Obito Appears

Southern battlefield.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!"

A massive water dragon surged from Mei Terumi's mouth.

It swept toward the Poison White Zetsu ahead, sending the group sprawling.

Water Release was relatively weak at times like this.

But with the Cloud Village present, it made it easier to electrocute them.

Cloud Village weapons were wrapped in Lightning Release Chakra. With barely a graze, a Poison White Zetsu would collapse to the ground.

"Lightning Release: Gratitude Wave!" Darui formed hand seals and slapped a palm into the water, sending a great mass of lightning sweeping forward.

Five or six Poison White Zetsu were electrocuted to death in an instant.

But as soon as those Poison White Zetsu died, Darui immediately flipped backward.

The reason these Poison White Zetsu were so difficult to deal with was that the poison on their bodies did not disappear when they died.

Once they fell to the ground, the fluids in their bodies instantly contaminated the surrounding land.

Some White Zetsu even picked up corpses and hurled them over.

The Allied Shinobi Forces were forced into a complete retreat.

"Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees!"

Nagato clapped his hands together, and branches erupted from the ground as endless trees swept forward.

The Poison White Zetsu were all wrapped up by the trees.

Nagato clenched his hand seals, and the White Zetsu were instantly crushed into green liquid.

But wherever the liquid splashed, dark green mist rose again.

The genin in the Allied Shinobi Forces had no way to fight back and could only retreat again and again.

After casting two ninjutsu, the genin could only throw Shuriken and Kunai.

The Poison White Zetsu could also burrow underground, darting directly into the midst of those genin.

Massive chaos erupted at once.

Behind the Poison White Zetsu, explosions rang out without pause.

Deidara was like a Kirov airship from Red Alert, constantly tossing little bombs down below.

Why not throw down a big one?

The White Zetsu might be stupid, but they could burrow underground!

The little spiders and grasshoppers would automatically seek out White Zetsu and explode.

If he molded an No. 18 and threw it down, everyone below would burrow underground together.

Compared to that, Konan's Paper Release was far more flexible than Deidara's bombs.

Deidara had already replenished his Explosive Clay twice, and even his cheeks were sore.

Konan merely waved her hand, and countless Exploding Tags drifted downward.

The Poison White Zetsu could only run around Konan's Exploding Tags.

Once an Exploding Tag stuck to a White Zetsu, it would be blown to death.

Compared to Wood Release, which required Chakra, and Explosion Release, which required Explosive Clay,

Konan's Paper Release was undoubtedly more cost-effective, worthy of being called the king of kills.

To them, these Poison White Zetsu were like toads jumping onto their feet—not dangerous, just disgusting.

There were a full sixty thousand of these things, and once they died, they contaminated the ground where they fell.

They could only fight while retreating alongside the other shinobi.

If the wind blew, everyone could smell a pungent stench.

One careless mistake, and they would be poisoned, suffering further casualties.

At that moment, a force arrived from the west. It was Kitsuchi's unit from earlier.

The reanimated Hozuki Gengetsu, Hozuki Mangetsu, Hozuki Suigetsu, and more than ten shinobi from the Hidden Mist Village.

Killer B, Rōshi, Rasa, and Han had also been forcibly released from the Impure World Reincarnation and arrived on the battlefield.

This undoubtedly injected a powerful dose of confidence into the entire southern battlefield.

Because all of them were Reanimated Bodies, they were completely unafraid of poison.

Killer B, Rōshi, and Han continuously fired Tailed Beast Balls into the Poison White Zetsu ranks.

Although Reanimated Bodies weakened their power, they had infinite Chakra.

They could bombard the piles of White Zetsu without end.

Amid the unceasing booms, the White Zetsu were blasted into disarray.

Rasa raised waves of sand from the ground and hurled every White Zetsu that appeared among the crowd back where they came from.

When Hozuki Gengetsu saw the White Zetsu poisoning the ground everywhere, the first thing he did was summon the Great Clam.

The Great Clam continuously spewed mist. After the White Zetsu crawled out of the ground,

they pounced at the shinobi in front of them, only to pass straight through.

The shinobi were the same; they could not hit the White Zetsu either.

Hozuki Gengetsu told the Allied Shinobi Forces:

"I've created a mirage. All your positions have changed, so you can retreat directly."

"Leave this place to us."

Seeing that reinforcements had arrived, the weaker shinobi of the Allied Shinobi Forces hurriedly called to their companions, "Quick, fall back!"

At that moment, Hozuki Gengetsu's body slowly began to swell.

His figure flickered, and he was already among the Poison White Zetsu.

Boom!

A tremendous blast erupted.

Large amounts of white steam burst into the air.

The hot air raised by the water vapor cooled high above and formed hail, which came crashing down.

A phantom Hozuki Gengetsu slowly shrank, turning into a small childlike clone.

The clone was incredibly fast. Holding a hand axe formed from his arm, it charged into the Poison White Zetsu and began a frenzied slaughter.

The Poison White Zetsu fell one after another as though wheat being harvested.

Meanwhile, Hozuki Gengetsu's body began to slowly expand again.

This was a clone created from the water and oil within the Mizukage's body.

On the surface, it took the form of a child, but it was actually water wrapped in oil.

Its defining trait was the drastic shift between heat and cold. Once it moved, the oil on its surface would rapidly heat up.

The water inside would evaporate, causing the water vapor to explode.

Then it would cool and shrink because of the hail, preparing for the next explosion.

This was the Second Mizukage's ultimate technique.

Steam Imp Technique!

At this rate, the Poison White Zetsu would not last much longer.

But when nothing unexpected happened, something unexpected was bound to happen.

A man carrying a War Fan emerged from the mass of White Zetsu.

It was Obito!

"Why are the people we reanimated helping the other side?"

The moment Obito emerged from the Kamui Dimension, he saw a group of Reanimated Bodies summoned by Disornas helping the Allied Shinobi Forces kill their people.

A White Zetsu beside him immediately answered:

"Shamu and the others used the Spirit Transformation Technique to forcibly control the Reanimated Bodies."

"They used the release of the Impure World Reincarnation. Now they are free Reanimated Bodies."

Obito was so angry that he laughed. "Didn't Black Zetsu say that aside from the Second Hokage, no one else could undo it? Who would have thought Shamu had this trick?"

Naturally, the White Zetsu could not answer him. This White Zetsu was merely a scouting type.

"Where is Black Zetsu?"

This White Zetsu did know. "Lord Black Zetsu has already reanimated Lord Madara in the northeast."

Obito coldly watched the three who were firing Tailed Beast Balls, as well as the Chakra cloaks around them.

"Good. The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path still lacks quite a bit of Chakra."

Just moments ago, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had already digested all the Chakra from Sora's fake Nine-Tails.

But it was still far from breaking the seal completely and reviving as the Ten-Tails.

He raised a hand seal. "Summoning Technique!"

"Demonic Statue of the Outer Path!"

Boom!

A massive roar rang out, and an enormous shadow was cast down.

The Allied Shinobi Forces, who had already retreated quite far, saw the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path towering more than two hundred meters high.

Their teeth chattered, and their limbs went weak with fright.

"Ah! It's Obito! The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path!"

"That thing that destroyed Kumogakure!"

"Banshō Ten'in!"

Obito stretched out his hand, and the three reanimated Jinchuriki continuously firing Tailed Beast Balls

were suddenly pulled toward the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Killer B was the strongest. Several Tailed Beast Chakra cloaks emerged from his body as he hurriedly grabbed the other two.

At that moment, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path opened its mouth, and chains that made Killer B's heart tremble with terror shot straight toward them!