"Enemy attack—!!!"
The shout shattered the desert's silence in an instant.
"Southeast! Five kilometers away! A Tailed Beast Ball is incoming—!!!"
Two figures appeared at Tianyi's side almost the moment his words fell.
Beneath his silver hair, Hatake Sakumo's gaze instantly locked onto the southeast.
Every expression on Tsunade's face turned grave. "How long?"
"Less than thirty seconds!" Tianyi's voice was hoarse with extreme tension.
"Enough!" Without the slightest hesitation, Tsunade rapidly formed hand seals.
An enormous amount of chakra surged into the earth.
"Summoning Technique!"
Bang!
A massive cloud of white smoke erupted, and the enormous, slick body of the slug sage from Shikkotsu Forest suddenly appeared in the center of the camp.
Without the slightest delay, under Tsunade's command, Katsuyu's enormous body rippled as if boiling and split apart!
Hundreds upon thousands of smaller slug fragments shot out from the main body.
They pounced upon every Leaf Village ninja in the camp, whether they were on duty or had just been awakened and rushed out.
Even the wounded in the medical tents were swiftly wrapped and covered by one or several slugs.
The slugs secreted mucus glowing with a lustrous green light, forming a biological layer of cushioning and healing that clung tightly to their skin.
This was the strongest and final protection Tsunade could offer everyone.
At the same time, Hatake Sakumo's icy voice rang in every Leaf Village ninja's ears:
"Abandon all supplies! Everyone, immediately! Spread out as widely as possi—"
Before he could finish, a black dot came howling in from the distant southeastern horizon.
Tianyi's pupils shrank to pinpoints. There was no time to think.
The instinct to survive and his precise judgment drove his body into action.
His figure vanished from where he stood.
Almost the instant he appeared on a relatively soft