Just as Minato activated the Blazing Sky Radiant Flash Flow Blade Instant Light Soul-Locking God-Sealing World-Destroying Final Formation · Ultimate · Type Zero, Konoha also sounded the horn of counterattack.
The Konoha ninja in the inner city surged forward, rushing toward those hateful airborne ninja.
Within this counteroffensive force were many powerful main fighters.
Most of these people usually kept a low profile and rarely revealed their true strength in front of others.
But at this moment, facing the oncoming enemy, they were displaying their abilities in full view for the first time.
The Sound Four performed especially well on the battlefield.
Tayuya held her flute, continuously playing melodies that sounded beautiful and flowing, yet concealed deadly intent.
That enchanting sound seemed to carry a strange power, easily breaking through people's mental defenses.
As the melody echoed, the airborne ninja in the sky were struck one after another, involuntarily falling into terrifying illusions.
Disoriented, they flailed about in the air like headless flies.
In the end, they slammed straight into the solid barrier set up by Namikaze Minato, crashing down in miserable states.
On the other side, Kidomaru used his unique technique, Spider War Bow Unleashed, instantly sprouting four strong arms.
Holding a powerful bow in each pair of hands, his fingers moved deftly along the strings as arrows shot out one after another like streaking meteors.
The vibrating bowstrings echoed through the sky, and the dense rain of arrows poured upward like continuous cannon fire, endlessly targeting the airborne ninja.
Each arrow carried tremendous force. Once it hit, it would deal fatal damage.
Meanwhile, Jirobo wasn't idle either. Making full use of his Earth Release, he kept grabbing handfuls of damp soil from the ground, quickly shaping them into extremely hard stone arrows.
Then, with forceful throws, he delivered them precisely into Kidomaru's hands, providing a steady supply of ammunition.
The two worked in perfect coordination, causing heavy losses among the airborne ninja.
At the same time, Sakon and Ukon moved across the battlefield like specters.
With keen perception and swift movements, they silently approached injured or fallen airborne ninja and delivered fatal strikes without mercy.
The twin brothers' methods were ruthless and tricky, making them difficult to defend against.
As for Guren, her unique Crystal Release bloodline ability shone brilliantly at this moment.
Even though they were facing airborne enemies, she could still strike them effectively.
With graceful movements, she swung her arms, sending countless dazzling pink crystal shards fluttering into the sky like dancing butterflies.
When these shards reached a certain height, they suddenly exploded, turning into countless fine, razor-sharp fragments that swept across the airborne ninja like a storm.
In an instant, the sky lit up with brilliant flashes. Along with waves of screams, many airborne ninja were torn apart by this terrifying Crystal Release attack.
The range of this technique was enormous. Even fast-flying airborne ninja couldn't escape being shot down.
Whether it was Kimimaro or Haku, both stood firmly on a platform of sand created by Gaara.
Kimimaro's hands moved rapidly, his ten fingers firing countless sharp bone bullets like a torrential downpour;
Beside him, Haku used powerful Ice Release, sending streams of crystal-clear, freezing needles continuously toward the incoming airborne ninja.
At the same time, Gaara controlled his sand with precision. Like agile giant serpents, it repeatedly smashed the flying devices the airborne ninja relied on.
In Orochimaru's underground laboratory, Dan Kato and Yakumo Kurama were also not idle.
Both used the Spirit Transformation Technique. One controlled his own soul, while the other commanded Ido, rushing toward the sky outside together.
The two figures moved like lightning. Wherever they passed, the airborne ninja were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
They fell from the sky one after another, as if a brutal "rain of dumplings" was pouring down.
Since he had long anticipated that Konoha might be attacked, how could Senya have been unprepared?
He had already gathered everyone capable of fighting, ready and waiting.
When it came to dealing with aerial enemies, the most formidable was undoubtedly Konan.
Behind her spread a pair of enormous wings, granting her astonishing speed.
Each time she glided across the sky like a light bird, she scattered a large number of explosive tags.
These tags drifted through the air like snowflakes. Once they attached to the airborne ninja, they detonated instantly with deafening explosions.
On another side, Yahiko rapidly formed hand seals, firing streams of water arrows from his mouth in succession, striking fiercely at those trying to approach.
Nagato stayed by Yahiko's side, his kunai flashing up and down as he quickly dealt with the stragglers who managed to evade Yahiko's attacks and fall.
Such fierce and relentless interception came like a violent storm, catching the previously arrogant airborne ninja completely off guard and leaving them stunned.
Although Konoha didn't have many units specialized in aerial combat, each ninja's strength was beyond imagination.
And now that the airborne ninja had already penetrated deep into the core of Konoha's inner city, escaping Minato's carefully constructed formation was nothing more than a fantasy.
Seeing the dire situation, the leader of the airborne ninja turned grim and vicious.
He suddenly waved his hands, issuing a series of rapid and complex signals.
Upon receiving the order, his subordinates showed ruthless expressions.
Without hesitation, they piloted their flying devices straight toward Konoha's buildings like moths flying into flames.
Most of the flying crafts were intercepted by Minato's formation, but a few slipped through, causing some buildings to be reduced to rubble in violent explosions.
Compared to the outer city, where large numbers of civilians were suffering from corpse poison and collapsing in agony, the situation in the inner city was relatively better.
After some effort to restore order, things had gradually stabilized.
But at that moment, a sharp and wildly frenzied voice suddenly rang out across the sky: "I'M BACK OUT AGAIN!"
Everyone looked toward the source of the sound.
A giant yellow tanuki, over fifty meters tall, had appeared beside Konoha's outer city.
The immense chakra within its massive body seemed endless, continuously surging outward.
Then came a deafening roar.
Everyone looked again and saw the mountain-like One-Tail, Shukaku, opening its massive mouth and letting out a piercing, ear-splitting howl.
The sound seemed to tear through the clouds, making everyone's ears ring.
At the same time, Shukaku swung its enormous claw, bringing it down with overwhelming force onto the nearby inner city wall.
BOOM!
A heavy explosion rang out, and the ground itself seemed to tremble.
Amid the billowing dust, a deep crack could clearly be seen in the wall.
Compared to before, Shukaku's strength was clearly much greater this time.
Not only was its body even larger, like a moving mountain,
but the chakra radiating from it surged outward like raging waves.
Most terrifying of all, when it realized that its strike hadn't broken through the wall, a glowing Tailed Beast Ball slowly formed at the corner of its mouth.
Buzz!
With a sharp tearing sound, the Tailed Beast Ball shot out at incredible speed, slamming straight into the inner city wall.
BOOM!
A world-shaking explosion echoed through the sky, thick smoke rolling outward.
Under this terrifying impact, the solid wall collapsed instantly, leaving a massive breach more than thirty meters wide.
After releasing that devastating Tailed Beast Ball, Shukaku's body suddenly stiffened.
Its originally ferocious eyes began flickering back and forth between golden vertical pupils and normal eyes.
Kazuma and the others, who had been spreading corpse poison in the outer city, noticed the disturbance.
They looked up at the heavily damaged wall, and wild joy spread across their faces.
Without hesitation, the four of them rushed toward the massive breach, intending to seize the opportunity to break into Konoha's interior in one go.
On the other side, inside Konoha, the moment Gaara saw Shukaku, his expression changed sharply.
A sharp light flashed in his deep eyes.
"Rasa! You've got some nerve showing up in Konoha to die!"
Without a second thought, he immediately took Kimimaro and Haku and flew toward that direction.
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