Konoha.

It has been 57 years since Hashirama Senju founded Konoha.

Konoha has always been the most powerful ninja village in the ninja world. No enemy of any ninja village has successfully advanced to the gate of Konoha. However, today, the Fourth Mizukage Karuta Yagura left a record.

Many people gathered outside the gate of Konoha Village, but the scene was very quiet and no one made a sound.

In the center of the crowd, the young-looking Fourth Mizukage Karuta Yagura and the elderly Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen were confronting each other, while on their sides there were a group of Uchiha who were eyeing them covetously.

The three parties reached a strange balance.

Uchiha, Yagura Karatachi, and Hiruzen Sarutobi all had their own plans in mind.

Although Karatachi Yagura was controlled by Obito's illusion, it does not mean that he has no brain. Illusion control only distorts his inner thoughts, not formatting his thinking.

Karajima Yagura also didn't want to face the joint attack of Uchiha and Sarutobi Hiruzen, so he wanted Sarutobi Hiruzen to stand by and watch first.

It is obvious that Sarutobi Hiruzen cannot agree to this condition. Once he joins forces with the Mizukage, he will become a traitor to the village. When he summons the Senju brothers, it is hard to say who he will fight against.

But he was unwilling to let Sarutobi Hiruzen fight to the death with Karatachi Yagura for Uchiha, so he was extremely embarrassed now.

The Mangekyō Uchiha were all Kage-level, but facing the super-Kage-level Sarutobi Hiruzen and Karatachi Yagura, they would suffer heavy casualties regardless of winning or losing. The death of every Uchiha was something they could not accept.

So the Uchiha waited, waiting for the clan to come to their aid.

At this time,
Mei Terumi, who had been standing behind the Third Mizukage, Karutagi Yagura, like a guard, came out and said, "Mizukage-sama! I'll leave Sarutobi Hiruzen to my subordinates. Just focus on dealing with the Uchiha!"

When these words were spoken, all the ninjas present were stunned.

I don't understand why Mei Terumi would take the initiative to participate in such a horrific battle at this time.

All the Mist Shadow ninjas showed puzzled expressions after Mei Terumi came out.

The strength that Mei Terumi usually displayed in the Mist Shadow was just that of an ordinary Shadow, so in their opinion, it was not a wise choice to stand out now.

Sarutobi Hiruzen naturally noticed the expressions of the Mist Shadow Ninjas. For a moment, he thought that Mei Terumi's strength was not that good, and he felt unhappy about being underestimated.

"【Water Style: Water Array Pillar】"

Mei Terumi started with a [Water Array Pillar] that almost every Mist Shadow Jounin has. Most ninjas use ninjutsu to control water in nature, such as Kakashi and Zabuza. At this moment, Mei Terumi directly spit out a stream of water from her mouth, forming a huge water ball in the air like a meteorite, which fell forward.

"This young man..." Sarutobi Hiruzen's pupils widened. He was shocked by the strength of Mei Terumi. Mei Terumi was only using ordinary water-style ninjutsu, but the scale of this ninjutsu was so large that Sarutobi Hiruzen even doubted whether Mei Terumi was the Jinchūriki of the Six-Tails.

"It seems that this is the future of the Hidden Mist Village, but unfortunately it is not enough..." Sarutobi Hiruzen was stunned for a moment, then immediately formed seals with his hands and pressed them on the ground. Above the green Konoha Avenue, a hundred-foot-high stone wall rose from the ground.

"boom!"

The huge water ball hit the stone wall and exploded immediately, turning into a torrent that spread in all directions.

"Run away! This is not a battle we can intervene in."

"Go!" Konoha's senior ninja Gekko Gale shouted loudly, calling out to the Konoha ninjas who didn't respond and quickly retreated.

Those ninjas who didn't react in time were hit by the flooding waves, causing their internal organs to rupture and vomiting blood. Some were even knocked unconscious on the spot and sank into the water, drowning.

"【Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet】"

After performing one ninjutsu, Mei Terumi immediately activated the second ninjutsu. The water flow created by the [Water Array Pillar] was about to disperse, but was gathered again by Mei Terumi, forming six huge water dragons, which attacked Sarutobi Hiruzen who was standing on the hundred-meter-high stone wall.

"I didn't expect that the Mist Shadow actually has such an outstanding young man." Sarutobi Hiruzen said with emotion. He thought of the younger generation of ninjas in the village. In terms of chakra level, they were undoubtedly suppressed by Mei Terumi.

Although Sarutobi Hiruzen was sighing with emotion, his hands were not idle. He swung the Ruyi Stick that the monkey demon had transformed into a giant a few times quickly, and the six ferocious water dragons were shattered in an instant.

