Black Zetsu's already gloomy face now looked even uglier, like dark storm clouds filling the sky.
The reason was simple. What appeared before him was clearly the unique and mysterious energy system of Miroku, the priestess of the Land of Demons.
Clearly, the priestess had long been prepared and had already laid a trap waiting for them to walk into it.
Even more troublesome was that Uchiha clan understood Hidan's strange abilities so well.
Over there, Rengoku, still wearing Itachi's face, had already found Hidan's bloody head among the scattered body parts.
After suffering heavy damage, Hidan's condition was horrible to look at. His entire face was covered in blood, and his jaw and mouth were smashed apart as if they had been hit by a heavy hammer.
Yet even in such a miserable state, Hidan was still alive.
He widened his eyes full of violence and brutality, opening and closing his mouth as if desperately trying to say something.
Unfortunately, because his injuries were too severe, not only had he lost his throat, he could not even make a single sound.
"You're Black Zetsu, right?"
Rengoku, wearing Itachi's face, stared directly at Black Zetsu and asked.
Even though it was phrased as a question, his tone was extremely certain.
Actually, when someone managed to see through the fact that he was not the real Hiruko, Black Zetsu had already expected something like this.
After all, Hiruko himself was never good at combat. Being exposed was understandable.
But what surprised Black Zetsu was that in such a short amount of time, his true identity had already been easily exposed.
Facing Itachi's, or Rengoku's, question, Black Zetsu did not answer. He merely raised his head slightly and looked toward the distant area outside Konoha.
Then he slowly said two words, "They're here."
After that, he drilled underground and quickly escaped.
Rengoku, who had been maintaining full alertness the entire time, suddenly felt his scalp tingle. An extreme sense of danger instantly surged up inside him.
He sensed an abnormally powerful and threatening aura rapidly spreading through the sky above Konoha.
This dangerous energy had suddenly erupted at the same time from four directions around Konoha.
Facing such a sudden change, Rengoku gave up chasing Black Zetsu and tossed Hidan's head in his hand toward Shisui nearby.
"Take Hidan's head to Orochimaru! Immediately notify the other clan members to find places to hide! Also, tell Miroku to fully strengthen the barrier we set up!"
Even though Rengoku had not released his transformation, based on his unique tone and way of speaking, Shisui recognized him as Rengoku almost instantly.
Shisui did not dare delay at all. He quickly caught Hidan's head and answered, "Yes, Clan Head!"
At the same time, Rengoku looked up toward the sky above.
The originally clear sky had somehow already been covered by enormous heavy storm clouds.
Compared to the clouds created earlier by Black Zetsu's Storm Release, Storm Demon Dragon, these clouds were dozens of times larger, with faint lightning flashing within them.
Just looking at them from afar was enough to feel the terrifying power inside, as though it could destroy the world.
'What kind of Lightning Release could possess such horrifying power?'
Rengoku frowned as he thought to himself.
But clearly this was not the time to think about such things. Thoughts rapidly moved through his mind.
In just a moment, he transmitted everything he sensed through divine sense to the main body and the other clones spread around various places.
———
At the breach in the city wall, the Anbu members led by Hatake Sakumo moved through the area like ghosts.
Their movements were fast and silent. Every one of them wore an exquisite gas mask, completely hiding their faces.
Alongside them were Mitarashi Anko and Hozuki Suigetsu, equally armed from head to toe.
This area was filled with a disgusting rotten smell, and controlled corpse puppets covered the ground everywhere.
They may once have been living people, but now they had become tools of evil forces.
And the culprit behind all this, Earth Release Ultimate Creation: Dead Soil, was terrifying not only because it allowed dead users to continue functioning.
As long as this special soil remained here, the prepared corpse puppets would continuously crawl out from underground.
However, everyone knew they absolutely could not allow these terrifying toxins to spread into the inner city.
Once the poison invaded there, the losses Konoha faced would become impossible to estimate.
Although many people in the outer city had already fallen ill and the number of dead was not small, fortunately, these unfortunate people were not villagers from Konoha itself. They were only targets to rescue if there was spare ability to do so.
Even though the situation still seemed controllable, Konoha's poison experts did not relax their guard.
Chiyo and Shizune, along with the others, were racing against time to analyze this mysterious virus.
Using their superb medical skill and broad knowledge, they had already roughly identified the category of the virus in a short amount of time.
They quickly gave orders and prepared large amounts of special medicines that had already been stored beforehand.
Thanks to these timely and effective measures, more and more infected people managed to survive.
As for who the enemy was and how the battle situation had progressed, Hatake Sakumo and the others had already accurately reported the detailed information to the village leadership.
This allowed Konoha to make more precise strategic arrangements against this disaster.
———
At this moment, Rengoku's main body, stationed at the barrier team command center, was fully focused on handling various matters.
Right then, he suddenly received the synchronized information sent back by the clone. Instantly, all the information flooded into his mind like a tide.
Based on the deaths of Kazuma and the others, Rengoku immediately judged that the people capable of using such a massive Lightning Release technique were the Lightning Release Four-Man Group from the former Twelve Guardian Ninja.
He immediately raised four fingers toward Minato beside him.
"Minato, the fourth situation has appeared."
Hearing this, a serious expression immediately appeared on Minato's calm face. He slightly nodded to show he understood.
Minato did not delay, "I'll leave this place to you for now."
Before his voice even finished, his figure disappeared from the spot like a ghost.
Using the Flying Thunder God Technique, Minato returned to the core of the massive barrier personally activated by him, the Blazing Heaven Radiant Flash Flowing Blade Instant Light Soul-Locking God-Sealing World-Destroying Final Formation · Extreme · Type Zero.
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