The moment I finished speaking, I thrust my right hand forward.
My five fingers cracked as I clenched them in the cold wind.
Green origin energy streamed through the thick snow, flooding madly into White Zetsu's legs.
Before the white-haired freak could even scream, his body began to stiffen.
Within seconds, two thick green vines burst out of his pale flesh.
The vines intertwined, twisting him into a withered tree stump.
With a clatter, dry branches fell into the snow without making so much as a splash.
"Kabuto sent this junk? It's not even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth. Cheap bastard."
I spat on the ground in disgust and brushed the white flakes off my hands.
"Sen, the movement underground seems to be getting stronger."
The ANBU girl held the carriage curtain, her face tense beneath her mask and her hands trembling.
I looked ahead where she was pointing and saw the snowfield shaking violently.
Great masses of snow rolled to either side like enormous waves.
"Not just here. Something's happened to the northwest, too."
I closed my eyes and sensed the disturbances underground through the Divine Tree's roots.
The chakra signatures beneath the earth were icy cold, like stagnant water boiling.
The spies Nagato had stationed everywhere dissolved completely into pools of black water at that moment.
Most of the Impure World Reincarnation Kabuto had set up along the Land of Iron's border had also fallen apart.
"Well, damn. Looks like my wood really brought that four-eyed mutt to heel."
I grinned broadly and pushed up the Sunglasses perched near my eyes.
"Nagato's on the run, Kabuto's captured. The Akatsuki really is finished this time."
But before I could enjoy myself for long, the distant sky suddenly darkened.
Thick black clouds gathered in an instant, hanging