Chapter 88: Capture the Two-Tails, Fall of Kumogakure

Manda was truly terrified.

It was more serious than ever before, not only opening its massive jaws to spew precious, lethal venom, but also ignoring the burning of the flames, coiling its enormous body tightly around the Two-Tails' frame, constricting and strangling without pause. This book is first published at Tiantian Kan Xiaoshuo ->𝓽𝓽𝓴𝓼. 𝓽𝔀, providing you with an error-free, non-shuffled chapter reading experience.

Because Yugito's poison had taken effect, the Two-Tails' chakra circulation had developed a serious problem, leaving it unable to use its agility advantage to dodge.

Once Manda had coiled around it tightly, the tremendous force strangled it, and the pain forced out a shrill roar; it struggled desperately, but could not break free of the binding.

Manda's venom poured over its body, and most of it was evaporated by the pale blue flames.

But a small portion of the toxin dried and settled within the flames, then merged with them, and seeped back into the Two-Tails' body, reacting violently with its chakra.

The Two-Tails' chakra could no longer serve as its own fighting strength, but instead became a hidden danger of violent explosions, blasting it until the world spun and its senses were scrambled.

Tailed Beasts are chakra lifeforms; as their chakra drained rapidly, their massive bodies quickly shrank and became incomparably weak, until finally Manda's coils crushed them to shattering and disappearance.

When Manda endured the severe burns and slowly slithered away, all that remained on the ground was the limp Nii Yugito.

She lay on the ground with no strength in her body at all; let alone fighting back, she couldn't even stand up.

Orochimaru stepped forward, crouched down, and let his fingertip gently brush across Nii Yugito's cheek.

This was not flirtation, but greed!

Orochimaru's eyes were filled with greedy light: "Excellent, perfect, the perfect experimental material!"

Saying so, he raised his hand to form seals, and layer upon layer of Sealing Technique fell upon Nii Yugito, sealing her chakra from top to bottom, outside to inside.

Seeing Yugito's stubborn gaze at the end, Orochimaru added another seal, one that sealed her consciousness.

Only then did he signal the Konoha Ninja beside him to take away his greatest trophy and keep it under strict guard.

By this time, the gates of Kumogakure had already been blasted sky-high by the Konoha Ninja.

Kumogakure had been completely breached. Yamanaka Chujiu stood at one side of the shattered gate, directing the Konoha Ninja as they poured into Kumogakure in an orderly fashion, launching an even more brutal village street battle.

His nerves grew ever more taut, not a trace of a smile on his face, and the operation of his Mind Severing Realm reached an even higher limit.

"Faster, even faster!"

"The ninja of Kumogakure are lunatics; they'll set traps inside their own village!"

"Don't give them the chance to disengage the safeties. End the battle completely before they can react!"

Hearing Yamanaka Chujiu's orders, the Konoha Ninja did not doubt them in the slightest.

Because Konohagakure itself had traps they had personally set; every day they had to check the traps' safety, ensuring the safeties were closed and could be activated at any moment.

The Konoha Ninja were lunatics themselves, and the Cloud Ninja, who were even crazier than them… would absolutely not let their own home be too cozy!

Yamanaka Chujiu kept the principles of street fighting firmly in mind:

1. Don't walk the paths the owners left; go through the walls!

2. Don't fight the owners for their houses; burn them down!

3. Firmly seize the highest points of the building clusters, and bomb the hell out of them!!

He directed the Konoha Ninja to occupy every high point, and whenever they spotted Cloud Ninja resisting stubbornly, they immediately saturated them with Ninjutsu bombardments.

Let the resisting Cloud Ninja and their houses together… fly!!

In just one kun-hour, he had directed the Konoha Ninja to tear down half of Kumogakure's buildings.

The remaining buildings all stood isolated, at most a few clustered together.

Before Kumogakure's resistance had completely died down, the street battle in Kumogakure had already ended ahead of time.

After all, there were no more alleys.

