Infighting and Power Plays

Xiao Zhen stepped out of the mysterious world passage. It was already nighttime here, and Konoha Village should be ahead. It looked so peaceful and tranquil.

His eyes flashed, and he immediately sensed fluctuations from a battle ahead.

Sweeping the area with his Soul Power, he found a group of masked ninja surrounding and attacking Minato Namikaze, the Hokage.

Minato Namikaze used several Flying Thunder God teleports and easily dealt with three enemies. Yet instead of feeling any excitement at eliminating them, the anger in his heart continued to rise.

Because these enemies were not assassins sent by enemy villages. They were all bona fide Konoha ninja, and he even knew several of them.

After forcing several people back again, Minato Namikaze shouted, "Don't come any closer! Do you all intend to betray the village?"

At those words, the eyes of a small number of them flickered, but they showed no intention of retreating.

Clearly, the words of Minato Namikaze, the Hokage, had not frightened this group of ninja away.

Looking at the figures beside him, Minato Namikaze saw that the attack had come too suddenly. Aside from several trusted subordinates assigned to guard the house, no one else had come to support them yet.

The main reason was that a barrier had tightly enveloped an area several hundred meters around the Namikaze household.

From outside, everything within the barrier looked normal. Even the sounds of fighting had been sealed away.

But if one stepped inside the barrier, they would find complete devastation. Quite a few villagers' corpses lay scattered across the ground, all killed in the sudden attack.

Minato Namikaze's home was not located in the bustling center of the village, but quite a few ninja and ordinary civilians lived nearby.

Unfortunately, most of them had been killed without