Infinite war begins with Cao thief.

Chapter 401 Life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills
Of course, Nagato had made preparations early on.

Nagato Rokudo brought a large number of ninjas from the Rain Country and scattered them around the fleet to keep watch. They were the first to discover the unusual movements of the Kirigakure.

But just because we have discovered something doesn’t mean we have a solution.

The Tailed Beast Balls of the two tailed beasts at a distance are still very intimidating, especially the three-tailed Isogai. Although it is a giant turtle that moves slowly on land, it is extremely flexible in the sea.

Move, move, you can't be seen once you dive into the water.

In order to protect the elderly, weak and sick on the fleet, Nagato decided to kill the three-tail first.

In fact, Fa Zheng had already discussed with Nagato about the risks they might encounter on the road.

For Nagato, everything that happened today was just as expected.

Nagato firmly believed that after surviving this war, a bright future would be waiting for the Rain Shinobi.

Nagato and Yahiko Tendo took action separately, using Shinra Tensei to block the Tailed Beast Balls coming from two directions, and then Yahiko Tendo went straight to the position of the Three-Tails.

However, although there was nothing wrong with Nagato's strategy, his real body's actions exposed his real position to the eyes of Kirigakure.

[Nagato's real body is on the third ship ahead! ]

Commanders including Mei Terumi, Ao, Hoshigaki Kisame, and Mangetsu Hozuki all discovered the trace of Nagato's real body and immediately ordered the ninja troops to launch a concentrated attack.

In the eyes of Kirigakure, Amegakure is not worth mentioning, and they can secure victory as long as they kill Nagato.

Of course, even if he couldn't kill Nagato, even if he could only take away one of the Rinnegan, it would still be an incomparable and huge victory.

The first group of Kirigakure ninjas, mainly middle and lower-level ninjas, quickly approached Nagato's fleet.

There is no doubt that they are cannon fodder used to test the Amegakure branch and consume the strength of Nagato and Amegakure.

The second group of main force, the middle and upper ninjas, began to jointly perform a large-scale Mist Hidden Technique, trying to further limit Nagato Rokudo's vision.

Nagato's Six Paths are united into one, sharing vision and communicating with each other. The Mist Hidden Technique can effectively limit this ability. Moreover, after using the Mist Hidden Technique in actual combat, it will be difficult for Nagato's Shinra Tensei to find the main force of the Mist Hidden Technique.

With these two preparations, Kirigakure was able to get close to Amegakure's fleet with less losses.

The naval battles in the ninja world are so plain that there is no such thing as boarding battles. Ninjas just step on the water and charge forward. When encountering a fleet, they will directly use water ninjutsu to attack or jump onto the ship. The defending side will also get off the ship in advance to fight.

Unless there are precious cargoes on board, the attacking party will not use ninjutsu for long-range attacks in order to protect the safety of the cargoes, but will instead engage in direct hand-to-hand combat on board.

In this world, ships are more like energy-saving means of transportation for ninjas. They are kept far away from the battlefield and dare not approach it at all.

Today's battle is mainly based on hand-to-hand combat. Kirigakure does not want to destroy the entire fleet. The reasons are, firstly, they are afraid of completely angering Nagato, so that Nagato will have no worries and can directly launch a large-scale attack; secondly, Kirigakure is too poor and wants to rob the supplies of Amegakure that has come from all over the country.

When people are poor, they have low aspirations.

As soon as the thick fog spread across the entire battlefield, Nagato realized the sinister intentions of the Kirigakure.

However, Tendō Yahiko's goal remains unchanged, and the Rain Ninjas are all eager to fight.

The Rain Ninjas all knew very well that behind them were their wives, children and elders. If they lost the battle, their entire family would be buried in the sea. But once they won, they would have a great chance to occupy the Water Kingdom. At that time, they could basically stay away from the war and build a new home.

Rain Ninja fights for his family and for the future.

The two sides collided violently.

Just as Mei Terumi and others thought, at sea, Nagato did not dare to easily use a large-scale Shinra Tensei, and even Chibaku Tensei was difficult to use.

The war was in a stalemate from the beginning.

Although the Mist Ninja is good at water combat, coincidentally, the Rain Ninja is also good at water combat;

Although the Mist Ninja is strong, it has suffered heavy losses after many wars and civil strife. Now it only has about 100,000 ninja troops, and only 40,000 were dispatched this time.
Although the Rain Ninja was relatively weak, and became cannon fodder in many ninja wars, and also experienced civil strife and suffered heavy losses, it still had more than 60,000 ninjas because it was a national retreat;
Even though Kirigakure is relatively stronger, it is still difficult for them to gain an absolute advantage.

Both sides suffered heavy losses as soon as the battle began.

In order to eliminate the most threatening tailed beast, Nagato ignored the ordinary ninjas and launched a fierce attack on Linga directly.

Linga, who thought he could control Nagato, was dumbfounded.

