On the plain.

The four squads of Root Jonin joined together, formed hand seals at the same time, and then pressed them to the ground.

"[Boundary: Four Purple Flame Formation]"

Four transparent energy walls appeared in the four directions of east, south, west and north, blocking the Raikage Ai in the middle.

"Raikage! You are so arrogant!"

"With your strength, if you had been a little more cautious, you wouldn't have fallen into my trap. Unfortunately, you are too confident in your own strength." Wearing a black hood, Aburame Ryoma slowly walked out from the sand dunes in the distance and came to the outside of the Four Purple Flame Formation.

Aburame Ryoma is an elite jonin of Konoha, but because he joined the Root, he is not well-known in Konoha, but his own strength is very powerful.

The Root has always been led by Danzo, but there are two deputy leaders.

One is him, Aburame Ryoma, and the other is Orochimaru, the Einstein snake whose gender is unclear.

Being able to stand on equal footing with Orochimaru represents Aburame Ryoma's ability.

With the advantage of being unintentional, he successfully lured Raikage Ai into a trap.

"This is the [Four Purple Flame Formation]. Even if the Third Hokage were here, he wouldn't be able to break it."

"In such a narrow environment, no matter how fast you are, it will be useless." Aburame Ryoma said complacently. Being able to trap the Fourth Raikage was indeed a brilliant achievement for him.

The Raikage Ai, who was standing at the feet of the Two-Tailed Matatabi, had his wide divine robe rustling in the wind, but his eyes remained calm, without any sign of panic.

He glanced at the [Four Purple Flame Formation] that surrounded him, and the huge number of black bugs that were slowly pressing towards him, then turned his gaze to Aburame Ryoma and said indifferently: "You are very smart, but unfortunately you lack awe for power."

The moment the words fell.

Endless arcs of electricity exploded on the body of Raikage Ai. He moved his feet and rushed into the barrier of the [Four Purple Flame Formation]. The four fingers of his extended right hand were like an indestructible spear, and they poked at the [Four Purple Flame Formation].

Click!

With one blow, a crack appeared on the transparent energy wall of the [Four Purple Flame Array].

Seeing this scene, Aburame Ryoma suddenly panicked. If there was a crack, it meant that the Raikage Ai could not be trapped. That is, the Raikage Ai at this moment, if it was the Ai of the Fourth Ninja World War many years later, he could break the barrier with one blow.

"It's quite hard. It actually blocked my [Hell Thrust: Four-Handed Punch]," said Raikage Ai in an appreciative tone.

But the tone of the Raikage sounded like a cat playing with a mouse to everyone else.

"Then let's test the power of my [Hell Stab: Three-pointed Hand]!"

The Fourth Raikage stretched out four fingers and retracted one finger. The lightning chakra in his hand became more concentrated and sharper.

[Hell Stab] is the signature skill of the Third Raikage Ai. Similar to Xiongba's [Three-Point Divine Finger], as the number of fingers decreases, the power will become even greater.

[Hell Stab] has four levels of power: Four levels of penetration, Three levels of penetration, Two levels of penetration, and One level of penetration.

The Third Raikage, who used this move, was given the title of the strongest spear, which was said to be able to penetrate anything.

The Fourth Raikage Ai's training in the [Lightning Armor] was not enough, so he could only perform three Guan Shou at most. If he performed any more, his arms would explode because he could not withstand the power.

Before the Three Ninja World Wars, the Fourth Raikage Ai followed exactly the same path as his father, building the thickest armor and sharpening the sharpest spears.

But after the battle with Minato Namikaze, he was led astray and started to follow the speed flow.

It was for this reason that he completely became Ōnoki's mount when he later fought against Uchiha Madara.

"boom--"

The [Hell Stab] of Raikage Ai is not as good as the Third Raikage Ai, but the [Four Purple Flame Formation] is not as good as Uchiha Madara's Susanoo, and the barrier was broken by the [Three-bones] stab.

"what!"

“Hurry~~”

"Little~~"

The Root Ninjas who maintained the [Four Purple Flame Formation] had expressions of fear on their faces. No matter what they wanted to say at this moment, they were all stopped in their tracks the moment the blue lightning flashed.

"Pfft~~~"

The corners of the Raikage Ai's eyes and body were covered with blue-purple chakra, and arcs of electricity flickered continuously: "Another insect clone! The Aburame clan is interesting."

next moment,
The Raikage Ai jumped high into the air, did a backflip in the air, and landed steadily on the head of the two-tailed monster who was watching the show with a silly look on his face. He said in a cold tone: "Find the bug for me."

The Two-Tails was stunned at first, then immediately released its perception and assisted the Raikage in finding the whereabouts of Aburame Ryoma. The tailed beast has the ability to perceive malicious intent, and as long as Aburame Ryoma has malicious intent towards it, it will have no chance of hiding its whereabouts.

The tailed beasts are very powerful, but in front of powerful people, they are just pets.

