Kakuzu opened his mouth and said in a voice as rough as sandpaper: "No, I will die too. This powerful being has killed me four times in one go. If he does it again, I will really die."

Xiaonan said in surprise: "It's rare to have five lives."

Nagato asked, "Kakuzu, I am very satisfied with your strength and reaction. My invitation to you still stands. What is your decision?"

Kakuzu lowered his head slightly and said from the heart: "I accept your invitation. I think if I don't accept it, I will really die."

Nagato nodded and said, "It's a wise decision. You're right. If you don't agree, I won't let you leave."

"I think you still have things to do, so go ahead and do it. Remember to find me in the Hidden Rain Village when you're done."

Kakuzu bowed his head and thanked him, "Thank you for your generosity, sir. I have to go to the gold exchange office to exchange money first, and then find some ninja to restore my body."

"I need three days. I will come to you in three days."

"It's just that the Hidden Rain Village is a medium-sized ninja village. How can I contact you when I get there? Should I ask the Hidden Rain Ninja?"

Nagato replied: "No need, just get close to the Hidden Rain Village and let your body get wet with some rain, and I will know you are here."

Then he said, "Konan, Black Zetsu, we're done, let's go back."

Xiaonan nodded, spread her wings and flew up.

But Black Zetsu suddenly emerged from the shadows under Kakuzu's feet, scaring Kakuzu, who only had one heart left.

Without looking at Kakuzu, he responded to Nagato, "Yes, sir."

Afterwards, Nagato and Konan flew away from the sky, while Black Zetsu, wearing the appearance of Black and White Zetsu, dived underground again and disappeared, leaving only Kakuzu standing there as a monster.

Kakuzu, the monster made entirely of black silk threads, let out a long sigh, bent down to continue cleaning up his flesh and blood, putting the fragments back on his body bit by bit.

"Oh, what bad luck! How could I encounter such a monster?"

"That leader feels even scarier than Senju Hashirama. Not only can he fly, but he can also see through my heart at a glance and shatter all four of my hearts with one blow. He's really a monster..."

"I'm so unlucky."

"I can't just go hunting powerful ninjas after losing four hearts at once. The risk is too high."

"Let's exchange the money first. After that, we can find four weak ninjas to transition with, and then hunt for the powerful ninja heart."

"This is so troublesome. Do I have to find a way to escape?"

Kakuzu packed up everything and returned to his human form, then returned to the location of the initial encounter and found his discarded clothing and put it on.

After this busy period, he has figured out that he cannot avoid this group of people.

The guy called Black Zetsu is the hermaphrodite who drills in and out of the ground. He is a guy that he can't detect at all. He is definitely the best reconnaissance ninja in the ninja world.

With a reconnaissance ninja like this, the monster could find Kakuzu at any time, so there was no point in hiding.

Kakuzu carried his bag, money box and bag of human heads and headed towards the gold exchange office in the Land of Grass.

When attacked by the repulsive force of the Rinnegan, Kakuzu had no reaction at all, but he subconsciously threw away the cash box and the bag of human heads so that they were not destroyed by Nagato's attack.

Fortunately, it was not damaged, otherwise Kakuzu would have been in despair, and despair would have led to madness, and then he would have been killed by Nagato.

Kakuzu murmured, "That was a close call. I almost didn't have the chance to surrender."

"Akatsuki, an organization I've never heard of. According to that monster, Akatsuki belongs to the Hidden Rain Village..."

Suddenly Kakuzu's eyes fluttered, he knew who the monster was.

The new leader of the Hidden Rain Village, the successor to the demigod Hanzo, the slaughterer who single-handedly killed tens of thousands of ninjas, Nagato!

Kakuzu's back bent further, and he consoled himself, "They said they wanted me to be in charge of the money, right? Okay, that's good. Being able to be in charge of the money of the Hidden Rain Village isn't bad either, haha."

"Oh, this time it's real, it's all over..."

…

Two days later, off the east coast of Wave Country, a dozen large ships suddenly appeared in the morning mist and approached the coastline silently.

All the Konoha ninjas responsible for guarding and patrolling had been killed more than ten minutes ago.

Under the dual cover of natural fog and the Mist Hiding Technique, the attack from the most elite ninjas of the Hyuga clan was indeed irresistible to ordinary Konoha ninjas.

