Ryou was being pushed back step by step by the Fourth Raikage, Killer Bee, and Yugito, his chakra depleting.
His clone didn't even have one-third of the power of his main body, so he couldn't perform many Forbidden Jutsu.
Moreover, Ryou hadn't come to engage in a death match with the Fourth Raikage and the others; he was there to discuss some matters with them.
"Raikage, go back and prepare 100 top-quality beauties from the Land of Lightning and send them to the Hidden Rain Village for me. Let's make this clear first: I only want white-skinned tall beauties; I have no interest in the dark-skinned ones."
In response, the Fourth Raikage simply countered with a powerful Lightning Release elbow strike.
"Liger Bomb—!!!!"
This technique was not an elbow strike; it concentrated high-intensity current formed by Lightning Release chakra into the hand. The Fourth Raikage had used this technique to sever the Eight-Tails' left horn.
The small wooden figure summoned by Ryou was directly shattered by the Fourth Raikage's hand blade.
Immediately, Killer Bee extended his octopus tentacles to restrain Ryou.
Ryou was still making demands of the Fourth Raikage: "By the way, I heard that Samui from your Hidden Cloud Village is already curvaceous at such a young age, with the potential to surpass Tsunade."
"Send her to me quickly, and I will spare your Hidden Cloud Village."
"Otherwise, my ten thousand Hidden Rain Village Jonin Hachimis will invade your Land of Lightning, and at that time, I will capture all of you big black guys and make you pick cotton."
"Fool~ Ya fool~"
Killer Bee grabbed the palm-sized white cat and pinched its neck: "Keep dreaming~ The people of the Hidden Cloud Village will never betray their own comrades~"
Yugito walked over to Killer Bee and extended a cat teaser toy to tease Ryou: "The Uchiha are all elites, so how did such a lecherous, degenerate scum like you come from them?"
"You even inquired about Samui. Truly an evil and lecherous Uchiha."
Ryou responded as a matter of course: "Since I'm already an evil Uchiha, what's wrong with being a bit lecherous?"
Yugito nodded: "Fair point!"
Immediately, Yugito asked the Fourth Raikage: "Lord Raikage, how should we deal with it?"
A mere clone—what could they possibly interrogate out of it?
At this moment, Ryou said to Yugito: "Alright, I don't have much chakra left, so I should be leaving."
"Raikage, did you hear me? Go back and send the people to me immediately, or else I will definitely make you suffer the consequences."
The Fourth Raikage shouted angrily at Ryou: "Uchiha Ryou, keep dreaming! Just wait in the Land of Rain! See if I don't deal with you then!"
Immediately, the Fourth Raikage delivered an elbow strike to Ryou, and Ryou's clone transformed into a lifeless tree spore.
Yugito was shocked: "It really was a clone!"
A clone was able to make three of their Hidden Cloud Village's top experts fight so hard; how strong must the main body be?
The Fourth Raikage deactivated his Lightning Release chakra Mode and regained his composure: "Yugito, seal this tree spore properly. Let's head back!"
"Looking at the situation, the Seven-Tails cannot be recovered!"
"Understood!"
Yugito took out a scroll, sealed the tree spore left behind by Ryou, and then stood up to follow the Fourth Raikage and Killer Bee as they left the area.
Suddenly, two figures appeared.
The Fourth Raikage thought they were enemies and was about to elbow them on the spot.
But Minato easily dodged the Fourth Raikage's elbow strike.
He smiled gently: "Lord Raikage, it's not an enemy, no need to be so vigilant!"
The Fourth Raikage relaxed: "Minato, long time no see!"
In the current Shinobi World, Minato was crowned by Shinobi as the fastest in the Shinobi World, and the Fourth Raikage was the second fastest.
Minato's supreme speed was purely due to the spatial mechanism of the Flying Thunder God, while the Fourth Raikage's speed was the supreme speed brought about by the Lightning Release chakra Mode.
On the battlefield, he was like a bolt of blue lightning.
