Both Namikaze Minato and Tsunade are well-known figures in the ninja world, even among a group of Kage-level powerhouses (B-level). However, now that the two of them had joined forces to face the unknown gray-robed man, they still felt a little weak. This was not because Namikaze Minato and Tsunade were timid, but because the gray-robed man's record was truly incredible.
The origin and past experience of the gray-robed man are all unknown. The only time he became famous in the ninja world was from a certain day three months ago. The earliest news that spread was from the Cloud Ninja Village in the Land of Thunder. According to the Fourth Raikage, the man in gray suddenly appeared in his office and used time and space ninjutsu to take him to no man's land and start a fierce battle.
It was said to be a fierce battle, but in fact it was a one-sided beating. The gray-robed man remained on the defensive and fought fiercely with the Fourth Raikage who used nintaijutsu for ten minutes. During this period, the Fourth Raikage, who had become a humanoid tailed beast both physically and destructively, could only make The man in gray robe was slightly injured, and the damage continued to decrease as the battle continued.
The first battle in which the man in gray robe appeared ended with his victory, but the way he won was a little ugly. He dragged the Fourth Raikage alive until he was exhausted and could no longer use chakra to fight and was defeated. This battle can also be said to be the most frustrating battle for the Fourth Raikage. Even though he was not at a disadvantage due to the Thunder God's armor, it did not feel good to be led by the man in gray robes throughout the whole process, especially when he felt vaguely The gray-robed man continued to get familiar with and learn from the battle with him, or in other words, his resistance to his lightning attack became stronger and stronger.
This battle was not only a humiliation for the Raikage, it also brought disgrace to the Cloud Ninja Village and even the Kingdom of Thunder. Therefore, the Fourth Raikage not only blocked all the news, but also secretly sent Kumo Ninja to investigate, and it was bound to find the whereabouts of this gray-robed man.
However, what happened to the Raikage of the Cloud Ninja Village was just the beginning. More than half a month later, in the Kingdom of Water, a country in the sea, Terumi Mei, the fifth generation Mizukage of the Shadow of One Village, was also attacked. However, due to the environmental and historical problems of Kirigakure Village, this news did not spread until two months later.
According to reports from Kirigakure, their fifth generation Mizukage Terumi Mei was greatly stimulated by that battle. According to Mizukage's narration, the man in gray robe showed unexpected familiarity with her ninjutsu in the early stages of the battle. Not only did he know her thoughts and even tactics well, he even knew some of her fighting habits.
But these alone were not enough to stimulate Terumi Mei. What made her most incredible was the terrifying ability displayed by the man in gray robe. He actually took the initiative to be attacked by Melting Release and Boiling Release. The body gradually corroded by Melting Release and Boiling Release still remains fresh in Terumi Mei's memory.
However, in the following description, Terumi Mei gave a description that was almost the same as other shadows - monster. The severely injured body fully recovered after only a few seconds, and when he was actively attacked again, Terumi Mei could clearly find that the damage caused by his attack was far less than the first time.
Terumi Mei's attack definitely did not take the initiative to reduce it. On the contrary, she used 120% of her strength in order to kill the gray-robed man, but even so, she still found that the damage she could cause had been reduced. The body of the gray robe man seems to have a learning ability, able to adapt surprisingly quickly to attacks that damage it, and evolve the ability to resist such damage.
The conclusion about the strange body structure of the gray-robed man was drawn after the third month of the Ninja Calendar. Before that, the Mizukage Terumi Mei was undoubtedly defeated, and was thrown into the grey-robed man in an extremely humiliating manner. The hospital in Kirigakure Village.
The third person to be robbed after the Mizukage was the Fifth Kazekage of the Land of Wind, Gaara, the Fifth Kazekage who had just succeeded his father as the Fourth Kazekage. The battle between the two lasted only an hour. After Shukaku took the initiative to retreat, Gaara, as a jinchuriki, could no longer resist and fell into a coma.
The last battle known to the ninja world was the battle report circulated in the Earth Kingdom in February of the 64th year of the ninja calendar. The third Tsuchikage was exhausted after using Dust Release to create a large pit of tens of thousands of square meters, but only the Tsuchikage understood why he was exhausted. The attack of the dust escape went from directly disintegrating one of the gray-robed man's arms to finally being unable to even destroy his skin. With this change, the Third Tsuchikage Onoki had to make a desperate move to carry out the final blow.
And even this life-saving blow failed to cause fatal injuries to the gray-robed man. Onoki, who had been completely exhausted after [Dust Release·Limited Peeling Technique], suffered direct damage to his lumbar disc due to his age and fell into a coma. He was also sent to Iwagakure Village Hospital for treatment by an unknown gray-robed man.
Only the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, knew that there would actually be a fifth battle after this. The source of the information is Uchiha Itachi, a former Konoha ninja and now the leader of the ninja mercenary Akatsuki.
About half a month ago, Itachi, who was resting in the country of Taki, encountered a challenge from a man in gray robe. Akatsuki, who has first-class intelligence skills, naturally also understood the whole story of the gray-robed man. It was precisely because of this that Uchiha Itachi understood the horror of the gray-robed man even more.
This battle directly caused the thousands of miles of forest in the country of Taki to burn into scorched earth, and Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan was almost blinded by it. But for some reason, after he woke up, he found that his depleted pupil power was replenished again, and he even felt like he was evolving again.
