The scorching magma spread over an area of hundreds of meters, making it so that no one dared to set foot in this area.
"Sensei, are you okay?" Minato appeared beside Jiraiya who was retreating.
Jiraiya glanced sideways and said, "Yeah."
After responding lightly, his eyes were once again cast towards the battlefield that had been completely changed, and the shock in his eyes had not yet completely subsided.
At this time, the scattered ninjas from both sides became scattered in formation. After all, the previous scene happened too abruptly, and they had no chance to form an organized retreat.
Everyone showed a look of shock at this, but when the shock faded, both hostile parties were alert and moved closer to their own people.
Somewhere on the battlefield, Kato Dan was surrounded by several Konoha ninjas.
After using the spirit transformation technique, his body became his biggest weakness, so someone had to protect his body.
His eyes, which were originally tightly closed, opened at this moment. He suddenly stood up and thanked the several Konoha ninjas beside him.
Because the range of the lava was almost spreading to the location where Kato Dan's body was.
After returning to his original form, he leaped up, dodged a few times, and met the other person who was rushing towards him.
Kato Dan and Hyuga Tenki gathered, took a look at the battlefield that had changed, and said, "It has come to this point, how should we fight next?"
Such power is obviously beyond the power level of most ninjas.
The current battlefield is also divided into more fragmented parts. If the personnel are further dispersed, the disadvantage will be even more obvious for the Konoha side, which already has fewer people.
"Well, we'll have to see what Minato wants to do about this?"
Kato Dan shook his head helplessly and looked at Minato and Jiraiya who were standing on the edge of the battlefield.
Swish!
Kitsuchi's figure appeared near his own camp, just opposite to Minato and Jiraiya.
He raised his eyes slightly. Because the terrain of the battlefield in front of him was not flat, he could not temporarily perceive the current situation of Rōshi and the others.
Just as he looked over there, he saw gold sand suddenly surging on the lava-covered battlefield.
The gold sand seemed to condense into a gold sand cloud, and then Rōshi and the other two rose up and flew towards their camp.
Rōshi and the others landed in front of Kitsuchi, and the former said directly: "Boy, retreat first."
Among the Iwagakure ninjas, only this old man who dared to glare at the Third Tsuchikage dared to call the current Kitsuchi a kid.
Kitsuchi hesitated a little when he heard this. It seemed that Rōshi's power was stronger than before, and if the battlefield was divided like this, they would have an advantage.
As if knowing what he was thinking, Rōshi said softly: "My body is almost reaching its limit."
The power of the Four Tails that Rōshi could control was several times stronger than before, but when he just got this power, the first thing it eroded was his own mind.
If he had not been a Jinchūriki for decades and his willpower had not been extremely strong, it would be hard to say that he would not be controlled by this power.
Obviously, the purpose of the Four-Tailed Fox lending him its power was not simple.
Moreover, when he was unconscious, the chaotic power also damaged his body. Although he finally regained consciousness in the second stage of tailed beast transformation, his body had already reached its limit.
The reason why he used this super-large-scale lava release ninjutsu was not to attack Minato.
Rōshi naturally wanted to eliminate Minato's mark, but he also wanted to take this opportunity to separate the two parties and wait for an opportunity to retreat
"I know." Kitsuchi straightened his expression and looked sideways. At this time, an Iwa Ninja came to his side and waited for his orders.
"I am forcibly maintaining this state in order to deceive that Minato. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will not be able to escape unscathed today."
After the fight with Minato, even the hot-tempered old Roshi had to admit that this younger ninja of Konoha was indeed extremely powerful.
Even when he, Rasa and Hanzo joined forces, they were unable to defeat him. This kind of strength is already the best in the current ninja world.
"I understand." Kitsuchi nodded after hearing this.
A few minutes later, Jiraiya looked at Minato beside him, frowned slightly, and said: "Boy, your Sage Mode..."
Minato had been in Sage Mode for more than five minutes, and he had also used two extremely energy-consuming ninjutsu during that time. However, the Minato in front of him was still in Sage Mode.
This was beyond Jiraiya's expectations.
Upon hearing this, Minato's expression paused slightly. In fact, it seemed that due to the power of the Nine-Tails changing his body, his Sage Mode seemed to become a little different from what Fukasaku described.
This difference is something that even he hasn't fully figured out yet.
Just as he was struggling to explain all this to Jiraiya, Hyuga Tenki flashed in front of the two of them.
"The enemy ninjas seem to be retreating." Hyuga Tenki said.
Jiraiya frowned when he heard that, and Minato's eyes shrank slightly.
"Do we want to stop them?" Hyuga Tenki asked again.
The former cast his gaze towards Minato, who hesitated for a moment before saying, "Let them go, sensei."
"This is the safest approach at this time."
The master and disciple looked at each other, and Jiraiya shrugged. They had all seen with their own eyes the scale of the impact of Rōshi's use of the power of the tailed beasts. Now that the battlefield has undergone such a big change, who knows what the scene will be like if the fight continues.
What's more, their strength is inherently weaker than that of the opponent. Without the certainty of victory, they have to take the safest approach.
But Minato didn't understand why the Iwagakure ninjas were retreating when they seemed to have the upper hand.
Is he also afraid that it will affect the ninjas in his own camp?
"Then let the troops gather together. Thank you for your hard work." Jiraiya turned to Hyuga Tenki and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Hyuga Tenki chuckled and rushed out.
However, at this time, Minato was still on guard and did not exit the Sage Mode.
A few minutes later, when the coalition forces of the Iwagakure, Sand Ninja, and Amegakure gradually penetrated deeper into the territory of the Land of Rain, Rōshi, who was at the front of the team, finally felt relieved.
The molten chakra around him dissipated, revealing his true body, and at this moment his entire body was covered with varying degrees of burns.
And then, he fainted.
Before Rōshi lost consciousness, he seemed to hear the chuckle of the four tails in his body.
"If you dare, you can always ask me to lend you strength."
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