The team leaders of these Konoha ninjas were only Chunins, and they had no chance to send a warning to the rear until they died.

When the ship stopped at the Hidden Mist Village and began to transport supplies, the Hidden Mist Ninja, led by the Kaguya clan, had already surrounded the Konoha Ninja camp.

With an order, 142 Kirigakure ninjas jointly performed Water Style: Great Explosion Water Wave, and a huge flood rushed towards the Konoha ninja camp from four directions at the same time.

Water escape technique is the easiest ninjutsu to stack power on top of each other. More than 35 huge water bursts in each direction amplify each other, forming a raging tsunami as high as 14 meters.

The huge waves easily pushed down the thick walls, as well as the earth-style ninjutsu used to defend against floods. All of the Konoha ninjas who were using ninjutsu on the walls were smashed to pieces by the raging waves.

Following the tsunami, 21 Kaguya ninjas who had awakened their Corpse Veins rushed into the camp.

Relying on the defensive power of bone armor, they ignored the wave after wave of water-style ninjutsu attacks, and attacked the Konoha ninjas with bone swords amidst various water-style ninjutsu attacks.

Under the combined long-range and short-range attacks, the resistance of the Konoha ninja was quickly broken, and in less than ten minutes, the entire army was wiped out.

There were more than 400 Konoha ninjas in the camp, plus 24 four-man teams patrolling the periphery. The Kirigakure ninjas easily wiped out 500 enemies without losing a single person.

This was not the first time that such a great result was achieved in this war, but it was indeed the first time that we were able to win easily without any losses.

The Kirigakure ninjas were so excited that when the Fifth Mizukage arrived here, they were still cheering with excitement and didn't even bother to clean up the battlefield.

When they saw the Fifth Mizukage, the Kaguya clan was the first to shout, "Long live the Fifth Mizukage!"

Then, all the Kirigakure ninjas shouted, and for a moment, the shouts of “Long live!” resounded through the sky.

Otsutsuki Hamura wanted to stop such meaningless cheering, but suddenly he felt that his body seemed to have become a little stronger, which made him swallow the words to stop it.

Not only did the Fifth Mizukage not stop the cheering, he even raised his hand to signal to everyone, which led to even louder cheers.

As the cheers grew louder, the Kirigakure ninjas' recognition and admiration for him continued to grow, which made him certain of one thing.

The Mist Shadow Ninjas' admiration for Otsutsuki Hamura fed back to him, greatly strengthening his connection with the ninja world.

Not only did it reduce the conflict between him and the ninja world, but it also made his existence more stable.

Otsutsuki Hamura was delighted to find that all this had greatly enhanced his fighting power.

The improvement in combat effectiveness makes it easier for Otsutsuki Hamura to achieve miraculous results.

And the miracle will undoubtedly make the Kirigakure ninjas admire him even more and further promote his strength growth.

With such a positive cycle, Otsutsuki Hamura will soon be able to recover his former strength and become a god-like existence in the ninja world.

[Perhaps the Hidden Mist Village is not doomed to lose this war. ]

[If everything goes well, I will not only be able to obtain information about Konoha Village, but I will even have a chance to defeat Konoha Village.]

[If the Hidden Mist Village can win the war, I can forcefully sweep the Leaf Village and find out who the fate destroyer who has hindered my brother's plan is.]

The unfortunate Otsutsuki Hamura, unable to contact Pure Land, did not know that Otsutsuki Hagoromo had already determined that Uchiha Yu was the target that the brothers were looking for.

However, Uchiha Yuu is one of the most suspected targets of Otsutsuki Hamura.

Because according to the intelligence of the Hidden Mist Village, Uchiha Yuu suddenly rose to become the strongest ninja in Konoha Village.

Not only did he awaken the Uchiha Mangekyō Sharingan, he also awakened the Senju clan's Wood Release Bloodline Limit.

How could we not doubt him with such unusual behavior?

However, Otsutsuki Hamura suspected more than one target.

Orochimaru, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Kushina, Uchiha Fugaku, these ninjas who have great say in Konoha Village are all targets of his suspicion.

