Naruto: The Immortal Cultivator of the Ninja World

Chakra is the mainstream power system in the world of Naruto, but it comes from the Otsutsuki clan in the starry sky.

Fairy arts, natural energy, Myoboku Mountain, Ryuchi Cave, and the Forest of Bones are all native power systems in the Naruto world.

Why is it that in this world, there is only a system of immortal arts suitable for animals to practice, but no indigenous power system developed by humans?

After the Second Ninja War, a sage who had luckily survived from ancient times awakened again by chance. His revival changed the historical trajectory of Naruto and brought changes to the ninja world.

The ancient immortals, who possess the knowledge of immortal arts cultivation in ancient times and master the great power of immortal arts, will once again bring the immortal civilization back to this world.

Chapter 1: The Resurrected Immortal
It was cloudy and rainy all the time, and the sky of the Hidden Rain Village never saw the sun for years. Gray seemed to be the eternal color of the sky.
The year-round rainy season here provides a large amount of rainwater, and the rushing rivers, large and small, eventually flow into the inland lakes surrounding the Hidden Rain Village.
The buildings in Yuyin Village are mainly made of steel, with a considerable amount of concrete. Countless high-rise buildings are dotted with winding steel pipes inside and outside, forming the village’s unique landscape.
Why are there so many large pipes and sewers in the town? This is closely related to the rainfall in Yuyin Village. These pipes have the function of drainage.
Among the buildings in the Hidden Rain Village stand countless towering towers, all reaching high into the clouds.
However, people generally do not live on the top of these towers. It is used to store the bodies of the dead. People instead live on the lower floors.
This may be a custom unique to this place.
The Rain Country, to which the Hidden Rain Village belongs, is located at the junction of the three regions of Earth, Konoha, and Sand. It is a small country surrounded by big countries. The country is small and weak, and is located in the center of the vortex of troubled times, destined to be a continuous war.
In the wilderness swamp, the sound of raindrops and the metallic sound of kunai colliding mixed together. Two groups of ninjas were fighting fiercely, and the rain mixed with blood and sweat intertwined in the wet air.
This is an ancient relic of the Hidden Rain Village. Under the instructions of Hanzo of the Salamander, three teams from the Hidden Rain Village came here to search for treasures circulated in the legends of the Hidden Rain Village.
However, after exploring the ruins and finally finding the treasure, the Amegakure ninjas were ambushed by Konoha’s Anbu ninjas as soon as they walked out of the gate of the ruins.
The ninjas of Konoha seemed to have known the information long ago and had been waiting at the entrance of the ruins for a long time.
Although Konoha only has one team of three, it is at a disadvantage in terms of numbers compared to the three teams of nine people from the Hidden Rain Village.
But the Konoha ninja leading the team was an Uchiha with three magatama Sharingan flashing in his eyes.
On the Rain Ninja side, only three team leaders barely have the strength of a special jonin, and the rest are mid- and low-level ninjas. Even if the three team leaders work together, it is already very difficult to deal with an Uchiha with a blood-red eye.
On the other side there are two masters with the strength of Jonin.
During the battle, a ninja from the Hidden Rain Village said unwillingly: “Damn it! Is this the end? If I find the treasure, I can go back to claim the reward, and then propose to Keiko after getting the reward…”
This man was a squad leader of the Hidden Rain Village. Now that his eyes were blinded, he was fighting like a trapped beast.
He waved his kunai around randomly, trying to repel the enemy’s attack and delay time in the hope of slim support.
But he knew that was impossible.
The Hidden Rain Village is just a small village, and there are not that many jonin to dispatch. Originally, this ruins treasure hunt mission was just a B-level treasure hunt mission, and I didn’t expect to encounter a powerful enemy.
After a while, there were corpses lying on the ground. The Uchiha leader coldly wiped the short sword in his hand, and the two teammates beside him were already touching the corpses.
“What is this?” An Anbu ninja, who was holding a mysterious scroll seized from a corpse, asked while searching through it.
This scroll painting prominently features a pair of exquisite black and white yin and yang fish, which intersect with each other to form a mysterious circular pattern.
“It looks very similar to the pattern on the Hyuga family’s Bagua Palm ninjutsu scroll!” Another Anbu ninja said uncertainly, rubbing his chin.
“Hey, how did you know the Hyuga family’s secret ninjutsu? Aren’t you afraid of being investigated by the village’s number one ninja clan for peeking at the scroll of the secret technique?” the Anbu ninja holding the scroll asked in confusion.
“Haha, don’t underestimate Danzo’s intelligence ability. The Hyuga family’s ninjutsu is ultimately Konoha’s, and it must serve the interests of Konoha Village.”
At this time, the two of them were talking without realizing that the blueprint was already stained with a few drops of blood from the blind Rain Hidden Ninja.
Before you know it.
The Yin-Yang fish on the scroll began to rotate slightly, and along a perfect arc, the black and white colors began to gradually blend and rotate.
Suddenly, the Rain Ninja who was supposed to be dead slowly opened his eyes. There was a sense of confusion in his eyes at first, and then his pupils slowly focused, as if he was conscious again.
“Finally, I’m back in this world!”
The dead ninja stood up again, but from his expression and posture, it was as if a different person was inside.
“Hey! Look! That guy actually stood up again! How is it possible! I clearly stabbed his heart just now.” A Konoha ninja said in surprise.
The sudden strange scene made the two ninjas a little overwhelmed.
On the other side, the captain Uchiha frowned and said, “Immortal Reincarnation? No, there is no caster here, how could he be resurrected?”
After saying that, the Uchiha immediately activated his Sharingan and observed the opponent’s mysteries. Under his Sharingan, the flow of chakra in the meridians of the deceased suddenly became clear.
“He is still a living body, not an impure earth body or a puppet. His heart is indeed damaged, but why is there an unknown energy flowing through his body?”
Thanks to the blessing of the Sharingan, this Uchiha could clearly sense that a tremendous energy was flowing towards the dead ninja, and about 70% to 80% of it gathered in the heart area, maintaining the heartbeat.
“After countless years, the natural energy of this world has become rich again. It’s such a blessing.” The deceased raised his hand and felt the breath and vitality around him, and couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.
“What year is this night…”
“Stop playing tricks!” Uchiha shouted angrily.
“Lightning Release One Thousand Styles!”
A blinding and dazzling lightning pierced through the air and slammed towards the strange Rain Ninja who had come back from the dead.
“Chakra? The power of the Otsutsuki? Why can humans use this power now?”
As the deceased spoke, he remained calm, raised his hand and stretched out his palm, without making any seals or other movements. The surrounding raindrops naturally gathered in the palm of his hand and formed a round water shield.
The seemingly indestructible lightning technique could not penetrate the round water shield and was firmly attached to it.
“My strength has not yet recovered. I can’t stay here for too long.”
As the deceased spoke, he formed a sword with two fingers on his other hand, and a three-inch sword light flashed at his fingertips. With a casual wave of his hand, three invisible auras accurately pierced through the foreheads of the three people from Konoha Village.
The speed was so fast that even the Sharingan could not capture this terrifying unknown force.
The next moment, the deceased vomited blood and half-knelt on the ground.
“It looks like excessive force was used.”
He slowed down, stood up again, and walked up to the Uchiha.
“This pair of Otsutsuki clan eyes is very interesting. I just happen to be in need of a pair of eyes right now. Take them first.”
He raised his hand and called for the Yin-Yang diagram on the ground, and put the dug-out eye into the diagram. The dead man limped away in the rain and fog…
In the wilderness of the Hidden Rain Village, the ground is covered with steep rocks washed by rain.
A ninja from the Hidden Rain Village was standing on a high slope, looking at the surrounding scenery. At the same time, the Sharingan of the dead Uchiha was installed in his eye sockets.
He adjusted his new eyes a little, then looked around, feeling the long-lost new life.
“The original owner of this body is named Sanshoyu Maruzo, Hidden Rain Village, Ninjutsu, Chakra, the Five Great Ninja Villages, the Ninja World…”
Standing still, he closed his eyes and digested the memories of the original owner, savoring the vicissitudes of the world.
This rebirth was not without cost. Due to the lack of a physical sacrifice, the ritual was hastily initiated, causing him to randomly find a nearby body to resurrect.
Not only is the host’s body weak, but its consciousness is also entangled with the original owner’s consciousness. In a sense, the host has become a part of him.
“Since you gave me a new life, I will also fulfill your last wish in return. Do you want world peace? This world has already experienced the evolution from family feuds to ninja village wars. Next, I will complete the construction of a unified city-state. Then the world will return to peace.”
Invisibly, this body seemed to be less resistant and accepted the new owner.
“In the end, I will unify these large and small ninja villages, and then gather the power of mankind to avenge the Otsutsuki clan!”
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Chapter 2 Return to the Hidden Rain Village (Old Version)
“Hey! Isn’t this Enzo? You’re back! How did the mission go? Hey! Why are you alone? You look a little embarrassed. Did you fail?”
Standing in front of Yuanzang was a man with a fierce temperament.
There is a gray-black mark on his face, which seems to be a mark left by fire. This person is the right-hand man of the ninja demigod, the Salamander Kamada, and also Enzo’s uncle.
Although Sanshoyu Yuanzo is a distant relative of Hanzo, his strength is average and he can only engage in some exploration tasks. Usually, he is an inconspicuous character both within the family and in the Hidden Rain Village.
Although Kamida and Enzo are uncle and nephew, Kamida has always seemed indifferent to his nephew. The main reason is that Enzo’s naive ideas and weak character make him feel ridiculous.
Shen Da hates incompetent weaklings.
In the ninja world, strength is the foundation of everything, but this nephew is gentle by nature and not good at fighting.
Although he has an outstanding amount of chakra, he has no idea how to use it. With his talent, he is still a Chunin after all these years. His peers in the clan are basically all Jonin, and the worst are special Jonin.
Definitely the last one in the group.
Yuanzo has no talent in close combat or stealth assassination.
The only thing worth mentioning is his good memory. He likes some historical knowledge, so the village leaders sent him to perform some archaeological tasks.
Although the tribe members look down on Yuan Zang, Han Zang of the Salamander likes the young descendants of this tribe because he, like Han Zang, has a great wish to make the world peaceful.
For this, Hanzo gave him the title of “Peace Fish”.
However, Shen Da sneered. Such a person without fighting talent will die in this chaotic world sooner or later. Without strength, everything else is empty talk.
The peace of the weak is ridiculous, and in the end it is just the pity of the strong.
“We were ambushed by Konoha ninjas, and I was the only one who escaped.”
Yuanzang didn’t say too much, for fear of making too many mistakes and exposing his true colors. Now he still needed time to regain his strength, so it would be better for him to lie low for a while.
Hearing this, Shen Da narrowed his eyes and looked at Yuan Zang from head to toe with interest.
If only one person comes back from a group of people, in this cruel ninja world, it often means that the surviving person is a deserter who saved his life by sacrificing his teammates.
“Hehehe…” After a burst of cold laughter, Shen Da was not angry.
Instead, he felt that his nephew had finally become hardened after experiencing the baptism of life and death. Perhaps with his talent, he would grow a lot in the future.
“I didn’t expect that you, who claim to be a pacifist, would abandon your teammates. You usually speak in high-sounding terms, but in fact you are quite realistic.”
Shen Da still didn’t hold back in his words, unceremoniously exposing Yuan Zang’s embarrassment.
“This relic contains some ordinary cultural relics just like before. They are not of much value. I will hand over the follow-up report to Lord Hanzo.” There was no big fluctuation on Yuanzo’s face as he calmly described the situation.
Unlike what he had imagined, the angry argument that Shen Da had expected did not occur. On the contrary, Yuan Zang did not even try to defend himself, which made him feel bored.
Because the relationship between the two was usually rather cold, they looked at each other for a while in silence. Shen Da, who was a little bored, couldn’t find a topic to talk about, so he turned around and left.
“You can handle this kind of trivial matter yourself. There is no need to trouble Master Hanzo. The war with Konoha Village is about to begin. Go and prepare for the next battle.”
Watching Shen Da leave, Yuan Zang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. His Yin-Yang diagram must not be discovered, otherwise he would be in trouble.
Afterwards, after handing over the affairs, Yuanzo, who had temporarily covered up the matter, went to the hospital first and had the medical ninja treat his wounds simply.
Then, he couldn’t wait to return to his residence. He planned to hide in the room to rest and relieve his injuries before making other plans.
Walking on the street, Yuan Zang looked around and saw that the whole village was in a state of decline. Just like the sky of the Hidden Rain Village, it was always so gray, always covered with gray rain and fog, making people feel depressed.
There is a sad atmosphere in the village, which makes people feel depressed.
The buildings in Yuyin Village are all made of reinforced concrete. Huge pipes are connected in all directions, and tall and steep buildings rise from the ground, full of punk colors.
Yuanzo’s home was also of this style. When he groped his way back home based on his vague memory, he felt depressed when he saw the surface decoration of the house which was also made of reinforced concrete.
Walking into the house, the decoration inside the room is very simple, filled with a large number of historical books. Apart from that, there are very few furnitures. The whole space is very spacious, obviously to accommodate more books.
Taking off his slightly worn and dirty coat, Yuanzang sat on the bed with exhaustion. He placed his hands on his abdomen, made a seal, and sat with his head held high, examining his current body carefully.
Sure enough, the physical constitution of humans in this era is different from that of humans in previous times.
Humans themselves are unable to use alien powers such as Chakra.
If you want to use the energy of chakra, unless you have the blood of the Otsutsuki clan, or your body is transformed by the sacred tree to gain some ability to control chakra, it is impossible to control this great power that does not belong to this world!
It seems that most human beings today are under the control of the Otsutsuki clan to a certain extent, and their physical constitutions have been transformed, so they have the ability to use ninjutsu.
However, these ninjas have lost the ability to sense natural energy. Natural energy was born between heaven and earth, and only creatures born and raised on this land can use it better.
Of course, among some powerful individuals in the Otsutsuki clan, if this person is extremely talented and has keen perception, he can be controlled to some extent by using force to overcome cleverness.
But such use can only roughly squander natural energy. In addition to simply strengthening the body’s strength and improving the ability to perceive malicious intent, the more advanced levels of immortal arts are beyond reach.
As a former master of immortal arts, although the physical body he possesses now is a mixed-blood physique that has been contaminated by the Otsutsuki bloodline and is not pure enough.
But Yuanzo had been using natural energy for so many years that he was not worried that he would no longer be able to use magic.
With his proficiency in using natural energy, which is as instinctive as breathing, Yuan Zang still has countless ways to control natural energy.
Senjutsu is different from Ninjutsu. Even if there is no energy stored in the body, with a high level of realm, it is possible to mobilize external natural energy to assist in forming the corresponding technique.
Moreover, unlike the ninja’s chakra, the five basic elemental attributes of fairy arts are gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and wind and thunder are both subsidiary attributes of gold.
The advanced application of the gold attribute is to combine sword energy with the power of wind and thunder, which is the most powerful type of fairy magic.
Gold represents the spirit of killing. If it doesn t come out, it s nothing. But if it comes out, it will make a big splash!
Even though Yuan Zang was once a great immortal, he only learned a little about this. He could only attach the golden immortal power to his fingertips, and after it turned into sword energy, he would eject it to kill the enemy.
Compared with those sword immortals who pursued the ultimate swordsmanship, the gap between them was like that between a firefly and the bright moon. Those sword immortals in the past were all beings who could split space with a bamboo sword.
However, even such a brilliant and powerful swordsman still felt powerless when facing the aliens, the Otsutsuki clan.
Almost every Otsutsuki clan member who descended into the Ninja World had mastered the power of space, and even the power of time. And those unknown divine arts had the effect of changing cause and effect, and could forcibly modify the failure of the Otsutsuki clan.
In ancient times, in order to protect this homeland.
Those immortals who had attained enlightenment led mankind in a desperate resistance.
This was a rare case of the Otsutsuki clan being hit hard by the natives. During this period, countless immortals and Otsutsuki clan members were killed or injured.
Even Shibai, who was hailed as being close to the Otsutsuki God, was severely injured by the powerful sword formation formed by the nine sword immortals.
In the end, although the immortals successfully repelled the Otsutsuki, the price was that the immortal civilization was almost cut off. There are no true immortals in the world today.
Perhaps, there are still some gifted ninjas who can rely on their own abilities to sense natural energy and barely activate the Sage Mode, but this is still far from being a true Sage.
And after so many years have passed, it seems that no one now remembers this ancient war.
As for those powerful Otsutsuki, they also disappeared in the starry sky. I just don t know whether any new Otsutsuki forces have come again during the time when the immortal disappeared.
However, according to Enzo’s speculation, a new Otsutsuki had obviously arrived during this period of vacuum.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for modern humans to acquire the ability to use chakra.
Not to mention that some ninja families now have bloodline limits that only the Otsutsuki lineage can possess. The Sharingan and the Byakugan are one of the symbols of the Otsutsuki clan.
Chapter 3 Dormant (Old Version)
“There are still too many unknown secrets in this world that I need to understand. Right now, I don’t know if there are any Otsutsuki lurking in this ninja world. To be on the safe side, I’d better pretend to be this identity for a while.”
Yuanzang was secretly planning in his mind.
Because his consciousness was entangled with the original host, his temperament was affected a little, causing Yuanzo to develop some feelings for the Hidden Rain Village.
So he planned to use this place as a base first, and after understanding the situation, he would take it step by step.
Sitting on the bed, Yuanzang closed his eyes, and his breath flowed between his inhalation and exhalation. The rich natural energy gathered in his chest, presenting a substantial surging air wave.
Natural energy can only be used better if it circulates through the 365 meridians of the human body. If it can be further purified and retained in the dantian, it can become a higher level of immortal power.
Immortal power is pure natural energy, the power of heaven and earth, completely different from chakra.
Combining the host’s memory and the past research on chakra by the immortals, Yuan Zang realized that chakra is a kind of energy that relies more on its own existence.
Human beings use chakra mainly based on Yin Chakra of mental power and Yang Chakra of physical vitality, and then derive the five elemental attack techniques of water, fire, wind, thunder and earth.
Precisely because Chakra pays more attention to its own growth, it needs to constantly plunder natural energy from the outside world to promote the continuous evolution of its own life level.
Since immortal arts rely on the outside world, practitioners not only need to keep their minds calm, but also need to become one with nature and comprehend the operation of natural laws.
The end point of immortal evolution is to merge with heaven and earth, so as to achieve the state of unity between man and nature and immortality.
Only the immortals who have achieved the unity of man and nature are immortals in the true sense. People at that time called such immortals the great perfect immortals. It was the realm that all practitioners at that time yearned for.
Through the original owner’s memory, Yuanzo learned that the first Hokage of Konoha Village, Hashirama Senju, was also able to use the Sage Mode, but it was probably just a crude application of natural energy.
Because ordinary immortals who can use natural energy in depth and gather it in the dantian and internal organs have a lifespan of at least a thousand years. The fact that the first generation of Hokage did not live to this day shows that his control of natural energy is far from reaching the level of immortals.
In the ancient immortal era, people who simply used natural energy to enhance their basic abilities could only be considered practitioners who had not yet attained enlightenment.
The symbol of a great immortal is the ability to refine natural energy into immortal power, and then use the immortal power to merge the body with nature, thus achieving eternal life of spirit and flesh.
Afterwards, as the degree of integration between oneself and nature deepens, one finally reaches perfection, and becomes a true great perfect immortal.
As long as the heaven and the earth do not perish, the body and soul will not die. That was Yuanzang’s former state, and it was also the main reason why Yuanzang could survive to this day.
