Long before they engaged in this war with Li Anshi, the Third Raikage had already told them of Li Anshi's terror. That ability to throw an unavoidable flying dagger with a mere flick of the wrist—so far, apart from the Third Raikage himself, no one had survived it.
Even the rampaging Two-Tails Jinchuriki had been instantly killed. In Li Anshi's presence, it seemed the role of ninjas was merely to be consumables, depleting the flying daggers he carried.
When formulating their battle plan, these ninjas knew that if they couldn't effectively limit Li Anshi, they would need to use their lives to confine him to a certain area, allowing the ninjutsu users to attack him with large-scale ninjutsu. And they would either die by Li Anshi's flying daggers or by the ninjutsu of their own village's ninjas.
Li Anshi naturally noticed this as well. If the Cloud ninjas' previous ninjutsu had been small-scale, targeted attacks aimed only at him, then when these taijutsu ninjas with iron neck guards appeared, not only he but also a certain area around him was enveloped by ninjutsu.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom..
Explosions erupted; thunderstorms, fierce flames, and violent winds raged. The Cloud ninjas within this area suffered considerable casualties.
"You Cloud ninjas are really going all out to kill me."
"However, if you think this is enough to kill me, then you're underestimating me!"
Li Anshi's voice pierced through the flames and smoke, strong and resonant, letting the Cloud ninjas who heard it know that he hadn't been harmed by such ninjutsu attacks.
"Continue, continue!"
Hearing Li Anshi's voice, the ninjas in the ninjutsu unit couldn't help but be alarmed. Their hands didn't stop, moving like phantoms as they once again unleashed ninjutsu towards Li Anshi's direction.
"Wind Release—Vacuum Great Sphere!"
"Fire Release—Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"
"Wind Release—Great Breakthrough!"
"Lightning Release—Earth Walk!"
"Water Release—Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
Faced with this dense barrage of ninjutsu, a huge chakra sphere appeared in Li Anshi's right hand, enveloping most of his body!
"Revolving Heaven!"
No, this wasn't a simple Revolving Heaven, but a one-handed Revolving Heaven!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The chakra in Li Anshi's right hand spun rapidly like a large drill, breaking through fireballs, wind bullets, lightning, and water streams, directly smashing through the ninjutsu blockade. The direction Li Anshi chose to break through was the formation of ninjas using lightning-based ninjutsu.
Previously, these Lightning Release ninjas from the Cloud Village had cooperated with the water-based ninja formation to create a lake infused with lightning, leaving Li Anshi almost no place to stand.
If Li Anshi hadn't decisively killed the ninjas in the water-based ninja formation, his current situation would likely be much more dangerous. Since he already knew that the combination ninjutsu of water and lightning posed the greatest threat to him, Li Anshi naturally had to prioritize eliminating the ninjas using these two types of ninjutsu.
As Li Anshi approached, the Cloud ninjas in this direction also knew that it was now their turn to hold him off! As ninjutsu-type ninjas, they also knew that when fighting Li Anshi, they simply wouldn't have time to complete the hand seals for ninjutsu. Therefore, this Cloud Jonin directly drew kunai from his ninja tool pouch and threw them at Li Anshi. Behind him, numerous Cloud ninjas also quickly took out kunai and threw them at Li Anshi.
"Kunai?"
Li Anshi chuckled when he saw these Cloud ninjas throwing kunai at him. What a joke. Although Li Anshi didn't have the Uchiha clan's Sharingan, the talent in hidden weapons granted to him by the Little Li Flying Dagger was far more formidable than an ordinary Sharingan! When it came to playing with hidden weapons, he was the ancestor of the entire ninja world!
From the moment these kunai left the Cloud ninjas' hands, their flight trajectories were completely seen through by Li Anshi. Among these trajectories, Li Anshi could even tell which kunai would reach him first and which ones would merely graze past. However, when Li Anshi saw the pieces of paper with the character "Explode" attached to the rings on the handles of these kunai, his face darkened.
It seemed these Cloud ninjas also knew that merely throwing kunai couldn't do anything to him. Therefore, explosive tags were tied to the back of all these kunai!
Explosive tags were a special type of disposable ninja tool in the ninja world, sealing explosive chakra within them.
Once activated, the seal on the explosive tag would be broken after a few seconds, releasing the explosive chakra.
The power of a single exploding tag's explosion was comparable to the explosive power of the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique. Behind these nearly one hundred kunai, all had explosive tags glinting with firelight. If all of them exploded together, the destructive power unleashed would be no less than that of an A-rank ninjutsu.
"Although this is only the first try, I think the effect I can achieve shouldn't be worse than Itachi Uchiha's!"
Li Anshi's hands hung down. With a "swish swish" sound, four flying daggers slid down from his left and right sleeves, caught between his fingers. Then, Li Anshi flicked his hands, and the four flying daggers in his hands transformed into four white light shadows, rushing into the kunai rain that poured down like a torrential downpour.
"Hmm?"
Many Cloud Jonin who were paying attention to Li Anshi were overjoyed when they saw him throw these eight flying daggers.
It was important to know that when Li Anshi had attacked before, they didn't even know when he had launched the flying daggers from his hand. They could only judge that Li Anshi had attacked through the miserable screams of their comrades and the sight of them falling. But this time, not only did they see the moment Li Anshi threw the flying daggers, they could even clearly see the trajectories of the daggers. Could it be that because the plan had worked, Li Anshi's chakra consumption was too great, and he could no longer use the flying dagger secret technique?
"We can win!"
This was the thought in the minds of these Jonin who had clearly seen Li Anshi's attack. And this thought made them extremely excited. In war, the most terrifying thing was not death. It was dying without seeing any hope of victory, only sinking into the deepest despair.
Li Anshi's current performance convinced these Cloud ninjas that the sacrifices of the ninjas who had died in the previous battles with Li Anshi were all worthwhile. It was precisely because so many Cloud ninjas had advanced wave after wave to their deaths that Li Anshi had shown signs of weakness in such a short time.
Otherwise, according to the original plan, at least more than three hundred ninjas would have to be lost before Li Anshi's chakra was mostly depleted, giving the Cloud Village ninjas a chance to dodge his flying daggers.