"Reanimation, and they are enemies!" The Allied Shinobi Forces grew solemn.
The appearance of enemies on the battlefield at this time meant they were certainly not to be trifled with, at least on par with these formidable former Kage.
"Yo, long time no see, Gaara!"
The one who appeared was Lin Nan.
The Gourd is a product of the Ephemeral Technique.
And the Ephemeral Technique, as a vital skill for Kabuto to gather information across various nations, was extremely useful.
Its long-distance movement was even faster than Kamui, though not as fast as the Flying Thunder God.
While useful, its only drawback was its immense mana consumption.
This had led Lin Nan to rarely use it during his lifetime.
But now, things were different. He had transformed from a chicken into a phoenix.
There was another point: Lin Nan discovered that some ninjutsu he couldn't learn in his life but had saved in his skill library had disappeared. The most obvious examples were the signature skills of his former Akatsuki colleagues, which were mostly gone.
Kamui, Shiki Fujin—Lin Nan felt a pang of regret just thinking about them.
This was another reason Lin Nan dispatched clones to different battlefields; he urgently needed to replenish his skill library.
"Little Mr. Lin!"
Naruto's shadow clone, who had arrived at the battlefield earlier, let out a cry upon seeing Lin Nan.
"Do you know this Edo Tensei individual?" Ohnoki asked, floating in the air.
Gaara nodded silently, his expression grim.
Naruto, with a mix of joy and worry, said, "Grandpa Tsuchikage, Mr. Lin comes from the Akatsuki, but he's a good person. He helped us a lot and participated in the war to save Konoha, but then he disappeared. I didn't expect him to have died and been reanimated by the enemy!"
As he spoke, Naruto clenched his fist in the air, a look of twisted frustration expressing his helpless anger.
"The Akatsuki? Like my foolish grandson? How strong is he?" Ohnoki gazed deeply at the figure not far away.
Gaara replied, "Extremely strong, possessing a shocking amount of ninjutsu. It's as if there's no jutsu he doesn't know!"
"Before this, he was known as a Master of Ninjutsu, just like Kakashi-sensei and Grandpa Third Hokage!" Naruto added with a grave expression.
"Master of Ninjutsu?" Ohnoki furrowed his brow slightly, but a look of relief washed over him as he noticed the distinct eyes within the gourd.
So, it was also a Sharingan.
As long as he wasn't one of those monstrous individuals, someone with just a lot of ninjutsu was relatively easy to deal with.
"Dust Release!"
Suddenly, Ohnoki opened his palms, and a cube-shaped mass of light appeared between them.
"Grandpa Tsuchikage?" Naruto asked, confused.
Ohnoki said coldly, "Under my Particle Style: Light-Weight Destruction, any master will turn to dust! Though an ancient being, after being reanimated, they are an enemy!"
Ohnoki's confidence in his Dust Release was evident.
Putting aside the exaggerated divine battles of later stages, Dust Release could be considered the "true pinnacle of ninjutsu."
After a brief glance across the various battlefields, failing to find the person he was looking for, Lin Nan felt disappointed, wondering if he had misremembered the plot. Suddenly, his eyelids twitched, and he saw Ohnoki aiming at him.
"Holy crap!"
Lin Nan was startled. Even with his reanimated body, taking a direct hit from that attack would be certain death.
A blinding flash erupted, and a cubic matrix instantly enveloped Lin Nan's form.
The next moment, with a flash of light, both the gourd and Lin Nan vanished, as if they had never existed in this world.
"Resolved. I thought he was supposed to be strong. Let's hurry to the next battlefield!" Ohnoki smiled slightly and flew away, his short stature propelling him.
"He's already dealt with?" Naruto and Gaara exchanged glances, both somewhat incredulous.
But this was not the time for hesitation; there were still several targets to deal with.
Not long after they continued on their way, Naruto suddenly stopped, his expression growing strange.
"What's wrong, Naruto?" Gaara asked in confusion.
Naruto grinned, "My shadow clone on the Third Raikage's battlefield just exploded. Mr. Lin must have done it!"
"What?" Ohnoki was quite surprised. "I clearly hit him just now, did he escape? We need to hurry; let's deal with these two first!"
"No need, Grandpa Tsuchikage!" Naruto shook his head. "The Third Raikage has already been instantly killed by Mr. Lin!"
"Instantly?"
"Killed?"
The two Kage-level powerhouses were stunned on the spot.
Meanwhile, what exactly happened on the Third Raikage's front?
It turned out that the vanguard wind-style unit dispatched to deal with the Third Raikage discovered, after their initial encounter, that ordinary wind-style jutsu had absolutely no effect on the Third Raikage's Lightning Cloak.
The Strongest Shield was not just a title.
Especially when the Lightning Cloak was fully active, even an S-rank wind jutsu like Naruto's shadow clone's Rasenshuriken caused no damage whatsoever.
Indeed, he was a formidable individual who had torn apart the Eight-Tails.
This was the strongest shield, while the "Hell Stab," the strongest spear, was essentially unstoppable once unleashed, killing gods and Buddhas alike.
The defense force had deployed multiple Earth Style Walls to block the Raikage's charge, but they were completely useless.
Multiple thick earth walls were like paper before the Third Raikage's One-Finger Nukite.
However, to temporarily prevent the Raikage from harming the Allied Shinobi Forces, this was the only course of action.
Listening to the sounds of the earth walls breaking one by one, the ninjas despaired.
They thought that if they touched something like this, they would be instantly impaled.
However, suddenly, the sound of the earth walls collapsing ceased.
The Allied Shinobi Forces looked into the clearing and were collectively stunned, their mouths agape, the scene breathtaking.
The Third Raikage's unstoppable charge had indeed stopped, but it wasn't the earth walls that halted him.
It was a red-robed figure, also crackling with lightning.
Upon closer inspection, it elicited gasps of astonishment.
His arm had pierced through the body of the Third Raikage, who was known as the Strongest Shield.
This sight instantly shocked countless members of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
The Third Raikage, whom the Allied Shinobi Forces had struggled to seal, suffering heavy casualties with no avail, had been instantly killed like this?
It was like a dream.
With a spray of reanimation particles, the Third Raikage looked at the reanimated young man before him with immense shock and a stiff smile.
"There is a successor!"
With those words, the Third Raikage's consciousness began to fade.
The sealing team finally reacted and stepped forward to use sealing tags to seal the Third Raikage.
"What do you mean 'successor,' and who do you think you're succeeding?"
Lin Nan pouted.
It turned out that after being enveloped by Ohnoki's Dust Release, Lin Nan had used Kamui to warp space.
It wasn't that Lin Nan lacked other means to escape; he simply didn't have the time to waste.
Being able to replicate Hell Stab was one of Lin Nan's main objectives.
Timing was everything.
Lin Nan was overjoyed internally.
According to the system's prompts, he had copied two skills: one was a B-rank taijutsu, the Lightning Cloak.
Yes, this was B-rank.
Lin Nan couldn't believe it, but the technique itself was indeed easy to learn; whether one could reach the Raikage's level depended on individual talent.
The other skill was "Hell Stab," a B-rank offensive taijutsu, but that didn't stop Lin Nan from striking it rich.
In Lin Nan's opinion, this technique could rival "Night Guy." If Night Guy didn't distort space, these two would be truly comparable.
Of course, one of Night Guy's main abilities was to distort space, making it impossible for opponents to dodge.
A life for a life!
If it couldn't distort space, it wouldn't be called Night Guy.