The northern seas of the Land of Earth.

Kumogakure's offensive was extremely fierce. When the war first started, it had already captured several islands in the northern waters of Earth Kingdom. Using several islands as temporary bases, it continued to harass and attack the borders of Earth Kingdom.

The battle with Kumogakure has lasted for several months. Under the leadership of the Third Tsuchikage Onoki, Iwagakure only used a defensive posture to resist Kumogakure's attack.

After all, fighting Kumogakure in the sea area would be very detrimental to Iwagakure.

Because of the unique style of Iwagakure Village, the ninjas in the village mainly practice earth escape ninjutsu. Taking advantage of the terrain of the earth, in previous ninja wars, there have been many examples of defeating more with less. However, once the foothold is lost,

With the advantage of the earth, the advantage of earth escape will plummet, and the strength of the Iwagakure ninja will also decline very seriously.

Coupled with the characteristic of Thunder Release that restrains Earth Release, a head-on confrontation with the Kumogakure ninja will undoubtedly put Iwagakure into a dilemma.

For this reason, the Third Tsuchikage Onoki did not advocate taking the initiative to attack Kumogakure. Instead, he ordered the Iwagakure jounin and chuunin who were proficient in earth escape to build a fortress on the northern coastline using earth escape ninjutsu to use large-scale earth escape.

The attack method is mainly to defeat the Kumogakure ninja.

Under this situation, Iwagakure cannot end the battle here immediately, and similarly, Kumogakure's main force cannot invade the territory of the Land of Earth.

In the camp of Iwagakure.

The Third Tsuchikage Onoki was sitting in the largest tent, with a letter sent by Kumogakure in front of him.

Onoki picked up the letter, pondered for a moment, and said to the Iwagakure jounin sitting at the conference table: "Kumogakure wants to negotiate and hopes that our side can return the body of the Third Raikage and the Six Paths

Ninja Tool, they will immediately end their entanglement with Iwagakure."

"However, let's not forget that we have not completely solved the secret of the Third Raikage's body. Moreover, when we first obtained the body of the Third Raikage, we did not find any so-called Six Paths Ninja Tools."

An Iwagakure jounin said.

His words aroused the recognition of the others, and another jounin also said: "Indeed. We besieged the Third Raikage that day, only got his body, and did not see any six-path ninja tools. And there were only a few ninja tools.

It was a siege against the Third Raikage, and we also paid a heavy price, so how can we just expose it with just one sentence?"

"That's right, it's not that easy to get a white wolf with nothing. Others are afraid of them, Kumogakure, but we Iwagakure are not afraid of making trouble. If you want to get the body of the Third Raikage back, you must compensate and apologize according to our rules. After all,

Ultimately, the cause of this incident was their provocation first."

If he only gave the concession of being willing to stop the war and wanted to get back the body of the Third Raikage, then this kind of concession would undoubtedly add the label of 'timid and fearful' to outsiders in the eyes of outsiders.

Not only that, Iwagakure also needed a reasonable explanation from Kumogakure for the large amount of resources and ninjas it lost in this war.

If they cannot give a satisfactory answer, they will never return the body of the Third Raikage.

The losses lost to Iwagakure were recovered from the corpses of the three great Raikages.

After all, it is the body of the Raikage, one of the Five Kages, and many secrets can be deciphered from it. Especially since the third generation Raikage still retained the integrity of the corpse when he died, this corpse becomes even more precious.

"Although it is my original intention to stop the war with Kumogakure. But to cover up my faults so lightly would be too disrespectful to Iwagakure."

Onoki snorted softly.

Although it was a good thing to end the war with Kumogakure now, Kumogakure did not mention a word about compensation in the letter. Instead, he avoided the important and covered up his despicable invasion behavior, which made Onoki feel angry.

Kumogakure's military strength has always been among the best among the five major countries, second only to the strongest Konoha ninja village. But it is far from qualified to force Iwagakure to make concessions that would harm his own interests.

"But this way, we won't be able to participate in the battlefield in the Land of Rain. I'm afraid that Sunagakure will be alone there."

An Iwagakure jounin said.

Now that Iwagakure and Sunagakure have formed an alliance, if Sunagakure can invade the Country of Fire in March this year, then the situation on the battlefield in the Country of Grass will also change dramatically.

Konoha's Jiraiya troops must retreat back to the Land of Fire. If they do not retreat, they will encounter a double flanking attack by Iwagakure and Sunagakure, resulting in the complete annihilation of Konoha's troops in the Land of Grass.

Retreating back to the Country of Fire is tantamount to opening the door to the Country of Fire to Sunagakure and Iwagakure, allowing Sunagakure and their Iwagakure to achieve the biggest strategic goal of launching the war.

However, now that Kumogakure is eyeing the northern waters of Earth Country, Iwagakure must divide the main force in the village into two, one part to fight the Konoha ninjas, and the other part to contain Kumogakure's troops. Otherwise, not only will it be impossible to invade the Land of Fire,

strategic goals, even their own land will be trampled and ravaged by foreign ninjas, and the situation will be seriously unfavorable to Iwagakure.

"But there is nothing we can do. We are now being restrained here by Kumogakure. And that Hanzo seems to be planning to lead Kumogakure to fight against Sunagakure. The situation on the battlefield is really changing."

"The rest of Amegakure are nothing to worry about. Hanzo is the real threat to the change in the situation in the Land of Rain. What on earth is Chiyo of Sunagakure doing? Doesn't it mean that everything has been arranged? At this time, Hanzo is involved, and the original

There is no way the plan can be implemented smoothly now!"

An older Iwagakure jounin clenched his fists, his tone full of dissatisfaction with Chiyo, Sunagakure's senior advisor.

