Anyone who truly considered the people of the Cloud Village to be crude was the truly crude one. The fact that the Cloud Village hadn't attacked him while he was resting meant they surely had a more formidable move waiting for him.
"Interesting."
After adjusting the position of the sealing scroll on his back, Li Anshi instantly sprang out, running towards the Cloud Village.
Swish!
A flying dagger slid into Li Anshi's hand. Instantly, his spirit became highly focused, and his perception of surrounding living beings was greatly enhanced.
With Li Anshi as the center, within a hundred-meter radius, the trajectories of countless flying daggers appeared in his mind. At the end of these trajectories were the Cloud ninjas following him, as well as the beasts in the jungle.
Suddenly, in Li Anshi's perception, the Cloud ninjas beside him abruptly accelerated, quickly moving away.
"Oh? Are they about to attack me?"
From the movements of these Cloud ninjas, Li Anshi could guess that the Cloud side had probably already locked onto him. Moreover, judging by the speed and distance of their retreat, the first wave of attacks he would face would undoubtedly be an ultra-long-range, super-strong attack.
In Li Anshi's memory, there were two ways the Cloud Village could achieve this. The first was the Tailed Beast Bomb from the Jinchuriki, Blue B. The second was the Chakra Cannon created by the Cloud Village's scientists.
However, the Chakra Cannon appeared after the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War. According to descriptions, if the Chakra Cannon stored enough chakra, it was a powerful weapon capable of destroying the moon in a single blow.
The current Cloud Village probably hadn't even proposed the "Chakra Cannon" plan yet. This meant that the only thing that could attack him now was the Tailed Beast Bomb!
Looking up at the sky, Li Anshi could sense a powerful chakra in the distance, rapidly approaching him. Li Anshi's expression became slightly grave. He had been somewhat mentally prepared for such treatment when he set out for the Cloud Village. Therefore, sensing the Tailed Beast Bomb coming, Li Anshi wasn't particularly surprised.
The Tailed Beast Bomb was the strongest attack of the nine Tailed Beasts. The Eight-Tails, Gyuki, was a powerful Tailed Beast second only to the Nine-Tails, Kurama. The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki's Tailed Beast Bomb was a terrifying move capable of turning an area hundreds of meters ahead into scorched earth.
Compared to top human powerhouses, the Tailed Beasts' Tailed Beast Bombs had no weaknesses other than consuming more chakra. Both their attack range and attack power were at the very top of the ninja world. And chakra, for Tailed Beasts, was not a weakness at all. They themselves were aggregates of chakra; both their chakra amount and chakra recovery speed were incomparable to human ninjas.
"Hum—"
A white light emanated from the flying dagger in Li Anshi's hand. This white chakra light was the "spirit" of Li Anshi's Little Li Flying Dagger. In the ninja world, the "spirit" of the Little Li Flying Dagger, when manifested by chakra, was much more powerful than in the martial arts world. It could even be said that this was a difference of two dimensions.
Closing his eyes, Li Anshi invested most of his mind into the flying dagger in his hand, allowing it to guide his movements. Soon, in Li Anshi's perception, a powerful chakra invaded his mental sea. His aura locked onto this powerful chakra, and the trajectory of a flying dagger simultaneously appeared in his perception. Under the exchange of auras, Li Anshi raised his hand and shot out the flying dagger.
"Shoo!"
In the sky, a huge pillar of chakra rapidly approached Li Anshi's position. Wherever this huge pillar of chakra passed, everything in front of it was completely destroyed, and the surroundings turned into scorched earth. Looking at the direction of this chakra light pillar, its very center was clearly Li Anshi.
Just as this Tailed Beast Bomb approached Li Anshi, the flying dagger in his hand transformed into a white light, directly colliding with the Tailed Beast Bomb.
To the surprise of all the Cloud ninjas, Li Anshi's flying dagger, upon colliding with the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki's Tailed Beast Bomb, didn't cause an explosion. Instead, it directly sliced the Tailed Beast Bomb unleashed by Blue B in half, which then passed by on either side of Li Anshi.
Boom boom boom boom boom...
Violent explosions erupted on both sides of Li Anshi. Even when cut in half, the power of this Tailed Beast Bomb hadn't diminished much. When the smoke and dust cleared, the place where Li Anshi stood had become like a triangular isolated island, with trenches tens of meters deep appearing on both sides and in front.
Swoosh!
Since he had already made a move, standing there and taking hits was not Li Anshi's fighting style. Immediately, Li Anshi's figure flickered across the ground, rapidly rushing towards the hill where the Cloud ninjas were gathered. Even Li Anshi couldn't use a flying dagger capable of cutting a Tailed Beast Bomb many times in a short period. After all, every full-power use of the Little Li Flying Dagger consumed a large amount of Li Anshi's "spirit" and chakra. This kind of move was for dealing with Tailed Beast Jinchuriki and strong enemies like the Third Raikage. If Blue B launched a few more Tailed Beast Bombs, Li Anshi probably wouldn't have enough "spirit" left to kill the Third Raikage.
"Kill!"
...
"Indeed, even a Tailed Beast Bomb at this distance cannot kill Li Anshi."
Standing on the hill, the Third Raikage watched Li Anshi cut through the Tailed Beast Bomb. Although slightly disappointed, he wasn't panicked. In his view, since Li Anshi dared to threaten the Cloud ninjas with words, he naturally wouldn't be so easy to kill.
Moreover, for safety, Blue B had launched the attack on Li Anshi from two hundred meters away; the Tailed Beast Bomb's power had already diminished by more than half by the time it reached Li Anshi.
The likelihood of killing Li Anshi with this intensity was not high. However, seeing Li Anshi emerge unscathed from this attack, the Third Raikage also felt a little regretful.
"Everyone, next, this is our battlefield!"
"In this battle, whether Little Li Flying Dagger makes his name, or our Cloud Village regains its prestige, it's all up to you!"
"Yes, Lord Raikage!"
After loudly replying to the Third Raikage, these Jonin behind him instantly transformed into black shadows, rushing to the forefront of the numerous ninja formations. A Cloud Jonin formed hand seals, and dozens of Cloud ninjas behind him also formed the same hand seals.
"Water Release—Exploding Water Colliding Wave!"
Streams of water shot out from the mouths of these ninjas, eventually merging with the water stream spewed out by the Cloud Jonin in front, transforming into an even more powerful water shockwave, like a tsunami-like giant wave, rushing towards Li Anshi.