The First Generation Appears, Naraku Prepares for a Big Fight

Outside Iwagakure!

At the border of the Land of Earth!

The area was a complete mess. Huge craters littered the ground, and countless figures lay fallen across the battlefield.

Most of them wore red flak jackets, though there were also some in green flak jackets. However, their numbers were far fewer than those wearing red.

Without a doubt, Konoha had once again defeated Iwagakure with an overwhelming advantage.

Just like last time, by the later stages of the battle, more than half of the Iwagakure ninja had surrendered after seeing no hope of victory. Thus, another Iwagakure defensive line had been breached.

After the battle ended, Fugaku and Hiashi ordered the battlefield cleared at once. This time, they did not linger for long. After a brief reorganization and properly dealing with all the surrendered Iwagakure ninja, they immediately set off.

This time, their target was Iwagakure!

Fugaku and the others had received word that, aside from the two defensive lines they had already crushed, there was another force of five thousand Iwagakure ninja led by Ōnoki's disciple, Akatsuchi.

That force was currently guarding the only route they had to take to reach Iwagakure.

Having defeated two armies of ten thousand in succession, the Konoha shinobi army naturally did not take these five thousand Iwagakure ninja seriously. They still had complete confidence that they could crush them.

However, confident as they were, Fugaku, Hiashi, and the other Konoha ninja all understood one thing very clearly: Konoha had defeated Iwagakure's forces so easily mainly because of top-tier fighters like Jiraiya and Guy.

Without those high-end combatants, if they had relied solely on the Konoha shinobi army, then even if they gave it everything they had, they could at most have defeated the force led by Kitsuchi. As for the second army of