This time, the Third Hokage did not take the initiative to fight, but stood on the city wall created by a large number of Earth Release ninjas, looking down at Wang Hao and the others who were charging towards him.
This time, he gathered tens of thousands of border ninjas from the surrounding area. The power that more than 10,000 ninjas could unleash was terrifying, far exceeding the Kage Guard that the Five Kage had previously commanded.
Not to mention they also have the advantage of terrain, so why would they need to fight the warriors of the Land of Iron?
Of course, most importantly, he was still somewhat intimidated by Wang Hao's attack. Although he had inherited the Sword Dao scroll and possessed the ability to condense Swordmaster, he was still somewhat inferior to a true Swordmaster.
Therefore, he needs time to integrate and control this power, and at the same time, he is waiting for a divine weapon to be delivered. Once he has that divine weapon, he is confident that he Douluo I Wang Hao.
The battle continued in this way. Wang Hao seemed to have suffered considerable damage in the previous siege by the Five Kage. The power of his slashes was much weaker than before. He only managed to cut a gap in the rock wall made by the Leaf ninjas, but he failed to truly cut it open.
This put the Swordmaster of the Land of Iron in a very passive position. Although they were not afraid of the Leaf ninjas, the other side was clearly refusing to fight and using their terrain advantage to deal with them.
Faced with that city wall, which had been hardened countless times by Earth Release Ninjutsu, even Swordmaster- level expert could only sigh in despair.
The battle eventually turned into a war of words, with Leaf ninjas hiding on the city walls and refusing to fight, while numerous samurai from the Land of Iron stood below, shouting insults.
Wang Hao, with a cold expression, retreated to the center of the legion to recover from his injuries and depletion.
He looked quite disheveled at the moment, his body wrapped in blood-stained bandages, his face pale, his breath weak, and he appeared to have suffered a serious injury.
Of course, these are all fakes for show. Having Awakening the Bloodline Power and Bloodline Power, his recovery ability is comparable to Wolverine in X-Men. As long as it's not an internal organ injury, he can recover in the blink of an eye.
He deliberately suppressed his recovery ability during his previous battle with the Five Kage, all for the sake of this Second Tier of the battle plan.
"You haven't all arrived yet, so let's keep your arrogance for a few more days!"
Looking at the towering Earth Release city walls in the distance, Wang Hao sneered inwardly.
His Second Tier plan was simple: make Leaf the target of everyone's attacks, in preparation for the Third Tier.
However, the Second Tier the plan requires some qualified audience members, which will take a few days. It is precisely in order to wait for these audience members that he deliberately pretends to be seriously injured.
Of course, he wasn't idle during the waiting period. He passed on a portion of the Sword Dao he had created, and did so directly using his Innate Divine Sense.
The current situation doesn't allow him time to wait for those warriors to gradually complete their transformation; he has no choice but to resort to this method of forcing growth.
Although it will cause these people to lose a lot of potential, they can become stronger in the shortest amount of time. In fact, as long as there is a bloody battle, the thousands of samurai can advance to the Initial-Dan Swordmaster.
There was nothing that could be done about it. Although these samurai legions were absolutely loyal, their natural talents were only average, and most importantly, the youngest of them were over thirty years old.
The oldest is over sixty years old; at that age, there's not much potential left to be tapped.
Most importantly, these people's Body Refinement are basically fixed, making it difficult for them to transform on their own; it would take at least several years or even more than a decade.
In that time, he would have already cleared the Hokage beginner's guide, and might even have gone on to challenge the Otsutsuki Ancestral Planet.
Therefore, only teenagers around ten years old are worth cultivating and are the easiest to cultivate. Right now, he can only directly instill his own cultivation experience into them, letting them passively integrate and absorb it. How much they can achieve depends on their own efforts.
Moreover, he did not completely block their paths. As long as their will was strong enough and their talent was good enough, they could completely integrate the inheritance he passed on into their own bodies, thereby breaking through the shackles and limits of this inheritance and continuously becoming stronger.
However, such people are a minority; he estimates that if even one percent of them can stand out, that would be considered good.
Wang Hao waited here, and people from Leaf and the four great ninja villages were all mobilized. The four great ninja villages sent scouts to converge on the battlefield, wanting to observe the battle situation and the final outcome, and then report back to the higher-ups to decide whether to join the war and start the Third Great Ninja War.
Leaf, on the other hand, mobilized a large number of troops, sending tens of thousands of ninjas to the front lines. The lowest level of these ninjas were Chunin, and the core group consisted of thousands of Jonin-level powerhouses.
This time, the Third Hokage mobilized a total of 30,000 troops from Leaf to fight, plus 10,000 troops from the border, making a total of 40,000. This shows how much importance the Third Hokage attached to this battle.
Leaf's ninja army is different from other ninja villages. They have the most bloodline clans and secret technique clans in the Shinobi World, and ninjas with Kekkei Genkai and inherited secret techniques are at least twice as strong as ordinary ninjas.
Top-tier ninja clans like the Uchiha, possessing top-level Kekkei Genkai and secret techniques, can handle multiple equally powerful opponents once they awaken the Sharingan.
By mobilizing such a large force at once, Hiruzen Sarutobi clearly intended to achieve an overwhelming victory, even annihilating the Land of Iron and Wang Hao, thereby deterring other ninja villages and preventing the outbreak of the Third Great Ninja War.
Did you bring it?
Inside the main hall, the Third Hokage Shinnosuke Sarutobi.
This is crucial, even arguably the deciding factor in the course of the battle. To achieve a crushing victory, he must obtain that divine artifact.
"I brought it!"
Shinnosuke Sarutobi removed his Jonin vest, revealing his chest, where a mysterious jutsu pattern was visible.
