[Naruto : Yellow Flash] Chapter 616 - 620

Chapter 616: Analytical Ability

"Everyone is standing on the pattern of the barrier."

When Minato's real body launched an active attack on the masked man and the man in black robe, he used the shadow clones he had created to counter the diverted missiles and quickly gather the civilians within the range of the barrier.

Within a radius of a hundred meters, nearly a thousand Konoha civilians were gathered.

At this time, the original body standing with Hiruzen seemed to have received some kind of message.

Immediately, Minato formed seals with his hands.

"His chakra is weakening," said the black-robed man, who also possessed a very strong sensory ability. He could clearly sense that the chakra in Minato's body was shrinking.

However, within the range of this barrier, the chakra of Minato's several shadow clones was enhanced.

Swish!

The moment the chakra was strengthened, the chakra fluctuations of these clones, as well as the civilians and ninjas around them, disappeared.

"He moved all the civilians and ninjas out of the barrier," the man in black robe said, looking at the masked man beside him. Although the latter was a little slower than him, he also seemed to have sensed it.

"Transferring thousands of people at the same time would consume a lot of chakra."

The masked man looked at Minato. Whether it was diverting the previous missiles or teleporting the thousands of Konoha civilians in the barrier, it would consume a lot of chakra.

However, the barrier covering an area of 100 meters did not disappear.

"A boring trick," the masked man laughed solemnly. All the barriers in the world were useless compared to his abilities.

"Within this barrier, he can teleport without any restrictions."

His eyes hidden under the mask narrowed, and he placed his hand on the shoulder of the black-robed man beside him, wanting to take him directly out of the barrier set up by Minato.

"Want to use up my chakra?" Minato also saw through the enemy's intentions. The purpose of attacking Konoha's civilians with missiles was probably not to massacre them from the beginning, but to consume his strength.

This was the real purpose of choosing Konoha as the battlefield, because fighting here was equivalent to tying one hand of Minato and the others, preventing them from exerting their maximum combat power.

For example, Uchiha Yoruki's right eye's black flame Amaterasu—he could not use it in the village.

"It's not that easy to escape from my barrier!"

"Let's go together!" Minato glanced at Uchiha Yoruki and the others who were constantly surrounding this place, and let out a low growl.

Swish, swish, swish!

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded and rushed towards the masked man and the man in black robe.

Although the masked man's space-time movement was more advanced than Minato's Flying Thunder God, he was still weaker in terms of pure movement speed.

This was his weakness!

Minato's eyes were fixed on the barrier pattern under the feet of the masked man and his companion.

"Hmm!"

But he had no way to teleport with the help of the lines, because the chakra on the lines was constantly being absorbed by the black-robed man who stepped on them.

"You can't absorb too much at once. You can't manipulate the natural energy in it," the masked man reminded the person beside him. Sage chakra was not easy to control, and if one was not careful, they would be turned to stone by nature.

"I know," the man in black robe murmured softly. His eyes swept over the five Konoha ninja who were approaching, and he slowly raised his hand.

"If I use it all up at once, it won't matter, right?!"

Looking at the approaching Minato and his companions, the man in black robe seemed to be waiting for something.

"Flying Thunder God: Flash!" Minato pushed his speed to the extreme, like a ray of golden light.

"Are you going to use that technique again?" Seeing the black-robed man's action, Minato's body suddenly tensed up and he became alert.

However, just as he was about to approach the enemy, the man in black robe had not yet launched an attack.

"What's going on?" He suddenly felt confused.

Could it be that this was another of their plans to lure him in?

"Two..." What Minato didn't know was that the man in the black robe was counting something silently in his heart.

Swish!

A golden light suddenly appeared in front of him.

"One..." Minato appeared before him, holding a special kunai in his hand. Wind blades were lingering on the kunai as he chopped down fiercely.

"Swoosh!"

At this moment, the space in front of Minato's figure distorted again, and because of this distortion, his attack was delayed for a moment.

This was the ability possessed by the masked man!

"Shinra Tensei!"

At this moment, with the black-robed man as the center, a powerful repulsive force suddenly erupted. That force was so powerful that it repelled everything around him in the blink of an eye.

