Chapter 740 Approaching

Konoha entered the alert state at the first time, and naturally did not hide it from the eyes of the kingdom of ghosts.

In other words, the Kingdom of Demons anticipated Konoha's next actions one step earlier than before. As one of the Sannin, Jiraiya also sacrificed in Yuyin, and lost one of the few high-end combat powers in the village. Even Konoha can no longer continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb and act slowly.

"Next, we have to make corresponding arrangements here. We have to go to Kirigakure for support. Otherwise, it may be a bit unrealistic to stop Nagato with Kirigakure's strength alone."

In a lounge, Shiraishi unfolded the information he had just obtained, and said to Liuli and Ayane who were also sitting on both sides of the sofa.

However, even if the war is coming, the two of them still seem to be careless and leisurely at this time. For example, there are everything such as refreshments and black tea. Maybe they want to replenish the energy needed before the war in this way.

"That is to say, we can't catch up with the big show on Konoha, can we? It's really unlucky. I wanted to enjoy it."

Ayane seemed a little regretful that she didn't have time to watch the battle between Konoha and Akatsuki. It was different from usual actions. This time, even the Kingdom of Demons couldn't stay out of it. Instead, she needed to officially join the stage instead of sitting in the audience to watch the show.

"Isn't this just right? I've wanted to try the power of the Samsara Eye for a long time. No matter how strong the opponent is, it's only at the level of the ninja **** Senju Hashirama. If it's three-on-one, our side has a better chance of winning."

Liu Li has already made the mental awareness to fight with all her strength, and she also has sufficient confidence in winning this battle.

"Maybe."

Different from Liuli, Shiraishi is still extremely wary, and attaches great importance to this battle.

In any case, it is too risky for Akatsuki to collect more than half of the tail beasts. Even though the rest of the Tailed Beasts are not as powerful as the Nine-Tails, it is calculated based on the amount of pure chakra. In fact, each Tailed Beast has its own unique skills, or their Chakra and Ten-Tails body fusion will produce abnormal changes that even the Kingdom of Demons cannot predict... After all, these Tailed Beasts are all branches of the Ten-Tails. Shiraishi has never dared to be careless about this kind of creature that transcends common sense.

"All in all, I have already arranged the water dragon **** in the sea area near Kirigakure in advance, and prepared a large amount of chakra for the three of us to reverse the psychic. Next, we only need to wait for Yagura's signal, and the water dragon **** will call us to fight. Wait here with peace of mind."

While talking, Shiraishi looked out of the window. From this position, he could just point in the direction of Kirigakure.

"Naruto, please stop."

Naruto, who was practicing Tailed Beast Chakra in the practice field, suddenly heard Tianzang calling him to stop, he couldn't help but stop what he was doing, stared at him suspiciously, and blinked.

"What's the matter, Captain Yamato? Did something happen?"

Tenzo nodded and said, "Just now, Anbu came over and told us to go to Hokage's office. It seems that Hokage-sama summoned us for something."

"Grandma Tsunade? At this time?"

The expression on Naruto's face seemed even more confused.

"Is there any task for our seventh class?"

"I don't know about that. In short, let's go to Hokage-sama first. We are summoned suddenly at this time, probably because there is something important to say."

Tianzang also felt a little confused about the fact that Tsunade suddenly summoned himself and Naruto, but he just suppressed his curiosity. After seeing Tsunade in the past, he would naturally understand the cause and effect of it.

"I see, let's go there."

Naruto nodded in agreement. Although the matter of cultivation is more important, Tsunade will not interrupt his practice for no reason. Something must have happened that made him have to go there.

About five minutes later, Naruto followed Tianzang to the office where Hokage was located. After opening the door, he found that the other two members of Class 7, Sai and Honoko, had arrived here ahead of time. In addition, Lu Jiu, the Jonin squad leader, is also on standby here, and the atmosphere is a bit serious, making people speechless.

Such a lineup made Naruto and Tianzang a little confused.

"Why are you all here?"

Naruto is a little unclear.

Sai shook his head, also not quite understanding what happened, and needed to call the seventh squad.

"Master Naruto, Naruto-senpai and Captain Yamato have arrived, now you can explain directly."

As the only female Hinoko in the seventh class, she asked Tsunade directly what happened.

However, Tsunade just stared at them without saying a word.

Her appearance made people feel inexplicable for a while.

