I will use the ninja world to aid my cultivation of immortality.

brush!

At the instant the earth shook violently, Naraku suddenly opened his eyes, and without making any movement, he vanished from the spot.

Outside of Hoshinin Village, on a hillside a full five kilometers away from the training ground, Naraku appeared in a flash.

"Finally, I've broken through! I can now shrink the distance to within five kilometers. I never imagined that just reaching the minor completion stage would increase my range so much!"

Standing on the hillside, Naraku slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, turned around to look at the location of Hoshigakure, and a smile appeared on his face.

After many days, and with the addition of numerous earth-elemental materials acquired through purchase or plunder, he finally succeeded in advancing the "Shrinking Earth to an Inch" technique from beginner to minor mastery.

From beginner to expert, although it's just one level, the difference between the two is enormous.

In the beginner stage, the maximum limit is only within a thousand steps. But now, having broken through to the minor completion stage, even though it has just been broken through, the distance has suddenly increased from a thousand steps to five kilometers.

The difference between the two is more than five times.

"The timing of the breakthrough was just right. Now that the 'Shrinking Earth to an Inch' technique has been mastered, it will make future actions much more convenient." The smile on his face gradually turned playful.

After testing the "Shrinking the Earth to an Inch" technique at the minor completion stage, Naraku quickly returned to the Star Shadow Tower and summoned Nonou, Sasori, Natsumi, Ame, Wolf, and others to begin making arrangements.

Onoki dared not make a rash move, but Naraku clearly did not.

Befriending distant states while attacking nearby ones is a common diplomatic strategy.

Naraku chose to ally with Kumogakure in order to use Kumogakure's power to launch a counterattack against Iwagakure.

Now that the alliance has been signed, the counterattack was naturally not delayed for long.

Just a few days after Naraku broke through to the minor mastery of "Shrinking the Earth into an Inch", the counterattack officially began.

"kill!!!"

"Kill them!"

"Trash Iwagakure Village, prepare to die!"

"."

Onoki, who was stationed at the battlefield where the Third Raikage was besieged, was not disappointed and successfully waited for the counterattack from Kumogakure.

Led by the Third Raikage and aided by the A and B duo, Kumogakure suddenly mobilized 5,000 ninja and launched a powerful invasion of the Land of Earth, once again igniting a fierce war with Iwagakure.

The king humiliates the minister and dies.

Putting aside the inherently fierce style of the Hidden Cloud Village, the fact that the Third Raikage was nearly surrounded and killed by the Hidden Stone Village made the Hidden Cloud Village's counterattack particularly fierce.

On the battlefield, in just the first wave of attacks, the Cloud Village ninjas engaged in fierce fighting with the Iwa Village ninjas.

Among them, the Third Raikage took the lead, aggressively approaching Onoki, clearly intending to get revenge for the previous ambush.

While the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Stone Village were once again at war, somewhere on the border between the Land of Bears and the Land of Earth, there were also people taking action.

Following the previous conflict, Iwagakure naturally strengthened its defenses along the border with the Land of Bears.

This layer of defense is clearly only effective against ordinary intrusions.

brush! !

In the blink of an eye, the Iwa ninja guarding the border were completely unaware that someone had silently crossed their line and entered the Land of Earth.

After a while.

In a town located on the border of the Land of Earth, three figures suddenly appeared on the roof of the tallest building in town.

"Is this the first one?" The moment they stopped, Scorpion, hidden inside Hiruko, scanned the town.

"Okay, next you're in charge of clearing out the Iwa ninja and soldiers here, and Natsumi Hoshino is in charge of sealing off the area so that no one 'steals' our spoils."

With his arms crossed and looking down at the town, Naraku calmly made arrangements for Sasori and Natsumi Hoshino on his other side.

"Yes!" Xia Rixing nodded solemnly.

Scorpion responded directly with action.

He threw out a scroll, and as it opened, countless figures flew out from it, covering the sky in front of him.

These densely packed figures were actually over a hundred puppets.