"Boom!"

When the repulsive force erupted, Minato noticed it and manipulated the natural energy to form an invisible barrier in front of himself.

However, this barrier was crushed by the repulsive force almost instantly, but this brief moment was enough for Minato.

He once again used the Flying Thunder God Technique and disappeared before their eyes.

Jiraiya, Uchiha Yoruki and the others, who were not as fast as Minato, were still some distance away from the man in black robe, but the powerful repulsive force soon fell on them.

Although the real power of this repulsive force came from the secondary collision with objects after being pushed away, the simple repulsive effect should not be underestimated.

If you bear too much, your internal organs would be injured by the repulsive force.

With the experience from last time, Jiraiya and the others were able to resist a little, although they were still blown away by the force.

The repulsive force continued to spread with the black-robed man as the center until everything within a radius of dozens of meters turned into yellow sand, and then it disappeared.

The top of Minato's bowl-shaped barrier was now covered with cracks. Obviously, although it had resisted the repulsive force, it was about to reach its limit.

"Fire!" At this time, the black-robed man's arm transformed into a missile again, and then shot towards the broken place of the barrier.

"Boom!"

Under the bombardment, the entire barrier suddenly collapsed like broken glass.

"It's even more powerful than last time!" Jiraiya and the others were pushed to the edge of the yellow sand before they could stabilize themselves. At this time, they could see the two people in the center without any obstruction.

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen, who was a professor of ninjutsu, was shocked, because with this special ability to manipulate gravity and repulsion, his opponent was almost invincible.

Because no matter how powerful their methods were, they were meaningless if they could not get close enough to use them.

Swish!

At this time, because he had already teleported away, Minato, who was not affected by the repulsive force, also fell to the edge of the yellow sand.

Although Minato's expression was also solemn, what he was thinking at this moment was completely different from those of Hiruzen and the others.

The black-robed man's ability was indeed tricky, but why did he use this power just when he was about to attack him?

Just now, if it weren't for the masked man's special eye technique, his attack would not have missed.

In this case, the man in black robe would have been in danger.

There was no reason for him not to use his abilities and put himself in a trap.

No matter how powerful a jutsu is, it has its weaknesses.

Therefore, the man in black robe must have had some limitation that he didn't know about if he acted this way.

After several rounds of deliberation, an idea gradually emerged in Minato's mind.

There was only one reason why the man in black robe did not immediately use the repulsive force to push him away.

That is, he himself was unable to use this ability continuously.

There should be a gap between each two uses of this ninjutsu!

Chapter 617: Takigakure Rogue Ninja

"Is this the power of Senjutsu Chakra? It's really powerful."

Looking around at the surrounding scene, the man in black robe was a little surprised at the power of this ninjutsu.

He raised his eyes and looked at Minato, who was now dozens of meters away from him, and felt a little nervous.

The Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, who is called the Yellow Flash by the entire ninja world, was indeed worthy of his reputation.

That speed was so fast that even his eye powers couldn't fully track it.

If the masked man next to him had not taken action, he would have been in danger at that moment.

"At this distance, I should be able to use that move again in time."

The masked man was also staring at Minato in the distance, his eyelids lowered, and he said, "He just transferred a large number of civilians and ninjas at once. The power of his Sage Mode has almost reached its limit."

As expected, the orange eye shadow on Minato's face, which represented the Sage Mode, gradually disappeared.

"This ability is..." Just as Minato was pondering the black-robed man's abilities, the Nine-Tailed Fox's consciousness in his mind let out a sound of surprise.

"Kyuubi, what do you know?" Minato asked immediately. Considering their experience, the Nine-Tails, which had existed for who knows how many years, was obviously more knowledgeable than the Third Hokage.

After hearing Minato's question, the Nine-Tails' consciousness in his body paused, and then said with hatred in his voice: "I have no reason to help you!"

The Nine-Tails spoke in a deep voice. Minato had just suppressed the Nine-Tails in Kushina's body. In a sense, they were enemies.

So, knowing the source of Kyuubi's hatred, Minato stopped asking further questions.

"I'm sorry, it's all I can do for Kushina."

