Chapter 167 Battle for the Eight-Tail! (Subscribe and Vote)

After Danzo and the three left, Sarutobi Hiruzen returned to the Hokage's office. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Shinnosuke, let Minato come."

"clear!"

Sarutobi Shinnosuke's voice sounded.

After a while, Namikaze Minato knocked on the door and came in: "The Third Hokage!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded slightly and said: "Iwagakure is already mobilizing heavy troops. It will be a matter of time before Kumogakure retreats, so I will promote peace talks as soon as possible."

Namikaze Minato nodded in understanding.

Sarutobi Hiruzen continued: "So, the four-tailed old man will also use it as a bargaining chip for peace talks with Iwa Ninja."

This was within Namikaze Minato's expectation, but he still asked: "Will it be returned after the peace talks are reached?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen said: "This depends on the outcome of the peace talks."

"However, in order to end the war as soon as possible, it is inevitable to make some concessions. In the case of one tail, pulling out the four tails should not have any adverse effects on Shuichi."

"Minato, you have to explain it to Shuichi after you arrive at the Kumo-nin battlefield. I hope he can understand the village's difficulties."

Namikaze Minato nodded: "I understand."

Sarutobi Hiruzen added: "There is one more thing Minato you must be prepared for."

"After the war is over, I will step down as Hokage. At that time, I will nominate you to the Daimyo to take over and become the fourth generation Hokage."

Namikaze Minato couldn't help but be shocked after hearing this: "The Third Hokage, you are still in your prime, there is no need to retire so soon, right?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen is 54 years old this year, which is indeed not particularly old.

The third Tsuchikage and the third Mizukage were even a few years older than Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Sarutobi Hiruzen showed a smile: "You performed very well in this war, and you have grown enough."

"Besides, if there is no benefit for the village, of course, as Hokage, you should also bear responsibility."

"In addition, before you are too old to move, I can teach you some more things at the beginning of your succession to make the transition between the two generations more stable."

"This matter is settled, Minato, get ready!"

Namikaze Minato nodded solemnly: "Yes, I understand!"

…

After leaving the Hokage Building, Minato Namikaze walked slowly.

After a brief excitement, he calmed down and thought deeply: "It seems that Danzo is attacking the Sandaime. Is he using the return of the tailed beast as an excuse?"

"Speaking of which, it was Shuichi who proposed the return of the Sand Ninja Tailed Beast..."

Namikaze Minato frowned: "Three years...if Shuichi can't solve the problem within three years, then he will have to find other ways."

"You have to prepare in advance."

"Tailed beast experiment..."

…

Three days passed in a flash, and Minato Namikaze, who had enjoyed a brief two-person world with Kushina Uzumaki at home, hurriedly embarked on his journey again.

This time he did not take Kakashi and the other three, but took part of the reinforcements northward.

As for the three Kakashi, Kakashi is still the captain and leads the team south to fight the Mist Ninja.

Cloud ninja battlefield.

"Minato-sensei!"

Seeing Namikaze Minato Hoshige Shuichi was extremely happy.

"Shuichi, you've grown a little taller."

Namikaze Minato came to Hoshita Shuichi and asked: "How is the battle going?"

Hoshixia Xiuichi said: "We have a slight upper hand, but we cannot continue to advance due to troop shortages."

However, Namikaze Minato saw clearly: "Shuichi, you haven't fully demonstrated your strength yet, have you?"

"With the main body holding the AB combination, no one in the clone can stop you, right?"

After hearing this, Shuichi Hoshita laughed and said: "Teacher, you underestimate the AB combination, and now there is an additional ninja with a melting escape blood successor, who can use chakra to turn into rubber, and the defense is very good, whether it is against thunder escape, Fire escape or wind escape."

Namikaze Minato was not confused at all and said: "Shuichi, you want to capture the Eight-Tails?"

Hoshita Shuichi put away his smile: "Although it's basically impossible, I still have to give it a try."

"Even if you have to give it back in the end."

Namikaze Minato nodded and said seriously: "Leave that competitive son of the Third Raikage to the teacher!"