When Orochimaru had finished a round of experiments, initially satisfying his desire, and came over to Yamanaka Chujiu's side licking his lips contentedly, what he saw was a Kumogakure nearly beaten into ruins, and a vast, dense sea of captives sitting in a large patch.

He clicked his tongue: "There are a bit too many captives."

Yamanaka Chujiu smiled and said: "Killing captives is inauspicious."

His voice was already hoarse, his eyes bloodshot; the excessive thinking gave him a splitting headache, but he was still running his Mind Severing Realm at full power, desperately thinking and issuing orders.

Orochimaru looked at his student, and his heart couldn't help but soften considerably.

He did not open his mouth to disturb Yamanaka Chujiu again, but silently guarded behind him, and wordlessly mixed a calming potion.

After another dozen or so minutes, Yamanaka Chujiu let out a long breath: "It's finally over."

"Heh, Orochimaru-sensei, the Cloud Ninja have all been dealt with, Kumogakure has been thoroughly conquered and occupied by us."

His voice was hoarse like sandpaper, but his tone was calm, as if he had merely completed some trivial little matter.

Orochimaru handed the potion to his student: "Drink it. Once you drink it, you'll be able to sleep well, and when you wake up your head won't hurt anymore."

"Oh right, I also added a throat-soothing ingredient, so you don't need to worry about your throat hurting either."

Yamanaka Chujiu smiled as he took the medicine and drained it in one gulp: "Thank you, sensei."

Orochimaru laughed heartily: "Thank me for what?"

"It's this teacher of yours who should be thanking you."

"Capturing Kumogakure, such a great victory — as the supreme commander, I've reaped a huge advantage off you, the direct commander."

Saying so, he stepped forward two paces and looked down at Kumogakure from a commanding height.

His golden snake-pupils swept over this conquered ninja village, and the corner of his mouth curved into a pleased smile.

The gunpowder smoke had not yet dispersed; half the buildings had turned to ruins, and the bodies and flowing blood covering the ground silently narrated the ferocity of the battle, and also became the glorious witness of this victory.

He, Orochimaru, had led four thousand Konoha Ninja, infiltrated past the Fourth Raikage's interception, raced three thousand kilometers, and punched through four countries.

With an overwhelming momentum, he crushed Kumogakure's defensive forces, occupied the hollow Kumogakure, and captured the Two-Tails jinchuriki.

The Third Shinobi World War had never seen such a glorious victory.

Kumogakure's Fourth Raikage could wrangle with the Third Hokage, shamelessly playing the rogue, using the Hokage's power to bully the Konoha Ninja.

But from now on, the Fourth Raikage had no right to speak in front of Orochimaru from a position of strength.

Never again!

Yamanaka Chujiu finished the medicine; his throat felt cool and comfortable, and his spirit began to relax and even drift, but he still stood beside Orochimaru, his gaze looking toward the distance.

Four thousand Konoha ninja could capture Kumogakure, but they could not annihilate Kumogakure.

This victory exploited a flaw in the Fourth Raikage's thinking, launching a surprise attack from a strategic perspective.

Actually, this can't be blamed on the Fourth Raikage — who could blame him? In all three Ninja World Wars, it was always other villages' ninja attacking Konohagakure; never once did Konoha ninja counterattack onto a great nation's soil.

The Second Hokage went his whole life without a single defeat, but he also never managed to lead a great army out to strike.

The Third Hokage was even more of a shrinking turtle; the fiercest counterattack he could imagine ended at a neighboring small country.

But if they took even one more step forward — even a single foot into the Land of Wind, the Land of Earth, the Land of Lightning, or the Land of Water — it would trigger panic in the Third Hokage's little clique.

Yamanaka Chujiu felt that there was a Thought Seal in the brains of the Konoha F4: they firmly believed the four great ninja villages were one and the same.

Don't be fooled by the four great ninja villages killing each other in normal times — the moment Konoha threatened the survival of any one of them, the other three would set aside their grievances and attack Konoha at any cost.

This brought endless trouble to Konoha ninja, but today it became a favorable condition for their victory.

The world is ever-changing.