Even the relatives, friends, confidants and subordinates of these ninjas were objects of suspicion by Otsutsuki Hamura.

After all, the target he was looking for was the Destroyer of Destiny hiding in Konoha Village, not the most powerful ninja in Konoha Village.

Fate is the most elusive existence and has a huge impact on fate. It may be enough to just say a word to these powerful ninjas and change their thoughts.

Maybe what Otsutsuki Hamura is looking for is an insignificant little person around the high-ranking ninja of Konoha.

In any case, Uchiha You has become the target of suspicion of the Fifth Mizukage, and is ranked first.

The lack of this information has little impact.

Otsutsuki Hamura only needs to spend a little more time and come into direct contact with Uchiha Yu to confirm it immediately.

The really terrible thing is that he has no idea how strong Uchiha You is, and the information he has is still at the public information stage.

Otsutsuki Hamura firmly believes that he can defeat Uchiha Yu, so his first contact with Uchiha Yu is likely to turn into a disastrous defeat.

The Fifth Mizukage, who knew nothing about this, was immersed in the admiration of the Kirigakure ninja, enjoying the pleasure of growing strength that came with the admiration.

Fortunately, he did not forget his purpose, and quickly recovered and issued an order: "Clean up the battlefield immediately, count the results and spoils, clean up the port warehouse, and establish a transit base."

"yes!"

"We are on a tight schedule. We need to set up a transit base today and leave after dark, landing in the Fire Nation in the early morning of tomorrow."

"Scout ninjas, set out immediately and do reconnaissance work for the main force."

"Today's vanguard troops should rest immediately. We will need your most elite troops to carry out the first wave of attack tomorrow morning."

The Fifth Mizukage issued his orders one by one, and the Kirigakure ninjas immediately began to act in an orderly manner.

In the eyes of the Kirigakure ninja, the orders of the Fifth Mizukage were precise and effective, and they made people convinced.

Including the Hyuga clan ninjas, they all thought in their hearts: [It turns out that when we unite and are led and commanded by the wise Mizukage, we are so powerful. 】

From top to bottom, the Kirigakure Ninja are full of confidence in tomorrow's battle, and even have more and more confidence in this war.

【Maybe, we can win? 】

After arranging everything, Otsutsuki Hamura went to rest first.

Because the raid was so successful, the Kirigakure Ninja intercepted all the Swift Hawks and prevented the alarm from being transmitted.

It would take at least one day for Konoha Village to realize that there was a problem at the border, and another day to make a judgment and send reinforcements.

In the next two days, the actions of the Hidden Mist Village can be carried out according to plan and managed by the responsible jonin and chunin. There is no need for the Fifth Mizukage to watch over it all the time.

Therefore, Otsutsuki Hamura decided to seize the time and try to familiarize himself with his growing strength to avoid unnecessary mistakes in future battles.

The body of a young boy from the Hyuga clan that he occupies is his descendant, but his corpse bone vein is the mutated bloodline limit of the Co-killer Haigoku.

It is not known which generation of descendants surpassed Otsutsuki Hamura and reverted to the ability of Otsutsuki Kaguya, evolving a new Shikotsu Kekkei Genkai.

This was a bloodline limit he had never mastered, and he could only figure out its specific function from scratch.

Although he is now very skilled in the development and mastery of the corpse bone vein, this is because he is at a very high level and has the advantage of insight from being able to look down from a high position.

As his own strength continued to grow, the Corpse Bone Vein moved closer to killing the Gray Bone, and he was at a loss.

The corpse bone vein is very strong, but the negative state of mental confusion that comes with it is very annoying.

This bloodline limit has been upgraded to the Six Paths level, and its negative impact has become even stronger. It not only affects the mind, but also has a strong damaging effect on the body.

When he was fighting with his mother, because Kaguya Otsutsuki showed mercy, Otsutsuki Hamura was never beaten by the Kyoto Kaikotsu, and his understanding of this bloodline limit is very limited.

According to the information accidentally leaked by her mother Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, a powerful being of the Six Paths level like Hamura Ōtsutsuki would not suffer immediate fatal damage even if hit by the Kōsha Huigu.

But the body he occupies now is just a ninja, and he will die if he touches the Gongsha Huigu.

