Naruto: The Strongest Sage.

The wall of the venue was pierced by a huge force. The Raikage was the fastest and chose to force a breakthrough after receiving the signal.

But the next second, countless plant vines entangled him, mixed with pink and red mist.

He forcibly broke through dozens of root blockades, but then he felt dizzy and his chakra flow also became problematic.

not good.

He was shocked. As the Raikage, his ninjutsu was unrivaled in the world, and he could have easily broken through. However, the poisonous fog that descended from the Flower Tree Realm directly made him suffer a loss.

Of course, it also had something to do with the fact that he had his left hand broken by Aoba before. As a physical ninja, after losing an arm, his strength was naturally not as good as before.

"It was the Mizukage who set us up." This was the first thing the Raikage thought of.

But when he looked back, he was also shocked, because the Mizukage Kuraya was pierced through the chest by a vine and was hanging in the air.

At this time, the tailed beast chakra in his body was raging wildly, trying to save his own Jinchūriki, but it was already a bit powerless.

"..."

It's not the Mizukage, it's Ōnoki.

Looking at Ohnoki again, he was falling from the sky. He immediately used the Light and Heavy Rock Technique to fly away. But he inhaled pollen halfway. He couldn't catch his breath and fell directly.

The Raikage hesitated for a moment before rushing over to catch Ōnoki.

Anyway, at this time, the two of them were natural allies. The Raikage was very arrogant in his early years. But after being taught a lesson by Aoba many times, he actually became a little smarter.

And since he is facing Wood Release, he also needs Ōnoki's experience.

The pollen is still effective. The Wood Release used by Black Zetsu is not as powerful as Madara. So the strongest Raikage can still hold on.

Throwing Ōnoki on his back, the Raikage yelled.

"Ohnoki, if you don't pull yourself together, we're both going to die here."

The Raikage looked around, and there were already corpses everywhere. No matter the Kirigakure's Anbu or their two guards, they were powerless to fight back against the attack just now.

The extremely large-range Wood Release combined with the highly poisonous pollen can directly clear the area.

Oonoki opened his eyes with difficulty and clasped his hands together.

"Dust Release, the art of peeling off the original world."

A pure white beam of light swept across the surroundings, cutting off countless wood escape techniques.

The Raikage's body suddenly accelerated.

Ohnoki cast the Super Light Heavy Rock Technique on both of them at the same time. As the Raikage ran and jumped wildly, he flew directly into the sky and disappeared into the horizon.

Two hours later, the news of the unrest in Kirigakure reached Aoba's attention.

As soon as he saw the report scroll, Aoba understood Black Zetsu's plan. There was no doubt that Konoha would be blamed for the siege of the three Kages.

The biggest suspect was undoubtedly the Mizukage Kuraya. But now, Kuraya was dead. Kirigakure suffered the most. The blame was thrown away and fell on Konoha without a doubt.

After all, the three of them met to deal with Konoha, so it was reasonable for Konoha to trick them.

Ohnoki thought about it more and felt that there was something wrong, but he didn't know where the problem was.

Regardless, after being ambushed to this extent, both Iwagakure and Kumogakure must respond. This is the bottom line of maintaining one of the five great powers.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether the attack was launched by Konoha or not. What matters is that this attack gave the three major countries, the Land of Lightning, the Land of Water, and the Land of Earth, a perfect reason and excuse.

At this time, war has become inevitable. Black Zetsu has been lurking in the human world for thousands of years and has a very clear understanding of human nature.

The next day, Kumogakure declared war on Konoha. A day later, Iwagakure also declared war on Konoha. Then Kirigakure followed suit and declared war on Konoha. The prelude to the Fourth War was thus opened.

In the Hokage's office, Aoba put down the mission scroll in his hand and said to everyone.

"Okay, now Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure have declared war on us. We are already at war. The war is on three fronts, and we need to respond cautiously, so we are calling a combat meeting."

Aoba finished speaking and sat back down. Tsunade took over the topic.

"The Land of Fire has already entered a state of preparation for war. But the Daimyo's attitude is a bit perfunctory. Therefore, we in Konoha need to make more preparations ourselves. Konoha has abundant reserves of food and weapons.

In this meeting, we mainly discussed the basic tactics of the three-front war and selected the commander of the war. "

Neither Tsunade nor Aoba felt much about the declaration of war by the three villages. To them, the real threat was the Black Zetsu hiding in the dark.

But Black Zetsu was too secretive. Apart from appearing once at the meeting place in Kirigakure, he never appeared again.

"According to our intelligence, both the Raikage and Ōnoki were seriously injured. Therefore, we don't have to face them in the early stages of the battle. But even so, we will have to bear tremendous pressure to fight on three fronts."

"It can't be considered the third line. Kirigakure is basically useless now. The most elite ones are on our side. When the time comes, just let them solve it themselves. Our most important enemies are still Kumogakure and Iwagakure."

The meeting lasted a whole day, but we could only discuss a rough outline.

War is nothing else. No matter how carefully you prepare, unexpected situations will occur in actual combat. Therefore, everything still depends on the battlefield.

But Qingye knew in his heart that as long as he left Konoha, Black Zetsu would definitely come to attack.

In the previous fight, his own Bie Tian Shen must have frightened the other party. So, he has been hiding and refusing to come out.

Aoba's hiding in Konoha without showing his face also means that he should remain unchanged in the face of change. If he does not show his face, Black Zetsu will not be sure of his whereabouts, so he will not dare to cause trouble.

In other words, once his whereabouts are confirmed, Black Zetsu will definitely appear.

After the meeting, Aoba found Minato.

At this time, Minato was personally supervising the training of Team 7 at the training ground. Minato had lost Naruto for so many years, and now he and Naruto were almost inseparable. It seemed that he wanted to make up for all the lost time.

Even though Naruto was a thick-skinned man, he still felt something was wrong because this Minato teacher seemed to be a little too good to him.

But after Minato said that he was his father's former friend, he stopped paying attention.

Seeing Aoba coming over, Minato knew something must be going on. These days, Aoba tried not to disturb Minato and Team 7, hoping that Minato could spend more time with Naruto.

Minato knew it in his heart, that's why he worked so hard.

"Is it time?" Minato walked up to Aoba and asked.

"Almost. The Fourth Shinobi World War is about to begin. But the Shinobi World War is not the main point. Our goal is to capture or kill the mastermind. This time, I will be the commander on the front line.

Once I leave Konoha, that person will definitely attack Naruto and Konoha. The other party knows that I have Flying Thunder God. But Flying Thunder God is not invincible. I am not sure what means the other party will use to contain me.

If I can't return, Konoha will need you to protect it."

"You resurrected us ahead of time just for this moment. Don't worry, leave it to us."