"Don't get close, he's not dead yet!"
Minato shouted suddenly, but with the speed of Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Yoruki, they had already reached Kakuzu's side.
Upon hearing this, the two of them stopped in their tracks.
"Crack!"
The large black robe that Kakuzu, who was supposed to be dead, was wearing fluttered, and the clothes were torn immediately.
Thick black lines stuck out like tentacles.
"Ding ding!"
Uchiha Yoruki and Hatake Sakumo were both ninjas who were good at speed, and they immediately swung their weapons to defend themselves.
"How is that possible!"
As they were struggling, both of them looked horrified. It was obvious that the attack just now should have pierced Kakuzu's heart.
How could he still be alive?
At this moment, the two of them almost simultaneously recalled the mission to the Land of Hot Springs that they had carried out more than ten years ago.
Was it a technique of immortality?
After pondering like this, the two gradually withdrew from the entanglement of the thick black lines.
However, in the situation just now, they were full of openings, and the back of Hatake Sakumo's hand was scratched.
"Haha, just a little bit."
At this time, Kakuzu, who was lying on the ground, slowly stood up. There were thick black lines extending from his back and even from his mouth, which looked like blood vessels.
However, this substance was surprisingly strong, and the weapons of Uchiha Yoruki and Hatake Sakumo were unable to cut it.
Even Minato, who noticed that Kakuzu was not dead, had his pupils dilated as he stared at the huge hole on Kakuzu's left chest.
His heart had clearly been damaged by Uchiha Yoruki's previous attack, but he looked as if he was unharmed.
His chakra fluctuations showed no signs of weakening at all.
"That should be the secret treasure of Takigakure Village, the Earth Grudge Fear."
Hiruzen landed beside Minato and said to Kakuzu with a serious expression while staring at him.
"Earth Grudge Fear?"
It was the first time Minato heard this name.
"Yes, not long after Kakuzu failed in his assassination attempt on the First Hokage, he rebelled against Takigakure. It is said that he dug out the hearts of all the high-ranking officials of Takigakure at that time, and also stole the Earth Grudge Fear."
"I think the secret of his survival is because of it."
Hiruzen explained that if one was not actually from that era, there would be no way of knowing this information.
"So, those blood vessel-like objects are the Earth Grudge Fear?"
Minato stared at the thick black lines around Kakuzu that looked like blood vessels with a serious expression.
Each of the accomplices that the masked man found to attack Konoha was extremely troublesome. If he had not left Jiraiya-sensei in Konoha, the situation today would be really difficult to deal with.
"That guy is difficult to deal with, but I should be able to handle him. The most troublesome ones right now are those two people."
Hiruzen said in a deep voice, frowning. He looked at the masked man and the man in black robe who were protected by a half-human skeleton.
"Now it can be confirmed that the man with the mask has the Mangekyō Sharingan, and his eye power is stronger than Uchiha Yoruki's, and he has even activated Susanoo."
The Third Hokage deliberately raised his voice very loudly, apparently to pass on the information he knew to the powerful Konoha men present.
"Can Susanoo do this?"
Including Uchiha Yoruki, who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan, it was the first time that everyone heard of this name.
The masked man's eyes narrowed. A big part of their attack on Konoha this time was the intelligence advantage.
But judging from the previous situation, the Fourth Hokage may have analyzed the limitations of the black-robed man's abilities.
Hiruzen, who was respected as the professor of ninjutsu by the entire ninja world, also possessed a lot of information that was unfavorable to them.
Therefore, he would not wait for his opponent to fully understand him before taking action.
"Hmm!"
Under the mask, the pair of eyes with special patterns began to spin rapidly again.
At this moment, muscle-like textures began to grow all over the semi-human skeleton that protected him and the man in black robe.
"Rustle!"
As the texture grew, Susanoo became like a giant samurai. The samurai raised his palm, and the light blue chakra condensed and formed the shape of a chain.
The masked man immediately locked his sights on the Third Hokage, and the chain in the samurai's hand swung out, pointing directly at the latter.
"Has it come to this?"
Looking at the Susanoo that had advanced again, Hiruzen's already gloomy expression became even more solemn.
"Super Odama Rasengan!"
But before the attack fell on Hiruzen, an extremely dazzling chakra fluctuation flashed ahead of the trajectory of the chain attack.
"Boom!"
The two attacks collided, creating a powerful air wave.
"Hatake Sakumo, give me your life!"
However, this aftermath certainly could not affect the people who were confronting each other at the moment. Above Hatake Sakumo's head, black iron sand began to condense and formed weapons of various shapes.
Facing Sasori's attack, Sakumo was not afraid, but there was a hint of struggle in his eyes when he looked at Sasori.
This kind of struggle also existed when Minato first met him.
However, when he thought of what Sasori did to the Konoha army during the Third Ninja World War, the struggle on Sakumo's face disappeared completely.
"Shhh!"
The white tanto in his hand flashed with lightning, and looked like a sharp tooth in the dark night.
Swish!
At this time, Uchiha Yoruki and Jiraiya attacked at the same time.
"Earth Style: Swamp of the Underworld!"
Only a moment's afterimage of Jiraiya's hands could be seen as they formed seals. When the seals were formed, Jiraiya's palms suddenly struck the ground.
"Earth Style: Moving Earth Core!"
However, at the same time that Jiraiya's palm struck the ground, the black-robed man who was beneath Susanoo completed his hand seal first.
"Boom!"
The ground beneath Jiraiya's feet began to shake violently, and then a huge rock spike suddenly protruded, carrying him off the ground.
"It's even faster than Jiraiya-sensei's!"
Minato was surprised when he saw this, because Jiraiya's attainments in earth-style ninjutsu were so great that even in the entire ninja world, there were only a handful of people who could match him.
The black-robed man with special abilities had earth escape skills and reaction speed that were even faster than Jiraiya's.
He used another earth-style ninjutsu to interrupt Jiraiya's Swamp of the Underworld.
"Susanoo? It looks pretty tough."
On the other side, Uchiha Yoruki pondered in his heart. At this time, he closed his left eye, and the flame pattern in his right eye rotated and suddenly condensed.
Blood was slowly trickling down from the corner of his right eye.
"Amaterasu!"
Wherever Uchiha Yoruki's sight reached, black flames rose.
"Buzz!"
Almost at the same time, the space where the black flame was produced was distorted, and the black flame of Amaterasu that had just appeared disappeared immediately.
The pupil of Uchiha Yoruki's right eye swelled and a sharp pain came. He pressed his eyes with his hands and met the masked man's gaze.
"It actually blocked my Dojutsu. What a strong eye power!"
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