"According to the message from Sunagakure, it seems that it is a carefully designed conspiracy by Konoha to use Hanzo's power to confuse the situation in the Land of Rain."

"Hanzo is not a brainless person, he is not the kind of person who is easily fooled. Now that he is going to war with Sunagakure, Chiyo must have touched his bottom line, otherwise he would not have made such an unwise move."

Seeing the helpless and angry expressions on the faces of many Jonin, Onoki also knew the aggrievedness and annoyance in their hearts.

The sudden intervention of Kumogakure and Amegakure completely disrupted the joint layout of Iwagakure and Sunagakure, resulting in the complete failure of this year's plan to invade the Land of Fire. It is inevitable that they will blame Sunagakure in their hearts for unnecessary actions.

Ohnoki coughed and said to the Iwagakure jounin who were doing this: "The matter has come to this, and we have no choice but to..."

Before Onoki finished speaking, the tent curtain was suddenly blown up by the wind, and a figure silently avoided the guards outside and appeared in the field of vision of Onoki and other Iwagakure ninjas.

"You seem to be very distressed, Lord Tsuchikage. How are you doing? Do you want me to help?"

The figure stood still, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and smiled at Ohnoki, who was sitting firmly on the chair.

"Who are you……"

Many Iwagakure Jōnin here recognized the identity of the person at once.

The other party is a young woman with long black silky hair and pure white pupils that are quite distinctive.

This kind of eyes is the blood inheritance limit called "Byakugan", which is unique to the Hyuga clan of Konoha Ninja Village.

And now that Konoha is at war with Iwagakure, this woman cannot be a Konoha ninja.

Although he has the surname Hyuga, he has long since betrayed his clan and village, and is now an extremely dangerous S-class defector ninja in the ninja world—Hyuga Ayane.

"Humph, you came in without saying hello. Young people today really don't know what politeness is."

Ohnoki sat on a chair, very dissatisfied with Ayane's uninvited approach, but he just gave him a verbal lesson and expressed his opinions a little bit.

After all, the previous year's cooperation, due to Ayane's intervention, caused the Konoha ninjas of the Grass Country to suffer a lot. Even the root of the Ninja Darkness leadership seemed to have lost a lot of people.

For such a powerful bounty hunter, Ohnoki doesn't mind what her past identity was, as long as she is not a traitorous ninja of Iwagakure, they can cooperate.

Ayane didn't pay attention to Ohnoki's preaching tone of relying on his elders, and just looked at Ohnoki with a smile.

"I've made you dissatisfied with Your Majesty the Tsuchikage, so let me first say I'm sorry."

"Are you the only little girl? I remember that the other two members of White Fang's team also defected to Konoha. Of course, the medical ninja is not important. If Sharingan and Byakugan can temporarily serve as Iwagakure's power, then

It couldn't be better."

Ohnoki did not hide his philistine face at all, with a sinister smile on his face.

"Your Excellency Tsuchikage is really greedy. Indeed, it is true that she is stronger than me. But she is not interested in being a bounty hunter. If you want to hire her to assist Iwagakure, you can only hire her to help Mr. Tsuchikage again."

You're sorry. I remember that I should have explained this matter to the Loess Jōnin before, so it's better not to have such expectations, Tsuchikage-dono."

Ayane turned her head and thought for a moment, then said to Ohnoki.

"That's such a pity. I really want to see what the combined power of Sharingan and Byakugan looks like."

Ohnoki is really sorry for this.

The Sharingan is a blood successor with the same name as the Byakugan, and it has priority over the Byakugan in terms of offensive capabilities.

To a certain extent, these two bloodline boundaries can complement each other.

If the Sharingan and Byakugan can be brought to Iwagakure's front at the same time, it will have a greater effect on Iwagakure.

Although it was a pity that he could not win over the Sharingan ninja, with the Byakugan, he could achieve good results for Iwagakure. Therefore, Ohnoki quickly gathered his mood and began to cooperate with Ayane in the form of employment.

Ayane is no stranger to cooperating with Iwagakure. After all, this is not the first time they have cooperated. The employment contract has not changed from before, but the work she is asked to complete has become more difficult. Of course, with the

As the difficulty of the work increases, the deposit and remuneration provided to her by Iwagakure will also increase accordingly.

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"Damn Tsuchikage! How shameless to use the traitorous ninja to provoke!"

At the conference table at the Kumogakure camp, a dark-skinned man was extremely angry and used his fists to punch a big hole in the conference table.

The muscles wrapped in dark skin began to flash with dense electric light, and the hair stood up and spread slightly outward.

The Kumogakure Jōnin who witnessed this scene were shocked that he possessed such powerful chakra.

"Lord Raikage, please calm down."

In the conference room made of rock, the Kumogakure jounin, who was about thirty years old, wore a one-eye patch and spoke calmly to persuade the angry Kumogakure ninja.

He is now the acting Raikage of Cloud Hidden Village.

Long before the third generation Raikage left for the Land of Earth, a high-level meeting had been held to determine the candidate for the fourth generation Raikage.

Therefore, Kumogakure did not engage in cruel internal fighting for the position of the fourth Raikage due to the sacrifice of the third generation Raikage.

This young man, who looks to be no more than thirty years old, is the fourth Raikage of Kumogakure. He is also the son of the deceased Third Raikage. His attainments in Thunder Release Ninja Taijutsu are much higher than those of his father, the Third Raikage.

Raikage was not bad at all when he was young.

"How does this make me calm down? As one of the Five Kages, Tsuchikage is so shameless in taking advantage of defecting ninjas. It is really unforgivable! And what is going on in Konoha? Why don't they send out hunting troops to kill the defecting ninjas as soon as possible?

Eliminate it? Konoha must be held accountable for this matter!"
To be continued...