Under Onoki's command.
The remaining Hidden Rock Ninja demonstrated great discipline. Even under the powerful explosion of Steaming Danger, their spirits nearly collapsed, but upon hearing the Tsuchikage's order, they instinctively reacted.
Onoki's son, Kitsuchi, waved his arms on the battlefield, loudly encouraging his comrades: "The enemy's Chakra is exhausted; this is just their final strike before retreating!"
"Endure it, and once back to the village, we will all figure out how to defeat the enemy. There will definitely be no problem!"
The deep voice echoed across the battlefield, with Chakra surging through Kitsuchi's broad body, exerting force on the earth: "Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall Jutsu"!
A thick rock wall emerged from the ground, shielding the Hidden Rock Ninja above their heads.
Infected by Kitsuchi's emotion, the other Rock Ninjas woke up, collectively performing the Earth Release Ninjutsu they had rehearsed countless times, building temporary shelters.
One earth wall rose after another, the survivors among the ruins transitioning from fear to determination in their eyes...
Onoki's eyes were stirred as he watched this scene, unable to suppress a current of warmth in his heart.
This is the Will of Stone; this is the Hidden Rock Village's ninja...
Never giving up, firmly believing in the will within the heart, even when faced with immense difficulties!
Onoki filled in gaps in the anti-air rock walls for the Rock Ninjas and then hastily gathered Dust Release in his hands, ready to eliminate Konoha's bombs mid-air as much as possible...
Meanwhile, on the other end of the battlefield.
Namikaze Minato and Jiraiya stood beside Aomi, their attention focused on the reaction of the Rock Ninjas, both master and apprentice looking solemn.
Although the Rock Ninjas hadn't interfered effectively during the recent mission to stop Onoki, this didn't mean this army wasn't strong.
It's just that the battlefield was segmented, with few Rock Ninja reinforcements arriving for Onoki, and the time was brief. Were they to form into an army, it would be a different story...
The sheer determination and unity of spirit alone proved they were formidable opponents.
If it were Konoha's forces, could they maintain this combat power after suffering such losses?
This question seemed to have taken root in Jiraiya and Namikaze Minato's minds, prompting reflection...
And behind Aomi and the others, Game Bunta, holding a Tachi, watched Aomi's back with his small, dark yellow eyes fixed.
He knew that Aomi was most likely the legendary Child of Prophecy.
And Aomi's large-scale destructive Ninjutsu had opened this toad's eyes, nearly reaching the top in the Ninja World's killing efficiency.
"Aomi, we should retreat now..."
Jiraiya looked at the two half-dead Jinchuriki under Aomi's feet, his eyebrows twitching as he said in a low voice:
"The Hidden Rock's response is very timely. Ordinary bombing can hardly cause effective damage again."
Namikaze Minato frowned, feeling a chill in his heart.
Mountain Fuu had told him that Root's air support was divided into two types, one being bombing support.
The other is an unknown weapon called Tobirama No.2.
Having gradually understood Root's ways, Namikaze Minato had an instinctive feeling that this bombing would not be a simple explosion...
"Jiraiya, don't rush."
Aomi smiled faintly as he looked at the neatly aligned Rock Ninjas in the distance, slowly saying, "Today these Rock Ninjas, if the reference expectation holds, ninety percent of them must die."
"If it doesn't reach ninety percent, then I consider it a failure—quietly appreciate Konoha's true strength."
Aomi squinted, judging the wind direction and landing spots, adjusting the final bombing zones for Tobirama No.2, directing the bombing unit.
Loaded with a special toxin by Tsunade, Tobirama No.2 dropped continuously from high altitude...
Onoki, controlling the Dust Release beams...
One must admit, Dust Release still holds unique strength, disintegrating objects at the atomic level, obliterating the bombs instantly, not giving them a chance to explode.
Yet under Aomi's command, Tobirama No.2 fell in an obscure bombardment rhythm and positioning, avoiding Onoki's Dust Release as much as possible.
In the end, Tobirama No.2 exploded above the anti-air earth walls built by the Rock Ninjas!
The Rock Ninjas awaited the outcome anxiously...
Was it their united resistance during the emergency that produced results, or would Konoha's new round of bombing prove stronger?
But what was unexpected for them.
This round of Konoha's bombing, in explosive power, was not even half as formidable as the first round, only that the subsequent smoke was thick, gradually enveloping the entire battlefield.
Kitsuchi exhaled a long breath, smiling slightly, ready to say something uplifting, yet his pupils suddenly began to shake!
The initially ordinary-looking smoke, after contacting the air for about ten meters, rapidly turned into a deep blue-black color...
And when the Rock Ninjas came into contact with the blue-black smoke, they began coughing loudly, convulsing, collapsing in a short time, with large amounts of filthy blood pouring from their mouths and noses.
"The smoke is poisonous, the haze is poisonous!"
"Wind Release, quickly, use Wind Release!"
"Help me, I'm dying!"
The blue-black smoke, though lacking the shocking impact and deafening noise of the explosion, had an exceedingly terrifying efficiency in seizing life...
In order to resist the bombing, the Rock Ninjas gathered together, using collective Earth Release to build an anti-air rock wall.
This decision was not wrong...