Hoshita Xiuyi smiled: "That's exactly what I meant!"

…

An hour later, as Shuichi Hoshita appeared at the forefront, AB combination and Toshiro also appeared quickly.

Everyone is used to it during this time.

But today is obviously different.

Namikaze Minato immediately waved his hand, and a large number of flying thunder god kunai were scattered.

This style is too familiar to Kumo Ninja.

Toshiro's eyes immediately focused: "This hair color, could it be..."

Not only him, but other Kumo ninjas also discovered it.

"The same teleportation technique, wouldn't it be Konoha's yellow flash?"

"Tushiro, we're in trouble now."

"Should we withdraw?"

Toshiro looked solemn and said to Ai: "Ai, retreat temporarily. The one next to Hoshige Shuichi should be his teacher Minato Namikaze, who masters the same yellow flash of teleportation technique."

Ai's eyes fell on Namikaze Minato: "The same teleportation technique... It was this guy who completed the task of retrieving the Nine-Tails by himself back then."

"Then we need to learn a lesson. It's best to deal with them all at once."

Kirabi also said immediately: "Don't worry, big brother and I are here, there will be no problem, idiot, bastard!"

Although he can't win, his momentum must not be weakened.

Since their debut, AB group has never run away without a fight.

Moreover, during this time, they have become thoroughly familiar with this instantaneous technique.

Ai said, "Tsuchiyo, take your men to hold back that Uchiha and that troublesome woman."

Tsuchiyo nodded helplessly.

"Then... go!"

Ai was surrounded by a strong electric light and rushed straight to Minato Namikaze.

As soon as he moved, Shuichi Hoshita also entered the fire escape chakra mode, his body soared into the air, and the purple lotus on his body bloomed heavily. His body broke through the air and went straight to the Eight-Tails Killer Bee.

At the same time, Uchiha Shisui and Asuka also rushed out together.

Tsuchiyo immediately led two cloud ninjas to intercept.

Other Konoha ninjas and cloud ninjas also faced each other, but they all stayed away from the battlefield in the middle.

Swish, swish, swish!

The tails wrapped in chakra pierced towards Shuichi Hoshita like spears.

Shuichi Hoshita, who was fully powered, danced like a blue-purple butterfly. After avoiding the attack of the tail, the Fire Nether Lock was activated.

Crash!

Chains whizzed out, entangled and locked the dancing tails, and the tailed beast chakra on the tails collapsed and faded away bit by bit.

At this time, Killer Bee had already turned into a half-tailed beast, and a tailed beast jade was released from his mouth, shooting towards Shuichi Hoshita in mid-air.

Shuichi Hoshita raised his left hand, and the technique unfolded from the palm of his hand. After the tailed beast jade arrived, the space suddenly sank and disappeared.

"Bi, this guy has hidden his strength. The one-tail and the four-tail are indeed in his body. It's more dangerous than before!"

The eight-tailed cow ghost shouted to remind.

This move was something Shuichi Hoshita had never shown before.

"I know!"

"But I will never let him succeed. That chain can't lock me up!"

Killer Bee shouted, and his tail pulled hard, pulling Shuichi Hoshita from the air to himself.

He wanted to slap this guy to death!

Shuichi Hoshita, who had transferred the tailed beast jade, split into two shadow clones.

One shadow clone replaced the original body and locked the tail of the Eight-Tails with the Fire Nether Chain, while the other shadow clone flew towards Killer Bee. Seeing that he was about to be hit by the tailed beast, Killer Bee activated the Fire Nether Chain and entangled his limbs and head.

"Asshole!"

Killer Bee felt that he could not move.

"Leave it to me!"

The Eight-Tails Ushiki immediately took over the control of the fist, opened his mouth, and a tailed beast ball quickly condensed, and blasted at the face of Shuichi Hoshita in front of him. At the same time, the terrible power rioted, and Shuichi Hoshita's two shadow clones could not completely control it. The chain clattered, as if it would be torn off at any time.

