Travel through Konoha and open treasure chests

♂nbsp; The place where Deidara caused the explosion was dozens of miles away from the Death Forest.

When the huge explosion reached here, only some vague residual sounds were left.

However, for people with the strength of Bai Mingyu and Orochimaru, even the weakest voice can be heard clearly.

"It seems that it has already begun."

Orochimaru licked his lips, a strange smile appeared on his face.

Bai Mingyu turned his head and looked at the direction where the sound came from, his eyes narrowed slightly: "This kind of movement...could it be caused by Deidara?"

At such a long distance, even with the level of perception ninjutsu of Kagura's Heart's Eye, it is difficult to sense the movement over there. However, after Bai Mingyu saw Shukaku go berserk, he had already anticipated the possible changes that would happen in the future. Open the heart net and expand outward with the entire forest of death as the center. In just a few seconds, the situation over there has been observed.

Judging from the movement caused by the explosion, it was probably not just Deidara's clay.

Most of the houses in that block had been affixed with detonating symbols by Bai Jue's clones in advance, so once they exploded, the destructive power was sharply increased in a short period of time, and the casualties caused were also increased several times.

However, after Itachi joined the battlefield, this situation was greatly alleviated.

Although Itachi's Susanoo cannot fly and can only use long-range attacks such as "Yasaka's Magatama" to deal with Deidara, but with the former's restraint, Deidara has no time to make explosive clay and can only Control the owl to continuously rise and fall, avoiding Susanoo's attacks. As for Scorpion, although his puppets were numerous, they were gradually becoming more and more exhausted as more and more Konoha ninjas rushed over.

After all, Konoha at this time is not the Sunagakure Village at that time.

Although the artistic duo was able to successfully snatch away the Fifth Kazekage Gaara in front of many ninjas in Sunagakure Village, it did not mean that they could escape unscathed after causing destruction in Konoha Village. Compared with Sunagakure, whose talents have withered, Chiyo and Ebizo are living in seclusion, and only one Kage-level Gaara is left to play the leading role, there are at least three or four Kage-level experts in Konoha, including Jonin and elite Chuunin. The number far exceeds that of Sunagakure Village. Once they react from the initial confusion, the assembled strength is quite amazing.

But now,

Bai Mingyu didn't have time to care about Xie and Deidara.

After all, Obito, Pain and others haven't appeared yet, and exposing their identities now will only disrupt the next actions.

Besides...

Compared to the side where the explosion occurred, there is another problem that needs to be solved.

"Gaara, wake up!"

While Temari and Kankuro were dodging the impact of the blank bullets, they shouted loudly at Shukaku, who was not far away, trying to wake up Gaara.

Speaking of which, the performance of Temari and Kankuro somewhat confirmed something to Bai Mingyu, that is, Orochimaru did not collude with Sunagakure Village. If the large army of Sunagakure Village invades Konoha at this time, taking advantage of the dark moon and high winds, and the main force of the security force is restrained by Scorpion and Deidara, they may really be able to catch Konoha by surprise and create a lot of trouble. of turmoil. It's just that Gaara's rampage was entirely an accident caused by Orochimaru, not Sunagakure's original plan, so the commander of Sunagakure Village didn't know about it, and therefore missed the best opportunity to attack.

From this perspective...

Orochimaru indirectly saved Konoha once.

Seeing that Shukaku was making more and more noise, and even the surrounding ground was gradually cracking, with cracks spreading like spider webs in all directions, Bai Mingyu took a few steps back, and Orochimaru on the other side also stepped back. , using an Earth Release Ninjutsu, his body gradually sank into the ground and quickly moved away in the opposite direction.

As for Kabuto Yakushi, when Shukaku first started to go berserk, he had already greased his feet and left.

Although his strength is not bad, it is at best comparable to Kakashi, so he cannot be of much help when facing a battle at the level of a tailed beast like this.

However, it is in line with the character of this poisonous snake to walk away after causing trouble. However, Bai Mingyu did not intend to let him leave like this. As soon as his eyes turned, he had already captured the whereabouts of Orochimaru on his heart net, and the soles of his feet hit the ground heavily. As soon as he stepped on it, a flash of lightning flew out like lightning, catching up with Orochimaru in the blink of an eye, and then exploded with a bang, pulling Orochimaru's fast-running body out from under the soil. Then a wall of ice rose from the ground.

This ice wall not only trapped Orochimaru inside,

In just a few breaths, it grew and expanded like bamboo shoots after a rain, and soon turned into a huge semicircle. The height of the wall was more than ten meters high, almost reaching Shukaku's waist. position, but the thickness is close to one meter, enclosing the body of this behemoth and the surrounding thousands of square meters of woods. The only gap in the semicircle is where Bai Mingyu himself is standing.

Whether compared to the ice wall or Shukaku, his figure seemed extremely small, but the aura exuding from his body was more indestructible than these ice walls.

"You two, keep an eye on Naruto and the others."

Bai Mingyu said without looking back.

Of course, this sentence was said to Izumi and Kimimaro.

Although it was unlikely that anyone would fish in troubled waters in this situation, Naruto, as the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki, was more important than Gaara, so Bai Mingyu still gave a special warning. After Izumi and Kimimaro heard this, they immediately surrounded him from both sides. Sasuke thought he was about to take action, and almost released his fire escape, but was stopped by Naruto and Karin.

After everyone dispersed, Bai Mingyu raised his head and looked at Shukaku.

After just a while, Shukaku had just gained control of his body and the novelty of coming out of Gaara's body had dissipated. The dozen or so blank bullets released in one breath had almost completely destroyed the surrounding terrain. Only then did the giant creature turn around and stare at Bai Mingyu with a pair of lantern-sized eyes.

"Little devil, who are you?"

Although Shukaku has a temper, he is not a fool like the Three-Tails.

From Bai Mingyu, it felt an aura called danger, which it had never felt in Luo Sha, the fourth generation Kazekage who had subdued it many times. To be more precise, the aura emanating from Bai Mingyu made Shukaku feel a little scared in his heart, just like a mouse seeing a cat...

"You'll find out soon enough."

Bai Mingyu replied calmly, then slowly took a breath and said, "I'm going to take action, are you ready?"

"what?"

Shukaku was stunned for a moment.

The next moment, I saw Bai Mingyu stepping forward. Almost at the same time, the ground where he was standing was exploded by a huge force, and was replaced by a white stream of light rising into the sky!

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