In addition, the magic weapon Tai Chi Yin Yang Diagram is also one of the key props.
There were countless great immortals who had achieved great perfection at that time, but only Yuanzang has survived to the present day. It was all thanks to the small world contained in the Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram that Yuanzang was able to escape from being hunted down.
At the beginning, there was an existence almost like the God of Otsutsuki – Otsutsuki Shibaai, who once led the Otsutsuki army to fight against the ancient sages. In the life-and-death struggle, he discovered that these sages were extremely difficult to kill.
Even if the body is completely annihilated, the soul can be dispersed throughout the universe and recast into a new body by absorbing natural energy. This is almost as immortal as the Otsutsuki’s perfect form, the Kekkei Net.
To this end, Otsutsuki Shibaai united a large number of his subordinates and jointly launched a super magic to sever the cause and effect connection between the immortals and the heaven and earth, causing the immortals to die as long as they were killed.
Although the cause of “people being killed” will lead to the result of “death”, the causal effect is very strong.
But the price was also very heavy. Even a strong figure like Otsutsuki Shibaai was entangled in cause and effect, and suffered the backlash of karma, and eventually disappeared into the starry sky.
The function of the Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram is that it contains an independent small world.
This world has its own system of cause and effect. Unless the Otsutsuki can use magic in this small world, Enzo, who is hiding in this small world, will not be affected by super magic.
Moreover, although this causal weapon is extremely powerful, the amount of chakra it consumes is also enormous. After countless years of erosion, the power of this super magic has now disappeared without a trace.
In other words, as long as Yuanzang can recover his strength to the state of great perfection, when he steps into this world again, he will become immortal again.
However, even for Yuanzang, who had achieved the state of great perfection many years ago, it was a bit difficult for him to regain his full power now.
First of all, Yuanzang’s soul, whose body had been passively sealed in the Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram for countless years, had long since decayed and was no longer what it used to be, and needed a long period of nurturing.
Secondly, the incomplete resurrection ritual caused a small fusion between Yuanzo’s body and soul and that of the original owner, resulting in impurities, which required him to fulfill the original owner’s obsession in order to achieve perfection in his heart.
Finally, the most troublesome thing is that the human physique has changed. It has been transformed by the sacred tree and is filled with chakra, an external factor.
Although chakra and immortality are not inherently conflicting things, but can coexist, Yuanzang has no experience in using chakra, and does not know how chakra will interfere with the body’s meridians.
This means that Yuanzang can no longer simply and mechanically follow the old path he took during his previous period of cultivating his immortal power.
He must analyze the impact of chakra on the body, and then slowly explore how to change his practice method to adapt to the meridians of his current chakra physique, so that he can return to the state of a sage.
But this is the most troublesome thing.
A complete set of cultivation techniques requires a lot of time to verify and cannot be created in a short time. Even Yuan Zang cannot guarantee whether a new cultivation path can be developed based on the current human physique.
This is also the reason why the current human race cannot produce immortals again. In addition to the interference of the Otsutsuki physique, which increases the difficulty of cultivating immortal power, the more important thing is the discontinuity of the inheritance of the immortal cultivation system.
The cultivation of immortal arts cannot be accomplished by one person alone. It requires the unyielding efforts and exploration of countless generations. The immortal arts cultivation system is the crystallization of wisdom condensed from the blood and sweat of countless geniuses.
It was the accumulation of long years that created the once glorious immortal civilization.
Nowadays, if ninjas want to practice immortal arts, they can only start from the most basic starting point, so it is naturally difficult to re-develop immortal arts civilization.
Yuanzang also faces such a problem. What lies before him now is a third path where two different cultivation systems coexist.
I have to slowly figure out everything again by myself, and you can imagine how difficult and hard it is.
For this reason, Yuanzang had thought about changing his body and starting over, following his original path.
But first of all, the pure humans in this world who have not been contaminated by the Otsutsuki bloodline are probably extinct. It is really hard to find a good host.
Secondly, the magic of body-swapping and possession is an act that violates the laws of nature and destroys the rules. It will therefore be rejected by nature and ultimately affect the integration with heaven and earth.
Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, immortals will not take the initiative to take over other people’s bodies, otherwise it will affect their practice.
If it weren’t for the Otsutsuki clan’s super magic chasing him, why would Enzo choose to possess someone else’s body and resurrect?
In order to minimize the impact of natural rejection caused by possession, Yuanzang also specially chose the body of a dying person.
But even so, Yuanzang felt a hint of malice from nature towards himself.
Creatures that play with the laws of nature will eventually be played with by the laws of nature; even Otsutsuki Shibai cannot avoid this.
Countless senior sages have proved this point.
In the past, many immortals coveted the body of the peerless genius junior, envying his strong talent and amazing bones. So they kept trying to take over the body of the junior in order to gain stronger power.
But the end result is that the more bodies these immortals take over, the lower their limits become.
It turns out that the fusion of the spirit with different bodies will cause the spirit to become chaotic.
Although he had acquired a powerful new body, his soul, which was the most important thing, became weaker and weaker. The temporary strength of the body could not withstand the permanent decay of the soul.
In addition, the repulsive force from the laws of nature will become more and more serious, causing these greedy immortals who are addicted to taking over other people’s bodies to become increasingly regressive in their integration with nature.
Ultimately, the outcome will only be counterproductive.
Their realm will begin to decline, and the immortal power that can be stored in the Dantian will become less and less. After that, these immortals will lose the blessing of immortal power, leading to the exhaustion of lifespan, and disappear in the long river of history.
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Chapter 4 Mission Assignment (Old Version)
Taking advantage of this period of recuperation, Yuanzang stayed at home almost all the time without going out. Apart from the necessary food supplies, he seized every opportunity to restore his strength.
After all, he didn’t know whether Otsutsuki still existed in this ninja world.
Although according to the original owner’s memory, the Otsutsuki clan no longer exists in this world, but who knows if they are hiding in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to spy on the remaining immortals.
Now the key is to restore strength.
Gathering his energy and concentrating his mind, Yuan Zang sat motionless on the bed.
A large amount of natural energy entered his body, constantly nourishing it. Unconsciously, a Tai Chi pattern appeared between Yuan Zang’s eyebrows. He entered the most basic Sage Mode.
Only in the immortal mode can one begin to condense natural energy in the Dantian and then refine immortal power. As long as one can refine a trace of immortal power in the Dantian, it means that Yuanzang has once again stepped into the ranks of true immortals.
However, it is not an easy task to condense immortal power.
In addition to absorbing a large amount of natural energy as material, even controlling a large group of natural energy is a difficult task in itself. It takes an ordinary person a long time to perfectly master the rules of using natural energy.
Fortunately, Yuanzang is still at the level of the Great Perfection Immortal, and he is still familiar with manipulating natural energy to condense into immortal power, making the whole process of refining immortal power a natural thing.
But things were not so smooth, and chakra interference still occurred.
When you first enter the Sage Mode, the chakra has little effect on the meridians and acupoints.
But he got stuck at the step of refining the immortal power. Yuan Zang found that as long as he sent natural energy into his dantian, the chakra would follow, and then the two would merge into new immortal chakra.
Originally, the extraction of spiritual power is a process of continuous purification of natural energy, but now that the impurity of chakra has been mixed in, it can no longer continue.
It seems that we should not rush. Let’s analyze the nature of chakra first, and then slowly solve this problem! You can’t rush in spiritual practice. More haste makes waste. Yuanzang deeply understands this truth.
Fortunately, according to Yuanzang’s judgment of the current strength of these ninjas, just using the most basic Sage Mode is enough to deal with it. Although the inability to use celestial power has resulted in most celestial arts being unusable, some special life-saving methods can still be used.
If you want to improve your strength next, you can only move in the direction of chakra.
Enzo was quite curious about the power of the Otsutsuki. After all, it was an alien power that destroyed the immortal civilization, so it must have its unique features.
In my previous life, I was trapped in a pure human body and couldn’t touch the essence of chakra. Now that I have the chance, I must understand it better.
Maybe we can find the weakness to defeat the Otsutsuki clan.
Thinking of this place, Yuanzang suddenly had an idea, and his eyes instantly turned into sharp blood-red pupils with three magatama.
Sharingan, one of the symbols of Otsutsuki.
Each Otsutsuki’s eyes have a myriad of unique eye techniques, making it hard to guard against. The Sharingan is one of them, and it caused Enzo a lot of trouble in the past.
Now I finally have the opportunity to study this power carefully.
Using this pair of Sharingan to observe the surroundings, every detail can be seen, and no tiny dust in the room can escape these eyes. It seems that the whole world has become clearer, and in comparison, the original normal eyes are as inferior as severe myopia.
The Sharingan is indeed powerful. The perception of the Sage is more of the use of the sixth sense, while the Sharingan is the pure ultimate vision and the most primitive enhancement of vision.
However, Yuan Zang did not care too much about this ability. After all, Yuan Zang was once a top-level strongman, and this was not in his eyes. Moreover, simply strengthening vision to the realm of Great Perfection Sage and Bloodline Net is actually a relatively useless ability.
The top warriors have basically mastered the ability to perceive space, and can move accurately in coordinates and see through the obstacles of space. At this time, vision is deceptive and will interfere with judgment during combat.
In top-level combat, every move and every style is executed in microseconds, and offense and defense rely more on the sixth sense, so vision is not that important.
Knock, knock, knock. There was a knock on the door.
“Is Yuan Zang here? There’s a new mission. This time I’m teaming up with you. We live close to each other, so I might as well come straight to you.”
“Heiji?”, Enzo has an impression of him, claiming to be the right-hand man of “Hanzo of the Salamander”, a subordinate of his uncle Kamida, nicknamed “Heiji hiding from the rain”. He has a good relationship with Enzo and is a person who is easy to get along with.
After opening the door, Heiji immediately walked in.
“So you’re here, kid. I thought you were reading in a library again. You wouldn’t have stayed at home all these days, right? Why didn’t you even go to see Huizi after you came back? Didn’t you go and tell her you were safe? She’s been talking about you all the time!”
“Keiko?”
Yuanzo had the impression that she was the childhood sweetheart of the original owner, but she was not the childhood sweetheart of the current Yuanzo.
As a once highly respected immortal, he did not want to deceive other people’s feelings. After all, he was not the real Enzo, and the person she loved was not him.
Moreover, the road ahead for Yuan Zang is still very long and difficult. He cannot leave any weakness, and he does not want to hurt the people he cares about, so he wants to cut off this relationship, so that Keiko will not be held hostage by the enemy in the future.
Find an opportunity to break up with her later.
Yuan Zang looked at the man in front of him. He looked like a kind young man, wearing the iconic mask of the Hidden Rain Village. He wore a dark-colored back armor over a gray jumpsuit.
“What is the mission this time?”
After finally being reborn, Yuan Zang was reluctant to go out on a mission. It was too dangerous outside, so he decided to wait for a while before going out on a mission. However, in order to maintain his current character, he had to go out and act accordingly.
“It’s a reconnaissance mission. The battle with Konoha is about to begin. It is said that the three disciples of the Third Hokage of Konoha Village are also going to the battlefield this time. They are coming with great force. We must get the intelligence.”
The Hokage’s Disciple…
Yuanzang frowned. He knew as soon as he heard that this person was not someone to be trifled with. He wondered if the Hidden Rain Village could withstand it.
At this time, Yuan Zang had already roughly understood the current situation of the Hidden Rain Village. In his opinion, Han Zang was really out of his mind, actually trying to challenge the military strength of those major countries at the same time with a small force.
If it weren’t for the original owner’s feelings for the Hidden Rain Village, Yuanzo had actually considered leaving this troubled place immediately and finding a quiet and secluded place to practice.
“Hey, Enzo, we are short of manpower now, so we will go on this mission with just two of us. You should be prepared,” Heiji advised. Obviously, he didn’t really want to go on such a dangerous mission.
Today, the Hidden Rain Village is in turmoil and facing financial difficulties everywhere.
Generally speaking, ninjas would go out in groups of at least three, but the Hidden Rain Village has now become so embarrassed.
“It doesn’t matter. For a reconnaissance mission, the fewer people the better. It’s not easy to expose your whereabouts.”
Yuanzang raised his hand to show that he didn’t care much.
However, this surprised Heiji a bit, and he couldn’t help but sigh in his heart.
“It seems that after experiencing the baptism of blood and fire, Enzo has also grown up.”
Chapter 5: Encounter with Three Children (Old Version)
The outskirts of Yuyin Village are a huge moat formed by rainwater pipes, and the passages between the village and the outside world are mainly connected by bridges.
At this moment, two tiny figures slowly walked out from the wide bridge.
These two people are Enzo and Heiji.
After packing up, the two set out from the bridge checkpoint and headed towards their destination. Before leaving, Yuan Zang looked back at the familiar village in his memory, and the feelings that did not belong to him lingered in his heart.
The original owner had many memories of this village.
Braving the continuous drizzle, Yuan Zang and the other man continued on their way in silence. This cold and depressing environment would inevitably affect people’s moods imperceptibly, causing the people of the Hidden Rain Village to be ruthless and taciturn.
The first step of this reconnaissance mission is to patrol a town on the front line.
The opponent of the Hidden Rain Village this time is the strongest of the five major ninja villages, the Konoha Village. It occupies the most fertile land and possesses the richest resources, not to mention the founding families of Konoha, which also left behind a large number of top-level ninjutsu inheritances.
Being able to occupy the best land in the ninja world as a village base is enough to prove how perverted the ninjutsu inheritance of the original Konoha family is. With these material foundations, Konoha’s ninjas are not only the largest in number, but also of the highest quality.
Facing such a behemoth, the Hidden Rain Village dare not be careless at all.
Even Hanzo has planned to go to the battlefield himself. Fortunately, this time, Konoha Village also had some troops tied up by other ninja villages, and could not attack Yuyin Village with all their strength. This gave Yuyin Village a slight chance of winning.
This time, the Third Hokage, who was hailed as the strongest of all Hokage, did not appear on the battlefield. Instead, his three apprentices led the battle.
After a long journey.
Yuan Zang and his companions came to a small town not far from the front line. As it was getting dark, they planned to find a place to rest for the night. Only by eliminating fatigue could they be fully prepared for action tomorrow.
As soon as he found a small hotel, Heiji couldn’t wait to lie down on the bed.
Because of the blessing of natural energy, Yuanzo rarely feels tired, so he takes this opportunity to go to the town to replenish food and water, and to find out some information here.
As the war was approaching, the city was in a state of urgency, and the seemingly bustling market was filled with a solemn atmosphere. The pedestrians coming and going were all in a hurry, and their steps did not stop.
When gods fight, mortals suffer. There are some laws in this world that will never change even after tens of thousands of years.
Walking on the street, the forehead protector of the Hidden Rain Village on Enzo’s head attracted many passers-by’s attention. There are usually very few ninjas in this small town, and now that such a ninja has appeared, the implications are self-evident.
This is about to become a battlefield.
It will take some time for Konoha’s army to arrive here. It will probably take a few days for the contact person from the Hidden Rain Village to notify the residents here to take shelter. Now is the last time of peace.
“Thief! Catch the thief! It’s you little brats again! Don’t let me catch you!”
An angry middle-aged man was waving a wooden stick and chasing after several children, driving away these thieves like annoying flies.
Yuanzo just took a casual look and was attracted by the eyes of a little red-haired boy.
At first glance, they were just an ordinary pair of eyes, but he sensed a familiar aura, the same aura he was familiar with from years of fighting the Otsutsuki.
This feeling is right, it s the Rinnegan!
The Rinnegan is the most standard eye of the Otsutsuki clan, and it appears the most frequently. Enzo himself has even battled with the powerful pupil techniques of the Rinnegan many times. This eye is extremely functional, and even the ability to control gravity and repulsion is only the most basic attribute.
But the red-haired kid in front of him obviously couldn’t be from the Otsutsuki clan, otherwise why would he be driven away like a drowned dog? If he were a truly arrogant Otsutsuki, he would have slaughtered everyone in this town long ago.
Swish, the scarlet three-magatama Sharingan flashed.
Yuan Zang once again confirmed the aura in the red-haired child’s eyes. After confirming that there was no doubt about it, he quietly followed the escape route of the group of street children.
The escape routes of these children were obviously planned; they were not running around like headless flies.
It uses its small body to dodge and move in alleys and climb back and forth in small holes, making it difficult for ordinary people to catch it.
The middle-aged man must have tried to catch them more than once, but failed every time. So now he just focused on driving them away, not hoping to catch these petty thieves.
However, this certainly did not pose a problem for Enzo. He created a shadow clone, took the purchased supplies back to the hotel, and informed Heiji. The real body followed the three children silently and came to their base.
In a remote mountain cave, although it was humid and overgrown with weeds outside, it was warm, dry, clean and tidy inside, and it was obviously well maintained.
“Aha! Great success! Great, another great harvest this time!”
“Well! Nagato, you are quite talented. You got a big piece of pork leg on your second try. I haven’t tasted meat for a long time. This time I can finally have some meat! Hehehe!”
“But, Yahiko, do you know how to cook pork? It must be troublesome to make meat dishes!”
A soft female voice at the side poured cold water on the orange-haired boy in the middle with just one sentence.
“Just roast it over a fire, why bother with so much…”
“If you eat undercooked meat, you might get diarrhea! You might get infected with bacteria, which is fatal in this war-torn era with a lack of medical care and medicine.”
A male voice that didn’t belong here echoed in this cave.
This immediately aroused the three children’s vigilance, and they thought that the shop owner had come to take revenge.
Yuan Zang placed his hands in front of him, his face calm, showing no ill intentions. At this moment, he was standing at the exit of the cave, silently looking at the boy named Nagato.
“Damn it, has the exit been blocked?” Yahiko was quick-witted and had already sensed some of Enzo’s little thoughts.
“Who are you! I’m warning you! I’m not someone you can easily mess with!” Yahiko stood bravely in front of the other two people, loudly scolding the uninvited guests in front of him.
“Yahiko!” Nagato and Konan behind him called out Yahiko’s name at the same time in worry.
“Don’t be nervous, I have no ill intentions. As you can see, I am a ninja from the Hidden Rain Village, not a thief or robber. I was just amazed by your superb skills in running away, so this is just my curiosity about my colleagues as an undercover agent.”
Such a reason obviously could not gain the trust of Nagato and the other two. Konan secretly took out a knife, but her hand holding the knife was shaking, revealing her inner panic.
Yahiko also pulled out a short sword from his waist and held it across his chest.
“Young man, your courage is commendable, but the way you hold the knife is wrong. It’s difficult to exert force like this.” After saying that, Yuanzo took out a kunai and made the correct knife-holding motion.
Seeing this, Yahiko adjusted his knife-holding posture doubtfully, and it became much smoother.
Yuanzang took a look and silently retracted the kunai.
“You guys have great talent for being ninjas. If you join the Hidden Rain Village, you won’t have to live this life of sleeping in the open air and having no food to eat. You can also learn powerful ninjutsu, and no one will dare to bully you anymore!”
“Tsk! Stop lying! We don’t even know who you are! Are you strong? Why should we follow you and become ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village!”
Yahiko was actually quite excited. He had always wanted to find an opportunity to learn ninjutsu to gain power and realize his dream, but unfortunately he could not find a way.
Now there is finally an opportunity in front of Yahiko, but he doesn’t know the opponent’s background yet and wants to test it out.
“My name is Sansho Maruzo, and I am a member of a tribe known as the ninja demigod, Sansho Hanzo. You who live in the Rain Country should know the title of ninja demigod, right? Then you should not doubt my strength.”
In a sense, Enzo was lying to these kids. Although the original owner was really a relative of Hanzo, his strength was very average. But now Enzo is very strong, so in the end, he is not lying.