But before Sarutobi Hiruzen could relax, Mei Terumi on the ground completed a new ninjutsu.

"【Water Style: Mist Hidden Technique】"

A large amount of fog spewed out from Terumi Mei's mouth. The fog spread extremely quickly, covering the battlefield outside Mu'er in less than a breath.

Mei Terumi is famous for her silent killing skills, but her attainments in the [Mist Hidden Technique] even surpass those of the demon Zabuza. The [Mist Hidden Technique] she performs can even conceal the time of the Rinnegan.

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Karatachi Yagura looked towards the area covered with thick fog, and a hint of suspicion flashed in his eyes. Although he knew that Mei Terumi had the strength of a Kage, he didn't understand why Mei Terumi would take the initiative to join the battle today.

"Forget it! We'll deal with this matter when we get back."

"I'll take care of the Uchiha first."

Thinking of this, Karutagi Yagura no longer paid attention to the area where Mei Terumi and Sarutobi Hiruzen were, and started to use the [Water Dragon Bullet] technique in the direction of Uchiha.

There is no strict level division of power in the ninjutsu of this world. The power of their ninjutsu is often defined by the amount of chakra invested. Levels such as A and B are just the difficulty of learning the ninjutsu.

but,

The higher the level of the ninjutsu, the more difficult it is to solve.

Yagura Karajima is the Three-Tails Jinchuriki. Even if he is only using ordinary water-based ninjutsu, the power and momentum of that ninjutsu are extremely astonishing. A ten-meter-thick water dragon is crushing towards the Uchiha group with great force.

At this moment, the Sharingan Magatama in the eyes of an Uchiha quickly rotated and turned into the shape of a kaleidoscope: "Break!"

His gaze turned into the most invisible blade, and the huge water dragon was dismembered in the air in an instant, and the ninjutsu model that Karatachi Yagura cast on the water flow disappeared.

"Cut off the flow! Well done." Uchiha Fangshui, whose name was casually given, said happily, and then he also activated his own eye technique. One eye of his Sharingan controlled the water flow, and the other eye turned him into the water flow.

His eye jutsu is somewhat similar to Obito's ability, except that Obito's eye jutsu is space-based, while his water-releasing eye jutsu is just an ordinary water-based one.

Whether it is the eye technique of letting water go or Obito's eye technique, it is actually very useless for the ordinary Uchiha Mangekyō.

Whether he is hollowing out or elementalizing, with limited pupil power, his power is comparable to Uchiha Itachi's Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu, which are tasteless and a pity to discard.

He released water and activated the eye technique, using the water flow created by Karuta Yagura to attack Karuta Yagura in the opposite direction.

The water turned into hundreds of chains and coiled around Karuji Yagura.

Just when Fangshui was full of confidence in his move, Uchiha Tiehuo behind him suddenly changed his expression: "Be careful!"

The next moment Fang Shui realized that Karutagi Yagura's [Water Dragon Bullet] was just to block their sight. During the time when they could not see, a [Tailed Beast Ball] was condensed.

Facing the attacking Tailed Beast Ball, they were not the Third Hokage, and they did not have any powerful weapons in their hands. They could not pull the Tailed Beast Ball away. Just when they were about to use [Susanoo] to resist, Uchiha Tiehuo's eyes were bleeding and tears flowed. He used the space pupil technique to transfer the Tailed Beast Ball to another place.

"Iron Fire!" Uchiha Shoushao was shocked.

Everyone looked in the direction of Tiehuo, and their expressions suddenly changed. They focused their attention on the Tailed Beast Ball and ignored the water flow from the Water Dragon Bomb that had already covered their calves.

The Fourth Mizukage performed a special water-style ninjutsu, quietly approached them, appeared behind Uchiha Tetsuka, and then brought down a palm.

But at the moment when the Fourth Mizukage's palm lightly touched the corner of Tiehuo's clothes, he felt a huge force as heavy as a thousand pounds exerted on his body, causing Karatachi Yagura to lose his balance, his knees bent, and half-kneeling on the ground.

Uchiha Tetsuka also rolled over several times and moved away from the area where Karatachi Yagura was.

Uchiha Fangshui walked to Tiehuo's side, and with a ninja sword in his hand, he chopped at the coral reefs that were constantly growing on Tiehuo's body, preventing Tiehuo from being completely sealed by the coral reefs.

"gravity?"

"Uchiha's abilities are so weird and changeable." Gojira Yagura muttered to himself in surprise, and immediately activated the Tailed Beast Mode to offset the gravity.

Once again fighting with the 10 Mangekyō Uchiha in front of him.

When a Mangekyō Uchiha encounters most Jinchūriki, even an ordinary Mangekyō would only require two Uchiha to deploy at the same time to take him down.