After the war, Itachi, who was awake, immediately informed the fourth generation Minato Namikaze of the battle information, and Minato Namikaze had already predicted the direction of the gray robe man - Konoha Village - based on the intelligence shared by the other four villages. Then the bait plan was laid out.
According to previous intelligence, the gray-robed man would go directly to the shadow-level expert who had been famous for a long time, and there was more than one shadow-level expert in Konoha. Whether it is Tsunade, the current Fourth Hokage, or the wandering Jiraiya, they are all well-known strong men.
Compared to Namikaze Minato who was faster, Tsunade was undoubtedly more likely to be found first, so Namikaze Minato gave Tsunade a special kunai to locate Tsunade's whereabouts.
When the news that Tsunade was kidnapped by the special gray-robed man reached Namikaze Minato, he was able to rush to the scene as soon as possible to launch a surprise attack on the gray-robed man.
"Who are you, the time and space ninjutsu that can break through the boundaries of the five major ninja villages? In my impression, there is only one person who can do this! Are you him?"
The speculation about the identity of the man in gray robe still comes from the mouth of Uchiha Itachi. Who among the five people who were challenged has the deepest impression on the man in gray robe, it is Uchiha Itachi. The person who knows the students best is the teacher, and conversely, the person who knows the teacher best is also the student. From the movements and skills of the gray-robed man, Uchiha Itachi saw traces of his teacher.
"Snapped-"
The mask on the gray-robed man's face was thrown to the ground by him, and the exposed face made Namikaze Minato both surprised and quickly understood. How could someone who could sweep through the five major ninja villages suddenly appear so easily? Among his ninjutsu practitioners, only Le Yuan, who had always shown his bottomless strength, could have this ability.
Raku Yuan, who threw down his mask, did not choose to give up. Instead, he looked at Namikaze Minato and Tsunade helplessly and said, "I'm sorry, my request may be a little rude, but can you give me a beating?"
"What? You bastard..."
When Tsunade suddenly heard this request, she felt it was unreasonable. What does a beating mean? Is this something that can be agreed to casually? Tsunade only felt that Le Yuan's face became more and more disgusting the more she looked at it.
However, Tsunade, who was staring closely at Le Yuan, felt that Le Yuan Ichika in front of her suddenly lost sight of Le Yuan.
"No!" Namikaze Minato, who reacted more quickly, immediately kicked the ground, leaned forward and turned around to look behind the two of them. Sure enough, he spotted Raku Yuan appearing behind Tsunade in front of his eyes.
"Snapped-"
Le Yuan slapped his right hand on the back of his neck, and the mental impact immediately penetrated Tsunade's sea of consciousness. For a person like Tsunade with amazing body recovery, Le Yuan really couldn't grasp the strength of the attack. If it was too light, he wouldn't be stunned, but if it was too heavy, he would be afraid of being crippled.
Although Namikaze Minato escaped for the time being, facing Rakubuchi who was far more powerful than him, the two men who were equally matched in the space battle only lasted ten minutes, but they had already fought for hundreds of rounds. Finally, Namikaze Minato was defeated. With insufficient stamina, he was knocked unconscious by Le Yuan.
However, after defeating Namikaze Minato and Tsunade, Raku Yuan was not excited at all. He habitually opened the task panel and found that the third task had not met the requirements, so he could only let out a long sigh.
The S-level hidden world tasks are indeed not that easy to complete. The first and second tasks look like they are given to Le Yuan, but in fact, it would not be so easy to solve if Le Yuan didn't happen to have something to restrain them. The third mission is really a cheat. Wen Wu is the first and Wu Wu is the second. This is the same in the ninja world.
It seems easy to find out who the strongest people in the ninja world are, but when it comes to choosing the strongest one, no one can give the answer. After all, the restraint of ninjutsu is quite great, and people with equal strength may also show one-sided battles due to the mutual restraint of the techniques.
In his impression, the strongest person Le Yuan is looking for is either Kaguya or Hagoromo, but he doesn't know if these two people can be regarded as the "current" strongest people. There is no difference between one being sealed and dead, and the other simply dying. In order to become ghost-like beings, neither Le Yuan could actively contact them, and they were also inconsistent with the descriptions in the mission prompts.
Therefore, Le Yuan chose the stupidest method and challenged all the strongest people in the ninja world, but unfortunately, none of them met the requirements. However, fighting all the way is not without benefits. At least Le Yuan discovered the hidden ability of the body developed through the fruit of life - survival of the fittest.
This ability has a very similar effect to the Twelve Trials of the Noble Phantasm of the berserker Hercules in FSN, but the effect does not reach his ability to resurrect from the dead and the extreme strengthening effect. It only carries out targeted strengthening for the trauma suffered, so as to achieve the effect of reducing or even immunizing the damage in the shortest time.
In short, this special effect is an enhanced version of damage reduction. The more you fight against an enemy with special damage, the less damage you will suffer after adapting to its attack.
The Fruit of Life indeed awakened Le Yuan, but what was awakened was not some obvious ability, but gave Le Yuan's body unlimited possibilities. However, contrary to the development of strength, Le Yuan, who was trapped in a strange circle, became even more confused about the strongest person.