Yahiko was somewhat tempted but also hesitant, as he didn’t really like Hanzo the Salamander.
“Don’t be so anxious to answer me. Wait until you have thought it through. I will come back to you in four days after I complete my mission. You can think about it carefully during this time.”
After saying that, Yuanzang left some coins and turned away. He had already figured out the situation of these children and knew that they were just homeless war orphans and could not run away.
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Chapter 6 Five Elements Sage Mode (Old Version)
In the long night, the rain stopped for a rare time, but unfortunately the continuous dark clouds still blocked the moonlight.
In the dark forest, Enzo and Heiji jumped among the branches. Their movements were light and nimble, and each jump only made a slight sound.
As they walked, Heiji was a little confused. To him, Enzo’s movements seemed to have become much more agile. As a jonin, he had spent a long time with Enzo, so he naturally knew how strong Enzo was.
But now, Yuanzo’s body movements and chakra control have clearly reached a new level.
It is no exaggeration to say that Heiji feels that Enzo now has the strength of a jonin.
“Ever since he came back alone from his last mission, Enzo has changed a lot.” Heiji thought to himself, but he didn’t dwell on it too much. He just thought that Enzo had trained himself in a desperate situation and made a breakthrough in strength.
“Enzo! Our mission this time is to find out the route of Konoha’s main force, and by the way, find several ambush locations suitable for poisoning Lord Hanzo.” Heiji spoke slowly while jumping.
“As usual, leave the task of finding out the main force of Konoha to me! You go do the geological survey task that you are good at, and find a few favorable terrain points for Hanzo-sama to ambush.”
Heiji took the initiative to take on the more dangerous reconnaissance missions and gave the relatively easy tasks to Enzo.
Yuanzo did not raise any objection to this. He was not a person who liked to show off his power, and it was better to have less trouble.
Watching Heiji leap away and disappear into the darkness, Enzo looked up at the sky, then activated his Sharingan to test how effective it was in the dark.
The Sharingan is a bloodline limit that relies heavily on vision and pupil strength, and darkness has a significant weakening effect on the Sharingan.
Moreover, if there is no flow of chakra around, the Sharingan’s ability to distinguish ordinary trees and stones in the dark is not much better than that of ordinary eyes.
After closing his Sharingan, Enzo placed his hands on the ground, closed his eyes and began to communicate with the spirit of the earth, sensing the veins of the earth. Immortals have an indescribable affinity with nature, and it is easy for them to sense the topography of the land.
In less than half a breath, Yuan Zang had a general understanding of the geographical environment within a radius of 100 miles.
Based on his memory of Hanzo’s poison-using habits and characteristics, Yuanzo quickly found an ideal ambush location where Hanzo’s poison could exert its maximum power.
Next, it is estimated that Heiji will not be able to come back for a while, so Enzo plans to take this opportunity to continue practicing without wasting a minute.
Sit cross-legged and meditate, flying in the air.
Today, Yuanzang has recovered a lot of natural energy and is able to practice in mid-air.
Empty your mind and let the natural energy flow through your body. Yuan Zang’s body entered a state of metamorphosis, and he was finally able to float in the air and absorb natural energy. This form of cultivation greatly enhanced the efficiency of absorbing natural energy.
At this moment, a large amount of water vapor turned into blue fluorescent dots and gathered around Yuanzang, and faint blue textures appeared on his skin.
Heavy water-sage mode.
Taking advantage of the rich moisture conditions of the Hidden Rain Village, Yuanzo began to practice the water-attributed Sage Mode.
In ancient times, the Sage Mode could be roughly divided into five basic Sage Modes according to the activation conditions and attributes.
These are the Red Fire Immortal Mode of fire attribute, the Heavy Water Immortal Mode of water attribute, the Rock Earth Immortal Mode of earth attribute, the Wood Yi Immortal Mode of wood attribute, and the Golden Crystal Immortal Mode of gold attribute.
In addition, there are some special ones, such as the Yin-Yang-based Liang Yi Sage Mode developed by Yuan Zang himself, the Kendo Sage Mode of the Sword Immortal, and the Sage Beast Mode unique to animals developed by some ancient spirit beasts.
Generally speaking, ordinary immortals only need to master one immortal mode, and the rest is to concentrate on refining immortal power.
But if you want to become a great perfection level immortal, you must at least learn five immortal modes based on the five elements, and then develop your own unique innate immortal mode.
Yuan Zang’s natal Liang Yi Sage Mode had naturally recovered not long ago. Now, taking advantage of the terrain, he would prioritize rebuilding the water attribute Sage Mode.
By closely integrating with the natural energy of water and adapting his body to the characteristics of the natural energy of water, Yuanzo will be able to master the heavy water-sage mode again.
The reason why we should prioritize mastering the heavy water mode is mainly because water is about balance, has a gentle and comfortable nature, has a healing effect, and can also reduce the rejection of various foreign objects in the body. It is a mode that many immortals like to develop first.
With the help of the ability to contain the natural energy of water in the Heavy Water Immortal Mode, Yuanzo can also alleviate the rejection effect of the Sharingan on himself.
After all, this is not a native eye, so there will inevitably be rejection effects. Moreover, the Sharingan is an extremely special organ of the Otsutsuki clan, so it must be treated with caution.
If you want to fully adapt to this pair of Sharingan, you need to nurture it for a while.
After a while, a cold wind blew.
The chill of the night penetrated Yuan Zang’s body, and the wind in the sky blew away some of the dark clouds. A few rays of bright moonlight fell on the earth and shone on Yuan Zang’s body, just like the jade-white long sleeves of a fairy in the sky caressing his body.
As if sensing something, Yuanzang looked up at the cold moon in the sky. Facing such a holy and beautiful scenery, his face was stern. For some reason, a chill arose in his heart.
There was no moon in the ancient times of the immortals…
As for how the moon came about, humans of this era had no exact records. It was only vaguely mentioned in classics that the moon was related to the legendary Six Paths Sage and Princess Kaguya.
Is the legendary Sage of Six Paths a sage or an Otsutsuki?
Yuan Zang had no way of knowing this, as this world was full of hidden secrets. Even as a great sage who had once been well-informed, Yuan Zang’s knowledge base could not keep up after crossing such a large time dimension.
The only thing he could do now was to quickly recover his strength.
The next morning, the sun was just rising.
Yuan Zang, who was practicing, finally sensed Heiji in the distance, approaching quickly. His breathing was steady and powerful, and it seemed that everything was going well and he was not injured.
However, because Heiji had not yet sensed Enzo’s presence, he walked cautiously, often looking back. In order to save time, Enzo took the initiative to go over and meet him.
At first, when Enzo appeared out of the bushes, Heiji was startled and immediately took out his kunai on guard. He was relieved when he saw that it was Enzo.
“You look like you’re fine, so what’s up? I’ve found a good spot.”
“Phew! It’s not bad, at least I wasn’t discovered. But the Hyuga clan in Konoha is too difficult to deal with. I didn’t dare to get too close. I just got a general idea of ??their movements and came back.”
“Baigan? It’s indeed a bit difficult to deal with.” Enzo recalled those Otsutsuki who possessed the Byakugan and nodded slightly.
“What do you mean by a little difficult to deal with! Enzo, I find that you have been a little arrogant recently. The Hyuga family with the Byakugan is known as the largest ninja clan in Konoha Village. Their strength is extraordinary! If it weren’t for my wisdom and courage, I would not have been able to remain calm in times of crisis…”
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Yuanzang was somewhat surprised.
The Byakugan is just the most basic and purest eye of the Otsutsuki clan. It does not have any special eye techniques at all. Is it that outrageous?
If the so-called first largest ninja clan is the Hyuga clan with the Rinnegan, then it can be said. Otherwise, if it is just the Byakugan with good eyesight, then isn’t it just a show-off?
Enzo even felt that the Hyuga family’s Byakugan was not as powerful as the Uchiha family’s Sharingan.
The power of the Sharingan lies mainly in the fact that when the Mangekyo Sharingan is opened, all kinds of strange eye techniques are revealed, just like opening a blind box. Some of the strange eye techniques are beyond the scope of conventional cognition and are often difficult to guard against.
When masters fight each other, intelligence is also a very important factor. The more unknown the ability is, the more unexpected situations can be created to achieve a surprise victory.
The Sharingan has such potential.
Chapter 7: Ninja Demigod (Old Version)
After completing the mission without any trouble, Enzo and Heiji prepared to return to the village.
Of course, before that, Yuanzo still needs to go to a place. The red-haired boy with the Rinnegan makes him pay attention.
Returning to the remote cave, the three children were already standing outside the cave, obviously expecting Yuan Zang’s arrival. He took a few steps closer and looked at those excited faces.
“It looks like you’ve made up your mind. Will you come with me?”
“Yes! I want to learn ninjutsu and realize my dream, and strength is necessary for this!” Yahiko, who was in the lead, clenched his fist and signaled.
“Then follow me.” Enzo glanced at Nagato behind Yahiko, turned around and left.
The three children hurriedly picked up their luggage that had been packed and followed closely. Their fate might have been rewritten.
The return journey took much longer than the return journey, mainly because of the three children. Heiji was full of complaints about this, and he didn’t understand why Enzo brought three burdens back with him.
In this regard, Yuanzo could only explain that these three children had excellent ninja talents. The Hidden Rain Village had been in war for many years and had suffered heavy casualties. It was a time when people were needed. If these three children were trained well, they would definitely become powerful new generation ninjas in the future.
Of course, what Enzo cared about was only Nagato’s Rinnegan. With his perspective, he completely looked down on the talents of Yahiko and Konan, and did not expect them to achieve much in the future.
The reason why these three people were brought back was because Yuanzang keenly realized that the emotional ties between these three people were deep.
Orphans who wandered together during the war often had a bond like family members, and in order to appease Nagato’s emotions and make things easier, Enzo wisely brought all three of them along.
“Well, big brother, since we are going to follow you from now on, what should we call you?” As they walked, Yahiko approached Enzo and spoke to him in a familiar manner.
“Um, just call me Enzo-nii, and that uncle is Heiji.”
“Hey! Enzo, what do you mean? Am I that old?” Heiji was very dissatisfied. “I am only a few years older than you!”
Hahahaha, this caused the three little ghosts behind to snicker.
“My name is Yahiko, the red-haired one is Nagato, and that’s Konan. Please give me your guidance from now on!” Yahiko had a sunny smile on his face, and he looked innocent.
After all, he is just a child, still too naive, and not very alert to strangers.
Fortunately, Yuanzang was not a cruel person. His long life had already made his mind detached and calm. He had let go of his obsession with many things.
Therefore, Nagato was lucky. Enzo’s desire for the Rinnegan only stopped at research, and he had no intention of further plunder.
Wait until we return to the checkpoint at the bridgehead of Yuyin Village.
Yuanzang took the three children to the station entrance for a simple registration and then took them back to their residence.
Because these three outsiders were just children who didn’t even know ninjutsu and posed no threat, and since Enzo was a member of the Salamander family, the guards didn’t make things too difficult for Yahiko and the others.
After taking them back home, Yuanzang left some money and let them go to the street to buy some daily necessities.
Although Yahiko and his two companions were new arrivals, Enzo believed that with their experience in society, they would not have to worry about anything happening here.
Next, Yuanzang will go to report the mission.
Konoha’s offensive was imminent, and the village leaders’ attention was focused on it, and other trivial matters were put aside.
Walking into the high-level meeting room of the Hidden Rain Village, one can see that the employees coming and going are all in a hurry and striding, looking very efficient.
This tense and hurried atmosphere made Heiji, who was following nearby, a little overwhelmed, as he usually seemed very carefree.
This had no effect on Yuan Zang. After all, vision determines one’s state of mind. With many means at his disposal, he was not worried about the upcoming war. Now, he was interested in Han Zang, who was known as the “Ninja Demigod”.
There is no doubt that Hanzo is at the pinnacle of ninjas. With his strength, Enzo can roughly figure out what level the overall strength of human beings is at now.
Entering the conference room, the room was decorated in cold colors. A group of people were pointing and drawing at the map. In the middle, a middle-aged man with dark blond hair and a standard breathing mask of the Hidden Rain Village was the first to discover Yuan Zang and the others.
At this moment, he raised his head and his eyes met Yuanzo’s, and he found that he was also looking at him.
“It’s a bit strange. I always feel that something has changed about this child, Yuanzang. He gives people a very sharp aura. Moreover, it seems that his eyes have seen through me before now.”
Hanzo looked at this familiar tribesman, with a myriad of thoughts in his mind.
Seeing their eyes meet, Yuanzang calmly retracted his gaze, lowered his head and walked forward quickly.
“This Hanzo has a very sharp perception. He is indeed a master.”
But from Enzo’s perspective, calling him a demigod is a little off. Hanzo’s chakra is not even half of the chakra of the weakest branch Otsutsuki. With such a small amount of basic energy reserves, one can imagine his upper limit.
As expected, it is too difficult for a human to get his hands on the power of the Otsutsuki.
“Enzo is here. How is your intelligence gathering going?” Hanzo’s voice was low, but as soon as the words came out, the originally noisy environment immediately became quiet, and no one dared to interrupt his inquiry.
“Well, Konoha will reach our border in three days at the earliest and five days at the latest. As for the ambush location, I have already found it.”
As he spoke, Yuanzang strode forward without too much restraint. He glanced at the huge map on the table and started searching. He picked up a pen and wrote and drew on the map, comparing it from time to time.
“This kid has become more confident.”
Hanzo couldn’t help but feel emotional when looking at the young man in front of him. Based on his previous understanding of Enzo, he was not such a bold and careful person. It seems that there are talented people in every generation, and Enzo has also grown up.
After taking a quick look at the location on the map, Hanzo already had an idea. Being cautious, he had already picked out several locations in advance, and this move was just to be on the safe side.
The location chosen by Yuanzang coincided with one of the previous locations.
“According to intelligence, Konoha Village has sent out a lot of personnel this time. We must go all out. All personnel at the level of Chunin and above must suspend their current operations and join the general mobilization. All unnecessary Genin must return to the central area to prevent sneak attacks from other villains.”
Hanzo made his deployment in an orderly manner. Everyone who heard the order stood up and bowed, then filed out, and the war machine was about to start.
Just when Enzo was about to leave with Heiji.
“Enzo, please stay for a while.” Hanzo on the stage called him, “You don’t have to go to the front line this time. Just be in charge of the defense command of the Hidden Rain Village. The safety of this village depends on you.”
Yuanzang was a little confused.
“Perhaps you don’t realize it, but I understand that you should have been the most talented of the younger generation of our Salamander family, with the potential to keep up with me. All you lacked was an opportunity for a trial. Now I can clearly feel that you have become stronger.”
Hanzo stood with his hands behind his back, looking at this young member of the clan.
“I believe that you are now capable of taking on this important task. Our rear area is now in your hands. You are now qualified to become a jonin, and all the genin stationed here will obey your command.”
Hearing this, Yuanzang was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He did not want to be bound by such power. Such entrustment often meant responsibility and was a troublesome matter.
“If… we fail in this battle.” Hanzo paused, “I hope you can lead the Salamander family as its patriarch and continue to survive. Somehow, I believe you can go further than your uncle Shen Da.”
Chapter 8 Rain Hidden Battlefield (Old Version)
At the border of the Hidden Rain Village, dark shadows kept passing over the tree branches.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, their movements are clean and efficient without any delay. This is a well-trained troop.
“The border of the Hidden Rain Village is just ahead. Everyone, stay alert and be alert.” The leading man was tall and wore a Konoha forehead protector. He had long white hair that reached his waist and a red mark under his eyes.
The man following closely behind him had long black hair, long golden pupils, purple eye shadow that extended to the wings of his nose, pale skin, and blue-green magatama-shaped earrings. He gave off a cold feeling and looked as dangerous as a venomous snake.
On the other side was a very beautiful mature female ninja.
She has long light yellow hair, which is braided into a large ponytail, a special blue-purple mark on her forehead, bright brown eyes, light red lips, and red nails. She has fair skin and plump chest muscles.
A large group of Konoha ninjas are quickly crossing the border of the Hidden Rain Village.
While walking, a Konoha ninja suddenly felt a silk thread touching his feet and felt something was wrong.
“Be careful! Detonating Talisman!”
As soon as the words fell, the quiet forest was filled with the sound of a huge explosion.
“This is a specially made detonating talisman. It’s extremely powerful. Be careful!”
In an instant, the well-trained ninjas stopped immediately to prevent accidentally triggering the trap again, and the fast-moving team stopped.
Needless to say, the Byakugan Kekkei Genkai ninja in the team immediately activated his ability, and several Hyuga ninjas focused their attention and looked carefully in multiple directions to detect the enemy situation.
“What’s the situation?” The leader Jiraiya asked anxiously.
“This…” The Hyuga ninjas looked serious, “Not good! We are surrounded, the other side has already set up an ambush!”
This situation obviously caught the three young men off guard, as the opponent’s planning ability was too strong.
“As expected of a ninja demigod, his tactical skills should not be underestimated.” Jiraiya couldn’t help but sigh, they were still too young.
Orochimaru on the side calmly analyzed the situation and began to calm the troops.
“Everyone! Spread out, find suitable positions, cover each other, and don’t panic!”
“No matter what, the advantage is still on our side! Our military strength is superior to theirs in both quantity and quality. As long as our formation is not disrupted, we will not lose in a head-on confrontation.”
After hearing this, most of the Konoha ninjas calmed down and realized that the explosion just now was just a smokescreen intended to confuse people, and the real battle had not yet begun.
After a few moments of breathing, the ninjas basically calmed down, gripped their weapons tightly, and began to wait and see.
As Orochimaru spoke, his keen senses immediately noticed that the air around him was beginning to become humid, and raindrops fell on his body from time to time.
“Be careful, it’s the Rain and Mist Technique!”
Then, under the cover of fog and raindrops, small water bombs came from all directions. Although their power was average, they could make people panic for a while and were very suitable for disrupting other people’s formations.
“Ninjutsu: Needle Jizo!” Jiraiya used chakra to harden his long silver hair, wrapping his entire body, and at the same time wrapping Tsunade beside him.
Other Konoha ninjas also used various ninjutsu to defend themselves. This ordinary water bullet technique would hardly cause any damage to ninjas above the level of Chunin.
While they were hastily defending themselves, the ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village arrived.
Countless kunai were thrown out, with detonating tags in between. Taking advantage of the terrain of the Hidden Rain Village, a large number of water-style ninjutsu were unleashed.
“Water Style, Water Dragon Bullet!”
“Water escape, water formation wall!”
“Water escape technique, water mist technique!”
…
The ninjas of Konoha countered the attacks and used a large number of earth-style ninjutsu to set up layers of defense.
“Shadow Snake Hand.” Orochimaru immediately launched a counterattack. The poisonous snake that came out of his sleeves accurately bit the necks of several Rain Village ninjas.
Tsunade on the side shook off Jiraiya’s protection, burst out with super strength and directly activated the terrain destruction mode. With one punch after another, the formation of the Rain Village ninjas was broken up among the rocks and broken trees.
The initial sneak attack by the Hidden Rain Village did have a certain effect, but as long as they were prepared, the Konoha ninjas, who had much higher head-on combat power, gradually gained the upper hand.
“Damn it, we underestimated them.” The Salamander Kamada at the back of the team began to use a large-scale water mist technique to provide cover for his troops, and then issued an order to retreat.
Then, Shenda turned to the liaison officer and said, “Tell Hanzo-sama that the plan is underway and we can begin the second phase of the operation.”
