The Road to the Throne of White Eyes

Chapter 148 The War Pauses

That earth-shattering palm attack could be seen throughout most of Konoha. All the large and small families, including the Ino-Shika-Cho clan, observed the changes here through their own means and learned that Sarutobi Hiruzen had escaped the confinement of the barrier.

Perhaps their expectations had been dashed, and the ninjas from the major families who had been hiding at home quickly gathered together and spontaneously formed teams to clear out the enemies inside the village and drive the invaders to the outskirts of the village.

Even without the Hokage sending anyone to command, the battles of these family coalitions were still coordinated and effective, especially the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, who used shadow binding techniques to control and attack at the same time, mind secret techniques to disrupt the enemy and transmit information, and Akimichi's multiplication technique to transform and withstand the attack of the giant.

With the family ninjas taking the lead, the originally scattered and disorderly civilian ninjas also had a backbone and gathered around the family ninjas to launch a counterattack with them.

After all, it was a battle within the village, and they had more people and more power. Under the attack of these Konoha ninjas, the shoddy alliance of Sound and Sand ninjas was quickly defeated and retreated step by step.

In tacit agreement, all the family ninjas ignored the territories of the Sarutobi clan and the Shimura clan, and bypassed these two areas from a distance when cleaning up the interior of the village.

As for Jiraiya, he suppressed his worry for Naruto and the village and rushed to the Sarutobi clan and then the Shimura clan. Unfortunately, he arrived too late and saw only wasteland, ruins, and corpses, not a single enemy.

Even though Jiraiya made noises within the clan territory and activated his ninjutsu to search, in the end only a few elderly people and children emerged from the smoking ruins of the buildings, tearfully telling Jiraiya about the enemy's brutality.

Upon hearing that the attackers were from the Uchiha clan, Jiraiya frowned. He had already thought of this possibility when he saw the skeleton giant before, but he temporarily put the situation here aside in order to save his teacher first.

With a serious face, he summoned a group of little toads to search around, but they found nothing. The enemy had disappeared without a trace.

"Flying Thunder God Technique?"

Jiraiya muttered to himself, remembering some rumors he had heard from his old subordinates before, and couldn't help but think of this ninjutsu.

It's troublesome. Jiraiya remained calm on the surface, but he kept sighing in his heart. Just look at his disciple Minato Namikaze to know how difficult the Flying Thunder God ninjutsu is.

The Uchiha clan combined with the Flying Thunder God Technique is even more troublesome.

Such a powerful fighting force was almost wiped out in the village. What has Mr. Sarutobi done all these years?

Jiraiya forced himself to suppress the depression in his heart, looked at the ruined Shimura clan territory, turned around and rushed towards the place where the battle was still going on. Now was no time to be sad!

With the help of Jiraiya and the ninjas from various families, Konoha's counterattack was more successful. The giant snakes were dealt with by the toads of Myoboku Mountain. The Sand Ninja and Sound Ninja were either killed or fled in a panic when facing the Konoha elites led by Jiraiya.

Later, the news that the Fourth Kazekage was an imposter of Orochimaru spread. The Sand Ninja, shocked and angry, saw that the situation was not good, so they turned around and slashed the Sound Ninja, leaving him injured and unable to walk, and then quickly escaped.

Those Sand Ninjas who rushed too fast went too deep into Konoha and could not take their eyes off the battle. Faced with masters like Jiraiya, they had no choice but to surrender.

In this way, the interior of the village was quickly cleared, leaving only the burning ruins of buildings and corpses scattered across the ground, telling of the cruelty of war.

In the Forest of Death, Naruto and Gaara fell in a mess on the yellow sand. They looked at each other breathlessly, revealing a smile of mutual sympathy.

At this moment, the Death Forest has become a Death Desert. The violent dust storm of the One-Tailed Shukaku indiscriminately slaughtered all life in the forest. Large areas of dense trees were broken, and most of the broken trees and weeds were buried in the yellow sand, looking desolate and grim in the howling wind.

Perhaps it was the inertia of the plot, but facing Gaara who was in better condition, Uzumaki Naruto finally relied on the help of Gamabunta, Kakashi, Might Guy and others, as well as the blessing of the Nine-Tails' chakra, to successfully wake Gaara up with his head and let Shukaku return to its seal.

Then he used his poor verbal skills to make the darkness in Gaara's heart disappear!

"Damn it, what have I been doing all these years!"

Sasuke slammed his fist into the thick tree trunk and let out an unwilling roar.

He and the spectators in the stands had been placed in a private house by Kakashi and the others. After he had recovered some strength, he couldn't help but catch up with Naruto and the others to help.

I didn't expect the battle between the raccoon cat and Naruto to be so outrageous. Even Kakashi and the others could only help a little from the periphery, and he couldn't even get close.

"What have I been doing all these years? This kind of earth-shattering power, no matter which one I possess, should be able to take revenge!"

Sasuke punched the tree trunk again and again, and blood flowed from his hands. He saw from his high place the attacks from Shukaku, Naruto, and the village that came down from the sky.

This unimaginable power made Sasuke mentally collapse. How could he obtain such powerful power?

Compared to Sasuke's resentment and helplessness, Danzo Shimura is very proud at this moment!

In a secret Root base dozens of kilometers outside of Konoha Village, Danzo stared with one eye, his heart filled with excitement. He had met Orochimaru before and knew what he was going to do, so he was very excited at the moment.

If Sarutobi Hiruzen died, and he led a large group of Root members to appear outside the village, and defeated the invaders from both inside and outside, then who else could be the Hokage but himself!

Thinking of the beautiful scene of himself taking over as the Fifth Hokage, Danzo couldn't help but imagine the future.

He ruled Konoha himself and all the major families surrendered to him. Then he took advantage of the fact that the Sand Shinobi were severely weakened and led Konoha to wipe out the Sand Shinobi.

Then Konoha developed rapidly under his leadership, its strength continued to increase, and he gradually wiped out the Rock Ninja, the Mist Ninja and the Cloud Ninja, and the ninja world was unified under his hands.

Danzo Shimura became an unprecedented hero in the history of the ninja world!

Thinking of this, Shimura Danzo almost burst into laughter, and his old face could no longer be controlled.

Just when I was thinking happily, a Root Ninja came in.

The Gennin quickly stepped forward and knelt, not daring to raise his head, "Danzo-sama, the latest information has come from the village."

Is it finally here?

Danzo tried hard to suppress the upward curve of his mouth, and imitated Sarutobi Hiruzen's expression when he said to him, "I am the Hokage." His voice was calm and majestic, "What's the situation now?"

"Master Danzo, the Sand Ninja and Sound Ninja have jointly invaded, and the Hokage is trapped in the barrier..."

Following the report from the Root members, Shimura Danzo first grinned, but then his smile gradually became stiff, and finally he almost gritted his teeth.

At this moment, Danzo wanted to curse, and kept muttering about Sarutobi Hiruzen and Orochi in his heart.

Hiruzen, I didn't expect you to be so lucky!

Orochimaru, why are you hesitating so much? Why don’t you just kill him quickly?

Danzo was filled with rage but didn't know where to vent it, his chest heaving like a bellows.

After a long moment, Danzo roared, "Get out!"

Hearing the order, the Root Ninja's body trembled slightly, and then without saying a word, he quickly curled himself into a ball, then used chakra to accelerate, and rolled out smoothly.

This kind of enterprise-level understanding made the already furious Shimura Danzo feel a sharp pain in his heart, and he fell back in anger!