"That's right, Granny Tsunade, what happened to order our seventh class to come over suddenly?"

Naruto had no choice but to step forward and ask, Tsunade's appearance really made people curious. In his eyes, Tsunade has always been a straightforward person, and this is the first time he has seen such a hesitant look.

"Hoo..."

Tsunade exhaled lightly, and was about to speak when Lu Jiu volunteered to stand up and said:

"Master Hokage, let me explain this matter."

Tsunade nodded silently, agreeing to let Shikajiu explain the matter.

"Uncle Lu Jiu, what happened to all of you all of a sudden?"

Watching the interaction between Tsunade and Shikahisa, Naruto's face became even more strange.

"It's nothing, it's just that not long ago, a piece of news came back from the Kingdom of Rain, and we think that you should let Naruto know."

Lu Jiu took a deep breath, staring straight at Naruto.

"The Land of Rain?"

Naruto blinked.

"Well, you also know that the current situation there is a little unstable. We suspect that that place is related to the organization that captured the tailed beast. So regarding that country, Konoha has done a lot of investigations recently, and as one of the Konoha Sannin, Jiraiysama has also joined this investigation."

"The lecherous fairy..."

Naruto was stunned.

"Yes, but unlike most Konoha ninjas, Jiraiysama didn't want to be burdensome, so he chose to act alone, which is his usual style. Then he made a heroic sacrifice after sneaking into the rain hidden alone..."

Finally, Lu Jiu told the news directly.

After all, you can't hide it. Compared with covering it up, it's better to speak clearly at once.

"What?"

It may be that the window was opened in the office, which caused the wind in the room to be a bit loud, so that Naruto couldn't hear Lu Jiu's words clearly, so he just froze in place, his mind went blank.

"Uncle Lu Jiu, what are you talking about? You said that the lecherous fairy..."

"It's hard to believe, but it's true. Master Jiraiya died. Before he died, he only left Konoha with some information about the enemy."

Lu Jiu said with a blank face.

"Are you kidding, why did it suddenly"

Naruto's emotions were a little agitated, and he couldn't accept it for a while.

"Naruto, calm down, don't make a scene here!"

Tianzang pressed Naruto's shoulder hard to calm down his over-excited emotions.

"Is it time to calm down? The lecherous fairy has already..."

Looking at Tianzang's serious expression, Naruto suddenly fell silent, clenched his fists quietly, his eyes were blank, and he was a little at a loss.

In any case, Zilai is also one of his guides. Although the other party is indeed a little confused in some places, but suddenly sacrificing this point...is unacceptable to him.

It was so sudden that he was unprepared, and the opponent died on the battlefield.

Sai and Hinoko on the side couldn't help being silent, they didn't know how to comfort Naruto about this kind of thing.

They have also heard about the relationship between Naruto and Jiraiya. They are also in a hurry because of Jiraiya's sudden sacrifice.

The sacrifice of one of the three ninjas is not an understatement to Konoha, it is a trivial matter that has been exposed, but it needs to be dealt with solemnly.

"Sorry, I know that he won't listen to advice at all, and always likes to take risks alone. If he could have discovered this earlier, maybe he would not..."

Tsunade lowered his head with a gloomy expression.

For Jiraiya's death, she blamed herself a little.

If her attitude had been tougher before Jiraiya joined the investigation team, perhaps this tragedy could have been avoided.

"Hokage-sama, this has nothing to do with you. It can only be said that Jiraiysama is too confident in himself, but doesn't know enough about the enemy...His mentality is easy to be caught by others, which puts him in crisis."

Shikahisa excused Tsunade.

In his opinion, Jiraiya's behavior, wanting to solve the problem alone at this time, is somewhat childish.

"Uncle Lu Jiu, what are you talking about all of a sudden? The lecherous fairy is dead, don't you feel anything?"

Hearing Lu Jiu's words, Naruto was a little angry, feeling that the other party's reaction was too indifferent.

Shikahisa still remained expressionless and said: "As far as ninjas are concerned, Jiraiysama is just paying for his own willfulness. No matter how good a ninja is, as long as he is careless, he may lose his life on the battlefield. In other words, this is the result of his own fault. If you also hold this mentality and participate in the next battle, Naruto, you will be the next to die."

"You, what are you talking about?"

Naruto was a little annoyed at the indifferent response from the other party, and his voice couldn't help but become a little stern.