The huge size of the linga cannot pierce through Yahiko Tendo's defense, but Yahiko Tendo's attack can pierce through his linga.

Nagato directly used the "Shinra Tensei + Wanxiang Tenin + Yin Yang Black Rod" triple combo, first using a huge impact to push Linga away, then quickly sucked him in, and then used the Yin Yang Black Rod to seal his chakra.

Even though the Linga-tailed Beast had transformed, the Three-tail, which was not very strong, was nothing more than a larger toy in Nagato's eyes.

A few smooth combos completely blinded Linga.

The battle lasted only seven or eight minutes before the Three-Tails was beaten into autism. Even though the Linga, who had borrowed the form of Shiva, had used his special skill of defiling people's eyes, he was ultimately no match for Nagato. He could not escape and was killed on the spot.

Linga's tragic death also proves that under normal circumstances, the top war agents at this stage could not be opponents of the high-level bosses in the mission world in terms of personal strength.

However, Linga's death was not meaningless. At least he delayed Nagato's Tiandao clone for a long time.

In order to defeat him, Nagato had to focus his main energy and chakra on Tendo Yahiko. This resulted in Nagato's chakra being insufficient for a short period of time, and he was unable to efficiently control the other five clones, resulting in three clones being killed. The remaining two were summoned back by Nagato himself when he saw the situation was not good, and they were considered to have fled in defeat.

Facts have proved that unless there is a Super Kage like Hashirama Senju who can form an army by himself, other Super Kages are still no match for a large group of ninjas with good coordination.

This is especially true for the clone which only has a portion of Nagato's original power.

Nagato's crisis doesn't end there.

Because there are enemies underwater too.

The shark army summoned by Hoshigaki Kisame violently slammed into Nagato's car.

This forced Nagato, who was struggling to resist the six-tailed beast ball, to summon Tendō Yahiko over to prioritize dealing with the underwater enemies.

Yahiko Tendō, who was not good at water battles, could only use weakened versions of Shinra Tensei and Bansho Tenin underwater to kill Hoshigaki Kisame's sharks in a small area.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Hoshigaki Kisame and other Mist Ninja elites finally arrived.

Water Escape: Great Waterfall Technique.

At this time, Hoshigaki Kisame has already obtained Samehada, his chakra amount has greatly increased, and he is about to enter the complete form. The power of his ninjutsu is extraordinary.

But it was blocked by Shinra Tensei.

However, the Mist Ninja's attack had just begun.

In addition to Hoshigaki Kisame, Mei Terumi and Mangetsu Hozuki also arrived quickly.

Boiling Escape: Clever Mist Technique.

A large amount of corrosive acid mist was spat out from the mouth of the hot-bodied Mei Terumi.

Ninjas are very strange. They always like to spit things out of their mouths, such as fire, water, acid mist, etc.

What does this show?

This shows that the ninja's mouth is very durable and can withstand flames and acid mist, not to mention other things.

I understand.

Wind Escape·Big Breakthrough.

This time, Nagato did not use Shinra Tensei, but instead used Wind Style which consumed very little energy for him.

At the same time, Konan, Fa Zheng and a large number of ninjas from the Rain Country also set out.

"Let's hold them off, Nagato, go take down Vulpix first!"

Fa Zheng calmly analyzed the situation and gave Nagato another wave of energy. Recently, Fa Zheng deliberately lived frugally and pretended to be emaciated, which really moved Nagato.

"it is good!"

Nagato also realized that the Vulpix that occasionally launched a Tailed Beast Ball from the periphery was the real enemy. He nodded and sent away Tendo Yahiko.

Nagato now regretted not sneaking into the Kirigakure Ninja Sect first to launch a Super Shinra Tensei before crossing the sea.

But he did not doubt why Fa Zheng had not come up with this idea.

Nagato already had unconditional trust in Fa Zheng.

And Fa Zheng did not disappoint Nagato. He once again performed a large-scale sacrifice, and the speed, vitality, recovery and fighting will of the Kirigakure ninjas, including Konan, were improved.

Originally, one third of the jonin of Rain Village had reached the level of elite jonin, and the strength of the others had also improved. They were able to block the offensive of the Mist Village at once and even launched a counterattack.

The Amegakure members on Nagato's flagship were also able to fight when facing Zumi Mei and others and their troops.

The scene became more tense.

At this time, another genius of Kirigakure, Mangetsu Hozuki, also joined the attack sequence. He released the double swords, Aoi, one of the Seven Ninja Swords, and used it as a small laser cannon, and suddenly made a big hole in Nagato's flagship.

This completely enraged Nagato and Konan.

Explosive Talisman Shuriken.

The angry Konan went all out, using the Paper God Technique to fly into the air, summoning 100 million detonating tags disguised as shurikens, and launched a saturation bombing on the Mist Ninja.

The Mist Ninjas, who had never seen such an attack, suffered heavy losses. Although Mangetsu Hozuki, who was being specially cared for, possessed the water transformation technique, but facing the special attention of millions of detonating tags that even boiled the surrounding sea water, could his water transformation technique still be of any use?