"It's worthy of being the Eight-Tails!"

Shuichi Hoshita's original body appeared beside the shadow clone, raised his hand to transfer the tailed beast ball again, and then his figure swished and appeared on the head of the Eight-Tails.

Spiritualization Technique!

Magic Realm-Memory Palace!

The still struggling Eight-Tails and Killer Bee were immediately pulled into the illusion.

The illusion ability is also something Shuichi Hoshita has not shown during this period.

The Cloud Ninjas didn't get the information about Shuichi Hoshita from the Sand Ninjas like the Rock Ninjas did, and thought that Shuichi Hoshita used a chain-type sealing technique to capture the tailed beasts.

But in fact, Shuichi Hoshita was able to capture the One-Tail and the Four-Tail, and the key was still illusion.

After controlling the Eight-Tail and Killer Bee, Shuichi Hoshita's two shadow clones immediately began to extract the power of the Eight-Tail.

However, the power of the Eight-Tail is much stronger than that of the Four-Tail, and it is more difficult to extract.

On the other side, Ai and Toshiro were shocked to see that Killer Bee was controlled, and they immediately abandoned their opponents and went back to help.

"Ai, your opponent is me!"

Minato Namikaze appeared in front of Ai, and pressed the Rasengan in his hand.

Ai crossed his arms and blocked with his arm guard.

Boom!

Ai flew backwards, but after rolling on the ground for a few times, he immediately bounced up and rushed towards Killer Bee again.

Swish, Minato Namikaze appeared again to intercept.

"Damn..."

Ai rushed furiously.

…

On the other side, Toshiro was also anxious, but he was still able to hold his ground, relying on Lava Release to deal with Uchiha Shisui.

On the contrary, another Cloud Ninja had been dealt with by Asuka, who immediately came to the top of the Eight-Tails and locked the Eight-Tails with the Diamond Seal, allowing Shuichi Hoshita's Shadow Clone to completely free up his strength to extract the Eight-Tails with all his strength.

Time passed by little by little.

The Eight-Tails was extracted little by little, but Ai was still unable to break through the blockade of Minato Namikaze, and Toshiro could not do anything to Uchiha Shisui.

Unfortunately, in less than a quarter of an hour, reinforcements from the Cloud Ninja arrived.

On the top of the Eight-Tails, Shuichi Hoshita opened his eyes and said to Asuka: "Retreat!"

Asuka nodded, and immediately retracted the Diamond Seal and retreated.

Shuichi Hoshita then split his clone to block the source of the Cloud Ninja, and he also jumped down from the top of the Eight-Tails, and played tug-of-war with the two Shadow Clone.

After a while, Eight-Tails and Killer Bee finally broke the illusion blockade of Shuichi Hoshita's spirit clone and regained control of their bodies.

At this moment, Shuichi Hoshita had only pulled out one-fifth of Eight-Tails.

"I'm not that easy to deal with, idiot, bastard!"

Kirabi pulled hard, but couldn't pull Shuichi Hoshita, and the power of Eight-Tails was still moving out little by little.

At this moment, Eight-Tails was blocked by the Fire Nether Lock and could not exert force.

"Bi, I'll use that move, you get ready to break free from his seal!"

Eight-Tails shouted.

Kirabi nodded immediately: "Understood!"

The next moment, the power of Eight-Tails pulled out by Shuichi Hoshita broke, and it turned into an Eight-Tails that was pulled into Shuichi Hoshita's body and sealed.

But after being sealed, it turned into an octopus tail.

Broken tail substitute!

"Roar!"

The eight tails howled loudly and broke the chains.

Shuichi Hoshita disappeared immediately and appeared next to Asuka.

Almost at the same time, Namikaze Minato and Uchiha Shisui also retreated.

The other Konoha ninja and Kumo ninja also stopped fighting and retreated to confront each other.

Ai Guo ducked back to Kirabi and said, "How's it going, Bi?"

Kirabi, who had escaped from the tailed beast form, gasped: "Brother, I'm fine."

