"But it's still unclear what kind of person he is." Li spoke slowly. He had never expected Jugo not to have fallen into Orochimaru's hands yet. If that was the case, then Orochimaru's reincarnation technique probably had not been completed either. After all, he had not received the formal inheritance of Ryūchi Cave. If he wanted to obtain sage energy, the most direct—and currently his only—method was to acquire Jugo.
"Then what are you going to do? Orochimaru isn't someone you can fool around with. Even if we really snatch him away first, setting aside whether we can complete Orochimaru's technique, if he truly loses his temper, the two of us probably won't end well either, right?" Mao Yihua frowned deeply, looking extremely troubled.
Li sighed and said with a miserable expression, "But speaking of which, the current situation really is troublesome. If we actually go meet up with Minato, then once the fighting starts, the credit will basically all go to Minato. Do those guys behind us really think I came here to earn points for them? If it were only you and Hinata, my plan might actually have worked. But with such a bunch of deadweights in tow, heh... All right, they've caught up."
Mao Yihua nodded. Sure enough, the group behind them had slowly caught up.
The group then resumed their journey. Li's movements had actually put the others slightly at ease. This war was an offensive jointly launched by Kusagakure and Amegakure.
Kusagakure and Amegakure were both villages of limited strength, but during wartime, villages like these often became targets for plunder and suffered enormous losses after every war.
Now, the two villages had united and begun resisting Konoha's advance.
Although they understood that they would not be Konoha's match in the long run, if they