#132 - Chapter 132: Cutting the Rain Curtain White Fangs! Cutting off the Thunder Blade of Sand Vill

“White Secret Technique: Chikamatsu Puppet Brigade!”

Chiyo took the lead, holding a scroll and summoning ten puppets renowned throughout the ninja world.

Her fingers danced, connecting each puppet with chakra threads. Like a soaring eagle, she rose into the sky, using her own strength to command ten puppets, cleaving lightning and severing currents, shattering the water flows intertwined with electricity.

She cleared a path for the sand ninjas charging forward, paving a broad road for them.

“Wind Style: Divine Gust.”

Ebizo followed closely, walking alongside Chiyo.

Unlike her, he was not a puppeteer, but a Sand ninja of Shadow level specializing in Wind Style.

A Wind Style technique that wasn't even considered A-rank, when performed by him, was like a hurricane passing through, scattering water and cutting through lightning with the force of autumn sweeping away fallen leaves.

Swish, swish, swish…

As the two Sand elders exerted their power, thousands of Sand ninjas also charged forward, braving the rain of shuriken thrown by the Leaf ninjas, avoiding the exploding tags detonating upon landing, and darting towards the Leaf ninjas.

As the distance between them closed, before the Leaf ninjas could form new seals and transform into ninjutsu turrets, all the Sand ninjas simultaneously threw the poison gas bombs they had been holding in their hands.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang…

As hundreds and thousands of poison gas bombs landed, clouds of purple poison mist rose from the ground, expanding in all directions. Even the wind and rain couldn't disperse it. Instead, under the force of the wind and rain, the spreading poison mist, like a monstrous mouth that blotted out the sky, rapidly engulfed the Leaf ninjas.

Because the distance was too close, a large number of Sand ninjas were also covered by the spreading poison mist.

However…

They didn't panic at all.

Those who use poison must be skilled in detoxification.

Before the battle began, every Sand ninja had already placed a detoxification pill in their mouth, pressing it under their tongue.

The poison mist that seeped into their bodies through breathing had no effect on them.

“Something’s not right.”

Seeing the rolling poison mist covering almost all the Leaf ninjas, Chiyo's first reaction was not elation, but a deep frown.

Whether it was her and Tsunade, or Sand and Leaf, the two sides had fought many times.

They knew each other well.

Just as she understood Leaf, Tsunade was also familiar with Sand.

Although the Sand ninjas she carefully selected could all use Wind Style: Wind Body Flicker, and were as fast as the wind, the Leaf ninjas were not pushovers.

Ordinary ninjas might be ambushed by Sand ninjas in a single exchange, but ninja clan members would definitely not.

When facing Leaf ninjas from ninja clans, even Sand jonin would have difficulty closing the distance without a chase.

Some of the stronger ones were even faster than the Sand jonin's Wind Body Flicker.

Otherwise, how could Leaf have defeated the four great ninja villages?

And even repeatedly defeated them in a one-on-four situation.

“It’s too easy.”

“These Leaf ninjas seem to be deliberately standing still, waiting for us to get close.”

Ebizo felt a sense of foreboding.

According to his plan, they would first use Body Flicker to break Leaf's turret tactics, and then use the wide-area poison mist to poison the Leaf ninjas on a large scale, and then break through Leaf.

There was nothing wrong with this tactic.

The reason why Leaf was invincible in the past war between Leaf and Sand was because Tsunade alone healed thousands of soldiers, stabilizing the battle line, and then Sakumo Hatake killed Sasori's parents among thousands of troops.

These two were not only Sand's Shadow-level experts, but also Sand's commanders.

How could Sand not collapse after they were killed?

But now that Sakumo Hatake had committed suicide, and that White Fang, which shook the ninja world, had been broken by Leaf's own hands.

As if they were siblings of one mind, Chiyo also thought of this.

And just then…

Rumble!

A roar of thunder came from within the rolling poison mist, resounding throughout the battlefield.

A blade flashing with blazing lightning, its edge fully revealed, illuminated the battlefield.

The rolling, purple, and foul-smelling poison mist was cleaved apart by this blade that was suddenly unsheathed, emitting a dazzling white light.

The sky-covering and vast torrential rain was torn apart by the lightning beast that opened its bloody mouth, its fangs made of thunder.

The sudden roar of the thunder blade.

The abruptly descending white lightning blade.

In an instant, it became the focus of Leaf and Sand.

“White Fang!”

Any Sand ninja who had participated in the Second Shinobi World War, any Leaf ninja who had participated in the Second Shinobi World War, upon hearing the roaring thunder blade, upon witnessing the white fang-like blade, all collectively lost their minds, and then exclaimed in unison.

“White Fang!”

Chiyo, who was manipulating ten puppets with chakra threads connected to her fingers, confronting Tsunade, when the corner of her eye saw that extremely familiar white fang, which had brought her endless pain, once again pointed at Sand, even she, who was filled with hatred for Sakumo Hatake, was shaken, her spirit wavered, and her momentum plummeted in an instant.

Even a strong ninja like Sand's first puppeteer was like this.

Not to mention the other Sand ninjas.

A person's name, a tree's shadow.

If more years passed, by the time of the Third Shinobi World War, the ninja world would inevitably forget the Second Shinobi World War, that Leaf possessed a White Fang short sword that suppressed the five great ninja villages.

But now, except for Leaf, the other ninja villages had only just learned that Sakumo Hatake had committed suicide.

Naturally, they would not forget the white fangs that were once placed on the necks of their own ninja villages during the Second Shinobi World War.

Especially Sand.

More than half of the Sand ninjas participating in this battle had participated in the Second World War, and had also witnessed that white-haired man, holding a white blade cast like lightning, like a ferocious thunder beast, shattering Sand with its fangs.

In such a short period of time, they would naturally not forget the fear of being dominated by Leaf's White Fang.

Especially before the war, Chiyo had repeatedly emphasized that Sakumo Hatake was dead, which temporarily suppressed Sand's fear of the words White Fang.

But now, the white fangs that should have been broken by Leaf themselves were once again shining on the battlefield.

How could it not make Sand's mind shake and morale waver.

Swish, swish, swish…

At this moment, the battlefield, which should have been filled with the roar of ninjutsu, the clash of swords, and the roar of ninjas, became silent for a time, and all the Sand ninjas almost made the same choice in an instant.

They withdrew and retreated, seemingly widening the distance from the Leaf ninjas facing them, but in fact, the distance widened was left for that nightmare-like figure in their memory.

It wasn't just the Sand ninjas who were shocked, the Leaf ninjas were no exception.

“Exactly the same.”

“Except for the shape and length of the knife, everything else is exactly the same.”

“Our Leaf Village's 'White Fang!'”

… …

Whether it was Leaf ninjas from the Uchiha, Ino-Shika-Cho, or even the Hyuga clan, or Leaf ninjas from civilian backgrounds, except for Tsunade and Hizashi Hyuga who already knew the inside story, all the Leaf ninjas looked at the white fangs in the battlefield, piercing through a Sand jonin, with shocked eyes.

They were all too familiar with this scene.

Almost every Leaf jonin knew this knife.

But they all knew very well that Sakumo Hatake had really committed suicide, so what shocked them was that someone in their village had inherited Sakumo Hatake's swordsmanship.

Moreover, they were very familiar with this person.