However, Minato did not blame the Nine-Tails, but instead said something slightly apologetically.

In the past, he, like everyone else, believed that the tailed beasts were weapons used to maintain the balance between countries.

But in fact, the tailed beasts also had feelings. It was unfortunate for humans to be the jinchūriki, but the tailed beasts that had been sealed in human bodies were even more unfortunate.

If you thought about it carefully, the tailed beasts had not done anything harmful to humans.

However, they were used as weapons to balance the power between countries and were sealed into different people's bodies one after another.

"Don't think I'll tell you if you say that," the Nine-Tailed Fox's disdainful voice came from within Minato's body, but there was still a slight pause in its voice.

"Ah." Minato knew that it would not be possible to eliminate the hatred in its heart in a short period of time.

However, even without the information provided by the Nine-Tailed Fox, he gradually figured out the abilities and characteristics of the man in black robe.

Combining so many special abilities in one person was indeed a headache, both offensive and defensive.

But it didn't mean there were no loopholes.

For example, just now, if the masked man hadn't taken action, Minato would have most likely injured him.

The most troublesome thing now was that the barrier he used to lock the battlefield had been destroyed, and at this distance, the masked man could take the black-robed man to where the crowd gathered at any time.

This was the most difficult part.

"Whoosh!"

Sure enough, under the sight of Minato and others, the masked man once again sucked the man in black robe into somewhere, and then he himself began to be pulled into the vortex-shaped space ripples.

Upon seeing this, Minato suddenly formed seals with his hands.

He instantly expanded his sensor to the maximum.

The masked man disappeared, but his chakra fluctuations appeared somewhere in Konoha the next moment.

Swish, swish, swish!

Minato had already marked the four people scattered around: Uchiha Yoruki, Hatake Sakumo, Jiraiya, and the Third Hokage.

The mark emitted a faint light, and then the five figures instantly moved to somewhere in Konoha.

In a place in Konoha, Minato and his group and the masked man and the man in black robe appeared almost at the same time.

This battlefield had already been devastated by the impact of ninjutsu.

The core of this battlefield was two people, one of whom looked almost exhausted and covered with bruises.

On the other hand, his opponent did not suffer any serious injuries except that the hood of his black robe was torn.

"Give me your heart!" The man let out a sinister laugh and suddenly punched toward Senju Nawaki who was several meters away from him.

His forearm immediately flew out from his sleeve, and extending from it was a thick black line.

With this special ability, the man's arms could stretch on the spot.

At this moment, Nawaki seemed unable to resist. Looking at the attack that was about to fall on him, there was no fear in his eyes.

He was the descendant of the First Hokage and would never be afraid of any enemy!

"Swish!"

At this moment, a ray of azure light tore through the air, cutting through the thick black line and severing it.

Swish!

At the same time, Minato appeared beside the flying kunai. He held the kunai in his left hand and grabbed the hand that was almost touching the left chest of Senju Nawaki with his right hand.

"Minato!?" Nawaki didn't even understand the situation at the moment, but he blurted out the words subconsciously.

"Nawaki, are you okay?" Minato chuckled, and then his blue eyes turned to look at the person who was going to kill Senju Nawaki.

There was no doubt that he was an accomplice of the masked man, and the chaos in Konoha was instigated by them.

"So fast!" The man exclaimed in surprise, and then met Minato's gaze.

The moment he stared, horror welled up in his eyes.

Because he had seen the same look once, decades ago.

If it wasn't for luck, he would have died that year.

"The Hokage of Konoha?" The man's expression returned to normal instantly, and then the masked man and the man in black robe appeared beside him.

"What a pity." The newcomer looked at Nawaki with some regret. If Minato had arrived a moment later, he would have dug out Nawaki's heart.

"You lost a hand," the masked man glanced at the man's empty sleeve and murmured.

"Haha, simple." The man chuckled nonchalantly, and a thick black line like a blood vessel extended from his sleeve and then reached toward the body of a Konoha ninja lying nearby.

It wrapped around the man's arm and actually cut off a section of his forearm. Then the black line wrapped around the severed arm and rolled back.

