byakugan, and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki?

Ai narrowed his eyes slightly, and his originally excited emotions gradually subsided, and his thinking returned to rationality.

As long as they can be captured in one fell swoop, no, even if one or two are let go, it won’t be a big problem. Then he can lead the army directly into the Konoha camp, completely destroy the enemy’s front line, and thereby delay a lot of time.

As a commander, Ai knew it very well.

A troop under the command of a headquarters and a troop without a command are almost two different things.

However, if we win this game.

Next, we have to face the threat of Sawara Kiri, right?

“All of you, die!”

Long thoughts are just a brief moment in reality.

Almost at the moment his figure was exposed, the lightning that was already blooming violently on the surface of Ai’s body became even more intense, and the whole person was like a ball of lightning, shooting straight towards the group of people without hesitation.

At the same time, the Kumogakure Anbu, who had been lying in ambush around them, also appeared and surrounded Jiraiya and his group.

The sound of flying arrows was continuous and continuous.

“Teacher, cover me!”

Seeing this, Minato Namikaze did not hesitate at all. He used his most extreme instant teleportation to pass Jiraiya’s body, leaving only a few words before facing the lightning exploding in front of him.

Jiraiya’s reaction was also incredibly fast. The moment he finished the summoning seal in his hand, he shot out a large number of special kunai with sealing scrolls wrapped around the tail like a fairy scattering flowers, and shouted to the people around him:
“Defensive formation!”

The people around did not panic at all when facing the ambush of the Kumogakure Anbu. Those who were able to follow Jiraiya were the best in the headquarters, and most of them were experienced ninjas who had experienced many battles. Even the younger ones among them were mostly outstanding graduates of the Ninja Academy, and were at least third-class Jonin-level strongmen.

The moment he noticed the movement around him, he immediately formed a small team with the people around him according to the tactical plan. They stood with their backs to each other, forming a vague ring in the middle of the dense forest, and surrounded Uzumaki Kushina in the center, while facing the ambush troops attacking from all directions.

The first to engage in combat were naturally the fastest of the two sides, Minato Namikaze and Ai.

“Zheng!”

The sharp hand knife collided with the kunai, and there was a crisp sound of metal clashing. The long-trained muscles burst out with amazing toughness under the activation of the lightning chakra.

However, Namikaze Minato was not at all flustered. He leaned down in a charging posture, and at the same time, the marking points of the Flying Thunder God Kunai that were still in the flying state appeared in his mind.

Almost at the moment when his head was about to collide with Ai who was charging at him like a bison, his figure suddenly disappeared.

When he reappeared, he was already on the trunk of a huge tree behind the Raikage.

However, the kunai he had just grasped remained in place.

“Um?!”

Ai’s reaction was also quite amazing. Compared with his father’s ‘tough type’ who was good at rushing around, his lightning chakra mode was actually more inclined to the ‘speed type’.

Just at the moment when Minato Namikaze disappeared, his strong nerves allowed him to react. His palm wrapped in lightning suddenly grasped the kunai floating in the air. At the same time, with the help of his waist muscles that looked like steel wire, he stepped on the ground with his big feet and stepped out a half-meter long groove by inertia, and then threw the kunai behind him.

However, Minato Namikaze’s nerve reaction was even faster than his.

Before he could finish twisting his body, he suddenly exerted force with his feet on the tree trunk, and his whole body shot out like a spring. As his palms spread out, his chakra perception was also fully released.

When the kunai was fired, his figure still in the air disappeared and reappeared again.

At this time, the Rasengan in his palm had already taken shape, and was even distorted by the faintly flowing space ripples, making it appear to be stretched.

As for the point where it landed, it happened to be next to the Raikage.

On the soft black soil covered with humus, an inconspicuous Flying Thunder God seal was imprinted at some point.

At this moment, Ai was suddenly shocked.

Almost subconsciously, the thunder and lightning surrounding his body suddenly exploded, and vaguely turned into armor from the invisible.

“Armor of Thunder!”

“Time and Space Escape·Spiral Gale Burning Jade Light Arrow·Seventeenth Style!”

It was different from the previous Space-Time Rasengan used against Nagato, which consumed a huge amount of energy but was also incredibly powerful.

