Lin Nan initiated self-division, leaving behind a wood clone. After a word with Kakashi, he departed the battlefield.
He was still uneasy about his main body.
However, just as he was about to leave, he suddenly learned from the shared clone that his main body had already left.
Choosing to leave now, it could only mean heading there. Would he rendezvous with Uchiha Madara?
That would make things rather complicated.
As Lin Nan pondered, he suddenly detected a multitude of chakra fluctuations approaching. The quantity was so vast that even Lin Nan, a non-sensory ninja, noticed.
Had the Allied Shinobi Forces arrived?
This would signify that only this final battlefield remained on the entire continent.
The entire Fourth Great Ninja War would officially be drawing to a close.
This so-called Fourth Great Ninja War seemed to be over in just two or three days.
And as the primary theater of operations, the war would conclude with the end of this night.
Wasn't it hundreds of episodes in the original story?
It was too fast, so fast that Lin Nan was somewhat unaccustomed to it.
He had originally thought it would last for hundreds of chapters, but now it seemed it wouldn't even reach a hundred.
Would my era continue into a new era?
Speaking of which, if it continued until the non-flammable period, wouldn't I be the most flammable?
A faint smile curved Lin Nan's lips.
...
"Passage is forbidden here!"
Before the vast array of the Allied Shinobi Forces, a dark figure suddenly appeared out of thin air. Its voice was hoarse, blocking their path.
"Halt the entire army!"
With a single command, the de facto highest-ranking leaders of this force were Darui, Temari, and Shikamaru, the deputies to the five Kage.
"What in the world is that?" Darui squinted at the shadowy figure not far away.
Temari, who was partially a sensory ninja, took a careful look for a while before stating, "A very strange chakra, but clearly an enemy!"
"If it's an enemy, then we'll just crush it. One person thinks they can stop the Allied Shinobi Forces? Do they think they're Uchiha Madara?"
Darui let out a cold shout and immediately issued the order.
Tens of thousands of ninja troops advanced, but the shadowy figure calmly said, "Didn't I say passage is forbidden here?"
"BOOM!"
A colossal Buddha statue, hundreds of meters tall, suddenly rose from the ground, completely blocking the path of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
The sudden appearance of the behemoth startled the Allied Shinobi Forces, and for a moment, they hesitated to advance.
"It's just a piece of rotten wood. Our nearly hundred thousand troops could soak it in spit and rot it. Follow me!"
Darui roared and, brandishing his saber, was about to charge forward.
However, Shikamaru suddenly spoke to stop him, "Wait, it seems like someone else is coming!"
"Another enemy?" Temari looked into the distance.
In the sky, a figure was indeed approaching from afar, moving at extreme speed.
Without the slightest hesitation, the figure in the sky descended, landing directly with its posterior on the head of the giant Buddha.
"BOOM!"
A resounding explosion, followed by an earth-shattering tremor. The Buddha statue swayed precariously, about to topple.
Dust and wood chips flew everywhere.
This was not the end. In the obscured vision of the onlookers, sounds of flesh meeting flesh echoed.
What's more, these sounds were incredibly loud, as if each punch was striking everyone's eardrums.
They exchanged bewildered glances, completely unable to understand what was happening.
A strange individual appeared to block their path, then suddenly summoned a giant Buddha, and finally, someone descended from the sky. It seemed they were fighting?
"Someone else is coming!"
Suddenly, Shikamaru said again.
Everyone looked up and indeed saw a figure slowly emerging from the ground nearby, as if rising from water.
"Enemy or ally?" Darui was somewhat bewildered by the current situation.
However, the newly appeared figure suddenly crackled with lightning.
With just one glance, Darui recognized it as the Lightning Release Chakra Mode from his own Rain Village.
Was it someone from his village?
The next moment, the figure completely enveloped in lightning shot straight towards the giant Buddha. With a leap, it smashed into the expanding smoke, and another tremendous impact resounded.
"BANG BANG BANG..."
Continuous sounds of fists and kicks echoed, and the entire Buddha statue trembled violently, as if a renovation crew had appeared on its head.
Even a demolition crew wouldn't be this rough!
So, what exactly was going on?
"BANG!"
After a final explosive impact, a dark figure was finally sent flying backward from the smoke, crashing heavily onto the ground.
Darui and the ninja army simply watched. They didn't know what to do now, so they could only watch.
As the dark figure landed and kicked up a cloud of dust, two more figures from atop the Buddha statue chased after it like madmen, subsequently crashing heavily onto the ground.
Amidst the continuous sounds of impact, the entire land seemed to tremble.
But then, the sounds of impact suddenly stopped.
"Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation!"
A loud shout followed, and with the mountain shaking, everyone saw a section of the land being lifted as if it were a piece of tofu. The commotion was immense, truly spine-chilling.
"That sounded like Mr. Lin's voice earlier!" Shikamaru said, rubbing his chin. "Mr. Lin is on our side, so perhaps we can help now!"
"Do you think we can actually help?" Darui asked, looking at the battlefield that was like a collapsing mountain, as if in a dream.
That's right, the ones who arrived were Lin Nan, controlled by Black Zetsu, and Lin Nan's wood clone.
One after another, they attacked almost immediately upon discovering Black Zetsu's trace, not giving him any time to breathe.
And when Black Zetsu finally attempted to escape using the Mayfly Technique, Lin Nan directly used Inorganic Reincarnation to control an entire section of the land. By restricting the terrain, Black Zetsu could not move, effectively being sealed within the earth.
"Amaterasu!"
The next moment, Lin Nan's eyes widened, blood flowing out, and black flames ignited.
"Zetsu, think carefully. I am an Edo Tensei, I cannot be burned to death by Amaterasu, but you are different. I don't believe you can withstand the scorching of Amaterasu!"
Lin Nan stood outside the block of earth and shouted at the charred, coal-like figure.
"Lin, you're ruthless!" Black Zetsu's voice echoed. "But how can you guarantee that if I return your body, you'll let me go?"
Lin Nan sneered, "You have no right to negotiate with me. After I burn you to ashes, I'll take back my body!"
Black Zetsu was clearly silent for a long moment before the block of earth began to shake, and a figure was expelled from it.
Is the main body unconscious?
Lin Nan frowned, then caught the body.
But at that very moment, the sound of breaking glass suddenly rang out from within the main body's embrace.
"Huh?"
Lin Nan looked closely, and it appeared to be a crystal ball that had shattered.
What the heck?
A dazzling light instantly enveloped Lin Nan's figure.