With this new reinforcement joining the battle, the pressure on everyone indeed eased significantly.
However, correspondingly, the alliance army, which had previously suffered zero casualties, began experiencing injuries and deaths.
In fact, the number of wounded was increasing at an alarming rate of several hundred per second!
Seeing this, Tsunade shouted, "Kushina, have Nine-Tails lend me some more chakra!"
"Okay okay!" Kushina quickly passed the chakra over.
After her chakra was replenished, Tsunade quickly formed a series of hand seals and slammed her palm onto the ground.
[Kuchiyose no Jutsu]!
With her own chakra combined with Nine-Tails', a gigantic slug the size of a small hill instantly appeared.
"Katsuyu-sama, I'm counting on you!"
The slug softly replied, "I understand."
The next moment, its massive body [Split] into countless tiny slugs that hopped and bounced toward the injured warriors.
"Phew! Saved!"
"With Tsunade-sama's summoned beast, what are we afraid of? Just watch me charge in like a hero!"
In this defensive battle, it wasn't just Jiraiya and Tsunade who stood out!
The Raikage charged wildly across the battlefield, the Tsuchikage delivered the strongest firepower, and the Kazekage's gold dust technique was both offensive and defensive. Meanwhile, the Mizukage's two kekkei genkai techniques were flexible and unpredictable.
Beyond them, famous jonin and reincarnated warriors brought forth by the Impure World Reincarnation all performed remarkably well!
Finally, the moment had arrived.
Jiraiya loudly shouted, "Cover your ears!"
[Sage Art: Demonic Illusion - Toad Confrontation Chant]!
As the final note rang out from the mouths of the two sages, space itself seemed to twist and warp.
Everyone saw the world spinning around them!
Even just caught in the blast and with their ears covered, this terrifying sound still left them dazed and disoriented.
As for the White Zetsu Army, who were the main targets, they frothed at the mouth, fell to the ground, and convulsed intermittently.
None were spared!
"Wow! What an incredible sound-based genjutsu!"
"Just now my body couldn't move at all—I thought time itself had frozen!"
After recovering from the shock, everyone couldn't help but cheer.
"Is it really over now?"
"Hahaha, we won!"
"Sunan ninja, you did great just now!"
"Hehe, you Iwa ninja weren't bad either!"
"This must be what they mean by strength in unity—we actually beat such a powerful enemy!"
As they were feeling emotional, someone asked another question.
"What about the Akatsuki members?"
"Did they escape during the chaos?"
"Tch, lucky bastards!"
"Forget about it, Leader-sama said we could let everyone go except those two leaders anyway..."
Just then, someone suddenly cried out, "Look! Isn't there someone from Akatsuki sitting on Yugito?"
Following his pointed direction, a man wearing black-rimmed glasses was lazily seated atop the already heavily damaged Yugito, watching the battlefield below with the expression of someone watching a play.
"Is this guy really from Akatsuki? Although his eyes look suspicious, he's not wearing the signature black cloak with red clouds, right?"
"Perhaps the barrier failing was his doing, so naturally he wouldn't wear their distinctive clothing to avoid drawing attention!"
"Hey! Who are you?!"
However, the man above didn't answer. Instead, he sighed, "Is it really over already? How disappointing!"
Understanding the implication in his words, everyone became vigilant.
Down below, Mifune wore a complicated expression. "Lord Aizen, so it's really you. When I heard your name from that Obito a few days ago, I thought it was a misunderstanding."
"Of course it's me!" Aizen smiled slightly.
Before Mifune could speak further, A couldn't help but sneer, "Akatsuki has already been destroyed. How dare you remnants still show yourselves?"
The Iwagakure ninja, who had suffered the most under Akatsuki's reign of terror, also stepped forward. "Why bother talking so much? Just capture him directly!"
Previously, they had tolerated those Akatsuki remnants for the greater good. Now that Aizen dared to show himself again, they naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity to settle old scores.
However, Hiruzen Sarutobi shook his head slightly. "Now isn't the time to create additional complications."
He stepped forward voluntarily. "You're one of Nagato's subordinates, right? Though they've already surrendered, you don't need to keep struggling!"
"Though they might be incompetent leaders, they are still the key to another world, and I'd feel much safer keeping that key in my own hands!" Aizen chuckled lightly.
Everyone's eyes turned grim. From his tone, he clearly didn't take those so-called leaders seriously at all!
And what did he mean about "the key to another world"? Was he just putting on a show with fancy words?
Though they didn't quite understand his meaning, they still grasped one thing—this opponent wanted to save someone!
The Iwagakure ninja almost laughed until tears came to their eyes.
"Don't tell me you're actually planning to fight ten thousand by yourself?"
"Trying to save someone from Leader-sama's hands? That's absolutely hilarious!"
Aizen didn't get angry. Instead, he removed his glasses and jumped down from the head of the statue. "Actually, I'm not particularly good at fighting. Compared to that, I prefer the approach of exchanging hostages."
"Hostage?" The jonin's faces changed as they shouted at the genin and chunin, "Quickly leave! Don't let yourselves be captured!"
Aizen couldn't help laughing softly. "Don't misunderstand. The hostage I meant is... everyone here!"
Almost everyone could hardly believe their ears. "What did you say? Everyone here?"
"To answer that previous question again, I'm not one against ten thousand, but rather fifty thousand against ten thousand!"
As Aizen spoke, he snapped his fingers.
Then, under everyone's horrified gazes, the monster army that had been knocked unconscious by genjutsu stood up again.
Witnessing this scene, many were frozen in shock.
"How is something like this even possible?"
"What we could only accomplish with all our strength, he did all by himself!"
It wasn't the fifty-thousand strong monster army that scared them, but the man known as Aizen.
With the combined efforts of the Two immortals from Mount Myoboku, plus thousands of jonin, and fifty thousand chunin and genin, they barely managed to defeat those enemies after holding their ground for over ten seconds!
Yet this opponent merely snapped his fingers and revived, then controlled, all these mentally damaged monsters!
The gap between them was simply unfathomable!
As the man marched toward them, everyone's breath quickened!
"Is this really his true strength?"
"He controlled the illusion of tens of thousands in an instant! Is this guy the god of [Genjutsu]?"
"So this is how powerful [Genjutsu] can be!"
Here's the thing—Aizen had taken a shortcut.
Under normal circumstances, even he wouldn't be able to spread his [Genjutsu] across an area spanning hundreds of square kilometers!
The reason he could achieve this was actually by borrowing the power of Dream World.
But since Dream World and his power originated from the same source, not even the Otsutsuki four years ago could see through this mystery—let alone them!
Seeing fear rising among the crowd, several Jonin shouted to boost morale:
"Don't be afraid! We've already beaten this enemy before—we have nothing to fear!"
"It's just five to one!"
With a smirk, Aizen snapped his fingers again.
"If that's the case, then let's make it six hundred thousand versus two thousand!"
In the next moment, a hundred thousand Genin and Chunin instantly defected, leaving the Jonin in stunned silence!
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