He formed a series of complex hand seals, and then with a bang, a puff of smoke rose up, revealing a box slightly larger than his palm.
Clearly, the mysterious magical pattern on his chest was a storage seal, specifically used to seal that box.
The box also bears a large number of mysterious magical incantations, sealing the items inside.
With burning eyes, the Third Hokage gently stroked the box. Without delay, his hands moved in a blur, forming thousands of hand seals before finally breaking the seal on the box and taking out a strange sword hilt.
It was not a broken sword, but a pure hilt, without a blade. There was only an extremely condensed spell on the blade.
" Sword of the Thunder God! From now on, you will accompany this old man on the battlefield, and make him a legend in the Shinobi World!"
Even with the composure of the Third Hokage, picking up the Sword of the Thunder God couldn't help but feel excited.
Then, with the activation of his own Chakra, the Sword of the Thunder God, which was originally just a hilt, suddenly sprouted a retractable lightning blade.
That wasn't all; the lightning blade continued to solidify and evolve, finally transforming into a beam of light.
This is Storm Release with extremely strong cutting power, formed by the fusion of Water Release Chakra and Lightning Release Chakra.
The Second Hokage wielded the Sword of the Thunder God and fused it with his own Water Release Chakra to create an even more powerful Storm Release laser, which is how he earned his formidable reputation.
Without the Sword of the Thunder God, the Second Hokage's strength would be reduced by at least 50%.
After all, although the Second Hokage was powerful, his strongest techniques were only Water Release Ninjutsu and Flying Thunder God Technique.
Water Release Ninjutsu is indeed powerful, but it's not enough to deal with truly skilled opponents.
While the Flying Thunder God Ninjutsu appears unpredictable and mysterious, it lacks offensive capabilities and its effectiveness depends entirely on the user.
Furthermore, the only techniques that can be used in conjunction with the Flying Thunder God Technique are those that can be activated instantly without hand Ninjutsu, such as the Rasengan developed by Minato Namikaze in the future.
The Second Hokage obviously didn't have the Rasengan, Ninjutsu that doesn't require hand seals. However, he obtained the Sword of the Thunder God and then condensed it into Storm Release light sword that was virtually indestructible. Even the Susanoo, the absolute defense formed by the Uchiha Clan's Mangekyō, couldn't withstand it.
The Second Hokage Tobirama Senju, who obtained the Sword of the Thunder God, was like a tiger with wings, and it was with this power that he led Leaf to victory in the First Great Ninja War.
If the Second Hokage hadn't been ambushed by Kinkaku and Ginkaku in the Land of Lightning, and hadn't possessed such overpowered Six Paths Ninja Tools, and hadn't been forced to cover Hiruzen Sarutobi's retreat, he would never have died.
Unfortunately, since the fall of the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju, no one has been able to condense Storm Release light Sword of the Thunder God.
To condense Storm Release light sword, one must not only possess highly advanced Water Release and Lightning Release Chakra, but also be able to seamlessly and perfectly fuse the two within the Sword of the Thunder God.
That's not all. The most crucial point is that the user must be a Swordmaster- level expert who condenses sword energy with their own Sword Dao, combines Water Release and Lightning Release Chakra, and finally condenses it into a storm-style light sword within the Sword of the Thunder God's Storm Release Chakra.
In truth, Swordmaster's sword energy is formed by forcibly condensing natural energy within his body through his own Sword Intent; it is essentially a special kind of natural energy.
The fusion of natural energy and Chakra creates Senjutsu Chakra. The Storm Release Light Sword condensed from it is equivalent to a Senjutsu from the Great Sage, and is several times more powerful than an ordinary Storm Release Kekkei Genkai. This is the true power of the Sword of the Thunder God.
In this respect, Hiruzen Sarutobi was clearly unqualified. It should be noted that the Second Hokage fought his way up from the Sengoku period, in which ninjas did not have a complete system. Whether it was Ninjutsu, taijutsu, or Taijutsu, they all had to learn them.
The Sage Body Senju Clan, Kekkei Genkai particular, possesses a greater advantage in this regard, which is why Tobirama Senju was not only a powerful ninja but also a mid-level peak Swordmaster.
These are the foundations upon which the Storm Release Light Sword can be condensed using the Sword of the Thunder God.
Originally, the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, was not up to par, but since obtaining that sword energy inheritance, and after several days of integration and control, he has perfectly mastered that Sword Dao power.
He could wield the divine weapon, the Sword of the Thunder God, and only the Sword of the Thunder God could contend with the Kurosawa Divine Sword and the Masamune Sacred Sword in Wang Hao's hands.
The Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, was constantly familiarizing himself with the Sword of the Thunder God, while on the other side, Wang Hao, after sensing the arrival of Leaf's reinforcements, ordered his many Swordmaster and samurai legions to go into battle.
The spirit and morale of the numerous Swordmaster and thousands of samurai from the Land of Iron were several times stronger than they had been a few days ago. If they had only felt anger and hatred towards Leaf's Shameless and shameless behavior before, now they were filled with pure excitement, exhilaration, and a soaring fighting spirit.
They have all received Wang Hao's Sword Dao inheritance to varying degrees, and after these few days of recuperation, they have basically integrated it into themselves. Now, all that is missing is a fierce battle to bring about the final fusion.
And this battle is just around the corner. It is foreseeable that as long as they survive this battle, they will all gain a huge boost.
No one doubted this, because after merging with Wang Hao's Sword Dao inheritance, they all clearly sensed their own bottlenecks. As long as they crossed that bottleneck, they could break through the shackles that had restricted them for so long.
Faced with this situation, how could they not be excited and thrilled?