Emergency Contact, Bellflower Mountain City on the Verge of Destruction!

Before the grand canyon carved out by Ato's Dodon Ray.

Haruki Hyuga's slack jaw nearly dropped to the ground in shock.

"Th... this was the power of a single attack? That brat... who exactly was that brat?"

Haruki Hyuga was utterly horrified. He instinctively looked up at Ato in the sky, cold sweat pouring down his forehead.

"No, now isn't the time to investigate this!!"

After his brief shock, Haruki Hyuga—after all, a Konoha jonin—quickly came back to his senses.

The most important thing now was to notify Konoha's headquarters in Bellflower Mountain City.

Haruki Hyuga's Byakugan locked firmly onto the white Energy Blast ahead, still flying onward with a transparent air shockwave around it.

Since Ato had withdrawn the energy output, the original white pillar of light had become an Energy Blast no bigger than a fist.

As it moved, the white Energy Blast trailed an energy flight path that broke the sound barrier.

"I must... cough, cough... I must notify everyone about that white Energy Blast as soon as possible."

Haruki Hyuga's expression turned grave. He swiftly pulled three Soldier Pills from his ninja tool pouch.

Gulp.

He swallowed all three Soldier Pills in one go, forcibly squeezing out a thread of chakra from his body with their help.

Then he quickly took out a special sealing scroll.

When he unfurled it, the character for "mind" was written in the very center.

Haruki Hyuga swiftly pressed his left hand onto the character, formed the Seal of Reconciliation with his right hand, and poured chakra into the scroll.

In an instant, Haruki Hyuga's mind crossed more than a hundred kilometers and connected with the Mental Communications Team in distant Bellflower Mountain City.

Haruki Hyuga let out a breath of relief. He had almost no chakra left.

With the amount of chakra he had now, he could only transmit a few words through an emergency encrypted transmission.

And Ato had seen everything Haruki Hyuga did.

Ato made no move to stop him.

Instead, he watched Haruki Hyuga perform his ninja technique with interest.

He had seen these ninja use techniques in his previous life, but this was his first time watching them from so close.

Beep, beep, beep.

While Haruki Hyuga made mental contact, Ato lightly tapped his Scouter.

Rows of information appeared before his eyes.

Android 18 detected a special mental energy fluctuation.

Though the mental energy fluctuation was weak, it stood out clearly under Android 18's detection.

"The Yamanaka Clan's Mind Communication Technique? It's very similar to Son Goku's telepathy.

"This technique can be learned."

Ato added the Yamanaka Clan's secret techniques to his list of essential abilities to learn.

Not just the Mind Communication Technique.

The Yamanaka Clan's Mind Body Switch Technique, Mind Disturbance Technique, and Mind Reading Technique had all been added to Ato's learning list.

Ato lightly tapped the Scouter several times with his right hand.

Distant Bellflower Mountain City rapidly drew closer before his eyes, until it seemed within reach.

This was the dynamic lightwave scanning ability Ato had asked Android 18 to install in the Scouter.

It could not only scan everything within thousands of kilometers, but also possessed extremely powerful dynamic tracking capabilities.

This allowed Android 18 to detect and track any movement an enemy made for Ato during battle.

As long as the opponent's battle power did not exceed 3,000, Ato's Scouter could capture their movement trajectory.

Compared to the Scouters used by other Saiyans.

Ato's Scouter had already been transformed by him and Android 18 with Tuffle technology into a personal smart terminal.

It possessed far more functions than an ordinary Scouter.

More importantly, Ato had disabled the Scouter's surveillance and tracking functions.

After all, he had no desire for every word, every action, and every movement of his to be exposed to Planet Vegeta or the Frieza Force.

So, the moment he acquired the Scouter, Ato modified it.

The modified Scouter could not only block surveillance and tracking of Ato, but even allowed Ato to hack into and monitor other Scouters in return.

As Bellflower Mountain City, hundreds of kilometers away, came into Ato's view.

He also saw several familiar ninja figures.

Bellflower Mountain City.

The battle between Konoha and the Sand Shinobi was in full swing.

Konoha Shinobi were locked in a frenzied slaughter with the Sand Shinobi puppet forces.

"Puppet Performance: Poison Mist."

The Sand Shinobi puppeteers deftly manipulated their puppets with all ten fingers. Rows of puppets opened their mouths and spewed green poisonous mist from within.

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough."

The Konoha Shinobi formed hand seals in unison, then took deep breaths and exhaled immense gusts of wind.

Boom!

The enormous wind pressure dispersed the green poisonous mist.

However, once the Konoha Shinobi's technique dissipated, the green poisonous mist quickly gathered again and continued spreading toward the Konoha Shinobi formation at tremendous speed.

For a time, the battlefield was filled with green poisonous mist.

But at the center of the battlefield was an entirely different scene.

Orochimaru, one of Konoha's Legendary Three Ninja, stood atop Manda's massive head and looked down at Chiyo, the Sand Shinobi commander below. He sneered, "Old hag Chiyo, give up. The Sand Shinobi's defeat is already certain."

His pair of golden snake pupils gleamed dangerously, like a venomous serpent about to choose someone to devour.

And that was indeed the case.

Beneath his feet, Manda lashed wildly at the surrounding Sand Shinobi with its tail.

The violent force meant that anyone grazed by it was injured, while anyone struck by it died.

"Damn Orochimaru, don't look down on us! Taste the power of Sunagakure Village's puppet secret technique.

"White Secret Technique: Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu!"

On the ground, Chiyo, frail with age, moved both hands rapidly. Before her, the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu rushed toward Orochimaru atop Manda's head.

"Hidden Shadow Snake Hands."

Facing Chiyo's attack, Orochimaru merely raised his hands. Massive pythons shot from his sleeves, rapidly coiling around the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu and binding them in midair.

The current Orochimaru was at the peak of his strength.

Fighting Chiyo was no challenge at all.

"Bunpuku, aren't you ready yet?"

Seeing herself fall into a disadvantage, with the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu being wound ever tighter by Orochimaru's pythons and unable to move at all, Chiyo's face filled with rage. She turned and roared at an old man in monk's robes behind her.

Orochimaru frowned as he looked at the old man behind Chiyo.

He was Sunagakure Village's One-Tail Shukaku jinchuriki: Bunpuku.

"Planning to use a Tailed Beast? It seems this boring war is finally about to end." A chill flashed in Orochimaru's eyes as his right hand formed several seals.

Konoha's Tailed Beast Sealing Team immediately began quietly approaching the battlefield.

However, just as both sides stood at the brink of battle and the final showdown was about to erupt.

An Anbu suddenly appeared before Orochimaru. "Lord Orochimaru, an emergency contact from the Communications Team."

Orochimaru's brows furrowed slightly. They were about to fight the Sand Shinobi in a decisive battle—where would he find the time for some emergency contact?

But after glancing at Bunpuku, who was meditating behind Chiyo, Orochimaru saw that the One-Tail Shukaku would still need some time to descend. Expressionless, he placed a hand on the Anbu's shoulder.

Hum.

Orochimaru's mind instantly connected with the Communications Team behind the battlefield.

Then Orochimaru heard Haruki Hyuga's emergency message:

'Tailed Beast Ball incoming. Kikyō Castle in danger. Evacuate immediately!'

After hearing the emergency message, even the vertical pupils in Orochimaru's cold eyes lost focus slightly.

Orochimaru's icy snake eyes turned toward Bunpuku as he fell silent.

Orochimaru: ???

What the hell?

A Tailed Beast Ball?

Where did a Tailed Beast Ball come from?