The Kage's Retreat, Akatsuki's Impure World Reincarnation

The battle between the Five Kage and the reanimated Kage had lasted a full hour. Both sides repeatedly tugged back and forth across their respective fronts, with neither able to achieve a decisive breakthrough. Raikage A's lightning release chakra mode collided with the Third Raikage's lightning release chakra mode several times across the battlefield, each impact making the earth tremble as blue-white lightning scorched the surrounding air with crackling snaps. During the third clash, Raikage A's shoulder was grazed by his father's One-Finger Nukite. His lightning release chakra mode was torn open, and blood seeped from the wound. But he did not retreat, because his mission was not to defeat his father—that was impossible—but to hold him back long enough for the Sealing Squad to approach from the flank.

Ōnoki's duel with Mu, the Second Tsuchikage, had become a war of attrition centered around Dust Release. Two transparent cubic fields of light repeatedly collided and annihilated each other in midair, each cancellation leaving a fresh crack in the ground below. Veins bulged across Ōnoki's forehead as his Chakra drained rapidly, while Mu's Dust Release remained as precise and sharp as it had been when he first appeared. Ōnoki knew full well that if this continued, his Chakra would run out before his teacher's did.

Hozuki Gengetsu before Mei Terumi had been pierced through by her Lava Release three times already, yet each time, that gray-white body reformed within seconds as though nothing had happened. The Steaming Danger Tyranny clone, made of oil and water, separated from his body again and again, charging toward the Allied Forces' positions with the innocent posture of a child before exploding into a scorching hell of steam. Mei Terumi formed seals with both hands and expelled a boiling mire from her mouth—Lava Release: Dissolving Monster