The Hokage, having traveled here, of course he'd unify the ninja world!

Chapter 945 Not a Perfect Ending

the other side.

The people of Konoha ran back and regrouped as they went.

In a short period of time, the team of a thousand people was quickly assembled.

After all, they were all experts from Konoha, and they stopped the pursuit after realizing something was wrong.

With the help of signal flares and real-time messages from the mountain tribe, everyone retreated.

However, compared to their previous high spirits, the retreat was somewhat chaotic.

Everyone was being chased by the sandstorm, running frantically.

The Hyuga clan is constantly reporting the distance to the sandstorm.

The wind has picked up now; you can't even hear yourself unless you shout loudly.

"Fourth Hokage! The sandstorm will catch up with us in five minutes!"

During this time, Minato's shadow clones had not disappeared, which means...

Minato's shadow clones hadn't even escaped the sandstorm's range yet.

After all, there are a thousand people this time, and it's impossible to teleport them back to Konoha from here.

The simplest way is to get out of the dust storm's range.

About ten minutes later, Minato's shadow clones brought the Hyuga clan members back.

Hyuga Neji was among them, and he suggested:

"The sandstorm is too large; we haven't found its boundary. The best solution is to teleport back to Basha City!"

Chiyo glanced at Minato beside him: "Do you have enough chakra?"

Minato nodded: "With Naruto here, there won't be any problems."

The Nine-Tails' chakra recovers very quickly; it was already full after several hours of pursuit from here to Arashiyama Castle.

Under Minato's command, Neji took out the signal flare for the assembly and fired it into the sky.

Moreover, several shots were fired in succession, since the wind was too strong and the shots were likely to fail.

Everyone was nearby and quickly assembled.

Minato looked at Chiyo's eye technique clone and asked, "What about you? Do you want to come back with me?"

The clone's form blurred for a moment, then the main body used Shadow Teleportation to return.

"Let's go back together. The First Kazekage, Retsuto, has been resurrected. We need to come up with a new battle strategy."

When Qianyao's main body was chasing Liedou, he did not synchronize the information with his clone. It was only at this moment that Minato realized that the huge sandstorm was actually released by Liedou.

"I understand, Naruto!"

Minato responded and called Naruto over.

Naruto's powers have now been unleashed, so he is currently in a golden, shimmering state.

Water Gate also switches to golden mode in a second.

"Dad, I'm here!"

Naruto flashed to Minato's side.

"Tell Yang Jiuwei that we'll need to use a lot of chakra again."

Minato should at least give a heads-up this time, otherwise the fox will be drained of his energy and get angry again.

"Oh! Don't worry, Dad, Kurama will be fine!"

Having been away from the battlefield for so long, Naruto was very happy to have accomplished so much upon arriving today, and he immediately raised his fist.

After greeting Yin Jiuwei, Minato also extended his fist.

Their fists collided, and a massive amount of chakra began to connect.

Everyone present was enveloped in the Nine-Tails' chakra.

call out……

The next moment, everyone in Konoha was teleported to Basha City.

Both Minato and Naruto's auras instantly diminished significantly.

This place is much closer to Konoha than Basha City. The two foxes were just exhausted, unlike before when they were almost drained dry.

However, the two foxes were still very unhappy: "Naruto, if you keep doing this, I won't lend you any more chakra."

The Yin Nine-Tailed Fox on the other side had a similar reaction.

Minato could only apologize repeatedly: "There won't be a next time, don't worry."

So many people came back together.

Tsunade and the others who stayed behind also came out of the room:

"What happened? How come they all came back?"

Qianyao glanced at the group of Konoha elites below. Although the ending wasn't great, at least there were no casualties.

"Tsunade, please make arrangements for these people first."

"Minato, use your shadow clone to take Neji and see if the sandstorm will reach this area,"

"In half an hour, all the senior officers will come for a combat meeting."

Seeing this, Tsunade didn't ask any more questions and went straight to make arrangements.

Minato then created shadow clones and led the Hyuga clan members out.

Qianyao jumped onto the city wall of Basha City and gazed into the distance.

He already knew that Black Zetsu had the ability to use the Impure World Reincarnation even without cooperating with Kabuto Yakushi when Black Zetsu attacked Konoha last time.

However, he was not mentally prepared for this resurrection of the First Kazekage, Retsuto.

"...Master, this mission didn't go well, are you unhappy?"

Karin jumped to his side and took his hand.

Chiyo gently stroked Karin's hair and said with a smile, "There's nothing to be unhappy about."

"We had already captured Lansha City, but we had to retreat because of the sandstorm."

"Without the sandstorm, most of the Sand Village residents would have been captured, so there's nothing wrong with the decision."

"The battle can be considered a success, but not a perfect one."

"Although it used up some of Minato's chakra, we're lucky that we didn't suffer any casualties."

"Yes, Master was amazing today. He took down Lansha City all by himself."

Chiyo reached out and wrapped his arms around Karin, resting his head on Karin's hair:

"The Sand Village won't be wiped out so quickly; it will take some more time here."

Qianyao and his companion stood at the highest point, so that the people of Konoha could see them just by looking up.

The Uchiha clan members already knew Karin's identity, but everyone else only found out at this point.

At that moment, a ninja heard the surrounding chatter, looked up, and saw this scene:

"Why is the Fifth Hokage, Huo Ren, hugging me...?"

With a loud thud, he was hit on the head.

His companion rolled his eyes at him: "What the Fifth Hokage does is none of your business. Stop talking nonsense."

"That's Karin, isn't it? Aren't she and the Fifth Hokage master and disciple...?"

"So who says a master and disciple can't be together?"

"Ahem, I didn't say that masters and disciples can't be together! Master-disciple relationships are the most exciting!"

The whispers below drifted to Karin's ears on the wind. She was a little shy, but she didn't break free from Chiyo's embrace.

Karin turned around and buried her head in Chiyo's chest so that she wouldn't be seen.

"I believe in my master."

Seeing that Karin seemed a little flustered, Chiyo whispered in her ear, "What's wrong? Are you shy?"

"No, it's just that the wind is a bit strong and it's cold."

A muffled sound came from Qianyao's chest, making Qianyao smile involuntarily.

He cupped Karin's head in his hands, saw her flushed cheeks, and couldn't resist kissing her forehead.

"Oh!"

The onlookers below let out satisfied sighs!

Karin quickly hugged Chiyo tightly and buried her head in Chiyo's arms again, refusing to look up this time no matter what.

Seeing that more and more people were gathering below, Qianyao also carried Xianglin and slipped down.

"I'm going to a meeting now, I'll come find you later," he said, ruffling Karin's hair.

"Okay. Got it."

Seeing that many people were still paying attention to her, Karin disappeared as if fleeing.

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