The world of Naruto in Sharingan Eyes

Chapter 223 The war begins
The autumn wind is howling, chilling the rocks and stones.
The drizzle is hazy, without a speck of mud or dust.

Standing on the territory of the Stone Kingdom and looking into the distance, you can see jagged mountains and towering cliffs.

The sky was foggy, and the dripping rain fell on the rocks, playing a fresh little tune.

Sniffing the moist air, Uchiha Gen slowly walked into the Five Villages Allied Forces Base which had just been built not long ago, and walked towards the command center in the center of the base amid the respectful, fearful, and hateful gazes of many ninjas along the way.

He got it, and only with his presence did the five major villages have the confidence to attack Longdi Cave and an "immortal" who had lived for who knows how long.

"So, the previous batches of ninjas who went to make the announcement didn't even get to see the White Snake Immortal before they were eaten up by the snakes?"

Uchiha Gen pushed open the door of the command center with one hand and asked casually.

Obviously, Uchiha Gen's voice did not sound particularly angry, but was just half serious and half joking, but several masters in the command center who were well-known in the ninja world could not help but feel a little nervous.

Jiraiya held his forehead and smiled bitterly: "Gen, you are here. These snakes in Ryuchi Cave don't listen to human words at all. They are far worse than Myoboku Mountain!"

Yagura sat in the booster chair specially made for him and Ohnoki, also with a helpless look on his face:
"Moreover, ordinary jonins are basically powerless against those giant snakes that are dozens of meters long. The Ryuchi Cave is complicated and winding. The Raikage and I went down to investigate several times, but we couldn't find any trace of the White Snake Sage."

Uchiha Gen nodded slightly, but his eyes paused slightly when he swept over Oonoki.

With his current strength, his 'intuition' is almost quite sharp and accurate.

When he met Ohnoki in the Frost Country before, Uchiha Gen felt that he was still as threatening as Jiraiya, a "strong rat" who might bite him unexpectedly.

But now he has fallen to a level where he is slightly inferior to the Fourth Generation Ai and Yagura, and is only better than Chiyo who is just making up the numbers in this room.

It's probably because his injuries from the previous battle with the Frost Country haven't fully healed. After all, he's an old man. It can't be that he got sick because he was scared by the resurrection of Uchiha Madara, right?

Uchiha Gen smiled at Oonoki, nodded, and then his expression became serious.

"With the White Snake Immortal's ability, it is impossible that he does not know that our five-village coalition has arrived. Since he did not take the initiative to meet us and even ordered his men to kill our envoy, it seems that he does not want to have a good talk!"

Uchiha Gen squeezed his hands, his knuckles making crisp sounds, and he pulled a chair and sat down casually with a calm face, as if he was discussing what to eat today. He said calmly:

"Since there is nothing to discuss, let's just destroy the Longdi Cave and grab the Spiritual Scroll. Let's do it this afternoon, and the outcome will be decided in one battle!"

Anyone who dares to kill me, doesn't the White Snake Immortal know that the burdens of the five major villages and five major countries are all hanging under the crotch of me, Uchiha Yuan?
You have to strike hard!
When the other people in the command center heard what Uchiha Gen said, their faces changed immediately.

Didn't they say they were only going to use the forces of the five villages to force the White Snake Immortal? Why did they suddenly start a full-scale war?

They didn't dare to take Uchiha Gen's words as a joke. Even if Uchiha Gen said that he would conquer the moon one day, they would have to believe it to some extent based on his past achievements.

After exchanging glances with the others, Jiraiya knew that he was the only one who could persuade them at this time, so he carefully advised:

"Yuan, you are being a bit extreme. There is no need to go to this extent now.

I think we should still use fighting to promote peace, and gradually escalate the intensity until Ryuchidou surrenders and hands over Orochimaru, so as to reduce the losses of the five villages.

Moreover, we don’t know the terrain of Longdi Cave at all, and we need to draw a map during exploration and battle.”

After Jiraiya spoke, Oonoki and others also joined in the persuasion, trying to stop Uchiha Gen from deciding the outcome of the battle in one go.

They have also explored the strength of Longdi Cave these days. It can only be said that it is worthy of the name of "holy land" and its strength is very strong.

If we fight according to what Uchiha Gen said, it will be fast and exciting, but the four villages that have already been damaged in the Frost Country will suffer heavy losses.

"It's obvious that this kind of small fight won't alarm the White Snake Immortal. Besides, we're stationed in a remote place like the Stone Country, and we're eating the food that the spirit beasts are chewing, so we're going to consume a lot of supplies!

What’s more, you have all been away from the village for half a month, so there must be a lot of things that have been delayed in the village.”

Uchiha Gen looked as if he was concerned about the top leaders of other villages.

Oonoki and the others' faces became even darker, but after comparing Uchiha Gen's fist with their own, they could only persuade him kindly.

Finally, with the mediation of Jiraiya and Yagura, Uchiha Gen finally "reluctantly" agreed to give up his claim, but the other four villages also had to agree to stop small-scale fighting and escalate the intensity of the battle against Ryuchi Cave.

People always like to find a middle ground, so it will be much easier to talk about opening windows after lifting the roof.

Soon, the five villages reached a consensus and decided to divide the fifteen masters of the five villages, including the Three Kages, Jiraiya, Chiyo, Shisui, etc., into five groups. Each group would lead a mixed column of 500 people from the five villages, and take turns to enter the Ryuchi Cave to survey the terrain and hunt the snakes.

But after reaching a simple consensus, they soon started arguing over the rotation schedule and personnel selection.