As hundreds of puppets emerged from the scroll, chakra threads immediately extended from Hiruko, connecting to each puppet.

"Red Secret Technique·Hundred Machine Exercises!"

Chakra threads connected the puppets, and in an instant, Sasori within Hiruko's body, filled with excitement, immediately took control, causing the puppets to crisscross and rush towards the street below.

"what!!!"

The puppets suddenly appeared, startling pedestrians on the street. The more timid ones screamed when they saw the puppets' eerie appearance, which was clearly not that of real people.

confusion!!!

From the moment Scorpion made his move, the entire town was thrown into chaos in no time.

The civilians fled in all directions, while the soldiers stationed in the town and the Iwa ninja rushed to investigate the situation.

What awaited them was the merciless slaughter by the puppets.

"Run away!!!"

"They're puppets, these guys are all puppets."

"Are you kidding me? Could it be that the puppet army of Sunagakure has invaded the country?"

"."

The soldiers were alright, but the Iwa ninja were terrified when they encountered the puppets slaughtering them.

It wasn't that the Iwa ninja were more cowardly than the soldiers, but rather that they assumed the numerous puppets came from Sunagakure.

More accurately, the Iwa ninja mistakenly believed that the Sunagakure had invaded their country.

Naraku surveyed the chaos within the town, his eyes devoid of any emotion.

The core of the alliance between Hoshigakure and Kumogakure was that the two villages would cooperate in attacking the Land of Earth.

To be more specific, the Third Raikage would invade from the front with a large army to contain the main force of Iwagakure, while Hoshigakure would be attacked by Naraku to plunder the resources of the Land of Earth.

During wartime, there are no rules that don't involve civilians.

On the contrary, the essence of war is plunder.

Therefore, regardless of the country, each town under its jurisdiction will be guarded not only by ordinary soldiers but also by ninjas from the corresponding ninja village.

What Naraku needs to do now is to take advantage of the fact that the main force of Iwagakure is tied up by the Third Raikage and his men, and to conquer the towns in the Land of Earth as quickly as possible and plunder their wealth.

The soldiers guarding this town and the Iwa ninja are no match for Sasori.

Soldiers and Iwa ninjas continued to be killed, plunging the town's residents into even greater panic.

Some of them even hurriedly packed their belongings, wanting to escape.

But these people had no chance to leave. While Scorpion was wreaking havoc, Xia Rixing also used the "Peacock Secret Technique" to fly into the air.

As soon as someone is discovered attempting to abscond with the money, Xia Rixing will immediately go to pursue and recover it.

As for Naraku...

He naturally had no free time either.

When Sasori was almost dead, a huge amount of chakra surged from his body, instantly creating hundreds of shadow clones.

Brush, brush, brush!!!

As soon as the shadow clones appeared, they quickly dispersed in all directions, their targets invariably being the wealthy people in the town.

Using the secret techniques of the mountain tribe.

By reading memories, the shadow clones can easily loot a person's belongings.

As for the guards hired by the wealthy, they are naturally not worth mentioning.

Soon, the shadow clones returned laden with their loot, handing over sealed scrolls filled with treasures to Naraku.

By the time the last shadow clone returned, a half-meter-high stack of sealing scrolls had accumulated in front of Naraku.

Seeing that the looting was over, Naraku wasted no time and bent down to slap the sealing scroll with his palm.

brush!

Complex magical patterns covered all the scrolls, and the next second, all the scrolls disappeared at once.

"Flying Thunder God - Lightning Guide!"

The sealing scroll didn't actually disappear; rather, Naraku used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport it directly to Hoshigakure.

That's right.

It is the "Flying Thunder God Technique".

After assassinating Hiruzen Sarutobi, he went to the Anbu base and took the Book of Seals with him.

Later, research on the Book of Sealing included not only sealing techniques but also the inheritance of techniques such as the "Flying Thunder God Technique".

The main reason is that this space-time ninjutsu was quite amazing in the original story and very practical, so Naraku studied it a little.

Well, I really only did a little research.

However, his research differs from that of others.