Minato showed a faint smile, "I just happened to be over at Lord Orochimaru's place trying to train senjutsu."
"But sensing the Flying Thunder God coordinates over here did take a bit of time."
For Minato, a veteran of countless battles who was famous for his speed, the Flying Thunder God Technique should normally allow him to arrive at the target location instantly in combat.
However, this time the distance was simply too great, so sensing Rengoku's coordinates took a little extra time.
Rengoku, however, did not mind this at all.
After all, from such an extreme distance, the fact that Minato could arrive in just a dozen seconds was already astonishingly fast.
Rengoku raised his hand and pointed to a spot on the map spread out on the table, then turned to Minato and said, "Minato, take a look. Isn't Roran right here?"
Hearing this, Minato immediately leaned in and examined the map carefully.
After quite a while, he finally lifted his head, a look of certainty appearing on his face as he nodded and said, "Mm, that's right. This is indeed Roran."
Then he looked at Rengoku with curiosity and asked in confusion, "But this map doesn't clearly mark Roran's location. Rengoku, how did you know?"
Faced with Minato's question, Rengoku simply smiled casually and replied in an offhand manner, "Sunagakure deliberately guided me there. I thought it over, and figured that within the Land of Wind, the only thing that could pose any threat to me is probably just this Dragon Vein."
Hearing this, the slightly tense expression on Minato's face immediately relaxed.
He knew very well that Rengoku's attainments in sealing techniques were many times higher than his own.
Even if the enemy really did undo the Dragon Vein's seal, it would be absolutely impossible for them to contend with Rengoku.
After all, Rengoku could just turn around and seal it right back up again.
Minato hesitated slightly, then spoke up to ask, "Then do you need my help?"
Rengoku lightly waved his hand, "No need. I can handle it on my own. You go make some preparations first. Once I'm done here, we'll go deal with those Cloud Village guys together."
Hearing Rengoku say this, Minato nodded to show that he understood.
Then, smiling, he gave Rengoku a quick greeting, and in the next instant he used the Flying Thunder God Technique and vanished without a trace.
Rengoku gently rubbed his chin as he thought to himself, 'Hmph! So these guys really do want to lure me over to the Dragon Vein, huh?'
'Heh! Heh! What a pity. They really miscalculated!'
'Who would've thought that I specialize in sealing techniques?'
The corners of Rengoku's mouth lifted slightly, revealing a confident smile.
He could not help but sigh inwardly, 'This is the benefit of hiding your true strength. Throughout the entire ninja world, almost everyone knows that Master Senku possesses extraordinary skill in sealing techniques.'
Yet not a single person can guess that the mysterious and immensely powerful Master Senku is actually Rengoku.
Those who hope to use the Dragon Vein to deal with him have to admit, they are a bit naive.
'Since they went to such lengths, painstakingly laying out a trap to lure me there, if I just avoid it and refuse to show up, wouldn't that be wasting their "good intentions"?'
'I might as well go there myself and see what kind of tricks they're trying to pull.'
"Shall we go together?", Kato Dan asked.
Hearing Kato Dan's question, Rengoku thought for a moment, then replied, "Let's go together. Just in case they're planning to ambush you."
This time, Rengoku had brought quite a few kids out to gain experience.
These kids were Rengoku's precious assets. Nothing could be allowed to happen to any of them.
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The fierce fighting on the Land of Wind battlefield was like a raging storm, tightly gripping the heartstrings of the entire ninja world and drawing countless eyes to focus on it.
All the various forces could not restrain their curiosity and concern, and eagerly dispatched capable and clever scouts, trying to uncover the truth hidden behind this war and where the situation was headed.
However, when these scouts arrived near the battlefield, without exception they chose to stay in safer areas at a considerable distance.
Even so, the Susanoo that stood over two hundred meters tall still towered between heaven and earth like a mountain.
Even from far away, as long as their eyesight was fine, the scouts could see it clearly and unmistakably.
When they saw that gigantic figure blotting out the sky, people from all factions were left so stunned that their mouths hung open.
Who could have imagined that Uchiha Rengoku, who already faintly carried the title of the number one person in the ninja world, actually possessed such terrifying strength.
Someone could not help but exclaim, "Even if you add together the forces of Sunagakure, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure, they probably still wouldn't be his match."
However, these battle hardened scouts quickly recovered from their initial shock and soon realized that everything before them was very likely a deliberate ploy by Uchiha Rengoku to lure the enemy.
After all, in just a few days, Sunagakure's originally vast army of nine thousand had been slaughtered by Rengoku alone, six thousand killed, while the remaining two thousand plus fled in all directions like startled birds.
As for Konoha's one thousand troops, they had completely become spectators, responsible only for cheering and handling the aftermath.
Without a doubt, none of these scouts dared to get too close, so they had no way of knowing the exact casualty figures.
As such, the estimates they provided could at best only be rough ranges.
Even so, just this kind of approximate data was already enough to make people's hearts race and their scalps go numb.
After all, as scouts, their own reserves of knowledge were naturally extensive. If they encountered something they did not fully understand, they would immediately return to consult relevant records to ensure accuracy.
Thinking back, the last person who possessed such a powerful Susanoo would have to be Uchiha Madara from the very beginning of Konoha's founding.
For a long time, everyone had treated the descriptions of Madara's Susanoo in those records as nothing more than exaggeration and praise.
Who could have imagined that those descriptions were actually realistic?
Susanoo really could grow to be as tall as a mountain.
This news was like an immensely powerful bomb, detonating with a thunderous crash in the black market intelligence trade.
In an instant, any piece of intelligence related to Uchiha Rengoku was driven up to sky high prices.
In order to obtain even more detailed and comprehensive information, waves of intelligence brokers surged toward the Land of Wind like a tide.
Their purpose was only one: to see whether they could make a huge profit one last time before everything was over.
At the same time, after successfully obtaining the relevant intelligence from the black market, the people of Kumogakure did not dare waste a single moment.
They rushed back toward their own encampment in a frantic hurry.
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