The forearm was pulled back into the man's sleeve along the black line, and then it squirmed slightly a few times.

The man raised his arm, then clenched his palm a few times as if nothing had happened, and said, "That's all."

"Not bad," the masked man commented indifferently upon seeing this.

But when this scene fell into the eyes of Minato and the others, they were horrified.

This person could actually cut off the hand of a corpse and then attach it to his own broken arm as a replacement?

The abilities of these mysterious people who attacked Konoha were so strange.

Jiraiya and Hatake Sakumo were both veteran strongmen in the ninja world, but they had never heard of these abilities before.

"This is..." At this moment, Minato seemed to be pondering something.

Hiruzen, who was not far away, suddenly narrowed his pupils, stared at the man who had just replaced his hand, and exclaimed in surprise:

"This is the secret technique of Takigakure."

"You are Kakuzu, the S-rank traitor ninja of Takigakure!"

Chapter 618: A Brief Confrontation

When Hiruzen's surprised voice was heard, the pupils of Minato, who was pondering, and Nawaki beside him, suddenly shrank.

"A traitorous ninja from Takigakure?"

Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Yoruki frowned. They had heard of Takigakure and the Land of Waterfalls.

However, the power of the ninjas in Takigakure was not strong, and was even weaker than that of the former Land of Hot Springs.

They had never heard that there was such a terrifyingly powerful rogue ninja in Takigakure.

"How is this possible?" Nawaki looked at Kakuzu not far away with an incredulous expression on his face.

"Once you're recognized, there's nothing you can do." Kakuzu stared at Hiruzen without concern. In terms of seniority as a ninja, he was even older than the latter.

"Third Hokage, what is going on?" Sakumo looked at the Third Hokage beside him and asked.

At this time, the Third Hokage had just recovered from his shock and said, "Decades ago, when the Five Ninja Nations were first established, the top leaders of Takigakure were dissatisfied with some of the policies proposed by the First Hokage, so they sent ninjas to assassinate the First Hokage."

"Assassination of the First Hokage?" Uchiha Yoruki and Hatake Sakumo's expressions both tensed. The First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, was the man recognized by the ninja world at that time as the God of Shinobi.

Apart from Uchiha Madara, there was no other ninja who could compete with the First Hokage.

"And the Takigakure ninja who attempted to assassinate the First Hokage was named Kakuzu!"

The Third Hokage still stared at the man in front of him with some disbelief, because the latter was a ninja from the same era as the First Hokage.

To this day, even he, a once famous ninja hero in the ninja world, had become increasingly weaker under the passage of time.

Kakuzu was older than him, but he showed no signs of weakening.

This didn't make sense at all.

Everyone in Konoha also looked at Kakuzu with trembling eyes. Minato had also seen his name in the historical records kept in the Hokage Building.

Nawaki himself was the descendant of the First Hokage, so he had heard a lot about the First Hokage from his elders since he was a child.

Everyone was surprised at how Kakuzu was still alive and showed no signs of aging.

But there was no time to study these things in detail now. What was beyond doubt was that Kakuzu, who once carried out the assassination attempt on the First Hokage and although failed, did not die and was still alive today. His strength should not be underestimated.

"Since Grandpa didn't kill you back then, I will do it today." Nawaki looked at Kakuzu with murderous intent in his eyes and forced himself to stand up.

Kakuzu didn't care about his killing intent. Instead, he said with a hint of sarcasm: "Boy, compared to the First Hokage, you are so weak and pitiful."

"Back then, the name of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, was feared by the world, but in your case, it has become a joke."

"You!" What Nawaki could not tolerate the most was someone slandering his most admired grandfather.

But he was already at the end of his strength, and even if they fought again, Nawaki would not be Kakuzu's match.

"You assassinated the First Hokage back then and luckily escaped with your life. It seems that you are really tired of living." At this moment, Minato, who was next to Senju Nawaki, said in a deep voice with eyes as sharp as a knife.

Senju Nawaki was stunned, because in the past, no matter who Minato was fighting with, he would never say such harsh words.

"Since the previous Hokage didn't kill you, I, who have inherited the title of Hokage, will kill you!"

