The Four Heavenly Phenomenon People Appear

"Um?"

Jiraiya, sensed something was wrong.

He gestured to stop the team that was about to continue advancing, and then handed over the Yamanaka Santen.

"Three days, and you didn't feel anything at all?"

Jiraiya looked around and asked in a low voice about the Yamanaka Santen.

Yamanaka Santen, he paused, then closed his eyes and increased his sensory range.

A moment later, he opened his eyes and shook his head in Jiraiya's direction. "I'm sorry, Lord Jiraiya, I really didn't sense anything."

Jiraiya hearing this answer, Jiraiya frowned slightly and subconsciously glanced at Karin's location. Finding her also looking bewildered, his expression became even more peculiar.

"Kakashi, protect your men."

At this moment, Kakashi disregarded Jiraiya's revenge and led Naruto and the others closer to them.

Their mission was to deliver supplies while receiving cover from Jiraiya's squad, which is why the two sides were working together.

"What happened, Lord Jiraiya?"

Kakashi also became serious.

"No, perhaps it's just my imagination, but years of war experience tell me that something is amiss in the surroundings."

Jiraiya took a few steps forward and came to a clump of trees.

Pushing aside the weeds at the base of the tree, a very new engraving appeared before his eyes.

"This is..."

His expression changed Yamanaka Santen.

He knew the meaning of the engraving; it represented an enemy attack.

These markings are typically left by Konoha Ninja after they have been attacked.

"No one at the outposts we just passed mentioned any attacks."

Jiraiya stood up with a cold smile, using his body as cover to form hand seals in the shadows.

"Oil Bomb!"

Once the hand seals were complete, Jiraiya jumped up and sprayed a thick layer of Toad Oil towards a treetop.

"Water Release · Water Wall!"

Jiraiya's attack seemed to have flipped a switch, and a curtain of water suddenly appeared, blocking his Toad Oil.

Kakashi's direction was attacked by Water Dragon Bullet.

"Wind Release: Wind Blade Manipulation"

Seeing Kakashi being attacked, Yamanaka Santen instinctively looked at where the attacker was. The next second, a line of blood appeared on his neck, his head wobbled a few times, and then fell to the ground from his neck.

"Wind Release: Wind Killing Formation"

The last to be attacked was Ikki, who had replaced Yamanaka Santen at the front of the group. After seeing the miserable state of Yamanaka Santen, he immediately assumed a defensive stance, but was still cut to pieces by the Wind Release.

Are there four enemies?

Jiraiya noticed the situation of the group out of the corner of his eye, and his expression turned somewhat grim.

The first attack took away two of our own ninjas, that's really...

And how did they manage to evade the senses of the Yamanaka Clan and the Uzumaki Clan?

"Oh dear, that's why I hate this so-called intuition. We're all wearing anti-sensory ninja tools, aren't we, Sannin Lord Jiraiya?"

As the water curtain receded, the person blocking Jiraiya's path was revealed in full.

One of the Four Heavenly Phenomenon People, Longyan.

"That face... I see. I recognize you. You're rogue ninja from Artisan Ninja Village, Four Heavenly Phenomenon People, right?"

Jiraiya recognized Ryugan and then deduced the identities of the others.

"Not bad, old man, you actually recognized us."

Peacock, having killed Ikki, walked out laughing and kicked the ninja fragments at his feet.

Next up was Mizutora, who fought Kakashi. Although he didn't speak, his eyes were fixed on Kakashi.

The Water Dragon Bullet was clearly very tricky, but the ninja wearing a mask only had a slightly dirty hem.

Finally, the one that emerged was the Houki that had killed the creature that had been in the Yamanaka Santen; a transparent wind blade still hovered in his hand.

"Dragon Eye, you're no match for that guy. Heh heh heh, I never thought I'd have the chance to fight Jiraiya, one of the Sannin."

The Houki carefully examined Jiraiya, then gestured for the Houki to switch opponents with it.

"Hmph, you're underestimating the elderly far too much."

Jiraiya tossed his hair; normally, he would have already struck his classic pose.

However, the blood of his comrades still flowed beneath his feet, warm enough to ignite Jiraiya's murderous intent.

"The four of you have no right to choose your opponents; you will all be defeated by me alone! Summoning Technique!"

A loud thud resounded Jiraiya summoned Gama Ken, who was wielding a pot-lid-shaped shield and a harpoon.

"Kakashi, take Naruto and retreat!"

Taking advantage of the chaos created by Gama Ken, Jiraiya activated the Lion Dance Technique, manipulating his hair to wrap around the longan in front of him.

Longyan hurriedly retreated, simultaneously using Water Release to try and stop Jiraiya's hair. "Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

The ferocious water dragon roared and spiraled upwards, Jiraiya stomped his feet and cut it off with his hair.

"Really?!"

Longyan, who had been so arrogant just moments before, could no longer laugh. Jiraiya, he disregarded his image and quickly retreated.

"Help me, Mizutora!"

Longyan cried for help to the nearest Mizutora, but the Mizutora had no time to pay attention to him, because the Gama Ken attacked him the moment it appeared.

"They're all useless. Wind Release: Wind Blade Slash."

The Houki leaped up suddenly, hurling a blade-shaped wind blade from its hand that severed Jiraiya's equally sharp hair.