After losing the first battle, the ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village began to retreat in twos and threes. There was an inexplicable orderliness in their seemingly hurried steps.
“Very good!” Jiraiya was encouraged to see the situation gradually turning around and rushed towards the enemy, starting the pursuit.
The Konoha ninja nearby saw the opportunity and joined the pursuit.
Because the situation changed so quickly, most of the Konoha ninjas did not have time to think carefully. They all tried to seize the opportunity and continue to expand their victory while the enemy was fleeing. They did not consider the possibility that this might be a strategy to lure the enemy.
The Hidden Rain Village ninjas were fleeing in front, and the Konoha ninjas were chasing behind, and there was always a certain distance between the two, as if they were close yet not close enough.
A depression in the distance surrounded by mountains on three sides.
“The art of summoning spirits. Salamander. Well!”
Hanzo bit his thumb and pressed it to the ground, and black runes appeared on the ground. A huge purple-brown salamander appeared out of nowhere, and a large amount of purple poison gas came out of its huge mouth.
Seeing this scene, the Rain Ninjas behind him all tightened their breathing masks tacitly to prevent accidental inhalation of poisonous gas.
During the chase between the two armies in the distance, Orochimaru and some experienced jonin had already realized that something was wrong, but it was too late, most of the Konoha ninjas had already entered the ambush point.
This depression is very suitable for poison fog attacks.
“Poison spray.”
The giant purple-brown giant salamander accumulated poison for about five minutes. As its mouth opened, a large area of ??purple poisonous fog gushed out. With the catalysis of chakra, it quickly merged with the fog in the low-lying areas, and the gray environment was stained with a bit of purple.
All members of Shen Da’s troops were originally wearing breathing masks, and with prior precautions, only a few people were affected by the poisonous gas, with only a few unlucky guys accidentally getting infected.
Konoha suffered heavy losses, and most of the people plunged into the poisonous fog. There were many experts in detoxification and poison application in Konoha, but they were still powerless in the face of Hanzo’s poison.
In just a few breaths, the ninja who inhaled the poison gas would fall to the ground. The Konoha ninjas who had not inhaled the poison gas quickly covered their mouths and noses and retreated.
Tsunade pulled back several poisoned wounded and wanted to treat them, but before she could perform medical ninjutsu, the wounded’s bodies became stiff and they stopped breathing.
“Surround them and annihilate all of Konoha’s ninjas here. Don’t let any of them go!”
Ignoring the influence of the poisonous fog, Hanzo rushed into the battlefield using the instant body technique, wielding the chain sickle and ruthlessly harvesting the remaining defeated soldiers on the field.
“Swordsmanship: Iai Slash!”
“Swordsmanship: Chain Scythe Double Attack!”
Hanzo’s sword strikes with great ferocity, and every swing of his weapon can stir up a dance of blood. His movements are superb, and each move is full of rhythm and rhythm.
“Damn it!” Seeing Hanzo brutally slaughtering his compatriots, Jiraiya, who had exited the poisonous fog circle, had red eyes and wanted to enter the battlefield again to save people.
“Wait!” Orochimaru stretched out his hand to stop Jiraiya, “The situation is over now. We can’t save them. We should retreat wisely before the enemy’s encirclement is tightened!”
“Orochimaru, do you want to abandon your companions?” Jiraiya, who implemented the will of Konoha’s fire, naturally could not accept such behavior.
Tsunade on the side seemed to be hesitant to speak, and in her heart she obviously agreed with Orochimaru’s words, because as a top medical ninja, she was actually helpless against Hanzo’s poison, and she felt powerless in the face of such a strong toxic gas.
Chapter 9 – Peak Battle (Old Version)
“etc!”
Jiraiya suddenly stopped Tsunade and Orochimaru who were about to evacuate.
“Now is not the time to act on impulse, Jiraiya!” Orochimaru was a little annoyed by his teammate’s stubbornness. He was afraid that he would cause trouble again, so he hurried to persuade him.
“I feel it. If it’s here, it can work!” Jiraiya stood still, forming seals with his hands and closing his eyes. “Please help me buy a few minutes!”
It turns out that when Enzo was choosing the ambush site, he not only considered Hanzo’s poison gas attack, but also his own situation. Enzo originally thought that he would also go to the battlefield, so when choosing the location, he gave priority to places with rich natural energy.
Moreover, he used the heavy water fairy mode here in advance to gather a large amount of water-attributed natural energy as an external energy reserve. As long as unfavorable conditions appeared on the battlefield, he would absorb the natural energy in the depression and activate the heavy water fairy mode.
Unexpectedly, Enzo was not sent to the battlefield, and now it is Jiraiya who gets the advantage.
From the beginning, Jiraiya, who had barely entered the Sage Mode, felt that the natural energy around him was surprisingly rich, and it contained extremely pure water natural energy.
In order to save his companions, Jiraiya decided to give it a try.
Right now, he is still unable to enter Sage Mode skillfully by himself, and needs the assistance of two Sages, Fukasaku and Shima of Myobokusan. But with such high-quality natural energy here, he might be able to do it alone.
While Jiraiya was standing there, several fast ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village caught up with him, but they were dealt with by Orochimaru and Tsunade.
“Jiraiya, what do you want to do? If you don’t move, we’re leaving!”
Tsunade and Orochimaru protected Jiraiya behind them.
“Alright! Sage Mode on!”
The natural energy of water has a certain ability to neutralize and dilute poison.
The moment Jiraiya entered Sage Mode, he felt that the soreness all over his body caused by the poison gas he had accidentally inhaled was immediately relieved a lot.
“This time’s Sage Mode feels different from before. The frog-like nature on my body seems to have decreased a lot. Have I made progress?” Jiraiya thought to himself.
At this time, Jiraiya’s body showed the characteristics of a toad, and some water-like blue textures emerged.
In Sage Mode, the human body’s speed, strength, reaction and ability to withstand attacks will increase significantly. It can be said that as long as one masters the Sage Mode, one’s physical strength will immediately undergo a qualitative change.
The young Jiraiya, who had barely stepped into the Weak Kage level, instantly possessed the hard power of a Strong Kage level.
Hanzo used the technique of instant body movement to flash quickly, leaving only a few afterimages behind him. The only way to defeat martial arts in the world is speed, and such fast movement ability laid the foundation for his foothold as a ninja demigod.
“Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!”
Faced with such a swift opponent, Orochimaru acted decisively and used a large-scale wind escape technique to interrupt the opponent’s attack.
“Fire Style: Exploding Flame Formation.”
Hanzo used a large number of detonating tags to generate a huge shock wave to offset Orochimaru’s wind escape. Then he threw his weapon skillfully and took advantage of Orochimaru’s blocking opportunity to launch a second attack.
“Swordsmanship: Chain Scythe Double Strike”
A series of continuous attacks made Orochimaru unable to resist.
“Immortal Technique: Thousand Needles!”
This is the fastest and most wide-ranging ninjutsu among all of Jiraiya’s techniques.
Jiraiya in Sage Mode used ninjutsu to harden his hair and fired it as fast as a storm, dealing a fatal blow to Hanzo and saving Orochimaru from danger.
And while releasing the hair needles, the Sage Mode also activates Jiraiya’s hair roots, making unlimited continuous shooting possible.
Hanzo’s rhythm was interrupted by the fierce attack and he could only step back to steady himself. He looked at Jiraiya in shock. He could clearly feel that the opponent’s strength was constantly increasing from the beginning.
“What kind of ninjutsu is this?” Hanzo asked with doubt in his mind.
However, Jiraiya did not give Hanzo a chance to catch his breath. In Sage Mode, his speed could barely catch up with Hanzo’s Instant Body Technique. Using his young and strong body, Jiraiya rushed forward and punched Hanzo with a powerful punch.
Although Hanzo is known as the ninja demigod, his advantages lie in his speed and poison gas. He is not good at close combat. Once the enemy’s speed can keep up with him, he will be very passive.
“We must keep our distance!” Hanzo instantly formulated the next tactical plan.
At this time, Orochimaru was surprised by his companion’s strong outburst. Being a careful thinker, he immediately realized that this was an opportunity to defeat a powerful enemy, and he had to create a flaw in the enemy for Jiraiya.
“Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!”
The sword rain composed of shuriken enveloped Jiraiya and Hanzo who were fighting. Jiraiya, relying on the powerful induction power in the Sage Mode and the tacit understanding with his companions, used the needle Jizo to protect his body first.
On the other side, Hanzo was a step slower and barely avoided the fatal attack, but still left scratches on his body.
“Right now, Earth Escape: Yellow Spring Swamp!”
A huge swamp appeared silently under Hanzo’s feet, trapping his legs in it and making it impossible for him to escape. He would eventually be completely buried. In Sage Mode, this move was more powerful, had a larger range, and was difficult to detect.
Hanzo, who was as ghostly as a ghost, was restrained from moving.
“Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!”
“Wind Style: Wind Cutting Technique!”
Jiraiya and Orochimaru cooperated well, combining Fire Style and Wind Style with each other, the fire borrowed the power of the wind, and the wind borrowed the power of the fire, and a huge fire dragon rushed towards Hanzo.
The flames danced like a raging dragon, unstoppable. The flames Jiraiya spewed out were divided into three directions: up, left, and right, and attacked the opponent at the same time.
“The summoning technique. Salamander. Ibu!” Hanzo had no choice but to summon his own summoned beast, trying to use its huge body to withstand the damage.
“Yin Seal: Release.” Tsunade, who was hiding in the dark, released her reserve chakra.
A huge amount of chakra gathered in Tsunade’s fist, and using the instant burst of super strength, it hit the summoned beast hard. The giant beast as big as a hill was knocked away nearly a hundred meters.
Now there is no defense in front of Hanzo.
A huge fire dragon pounced on the Yellow Spring Swamp, and a sea of ??fire enveloped it. The burning and boiling flames suddenly burst into billowing flames, and white water vapor rushed up to the sky, and this place instantly turned into a hell on earth.
This grand scene immediately attracted the ninjas on the surrounding battlefields.
The first to come to support were the Salamander Kamada and others who had been very close to the Konoha ninjas from the beginning.
“Masaka?” Shen Da rushed to the scene and looked at the scene in disbelief, “Impossible, how could Hanzo-sama lose!”
At this time, Jiraiya had already exhausted his natural energy and exited the Sage Mode. Orochimaru and Tsunade were standing guard on both sides.
The two sides’ eyes met at this time, and neither side made any rash moves.
The Shintatsu group was intimidated by the powerful strength of Jiraiya and his three companions who killed Hanzo, so they naturally did not dare to go forward for revenge.
Jiraiya, because of the continuous fighting just now, had consumed a lot of chakra, and he did not dare to take it lightly against Shen Da and others. If he acted rashly, he might capsize in the ditch.
“Damn it!” Shen Da weighed the pros and cons and decided to retreat. The Hidden Rain Village, which had lost the protection of the demigod, was doomed. There was no need to fight against the three Hokage’s disciples.
Even if they were lucky enough to kill these three young men here, they would anger the Third Hokage and end up in a life-and-death situation. After weighing all the factors, Shen Da decided to leave some room for the future of the Hidden Rain Village.
“Everyone retreat!” With Kamida’s order, the ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village began to evacuate gradually.
Konoha won this war with great difficulty.
Chapter 10 I Became Stronger (Old Version)
On top of the tall tower in the center of the Hidden Rain Village, Enzo stood.
The rain was falling sparsely, and today’s raindrops were particularly cold. Turning on the heavy water fairy mode, he combined himself with the surrounding rain, and nothing around him could escape Yuanzang’s eyes.
Stretching out his hand to catch a few raindrops, Yuanzou looked into the distance. Now only a small number of non-combat personnel and Genin were left in the Hidden Rain Village, and the village became a little quiet.
For Yahiko and the other two, Enzo found a Genin teacher to teach them the basic chakra training methods. Their foundation was too weak at the moment, so they did not need his personal guidance.
“Master Enzo!” A member of the communications squad stood behind him, “There’s a report from the front line, Master Hanzo has been defeated, our army is retreating, Master Kanda told us to prepare to fight the enemy!”
“What? Are you sure that Lord Hanzo is really dead?” Yuanzo frowned slightly.
“According to the intelligence from the front…Hanzo-sama has indeed lost his trace.”
When Yuanzang received the news, he felt a little nervous, but his face showed no panic.
But after a moment, Yuan Zang regained his composure. After all, with his ability, if he didn’t care about the burden of the Hidden Rain Village, he could come and go freely, and no one could stop him. He didn’t need to worry about his own safety at all.
However, this was an opportunity. His body and spirit merged with the original owner during the resurrection ceremony, and his body and soul became somewhat mixed, which had interfered with his cultivation.
And now is his chance to reach an agreement with the original owner.
Since the original owner had deep feelings for the Hidden Rain Village, his strong belief in protecting the Hidden Rain Village subtly interfered with Enzo. Therefore, Enzo could in turn use this to achieve his own goals.
“I already understand your long-cherished wish. I will do my best to protect your hometown, and you will have to pay a sufficient price in return.” Yuanzang seemed to be talking to himself.
In order for two different spirits to merge into a perfect individual, one of them must give up its own consciousness, transform into pure nutrients, and actively integrate into the other.
However, this also means that the spirit has given up its own consciousness and lost the chance to reincarnate in the six realms, which means that the soul is completely destroyed.
“Do you have such determination and belief?” Yuan Zang seemed to be talking to himself, “If you have such awareness, then the Hidden Rain Village can continue to survive, otherwise it will disappear into history.”
Yuan Zang took advantage of the current situation and offered a relatively fair agreement. However, as long as the agreement is reached, Yuan Zang will be able to gain relatively more benefits.
No one responded, but invisibly, Yuanzang could feel the strange feeling in his body disappear.
At this moment, this body began to truly belong to Yuanzang. From now on, he was the real Yuanzang. The physical body, spiritual body and soul body became a trinity and became one.
As the shackles of the spirit body were unlocked, Yuan Zang was finally able to perfectly control his body. At this moment, taking advantage of the opportunity of the spirit body’s sublimation, Yuan Zang forcibly compressed and refined the huge natural energy that had been accumulated in his dantian for many days.
Just as the mist-like natural energy is rearranged and combined in an extremely complex way by powerful mental force, the rolling clouds of natural energy are refined into a wisp of small water droplets. This is the immortal power.
It’s just this tiny bit of immortal power, but the power contained in it far exceeds natural energy.
Unfortunately, the influence of the mixed chakras in his body was still there, and Yuanzang didn’t dare to refine too much spiritual power.
Moreover, refining immortal power requires at least the fusion of the basic five elements of natural energy to proceed. The lack of any kind of natural energy will greatly affect the stability of immortal power.
The current Yuanzang Water Element’s natural energy is sufficient, but the other four are still relatively lacking. If you want to quickly obtain a large amount of natural energy, you must go to the corresponding natural environment to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
It is extremely easy to find the three elements of fire, earth and wood, but the metal element is a bit troublesome.
The gold element requires an environment of wind and thunder. Only when a strong hurricane and extreme thunder are combined can sufficient gold elemental power be generated.
Without human intervention, such an environment is hard to find. Basically, ancient practitioners used stormy days as a special weather to capture enough natural energy of the metal element.
However, this amount of immortal power is enough for the moment, at least it has broken through the realm from nothing to something.
Now Yuanzo has barely entered the ranks of immortals and is once again able to use many of the immortal arts and techniques he once mastered. It is no longer so easy to kill him now.
In the next few days, Enzo ordered the news of Hanzo’s death to be suppressed, and everything had to wait until the remaining troops returned to prevent the village from falling into chaos.
The Hidden Rain Village was in the calm before the storm.
In the past few days, Yuanzang has been staying in his room to recuperate and prepare for the next battle. When he has time, he also went to visit Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan.
Yahiko is a natural optimist and outgoing person. After only a few days of getting along, he became familiar with the ninja teacher who guided the training. These people cherished this hard-won opportunity very much and trained hard every day.
“Lord Yuanzang, why are you here today?” The sharp-eyed Xiaonan was the first to notice his arrival.
The three of them now knew that Yuan Zang was the current leader of the Hidden Rain Village, and he was in charge of all matters. They were already grateful to Yuan Zang, and now they respected him even more. After all, following Yuan Zang still had a future.
“I have to go out to do something recently, so I’d like to come and see you before I leave. How are the results of my practice going?”
“Master Enzo, the three of them practiced very seriously. Now they have mastered the tricks of chakra training and are making rapid progress.” The Genin teacher next to him gave a fair evaluation.
“Hmm!” Enzo looked at Nagato again.
There are still many things to do, and the research on Nagato’s Samsara Eye needs to be put aside for a while. Besides, Nagato is still too young, his body can’t bear it, and he can’t even activate the power of the Samsara Eye. Let him grow for a while.
“You three must continue to work hard and don’t slack off. Opportunities must be earned by yourselves.”
“yes!!!”
“Lord Enzo! Something bad has happened!” Suddenly, a person pushed open the door and rushed in in panic. It was someone from the liaison team.
“What’s going on?” Could the situation get any worse? Yuanzang was terrified.
“Lord Kamada fled with his subordinates. Some ninjas who didn’t want to follow him also fled in all directions! They all abandoned the Hidden Rain Village. Now we are the only ones left!”
As he spoke, the liaison officer, feeling that a disaster was imminent, stared at Yuan Zang, waiting for his reply.
“What…what’s going on? We finally have a few days of peace, and now the war is coming again?” Yahiko on the side was shocked. He didn’t want the coming of war to ruin the peaceful days he had finally gotten.
Everyone in the field was stunned and at a loss.
“I’m afraid it was the previous battle between Lord Hanzo and Konoha Village? I didn’t expect that someone as strong as Lord Hanzo would be defeated by Konoha. Is this the power of the leader of the five major ninja villages?” said the Genin instructor at the side.
The instructor was already hesitant at this time, and couldn’t help but start to think about quietly escaping from Yuyin Village and staying away from this place of trouble. He still had a family to take care of, and he couldn’t let them get involved.
“Master Enzo, what should we do? Why don’t we run for our lives? We, the Genin who remain here, can’t stop Konoha’s army even with the help of city defense weapons!”
Everyone originally thought that even if Hanzo died, the main force of the Hidden Rain Village would not suffer too much loss.
Relying on the defensive fortifications built over the years, they will be able to hold out against Konoha for a while, and perhaps gain some bargaining chips for signing a good peace treaty in the future.
Now most of the masters of the Hidden Rain Village have fled, leaving only a few of these cats and dogs. It is hard to guarantee what Konoha will do. Without the constraints of relative strength, the Hidden Rain Village is just a fat sheep to be slaughtered at will.
How can we escape? Yahiko suddenly became emotional and punched the wall hard. After so much effort, we finally have a stable life, but now we have to become wanderers again.
“Yahiko…” Konan beside him couldn’t help but comfort him.
“I won’t give up!” Yahiko punched the wall again, “Strength! I need strength. As long as I have enough strength, I can protect everything.”
“That’s enough, don’t push yourself.” Enzo said, placing his hand on Yahiko’s head. A cool natural energy flowed through Yahiko’s meridians, calming him down.
“You are just a child, and it is enough for you to have such ambition. You should look to the future and continue to grow. As for now, leave it to me!” Yuanzang persuaded.
It was rare for Enzo to show some admiration for Yahiko. He originally thought that he was just an ordinary kid, but unexpectedly, he had some good qualities.
“Lord Enzo…” Yahiko looked at Enzo and found that his eyes were very calm, as if he could do anything, giving people an inexplicable sense of trust.
“But, Master Enzo, do you have any way to turn the tide?” The liaison officer and the Genin instructor were not dreamy children. They understood that the current situation was completely hopeless.
