Tsunade looked resentfully at the place where Orochimaru had placed the amulet.

In the forest outside Konoha, the vanguard troops composed of ninjas from the Kamisui clan are lying in ambush.

“Is that Konoha over there? I didn’t expect it to be so easy to get close.”

“Is this Konoha, the most powerful of the five great ninja villages? It’s nothing more than this!”

“Let our cute bees give Konoha a surprise!”

The ninjas of the Kamisui Ryu clan did not expect that they could reach the vicinity of Konoha so easily. A large number of special bees gathered into a swarm, and under their control, they were like dark clouds in the sky, flying towards Konoha. Before they got close to Konoha, the insect wall formed by the parasitic insects blocked the swarm of bees.

Huge chimera worms appeared in the sky, among which there were a few smaller chimera worms with more colorful and beautiful colors.

“That’s…what is that?!”

The ninjas of the Kamisui clan had never seen such huge insects.

The ninja of the Aburame clan stood on the Chimaera worm with his arms crossed, looking down at the ninja of the Kamisui clan.

“not good!”

“We’ve been discovered!”

“Retreat! Retreat!”

When the ninjas of the Kamisui Ryu clan saw the ninjas of the Aburame clan on the back of the giant insect, they realized that they, as the vanguard, had been discovered, and that this operation would be meaningless.

“The Kamisui Ryu clan, huh?… The Iwagakure Village sent Konoha’s vanguard troops. It’s a shame that you have to face the Konoha Aburame clan. As a fellow insect manipulator clan, you’re unlucky to encounter the Aburame clan.”

Aburame Shisuke, who had entered middle age and changed into a more mature outfit, looked down at the ninjas of the Kamisui Ryu clan who were trying to retreat below. He raised his hand and made a gesture and said, “It’s time for Chimera to show your strength to the enemies of Konoha and let the ninja world know your existence.”

The Chimaera worm waved its huge claws and its two scorpion tails swung excitedly as it charged towards the ninjas of the Upper Water Stream Clan. The parasitic worms surrounded the Chimaera worm to protect its safety.

As the darling of the Aburame clan, Aburame Shisuke would feel heartbroken even if he suffered a little injury. Parasitic bugs, which are born in nests, seem less important than Chimera bugs.

The attacks launched by the ninjas of the Kamisui clan controlling the bees were all blocked by the parasitic insects. The giant psychic queen bee was pierced by the scorpion tail of the Chimaera insect in one encounter.

“how come……”

The ninjas of the Kamisui clan looked in shock at the Queen Bee who was pierced by the Chimaera worm and disappeared in the smoke, and they completely lost the desire to fight.

The Chimera worm moved in unhindered and killed one ninja after another from the Kamisui clan.

The Aburame clan’s ninjas wanted to kill them all, but several Kamisui clan’s ninjas still escaped.

The vanguard’s action failed, and the main force of Iwagakure chose to attack Konoha from the front.

Konoha sent a large force consisting of several small teams of three people each from the Jonin and Chunin to meet the enemy.

“Orochimaru, I didn’t expect that we would be assigned to the same team.”

Kato Dan looked at Orochimaru and saw a warm smile on his face.

“Hey, stop looking, we should go!”

Tsunade intervened forcefully and stood in front of Orochimaru to prevent this guy from always grinning at Orochimaru. Only then did she realize that her love rivals were not only female but also male!

Jiraiya, what are you doing? Why haven’t you come back yet?

At this moment, Tsunade missed Jiraiya especially.

And Jiraiya, whom she missed, was on his way back to Konoha…

Volume 168: Chapter 4 (K) A One-Sided Battle

The main force engaged the Iwagakure forces on the front battlefield.

The team composed of Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Kato Dan was responsible for intercepting the Iwagakure ninja team that attacked from the flank.

The rear is where the medical supplies troops are located. Although the battlefield is within the territory of the Land of Fire, it is impossible for the ninjas on the front line to run back to Konoha to get supplies, so the medical supplies troops in the rear are particularly important.

Because of this, Konoha’s command center ordered a powerful team to go and eliminate the Iwagakure ninja team that was targeting the medical supplies unit.

“Stop.”

Orochimaru stretched out his hand to signal Tsunade and Kato Dan to stop, squat down and put his hands on the ground.

“There are 12 people at the 10 o’clock position ahead, and 9 people at the 3 o’clock position. Judging from the chakra, the people at the 9 o’clock position should be the special forces of Iwagakure.”

