Ambush from Uchiha and Hyuga

Beyond the borders of the Land of Stone!

Not far from the Red Yang Barrier, two forces stood facing each other.

They were the three thousand shinobi led by Fugaku and Hiashi, and the Iwagakure forces led by Roshi.

"They noticed us in advance?"

Looking at the Konoha shinobi ahead, Roshi's expression changed slightly. Though he had already suspected that Konoha might discover their movements, he had not expected their response to be so swift, nor for them to have grasped their whereabouts so precisely.

Roshi was not naive enough to believe Konoha's presence here was a coincidence.

According to their intelligence, the Konoha shinobi camp was still some distance from here. Since they had appeared here now, there was no doubt that Konoha had learned their marching route.

At that moment, Roshi realized a problem: Iwagakure's intelligence-gathering capabilities were far too weak.

He had never felt this way before, but compared to Konoha's intelligence network today, they were utterly outclassed.

Roshi shook his head and raised his gaze to the Konoha shinobi ahead.

At the very front of the Konoha forces, Fugaku and Hiashi were likewise studying him.

From his appearance, they had already identified Roshi as the Four-Tails Jinchuriki.

The pressure on Fugaku and Hiashi immediately surged. What a Jinchuriki represented in a war went without saying.

Known as war machines, they possessed terrifying destructive power.

If Roshi abandoned his sanity and fully transformed into the Tailed Beast, then whether it was Konoha's three thousand shinobi or the three thousand Iwagakure shinobi opposite them, all six thousand would suffer enormous casualties.

However, this method of harming himself eight hundred to injure the enemy a thousand was not something Roshi would willingly use unless it came down to the very end.

Besides, he had considerable confidence in his own