When the voice filled with murderous intent fell, Minato's eyes suddenly turned to the side.

Hiruzen and the others also noticed it soon after, and their eyes also turned in that direction at the same time.

"Saburo!?"

As the figure got closer, except for the Third Hokage, the expressions of Hatake Sakumo, Jiraiya and others were shocked.

"That's not Saburo, that's his son and Lady Chiyo's grandchild."

"Red Sand Sasori!" Minato said solemnly. Hatake Sakumo had seen Sasori when he was a child when he infiltrated the Land of Wind.

But after all, Sasori was only five years old at that time, and several years had passed since Minato first encountered him.

Sasori's appearance was indeed very similar to his father.

When Minato revealed the identity of the man, not only the Third Hokage and his men, but also Nawaki and the remaining Konoha ninjas present, looked at Sasori with eyes filled with murderous intent.

The most furious among them was Uchiha Yoruki.

It was because Sasori spread poison on the Kirigakure front line that the Konoha army was put at a disadvantage, leading to Uchiha Obito's death.

"Swish!"

The Mangekyō Sharingan patterns in Uchiha Yoruki's left eye suddenly spun, and bright red blood flowed down the corner of his eye. Then, the Rekka No Ken appeared above Sasori's head, and then it chopped down fiercely at Sasori!

The red sword suddenly slashed down, and actually split Sasori in half.

"Did he kill him?" Senju Nawaki and the others were stunned. Uchiha Yoruki's Dojutsu was terrifyingly fast, but the S-rank rogue Sasori who killed the Third Kazekage actually died just like that?

"Iron Sand Shower!"

At this moment, the only faint moonlight left above the heads of everyone in Konoha was completely blocked.

The intensive attack formed by the iron sand directly covered everyone's heads.

"So fast!" Nawaki and several Konoha ninjas said in surprise.

"It seems that you have become quite proficient in using the Third Kazekage Puppet."

In the darkness, Minato's figure disappeared from beside Senju Nawaki at some point.

Sasori's body suddenly looked sideways and saw the pair of deep blue eyes.

Minato held a special kunai in his hand and aimed it at Sasori's head, but at the same time, not far away, two pairs of eyes were also locking onto him.

The man in black robe then raised his hand and pointed his palm towards Minato.

Minato's speed was undoubtedly the best in the ninja world, but the strength of these two people was also extremely powerful, and they both possessed special abilities.

Although their movements could not keep up with Minato's, their visual powers could.

"After performing those eye techniques one after another, is it possible that the chakra fluctuations are still so stable?"

Minato stared at the masked man next to the black-robed man. He used the eye technique that could distort space on himself repeatedly, but it didn't consume much energy.

He should possess the Mangekyō Sharingan like Uchiha Yoruki, but after the latter frequently used eye techniques, both his eye power and chakra would weaken rapidly.

Also, according to Minato's perception, the chakra fluctuations emanating from the masked man and the black-robed man, although different in size, were almost the same type.

This was almost impossible to happen, because even a father and son who are related by blood cannot achieve almost identical chakra fluctuations.

"This speed is really terrifying."

Sasori glanced sideways at the special kunai hanging behind Minato's head, and the next moment, his eyes suddenly focused, and a look of madness flashed in his beautiful eyes.

"Swish, swish, swish!"

The iron sand rain that covered the heads of Senju Nawaki and several Konoha ninjas suddenly poured down!

Chapter 619: Kakuzu's Death?

"Swish, swish, swish!"

The falling speed of the Iron Sand Rain was extremely fast, and it was simply beyond the ability of Senju Nawaki and the few Konoha ninjas who were now in their extreme condition to defend against it.

"Ninja Art: Wild Lion's Mane Technique!"

At this moment, Jiraiya appeared outside the range covered by the Iron Sand Shower, with hand seals formed in his hands and his white hair growing rapidly.

At the moment before the iron sand rain fell on the heads of Nawaki and the others, the long white hair surrounded them and formed a defense.

"Ding ding ding!"

The attack came down, as if hitting steel, making a continuous crisp sound.

At the same time as Jiraiya took action, Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Yoruki rushed out almost at the same time, and suddenly, the two appeared next to Kakuzu.