The only problem was that no one could have anticipated that Konoha's bombing would be in the form of never-before-seen poison gas bombs!
From the Ninja World's number one Medical Ninja and pharmacist, Tsunade, to alleviate the pressure on Aomi, she resolutely decided to use the toxin techniques of former opponents Chiyo and Salamander Hanzo as a base, adding Orochimaru's snake venom and Katsuyu's acid, to formulate a special poison gas bomb.
For mass production, while keeping costs relatively low, the toxicity was somewhat weakened, but it still had a powerful destructive effect on the flesh, enough to leave most Ninjas in a state of ineffective action due to poisoning.
Under Aomi's catalysis, Tsunade successfully evolved into her final form – "Black Heart Tsunade"!
Onoki felt a chill running through him; the Will of Stone, which was as unbreakable as a rock in his heart, was about to fall before it could reach sublimation.
This successive series of blows made the cunning Third Tsuchikage feel as if his heart was sinking into a quagmire; it seemed that every step of this war's pace was tightly controlled by Aomi...
"Shikuro, it's your turn."
Aomi gently patted Aburame Shikuro's shoulder and softly said: "Prove yourself for the Aburame Clan, let everyone know, it's the silent bugs that possess the most passionate Will of Fire…"
Aburame Shikuro's eyes shone with fiery determination, nodding heavily.
On the distant battlefield, Tobirama No.2's blue-black smoke paralyzed almost all the Hidden Rock Ninja, crippling this army in an instant.
Meanwhile, on Aomi's side, several Root Ninja and Aburame Shikuro swiftly piled up the corpses killed by Steaming Danger, stacking them up like a small mountain.
Aburame Shikuro removed his gloves, revealing purple-black hands, placing them on the body of a Hidden Rock Jonin within the corpse pile.
In an instant, the corpse was dyed purple-black, quickly spreading, ultimately forming a large cocoon, flickering with faint black sealing marks, appearing extremely eerie.
No one had time to pay attention to Aburame Shikuro.
Although, due to cost and mass production, Tobirama No.2's toxin was relatively diluted, its area-control ability still remained intact.
Onoki couldn't predict just how dangerous this toxin might be, but anything named "Tobirama" was never simple...
Moreover, the whole army was paralyzed and incapacitated on the battlefield, which was far too dangerous.
If Konoha launches a counterattack now, it would be a disadvantage within a disadvantage!
"Those who can use Earth Release to enter the ground, retreat first, the rest cover your mouth and nose!"
Onoki swiftly performed hand seals, summoning over a dozen massive rock giants that sheltered and dragged the struggling, writhing Rock Ninjas...
Trying every way possible to retreat!
But moments later, Aburame Shikuro's Pot Poison Jutsu was ready.
The nanometer poisonous insects were gleefully multiplying within the corpse pile of Rock Ninjas, surging within the cocoon, and with Aburame Shikuro's hand seals, they explosively burst open!
Heavy black fog drifted towards the Rock Ninjas...
Within the black fog, each floating particle was a deadly nanometer poisonous insect!
Under the veil of Tobirama No.2's blue-black smoke, Pot Poison Jutsu's spawned black fog of nanometer poisonous insects wreaked havoc within the Rock Ninja army!
From the point of contact with the first enemy, rapidly multiplying at an exponential rate...
This time, blue-black toxin mixed with lethal black fog, Root's mass destruction weapons revealed their fangs, starting the harvest of life!
Onoki hovered in the sky, eyes wide with fury, but could only watch as his comrades fell one by one, bodies turning purple-black, unable to make any move.
Wind Release?
It's already meaningless...
Onoki suddenly turned around, casting a deep glance at Aomi, eyes full of hatred, yet a strand of fear sprouted in his heart...
Just like forty years ago, a feeling of powerlessness re-enveloped his mind!
Although Aomi didn't possess the Complete Form of Susanoo, the terrifying might that breaks everything with a single strike, his comprehensiveness, command over war, and complexity of combat style all gave Onoki a sense of trepidation!
Aomi appeared to be a terrifying ninja with the demeanor of Uchiha Madara, yet possessed Senju Tobirama's intellect, along with affinity!
Onoki controlled his rock giant, scooping up Kitsuchi and a few rescualble Hidden Rock Jonins, grinding his teeth, choosing to retreat amidst struggle and pain guided by reason.
Even though he was the Tsuchikage, master of the Dust Release that disintegrates everything, contact with the black fog formed by nanometer poisonous insects was nothing but a path to death...
Onoki was a typical glass cannon, capable of flattening a mountain, yet unable to resist a well-timed Kunai.
Ultimately, those Hidden Rock Ninjas abandoned by the Tsuchikage all became fodder for the nanometer poisonous insects, all falling!
Here, ninety-eight percent of the ten thousand troops of Hidden Rock perished...
Aomi signaled Aburame Shikuro to seal the nanometer poisonous insects, then turned to Namikaze Minato and Jiraiya, gently smiling: "War should be fought like this, wouldn't you agree?"
Jiraiya didn't answer this question but sighed deeply from the heart.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Aomi's strategy killed ten thousand people, did Uchiha Madara's Ninja World Asura kill as many combined?
This answer, Jiraiya didn't know.
But Uchiha Madara did.
At this moment, he was also watching the war, falling into silence.