Asuma, Your Father is Dead

The clan heads of these great ninja clans had, to a certain extent, long since anticipated this worst-case possibility. They had even... tacitly accepted that it might happen.

"What... exactly happened? How could Orochimaru..." Shikaku's voice was a little dry. He seemed to recover from his brief daze and asked urgently.

The Anbu ninja forced down his grief and reported quickly, "Orochimaru disguised himself as the daimyo of the Land of Rice Fields and his attendants, then suddenly attacked at the tournament venue. His subordinates trapped the Third Hokage with the Four Violet Flame Formation and summoned the Impure World Reincarnation bodies of the First Hokage and the Second Hokage into battle... The fighting was extremely brutal. To protect the village, the Third Hokage, in the end..."

"Impure World Reincarnation... the First and Second Hokage..." Shikaku sucked in a cold breath and finally understood why even someone as powerful as the Third Hokage had fallen so quickly.

Against the Impure World bodies of two legendary Hokage, even if all of Konoha attacked together, they might only be feeding themselves to the enemy.

"What happened after that? I remember Lord Jiraiya came back, didn't he?" Shikaku suddenly recalled seeing Jiraiya wandering around the village a few days ago.

"When Lord Jiraiya arrived, the Third Hokage was already beyond saving. And other powerful enemies of unknown identity appeared at the scene as well. The battle escalated. Lord Jiraiya gave Commander Tenzo a direct order to escort the Third Hokage's body back to the Anbu base. At present, the situation at the tournament venue is extremely chaotic!"

Just then, as if to confirm the Anbu ninja's words, an indescribable wave of terrifying chakra, filled with brutality and greed, swept over from the direction of Hokage Rock like a tsunami!

Even from so far