"Uchiha Style: Blast Flame Dance!"

"Thunder Moon Slash!"

The two men attacked him at the same time, and in a flash, sword shadows enveloped Kakuzu's figure.

"Earth Release: Multiple Earth-Style Wall!"

Kakuzu suddenly leaned down, and several walls of earth rose up around his body, protecting him in the center.

"Boom boom boom!"

Immediately, explosions continued to sound.

Elsewhere, at the moment when Sasori launched the Iron Sand Shower, Minato stabbed Sasori's back of the head with his special kunai without hesitation.

"Universal Pull!"

Almost at the same time, a powerful gravitational force suddenly burst out from the palm of the black-robed man.

Minato's figure was forcibly pulled over. Seeing this, he was not panicked, but immediately turned around and threw the special kunai in his hand in the direction of the black-robed man!

"Using my gravity against me?"

Looking at the special kunai shining with lightning that was almost in front of him in the blink of an eye, the man in black robe pondered inwardly.

The special kunai that Minato injected with lightning chakra was already incredibly fast.

In addition, he used gravity to increase its speed again.

"Clang!"

However, just before the kunai was about to pierce the man in black robe, a repulsive force exploded with him as the center.

The kunai was bounced away by the repulsive force.

"Now!"

Minato had been waiting for this opportunity. The moment the kunai was bounced away by the repulsive force, his figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.

"Rasengan!"

He suddenly appeared in front of the man in black robe, and a blue chakra ball condensed in his palm.

"During this gap, you won't be able to use your abilities!"

Minato thought to himself, even if the masked man's space-time ninjutsu was fast enough, it would be impossible for him to completely dissolve his attack in such a short time.

Even though he was using the Rasengan in his right hand, Minato had already begun preparing for the second attack in his left palm.

Just before Minato's Rasengan hit the man in black robe, a light blue chakra light suddenly burst out from the masked man next to him.

"Boom!"

When the attack came, Minato was stunned. He saw the chakra emitted from the masked man turned into a defensive shape like a human skeleton on his body.

An arm grew out from the light blue skeleton, and it was the palm of that arm that blocked Minato's Rasengan.

"This is..."

Minato was stunned, but he launched the second attack without hesitation.

"Odama Rasengan!"

The attack landed on the light blue palm, causing cracks to begin to spread on it.

However, it did not collapse immediately. The patterns in the masked man's eyes condensed, and a more intense chakra glow spread from his body.

"Click."

At this moment, the real sound of bones growing was heard, and the palm that was cracked by Minato's Rasengan healed in the blink of an eye, and the light extended, forming a semi-human skeleton several meters tall.

When the skeleton was formed, it raised its palm and slapped at Minato hard.

"Whoosh!"

However, the speed of this palm alone was certainly not enough to hit Minato, so the masked man also used his ability to distort space.

Swish!

However, in the twisted space, just before the hand fell, Minato's figure disappeared again.

"Boom!"

At this time, a huge black staff also hit the skeleton heavily. The force made it tremble slightly, but that was all.

The old face of the Third Hokage trembled, and he looked at the half-human skeleton that was protecting the two masked men in front of him, and exclaimed: "Susanoo!?"

The masked man glanced sideways slightly, and the skeleton stretched out its other hand, but Hiruzen had already stepped back and avoided the attack.

The falling of the iron sand rain finally stopped. Jiraiya moved his hand seals, and then his hair contracted. They wrapped around the waists of Senju Nawaki and the Konoha ninjas, pulling them out of the range of the iron sand.

Sasori's iron sand was also highly poisonous. If you got scratched while walking through it in this kind of weather, it would be a bit troublesome.

"Nawaki, you guys go first, leave this place to us," Jiraiya said after rescuing several people.

There was an obvious look of reluctance on Nawaki's face, but he knew that his presence here would only add to the burden for Minato and the others.

So he nodded heavily, and then left the battlefield with the help of two Konoha ninjas.

Jiraiya glanced sideways at this time, and of course the first thing he noticed was the semi-human skeleton that suddenly appeared, several meters tall.

His white brows also frowned.