Orochimaru sensed that the chakras of those three people were somewhat different, and were obviously different from those of the ten people.

Kato Dankei suddenly thought of something and said, “Is it possible that they are the Iwagakure’s demolition team?”

“The blast troopers… the ability of the bloodline limit?”

Orochimaru understood, this could explain why their chakras were different.

“Tsunade, Dan is ready to meet the enemy.”

Orochimaru formed seals with his hands and two shadow clones appeared beside him.

“Orochimaru, Tsunade, I need to use the Spiritual Transformation Technique to deal with the Bloodline Genkai Ninja. I’m leaving my body in your care.”

Kato Dan thought about the secret technique he mastered. Once he used the spiritualization technique, no one would protect his body, and even a child could take his life.

“Duan, I will protect your body, and leave the battle to the shadow clone.”

Orochimaru wanted to take this opportunity to observe Kato Dan’s spiritual transformation technique.

“Tsunade, let’s go.”

Orochimaru’s shadow clone called out and rushed towards the enemy.

Orochimaru sat cross-legged on the ground and cast the barrier, the Sky Sense Array. Her perception was enhanced by the Sky Sense Array, and she would be able to detect any movement within the perception range at the first time.

“Leave it to you, Orochimaru.”

Kato Dan believed that with Orochimaru’s ability, he could protect his body, so he activated the spiritual transformation technique, and a glowing soul flew out of his body and rushed towards the enemy at 9 o’clock in front.

The technique of spiritualization uses Yintun Chakra to activate the soul, allowing the soul to leave the body to attack the enemy. In Kato Dan’s current state, ordinary physical attacks and Five Elements Ninjutsu cannot hurt him. Only sufficiently powerful illusions can be effective against him.

However, in his current state, he seems unable to leave his body too far away. Otherwise, with his spiritual transformation technique, he could easily leave his body in Konoha and go to the battlefield in the form of a soul.

Orochimaru also discovered the biggest drawback of the Spiritualization Technique, which is that once the Yintun Chakra that activates the soul is exhausted, it will not be easy for Kato Dan’s soul to return to the body.

The art of spiritualization really has many shortcomings. Who developed it?

Could it be that Kato Dan developed it himself?

Orochimaru remembered that in the original work, no one except Kato Dan knew the spirit transformation technique.

On the other side, Tsunade headed straight for the 12 o’clock direction, with lightning flashing faintly on her body, obviously performing the Lightning Release: Thunder Extreme Moxibustion.

boom–!

In one encounter, an Iwagakure ninja was knocked away.

“It’s Konoha ninja!”

This small group of Iwagakure ninjas were startled by Tsunade’s sudden appearance and threw kunai and shurikens with their hands.

“Wind Style: Swift Wind Control!”

Orochimaru formed the Chen Seal with both hands, and the wind formed by the wind chakra wrapped around the kunai and shuriken, causing them to stop in the air and fly back at a faster speed. The kunai with the detonating tag exploded in the air.

“Konoha’s elite ninja? Earth Style: Earth Lance!”

An Iwagakure ninja gritted his teeth, formed seals with his hands and slapped the ground. Sharp rocks broke out of the ground, but they could not catch up with Tsunade’s speed.

“Wind Style: Night Wind!”

While dodging the sharp rocks, Orochimaru hooked his finger at the surviving Iwagakure ninja. A hurricane rose into the sky, and countless tiny wind blades cut the Iwagakure ninja’s body. The Iwagakure ninja screamed in pain and fell to the ground with blood flowing out.

“I’m here!”

The Iwagakure ninja looked up at the sound coming from above and saw Tsunade raising her right leg high and chopping it down, her eyes wide with fear.

boom–!

The ground shattered with a loud bang, and huge cracks spread in all directions. The Iwagakure ninja was killed in one blow.

On the battlefield at 9 o’clock, the sound of explosions continued to ring out. Two Iwagakure ninjas with Explosion Release Kekkei Genkai were punching each other, and every collision of their fists would produce a powerful explosion.

Another Iwagakure ninja wanted to find an opportunity to stop them, but he couldn’t get close at all. If he got close rashly, the power of the explosion would hurt him.

“Hey! Zhuo, what’s wrong with you?!”

The Iwagakure ninja shouted his companion’s name loudly, not understanding why he suddenly attacked him.

“I don’t know! I’m out of control of my body!”