Even though Kaguya Hamura's strength exceeds the scope of Kage-level ninja, there is no essential difference between his body and that of an ordinary Genin.

Faced with the further transformation of the corpse bone veins, this body was completely immune to the negative effects and developed strange diseases such as accelerated aging, neurasthenia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Although the symptoms were not obvious, Otsutsuki Hamura did not dare to be negligent.

Based on the current trend of physical changes, it is certain that the symptoms of these strange diseases are progressing at an accelerating pace.

If you neglect it carelessly, you may encounter uncontrollable consequences at any time.

So, Otsutsuki Hamura took advantage of this rare free time and began to practice intensively, mastering the increased power, familiarizing himself with the unfamiliar bloodline limit, and solving various difficulties caused by not adapting.

But what he couldn't have imagined was that the current Konoha Village was different.

The head of Konoha Village is no longer the aging Third Hokage, but the Fourth Hokage Orochimaru who has just entered his prime.

This guy is the ninja world's leading scientist, black technology developer, and promoter of new technology.

After the Fourth Hokage took office, new technologies from the laboratories began to be promoted among the Konoha ninjas, bringing changes in all aspects.

Although this change could not reverse the power between the Jonin and the Chunin, the sudden destruction of a team of 500 Konoha ninjas no longer required the transmission of information through the Swift Hawk.

When the Hyuga clan ninjas rushed into the Konoha camp and slaughtered the enemies wantonly, they did not notice that there were 5 short and thin Genin among them, who broke the metal plates in their hands in desperation.

These broken metal plates were washed away by the flood and picked up by the Kirigakure Genin who were cleaning up the battlefield. They were treated as useless waste and thrown into the garbage at random. No one noticed them anymore.

The Kirigakure ninja didn't know that this was an ultra-long-distance communication tool developed based on chakra metal and sealing techniques.

Although it cannot communicate like a walkie-talkie and can only transmit signals of varying lengths, it can use this palm-sized metal plate to communicate with Konoha Village thousands of kilometers away.

Due to Uchiha Yu's suggestion, the Fourth Hokage Orochimaru stipulated that any ninja unit with more than a hundred people must communicate with Konoha Village regularly and confirm their status through responses.

Therefore, just when the Fifth Mizukage was training peacefully and the reconnaissance ninjas had just set out, Konoha Village discovered that none of the five hundred-man battalions stationed in the Land of Waves responded within the specified time.

If one, two, or even three hundred-man teams did not respond, the ninjas in the Intelligence Department who did not trust the new equipment would probably suspect that there was something wrong with the new equipment.

But all five hundred-man teams lost response, so they naturally knew that something had gone wrong and quickly reported it to the Hokage's office.

Upon hearing the report, the Fourth Hokage Orochimaru immediately unfolded the map of the Land of Fire and found the Land of Waves.

He slid his finger eastward first, pointed to the Hidden Mist Village in the Land of Water, and tapped it lightly.

Then he placed his finger back on the Land of Waves and slid it gently westward, pointing directly to the east coast of the Land of Fire.

"Humph, the Fifth Mizukage is really awesome." Orochimaru raised the corner of his mouth with a half-smile, and said to Nara Shikaku, "After hearing that the Third Raikage was dead, he actually had the guts to launch a war against my Konoha Village alone. He is really brave."

Nara Shikaku touched the scar on his face and asked with a smile: "Hokage-sama, you said it was the Fifth Mizukage? So the Hidden Mist Village has a new Mizukage?"

Orochimaru nodded and said, "They do have a new Mizukage, and he took over by defeating the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi. This shows how powerful the new Mizukage is."

Nara Shikaku said thoughtfully, "He actually rose to power in such a violent way, yet he was able to conceal the information so tightly that my spies didn't find out. He must have a strong control over the Hidden Mist Village."

Orochimaru smiled and explained: "The new Fifth Mizukage is indeed very powerful, but the main problem is that the Fourth Mizukage caused too much internal strife, and the spies in the Hidden Mist Village were almost extinct after being killed."

"The spies who managed to survive are naturally trembling with fear and dare not pass on information at will. More importantly, there are no surviving spies with the identity of Kirigakure ninja."

"The gap between ninjas and civilians is still very deep. They really don't know that the Mizukage has been replaced."