He had spent his whole life being led around by the Toad Sage's prophecy.
Iwagakure would withdraw, and White Fang would hurry west to join up with them.
Then they would launch an all-out attack on Kumogakure and end the war in one fell swoop.
That was the plan Minato Namikaze, commander-in-chief of the Western Front, had worked out.
Minato Namikaze knew perfectly well that Iwagakure would have to retreat.
They had stationed a full ten thousand troops on the front lines.
The supplies they consumed each day-food, weapons, and daily necessities-added up to a staggering amount.
As soon as their logistics failed to keep up, that enormous army would become impossibly cumbersome.
But what he had never expected was-
After Kannabi Bridge, the crucial military route from the Land of Earth to the Land of Fire, was destroyed, Kitsuchi did not lead those ten thousand Iwagakure troops back to the Land of Earth. Instead, he changed direction and turned on Kumogakure's forces!
Now Kumogakure had Iwagakure to the north and Konoha to the south, leaving them sandwiched right in the middle.
"Hahaha! Now things are getting lively!"
When Xuan Zhe heard the news, he laughed and slapped his thigh.
He remembered that, in the original story, the Third Raikage had been surrounded and killed by those ten thousand Iwagakure troops.
With the flap of his own butterfly wings, he had thought this would no longer happen.
Yet, to his surprise, it seemed as though the timeline were forcibly correcting itself, and the Third Raikage was destined not to escape this disaster.
Of course, all that talk of the world correcting itself was nonsense.
Iwagakure surely had its own strategic calculations behind this move.
With Kannabi Bridge, the vital military route connecting the Land of Earth and the Land of