Although he barely escaped with his life, Mangetsu Kizuna was seriously injured.

Qing was even more miserable, he was killed directly by the explosion, but his head was swallowed by a big fish.

It was just that the scene was so chaotic that no one noticed it.

Mei Terumi was not in a good condition either. She was seriously injured and vomiting blood. Fortunately, she was the most cunning one and started retreating early, so she escaped.

The one in the best condition is Hoshigaki Kisame. He merged with Samehada, hid in the deep sea, and used sharks as scapegoats, so his combat power was basically unaffected.

So the battle entered the second phase.

The two sides entered into a brutal stalemate and fight.

At this time, Kirigakure was so bloodthirsty that they didn't care about the supplies on the ship and just did everything as efficiently as possible.

On Nagato's side, Fa Zheng pretended to perform a sacrifice and then pretended to fall into a coma.

After gaining a certain amount of support, Nagato's body directly and forcibly transformed the Three-Tails, using the Three-Tails as a mount and taking action himself, but the brutal battle left Tendo Yahiko damaged, and even though Konan had been charged twice, she was almost at her limit.

The Mist Ninjas were holding their anger and wanted to decide the outcome in a single game, while the Rain Ninjas were driven completely crazy by the tragic casualties, especially the large number of women and children.

This brutal battle lasted for most of the day and ended with Amegakure's tragic victory. The two Chūriki of Kirigakure were all killed, the tailed beast was captured by Nagato, and the Three-Tails was directly penetrated by the black stick on Nagato's body, almost becoming a part of Nagato.

In addition, the body of Kirigakure general Ao was nowhere to be found, Mangetsu Kizuki was seriously injured and dying, Mei Terumi was seriously injured, and a large number of Kirigakure ninjas died in the battle.

Faced with the Amegakure who were determined to fight to the death, Mei Terumi made the painful decision to withdraw her troops and asked Hoshigaki Kisame, who was in the best condition, to stay behind to cover their retreat.

This was a life-threatening mission, but as the most orthodox ninja in Naruto, Hoshigaki Kisame still accepted the mission and led more than a thousand Kirigakure to cover the rear.

The final result was obvious, almost all of the more than a thousand people died in the battle.

Hoshigaki Kisame wanted to hide in Samehada and pretend to be dead, but was swallowed by a huge sea monster.

Nagato doesn't have time to deal with these sea beasts.

At this moment, he was in deep self-blame.

Although only ten thousand of the forty thousand Kirigakure ninjas escaped in the end, more Rain ninjas died, especially the family members and ordinary civilians who followed the army, which made Nagato extremely sad.

He didn't know how to face the dead, and even less how to face the living.

Just when he was confused, Fa Zheng stood up again.

"Nagato, give me a Samsara Eye!"

Fa Zheng asked for the truth.

"Ok?"

Nagato was stunned.

He did not expect Fa Zheng to make such a request, and for a moment he did not know how to respond.

If I agree, I'm afraid there might be problems; if I disagree, I can't save face.

Xiaonan looked at Fa Zheng with a wary look.

She didn't have the same trust in Fa Zheng as she did in Nagato.

Fa Zheng smiled bitterly and explained, "By the way, teach me the art of reincarnation."

"Step on the Feather!"

This time Nagato's defense was broken.

Xiaonan also looked guilty.

"I come!"

Nagato spoke impulsively.

"Let me do it. I have special abilities, so I won't necessarily die. Besides, they can't afford to lose you."

As he spoke, Fa Zheng dug out one of his own eyes and hid it in a glass bottle.

This time, Nagato was really about to cry.

Fa Zheng just smiled and stretched out his hand towards Nagato.

What else could Nagato say at this time? He just dug out one of his eyes and handed it to Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng smiled and plugged and played. After asking Nagato for the technique of the Reincarnation Technique, he jumped into the middle of the sea and performed the Reincarnation Technique.

Suddenly, many dead Rain Ninja and civilians were resurrected, and Fa Zheng fell to the water, looking emaciated.

Nagato was unable to move and could only watch. Konan quickly flew over and tried to help Fa Zheng up, but unexpectedly at this moment, a huge shark rushed out and swallowed Fa Zheng in one bite.

Nagato was immediately furious and quickly used the All-Seeing Heaven Attraction, but unexpectedly a shark-man who looked 90% like Hoshigaki Kisame suddenly appeared and used a water cannon-type technique on Nagato.

Nagato could only defend passively, and as a result, he lost the last chance to capture Fa Zheng.

"Kirigakure!"

The angry Nagato roared to the sky!

He swore to destroy Wuyin and avenge Fa Zheng.

A large number of ninjas rescued by Fa Zheng also shared the same hatred for the enemy.
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That’s all for today. I’ll probably be able to resume normal updates next week. I’ve been really exhausted recently, so I should have less work to do next week.

(End of this chapter)