"Meow, be good and stop provoking your master. Otherwise, even I won't be able to help you, tanuki!"
Matatabi rose onto her paws, then shook off the sand with clear disgust. Shukaku became even more agitated. "You really don't know how to keep clean. You're covered in sand! I really don't want to step on you!"
"If you don't want to step on me, then get lost already!"
Shukaku was overwhelmed with grief and anger, but he had recognized the situation by now and didn't dare resist or talk back.
Gu Sheng walked slowly past the people who had been fighting and headed toward the Four Violet Flames Formation.
Once Gu Sheng left, Naruto couldn't help gesturing as he spoke. "Sasuke, did you feel it? There's something so strange about this person. It's like... it's like... I don't know how to put it..."
"It's as if he were a deity—unbelievably powerful and impossible to defeat. He's a living legend!"
Beside the two of them, a strange glint flashed through Kabuto Yakushi's eyes. Toneri's eyes also shimmered with an unusual radiance. Sasuke stared blankly at Gu Sheng's departing back as fragments of extremely abrupt images flashed through his mind.
The disturbance on Naruto's side had ended, but Gu Sheng did not stop. He crossed the battlefield where Baki and several Elite Jonin were fighting and went straight to the Four Violet Flames Formation.
"Who goes there?"
Several members of the Hokage's Shadow Guard immediately launched an attack. Amid their shouts, several shuriken flew toward him first.
As the Hokage's guards, the Shadow Guard were all elites from the ANBU. At the very least, they possessed the powerful strength of Elite Chunin, and their primary duty was to protect the Hokage.
Orochimaru's Four Violet Flames Formation had appeared too suddenly. They