"Shhh!"

But at this moment, under the siege of Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Yoruki, the several earth barriers that protected Kakuzu were destroyed one after another.

Kakuzu, who was like a turtle in a jar at this time, knew that if he continued like this, things would be very bad.

Swish!

He suddenly jumped up, waiting for an opportunity to escape.

However, Uchiha Yoruki outside the wall had already been prepared. With the insight of his Mangekyō Sharingan, he locked onto Kakuzu's position almost instantly, and then blood flowed out from the corner of his left eye.

"Puff!"

In almost the blink of an eye, the Rekka No Ken appeared in front of Kakuzu who was in mid-air, and then a red light flashed suddenly.

The sword immediately pierced through Kakuzu's left chest and pierced his heart.

"It's done!"

Seeing this, Uchiha Yoruki and Hatake Sakumo both showed joy on their faces.

They didn't know how Kakuzu had achieved immortality and survived to this day, but as long as he was still a living being, he would surely die if he suffered such an injury!

Uchiha Yoruki immediately retracted his Dojutsu, and then Kakuzu suddenly fell from mid-air and landed on the ground.

"Has it been done?"

Jiraiya and Minato, who had temporarily retreated, both saw Kakuzu being pierced through the heart, and were thinking the same thing in their hearts.

However, this man had extraordinary abilities after all, so out of caution, Uchiha Yoruki and Hatake Sakumo still approached him to confirm whether he was dead.

Just as the two approached Kakuzu, Minato's expression suddenly changed and he shouted:

"Don't get close, he's not dead yet!"

Chapter 620: Stronger Eye Power

"Don't get close, he's not dead yet!"

Minato shouted suddenly, but with the speed of Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Yoruki, they had already reached Kakuzu's side.

Upon hearing this, the two of them stopped in their tracks.

"Crack!"

The large black robe that Kakuzu, who was supposed to be dead, was wearing fluttered, and the clothes were torn immediately.

Thick black lines stuck out like tentacles.

"Ding ding!"

Uchiha Yoruki and Hatake Sakumo were both ninjas who were good at speed, and they immediately swung their weapons to defend themselves.

"How is that possible!"

As they were struggling, both of them looked horrified. It was obvious that the attack just now should have pierced Kakuzu's heart.

How could he still be alive?

At this moment, the two of them almost simultaneously recalled the mission to the Land of Hot Springs that they had carried out more than ten years ago.

Was it a technique of immortality?

After pondering like this, the two gradually withdrew from the entanglement of the thick black lines.

However, in the situation just now, they were full of openings, and the back of Hatake Sakumo's hand was scratched.

"Haha, just a little bit."

At this time, Kakuzu, who was lying on the ground, slowly stood up. There were thick black lines extending from his back and even from his mouth, which looked like blood vessels.

However, this substance was surprisingly strong, and the weapons of Uchiha Yoruki and Hatake Sakumo were unable to cut it.

Even Minato, who noticed that Kakuzu was not dead, had his pupils dilated as he stared at the huge hole on Kakuzu's left chest.

His heart had clearly been damaged by Uchiha Yoruki's previous attack, but he looked as if he was unharmed.

His chakra fluctuations showed no signs of weakening at all.

"That should be the secret treasure of Takigakure Village, the Earth Grudge Fear."

Hiruzen landed beside Minato and said to Kakuzu with a serious expression while staring at him.

"Earth Grudge Fear?"

It was the first time Minato heard this name.

"Yes, not long after Kakuzu failed in his assassination attempt on the First Hokage, he rebelled against Takigakure. It is said that he dug out the hearts of all the high-ranking officials of Takigakure at that time, and also stole the Earth Grudge Fear."

"I think the secret of his survival is because of it."

Hiruzen explained that if one was not actually from that era, there would be no way of knowing this information.

"So, those blood vessel-like objects are the Earth Grudge Fear?"

Minato stared at the thick black lines around Kakuzu that looked like blood vessels with a serious expression.

Each of the accomplices that the masked man found to attack Konoha was extremely troublesome. If he had not left Jiraiya-sensei in Konoha, the situation today would be really difficult to deal with.

