"This has nothing to do with Sunagakure. Xuanyin has officially formed an unbreakable alliance with Sunagakure."
"This is Temari, daughter of Fourth Kazekage Rasa and princess of Sunagakure."
Just as Xuandou was about to send out the White Zetsu army to search for the two of them,
Hashirama Senju suddenly spoke up beside him.
"This was indeed no accident!"
"I strongly suspect those Sand Shinobi are plotting some unspeakable conspiracy!"
Tekka immediately picked up the thread.
At his words, Temari instinctively took half a step back, fine beads of sweat instantly covering her forehead.
"This has nothing to do with Sunagakure."
Madara Uchiha snorted coldly.
"There are only a handful of people in the entire Shinobi World capable of pulling something under my and Hashirama's noses."
"And none of them are in Sunagakure!"
Tekka opened his mouth, but said nothing more.
Temari patted her ample chest and let out a long sigh of relief.
Hashirama Senju took in everyone's expressions and continued:
"Of course, this was no accident, but it really has nothing to do with Sunagakure."
"The instant the sandstorm struck, I detected it in advance and used Wood Release to shelter everyone beneath it."
"At that moment,"
"a strange energy suddenly appeared and took Yunyou away!"
"Seeing this, Shiwa hurriedly grabbed Yunyou, only to be taken away by that energy as well."
"So the fundamental reason Yunyou and Shiwa disappeared was that strange energy that suddenly appeared."
"That's also why I said this was no accident!"
Strange energy?
Xuandou's heart jolted, and he hurriedly asked, "Elder Madara, could you identify what kind of energy it was?"
"Mount Myōboku's Reverse Summoning Technique? Or some special teleportation technique?"
"A spacetime energy formed from the fusion of temporal and spatial energy."
"I'm very familiar with that energy."
"Back then, my younger