If it was the Eight-tailed Gyu-ki, he could still maintain his dignity in front of the Fourth Raikage Ai, but the Two-tailed Matatabiki was completely helpless against the Fourth Raikage.

Soon the Two-Tails discovered the strong malice hidden underground, and then saw the Two-Tails open its mouth wide, and powerful chakra was spewed out of it, slowly condensing into a black sphere in front. This is the unique skill of the tailed beast - [Tailed Beast Ball].

Seeing the Two-Tails being so tactful, Raikage Ai couldn't help but nodded, but at this moment his heart began to beat violently, and a strong sense of uneasiness grew in his heart, making him subconsciously move a little to his side. Just as he moved, a white beam of light suddenly exploded from deep in the earth.

boom---
The white beam of light bombarded the newly condensed Tailed Beast Ball, and a terrifying explosion occurred instantly. Along with a deafening roar, boundless air waves swept in all directions, and the rocky ground of the earth rippled like waves on a lake, and the rocky soil turned into dust in the explosion and floated in the air.

what---
Roar---
The Nibi Matatabi let out a painful roar in the explosion, which was deafening and sounded like the howling of ghosts and wolves.

Because the Raikage had been using the [Thunder Armor], he was able to withstand the first wave of damage from the explosion, and immediately ran towards an area outside the damage area. However, just as he stepped on a piece of soil, the hard ground became extremely soft and his feet were directly entangled.

This kind of control ninjutsu posed no threat to him at all. He just exerted a little force and broke it immediately.

But at this moment, a 1.3-meter-tall old man with a rosacea appeared behind Raikage Ai.

[Earth Escape: Super Light and Heavy Rock Fist]

The old man had a hand covered with a lot of rocks and soil, forming a huge fist that smashed onto the body of Raikage Ai. The moment the fist touched Raikage Ai's body, it became extremely heavy, as if he was hit by a mountain.

"puff!"

The Raikage Ai's body was knocked out, and a large amount of blood spurted out of his mouth. In the air, the Raikage Ai saw the figure attacking him: "So it's you, old fellow Ohnoki."

The hatred between Ohnoki and Raikage Ai is not small. The third Raikage Ai was killed by Ohnoki. As the saying goes, enemies are particularly jealous of each other when they meet. He endured the injury he had just suffered and stomped his foot hard. His body made an incredible turn in the void and rushed towards Ohnoki in the opposite direction. The blue palm immediately pierced through Ohnoki's body.

only--

The feeling was completely wrong. After being pierced by him, Ōnoki immediately lost the vitality of a living person and slowly turned into a khaki [Earth Escape Clone], disintegrating into mud in the air and falling down.

"Puff--" Raikage Ai was already seriously injured by Ohnoki's combination of Rock Fist and Light Heavy Rock, and now he forcibly turned back to kill Ohnoki's Earth Escape clone, making his injuries even more serious. He spat out a mouthful of blood, and his brown skin looked a little pale. "Despicable..." Raikage Ai cursed with his eyes full of dissatisfaction, while staring at the small black dot a hundred meters in the air.

That is truly the Great Wild Wood of the Two Scales.

The third Tsuchikage of Iwakage Village, his name overlaps somewhat with the third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

The strongest Tsuchikage!
The longest-serving Tsuchikage.

The difference is that Sarutobi Hiruzen is just bragging, while Ōnoki is the real deal.

The third Tsuchikage Ōnoki inherited the [Bloody Elimination: Dust Release] from the second Tsuchikage Mu, and further developed the [Dust Release] based on Mu.

Ōnoki was in power the longest, not because he was greedy for power, but because there was no successor in the Iwagakure Village and no one could find an heir who could learn [Dust Release].

【Dust Release】 is not an ordinary Five Elements Ninjutsu, nor is it a Blood Limit, but a Blood Elimination above the Blood Limit.

Blood Limit is a jutsu that combines two types of chakra.

Blood Elimination is a jutsu that combines three types of chakra.

[Dust Release] can be said to be the most powerful ninjutsu in the world under the Six Paths.

"Fourth Hokage! You said that I am despicable?" Ohnoki looked down at the Raikage Ai from high in the sky.

Ohnoki was not afraid of the so-called fastest speed of the Raikage at all, because he was a rare ninja in the world who could fly. Even if the Raikage ran faster, he was still running on the ground, and no matter how high he jumped, he could not fly higher than him.

Under normal circumstances, Ohnoki would not cause trouble for Raikage Ai. Ohnoki's attack power can be said to be the most powerful ninja of this era, but each of his skills has a pre-swing, especially for Raikage Ai, the pre-swing is so long that he can run a marathon before coming back.

So generally speaking, the Raikage Ai cannot hit Ohnoki who is flying in the sky, and Ohnoki cannot hit the Raikage Ai who is as fast as lightning, so neither of them can do anything to the other.

"As the Kage of a village and the leader of a faction, you still use the moral values ​​of ordinary people to judge me. I can only say that you are unqualified as a Kage and are quite naive."