Fire Style: Flame Bullet

Jiraiya seized the opportunity when the Houki leaped into the air and unleashed a fireball to attack it.

"Wind Release: Evil Wind Blade"

The enormous fireball was shattered by the wind blades in mid-air, turning into a sky full of sparks.

"Um?"

Just as the Houki was admiring its masterpiece with satisfaction, an alarm bell suddenly went off in its mind, and it hurriedly lowered its head.

Sure enough, taking advantage Jiraiya the moment when sparks flew, Jiraiya kicked the Houki, his wooden clogs almost grazing its head as he flew past.

The somewhat annoyed Houki was about to reach out and grab Jiraiya's calf when it turned its head and saw that a spinning ball of Chakra had already formed in Jiraiya's right hand.

"Rasengan!"

"Wind Release-- "

As Ninjutsu without hand seals, the greatest advantage of the Rasengan is its ability to quickly attack the opponent in close combat.

Before the Houki could even form its hand seals, it was struck hard on the shoulder by Rasengan, sending it spinning backward.

"Wind Release: Wind Killing Formation!"

Peacock hurriedly intervened. Originally, she intended to help Mizutora attack Gama Ken, but seeing the Houki being attacked, she had to change her target.

"Earth Release · Earth Style Wall."

Jiraiya and used Earth Release to block the opponent's attack.

Longan also regrouped and charged towards Jiraiya.

"You wretched Toad, prepare to die!"

Struck by the harpoon, Mizutora tried to break free but found himself unable to do so. Despite the pain, he pulled out a strangely shaped weapon from behind his back.

Multi-barrel machine gun.

"Xinei!"

With the sound of the gun barrel turning, Mizutora pulled the trigger.

Like a flood pouring from the gun barrel, bullets instantly engulfed Gama Ken.

Gama Ken instinctively raised his shield to defend himself, but the bullets were far more powerful. His shield was quickly shattered, and a large number of bullets tore off parts of his flesh, forcing him to voluntarily dispel the Summoning Technique.

"Lightning Blade!"

Seeing this, Kakashi, who was retreating, realized that he couldn't let the Mizutora use this weapon to attack Jiraiya, so he quickly turned around and used the Lightning Blade to charge at the opponent.

Mizutora noticed Kakashi's movement, turned his gun around, and was about to fire at Kakashi when Naruto, without hesitation, formed hand seals and used Ninjutsu to cover his opponent: "Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere".

Small wind bullets shot at Mizutora with speeds comparable to bullets, several of them piercing his shoulder and arm.

Under Naruto's cover, Kakashi's Lightning Blade approached Mizutora with a sharp thunderous sound. A flash of lightning, and Mizutora's arm holding the Gatling gun was completely severed.

The moment Kakashi succeeded, Jiraiya had already kicked away the dragon eye that was trying to sneak up on him.

Just as he was about to deliver the fatal blow to Longan, several more wind blades flashed by. If Jiraiya hadn't dodged in time, the large tree that crashed to the ground beside him would have been Jiraiya fate.

No way?

Jiraiya turned his head to look in the direction of the attack, and it turned out to be the Houki that had just been hit by the Rasengan.

The torn clothes on his shoulder proved that the Rasengan had indeed hit him, but his unscathed skin contradicted that.

This is bad. Could it be that this guy possesses the healing factor of Artificial Human?

Jiraiya assumed a defensive stance, and as expected, the Houki, whose Wind Release had missed, rushed towards Jiraiya and arrived in front of him in the blink of an eye.

That's fast!

Jiraiya sighed inwardly and mustered all his strength to fight his opponent.

As the only one of the four to be inoculated with Ōtsutsuki Shibai cells, Houki's Taijutsu were so powerful that he was able to gain the upper hand in his fight against Jiraiya.

The fight between the two was deadly and fierce, and the movements were swift. Peacock had no room to intervene, so she turned her attention to Kakashi.

Ryugan, who had been kicked away by Jiraiya, was then entangled by two other Konoha Ninja, and the two sides fought fiercely for a time.

Mizutora struggled to his feet and faced the combined attack of Naruto and Sasuke head-on.

"Don't hold me back, Sasuke."

"Hmph, you should worry about yourself first, Naruto."

It wasn't difficult for the two of them to deal with a Mizutora that had lost an arm.

Seeing that the other enemies didn't possess the terrifying abilities of the Houki, Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief and began to consider his next strategy.

He initially thought that ninjas who had defected from small ninja villages wouldn't be difficult to deal with, but after engaging them in direct combat, Jiraiya discovered that they possessed remarkable skills in both Ninjutsu and Taijutsu.

This strength is comparable to that of a Shadow.

While pondering, Jiraiya deliberately created an opening to lure the Houki into attacking him.

Then, just as the Houki's foot was about to kick him, Jiraiya used Ninjutsu: "Ninjutsu: Needle Jizo."

Jiraiya entire body was covered by a full head of white hair, with only the area he used for observation showing. The exposed strands of hair stood up like sharp thorns.

The Houki delivered a powerful kick, piercing through the entire instep.

"Rasengan."

Seeing the Houki controlled by the spikes, Jiraiya stretched out his hand and unleashed another Rasengan, this time aiming at the Houki's head.