Even though Yuanzang’s face was still very calm, they didn’t think that Yuanzang could find any way to revive, as the outcome was already decided.
“Actually, if you insist, I don’t have any good strategy. It’s just that I’ve become much stronger recently…”
Chapter 11: First Confrontation (Old Version)
“There is no enemy ahead, and we are very close to the Hidden Rain Village.”
The vanguard of Konoha was led by two members of the Hyuga clan, the brothers Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hiashi. As the young and outstanding new generation of the Hyuga clan, they were sent as the vanguard of the reconnaissance force.
However, as the two of them were leaping forward, the younger brother, Hiashi, always intentionally or unintentionally walked a few steps ahead of his brother, Hiashi, as if he was protecting his brother.
Following closely behind the two men was a man with short black hair, wearing a tight black combat uniform with green Jonin mail on the outside. There was the Uchiha clan emblem embroidered on both shoulders and the Uchiha clan’s round fan pattern tattooed on his back.
He is the young genius of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Fugaku.
As the two major bloodline ninja families of Konoha, there is secretly a lot of competition and rivalry among the younger generation.
The Byakugan and Sharingan, which are famous for their eye techniques, have unparalleled advantages in reconnaissance. So both sides volunteered to walk in front and lead the team.
However, neither the two Hyuga brothers nor Uchiha Fugaku are flamboyant people. On the surface, there is no friction among the three of them, they just occasionally compete in secret.
However, in Konoha Village, countless people wanted to know who was the strongest eye-jutsu bloodline limit family in Konoha. In this atmosphere of expectation, the young people from the two families said that they did not like to compare, but that was a lie.
Behind these three people are the younger generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho family, Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza.
“Ino-Shika-Cho” is one of the trump cards of the Konohagakure. The “Ino-Shika-Cho” combination of each generation is usually composed of the current or next clan leader of each of the three clans.
In battle, the Nara clan, who possess the ability to imitate shadows and have extremely high IQs, are usually responsible for formulating tactics.
Then, the Yamanaka clan, who have combined mind links, battlefield perception and mental control, will be responsible for sensing the target and connecting the minds of the three people. Finally, the Akimichi clan, who have powerful destructive power, will carry out the final attack.
These three together are definitely a force that cannot be underestimated.
The team was also led by a three-person team, including an ordinary boy with blond hair, a girl with beautiful red hair, and a person who wore black sunglasses, carried a huge jar on his back, and looked taciturn. She was Shiwei Aburame from the Aburame clan.
The vanguard sent by Konoha, with only nine people, can easily rival a medium-sized team.
These people were agile and silent, and they were obviously masters. As the vanguard of Konoha, they were responsible for the surprise attack. Although they were small in number, they were all elites of each unit and had amazing combat power.
“Hmm?” Hinata Hiashi rubbed his eyes, a little bit unbelieving, “Hiashi, use your Byakugan to see if there is a sudden and violent chakra fluctuation in front of you.”
Upon hearing this, Hinata Hizashi also confirmed, “Brother, I saw it too, it seems that neither of us is dazzled.
“The enemy must have used some kind of hidden ninjutsu. It seems that the people from the Hidden Rain Village are quite capable. I didn’t expect that the Byakugan of the Hyuga Clan is only so powerful. I discovered the enemy before you did.”
Uchiha Fugaku behind him held a sword in his hand, ready to attack.
In the distance, Yuan Zang stood on a tree branch, watching the nine people approaching quickly from the front. He did not wear the iconic breathing mask of the Hidden Rain Village, but only wore a gray-black coat over his uniform.
This is a forest adjacent to the Hidden Rain Village and the Hidden Leaf Village. It has lush vegetation and an endless sea of ??trees.
The rich natural energy of the wood element fills this world.
“Mu Yi – Sage Mode.”
At this moment, Enzo activated the Sage Mode. He had been absorbing the natural energy of the Wood Element for several hours, accumulating it until now, waiting for the enemy soldiers to invade Konoha.
Mu Yi Immortal has powerful physical activity. The characteristic of plants is that they are endless. Once he enters this mode, he will have powerful vitality and recovery ability, which is very suitable for fighting in combination with physical skills.
In ancient times, many practitioners of explosive physical techniques would choose to fight in this mode.
Another characteristic of plants is that they grow wildly.
In battle, as long as the bodies touch each other, Mu Yi Sage Mode can absorb the opponent’s energy and turn it into its own nutrients, providing the body with vigorous vitality and energy. It can be said that the more you fight, the stronger you become.
“I didn’t expect that the other side only sent nine people. They look down on the small ninja village.” As he spoke, light green leaf veins appeared on Yuanzo’s face, and there were dark green dots on his forehead.
“However, although they are few in number, we should not be careless. Since these people dare to fight against a large number with a small number, they must have some skills.”
Entering the Sage Mode, Yuan Zang’s perception ability has been greatly improved. He can clearly feel that everyone on the opposite side has a strong chakra fluctuation, and some of them even surpass the existence of ninja demigods!
“This aura! Is it the Ten-Tails?” Yuan Zang frowned for the first time and looked intently, “No, compared to the Ten-Tails, its aura is much weaker, and it is obviously incomplete.”
“An incomplete Ten-Tails?”
“I didn’t expect that this Konoha actually controlled the power of the Tailed Beast God Tree of the Otsutsuki clan.”
While thinking, Yuanzang searched his mind for the original owner’s past memories.
“Nine-tailed Fox… Jinchuriki… Why is this ninja world filled with so many relics of the Otsutsuki clan? It really makes me more and more curious.”
At this time, Yuanzo’s body slowly merged into the trees, and with the help of the dense roots, stems and leaves of the trees, he swam in the green forest, approaching them at a speed faster than the Konoha ninjas.
“Be careful, the opponent’s chakra disappeared again. They must have discovered us!” Hyuga Hizashi, who was leading the way, reminded loudly. He always felt that the opponent’s strength was not simple. They could be so elusive in the face of the Hyuga family’s Byakugan.
In this forest with blocked vision, an enemy who is so good at hiding is very troublesome.
Uchiha Fugaku’s three-magatama Sharingan spun wildly, but he was also unable to find where the chakra fluctuations had gone. He secretly did not believe in evil, and the three-magatama in his eyes began to change and eventually took on a completely new shape.
Mangekyo Sharingan!
With powerful eye power emerging, Uchiha Fugaku once again swept his vision around to capture the enemy’s traces.
Hinata Hiashi in front noticed the strange feeling behind him, turned his head to look at Fugaku, then turned his head back silently, but did not say anything else. He just continued to remain alert quietly.
At this time, the three people at the end of the team also started the discussion.
“Kushina, Senior Zhiwei, be careful. I can feel that the person on the other side is not simple!” There was a bit of worry on Minato Namikaze’s face.
“Yeah.” Aburame Shiwei beside him also reminded quietly. “My bugs have been spread out, but I can’t find any clues about the other side. It’s very strange. I even suspect that the other side is Hanzo himself. He just pretended to die before, and now he appears again.”
“Be a real man! Be a real man! Minato!” Kushina patted her chest, “With me here, no one can hurt you! Watch me punch the enemy away!”
“Hehehe…” Minato’s face was full of embarrassment, and he didn’t know how to answer for a moment.
“The power of the tailed beasts…”
Suddenly, a human figure emerged from the trees next to Kushina, and the hand stretched out was about to touch Kushina’s back. The slap in the face came so quickly.
“Kushina!” Minato’s pupils suddenly shrank.
At the moment when the unknown hand was about to touch Kushina, Minato desperately launched the Flying Thunder God Technique which he had just mastered and had not yet taken shape.
With a princess hug, Minato used the special kunai on Kushina as a coordinate to quickly teleport to her side, and then immediately teleported back to the starting point.
However, because he was still very immature in the use of the Flying Thunder God Technique, Minato’s body was severely backlashed by the turbulence in space when it was moving, causing him to collapse to the ground as soon as he was teleported back.
“Minato!” Kushina hugged Minato in her arms and immediately stepped back away from the mysterious man.
The people in front quickly came back to help, spread out around Yuan Zang and surrounded him.
“Who is it! Who are you!” Nara Shikaku had already made seals with his hands and was ready to strike. He quickly recalled his mind, but could not find any impression of the man in front of him in the Hidden Rain Village.
“The Hidden Rain Village – Salamander Ball Store.” He slowly gave his name.
“Salamander… Enzo.” Nara Shikaku thought hard, but still had no impression. Could he be an unknown person from the Hidden Rain Village? But he was from the Salamander family, and he knew such a strange ninjutsu, so he couldn’t be unknown!
“I clearly memorized the information of all the jonin in the Hidden Rain Village before the war! But why is my mind still blank about the information about this man in front of me?”
Nara Shikaku’s brain began to reason and guess repeatedly, recalling clues. But he would never have thought that Enzo was just an ordinary Chunin a month ago.
“Nara Shikaku, how is it? Do you have any information about the opponent?” Yamanaka Inoichi on the side couldn’t help but ask. As a good friend, he knew that Nara Shikaku had a strong memory, and he must have some intelligence information about the opponent.
“I’m afraid…” Nara Shikaku made a bold guess.
“Everyone, be careful! The intelligence on the other side is completely blank, and he just claimed to be a member of the Salamander family. This guy is very likely the hidden trump card of the Hidden Rain Village. He has been lurking all this time, hiding from the eyes and ears of Konoha’s intelligence personnel until now!”
Nara Shikaku’s analysis made everyone alert.
Chapter 12: First Collision (Old Version)
Upon hearing this, everyone in Konoha looked heavy-hearted.
“Really? Then let me meet him first!” With the natural arrogance of the Uchiha family, Fugaku took the lead and rushed to the first place.
“Amaterasu!”
Uchiha Fugaku did not hold back and released his Mangekyo eye technique at the start, trying to catch the opponent off guard.
Seeing this, Yuanzo raised his hand to block the incoming black flames.
“Good! Success!” Fugaku was delighted. Amaterasu’s flame could never be extinguished. Even he himself could not control it. As long as the black flame touched the opponent, the only outcome would be a painful death in the never-ending burning!
However, looking at the black flame burning on his hand, a large number of tree vines immediately emerged from Yuanzang’s skin, surrounding him layer by layer to block the flame outside his skin.
Such high-quality chakra flames cannot be extinguished by ordinary water-based natural energy. But if there is the blessing of immortal power, it will be completely different.
The water droplets in the air gathered into small water balls, emitting a bright blue light, and gently attached to Yuanzang’s arm. The fierce Amaterasu fire instantly emitted white smoke, and it was easily extinguished by the water balls.
At present, Yuanzo has no intention of killing the enemy. After all, this is his first formal battle with a ninja, and the opponent is a master. Naturally, he wants to see how the ninja fights.
Moreover, for the future of the Hidden Rain Village, he still has to maintain good relations with Konoha and cannot kill them all.
In this battle, Enzo just wanted to show his strength, to show the power of the Hidden Rain Village, and to show that the Hidden Rain Village still had bargaining chips standing at the negotiation table and talking with Konoha Village.
“Eight Trigrams Palm!”
The attacks continued, the Hyuga brothers moved from far to near, wanting to test each other’s close combat ability to see if there were any weaknesses. The soft fists of the two brothers were tightly connected and seamlessly coordinated, and after a set of Baguazhang, they followed up with another set of soft fist combos.
“Soft Fist Technique – Eight Diagrams Sixty-four Palms.”
Hizashi noticed the exposed acupuncture points on Enzo’s body and immediately used the newly learned moves to try to make the final decision.
Hizashi took a stance and was about to attack. At this moment, Enzo unexpectedly did not retreat but advanced, reaching out to block his attack. Before Hizashi could react, a huge twisting force came from his hand, and the bones of his hand were dislocated by the invisible force.
“Ah!” The intense pain made Hizashi kneel on the ground.
Seeing this, Rizu rushed over to rescue.
Is this Hyuga’s Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms?
Enzo fought with the Hyuga brothers with great interest.
Their boxing styles are similar to Enzo’s Tai Chi, but unfortunately Hyuga’s soft boxing only has the yin side and lacks the yang side, and lacks a bit of hardness in softness.
The Hyuga brothers have a lot of Yin-Tun Chakra in their bodies, but not enough Yang-Tun Chakra. Yin alone cannot last long, and close combat without the fierce destructive power, and the vigorous vitality and physical strength brought by Yang-Tun Chakra, will not go far after all.
Taijutsu is ultimately a physical collision, and what is required is pure strength.
In just a few minutes, after only exchanging dozens of moves, Yuan Zang had figured out the tricks of the soft fist. At this moment, he could even anticipate the enemy’s advance and block the soft fist’s attack momentum in advance.
This made Hinata Hiashi secretly frightened.
“Could it be that the Hyuga’s soft fist has been secretly learned by the ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village? And since they don’t have the Byakugan, how could they possibly practice a soft fist that requires familiarity with the meridians of the human body?”
Hiashi repeatedly stared into Enzo’s eyes, but there was clearly no rolling of the eyes!
Just as Rizu was thinking.
Yuanzang caught Ritsu’s punch and then used the Tai Chi technique of using a small force to move a large object. First, a tiny force was transmitted from Ritsu’s fist, and then it was continuously twisted and amplified. By the time it reached Ritsu’s forearm, the brute force had almost dislocated Ritsu’s arm.
The pain made cold sweat run down Rizu’s forehead.
“Shadow imitation technique.” Nara Shikaku, hiding in the dark, quietly released a shadow.
A dark shadow climbed up Yuanzo, causing him to pause.
Rizu seized the opportunity and stepped back more than ten steps, returning to the main force. He did not expect that as the eldest son of the clan, he would encounter such a strong enemy not long after he came out to train. The defeat in the first battle made Rizu, who originally claimed to be a genius, more fearful.
“Hai Yi!”
The two didn’t say much and cooperated well.
“Ninjutsu: Heart Turn Technique!”
Yamanaka Inoichi’s spirit tried to invade Enzo’s body through chakra and take control of his physical body.
“Immobilization techniques and mental invasion?” Yuanzo stood still, not at all panicked by being at a disadvantage.
Mental attacks are all the same in essence. The key point is that the caster’s mental power must be greater than the one being cast, so they are all useless. If the caster’s mental power is not strong enough, it is easy to be backfired.
The young man in front of him should be a master who specializes in spiritual power, but unfortunately he met Yuanzang.
As an ancient great immortal, he had lost most of his physical body, immortal power, and spiritual weapons. The only things that remained intact were his spiritual body and mental power.
At his peak, Enzo is able to fight head-on with the Otsutsuki clan’s bloodline network, so one can imagine his mental strength.
Now, Yamanaka Inoichi’s behavior was a literal attempt to hit a rock with an egg. The two men’s spiritual power was not at the same level in terms of quality or quantity.
As soon as Yamanaka Inoichi’s spirit entered Yuanzo’s body, it was like a small boat passing through a small lake and into the stormy sea. A few small waves put the boat in danger of being destroyed.
Now Yamanaka Inoichi can be said to be the first among these nine people who truly realizes the power of Enzo.
“Ah!!!” Using the weak to attack the strong, the result is self-evident. Suffering from the backlash of the vast mental power, Yamanaka Inoichi’s seven orifices were bleeding, and his brain was buzzing from the vibration of the recoil waves.
“Tsk!” Seeing his friend fail, Nara Shikaku suddenly felt troubled and had a headache.
In a sense, he did guess right. Enzo is now indeed the last hidden trump card of the Hidden Rain Village, and a stronger trump card than Hanzo.
“This guy has almost no weaknesses. His physical skills can suppress the Hyuga’s soft fist, his ninjutsu can resist the Uchiha’s bloodline fire escape, and his strong mental resistance just now made Haiyi lose face. I’m afraid his illusion skills are not weak either.”
“When did such a figure appear in the Hidden Rain Village?” Nara Shikaku combined the current situation in his mind, quickly analyzed and formulated tactics, trying to find a way to restrain the opponent.
At this time, Nara Shikaku glanced at Kushina.
“She may be our last trump card. We can’t use it unless it’s absolutely necessary. Wait!” Nara Shikaku suddenly thought of something, “The first target of the opponent just now was Kushina. Could it be that the opponent has already discovered it?”
“Everyone! Retreat and gather around Kushina!” Nara Shikaku quickly raised this point in a subtle way, informing everyone that the enemy’s main target was Kushina.
The people present were all clear-headed combat geniuses. They immediately understood what Nara Shikaku meant and gathered silently around Kushina, becoming alert.
The battlefield was immediately divided into two camps. On one side was the lonely Yuanzo, and on the other side were the nine talented young men of Konoha.
Although they were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, Enzo overwhelmed everyone with his aura. Every ninja of Konoha looked as if they were facing a formidable enemy and dared not even breathe.
Chapter 13: Sea of ??Trees Spirit Realm (Old Version)
“Secret Technique: The Art of Insect Deception!”
Blue chakra is attached to Aburame Shiwei’s body, releasing a large number of parasitic insects that are like sea water flying all over the sky. The endless parasitic insects seem to devour the enemy’s chakra.
The huge parasitic insect colony can not only devour the enemy, but also block the enemy’s vision. The dense insect curtain covers the sky and the sun, which is very scary just from the visual point of view.
Green runes appeared all over Yuanzo’s body, and lush branches rose from the ground at his feet.
Each branch has an organ with a mouthpart similar to that of a Venus flytrap. Not only that, any parasitic insect that touches the plant will have its chakra absorbed and fall into a state of powerlessness.
The parasites of Aburame Shiwei were perfectly restrained by these plants.
As a great immortal, he is best at using the endless, interconnected, and mutually restraining characteristics of nature. The properties of plants and animals from this world have been explored clearly by the immortal civilization of the past, and there are countless corresponding restraining methods.
As a profession native to this world, Insect Tamer has a long history and a long tradition.
“That’s enough fun, let’s stop the battle here.” After this battle, Yuanzo had a certain understanding of the ninja’s physical skills, ninjutsu, and illusion techniques.
Although ninjas also use the chakra of the Otsutsuki clan, they have a lot more unique understandings in its specific application, and the operation of chakra has been modified to be more suitable for the human physique.
Perhaps because humans generally have less chakra, ninjas rely heavily on hand seals and ninjutsu that consume less chakra, and are unable to squander chakra like the Otsutsuki.
At this time, Yuanzang also made a seal with his hands.
Seeing this, the Hyuga brothers and Uchiha Fugaku, who both had excellent pupil power, were the first to discover it and issued a warning.
“Be careful! The other party has cast a seal!”
“Immortal Technique: Sea of ??Trees Spirit Realm.”
The huge natural energy of Mu Yi began to gather and deform. The surrounding trees were affected by the magic and began to dance strangely. The numerous branches began to dance wildly and twisted like crazy dancers. The dense leaves began to vibrate and the fallen leaves fluttered like butterflies.
The flowers are so dazzling…
“Is this Wood Release Ninjutsu? No, it should be an illusion!” Nara Shikaku looked around, he had never seen this kind of Ninjutsu before.
On the other side, Uchiha Fugaku relied on his Mangekyo Sharingan to calmly analyze the situation.
With his powerful eyes, he can see things that others cannot see: “No! This is both a ninjutsu and an illusion, and there are some other things mixed in it.”
Although Yuanzo can now perform fairy arts, the chakra in his body will still be mixed in when he refines the fairy power, so each of his fairy arts has some chakra fluctuations.
Otherwise, Fugaku’s Sharingan would not be able to see the trajectory of energy movement generated when this fairy technique was activated.
But for Yuan Zang, this is also good. Relying on the confusing effect of chakra, he can make others think that Yuan Zang is using ninjutsu instead of senjutsu, which can play a role in deceiving others.
