Crackle! Crackle!
Silver-white lightning still flashed continuously across Lin Qing's skin.
With every flash, large patches of skin tore apart, only to regenerate at extreme speed under his formidable healing ability.
First, Zetsu's clone had been able to deceive the Byakugan.
Then came Pain's Super Shinra Tensei, which effortlessly tore apart the defensive barrier set above the city.
Those two unforeseen events instantly shredded Lin Qing's side's defensive arrangements.
If Lin Qing had flown over, then even with Time Stop acceleration, by the time he arrived, he would likely have seen only Oda Ieyasu's corpse and a massacred city.
Lin Qing could only choose the most aggressive and fastest method—
Heavenly Transfer Technique.
Lin Qing shook his wrist, lifted the Blade of Ruin one-handed onto his shoulder, then nodded at Sakamoto and gave him a thumbs-up.
"Badass."
Sakamoto froze for half a second before grinning.
He swiftly scrambled up from the ground, slung Oda Ieyasu and Little Hideyoshi over his shoulders, and fled the battlefield.
His legs were still trembling, but that did not affect his speed in the slightest.
Sakamoto's job was done.
What came next was Lin Qing's battlefield.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Several figures descended from the sky and landed behind Pain.
They were the remaining Six Paths of Pain and Kisame.
The Animal Path slapped the ground, summoning more than a dozen enormous creatures.
One of the lizard-like summons opened its mouth. Its abdomen writhed, then its throat bulged, before it vomited out over a thousand ninjas covered in mucus.
These ninjas wore forehead protectors, but they did not belong to any known village.
Their forehead protectors bore characters such as "Fire," "Earth," and "Lightning."
They were elite ninjas secretly trained by the feudal lords of various nations. Their average strength was at the chunin level, and