Iwagakure's Great Explosion

The top of the Tsuchikage Building in Iwagakure

Fifteen ninjas wearing Iwagakure Forehead Protector were kneeling behind Naraku.

"Miss Divine Bee, you may begin. Go ahead."

"Hi!"

Kamizuru Divine Bee soft voice and disappeared in a Body Flicker Technique. The other fourteen people also disappeared in Body Flicker Technique, following behind their clan leader Kamizuru Divine Bee.

A wisp of dust rose from the top of the Tsuchikage Building, as if everything that had just happened had never existed.

When Naraku Orochimaru's power, he swept through the Tsuchikage Building, storing all the information about Iwagakure and other things into his internal dimension.

Naraku also saw the round sphere in the sky that resembled the moon, and he could faintly hear Orochimaru calling out to him.

As one of the legendary Sannin, it would be impossible for Orochimaru to cry for help. His final plea shows that he was extremely panicked.

"Orochimaru is indeed quite capable; his achievements have even exceeded my expectations."

Should we save this dangerous person or not...?

Naraku gazed at the sphere in the sky, pondered for a moment, and then slowly rose into the air.

"Regardless of what he's thinking, he's doing work for me anyway, so let it go."

Naraku ultimately decided to give it a try and rescue Orochimaru.

The strange phenomenon in the sky caught the attention of everyone in Iwagakure. Ōnoki watched as countless stones rapidly gathered in the sky, like an inverted freefall.

As more and more stones gathered, they rose faster and faster. Several troublesome figures had already been sealed deep within the stone sphere, including Orochimaru.

The stone sphere in the sky looks like a real celestial body, suspended in the sky.

"This is!? Could the legend of the Sage of Six Paths sealing away evil spirits to form the moon be true?"

The Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki, stared blankly at the stars in the sky, muttering to himself.

Uchiha Zensui gazed at the sphere in the sky, his eyes filled with deep apprehension.

"Is this Pain's power? Could Pain really be a god...?"

Kakuzu gazed at the enormous, moon-shaped sphere in the sky. Having been defeated by Pain and forced to join the Akatsuki, he was equally astonished, his impression of Pain's power deepening once again.

The Akatsuki members beside Ōnoki had just cleared out a street in Iwagakure when everyone looked up at the sphere in the sky.

Boom!

While the group was still reeling from Pain's Ninjutsu, a violent explosion rang out in Iwagakure. The shockwave from the explosion collapsed most of the houses in Iwagakure, and a mushroom cloud, as large as the moon, rose up in the Iwagakure.

The white skeleton surrounding Uchiha Zensui Susanoo him to survive the massive explosion thanks to Uchiha Zensui.

Kakuzu's body was blown in two. The two halves twisted and turned, and many strange black threads emerged from the wounds, putting the two halves back together. Then the black threads stitched them together, and Kakuzu's body was restored to its original state.

Kakuzu, his clothes torn and bruised from the explosion, looked up at Ōnoki in the sky with fury and roared:

"Tsuchikage, you need to pay more!"

Kakuzu was furious. In the emergency just now, Kakuzu threw the Tsuchikage Ōnoki into the air, allowing Ōnoki to survive the explosion, while he himself was blown in two.

The Tsuchikage, Ōnoki, hasn't been paid yet, Kakuzu won't allow Ōnoki to die in front of him before he's paid.

Floating in mid-air, Ōnoki did not answer Kakuzu's question. He observed the village below, a scene of devastation with corpses strewn everywhere. Many Iwagakure Ninja dressed in red clothes and yellow vests lay motionless on the ground.

Beside the corpses of the Iwagakure Ninja lay many other ninjas dressed in Sound Ninja uniforms and Hidden Sand vests.

Ōnoki stared at the devastation of the village, his teeth clenched, his face contorted with grief and indignation, his whole body trembling.

Kakuzu noticed that Ōnoki did not answer him, and his eyes gradually became dangerous. At the same time Kakuzu noticed that some wooden limbs beside him suddenly moved, and the wooden limbs and torso converged and condensed into a handsome red-haired man.

"I've never encountered such a dangerous situation before. This war mission has exceeded my expectations. Even my Hiruko has been destroyed."

Sasori of the Red Sands revealed his true form as a puppet. With a flick of his right hand, he controlled a silver-haired man to stand up, looking somewhat sentimental.

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?"

Hidan twisted his head, turned to look at Sasori of the Red Sands, and asked with some confusion.

"You're still alive? What a blunder."

Sasori of the Red Sands's body was that of a puppet, expressionless, but disappointment could be heard in his tone. Earlier, when Pain ordered everyone to retreat, Sasori of the Red Sands had brought Hidan out with him.

Thinking Hidan was dead, Hidan planned to use him as a puppet, but Hidan was blown up and came back to life, much to Sasori of the Red Sands's disappointment.

Kisame Hoshigaki was surrounded by a water sphere that completely enveloped his body. After the smoke and dust dissipated, Kisame Hoshigaki removed the water sphere's protection and said with some lingering fear:

"That was really dangerous, I almost died."

After complaining, Kisame Hoshigaki twisted his neck and glanced upwards, just in time to see the strange phenomenon in the sky. He asked in confusion:

"Hey, look, what's that in the sky?"

In the sky

Uchiha Nara, flying freely, his right hand outstretched, and a blue Chakra sphere formed— the Rasengan Ninjutsu, the ultimate form of Konoha Style Ninjutsu.

After the blue Rasengan was formed, Rasengan turned black as Naraku's Chakra was injected into it, and a halo appeared around Rasengan, emanating a destructive aura of thunder.

Naraku's outstretched right hand controlled the Rasengan, which had been infused with the nature transformation of Storm Release. His right hand gradually rose, holding the black Rasengan, which rapidly grew larger until it was the size of a millstone.

"It's still too slow."

Naraku was not satisfied with the speed at which he was injecting Chakra, so he raised his left hand, holding Rasengan that was as tall as a person and the size of a millstone, and frantically injected Chakra into both hands.

As Naraku's Chakra was injected, the Rasengan he was holding rapidly increased in size. In about ten seconds, the Storm Release Rasengan became over a hundred meters in diameter, roughly one-twentieth the size of the nearby stone moon.

Compared to Rasengan itself, Naraku is like an ant carrying a watermelon.

Naraku felt that he had injected enough Chakra to destroy Iwagakure, so he stopped injecting Chakra and threw the Rasengan down towards Iwagakure.

"Great Spiraling Ring!"

With Naraku's soft shout and a flick of his arm, a black Rasengan, hundreds of meters in diameter, accompanied by an even larger halo, flew rapidly downwards towards Iwagakure.

The Great Spiraling Ring crashed down rapidly, and just as it was about to hit the village, a huge white beam of light pierced through Great Spiraling Ring precisely, causing Great Spiraling Ring to explode in mid-air!