The Otsutsuki Road from Kirigakure

It’s still the battlefield of the Rain Country.

After the Hidden Rain Village withdrew from the Ninja World War, the Hidden Cloud Village, which was originally hired by Salamander Hanzo, fell into an awkward situation.

For the Hidden Cloud Village, it was actually completely unnecessary to cross several countries to enter the Land of Rain to fight. Moreover, they had already obtained what they wanted from the Land of Whirlpools in this Ninja World War. If it were not for the generous hiring of Hanzo of the Salamander, the Hidden Cloud Village originally planned to do the same as the Hidden Mist Village, watching the fire from the other side of the river and developing in secret.

However, as the war intensified, a real fight broke out between the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Iwagakure Village. Both sides continuously sent reinforcements to the front line, and even sent their most powerful weapons and jinchūriki to the front line. The scale of the war also increased from hundreds of ninjas at the beginning to thousands of ninjas in the end.

Therefore, the Hidden Cloud Village, which was hired by Hanzo and was an ally of the Hidden Rain Village, was severely stabbed in the back by Hanzo's withdrawal from the war. As the saying goes, we are ready to fight to the death, why did Your Majesty surrender first???

Therefore, the embarrassed Cloud Village had no choice but to retreat hastily after losing the resource support of the Rain Village due to its too long supply line. The war with the Iwagakure Village ended in a whimper, but a feud was formed between the Cloud Village and the Iwagakure.

This also laid the groundwork for the next Ninja World War!

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The last war to end was the war between Iwagakure Village and Konoha Village.

As other battlefields ended one after another, the Iwagakure Village and the Konoha Village were able to turn their full attention to the battlefield in the Land of Grass.

In the early stages of the war, since the Iwagakure Village was the last to join the battle, its war preparations were particularly thorough, and it passed through the Land of Grass and directly entered the territory of the Land of Fire.

But the good times did not last long. Before the Iwagakure Village could gain enough benefits in the Land of Fire, Konoha's counterattack followed, and the front line was soon pushed back to the Land of Grass.

After the war between Konoha and Amegakure ended, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen sent the newly-appointed "Three Ninjas" to the front line of the Land of Grass. Although Tsunade was later transferred to the front line of the Land of Rivers, the two Kage-level powerhouses, Orochimaru and Jiraiya, still brought tremendous pressure to the Iwagakure.

As we all know, the cutting-edge combat power of the Iwagakure Village has always been weaker than that of several other ninja villages, but the performance of the Iwagakure Village in the war is not weak at all. They rely on the tactic of explosive troop growth and their main strength is unity.

The number of ninjas in the Iwagakure Village is the largest among the five major ninja villages. Perhaps the number of ninjas in the Iwagakure Village, including the Mist Village and the Sand Village combined, is not as large as that in the Iwagakure Village. Although most of them are Genin and Chunin, don't forget that the Iwagakure Village also has a terrifying war-level earth-style ninjutsu. When the number of ninjas is large enough, the quantitative change will lead to a qualitative change, and they can use earth-style ninjutsu with devastating effects on the battlefield.

Therefore, even though the Iwagakure Village only has Commander Benito who has the strength of a Kage, the Iwagakure Village can still fight back and forth with the Konoha ninjas who have three Kage-level members of the "Three Ninjas".

Hong Tsuchi is the captain of the demolition team of the Iwagakure Village and a close confidant of the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki. He is also the fourth Kage-level powerful figure in the Iwagakure Village, in addition to the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki, the Four-Tails Jinchūriki Lao Shi, and the Five-Tails Jinchūriki Han.

However, the Jinchūriki is the foundation of a ninja village and will not easily step into the battlefield. Therefore, Akaichi can be said to be the only Kage-level figure in the Iwagakure Village besides the Tsuchikage.

With the tacit cooperation of the demolition team, Hong Tu could barely fight the "Three Ninjas" to a draw on the battlefield. Dozens of Iwagakure jonin who were proficient in earth escape were responsible for uniting to fight against the contemporary "Ino-Shika-Cho" combination, while other Iwagakure ninjas formed one combat team after another and fought steadily, and did not fall into a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Konoha ninjas.

So, for a while, the war situation between Iwagakure and Konoha was in a stalemate.

It was not until Tsunade was transferred away by the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen that the Iwagakure side gained the upper hand again. On the battlefield, the explosive techniques of the red earth and blasting troops blew Orochimaru and Jiraiya into a mess. Although their lives were not in danger, they were indeed suppressed. But there was nothing they could do, after all, the Iwagakure had the advantage in numbers!

However, Iwagakure did not remain arrogant for long. Konoha Village, which was the first to end the war with Sand Village, once again sent a ninja unit led by "Konoha White Fang" Hatake Sakumo to the front line of the Land of Grass for support. As a result, Konoha naturally crushed Iwagakure in high-end combat power and once again gained the upper hand.

However, soon after, the Iwagakure Village quickly ended the war with the Amegakure Village and the Kumogakure Village, and the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki and the Five-Tails Jinchūriki came to the battlefield of the Land of Grass together.

The Third Tsuchikage Ohnoki and the Five-Tails Jinchuriki who suddenly appeared on the battlefield broke the balance of power between Iwagakure and Konoha. Konoha was defeated and beaten up by the Iwagakure Village.

If Jiraiya hadn't realized that something was wrong and summoned the two great sages of Myoboku Mountain in time to help him enter the sage mode, and if Hatake Sakumo hadn't fought desperately, the three patriarchs of the contemporary "Ino-Shika-Chou", namely the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans, would probably have gone to see the Six Paths Sage!

After Orochimaru used the Orochimaru-style Substitution Jutsu to dodge a Dust Release from the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki, he was hit in the back by a sudden "Explosion Release: Mine Fist" from Aoi, severely wounding him on the spot. Hatake Sakumo was also burned by the Boiling Release steam from the Five-Tails Jinchūriki after fighting to exhaustion.

Jiraiya can be said to be the only highlight in this battle. He showed powerful strength in Sage Mode. With the cooperation of the two sages and the three giants of Myoboku Mountain who were summoned later, Jiraiya single-handedly held back Crimson Earth and the Five-Tails that had fully transformed into the Tailed Beast, buying time for the Konoha ninja to retreat.