But for Karuta Yagura, let alone the two Uchiha, even the 2 Uchiha in front of him could not defeat Karuta Yagura.

It is true that Karutagi Yagura is the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, but his strength is not entirely due to relying on the Three-Tails Isobu.

Before becoming the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, Karatachi Yagura was already the Fourth Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Village. His strength was well-deserved super-kage level.

Among the 9 Jinchuriki, he was unable to defeat the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Killer Bee and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki Uzumaki Naruto. The other Tailed Beast Jinchuriki were no match for him.

It is easy for people to think that Yagura Karatachi is the weakest Mizukage and not very powerful, because Uchiha Obito can control him with just a glance.

but,

When you know how powerful the half-Yang Nine-Tails is in the later stage, and think about the Nine-Tails Rebellion in Konoha, when Obito controlled the complete Nine-Tails with a single-eye Mangekyō, you can understand that Karatachi Yagura's defeat was understandable.

Tetsuka and the other nine Mangekyō Uchiha fought and retreated with Karutagi Yagura, and the fight was extremely difficult.

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Outside Konoha Village, on a high mountain cliff.

"gravity?"

"The same ability as Uchiha Setsuna." Uchiha Obito said to himself.

Karajima Yagura successfully forced Uchiha to use his Mangekyō Kyoto, and also allowed Uchiha Obito to gain the power of those 10 Uchiha eye techniques.

But when he saw Uchiha Shushao's ability, a look of suspicion flashed in his eyes.

When the clan was exterminated overnight, Wang Ming used the eye technique of controlling gravity.

“Isn’t the kaleidoscope the eye of the soul’s portraiture?”

“The pattern of each kaleidoscope is different, hence the name kaleidoscope.”

"Why do Tesho and Old Man Setsuna use the same eye technique?" Uchiha Obito turned and asked Black Zetsu.

Black Zetsu said perfunctorily, "There's nothing strange about it. After all, the Uchiha are of the same bloodline, so it's normal for their abilities to overlap occasionally."

"Normal?" Obito muttered, then shook his head.

"I don't think this is a coincidence. This old ghost must have some secret."

"We must force out the old ghost Setsuna's abilities today."

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The area is covered with thick white fog.

The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen performed a wind-style ninjutsu to disperse the fog in a ten-foot area around him, allowing him to see the figure of Mei Terumi again.

"You should be the next generation of Mizukage trained by Karatachi Yagura!"

"It is indeed outstanding." said Sarutobi Hiruzen.

A hint of contempt flashed in Mei Terumi's eyes. Successor?
If she hadn't been so good at hiding, she would have been killed by Chu Li. This time, Mei Terumi exposed her strength just to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

Mei Terumi took the initiative to take over the powerful enemy of the Third Hokage, allowing Yagura Karatachi to fight the Uchiha without worry.

Mei Terumi is well aware of the terrifying strength of Yagura Karutagi. Those 10 Mangekyō Uchiha are definitely no match for Yagura Karutagi. However, according to the information received by Kirikage, the Uchiha have more than 10 Mangekyō.

Mei Terumi thought to herself, "Karotachi Yagura's strength should make it easy for him to kill a few Uchiha. After he kills a few Uchiha, the great elder Uchiha Setsuna, who is known as the pillar of the Uchiha clan, should be unable to sit still and jump out."

"With a super-kage-level Uchiha and multiple Uchiha Mangekyō, Karatachi Yagura will definitely die."

Thinking of this, the blood in Mei Terumi's body began to boil. Almost 9% of the people in Mist Shadow Village hoped that Karatachi Yagura would die. Only in this way could the blood mist policy end.

Terumi was thinking about defeating Karatachi Yagura, but he didn't have enough confidence that he could defeat him.

Just when Mei Terumi was happy that the blood mist of the Mist Shadow was about to dissipate, the voice of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen was heard.

"You are excellent, even better than any ninja twice as young as me in Konoha."

"It's a pity that you are a ninja from an enemy country. I can only let your genius die here." The third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen said with murderous eyes.

Hearing this, Mei Terumi smiled mockingly: "Haha!!"

"You power-hungry old man, put away your disgusting attitude! You didn't hesitate to attack the genius of your own village, let alone me, a ninja from the enemy village?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen's face turned dark and his eyes became even more murderous.

Mei Terumi didn't care about Sarutobi Hiruzen's murderous intent at all, and smiled calmly: "Do you know why I use the Mist Shadow Technique?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen was stunned.

Mei Terumi said, "Old man! I'm going to show you my true abilities."

"【Melting Escape: Dissolving Monsters】" (End of this chapter)