“Everyone! Be careful of the enemy’s illusions!” Nara Shikaku loudly reminded his teammates.
As soon as he finished speaking, the madly dancing leaves blocked Nara Shikaku’s vision, and everyone disappeared from his sight. In addition, the noisy rustling sound of the leaves blocked the propagation of sound.
“Could it be? Have I been under an illusion?”
At this moment, Nara Shikaku was standing alone in the sea of ??trees.
Yuan Zang stood on a tall tree branch and looked at the scene below. Beside him floated a red-haired girl, who was the Nine-Tails’ Jinchuriki, Uzumaki Kushina, Konoha’s important strategic weapon.
Several people from Konoha are already trapped in the formation and cannot break through in a short period of time.
Next, Enzo will take the Nine-Tails to negotiate with Konoha’s main force. He plans to use the Nine-Tails as a bargaining chip in exchange for Konoha’s proactive ceasefire.
Of course, he could also defeat Konoha’s army by himself and sweep away all enemies, but this was not necessary. Enzo’s enemy was not these humans, but the extraterrestrial predators, the Otsutsuki clan.
Yuanzang’s vision was not limited to these petty matters.
After all, there is no point in just pretending to be awesome and bullying the weak.
At this time, Yuan Zang’s eyes looked at the red-haired girl’s belly…
Kushina’s spiritual world.
A huge nine-tailed fox was tied to a rock with diamond chains. Its powerful and violent chakra was firmly trapped by the thin chains. Even though the Jinchuriki was unconscious, it was still unable to move.
“Who are you?” The Nine-Tailed Fox looked at the mysterious man in front of it with its huge eyes, feeling extremely fearful. It had just watched Yuanzo’s battle and knew his strength.
As a collection of chakra, the Nine-Tails can also accurately sense Enzo’s hidden power.
Not only that, the Nine-Tailed Fox once spent some time with the Sage of Six Paths who mastered the magic, so it knew that Enzo’s level of use of the magic was not inferior to that of the Sage of Six Paths.
Although this mysterious man does not have much natural energy and chakra in his body, their quality is extremely high, and his understanding and use of energy is also top-notch. This is Kyuubi’s evaluation of Enzo.
“Fragment of the Ten-Tails, show me your memories!”
The memories possessed by the long-lived tailed beasts definitely have enormous information value.
As soon as he finished speaking, the three-magatama Sharingan in Enzo’s eyes began to rotate. The speed did not stop, but continued to accelerate, and finally formed a hexagram pattern.
Ever since Enzo refined the immortal power and used it to elevate the life level of his body and replenish the yin and yang power of the five elements, the improvement in his physique allowed the Sharingan to obtain the nutrients of the original force of life, and opening the Mangekyo was a natural thing.
If you want to control the tailed beasts, the best thing to use is the eyes of the Otsutsuki clan, who invented the tailed beasts.
The Otsutsuki’s Bloodline Limit Eye is the controller of the tailed beasts.
Before the Nine-Tailed Fox could react, its huge pupils turned into a hexagram pattern, and its memories were casually flipped through by Enzo.
“Six Paths Sage… Kaguya Otsutsuki… Sacred Tree… Ten-Tails Jinchuriki…” Enzo’s face showed a rare expression of interest. “So that’s how the moon in the sky came about. The Otsutsuki clan’s civil war. Interesting!”
It s such a pleasure to watch enemies fighting each other!
After finishing reading Kyuubi’s memories, Yuanzo immediately exited this space of consciousness.
At this time, the outside world was approaching evening, the sun was setting, and a hazy moon appeared in the sky. Yuanzo, standing on the top of the tree, looked at the moon in the sky, with mixed feelings and a myriad of thoughts in his heart.
There is actually an Otsutsuki of the bloodline level sealed in this huge celestial body.
Who among the human beings would know that the seemingly beautiful moon is actually full of dangers, and if one is not careful, a high-dimensional killer god will emerge from it and bring disaster to the whole world.
With a whoosh sound, it broke through the wind.
A kunai with a unique shape appeared behind Yuanzo’s head, about to pierce the defenseless back of the head.
Yuanzo bent his head casually and avoided the fatal blow.
The next second, a blond boy hugged the unconscious Kushina and disappeared in a flash.
“Space-time ninjutsu, with such weak chakra of humans, it can be achieved to this extent, the potential of humans is really unlimited!” Yuanzo said in surprise.
Looking at the yellow-haired boy who had intercepted him halfway, Yuan Zang was not annoyed by the sneak attack, but instead felt that the young were formidable. As expected, there is no shortage of geniuses in any era!
The magic that involves space not only requires a huge amount of energy, but also depends on the user’s spatial compatibility. People who lack time and space sensitivity often need to pay a huge energy consumption ratio to forcibly travel through space.
On the contrary, some geniuses can do it with just a small amount of energy.
Unfortunately, Yuan Zang is one of those people who needs a lot of energy to travel through space. He is also a genius, but his talent is mainly focused on the development of the five elements and various miscellaneous attributes of immortal power.
He is one of the few geniuses who, in addition to developing the unique Liang Yi Sage Mode, can also begin to practice the extremely difficult Kendo Sage Mode.
It can be said that Yuanzang’s talent lies mainly in the control and integration of various energies, but his sensitivity to time and space is a little lacking.
Chapter 14: Rock Colossus (Old Version)
Afterwards, Minato forced Flying Thunder God to take Kushina on a long-distance space jump. He knew that he could not defeat the enemy by his own strength, so he had to retreat temporarily, try to keep a distance, and look for reinforcements.
Minato’s sneak attack just now could be said to have been perfectly timed, and the opponent was able to dodge such a sneak attack.
After just this one confrontation, Minato Namikaze immediately realized that the enemy was incredibly strong!
Holding Kushina in his arms, Minato looked behind him guiltily. When he found that the other party did not chase him, he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. However, he was happy too early.
“You stole my prey.” Yuan Zang’s ghostly voice came from the underground behind Minato.
This sudden sound frightened Minato so much that his pupils shrank slightly. He turned around and stabbed the kunai behind him almost subconsciously.
bite!
The kunai seemed to have pierced a rock, and the subsequent recoil made Minato’s arm numb. He had used all his strength just now, but he actually had such a terrifying defense!
Yuan Zang emerged from the ground, his body emitting a yellowish fluorescent light. Rock-like textures appeared on the skin that Minato had just stabbed.
Rock and Soil Sage Mode. As strong as rock, yet as soft as soil, Enzo can move silently and at high speed underground with this Sage Mode.
Although Minato’s Flying Thunder God can appear and disappear at will, the distance it moves is still too short for Enzo to escape his sensing range. Enzo can still easily catch Minato.
“Kushina is not yours!” Minato hugged Kushina and distanced himself from Enzo.
At this time, Minato was holding the unconscious Kushina in one hand and holding a kunai between the two of them with the other hand. Even when facing a strong enemy, his eyes remained firm and fearless.
“I will protect Kushina and won’t let a suspicious person like you take her away!”
“Hehehe, it was obviously you, Konoha, who invaded the Hidden Rain Village, and now you are still acting so righteously?”
Enzo stood with his hands behind his back, looking relaxed. He looked at Minato with interest and observed this talented boy with his physiognomy.
What a pity…
Enzo shook his head, even though he was a genius, Minato’s lifeline was so short.
This was already too short. Although Enzo knew a little about physiognomy, Minato’s fate was a typical one of God’s envy of talent, which was too obvious. He deduced it with just a quick glance.
God is jealous of talented people, and the secrets of heaven are unpredictable.
However, Enzo did not underestimate Minato because such a fate of divine jealousy must be accompanied by great cause and effect, which means that Minato’s future will be intertwined with world-class events.
Even if he is not Minato Namikaze, he will be Minato’s descendant and have the ability to profoundly influence the world.
“You teleported here not just to escape mindlessly, right?” Yuanzo spoke slowly. He sensed that a large number of ninjas were approaching from a distance.
Obviously, Minato Namikaze used space-time ninjutsu to teleport to the vicinity of his own force in order to seek assistance.
As the two were talking, a slight cold sweat appeared on Minato’s forehead, and he tightly grasped the kunai in his hand.
What comes next is the key, Minato knows that he must try to hold back the powerful enemy before his companions arrive. Otherwise, as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Kushina will definitely be snatched away by the opponent and used as a bargaining chip to threaten Konoha.
However, unlike Minato, Enzo still looked calm because he didn’t care.
In the face of absolute power, any conspiracy or trick is powerless. Strength can defeat skill.
As a former great perfect immortal, Yuanzang has no weaknesses. Unless you can surpass him in hard power, it is impossible to find his weakness and defeat him in a tricky way.
“Haha, alright! I was originally planning to show off the strength of the Hidden Rain Village. Now that more people can witness it, it’s even better!”
While Enzo was deliberately acting, he watched Minato holding the red-haired girl tightly in his arms. As an experienced man, he saw through the romantic relationship between the boy and girl at a glance.
Through the Nine-Tails’ memory, he knew that the number of Otsutsuki hiding in the Ninja Realm could not exceed single digits, and might even be zero, and this number could not threaten Enzo. This also made Enzo less tense than when he was just resurrected, and more relaxed.
Moreover, with the spiritual weapon Tai Chi Yin Yang Diagram in his hand, Enzo has a certain ability to protect himself even when facing a large number of Otsutsuki. This strength is the fundamental guarantee for him to survive until now as the only immortal.
It would take some time for the enemy’s reinforcements to arrive, so Yuanzang took a rare opportunity to gossip and relax after days of busy running.
“Young man, do you like this girl?”
Minato remained silent. He just thought that Yuanzo was using psychological harassment tactics to try to shake his mind and reveal his flaws.
The two of them stared at each other in silence for a long time, and it was even a little awkward…
“Minato!! Are you okay?”
In the distance, Jiraiya’s loud voice was heard, followed by Orochimaru, Tsunade, and a large number of Konoha ninjas.
“Teacher Jiraiya!” Seeing his teacher arriving, Minato’s face showed a hint of joy. His tense and alert nerves could finally relax a little.
Seeing that the time had come, Enzo shouted to attract everyone’s attention: “Great, the audience is here!”
This sound attracted the attention of Jiraiya and others, and they all looked at Yuanzo’s actions with confusion.
At this time, Yuan Zang’s hands quickly formed a complex seal. Next, it was time for him to fulfill his promise with the original owner. As long as he completed this battle, he guaranteed that no one would dare to invade the Hidden Rain Village for the next few decades. This would be a display of absolute strength.
The agreement between Yuan Zang and the original owner was a spiritual level of consciousness communication, which was very effective. Therefore, the next high-profile battle was necessary, even though it was not in line with Yuan Zang’s usual style.
Minato stared at the seals in Enzo’s hands, he had never seen this kind of seal before, it seemed like it did not belong to the system of ninjutsu. Moreover, this was the first time he saw Enzo make such a complicated seal, the power could be imagined.
This made Minato Namikaze’s nerves, which had just relaxed slightly, tense up again!
“Immortal Art – Rock and Earth Colossus!”
As soon as Yuanzang finished speaking, a huge vibration came from the ground, as if some prehistoric giant beast broke out from the ground, and the roar of the earth was like the roar of a giant beast!
A huge gray-black rock arm stretched out from the ground. The thick arm alone was dozens of meters long, and the hard rock covering the surface declared that this thing was absolutely thick-skinned and extremely hard!
Roar one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one!
Accompanied by a roar that resounded through the sky!
A rock and earth giant over 150 meters tall emerged from the ground, raising dust and shaking the earth with every move! The earth rolled and wailed under the giant’s rampage!
Rolling rocks and endless yellow dust poured down from the surface of the brown rock.
Flying sand and rocks covered the sky and the sun!
The earth is shaking wildly…
Such a bizarre scene stunned all the Konoha ninjas present. They all stood still and dared not move forward.
“This…what kind of spiritual beast is this? Its power is too terrifying.”
After completing the spiritual ceremony, Enzo glanced at Minato indifferently, as if he was an insignificant person, and ignored him and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Then, Enzo turned around and flew to the top of the rock and earth giant, standing on the high ground with his arms folded across his chest, looking down on the world.
Yuanzo wants to tell these Konoha ninjas that the Hidden Rain Village possesses absolute military power!
“Everyone, cheer up and don’t be intimidated by the opponent’s size!” Jiraiya bit his finger. In the current situation, he could only try to summon the giant toad from Mount Myoboku.
Although he still doesn’t have a very good relationship with Gamabunta and they still can’t fight side by side, the current situation does not allow him to hesitate.
After a burst of white smoke, a giant toad over 30 meters long appeared out of thin air.
Gamabunta, a summoning beast from Myoboku Mountain.
“Hmm? This summoning beast actually has natural energy?” The moment Gamabunta appeared, Yuanzo immediately discovered that it had traces of training in fairy arts, which aroused Yuanzo’s curiosity.
But no matter how curious he is, Yuanzo’s attack will not stop.
Boom! The fist of the rock and soil giant smashed down like a mountain. Although Gamabunta looked huge, he was quite maneuverable. With a light leap of his two long legs, he flew several hundred meters.
A moment later, the fist of the rock giant hit the ground in vain, causing another small earthquake, stirring up dust and shaking the ground…
Chapter 15: The Immortal of Mount Myoboku (Old Version)
“Damn Jiraiya, you little brat! How come I have to face such a big guy right after I summoned me?” Gamabunta dodged the attack of the rock and earth colossus in a panic, cursing the culprit all the time.
In front of so many Konoha Village ninjas, Jiraiya felt humiliated. He even regretted not asking this dead toad to come out.
“Be careful! Gamabunta! The other party is not a good person!” Jiraiya quickly interrupted Gamabunta’s shouting to prevent him from making it too embarrassing.
“Do I need you to tell me this? I can see it at a glance!” Looking at the towering giant opposite, Gamabunta had to raise his head high to see the full appearance of the Bare Titan.
The size of the Rock and Earth Colossus alone gave Gamabunta a huge sense of oppression. Although Gamabunta was also huge, compared to his opponent, he was only as high as the Colossus’ knees. The two were not heavyweights at all.
“Please hold the opponent back, we will find a chance to attack!” Jiraiya jumped onto Gamabunta’s head, and the Konoha ninjas on the side also dispersed, looking for opportunities to attack.
Using his powerful jumping ability, Gamabunta dodged the giant’s fist in one quick step, then seized the opportunity, drew the sword at his waist and performed a clean Iai Slash.
With a ding, the long sword slashed the skin of the rock and earth colossus, only a few sparks flew…
“Damn it! Jiraiya, there’s no way I can fight this!” Gamabunta looked at his broken sword with great pain, and his hands were numb from the reaction force.
“In that case, Bunta, use the Toad Oil Fire Bomb!” Jiraiya couldn’t come up with a good idea for the moment, so he could only attack randomly to attract the opponent’s attention.
Enzo, standing on the rock giant, was quietly watching the Konoha ninjas below him, biting the soles of the giant’s feet like ants. At this moment, in Enzo’s eyes, their attacks were so insignificant.
“It seems that the advance team just now is already Konoha’s elite troops. The current large army is mostly made up of miscellaneous soldiers. Since they are just miscellaneous soldiers, the Konoha Village leaders will not care if a few of them die.” Yuanzo pondered to himself.
Yuan Zang wisely let go of the group of Konoha’s young genius elites. He planned to only kill a certain number of ordinary ninjas as a deterrent, rather than killing them all. After all, it is easy to get thousands of soldiers, but it is difficult to get a general.
Presumably, for the Konoha high-level officials, the value of the young genius must be much greater than these ordinary ninjas. The loss of the former must be painful, but the latter is relatively more lenient in accepting it.
This was the experience that Yuanzang gained based on his time. After all, no matter how much time has passed, human nature remains the same, and rational people in power must understand the importance of top combat power in this chaotic era.
“Almost, it’s time to end it! Immortal Art – Sky Collapse and Earth Fracture!” Yuanzang urged the giant rock and earth statue under his feet, controlling the surrounding natural earth energy and flowing into the statue’s body.
As if it had taken stimulants, red light appeared in the eyes of the colossus, and it roared to the sky again!
Legs as strong as mountains broke through the soft ground, and the huge body was incredibly high above the ground, nearly a hundred meters. The solid ground sank and broke under the force of the legs, making bursts of wailing.
The Konoha ninjas were first deafened and dizzy by the roar of the giant, and then they watched woodenly as the huge figure jumped up. The afterglow of the setting sun was obscured by the huge leaping body, and the shadow enveloped the Konoha ninjas, as if the end of the world had come.
Boom! …
The shock wave spread rapidly from the bottom of the fallen colossus’ feet, its power sweeping away everything in its path and unstoppable!
Before human ears could recover from the last roar, it was drowned out by the even more violent roar this time, the sound waves, shock waves, scattered rubble, flying dust, and broken earth.
In this scene that was like a natural disaster, humans were so insignificant, even with the power called ninjutsu. Their shattered flesh and bloody corpses were swallowed up by the huge mouth of the cracked earth, without even a ripple.
Looking down from the sky, the thick earth opened up huge mouths of the abyss, ruthlessly devouring the lives of the ninjas…
After a gust of wind.
Under the cover of endless yellow sand, Yuan Zang had disappeared above the rock giant. The Konoha Army could no longer stir up any waves. Now, he was only interested in the toad that knew the magic just now, and his eyes were always focused on the toad’s movements.
At this time, Jiraiya had exhausted all his chakra in order to avoid this devastating blow. The summoned Gamabunta also lost the support of chakra and turned into a puff of white smoke and went back.
At the moment when the summoning technique connected to Gamabunta’s original space, Enzo activated the immortal technique – A World Away, and teleported to the same spatial coordinate point together with Gamabunta.
Myoboku Mountain is a paradise on earth with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and is surrounded by abundant and rich natural energy. It is the habitat of the Ninja Beast Toads.
After a burst of white smoke, Gamabunta and Enzo returned and stared at each other, staring at each other…
“You guy! How did you follow me here?” Gamabunta looked at the man in front of him in disbelief. Myoboku Mountain is not a place that humans can easily find.
“Senjutsu – bind your hands one by one.” Yuanzang slapped the ground, and a huge arm broke out of the ground. Before Gamabunta could react, he accurately pressed it heavily under his body.
“Damn it! Damn it! Little human! This is not the place for you to act wild! Let me go!” The humiliation of being suppressed by the giant hand made Gamabunta unable to help but curse again.
Originally, Gamabunta was sleeping in that day, but he was summoned by Jiraiya for unknown reasons and had to do the job of a free thug. However, after being teased by the other party, he finally returned home, but he didn’t expect that the other party would come to his door and beat him up.
And now he was being humiliated and pressed to the ground again. Gamabunta was already furious. He greeted Jiraiya and the entire family of the man in front of him.
Ignoring the toad, Yuanzang jumped high into the air and flew to the top of a steep peak. His huge perception spread out in all directions, and soon his eyes locked onto an old toad.
“I didn’t expect that it actually has some magical power.” Without a doubt, Yuanzang concluded that this old toad hidden above the temple should be the master of this paradise.
A toad with immortal power is equivalent to an immortal, and its lifespan alone is more than a thousand years. And this toad is so old, I’m afraid it is at least a thousand years old.
A thousand-year-old toad spirit.
Yuanzang did not dare to be too careless about such an existence. He had already summoned the Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram in his hand, shrunk it and placed it in the palm of his hand, intending to hide in it and run away if he saw that the situation was not right.
At this moment, the color of the faint light on Yuanzang’s body changed, and a small yin-yang fish pattern appeared on his forehead. His whole body was filled with a mysterious aura. Just in case, he activated the strongest Yin-Yang Sage Mode.