Uchiha Gen tapped the armrest of his chair, a smile on his face, silently enjoying the farce.

After they argued till they were exhausted, they finally came up with a detailed charter.
Uchiha Gen clapped his hands, expressing his high approval of their suggestions, and finally clapped his hands as if full of hope:
"As long as the five villages work together, I think Ryuchi Cave will be defeated soon. Then I will spar with the White Snake Immortal, and he will have no choice but to agree to hand over Orochimaru!"

"That's right, that's right!"

The wrinkles on Chiyo's face squeezed together, and she forced a smile and complimented:

"Gen-sama, great advice!"

However, she had a bad feeling in her heart. Yes, as long as the five villages work together, it should be easy to deal with Longdidong without the White Snake Immortal taking action, and the White Snake Immortal also has Uchiha Yuan to deal with.
But can the five villages really work together?
Amid Chiyo's anxiety, the war began.

Then, it turned out that her hunch was not wrong at all.

Even after experiencing so many years of peace, not every ninja in the five villages is as generous as Chiyo. When faced with the White Fang son who killed her son and daughter-in-law, she only played a prank on him and then considered the overall situation and let go of her hatred.

Ninjas are tools, but if this profession could really be so heartless, then the Uchiha clan, who relied on emotional stimulation to become stronger, would not be the most powerful family in the ninja world.

In the absence of the crisis of 'world destruction' or 'overthrow of the five major nations', it is naturally impossible for everyone to cooperate as sincerely as they did in the four wars in the original time and space, but instead they will just take pleasure in settling scores and repaying grievances.

On the first day of the mixed unit's establishment, it suffered losses of more than thirty people, many of whom died from assassinations by temporary teammates from other villages.

On the second and third days, the top leaders continued to give advice, but the assassination of ninjas from other villages continued unabated and even became more rampant.

After all, we are all ninjas and we all know the truth that "as long as we are not caught, it is equivalent to not doing it."

But if the top leaders were asked to explore each village separately, everyone would worry that if they were unlucky, the White Snake Immortal would explode and their village would suffer losses, and might even be directly removed from the list of the five major villages.

Therefore, this "five-village cooperation" with ulterior motives and a strange atmosphere continued.

"If I had known this earlier, I would have just followed the source and launched a general attack."

In the winding and dark snake cave, Jiraiya used a needle to pierce a 20-meter-long snake into a hedgehog, then stepped on a snake stone and complained.

In his opinion, if they continued to fight like this, the losses might be even greater than the mindless attack at the beginning.

"Master Jiraiya, at least we have now cleared the perimeter of the Ryuchi Cave and explored three quarters of the terrain of the Ryuchi Cave. It will become easier and easier to fight in the future."

Uchiha Itachi, who was following behind Jiraiya, was wearing a black robe with one hand hidden under the robe, and was in an alert state ready to form hand seals and cast spells at any time.

At this time, a Mist Ninja leaped a few times and landed in front of Jiraiya and the others, reporting:

"Master Jiraiya, the second team has made a great discovery. We may have found the core area of ​​the Ryuchi Cave!"

"what?"

Jiraiya was cheered up, this was the best news he had heard in the past half month.

After sending a ninja to notify the rear command center, Jiraiya glanced at the dozens of ninjas behind him, including Itachi, and said in a deep voice:
"Come on, let's go take a look!"

At the end of the winding snake cave is a platform that extends for a hundred meters.

Countless snake holes are connected to a huge deep pit with a diameter of twenty to thirty miles. The one discovered by Jiraiya and his friends was just one of them.

At the bottom of the deep pit, thousands of snakes were hissing and clustering together, and the top was inlaid with a number of luminous pearls, which were not sure whether they were natural or made by snakes, emitting a cold and misty glow.

With the help of the light of the night pearl, Jiraiya could clearly see that at the bottom of the deep pit, there were snake eggs covered with saliva at the bottom of their bellies, and from time to time, colorful little snakes would hatch out of them.

In the middle of the deep pit, there is a stone pillar with a diameter of more than one kilometer. It is a seamless whole, supporting the sky, standing tall and vigorous. You can faintly see pavilions, temples, flying pavilions and flowing water on the top of the pillar.

There is no doubt that the hatchery used to produce soldiers is definitely the core of the core of Longdi Cave, and the person living in the palace on top of the stone pillar is probably the White Snake Immortal.

But now the problem is.
"Where are the people from the second team?"

Jiraiya looked solemnly and took a light sniff. Amid the strong smell of snakes, he smelled a hint of sweet and sticky blood, and he immediately had a bad premonition.

He leaped a few times and landed on a slightly higher platform. The smell of blood suddenly filled the air.

"green"

At the edge of the platform, a middle-aged man lay dead. It was the captain of the second squad, Qing. He was also well-known in the ninja world. He was pierced through the heart by a sword.

The ninjas followed him onto the platform, each of them also looking horrified.

On the platform, dozens of jonin and special jonin from the second squad were lying in all directions, all of them killed by a single blow of the sword.

Jiraiya's expression looked a little grim.

It wasn't just because the second team was completely wiped out, but also because he was very familiar with the swordsmanship that killed them.

"Qiang!"

From the darkness at the end of the platform came the clear sound of swords being drawn.

Jiraiya raised his eyes.

The half-drawn sword reflected a snow-white sword light, and the blood plum blossoms on the ground looked gorgeous and scarlet.

A tall figure had his back to him and slowly turned his head, his eyes redder than blood.

(End of this chapter)