The gears of history were always turning.
But history would always deviate because of certain accidents, causing that massive gear to shift slightly from its original course.
On Earth, there was a saying called the "butterfly effect." The most common explanation of the "butterfly effect" was that a butterfly in the tropical rainforest of the Amazon River Basin in South America could occasionally flap its wings a few times and cause a tornado in Texas in the United States two weeks later.
This was a metaphor.
But in history, this saying was so fitting!
Throughout the history of the world, many major events had been ruined by an insignificant little person or an insignificant little matter.
In the Naruto world, because of an accident, an uninvited guest had arrived.
Yoru was not as simple as a tiny butterfly.
He was a fierce tiger! A terrifying figure with the qualifications of a "king"!
His arrival had given Konoha more powerhouses, and it had also changed the fate of many people!
In the original Naruto world, first of all, during the war with the Land of Rain, Senju Senra lost an arm! Senju Meiro died in battle! The number of other high-end combat forces Konoha lost was countless.
The Senju clan suffered even more disastrous losses!
Because there was no Yoru to persuade the Senju clan, the Senju clan used all its strength to support Konoha in winning this war!
But the mid-level combat strength inside the Senju clan suffered a severe break in continuity.
Now, however, Senju Senra had already broken through to become a Kage-level powerhouse! He served as the overall commander of the right-side battlefield and played a major role in the war against Iwagakure! And because of Yoru, the Senju clan had become even more prosperous!
Second, on the Sunagakure battlefield, the original Konoha was far from this relaxed!
Chiyo's poison sample had not been so easy to obtain. Konoha had paid countless sacrifices before barely managing to acquire that poison sample.
Because of it, countless Konoha ninjas had lost their lives!
But because of Yoru, Chiyo's poison sample had been obtained very early, allowing Konoha to press down on Sunagakure Village on the battlefield. Many Konoha ninjas who should have died survived.
In the original Naruto world, at this time, Konoha's Chunin had suffered heavy losses! They had urgently mobilized a batch of Genin to enter the battlefield.
Senju Nawaki and Minato Namikaze had both stepped onto the battlefield during this period!
But now, Konoha had enough Chunin forces on the battlefield. There was no need to mobilize Genin and send them to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
Countless Konoha children who should have died had luckily survived.
It was foreseeable that Konoha's future would become even more powerful!
As for Asakura Kira, that terrifying man known as the "Sunagakure Demon Reaper," in the original Sunagakure battlefield, he had slaughtered in every direction. Even Konoha quasi-Kage powerhouses who died at his hands numbered as many as two! It was only during the final decisive battle that he was cut down by Sakumo Hatake.
Sakumo Hatake's true rise to fame had also begun from there.
But now, because Yoru had killed Asakura Kira too early and revealed terrifying potential, Sunagakure Village had been completely driven into desperation, staking all of its combat strength.
Even the Third Kazekage and the new One-Tail Jinchuriki were heading to the battlefield!
This was all of Sunagakure Village's foundation. This time, Sunagakure Village was truly going to fight Konoha with its life on the line!
Yoru's influence on the situation of the Sunagakure battlefield had caused the decisive battle between Sunagakure Village and Konoha Village, which should have taken much longer to arrive, to come early!
The decisive battle on the Land of Rain's Sunagakure battlefield was about to arrive!
And the even more intense influence was that Iwagakure Village had also grown desperate because of Yoru!
Although Chiyo had immediately suppressed the news that Yoru had killed Asakura Kira, there was no such thing as a wall that did not leak wind in this world.
Iwagakure also had quite a few reconnaissance ninjas on the battlefield where Konoha and Sunagakure were fighting.
When the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, obtained this news, he was also shaken again and again.
Never.
In all the years Onoki had lived, he had never seen such a terrifying genius as Yoru!
Yoru reminded him of a certain person.
That person was Onoki's nightmare!
Back then, his teacher, the Second Tsuchikage Mu, had taken Onoki to Konoha Village for diplomacy.
At that time, Konoha Village was terrifyingly powerful!
Konoha Village, which possessed Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, could easily destroy the world!
But on the way to Konoha, the two of them encountered Uchiha Madara!
When Mu proposed to Uchiha Madara that they hoped to form an alliance with Konoha, that godlike figure looked at them as if he were staring at two ants.
"What do you think you are? You think you're worthy of forming an alliance with me, Madara?"
Those were the words spat out by that arrogant and proud man, his tone carrying an unmatched domineering arrogance.
After that, in an instant, in the eyes of Onoki at the time, his strongest teacher, the Second Tsuchikage Mu, suffered a crushing defeat at Uchiha Madara's hands, and Onoki himself was also seriously injured.
Just as the two of them were wondering why Uchiha Madara did not kill them, that terrifying man spoke again.
"Get lost! Ants aren't even qualified to make me interested."
An extraordinary humiliation!
Whenever Onoki thought of this matter, he would grit his teeth with hatred. But it had to be said that what he felt toward Uchiha Madara in his heart was only fear!
And Yoru had actually made him see Uchiha Madara's shadow!
If Yoru were allowed to continue growing, then their Iwagakure Village might be in danger!
Thus, he ordered the overall commander of Iwagakure's frontline on the Land of Rain battlefield, Kitsuchi, to immediately prepare an offensive!
Onoki had also learned that Sunagakure Village had thrown all of its foundation onto the battlefield, so the order he gave was clear: once Konoha began fighting Sunagakure with its main combat force, Iwagakure would also launch an attack against Konoha!
If Sunagakure was defeated, then Konoha's top-tier combat forces from the Sunagakure battlefield could appear on the Iwagakure battlefield! At that time, Iwagakure would be in danger.
The tremendous killing power of Yoru's magma against Earth Release had also spread throughout the shinobi world, and most of Iwagakure Village's ninjas cultivated Earth Release!
They absolutely could not allow that monster to appear on the Iwagakure battlefield!
Before Sunagakure and Konoha decided victory or defeat, they had to defeat the Konoha troops in front of them! This was Onoki's strict order!
Onoki secretly dispatched the Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchuriki to Iwagakure's frontline. Along with them came two Kage-level powerhouses!
Other than Onoki himself, nearly all of Iwagakure's high-level combat forces had been sent to the battlefield!
Including the two Jinchuriki, Iwagakure had gathered five Kage-level forces on the frontline battlefield!
Meanwhile, on Konoha's side of the Iwagakure battlefield, there were only two Kage-level powerhouses.
They were Senju Senra and Senju Takuya!
Senju Takuya was a powerhouse from the generation before Senju Senra. It could be said that the Senju clan had also begun to reveal its foundation.
As for Onoki himself, he did not dare head to the frontline lightly.
If he appeared on the battlefield, then the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was known as the Ninja Hero, would absolutely appear on the Iwagakure battlefield as well!
Moreover, Konoha possessed the Jinchuriki of the most terrifying Tailed Beast, the Nine-Tails, and that Jinchuriki had still not appeared on the battlefield!
At that time, the situation of the battle might become impossible to control.
Konoha had perfectly sealed off the news that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Mito, was about to pass away. Until now, this intelligence had still not been discovered by the shinobi world.
Because of Yoru's influence, the decisive battle on the Iwagakure battlefield was also about to arrive early!
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