One Dragon Tail Kick will shatter your Susanoo dream!

Sakumo Hatake's mission failed, and his body was never found, causing a huge uproar in the ninja world. Kakashi was also devastated by the sudden news of his death.

However, compared to the original work, his personality is much better. He devotes all his attention to his daily training, and Kakashi's strength progresses very quickly!

Hatake Sakumo serves as both a Night Watch instructor and a regular night patrolman. Kusashiba offered to give him another arm, but he refused.

Sakumo Hatake stated that he would not restore his severed arm until Kakashi knew the truth. Although his strength had dropped from Kage level, his combat power was still at the level of an elite Jonin!

The ninja world did not react to the news of Sakumo Hatake's death. After all, even without the White Fang of Konoha, Konoha still had the Sannin and a large number of elite ninjas, and the ninja world maintained a superficial peace!

Two months later, the news of the Third Kazekage's mysterious death left Sunagakure in a leaderless situation, with the higher-ups vying for power and each putting forward a candidate to represent their respective factions.

The most popular choice in the village is Sasori of the Red Sand, the former bodyguard of the Third Kazekage and hailed as a genius puppeteer. He has the support of high-ranking figures such as Chiyo and Ebizo. The puppeteer groups in Sunagakure, having witnessed his superb puppetry skills, are also among Sasori's supporters!

However, this does not align with the interests of the other high-ranking officials. After all, the village only receives a limited amount of funding from the daimyo each year. If the other party were to take power, the puppeteer group would inevitably become the beneficiaries!

So the other high-ranking members joined forces, using Sasori's age and lack of experience as an excuse, to keep preventing him from taking the position. If it weren't for Chiyo stopping Sasori, some of the high-ranking members would probably have mysteriously disappeared long ago...

Sunagakure, caught in a state of chaos and preoccupied with power struggles, quickly attracted the attention of Kumogakure, which championed military expansion!

To make up for the previous losses in Kusagakure, the Third Raikage chose to start a war directly. On the surface, he summoned the ninja army and frantically amassed troops at the border, while in the background, he directly dispatched elite squads to the battlefield!

The Third Shinobi World War was started by the Hidden Cloud Village!

At the border of the Land of Wind, the Sand Ninja who remained at their stronghold were discussing the situation in the village when suddenly a violent explosion came from the surrounding area!

A Sand Village Jonin, wielding a shuriken, rushed into the base and pulled at the other stunned Sand Village ninja.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

"Hurry up and put on your protective gear!"

"Those damn dark-skinned barbarians have all sneaked into the country, and the intelligence department hasn't given them a single clue. Are they all busy scheming against each other?!"

The well-dressed Sand Ninja emerged from their stronghold one by one. Some took refuge in bunkers, while others, relying on the high walls, continuously threw explosive tags and kunai at the Cloud Ninja attempting to break through the defenses…

"Lord Ai, the Sand Village squad responsible for guarding the area has been completely dealt with. Now, all that's left are these guys hiding in their turtle shells!"

A Cloud Ninja knelt down and relayed battlefield information to the two burly young men in front of him. Then, the two men flashed and instantly appeared in front of the battlefield.

One person was crackling with lightning, and another was crackling with red light. Ignoring the Sand Ninja's attacks, they forcibly broke through the blockade and rushed into the bunkers, beginning a bloody massacre!

"Big brother, leave this Wind Release ninja who's leading the group to me!"

"By the time you finish this, our mission today is to eradicate all the outposts on the border of Sunagakure!"

The roar of lightning release, the howling of wind release, and the screams of dying ninjas echoed through the dust-filled environment, creating a scene of hell on earth...

The Cloud Village's aggressive attack initially went unnoticed by the Sun Village, who simply dispatched a garrison to the border to provide support.

It wasn't until the elite troops of Kumogakure appeared in the heart of the Land of Wind that the high command of Sunagakure took notice. Only after news of the crushing defeats of several garrison units arrived did Sunagakure cease its internal strife and unite against external threats!

However, having lost the easily defensible border fortress, Sunagakure's resistance was no match for the well-prepared Kumogakure!

No one could stop Abby's decapitation strike. With the deaths of several elite ninjas from the village, the higher-ups were thrown into panic. The Cloud Ninja, skilled in swordsmanship and taijutsu, became the nightmare of puppeteers...

Once they were caught in close combat, they were trapped in a dead end. Faced with the invasion of the Cloud Ninja army, Sunagakure was in dire straits and was once driven back to the outskirts of the village!

Chiyo, who had not used force for many years, was forced to take to the field again to barely maintain the crumbling defense line!

With no way out but their village and families behind them, the Sand Ninja displayed an astonishing level of unity, managing to hold off the Cloud Ninja army nearly 30 kilometers from the village!

This blitzkrieg has reached a stalemate, and without the intervention of new forces, it will turn into a brutal war of attrition!

One side fought for their homeland, the other for their interests, and the two sides fought endlessly, forging a deep-seated hatred between them!

The new generation of genius ninjas are now officially showing their prowess on the grand stage of the ninja world!

For example, his puppetry skills were so advanced that he single-handedly held off an assault force of hundreds of Cloud Ninja. Sasori's name also came into the sights of the major villages...

Rasa, who is skilled in using Magnet Release: Gold Sand, also performed brilliantly in the desert, briefly suppressing the Abby duo who were moving through the battle lines like there was no one there.

Even with the cooperation of the Sand Ninja elites and Karura, a female ninja skilled in sand manipulation techniques.

On the main battlefield, they firmly held off the Abby group. Whenever the enemy attacked their puppeteer unit, Rasa would use Magnet Release to protect them with thick gold sand, or transfer the puppeteers who were weak in close combat!

As the apprentice of the Third Kazekage, Rasa had considerable support in the village, and most of the higher-ups had previously favored pushing him to take over!

The two sides fought from morning till night. During the day, it was a battle between the ninja armies, and at night, it was a contest between the ANBU. The outskirts of Sunagakure were stained with blood, and even though the sandstorms kept covering it, they couldn't hide the heavy smell of blood...

Although the Cloud Ninja were wreaking havoc in the Land of Wind and had amassed considerable wealth by robbing nobles and caravans, this paltry sum was far from enough to satisfy the Third Raikage.

So he secretly left Kumogakure and came to the Land of Wind, attempting to use his brute force to break through Sunagakure in one fell swoop and put an end to this war!

On the main battlefield, Tsuchikage commanded the Cloud Ninja to bombard the area with long-range ninjutsu, followed by elite ninjas skilled in taijutsu, who attacked the Sand Village's position by breaking through enemy lines.

Just when both sides thought it was an ordinary daily war, an unexpected change occurred. Chiyo, who was constantly killing people on the front line of the battlefield using the Chikamatsu Ten, was suddenly attacked!

The Sand Village Jonin responsible for protecting her was sliced ​​in two in the blink of an eye by a man with a lightning bolt-shaped scar on his chest!

"Puppetry, a trick of the weak, old woman Chiyo, you should know the consequences of a puppeteer being caught in close combat!"

"You reckless leader of Kumogakure, aren't you afraid of Onoki raiding your base? You're actually trying to ambush this old woman instead..."

The Third Raikage's body crackled with lightning as he leaned forward and raised his right hand.

"Hell Thrust? Four-Point Strike!"