In the books, his assault could not even be defended against by Tsunade and Mei Terumī combined.
During the Third Great Shinobi War, the AB combination of the Fourth Raikage and Killer Bee at the time shook the Shinobi World with their Lariat, defeating many Shinobi from Sunagakure and Iwagakure one after another.
However, they fell behind when facing Minato; the two of them working together couldn't take down Minato.
Although there was no clear winner, the Fourth Raikage admitted that his speed could not compare to Minato's.
This was a clash of stats and mechanisms, as well as a contest between a genius and a technical expert.
The speed stat of the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release chakra Mode was many times higher than Minato's, but Minato's speed mechanism was spatial teleportation.
This was simply unreasonable.
No matter how high a person's stats are, there will always be someone who surpasses them.
Just like Hashirama; before the Fourth Great Shinobi War, Hashirama was always a stat monster.
But once Six Paths Obito and Six Paths Madara appeared, Hashirama's stats completely lost their meaning in front of them.
Stats benefit from version updates, while mechanisms can last a lifetime.
Even with a gap of over ten years, Minato still remained at the forefront of the Shinobi World.
Back to the topic.
After Minato and Jiraiya arrived and saw that Killer Bee and Yugito were still there, they both breathed a sigh of relief.
They knew what the Two-Tails Jinchuriki and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki of the Hidden Cloud Village looked like.
The Hidden Cloud Village was at the forefront of all Villages in the development of Tailed Beasts, and this generation's Eight-Tails Jinchuriki was a perfect Jinchuriki.
The Two-Tails Jinchuriki, Yugito, was also not bad; she was very close to being a perfect Jinchuriki.
In the original work, when Yugito fought Kakuzu and Hidan, she was able to completely transform into a Tailed Beast by her own will and was able to chase after Kakuzu and Hidan.
But unfortunately, because she was unfamiliar with the abilities of Kakuzu and Hidan, she was killed by their mechanism after Hidan picked up the blood Yugito had used and licked it.
This was also a classic battle where mechanism crushed stats.
During the Third Great Shinobi War, Killer Bee and Yugito had gone to the battlefield as war machines.
Konoha Shinobi had suffered quite a bit because of them.
Immediately, Jiraiya asked: "Ryou didn't do anything to you, did he?"
Yugito then told Jiraiya about what had happened previously.
Ryou said he liked tall beauties and hoped that the Fourth Raikage could send him a batch, otherwise he would attack the Hidden Cloud Village.
After telling Jiraiya and Minato the ins and outs of the matter, Yugito crossed her arms and said with some disdain: "Is this the kind of Shinobi Konoha produces?"
"( つ д ⊂ )."
Minato felt a bit embarrassed because it was truly too shameful.
Although Ryou was a rogue Shinobi, he was, after all, a Shinobi raised by Konoha, a soldier brought up by the Third Hokage!
He still carried a very strong Konoha brand on him.
But Jiraiya could understand; tall beauties, he liked them too!
This kid Ryou asked for a hundred at once—could he even handle them?
Jiraiya had a fleeting thought of joining Ryou, but it was just a thought.
"It seems this guy just came back to talk nonsense. You should be glad; if he really had any designs on the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails..."
"With your strength, you wouldn't be able to stop him."
As soon as these words were spoken, the Fourth Raikage, Killer Bee, and Yugito were a bit unhappy.
Especially Yugito, who was as proud as a cat; it was already giving Jiraiya face that she didn't hiss at him.
"Senior Jiraiya, aren't you underestimating our strength a bit?"
At this point, Minato spoke up: "No, Master Jiraiya isn't underestimating you. If it weren't for my Flying Thunder God earlier, we would have already been beaten to death by Ryou."
If it was Minato's words, then they had to believe it.
The Fourth Raikage's expression became serious, and he immediately asked about the details of that battle.
Hearing about the Thousand-Armed Kannon that was like a mountain, the three top experts of the Hidden Cloud Village all fell silent.
Was this even human?