"This guy tried to take Xiaoba but failed, idiot, bastard!"

Toshiro said with a solemn expression: "I didn't expect his genjutsu to be even more powerful than that Uchiha!"

Because of his experience in dealing with Uchiha, he had previously avoided being controlled by Uchiha Shisui's illusion technique, but he was also unable to break through Uchiha Shisui's blockade, and he could not break Uchiha Shisui's teleportation technique.

"No wonder the first and fourth tails were captured. Such a combination is too strong."

Toshiro couldn't help but sigh, and immediately shouted: "Ai, retreat!"

Ai nodded happily this time. Although he was eager to take revenge, he also knew that it was impossible.

If he continues, Kirabi may lose his eight tails.

"withdraw!"

Ai retreated with the Kumo ninja, and Hoshita Shuichi and others did not pursue them.

Namikaze Minato came to Hoshita Shuichi a little tired and asked: "Shuichi, how are you doing?"

Hoshita Shuichi shook his head: "If you want to extract the Eight-Tails, you must not be disturbed for at least an hour or two."

The main body's spiritual transformation technique is enough to hold back Kirabi and the Eight-Tails with illusions, but it takes a very long time to extract the Eight-Tails.

He estimated that an hour would not be enough. The Eight-Tails' chakra was too huge.

Namikaze Minato heard this and said: "It seems there is no way to take it."

"In this situation, the Kumo ninja will never let the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki go out alone."

Xingxia Xiu nodded, but he was not disappointed. There would be another chance in the future.

This time, one-fifth of the power of the Eight-Tails was captured, but it was not bad. Although there was no consciousness of the Eight-Tails, it would be gone after use, but it was enough for research.

Moreover, the Eight-Tailed Horn is still being cultivated in the experimental base, and it can be fed with this chakra.

…

In the next few days, Hoshige Shuichi led the team to contain the AB combination, while Namikaze Minato led the Konoha army to counterattack across the board, but they won every step.

Without the AB combination, Kumo ninja wouldn't even have anyone who could stop Namikaze Minato.

Moreover, reinforcements continued to come from Konoha, gradually making up for Konoha's shortage of troops.

Time flies to November of Konoha's 45th year.

In the Kingdom of the Moon, Shuichi Hoshita, who had just finished a battle, was resting with his eyes closed, but Minato Namikaze suddenly appeared.

"Shuichi, the third Raikage died in the Land of Earth!"

Hoshita Shuichi opened his eyes and was not surprised.

But Uchiha Shisui next to him couldn't help being surprised, and Asuka couldn't help but exclaimed: "The Third Raikage is dead?"

Namikaze Minato nodded: "The Iwa Ninja took advantage of the peace talks with us and Sunagakure to mobilize heavy troops. The specific situation is still unclear, but the Third Raikage is indeed dead. This news came from the Iwa Ninja, but We also got confirmation from Yun Nin."

Asuka said: "The son of the Third Raikage is already very powerful. His chakra capacity is completely comparable to that of a tailed beast. The Third Raikage should be stronger, but it is really surprising that he died in the Earth Kingdom."

"Did the Third Tsuchikage take action?"

Namikaze Minato couldn't answer this question, and Konoha had no specific information at the moment.

Uchiha Shisui said: "Minato-sensei, so the Kumo ninja are going to withdraw?"

Namikaze Minato shook his head: "The Kumo ninja has already decided on a successor, and there will be no civil strife, so they will not retreat in a short time."

"But in order to take revenge, I'm afraid the next destination for the Kumo ninja will be the Iwa ninja."

Hoshita Shuichi asked: "The Iwa Ninja has defeated the Third Raikage. I'm afraid the war in the Country of Grass will not end so easily, right?"

Namikaze Minato nodded, but comforted: "Don't worry, although it won't end so soon, the result will not change."

"It's very difficult for Iwa-nin to get back to the previous situation, but Shuichi, you have to be mentally prepared to lose the four tails."

Hoshita nodded: "Don't worry, Minato-sensei, I understand."

This was just what he wanted.