With a casual leap, he crossed several hundred meters and arrived in front of the Toad Immortal’s temple. In order to show his intention, Yuanzang did not continue to act rashly, but chose to walk into the temple step by step to show due respect.
As he entered the hall, a huge toad appeared in Yuanzang’s sight. Its orange body was located on a green water basin that was dedicated to it, with a big word “Xian” written in the middle.
After years of passing, the old toad’s body is left with traces of wrinkles, and dark yellow age spots are sparsely dotted all over the body. It looks like it is already very old.
The old toad has a pair of yellow eyes, a string of Buddhist beads around his neck, with a lavender cat’s eye in the middle with the word “oil” written on it, and a doctoral hat on his head.
When he saw Yuanzo coming in, a kind smile appeared on his face.
“Welcome to Myoboku Mountain! An old human from the previous era…”
Chapter 16: Past History (Old Version)
“Are you also an immortal left over from the last era?” When Yuanzang heard the greeting from the Big Toad Immortal, his face became serious, which was unusual for him. He didn’t expect that there was an immortal like himself.
“No, I can’t live that long. That era is too far away from us…” The Big Toad Immortal shook his head slowly.
As he spoke, the Great Toad Immortal began to tell his own story.
“That was when I was still a little toad. I traveled around and went to the Wind Kingdom in the human world. There was a place called Loulan, where I met an ancient immortal like you. At that time, I had already mastered a little bit of natural energy…”
The big toad paused, his brain was a little stuck, and he recalled for a long time.
“It seems that in a place called Dragon Vein, I met a teacher who taught me. He told me that he was an immortal who survived from ancient times. In order to protect this world, he fought a great battle with the enemies in the sky. In the end, only a few remnants of his soul were left to survive in the world…”
“In order to prevent the inheritance of immortal civilization from being cut off, the senior taught me how to refine immortal power. Unfortunately, the senior is a special kind of dragon with a special way of cultivation, so he couldn’t teach me too much knowledge of cultivation. He simply guided me a few times before he fell into a deep sleep due to the decline of his soul…”
“I see. No wonder even after living for a thousand years, your spiritual power is still so scarce.” A question in Yuanzang’s mind was answered.
“There are places like our Myoboku Mountain, such as the Ryuchi Cave and the Wet Bone Forest. Like us, they have all inherited bits and pieces of the ancient immortals. After countless years of independent exploration and practice, we have all developed our own cultivation systems. Of course, these shallow things cannot be compared with you ancient immortals.”
As he said this, the Great Toad Immortal looked at Yuanzang with admiration.
Yuan Zang shook his head and said, “You are exaggerating! We are no different from you. Our knowledge and strength are obtained after a longer period of exploration and practice than yours. It is not that we are better or smarter, but our numbers and history are much greater than yours. If you can continue to develop, you will reach the same level as us sooner or later.”
Yuanzang did not despise Myoboku Mountain’s current crude system of cultivating immortal arts. Instead, he admired their spirit of independent exploration.
In the cultivation of immortal arts, inheritance is of course extremely important. But having a determination not to be bound by the past and constantly breaking the shackles is even more important. If you don’t make progress, you will never make progress.
As long as we stand on the shoulders of countless predecessors and continue to innovate and work hard, even if the road is long, we will succeed one day.
The Myoboku Mountain toads only received sporadic inheritance from the ancient immortals, and they have reached the current level, which is already very good. In ancient times, there were very few people who could cultivate immortal power, not to mention animals whose Zhoutian meridians are not as numerous and complete as humans.
The knowledge of animal cultivation systems was extremely rare even in ancient times. Animals that could be promoted to the immortal level were one in a million in talent and ability.
“So… as someone standing between two eras, you must be very familiar with the history of the current ninja world. Do you know Otsutsuki?” Enzo asked tentatively.
“My senior once told me that the ancient Otsutsuki suffered heavy losses after the war and disappeared into the starry sky for a long time. During the time when it was dying, no new Otsutsuki appeared for a long time. It’s been so long that perhaps the Otsutsuki clan has forgotten this place…”
“It seems that a lot of time has passed. I am just a relic of the old times, hehe.” Yuanzo laughed self-deprecatingly.
“But…” the Toad Immortal spoke slowly again.
“When I left the land of dragon veins and set out on my journey around the world again, a new Otsutsuki descended from the sky. I was very frightened at that time, and I still remember that feeling. At that time, I looked around, and those legendary powerful immortals had long disappeared, leaving only me, a kid who only knew simple immortal arts…”
“The enemies in the sky are monsters that can destroy the world. Without the protection of powerful immortals like my teacher, this world can only be protected by a weak little toad like me. At that time, I had no idea what to do…”
At this point, Enzo and the Great Toad Sage fell into deep silence. Enzo understood its thoughts and feelings very well, as Enzo of the Otsutsuki clan was already well aware of its power.
“However, according to my observation at that time, these newly arrived Otsutsuki seemed to know very little about the existence of sages, which made things take a turn for the better…” The Great Toad Sage spoke slowly again.
The Great Toad Sage gave his own speculation: “Perhaps they thought that the sages of this world had long been extinct, so the two Otsutsuki clan members who came here did not search this world carefully, but instead focused on planting the sacred tree.”
Yuan Zang asked the most concerned question. His only threat at present is the Otsutsuki: “Sure enough, the Otsutsuki clan came here again. So, are there still Otsutsuki in the ninja world now?”
In response, the Great Toad Immortal just shook his head.
“The first Otsutsuki Kaguya who came has been sealed. The superior Otsutsuki Isshiki was killed by Kaguya’s sneak attack. They killed each other for the fruit of the sacred tree. Kaguya, who ate the fruit of the sacred tree, also gave birth to two children. The two second-generation Otsutsuki bloodlines, Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura, also died of their lifespans.”
Afterwards, the Great Toad Sage told Enzo the entire story of Kaguya Otsutsuki and her offspring…
After a while.
After hearing the whole story, Enzo sighed, “So that’s how it is. Humans today have indeed been transformed by the sacred tree. Some humans even have the blood of the Otsutsuki clan flowing in their veins. The first Hokage of Konoha was a powerful Otsutsuki hybrid.”
He felt the chakra flowing in his body. The source of all this came from the Otsutsuki woman on the moon.
Then, Yuan Zang couldn’t help but say: “One day, I want to go to the moon to take a look. After such a long time, I want to collect information about the current situation of the Otsutsuki clan again.”
The sealed Kaguya Otsutsuki would be a good source of information. With her, Enzo could understand the current sphere of influence and technical level of the Otsutsuki clan.
To this end, even if he had to use the method of soul-binding and soul-searching, he had to get some information. Yuan Zang would not be merciful in this regard.
“Then there should be no conflict between us. In a sense, we are in the same camp, right?” Yuanzang took the initiative to cancel the Liangyi Sage Mode, and his eyes looked at the Great Toad Sage.
Yuan Zang plans to join forces with the Great Toad Sage: “Although there is no threat from the Otsutsuki clan now, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not send new troops in the future. We need to be fully prepared and not let the disaster happen again.”
Yuanzang threw out a scroll that contained some experiences in cultivating spiritual beasts that he had collected previously.
“This scroll is just a gift. Next, I want to go to the place called Dragon Vein to have a look.”
The Great Toad Immortal showed a rare trace of surprise on his aging face. He had not expected that the Immortal in front of him would be so generous in imparting the secrets of cultivation. However, it is possible that these ancient Immortals simply looked down upon such shallow cultivation knowledge.
“Don’t be so surprised.” Yuanzo smiled.
“The meaning of knowledge lies in sharing and spreading. Only by bringing together everyone’s inspiration and ideas and making progress together can the entire civilization move forward. In the past, we held our own unique methods tightly in our hands, fearing that others would steal them, but what happened?”
At this time, Yuanzang was full of thoughts. During the conversation, he recalled his brothers and sisters who had once been close to him, and the brilliant and brilliant world of immortals with many stars.
“Faced with the powerful enemy from the sky, we each kept our secrets to ourselves and distrusted each other. No one was willing to be the first to stand up and share their knowledge and strength. In the end, those secret manuals that were not passed on to others were destroyed in one war after another. So many powerful and mysterious immortal arts and magic disappeared in the long river of time and could no longer amaze the world…”
Enzo also told part of his own story.
“In the end, we who were left finally woke up and combined all the power and knowledge of the immortal civilization to end this catastrophe. But the price was too high. If we had abandoned our differences and selfishness earlier, perhaps we wouldn’t have ended up like this.”
Hearing this, the Great Toad Immortal was shocked by this ancient epic story. Just by imagining it, it could know how magnificent and tragic that ancient war was.
“It seems that I am too shallow. We who have mastered immortal arts have always had a sense of superiority over humans. We have hidden these secret cultivation methods deep in Myoboku Mountain and are unwilling to share them. We may repeat the same mistakes in the future!”
The Great Toad Sage looked at Yuanzang with emotion, and there was even a hint of shame on his face.
“My name is Gamamaru. My predecessor entrusted this world to me, and I cannot let it down. But I am getting old, and I am becoming less and less capable. This ancient human, the future of this world is in your hands.”
“I’m not that great. It’s just that our destinies are bound to this world. In order to survive, it’s not a question of willingness.” Yuanzo got all the answers he wanted and turned to leave.
“Finally, I want to say one more thing.” The Toad Immortal hesitated for a while, but decided to speak.
“Not all the Otsutsuki clan in this world are bad people. Otsutsuki Hagoromo is my brother. He was once a hero who saved this world, and his son Ashura inherited his father’s legacy. Maybe you hate the Otsutsuki who destroyed the immortal world, but don’t let this implicate the kind Otsutsuki descendants.”
Yuan Zang smiled but did not give a direct answer: “It’s not about your so-called origin and bloodline, but about your thoughts and will. After all, you are a toad spirit who has lived for a thousand years. You have a good ideological awareness!”
Yuanzang teased Gamamaru casually, then turned and left the palace.
Chapter 17 Return to the Battlefield (Old Version)
Yuan Zang walked out of the temple and came to the original mark. He saw Gamabunta being pressed to the ground by the giant hand and struggling. The way his limbs were flailing and his chubby body looked quite funny.
With a wave of his hand, the giant hand made of mud instantly turned into a pool of sand.
“Damn human! What do you want to do? Don’t underestimate me!”
Gamabunta, who had just gained freedom, immediately put his hand on the sword at his waist. In the distance, two equally huge toads were hopping towards him. They were Gamabunta’s brothers, Gamaken and Gamahiro.
“I’m very sorry for what happened just now, but I have to leave now and can’t stay to play with you. For the rest, you can go and ask the Great Toad Immortal. I’m not your enemy.”
After saying that, without any hesitation, Yuan Zang used his magic and teleported back according to the previous spatial coordinates. After a while, only three big toads were left standing there, staring at each other, not knowing what to do.
“Brother, what should we do?”
“Tsk! Let’s go! Go back and ask the Great Toad Immortal for clarification!”
The leader, Gamabunta, led his two brothers and angrily jumped towards the palace…
The ninja world was in a mess on the previous battlefield.
The Konoha ninja suffered heavy losses.
After experiencing the baptism of the horrific earthquake, a large number of ninjas disappeared among the cracks in the ground, the rocks, and the yellow sand. Only 30% to 40% of the bodies left on the surface were barely visible, and the number of surviving ninjas was even rarer. The survivors who had recovered their breath shook off the mud and sand on their heads and struggled to get up to search for their companions.
“Is this hell? Where am I…”
A wounded man who was knocked over hundreds of times by the shock wave and suffered a concussion was still confused. He walked like a zombie, at a loss. He didn’t pay attention to the crack under his feet, and accidentally stepped on the air and fell down without a sound…
Not far away, the rock and earth giant had stopped moving after losing Yuanzang’s control.
Because of the high leap and heavy fall just now, the rock and earth giant’s calf was broken, and half of its body sank into the ground. Only the upper body remained motionless in place, waiting for Yuanzo’s next instruction.
But even so, no Konoha ninja dared to approach. Those who still had the ability to move just stood far away, watching the giant’s every move from the outside.
Sometimes, some dust would slide off the rock giant, making a little noise. Even so, it would immediately cause panic among the Konoha ninjas, and many of them would start to scream and flee desperately, like frightened birds.
“They are in such a mess, just like a group of frightened mice. How pathetic.” Orochimaru stood on a small mound, taking in the overall situation. Looking at the chaotic and noisy crowd below, he shook his head slightly.
Gazing into the distance at the rock colossus, Orochimaru showed no fear. Instead, he licked the corner of his mouth with his long tongue. His eyes were full of greed for the rock colossus. He longed for this powerful force.
“What kind of ninjutsu is this? I’ve never heard of it! How interesting! There is such a powerful ninjutsu in the world!” Orochimaru’s eyes were full of fanaticism. He has always been obsessed with powerful forbidden ninjutsu.
“Orochimaru, what are you still doing standing there? Come down and help! Go and search for survivors!”
Jiraiya at the foot of the hillside called out to Orochimaru. Tsunade, who was standing by, was using medical ninjutsu to treat the wounded one by one, while Jiraiya was responsible for carrying the wounded who were still breathing and moving the dead bodies out of the temporary medical base.
“Our biggest threat has not been eliminated yet. I have to continue to be on guard against that giant.” Orochimaru did not look back. He still stared at the rock colossus.
“You guys are trying to be lazy, right? Get down here now!” Jiraiya waved his fist in dissatisfaction.
Tsunade was nervously performing the operation. Annoyed by the shouting, she said tenderly, “Stop making noise, Jiraiya! I need quiet now! What Orochimaru said does make sense. Let him be for now!”
At this time, Minato Namikaze, who had recovered some of his strength, and Kushina Uzumaki, who had awakened, came over, “Master Jiraiya, let’s help too!”
These two people are the same type of people as Jiraiya.
Jiraiya was very pleased with his apprentice: “Great! You are worthy of being my apprentice. Come and help me!”
After a period of confusion.
The surviving ninjas gathered in groups of three or four at the base of Jiraiya and others. Minato and Kushina searched for the wounded while directing the scattered ninjas around to go to the gathering point.
“Minato, I roughly counted the number of people, and less than 20% survived. It’s too tragic.” Kushina on the side looked at the scene with a sad face.
Minato, who was standing nearby, also had a gloomy expression and remained silent for a long time.
At this moment, the attentive Kushina suddenly remembered something and asked hurriedly, “By the way, what about Aburame Shiwei and the others?”
Minato shook his head and said:
“Right now I don’t have any extra chakra to use to perform the long-range Flying Thunder God Technique. If I rush over now, it will take a lot of time, and we may not be able to make it. The most urgent task now is to search and rescue the survivors. Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Choza and others are excellent ninjas. They are just trapped in an illusion, so their lives should not be in danger. We can only trust them for now.”
Kushina could only remain silent, as she had no good way to have the best of both worlds.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
In the distance, the rock and earth giant with half of its body buried in the ground let out a low roar, as if it had woken up again.
“Oh no! That monster has resurrected! Run!”
Just a low roar was enough to make the Konoha ninjas panic and their morale was in chaos.
Jiraiya and the others hurried over to join Minato and Kushina.
“Kushina, right now the only way to save everyone is to use the power of the Nine-Tails!” Orochimaru glanced at Kushina and gave a cold suggestion.
Minato Namikaze on the side looked hesitant. He obviously didn’t want Kushina to transform into the Nine-Tails, but he didn’t have enough power to protect everyone. Helplessly, he looked at his teacher Jiraiya.
Jiraiya was now helpless. He did not agree with Orochimaru’s proposal, but he could not think of a better solution.
“Orochimaru’s judgment is correct, Kushina! Now only you can save everyone!” Tsunade weighed the pros and cons and came to this decision.
Kushina gritted her teeth and had a mental struggle in her heart. She hated the Nine-Tails, and she hated its violent and uncontrolled power even more. If she could, she would never want to use the power of the Nine-Tails in her life, but now she had to use it to save everyone.
“The power of the tailed beast?” A faint male voice came from the air.
Everyone looked up in a hurry, but none of them noticed how the other party appeared.
Yuanzang Fengxu rode the wind, standing tall and motionless in the sky, with the Amegakure shawl of the Rain Village behind him fluttering in the wind.
Looking at the Konoha people below who had weapons out and looked alert, Yuanzo felt powerful chakra from them. One of them even had traces of fairy arts training from Myoboku Mountain. This group of people should be Konoha’s high-level combat force.
“Everyone in Konoha, don’t worry, I’m here for peace this time, don’t be nervous!”
“Peace!? Stop joking. You killed so many of our companions and now you say you are here for peace. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous?” Jiraiya was so angry that he asked back directly.
“certainly!”
Yuanzang replied without question, “This killing is to end the war, not to start a war. Because our Rain Village has demonstrated our great strength, and you have no ability to resist, so you, the Leaf Village, have no choice but to negotiate terms with us, sign a contract, and then end the war!”
“What did you say! What kind of nonsense is this! We will not accept your nonsense! Don’t underestimate us!” Kushina on the side was so angry that she couldn’t help but retort.
“No!” Orochimaru stretched out his hand to stop the impulsive Jiraiya and Kushina. His pair of cold vertical pupils looked at Yuanzo and licked the corner of his mouth with his snake tongue playfully: “The idea proposed by this lord is completely in line with the current situation. His proposal is very reasonable and we should accept it!”
Neither Minato nor Tsunade said anything, but they both agreed with Orochimaru’s idea. They did not have the power to match Enzo, and had no choice but to accept the other party’s proposal.
Now the voting intention of Konoha is three to two, and Orochimaru’s will is finally recognized.
Chapter 18: Peace by Force (Old Version)
“Then how should we address you, sir, and what is your treaty?” In order to obtain possible potential information from this mysterious man, Orochimaru first needed to know his name.
But what Orochimaru really wants is still Enzo’s powerful earth-style ninjutsu.
At this moment, the hearts of the five people on the Konoha side tightened, and they prepared to listen carefully to Yuanzo’s treaty.
They knew that the current situation was not favorable to Konoha, and the next treaty would inevitably favor the Hidden Rain Village, and they might even have to cede land and pay compensation, so they had to make a final effort to try their best to safeguard Konoha’s interests.
Seeing this, Yuan Zang reiterated his purpose and slowly said, “My name is Sanshoyu Yuan Zang. As I said just now, I only come for peace.”
Then, Yuan Zang showed a kind smile, “Haha! All I want is the simplest peace. Our armies will return to their respective territories, and we will not hold grudges for the past. This is my proposal.”
The people in Konoha were stunned. Is that it?
Seeing their disbelieving expressions, Yuan Zang continued, “When will the cycle of revenge end? Hatred will continue to accumulate and deepen, spreading from generation to generation. The best way to end hatred is for both sides to make an equal break with the past right now. This is my wish, and I have no other intentions.”
“So what is your answer? Do you want to continue the hatred and revenge, or stop here?”
Yuanzo’s strategy of using force first and courtesy later left the people of Konoha Village with no choice. They couldn’t defeat the other party in a fight, and they couldn’t convince the other party with reason, so they could only choose to agree.
“We accept your proposal. But the final reply can only be confirmed after we report to Lord Hokage. Before that, all the ninjas of our Konoha will evacuate from the Rain Country, leaving no one behind!” Tsunade gave the final answer.
“Very good, then goodbye everyone!” Yuanzang got the answer and was about to leave.
“Wait! Lord Enzo, I would like to ask what happened to my previous companions. They should still be trapped in your illusion. What do you plan to do with them?” When Minato saw Enzo leaving, he asked anxiously about his companions.