The Iwagakure ninja named Shuo didn’t understand why his body was out of control.

“Wind Escape·Vacuum Continuous Waves!”

Orochimaru formed seals with his hands, took a deep breath, and exhaled several sharp breaths like sickle-weasel, which instantly cut their bodies into pieces and the surrounding trees collapsed.

“Broken, return to your body.”

Orochimaru said to Kato Dan who flew out from the corpse of the Iwagakure ninja, and then he released his shadow clone and disappeared into smoke.

“understood!”

Kato could never have imagined that Orochimaru, who looked quiet and cold, would be so decisive when facing the enemy.

On the other side of the front battlefield, a silver blade flashed, and blood splattered from the Iwagakure ninja who rushed forward with a kunai in his hand. A young man with silver-white hair and a special chakra dagger emitting white chakra light stood on a tree branch, looked at the Iwagakure ninja who fell heavily to the ground, and breathed a sigh of relief.

“Sakumo, you’re too fast!”

“We don’t stand a chance at all!”

The man’s two teammates rushed over and saw that he had dealt with all the enemies by himself, and couldn’t help but complain.

“Sorry sorry.”

Hatake Sakumo scratched his head and smiled apologetically, suggesting, “Let’s go find other enemies. It would be disastrous if they attacked us from behind.”

The front battlefield is where the Konoha army and the Iwagakure army fight. It is also the front line of the battlefield. It is the most chaotic battlefield and the place that needs the most support.

Not long after the war between Konoha and Iwagakure began, Jiraiya hurried back to Konoha.

Kato Dan was transferred to another team, Jiraiya returned to the team, and the three of them rushed from the side battlefield to the front battlefield.

“how come?!”

The Iwagakure ninja looked in horror at the Konoha ninja who was pierced by a kunai but remained unharmed, with smoke emanating from his body.

Puff-!

The kunai cut the Iwagakure ninja’s neck, and blood spurted out.

This scene was being played out everywhere on the battlefield. The Iwagakure ninjas went through great pains to kill a Konoha ninja, but that Konoha ninja seemed to be immortal.

It is obvious that they are all ninjas from the Ibri clan. As those who possess the Smoke Kekkei Genkai, they are like fish in water whether they are infiltrating or fighting head-on. There are very few ninjas in Iwagakure who can use wind jutsu, which makes them even more invincible on the battlefield.

The only drawback is that maintaining the Smoke Illusion Technique requires a large amount of chakra and cannot be used for a long time.

The Iwagakure ninjas soon discovered that they were not immortal. Based on the information collected by the intelligence ninjas in Konoha, they determined that the Konoha ninjas who could turn into smoke were ninjas from the Ibri clan.

“Meat bomb tank!”

The ninjas of the Akimichi clan ate the green spinach balls one after another, used the multiplication technique to transform into high-speed rotating meat bomb chariots and crashed into the Iwagakure ninjas.

The three-color pills with improved formula can be used as common combat secret medicine for the Qiu Dao clan.

“Tu Dun·Tu Liubi!”

“Tu Escape·Tu Lu Returns!”

The Iwagakure ninjas used earth-style ninjutsu to resist the attacks of the Akimichi clan ninjas.

“Earth Release·Split the Earth and Turn the Palm!”

Seeing that the defense was about to be broken, several Iwagakure ninjas joined forces to perform Earth Style: Earth-Splitting Palm, and a huge crack appeared on the ground. The ninjas of the Akimichi clan transformed into meat bomb chariots and bounced up, crossing the cracks on the ground and knocking away several Iwagakure ninjas who had no time to dodge.

The sound of a giant reptile swimming around was heard, and the Konohagakure ninja and the Iwagakure ninja saw a huge red snake rushing towards them.

Orochimaru and Tsunade stood on Shinga’s head, looking at the chaotic battlefield. The corpses of Konoha ninjas and Iwagakure ninjas could be seen everywhere.

“The Ten Thousand Snakes and Blue Snake will definitely envy me!”

Xinya swung its tail and used its body to knock the surrounding Iwagakure ninjas away. It opened its mouth and sprayed out petrifying venom. The Iwagakure ninjas who were unable to dodge were instantly petrified into stone statues and crushed by its body.

“Be careful of its poison!”

The Iwagakure ninja looked at his petrified companions in horror and shouted loudly to prevent anyone else from being turned into stone statues by the petrifying venom.