"I'm not talking nonsense. This is a very common thing in the ninja world. Mentality and belief are also part of a ninja's strength. Guys with naive ideas cannot become Hokage. Now, instead of mourning the death of the deceased, we should think of a way to avenge Master Jiraiya. The enemy may come to attack Konoha at any time."

"Attack on Konoha? What's going on?"

Naruto was taken aback.

"Although Jiraiysama sacrificed himself in Ugakure, he still passed on part of the information in the end. If I were to kill Jiraiysama's enemy, then I would take the lead in launching the attack before Konoha had done his intelligence work. To be honest, Konoha's current preparations are very hasty, and it will take time to mobilize a large force to attack Ugakure. Not much power."

The main reason is that Jiraiya's sacrifice happened too suddenly.

They also planned to use the mission to pry open the door of Yuyin, but Jiraiya directly confirmed the problem of Yuyin, and gave some confidential information that they had never known before, which made Konoha a little bit at a loss.

Although they did make preventive preparations at the border at the beginning, they did not realize how rough those preparations were until they were confirmed. If you act rashly, you may fall into the enemy's trap.

Therefore, it is necessary to get in touch with the rest of the villages as soon as possible, and then rush into Yuyin in one go to solve the root of the problem.

As for Konoha, it is necessary to prevent the enemy from launching a surprise attack with a small group of troops, and protect Kyuubi to the death, so that it cannot be taken away by the enemy.

"So, now there is a more important arrangement than the sacrifice of Jiraiysama. Naruto, let's put it this way, the opponent is a powerful ninja who can push Jiraiysama into a corner. If the opponent really plans to attack Konoha, then there may be few ninjas among Konoha who can stop the opponent, and you are one of the few who can stop the opponent. We need your power."

Lu Jiu said so.

Although it is also possible to use the method of encircling and annihilating large forces to destroy the enemy, but in that case, not only will it be troublesome to mobilize, but it may also cause a lot of sacrifice.

The best way to deal with powerful ninjas is to send equally powerful ninjas to stop them.

After losing Jiraiya, there are not many top ninjas that Konoha can produce.

In such a stretched situation, even though Naruto's personality is a bit naive, Lu Jiu doesn't care so much anymore, let's get over the immediate difficulties first.

Looking at Lu Jiu's extremely serious eyes, Naruto realized the seriousness of the problem now, so he tried his best to suppress the anger and sadness in his heart, and let out a heavy breath.

"I see, Uncle Lujiu, just leave this task to me."

Konoha is already in combat readiness.

All departments are running silently.

In particular, the intelligence department started a series of data analysis based on the information left by Jiraiya, hoping to find out more information about the enemy.

"I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen suddenly. The leader of this organization called 'Akatsuki' turned out to be an orphan who was taken in by Master Jiraiya in the Land of Rain, and he also has the legendary eye of reincarnation. These are all big problems."

In the reference room of the Konoha Intelligence Department, Shikamaru met his father Shikahisa here, and talked to him about the organization.

Because of Jiraiya's problem, the fuse between Konoha and the Land of Rain was directly ignited, making Konoha now in a state of desperation.

Even if the effectiveness of each department starts to operate, it is still hard to say to what extent it will eventually reach.

"That's right, and I didn't expect that the leader of Yuyin, Payne, is just a puppet controlled by the other party, or a puppet made by the former leader of Yuyin, Sanjiao Hanzo."

Lu Jiu held the copy of the information and let out a sigh of emotion.

"There seems to be a lot of errors in the previous analysis of Payne. However, in this way, it can also be explained clearly why the leader of Payne has such a powerful murderous aura. If this kind of puppetry is similar to the human puppet of the red sand scorpion, it probably inherited all the power of the deceased... Well, it seems to be stated in the information."

Jiraiya's sacrifice also alarmed the roots.

Shikamaru also intends to focus on investigating and analyzing the process of this matter in his own way.

Lu Jiu nodded, and then pointed to the last point in the information.

"But compared to the previous ones, what do you think about this thing called 'Infinite Tsukiyomi'? The purpose of this organization called 'Akatsuki' is to collect tailed beasts, and then launch this large-scale illusion to control humans."

"It's a bit of nonsense." Shikamaru glanced at the information lightly and gave his own evaluation, but then changed the subject: "However, if the information is correct, then there is a connection between Tailed Beast and 'Infinity Moon Reading'. However, I can't imagine that there is a magic formula in this world that can envelop all human beings in illusion."