Based on that attack against the tailed beasts, Minato Namikaze once again achieved a balance between consumption and power, turning it into an attack against human units.

The long Rasengan that was condensed looked about the size of a kunai, and was a dazzling white color overall.

However, the penetrating power remains undiminished.

Almost at the moment it came into contact with the Thunder Armor, the strong defense layer that was even strong enough to block the Tailed Beast Ball was easily penetrated by this attack from the spatial level, leaving a huge tear as a whole, and even the chakra contained inside seemed to be annihilated.

However, at the moment when the blow was about to touch Ai’s torso.

There was a flash of teasing in his eyes.

The next moment, under the astonished gaze of Minato Namikaze, he saw the Space-Time Rasengan that was about to touch Ai’s body, but it was like a sword blade piercing the glorious ball, and was suddenly slid away by an invisible force field.

Faintly, one could see the Four Souls Jade in the center of Ai’s eyebrows flickering slightly.

“boom–!”

Countless spiral spears formed by the condensation of space chakra shot out along Ai’s side, piercing through the ground and the woods behind him like a hurricane, creating a hole dozens of meters long. The matter inside was completely crushed by space and turned into nothingness.

Minato Namikaze’s figure flashed again, and he took a few steps back to distance himself from Eira, staring at him in disbelief with a frown.

What on earth was that just now?
Ai stood there with a sarcastic look on his face, looking at the guy he once regarded as his rival.

Just as the two were confronting each other, a tall figure suddenly fell from behind them.

His face was covered with sage lines, and his body was filled with abundant natural energy. The sage Jiraiya moved extremely fast. The diameter of the large Rasengan in his hand was even more than two meters, and it fell like a meteorite.

“Immortal Technique: Dayama Rasengan!”

“Teacher Jiraiya, be careful!!”

Two voices sounded almost at the same time.

At this moment, Jiraiya also suddenly noticed the abnormality in the feel of his hand.

It clearly hit the target, but there was no sense of contact at all.

The next moment, Ai’s figure suddenly stood up, and his thick long legs swung down like an iron rod, sweeping Jiraiya’s waist violently like thunder, making an extremely dull sound.

With a loud bang, Jiraiya’s figure flew out like an arrow from a bow, and crashed head-on into the trunk of a giant coniferous tree beside him, creating a huge hole.

‘what happened? ! ’

With the protection of fairy chakra, his physical condition was fine, but his eyes looking at Ai were a little dull.

“Isn’t it strange?” “We have this treasure, but we haven’t even figured out its function. It’s such a waste.”

Ai’s figure stepped out from the dust step by step, and his tall body wrapped in thunder looked like a demon in the center of the slightly dark forest.

He pointed above his head and looked arrogantly at Minato Namikaze opposite him with a cold voice.

Namikaze Minato looked stern.

Has this guy also developed the ability of the Four Souls Jade like Chiyo and the others?
As a special existence among today’s ninjas, Jade Ninja is naturally highly valued by each village.

Before the war started, Sawara Kiriya told them that the Four Souls Jade had the power to grant wishes.

However, since the Jade Ninjas they have encountered on the battlefield so far have not been able to play a big role and can only face off against ordinary first-class Jonin head-on, many people did not take this matter seriously.

What they didn’t expect was that someone with such a heavy responsibility as the Fourth Raikage would use this thing even though he knew it had obvious side effects.

Moreover, a special power has been developed.

‘Based on what happened just now’

‘His wish is to ignore the attack?’

‘No. ‘

“It should be a deflection attack.”

Recalling the moment when he released the Rasengan and the moment when Teacher Jiraiya’s attack landed, Minato Namikaze became more and more alert.

The Fourth Raikage was already extremely fast, and even he had difficulty keeping up with him, so he had to rely on Flying Thunder God.

If you add the ability to deflect attacks, almost no one can touch him.

Minato Namikaze thought so in his heart, and suddenly said: “Teacher Jiraiya, a large-scale attack! I will tie him up!”

Without waiting for Jiraiya to respond, he shot out.

Ai sneered, lightning flashed on his body again, and he faced his blade without hesitation.