"That guy is difficult to deal with, but I should be able to handle him. The most troublesome ones right now are those two people."

Hiruzen said in a deep voice, frowning. He looked at the masked man and the man in black robe who were protected by a half-human skeleton.

"Now it can be confirmed that the man with the mask has the Mangekyō Sharingan, and his eye power is stronger than Uchiha Yoruki's, and he has even activated Susanoo."

The Third Hokage deliberately raised his voice very loudly, apparently to pass on the information he knew to the powerful Konoha men present.

"Can Susanoo do this?"

Including Uchiha Yoruki, who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan, it was the first time that everyone heard of this name.

The masked man's eyes narrowed. A big part of their attack on Konoha this time was the intelligence advantage.

But judging from the previous situation, the Fourth Hokage may have analyzed the limitations of the black-robed man's abilities.

Hiruzen, who was respected as the professor of ninjutsu by the entire ninja world, also possessed a lot of information that was unfavorable to them.

Therefore, he would not wait for his opponent to fully understand him before taking action.

"Hmm!"

Under the mask, the pair of eyes with special patterns began to spin rapidly again.

At this moment, muscle-like textures began to grow all over the semi-human skeleton that protected him and the man in black robe.

"Rustle!"

As the texture grew, Susanoo became like a giant samurai. The samurai raised his palm, and the light blue chakra condensed and formed the shape of a chain.

The masked man immediately locked his sights on the Third Hokage, and the chain in the samurai's hand swung out, pointing directly at the latter.

"Has it come to this?"

Looking at the Susanoo that had advanced again, Hiruzen's already gloomy expression became even more solemn.

"Super Odama Rasengan!"

But before the attack fell on Hiruzen, an extremely dazzling chakra fluctuation flashed ahead of the trajectory of the chain attack.

"Boom!"

The two attacks collided, creating a powerful air wave.

"Hatake Sakumo, give me your life!"

However, this aftermath certainly could not affect the people who were confronting each other at the moment. Above Hatake Sakumo's head, black iron sand began to condense and formed weapons of various shapes.

Facing Sasori's attack, Sakumo was not afraid, but there was a hint of struggle in his eyes when he looked at Sasori.

This kind of struggle also existed when Minato first met him.

However, when he thought of what Sasori did to the Konoha army during the Third Ninja World War, the struggle on Sakumo's face disappeared completely.

"Shhh!"

The white tanto in his hand flashed with lightning, and looked like a sharp tooth in the dark night.

Swish!

At this time, Uchiha Yoruki and Jiraiya attacked at the same time.

"Earth Style: Swamp of the Underworld!"

Only a moment's afterimage of Jiraiya's hands could be seen as they formed seals. When the seals were formed, Jiraiya's palms suddenly struck the ground.

"Earth Style: Moving Earth Core!"

However, at the same time that Jiraiya's palm struck the ground, the black-robed man who was beneath Susanoo completed his hand seal first.

"Boom!"

The ground beneath Jiraiya's feet began to shake violently, and then a huge rock spike suddenly protruded, carrying him off the ground.

"It's even faster than Jiraiya-sensei's!"

Minato was surprised when he saw this, because Jiraiya's attainments in earth-style ninjutsu were so great that even in the entire ninja world, there were only a handful of people who could match him.

The black-robed man with special abilities had earth escape skills and reaction speed that were even faster than Jiraiya's.

He used another earth-style ninjutsu to interrupt Jiraiya's Swamp of the Underworld.

"Susanoo? It looks pretty tough."

On the other side, Uchiha Yoruki pondered in his heart. At this time, he closed his left eye, and the flame pattern in his right eye rotated and suddenly condensed.

Blood was slowly trickling down from the corner of his right eye.

"Amaterasu!"

Wherever Uchiha Yoruki's sight reached, black flames rose.

"Buzz!"

Almost at the same time, the space where the black flame was produced was distorted, and the black flame of Amaterasu that had just appeared disappeared immediately.

The pupil of Uchiha Yoruki's right eye swelled and a sharp pain came. He pressed his eyes with his hands and met the masked man's gaze.

"It actually blocked my Dojutsu. What a strong eye power!"