Blood-Red Flash! The Master and Disciple Duo!

The Iwagakure higher-ups could barely keep their expressions under control.

No wonder the sky had cleared up—it turned out the Tsuchikage had left them speechless.

My Lord Tsuchikage, were you really trying to make things awkward for us?

We knew you were fired up, but could you not be brainless about it?

Adaptation was not random fabrication, and random fabrication was not nonsense.

Just tell us, how much usable fighting power could the entire Land of Earth possibly muster?

Forget three hundred thousand. Gathering thirty thousand would already be a struggle!

And then there was the matter of the Second Tsuchikage attacking the Hidden Mist Village back then.

That had been an incredibly stupid decision!

Iwagakure was at the westernmost edge of the Shinobi World, while the Hidden Mist Village was at the easternmost edge.

No matter how one looked at it, those two had nothing to do with each other, yet they had insisted on fighting.

Not only had they gained nothing in the end, but both sides' Kage had perished together.

The Second Tsuchikage Mu and the Second Mizukage Gengetsu Hozuki had died together!

Still, Onoki was not someone to be trifled with, and no one dared provoke the old man at this moment.

"Listen to my orders! Send a letter to the Land of Lightning! Invite them to attack the Land of Fire with us!"

"At the same time, send word to the Land of Water and invite them to attack the Land of Fire together!"

"Form alliances and strike Konoha with four nations!"

Onoki swiftly issued several orders!

"After that, immediately organize ten thousand shinobi! Take over Dong Shiren's frontline forces and attack Konoha!"

Onoki said coldly.

The moment those words fell, the Iwagakure higher-ups below instantly lost their composure.

Wait, were they really sending ten thousand men?

What a spendthrift!

At this moment, news of Dong Shiren's vanguard being completely wiped out spread across the entire Shinobi World!

Two against three hundred and fifty!

Those three hundred and fifty were not Genin!

They were three hundred Chunin and fifty Jonin!

Despite the massive disparity! Minato Namikaze and Obito Uchiha had actually succeeded in annihilating the Iwagakure forces!

The moment this battle report emerged, the entire Shinobi World was thrown into an uproar!

Minato Namikaze and Obito Uchiha instantly became the focus of attention throughout the Shinobi World!

The titles Yellow Flash and Blood-Red Flash stood side by side!

They were given the nickname! The Two Lights of Konoha!

The strongest master-and-disciple duo!

Obito Uchiha and Minato Namikaze had become famous in a single battle!

Over in Konoha, the entire village was even more shocked!

When Hiruzen Sarutobi learned of it, he was in high spirits!

He happily ordered the ANBU to spread the deeds of Minato Namikaze and Obito Uchiha!

He wanted every shinobi village to know of their heroic achievements!

This master-and-disciple duo also became a pairing everyone in Konoha talked about with relish!

Konoha

"I never imagined... Obito had already grown to this extent..."

"It looks like I need to hurry up and grow stronger too!"

Rin Nohara gazed brightly at the title Blood-Red Flash!

The training ground was littered with devastation!

Kakashi panted heavily. When he learned of Obito's performance on the battlefield, his expression became even more complicated.

He could only feel the gap between himself and Obito growing wider and wider!

Without realizing it, Obito had actually become someone capable of fighting alongside Minato-sensei!

And he had even gained a title of his own!

Back then, Kakashi had always looked down on Obito, thinking he was just a childish, crybaby dead last who always showed up late and slept.

Now, he was the Blood-Red Flash, renowned throughout Konoha!

"No! I want to join the war too! I want to become a Jonin too! I want to fight side by side with Minato-sensei and Obito!"

"I can't keep staying in Konoha! I'm going to the frontlines!"

Kakashi slowly gathered a brilliant light in his hand!

Chidori!

"With this, I'll definitely be able to catch up to you!"

Kakashi resolutely took the Jonin examination at the age of ten!

Because of Obito, Kakashi took the Jonin examination two years earlier than before!

"Interesting! Interesting!"

"He was completely dead last before he turned five, so how could such a tremendous change have happened?"

After receiving news of Obito's rise to fame, Orochimaru extended his long tongue and licked his lips.

An unfathomable smile hung at the corner of his mouth.

"My interest in the Uchiha Clan is growing greater and greater..."

Wearing a Hidden Cloud Village shinobi vest, Orochimaru smiled and murmured softly.

A closer look would reveal that Orochimaru was actually in the Hidden Cloud Village at this moment!

Logically, Orochimaru should have been in the Land of Rain monitoring Hanzo of the Salamander. He should not have been here.

But Orochimaru knew that Hanzo of the Salamander was currently overwhelmed by the Akatsuki rebellion within his own country and would not rashly join the war.

Orochimaru was an individualist!

He had already seen through the village's nature. Only power gained for himself was real!

An environment like war was the most beneficial to him!

Not only could he abduct children, but he could also obtain a large amount of experimental material from it!

These human experiments were impossible during peacetime, but wartime was different.

Greed filled Orochimaru's eyes as he watched B, the Jinchuriki heading toward the Hidden Cloud Village's office in the distance!

B, the current Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, was half of Killer B's teacher and the cousin of Fourth Raikage A.

His purpose in coming here was to obtain the Eight-Tails' power!

(Due to this timeline, everyone might get confused, so to avoid anyone saying I got it wrong, let me clarify here: in the original work, B participated in the Third Shinobi World War. Orochimaru released the Eight-Tails during the Third War, and Killer B also received the Eight-Tails during that time. Perhaps because Killer B looks older, some people thought he was very old during the Third War. In fact, Killer B was only thirty-nine in Shippuden, while Kakashi was only thirty-one. The difference between them was not that great, which shows their age gap was not especially outrageous.)

"The power of the Tailed Beasts... truly wonderful..."

"Back then, Gold and Silver Horns killed the Second Hokage by relying on this power..."

Orochimaru had actually wanted to set his sights on the Nine-Tails, but if he truly dared to do so, Konoha's entire upper echelon would explode!

At that point, his teacher, Jiraiya, his partner Danzo, and all of Konoha would become his enemies!

He could not fall out with Konoha yet. After all, he still needed that massive machine called Konoha to obtain what he wanted.

Such as Hashirama Cells, and more techniques...

He had already been lying low here for many days, waiting for an opportunity. He planned to paralyze the current Jinchuriki B with a hallucinogenic drug, release the Eight-Tails, and then seize the Eight-Tails' cells amid the chaos.

On the frontlines, with the help of Minato Namikaze and Obito Uchiha, Konoha's forces—

—swept forward all the way!

They reclaimed the territory they had previously lost!

Obito Uchiha used the Sharingan again and again on the battlefield, becoming increasingly proficient!

With the Flying Thunder God's high-speed movements combined with the Sharingan's powers of perception—

Obito Uchiha was like a tiger that had grown wings!

Together with Minato Namikaze, the two became the most famous duo on the battlefield!

The Two Lights of Konoha became known far and wide!