Jiraiya understood his disciple’s intention the moment he heard these words. He immediately formed hand seals and two skinny toads appeared on his shoulders.

“Little Jiraiya, what’s going on again?”

“We old couple haven’t had dinner yet.”

As soon as the Fukasaku Shima couple appeared, before they had time to ask any more questions, they heard a series of violent explosions.

Turning around, I saw two figures with completely unclear trajectories, like two colliding bullets, emitting bursts of dazzling sparks amidst bursts of violent explosions.

“No time to explain!”

As Jiraiya spoke, he had already completed the seals in his hands.

Thanks to years of cooperation, the old toad couple immediately completed the seal.

next moment.

“Senpō Goemon!”

In an instant, wind, fire and oil merged together, and as the violent chakra gushed out, the raging fire assisted by the three suddenly approached like a wall. The huge coverage area caused the forest within a radius of hundreds of meters in front of the crowd to be covered with flames. The scorching heat singed the hair, and the originally somewhat cold smell suddenly climbed to a level that made people sweat profusely.

Even if you just watch from a distance, you can’t help but be pushed by the surging high-temperature air waves, and it is even difficult to stand still.

The ears rang with the crisp sound of countless huge trees and leaves being broken by the flames and the impact. Amidst the surging water, it turned into a veritable sea of ​​fire.

Minato Namikaze and the Fourth Raikage were fighting each other right in front of this sea of ​​fire.

Almost at the moment when he realized that the fire was about to reach him, Minato Namikaze remained calm and his figure suddenly disappeared.

However, facing this surging wave of fire, the Raikage merely sneered and chopped forward with his strong arms.

“Boom!”

The dull sound was like waves hitting rocks.

Immediately afterwards, everyone saw Ai’s figure, not dodging or evading, but tearing a hole in the sea of ​​fire directly in front of him.

One could even vaguely see that the flames were moved away by some invisible force before they could touch his clothes, and moved step by step towards Jiraiya.

“boom–“

Until finally, he stepped in front of Jiraiya and suddenly punched him in the face of his astonished gaze.

Namikaze Minato’s eyes narrowed.

With a flash of his figure, he managed to move the teacher back to a distant place at the moment the attack was about to fall.

“Wow.”

The roaring sea of ​​fire suddenly broke, and the charred dead leaves and broken wood fell to the ground with a slight sound.

Jiraiya was also breathing heavily, staring fixedly in the direction of the Fourth Raikage.

There are more and more monsters among young people these days.

“Teacher, do you want to retreat?”

Namikaze Minato looked solemn.

This guy’s ability is too weird. Coupled with his already strong frontal strength, it will be difficult to take him down given their team’s current situation.

Although Minato was not confident that he could take away all the members who were fighting, he was still confident that he could withdraw from the battlefield if he limited the targets to take away the teacher and Kushina.

As a young commander with many battle experiences, Minato Namikaze’s character has always been cold and decisive.

“Do not.”

However, Jiraiya grinned, as if he was somewhat helpless, yet also seemed to be relaxed when he said:

“Use that one.”

Another secret weapon?

Namikaze Minato turned his head and looked at his teacher in confusion.

Then, Jiraiya took out an iron talisman with the word “snake” engraved on the back from his arms.

As if he had heard some of their words, Ai’s expression became even more ferocious.

As the tall figure was entangled in lightning, it faintly emitted dark red tailed beast chakra like bubbles, and its eyes turned into vertical pupils like a wild beast, and tails like octopus tentacles protruded from behind it.

He is determined to win this battle.

How could we let them get away?

However, just as he was about to increase his speed further and stop the disappearing figure of Minato Namikaze.

But he saw Minato suddenly stand up and walk towards him.

For some reason, a sense of crisis flashed through Ai’s mind.

Konoha, Chaldea floating island.

Orochimaru, who was sitting in front of a large screen calculating data, seemed to sense something. He suddenly raised his head towards the far north with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

But without much hesitation, he reached out and pressed a red button on the steel table.

“Om-“

next moment.

All the villagers in Konoha heard a low humming sound coming from far away in the sky, and many people subconsciously looked up.

Then, his eyes widened.

Over the years, the floating island has always remained floating above their heads like a natural landscape.

Moved.

(End of this chapter)