Chapter 264: Chapter 264: Madara Appears, Orochimaru’s Misunderstanding
The Third Raikage A couldn't help but sneer, "Looks like Hanzo the Salamander has become a turtle hiding in his shell, wanting to shrink back and defend from within. But does he think that by hiding, there won't be any accidents?"
Onoki floated beside the Raikage and said, "It's not that simple. The elite I sent to the Land of Rain to investigate, not a single one came back. They all disappeared. Raikage, what about your side?"
A was stunned, then his expression darkened and said, "It's the same on my side. They likely all died in there."
At the side, Orochimaru's eyes flickered, "Konoha's Namikaze Minato was also sent there by Hiruzen-sensei. I hope nothing happened to him."
Rasa was startled, "The Yellow Flash is in the Land of Rain?"
However, he remembered Namikaze Minato's elusive ability and immediately said, "If it's him, there won't be any accidents."
Raikage A said, "Kazekage, don't be so confident in him just because you were defeated by the Yellow Flash."
"According to the intel I know, Uchiha Madara has probably also mastered a kind of space-time ninjutsu. His attainments may be above the Yellow Flash."
"Space-time ninjutsu?", Onoki frowned, because Madara was too powerful. When he was young, he didn't understand what Madara's abilities were.
If such a powerful Madara also had space-time ninjutsu, that would be terrifying.
At this moment, suddenly, in the Four Nations army, the faces of many ninjas with strong perception abilities changed simultaneously.
They sensed several chakras approaching their direction without any concealment.
Especially one of them, how to describe it? gave them an overwhelming suffocating sense of pressure.
Some even broke out in cold sweat from their foreheads, stunned in place, unable to speak a single word.
The commanders of the Four Nations all looked in the direction of the pressure and saw, in the distant rain curtain, a few figures slowly walking over. They were all wearing black cloaks with red clouds.
The moment Orochimaru saw that outfit, he immediately thought of Uchiha Sasuke and that blind Uchiha with no name. He murmured in his heart, "The Uchiha clan really is connected with Uchiha Madara."
He opened his mouth and asked, "Is that the Akatsuki uniform?"
The Third Raikage A and Onoki nodded simultaneously and said, "Yes."
Orochimaru smiled meaningfully, "Seems like Konoha's intelligence work is a bit behind."
'Is this the so-called being blind under the lamp?'
At this moment, the figures continued to approach, and everyone clearly saw their appearances.
Onoki saw the long-haired, spiky-headed Madara at the front, and immediately broke out in cold sweat.
He said with a cautious face, "It really is Madara. I didn't expect he's really still alive, and he even looks so much younger."
Orochimaru also saw the man wearing a gas mask and couldn't help but become serious, "Didn't expect, Hanzo the Salamander has also joined the Akatsuki organization."
He still remembered, during the Second Great War, he and Tsunade, and Jiraiya were all defeated by him. That power, he still remembered clearly.
Onoki muttered, "This is going to be troublesome."
Raikage A, however, said, "Just a few people, why get so scared? Onoki, didn't you bring over ten thousand troops? If I were to block them alone, I probably wouldn't be able to stop them."
Onoki looked at A, he couldn't tell him now that the ten thousand troops were prepared specifically for A, right?
He just opened his mouth and mocked, "Raikage, Madara is not the same as you. These ten thousand people might be effective against you, but against Madara? You think Madara is like you, without large-scale attack ninjutsu?"
The Third Raikage flew into a rage and was about to refute, but at that moment, the Akatsuki members, led by Madara, had already come to the front of them.
Madara slowly opened his mouth, "Didn't the Land of Rain issue a ban, forbidding ninjas from other countries to set foot here and cause trouble? What are you here for?"
A had no choice but to stop counterattacking Onoki and said to Madara, "Our purpose in coming here, didn't you already know that night? Naturally, it's to eliminate your Akatsuki organization."
"What, you couldn't act that night, wearing a mask, all sneaky and suspicious, but now it's convenient?"
Uchiha Madara was stunned, 'The person who impersonated me wore a mask, why does this sound like something Tobi would do?'
'Mask?', Orochimaru caught this bit of information, and couldn't help but recall the first time he met that mysterious masked man.
To figure this out, Orochimaru formed a hand seal, and with a "puff," transformed into the appearance of the masked man. He mimicked the masked man's voice and said, "Raikage-sama, what you saw, was it this appearance?"
Raikage angrily said, "That's right! From voice to presence, it's exactly the same!"
Orochimaru was suddenly enlightened. Indeed, a ghost from the ninja world surviving since Hashirama's era, who else could it be but Uchiha Madara?
Orochimaru glanced at Madara over there and continued asking Raikage, "So, the space-time ability you said Madara had, is it a method to phase his body, rendering all attacks ineffective, and the ability to vanish into thin air?"
Raikage A was stunned, "Vanish into thin air?"
He looked deeply at Orochimaru, "And you say your intelligence is outdated? Looks like you know more than I do."
Then A explained, "Madara not only can phase himself, but also phase people and objects he touches."
"But vanishing into thin air, I'm hearing that for the first time. Maybe, that day he was bringing someone along, and it wasn't convenient to use that ability?"
"Orochimaru, how much information about Madara do you know? Say it all."
Orochimaru laughed lightly and said, "What I know is only this much. It's the result of me digging through Konoha's historical archives."
Orochimaru did know more about Madara, for instance, how Madara once traded research data on Hashirama cell transplantation with him, Madara was very interested in bloodline transplantation.
But this kind of information involved his own secrets, how could he possibly reveal them now?
Raikage A nodded and didn't doubt Orochimaru's words. After all, Madara was one of the founders of Konoha, it was normal for Konoha to preserve some records about him.
On the other side, Uchiha Madara was already very impatient. Ever since he wore that damn tiger-striped mask, people kept mocking him for being sneaky and mysterious.
Now, he thought the matter was over, but didn't expect the Third Raikage to bring it up again.
Moreover, when Orochimaru brought up the phasing ability, Madara was already clear, wasn't that exactly Tobi's technique?
So that incident that night, was it Tobi's doing? And Tobi didn't want to expose himself, so he pushed it onto Madara?
He even brought someone with him, who could that be?
Madara's head filled with questions, but that wasn't the point now. These questions could be asked to Tobi later.
Now, the most important thing was to stop the advance of the five great nations, and take the opportunity to enjoy a good fight.
So, Madara spoke, "Since you've come to eliminate Akatsuki, then you are my enemies. You violated the Land of Rain's ban, so all of you, die here."
Madara formed a hand seal with both hands, took a deep breath, then looked toward the alliance army in front of him.
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!"
Immediately, a mouthful of fire spewed from his mouth, transforming into a giant flame wave that seemed capable of destroying the heavens and earth, rushing toward the Four Nations alliance army...
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