Clash with Konoha's Yellow Flash

The Third Hokage was very particular about the pursuers he dispatched.

Orochimaru, a ninja skilled in ninjutsu and at the quasi-Kage level; Minato Namikaze, a ninja skilled in ninjutsu at the High Ninja level; Hyuga Hiashi, a ninja skilled in taijutsu and reconnaissance at the High Ninja level; and Shisui Uchiha, a ninja skilled in genjutsu at the High Ninja level.

Furthermore, Minato Namikaze was a direct student of the Hokage lineage, Hyuga Hiashi represented the next generation of the Hyuga Clan, and Shisui Uchiha could represent the Uchiha Clan. If this configuration couldn't bring Tsunade back, then everyone would share the blame.

Surely, these people wouldn't condemn the future important figures of their own clans?

If they couldn't be punished together, then they could only be let off together.

However, the Third Hokage's focus wasn't on this. What greatly concerned him was the sentence Oguri Hayashi had revealed.

"Hokage-sama, please pay more attention to those familiar faces who have inexplicably appeared in the village."

From an ordinary person's perspective, this was indeed a strange statement, but for ninjas, it wasn't surprising.

There were countless jutsu among ninjas. In the distant past, there was Orochimaru's Reanimation Jutsu. More recently, there was Shisui Uchiha's Kotoamatsukami, which the Third Hokage didn't know about. Even the Uchiha Clan's genjutsu could achieve this. However, the phrase "familiar faces who have inexplicably appeared in the village" was not normal.

The Third Hokage had great faith in Jiraiya's intelligence-gathering abilities, so he gave Jiraiya a more important task. This might be related to why Oguri Hayashi defected, and the deaths of the four people before his defection were also a trigger. It was imperative to understand the identities of those four people.

While the Third Hokage began searching for the reason behind Oguri Hayashi's defection, Oguri Hayashi didn't slow down.

"Damn it, so fast!" Even Orochimaru, Swift-Body Shisui, the Yellow Flash Minato Namikaze, and Hyuga Hiashi, who was skilled in taijutsu, couldn't catch up to the opponent.

And the opponent was carrying a woman weighing over a hundred kilograms!

This person's physical fitness was too monstrous!

"Lord Orochimaru, I have a mark ahead. I'll go ahead and stop the opponent!" Minato Namikaze, who was behind Orochimaru, said.

"Go ahead," Orochimaru said with a grave expression.

The Yellow Flash instantly disappeared behind Orochimaru.

"So fast, he's already appeared three hundred meters ahead of us and is rapidly approaching the opponent." As a High Ninja of Konoha, Hyuga Hiashi naturally didn't need to conserve his chakra while pursuing. His Byakugan was constantly active, tightly tracking Oguri Hayashi's figure without letting up.

Seeing Minato instantly appear in front of the opponent, Hyuga Hiashi exclaimed in admiration.

Once hit by Minato and marked, the opponent wouldn't be able to escape them no matter where they ran.

Seeing the Konoha's Yellow Flash appear directly in front of him, Oguri Hayashi tossed Tsunade up, quickly formed hand seals, and slowly flew up again. Holding Tsunade, he slowly ascended into the sky.

Tsunade looked up in surprise as she got farther and farther from the ground. She saw Minato leap high, intending to attack Oguri Hayashi, but at this moment, Oguri Hayashi was a full twenty meters away from him.

Minato Namikaze threw a kunai. The kunai rapidly approached Oguri Hayashi. Seeing Oguri Hayashi holding Tsunade with both hands, he had no way to keep the kunai away. He knew clearly that once Minato's kunai got close, it meant Minato was close to him. Once Minato got close, his long-prepared spatial mark would be placed on him.

He absolutely could not let Minato's kunai get close.

Tsunade could clearly feel Oguri Hayashi's chest expand, then he turned his head and spat out the air he had inhaled.

The air shot out of his mouth like a sharp sword, forming a physical force in mid-air that struck the kunai.

The kunai was sent flying when it was still six meters away. Minato instantly appeared a dozen meters away, caught his kunai, and looked at the departing Oguri Hayashi, letting out a sigh of resignation. He formed hand seals and disappeared into the sky.

"Lord Orochimaru, I apologize, he escaped," Minato Namikaze said with shame as he appeared near Orochimaru and the others.

"That jutsu, it's the Tsuchikage's..." As the strongest ninjutsu user in Konoha besides Hiruzen Sarutobi, Orochimaru was naturally well aware of the signature jutsu of the ninja world.

"Combined with the previous Lightning Release, which is the Raikage's... Could it be..." Orochimaru muttered, his pupils contracting slightly, a hint of anticipation in his heart, though he didn't show it on his face.

"Let's go back. This guy is very troublesome. Let Teacher Hiruzen make the decision," Orochimaru said calmly, even with a hint of coldness.

"Yes." The other three High Ninjas, though somewhat confused, bowed in agreement.

"Some information must be sent back," Orochimaru seemed to be talking to himself, or perhaps explaining.

The three didn't ask, because since Orochimaru didn't say what the information was, it meant they weren't qualified to know.

The four hurried back, with Minato directly returning to the Hokage's office to report.

His abilities were too useful. When he returned to the Hokage's office and relayed the information to the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi pulled down his hat and nodded, "I understand. Go find Jiraiya about this matter; he will tell you some things."

As a candidate for the next Hokage, he naturally had an advantage in intelligence, and the Third Hokage didn't hide some things from him.

Meanwhile, after being carried far away from Konoha by Oguri Hayashi, Oguri Hayashi directly used Earth Release to create a cave. Then, he sent out a shadow clone to hunt, while his main body watched Tsunade, one of the Sannin, without any slack.

However, even while watching Tsunade, he could cultivate slowly.

He mainly practiced Lightning Release. So when Tsunade saw lightning emanating from his hands, she was slightly startled.

Could he already perform the chakra nature transformation for Lightning Release at his age?

The chakra nature transformation for Lightning Release was already very proficient with the Book of Thunder. The Book of Thunder contained a technique, [Lightning Release: Violent Torrent], which was similar to the Lightning Release chakra nature transformation of Chidori.

And he was currently using chakra nature transformation to develop his own new jutsu.

That's right, he was developing a new ninjutsu.

A Lightning Release ninjutsu.

He slowly placed his hands side-by-side, with lightning intertwining and tearing between them, making the jutsu look extremely dangerous.

"The Raikage's Body Forging Technique, the Tsuchikage's Light-Weight Rock Technique. You're the one who recently stole the secret techniques of the Cloud Ninja and Stone Shinobi, aren't you?!" Tsunade said coldly from the side, observing.