"But judging from your cunning and treacherous behavior towards me, you don't seem to be a naive person!"

"Fourth generation! Should I say you are naive? Or shameless?"

Hearing this, the Raikage's face turned blue and red. He would not care at all about what people weaker than him said about him and would just treat it as a barking dog. But after hearing Oonoki's contemptuous words, he suddenly felt a little unjustified.

Ōnoki looked at the Fourth Raikage with regret in his eyes: "What a shame! What a shame!"

Blood was still flowing from the mouth of Raikage Ai. The [Rock Fist Technique] just now had ruptured Raikage Ai's internal organs and caused heavy bleeding in the body.

It was the Lightning Release Chakra mode that tempered the physical strength of the Raikage Ai to surpass the level of ordinary people. If it were someone else, they would have basically returned to the underworld by now.

"Old man, what are you looking at?" Raikage Ai, who felt uncomfortable with Ohnoki's gaze, started to yell in anger.

Ohnoki sighed and said, "You didn't learn to inherit the strongest spear and shield of the Third Raikage, but instead learned the Golden Flash Namikaze Minato and became the so-called Blue Flash. You are really stupid."

"If you have the same defensive power as your father, even if I launch a sneak attack this time, it will be ineffective."

"Even in the previous battle, he would not fall into the trap of the Oil Girl Family and lose an arm."

The Third Tsuchikage saw that Raikage Ai could say so many things, and he thought of his successors, feeling a sense of desolation. He obviously had powerful ninjutsu, but he could never pass it on.

The Third Raikage was really powerful. Back then, Ohnoki used an army of 10,000 to hold back the Third Raikage. Even with Ohnoki's participation, they still couldn't kill the Third Raikage.

The Third Raikage's defense was ineffective against [Dust Release], so any other ninjutsu had no effect on him.

If the speed of the Fourth Raikage is 100, the speed of the Third Raikage is only 90, and he cannot be hit at all with the speed of [Dust Release].

An army of ten thousand surrounded him?

That's like a tiger among a flock of sheep!
The death of the Third Raikage was also very funny and strange. He was mentally exhausted after killing too many people, and coupled with Ohnoki's covetous eyes on him, he accidentally stabbed himself to death.

The body of the Third Raikage Ai is known as the strongest shield, and his hands are known as the strongest spear. Obviously, the spear wins in his case.

"Ah! It's true that I get sentimental easily as I get older!" Ohnoki shook his head, then immediately made a seal and was about to release a ninjutsu to kill the Fourth Raikage Ai.

At this moment, Ohnoki felt a powerful wave of power sweeping towards him. He immediately stopped and looked, his pupils shrank.

In the distance, I saw a tailed beast ball slowly condensing into shape.

and,

This time, it was not the Two-Tails that was condensing the Tailed Beast Ball, but the Eight-Tails. Seeing this scene, Ohnoki's eyelids twitched and he immediately formed seals with his hands.

"【Dust Release: Original World Separation Technique】"

A white beam of light extended from Ohnoki's hand, directly detonating the tailed beast ball that was still condensing in advance. The powerful explosion poured out around the Eight-tailed Gyu-ki. If it weren't for the powerful tailed beast coat of the Eight-tailed Gyu-ki, it would have been blown to pieces by the explosion.

"The relationship between the Raikage and the Jinchuriki is so harmonious." Ohnoki couldn't help but say with envy.

Thinking of this, Ohnoki looked towards the position where the Raikage Ai was before, but where could he see the Raikage Ai?
Ohnoki made his move, naturally aiming to kill the Fourth Raikage. There was no way he would let the Fourth get away, so he immediately looked for the trace of the Raikage Ai, but he was tightly entangled by Killer Bee, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.

As long as Ohnoki wants to chase the Fourth Raikage, he will immediately condense the Tailed Beast Ball. Ohnoki can indeed fly, but his flying speed is very slow.

Normally, given the altitude at which he flies, ground-based ninjutsu cannot threaten him, but this "normal" does not include the tailed beasts.

So Killer Bee started to argue with Ohnoki.

···
"Lord Danzo! The Fourth Raikage Ai is seriously injured and is evacuating towards the Land of Lightning under the protection of several Kumogakure ninjas." Aburame Ryoma took back the bug, summarized the intelligence and reported.

Danzo smiled when he heard that, and stood up, moving his arm that had just been re-transplanted with the Wood Release Cells of the Sharingan: "Hahaha!!! God help me."

"I am destined to be the strongest Hokage."

"Let's go! Follow me and kill the Raikage."

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On top of a high cliff.

A black cat wearing clothes and standing on two legs turned into white smoke and disappeared.

"The time has come."

"The Great Elder has allowed us to take action." Uchiha Tiehuo immediately stood up and said to the two companions beside him.

"Haha!!! I can finally get my revenge."

"Let's go. I don't want to wait any longer. It's time for you to pay for your life, old dog Danzo." (End of this chapter)