Speaking of the last, Shikamaru shook his head, skeptical about the last piece of information.

If such a power really exists in the world, it means that it is a power that completely surpasses the power of the ninja god.

It can be called the end of mankind.

"Regarding this point, we really need to verify it. In addition, we also need to investigate some ancient documents about tailed beasts. At first we just thought that this organization collected tailed beasts for the powerful chakra of tailed beasts. But if Akatsuki's purpose is more than that, tailed beasts have other dangerous uses... Things will be a little tricky."

"It's hard to look up these materials. They are still ancient documents. You must know that the history of the existence of tailed beasts is far longer than that of Konoha and the Kingdom of Fire. If you insist on going back, it may go back to the era of thousands of years ago."

As for the era before the millennium, most of the current literature is intermittent and not fully recorded.

Shikamaru doesn't think that anything useful can be found from the investigation.

"Even if it's difficult, we have to investigate it. Martial law has begun inside and outside the village. We must make preparations before the enemy moves. If Akatsuki insists on biting the tailed beast, it is estimated that their people are already on the way to Konoha."

Shikahisa's words made Shikamaru a little silent.

"In addition, Naruto also needs to do a good job of appeasement. He will be the main force of the village next, so there must be no accidents. Let him follow you for the time being, and stay here in the reference room together, so as not to let him think wildly there and disrupt my deployment."

Lu Jiu made a decision on this matter.

Shikamaru nodded and did not refuse.

A big river runs across the north and south. The banks of the river are dense jungles, lush and green. The dazzling sunlight from the sky can only leave tiny spots of light in the open space of the jungle.

The atmosphere in the forest was quiet and scary. The poisonous insects and beasts that were wandering here seemed to have sensed the danger in advance, and disappeared from this place without a trace.

I don't know how long it has been in such a peaceful forest scene. I can only hear the sound of swishing, one after another, figures stepping on the branches and flying in mid-air.

A group of six people, each wearing a red cloud coat with a black background.

The leader had long light yellow hair on his head, his face was as stiff and white as a corpse, with little blood, and his emotionless eyes did not conceal his cruelty and cold blood.

Heavenly Way Payne.

The other five people who followed him were exactly the other five of Payne.

The way of Shura shown in the image of a bald head.

Human Road with long hair.

The animal way of maintaining the body of a girl.

The slightly plump Hungry Ghost Road.

and Hell Road with the most serious face, strong figure, and broken hair.

As the six puppets made by Nagato with the eyes of reincarnation, each of them has a powerful force that ordinary ninjas cannot match, and because it is a puppet made of corpses, the produced Payne does not have such a thing as pain perception, let alone fear. They were born, and the meaning of their existence is to collect tailed beasts and become cold-blooded weapons for killing and destroying.

As Liudao progressed, it was less than tens of kilometers away from Muye Village.

This journey, for Liudao, can be said to be close at hand.

Just as Liu Dao was about to advance further, the land ahead suddenly squirmed, and Hei Jue and Bai Jue emerged from it, blocking Liu Dao's way.

The way of heaven stopped first, and then the other five ways stopped, and it was clear at a glance that the way of heaven was the main one.

Seeing Liu Dao stop, Hei Jue reported: "Master Nagato, the signal tower of the Land of Fire has been set up, and the next battle will allow Payne to exert 100% of their strength."

"Thanks for your hard work. How is the tail beast?"

A hoarse and old voice came from Tiandao's mouth.

"Nine-Tails Jinchuriki is still in Konoha and hasn't left. However, starting this morning, for some reason on Konoha's side, there has been a sudden increase in the number of patrols going out, and Anbu's operations have also become more frequent. Give me a little more time, and I can investigate the matter clearly."

Heijue thinks that Konoha's temporary actions are a bit strange. In order to ensure that the plan is foolproof, he feels that it is necessary to investigate and then attack Konoha.

"No need, later changes will happen. It's nothing more than Chiba Shiraishi doing something good again. You just need to protect the signal tower. No matter what action Konoha takes, we only need to get Kyuubi. There is no need to waste time in this kind of place."

Tiandao's tone was very calm, without any fluctuations.

"Yes, I see, then I wish you the best of luck."

Heijue heard the arrangement of heaven, and stopped dissuading him. He took the initiative to make way with Baijue, and let the road leading to Konoha open in front of Liudao.

(end of this chapter)