“Their lives are safe, they are just trapped there. My illusion should have been lifted by now, and they will be here soon.”
Minato breathed a sigh of relief, then bowed solemnly to Enzo to express his gratitude.
After a brief contact, Minato, who was good at capturing people’s hearts, realized that Enzo was not a cruel and bloodthirsty evil man. Although his hands were stained with the blood of his Konoha companions, his actions were logical and he did not kill innocent people indiscriminately.
Simply put, it is to stop war with war and to forcibly achieve peace through violent means. Although the means are cruel, they are indeed effective.
Yuanzang looked at the young man who was involved in a great cause and effect, and felt a little sorry for him. His talent and ability were both top-notch, and if he grew up, he would surely become a big figure, but it was a pity that his fate was too short.
Although Yuanzang also has powerful magic that can change the fate line, the price is too high. It is not worth it for such a chance acquaintance.
A gust of yellow sand drifted by, and Yuan Zang in mid-air disappeared in the dust.
Orochimaru looked at the disappearing figure, his thoughts running wild.
“Just now, he said his name is Salamander Yuanzang. When did such a powerful person emerge from the Salamander family, and our intelligence has no clues at all.”
Orochimaru couldn’t help but begin to doubt Enzo’s real name.
“Well! I thought that Salamander Hanzo was invincible, but I didn’t expect that a more terrifying Enzo would appear. The hidden power of the Hidden Rain Village is deeper than we believed!” Tsunade couldn’t help but sigh.
“Is it because Enzo is twice as strong as Hanzo that he is stronger?” Jiraiya on the side complained to himself.
“Then we have Danzo here! He is not that strong!” Tsunade always likes to refute Jiraiya’s words. It’s a habit she has had since she was a child.
The other side.
The Hidden Rain Village, far away from the battlefield.
It’s a rare sunny day after the continuous rain.
The village was always shrouded in heavy gray clouds. The drizzling rain stopped at this moment, and a few rays of sunlight shone through the gaps in the clouds.
“Yahiko, Nagato, come out and see! The rain has stopped! It’s the sun! Come out and see the sun!” Konan stood excitedly on the playground, admiring the gorgeous light in the sky. She hadn’t seen the sun for a long time.
Standing behind Konan, Nagato also quietly looked up at the sky. At this moment, the red-haired boy, who was always melancholy, also showed a rare smile on his face.
Only Yahiko was worried, he looked into the distance in silence. The news of Hanzo’s defeat was still blocked among the top leaders, the people of the Hidden Rain Village were still unaware and lived in peace, but the crisis would not disappear because of subjective factors.
Yahiko was a little worried about Enzo’s safety. After all, he took him in and taught him how to practice ninjutsu. One should be grateful and repay kindness. These days were the days when Yahiko and the other two ate the most and slept the most soundly.
And all of this comes from Enzo’s gift, so Yahiko doesn’t want Enzo to have any accidents, he doesn’t want to lose anything again.
“This country is like the rain that never stops here, it keeps crying and there’s nothing I can do!”
During the days of training, Yahiko also learned a lot of information and knowledge that he had not been able to access before. He gradually understood the practices and difficulties of the Hidden Rain Village under Hanzo’s rule. It was not that they did not work hard, but that they were too difficult as a small country.
Small countries caught between the struggles of big powers are always sad and powerless.
Yahiko looked at the sky and muttered to himself: “We must have enough strength, otherwise the peace of the Rain Country will be like a bubble, punctured again and again by the big country!”
In the young Yahiko’s mind, he had already begun to think about the future of the Hidden Rain Village and the Land of the Rain.
Just as Yahiko was thinking.
In the distance, the on-duty ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village gathered in groups of three or four.
I can t believe it!
“Is it true?”
“Master Enzo defeated Konoha’s ninja army alone?”
“Really! Konoha’s ninjas have gradually withdrawn from the territory of the Rain Country!”
“That’s great! We don’t have to die! The village doesn’t have to perish!”
“Hahaha!!!”
“As expected of you, you are a member of the clan of Master Hanzo of the Salamander. I never thought that God has not abandoned the Hidden Rain Village yet!”
“Hey! Go tell your wife and kids that they don’t need to pack their bags. We don’t have to run away!”
“Oh! Yes, yes, yes! I have to go home! I’ll leave the position here to you temporarily!”
Yahiko was shocked to hear the conversation of the ninjas not far away. It was like a dream for a moment. With a confused look on his face, he accidentally saw a few rays of sunlight falling from the sky, which dispelled the haze above the Hidden Rain Village.
Maybe this country that has been crying all the time can smile once in a while!
The crowd around him began to celebrate, and influenced by this warm and enthusiastic atmosphere, Yahiko’s mood also became happy. As a victim of the war between a big country and a small country, he had been displaced and understood how precious this feeling of surviving a disaster was.
The people of small countries in war-torn times live worse than dogs. Only those who have experienced war and felt pain can understand the horror of pain and learn to fear pain! Only then can they learn to fear war!
Looking at the crowd that was spared from the war and began to celebrate, after a brief moment of joy, Yahiko fell into thought again.
“Perhaps we need to let the big countries taste the taste of war and the taste of pain, so that they can understand the value of peace and there can be true peace between big and small countries!” Yahiko fell into dark thoughts.
“Yahiko, what are you thinking about staying here?”
Yahiko turned around and saw Konan and Nagato looking at him with smiles on their faces. The smiles on their faces made him feel very warm because they were smiling for him. The three of them were both friends and family.
Because of Nagato and Konan, he temporarily put aside the darkness in his heart.
Chapter 19 Back on Track (Old Version)
In the high-level meeting room of the Hidden Rain Village, Enzo and Heiji were standing together and talking.
“Yunzang, you are a very low-key person, but I never thought you have such a powerful power!”
Heiji looked at his friend whom he had known for many years again and again. He still couldn’t believe that this guy, who was just a Chunin, could actually defeat Konoha’s ninja army alone.
Yuanzang had already prepared a speech to deceive people, and he said calmly, “This is what Hanzang-sama wanted me to do. He told me to keep a low profile and become the secret protector of the Hidden Rain Village.”
Anyway, the person is already dead and there is no evidence, so Yuanzo naturally put all the blame on Hanzo.
Because there were many things to deal with right now, Heiji didn’t delve into the suspicious points. He just asked, “So, Enzo, what are your plans for the next step? What about the future of the Hidden Rain Village?”
After thinking for a while, Yuan Zang slowly said, “What about those elite troops who escaped? Have any of them returned?”
Heiji responded: “Although not many, some people have returned one after another.”
Yuan Zang nodded and said, “Well, these people are the backbone of the village. The operation of the village is inseparable from these Chunin and Jonin. Spread the word that as long as the Rain Village ninja voluntarily returns within a month, the village will forgive their past mistakes.”
At this time, Heiji asked with a little hesitation: “Then Enzo, what about the matter of Lord Kandatsu?”
Heiji didn’t know what to do with this fellow from the same clan as Sanshoyu Yuanzang.
After a brief consideration, Yuan Zang made a decision: “As the captain, he led the escape. Although it was forced by the situation, it would be useless. We will not chase him. Let him fend for himself outside.”
After some arrangements, the general direction of the Hidden Rain Village was clearly arranged by Yuanzang.
The actual losses in the Hidden Rain Village on this battlefield were not great. Both the buildings in the village and the main force of the troops were basically intact. The only major loss was the sacrifice of Hanzo.
Therefore, the actual post-war recovery does not require too much funding. We just need to wait for the Chunin and Jonin of the Hidden Rain Village to return to the village, and then we can restore it to its original state and operate as usual.
In addition, a peace treaty with Konoha, the strongest of the five ninja villages, is about to be signed. After this show of force, I believe that other ninja villages will not dare to mess with the Rain Country.
Everything was moving in a good direction. The safety of the Hidden Rain Village was preserved, and the spiritual contract between Yuanzo and the original owner was completed.
“Master Enzo!”
With a loud and powerful shout, Yahiko brought Nagato and Konan into the conference room.
The Hidden Rain Village is currently short of staff, and even the guards in the important meeting rooms are just a few random people, so they naturally cannot stop Yahiko and the other two.
“Oh, Yahiko, you came here in such a hurry, is there something wrong?” Yuanzo looked at the three people who came in with confusion.
At this time, Enzo did not care about Yahiko’s rude behavior, which violated the rules of the Hidden Rain Village. Instead, he calmly sat on the high chair in the middle and let Yahiko speak freely.
After all, Yuanzou didn’t really consider himself a part of the Hidden Rain Village. All this was just a transition, and one day he would leave here.
“Hey, where did you little brats come from? Master Enzo is the future Kage of the Hidden Rain Village! Don’t be so rude!” Heiji on the side couldn’t stand it anymore and scolded them a few words, but there was obviously a deeper meaning in his words.
At this time, Yahiko and the two people behind him knelt solemnly in the direction of the high chair.
The three of them said in unison: “Master Enzo, please accept us as your disciples! We want to learn advanced ninjutsu and gain enough power to protect the Rain Country!”
Yahiko knew that the man before him had the ability to impart to him the power to change the world.
For this, Yahiko kowtowed heavily on the ground and spoke again: “I have a dream to bring peace to the world! For this, strength is necessary! Master Enzo, please accept me as your disciple!”
The crisp sound startled Nagato and Konan who were standing behind him. They didn’t expect Yahiko to fight so hard.
“It’s really interesting. He’s just a kid but he’s making such a big promise that he wants to change the world.” Enzo looked at Yahiko with amusement and glanced at Nagato out of the corner of his eye.
Yuan Zang did not refuse directly, but painted a pie: “It is not so easy to become my disciple. You are too weak now and you are not qualified for me to teach you! I will give you three years. If you can become a Chunin of the Hidden Rain Village, then I will consider accepting you as my disciple!”
He gave an opportunity, and whether they could catch it depended on their efforts and opportunities.
Yuanzang already knew the talents and abilities of these three people clearly.
Needless to say, Nagato is qualified enough with a pair of Rinnegan, and his body is blessed with the Otsutsuki bloodline and the Uzumaki clan, so there is no need to worry about his talent.
Konan is a unique paper-style ninja who is also extremely talented and worth training.
Only Yahiko, although he is the invisible leader of the three, has ordinary blood.
There is nothing outstanding about him. He is neither mediocre nor excellent. The only shining point of Yahiko is his innate leadership qualities and the sunny charm that makes people trust him unconditionally.
Although Yahiko has no value in terms of combat support, he may be useful in other places.
Let s not talk about the distant future. After a few years, when Yahiko grows up, with his leadership, he may be able to help Enzo manage the affairs of the Hidden Rain Village.
If he is really capable of the task, Enzo even plans to let him, Nagato, and Konan manage the village together in the future. This will allow Enzo to be free to better develop this body.
With Yahiko’s leadership ability and the strength of Nagato and Konan, the safety of the Hidden Rain Village will be guaranteed in the future.
In the future, in order to resist the Otsutsuki clan from the starry sky, it is necessary to cultivate more new forces.
How to select and manage trustworthy resistance members at that time will also be a troublesome matter. Yuanzang must ensure that those who are taught the knowledge of immortal arts at least have a heart to protect this world, otherwise he will be asking for trouble.
And Yahiko seems to have talent in this area, and the future is promising…
The next few months.
Enzo has been staying in the Hidden Rain Village, trying to refine more spiritual power while arranging for the returning elite ninjas. He also took time to check on the training of Nagato and others.
At the same time, Enzo also became the de facto head of the Hidden Rain Village.
Although the Rain Shadow, still nominally an acting one, had not been appointed by the Daimyo of the Land of Rain, nor had he sent formal letters to other countries, no one in the village dared to question Enzo’s position.
Everyone was convinced by the power displayed by Yuanzo, and they all wished that he would become the new generation guardian of the Hidden Rain Village.
At the same time, information about Yuanzo has also been spread all over the news channels of other ninja villages.
He defeated the ninja army of Konoha Village by himself.
Such important news was spread crazily by spies and informants from all over the place. For a time, the top leaders of the five major ninja villages, who seemed calm on the surface, had already been discussing it secretly.
The name Salamander Maruzo officially replaced Salamander Hanzo and became the new forbidden name, and he thus became the new ninja demigod.
As for whether he could gain recognition from the Daimyo of the Land of Rain, Enzo was not worried.
The so-called daimyo is nothing more than a mascot on the stage. He actually has no power. Just show some proper courtesy to make the daimyo save face, and the other party will not dare to disagree.
The so-called power ultimately comes from violence. Without the military force of the ninja, the daimyo is not a real daimyo. In this era when one person can defeat thousands of troops, it is unrealistic to rely on the power of politics and status to rule a country.
Although the ninja village and the country complement each other and share good and bad fortunes, the Daimyo of the Rain Country relies much more on the Hidden Rain Village than the Hidden Rain Village relies on the Daimyo.
After all, it is easy to change a daimyo, but it is not an easy task to train another group of elite ninjas.
At this point, after several months of reorganization, the operation of the Hidden Rain Village is back on track.
Most of the escaped ninjas returned to the village, and only a small number of Salamander Kamada’s trusted troops followed Kamada and fled to an unknown place.
Chapter 20: First Trip to Loulan (Old Version)
Since becoming the Kage of the Hidden Rain Village, Enzo has moved from his original depressing large room to a quiet independent small courtyard. The sparsely populated area is very suitable for his practice, and he does not have the trouble of being disturbed by others.
In the room, Yuanzang packed a pile of luggage. He planned to visit the ancient kingdom of Loulan in the Kingdom of Wind.
Although the Great Toad Immortal said that the immortals lurking in the dragon veins were almost dead, that was its view. Strong men of different realms had different views on death.
As your strength continues to increase, death will change from a result to a process.
The immortal who has survived until now must have been a powerful being, and his means of survival must be varied. Therefore, no matter what the reason, Yuanzang must go and take a look.
If you are lucky and the other party can communicate, you may be able to revive a powerful comrade. If not, every great immortal is a vast treasure trove of knowledge, and it is also a good thing to receive the other party’s school heritage.
The realm of the Great Toad Immortal is limited, and not much knowledge can be passed on to him, so Yuanzang must confirm again to see if there are any treasures that can be excavated further.
To this end, Yuanzo first went to the warehouse of the Hidden Rain Village and found the map of the Wind Country, and then went to purchase a large number of tools and equipment. The pile of things and equipment took up a lot of space in the room.
However, the Tai Chi diagram in Yuanzang’s hand contains a small world, so he is not worried about not being able to hold it.
Everything is ready. Enzo plans to temporarily hand over the affairs related to the Hidden Rain Village to Heiji, and then quietly leave the Hidden Rain Village without leaving any trace.
Knock knock knock, there is a knock on the door.
Even without opening the door, Yuan Zang could tell who was standing outside: the original owner’s childhood sweetheart, Keiko. Yuan Zang had been busy with his own affairs for the past few months and had not met her yet.
“Enzo, are you home?” Keiko asked cautiously.
There was only silence in the room, no human voice.
“I know you’re very busy lately. If you don’t have time now, I won’t bother you…” At this moment, Keiko felt that she was getting farther and farther away from Yuanzo. She didn’t know when he became a different person, very strange.
Behind the door, the room was empty.
Yuanzang had already activated the Rock and Earth Sage Mode and used the earth escape technique to escape far away.
Somewhere in a desert far away.
The ground is covered with yellow sand and the sun is scorching.
This is within the borders of the Kingdom of Wind, where the Sand Village is located.
The harsh environment with flying sand and dust can be transformed into excellent food for cultivating ninjas.
Looking at the map, Yuanzo walked in the desert, feeling the abundant natural energy of earth and fire around him. He was thinking about staying in this place for a few more days in order to accumulate these two specific natural energies.
After staying in the Hidden Rain Village for a long time, he felt like he was getting moldy. The damp environment all day long could easily lead to excessive moisture, so he could take advantage of this period to bask in the sun and replenish his yang energy.
The Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Rain can be described as two extremes.
One is sunny and dry, and the other is rainy and flooded. When the power is restored, Yuan Zang plans to do a good thing and consider taking advantage of the rainfall in the two places to balance the water resources in the two places, so as to have the best of both worlds and complement each other’s advantages.
We walked and stopped along the way, correcting the route by looking at the map, and it took less than ten days.
Looking at a dilapidated town in the distance, Yuanzo realized that this was his destination.
As he approached the gathering place, he found that the place was even more shabby than he had imagined.
The slate-paved road has been eroded by wind and sand and is full of potholes. The surrounding buildings are like candles in the wind, and it is obvious at a glance that they have fallen into disrepair. Perhaps due to the lack of wood, the houses here are built with stones and gravel. The walls are very thick and sand-proof measures have been taken into account.
He circled the town step by step and used his mental power to sense it. This town was neither too big nor too small, with nearly 5,000 people. The road planning must have been done in the past, and there were three horizontal and vertical roads connecting the whole town.
Unfortunately, such convenient transportation did not attract merchants and travelers from afar. There were few pedestrians on the streets, and most of the shops with signs were half-open and half-closed.
Perhaps it’s because this place is too barren and there is really nothing special to offer to attract passing tourists. Apart from endless sand and gravel, there is only howling wind.
The people here seemed to be unfriendly to Yuanzang, a stranger who came from afar. Several strong men with knives and sticks were staring at Yuanzang with unfriendly faces.
While walking on the road, several children picked up stones and threw them at Yuanzang from a distance.
“Get out of here! You bunch of damned robbers!” Before the children could finish cursing, several women hurried over to stop the cursing, bowed to Yuanzo from a distance to express their apology, and then ran away.
Yuanzang didn’t care about the malicious intent of this group of people. They were just a group of ordinary people and posed no threat at all. They were a group of people who would become nutrients in this desert in a few decades. He was too lazy to care too much about them.
The long years have smoothed out the recklessness and impulsiveness in Yuanzang’s heart. Standing on the long river of time spanning tens of thousands of years, he can now look at everything with a higher and calmer perspective.
“Could this be the ancient kingdom of Loulan? It doesn’t look like a country at all!” Yuan Zang asked in confusion. Comparing it with the map, Yuan Zang roughly confirmed that he had arrived, but this was completely different from the ancient kingdom he had imagined.
He thought this would be an oasis in the desert, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, lakes, flowers and lush leaves. It would be a bright and mysterious pearl in the desert.
But looking at the desolate scene before us, it is difficult to associate it with the ancient Kingdom of Loulan.
Looking at the only tall tower building in the town, Yuanzo planned to go over and say hello to the ruler here first to avoid misunderstandings and causing him trouble.
In human society, architecture is also a symbol of power. The higher the status of a person, the more magnificent the house he lives in. The place where the ruler of a region lives is always the tallest and largest building in the area.
After all, no one dares to build his own house higher than the residence of the supreme ruler, otherwise he would be committing the crime of willful contempt.
It has been like this since ancient times, and Yuanzang has seen too much.
Those in a higher position like to use external things to distinguish their own status from those below them. This is human nature.
Even those who can transcend these material appearances are often not without desires and indifferent. In most cases, it is just that they want bigger and pursue higher things, and their desires are not here.
So even Yuanzang had something to ask for. His desire was to pursue immortality, eternal life, and ultimately reach the pinnacle of the Great Way.
People all have desires, and desire itself is not a bad thing. It is the driving force of human actions. Without desire, there would be no glory and miracles created by humans. Good desires can drive human progress, while bad desires will destroy the world.
When they reached the foot of the tower, they saw majestic and solemn sword-wielding guards standing on both sides of the wide porch, which confirmed Yuanzo’s guess that the person living here must be an important figure.
Chapter 21: Meeting the Queen (Old Version)
“Stop, who are you? Show me your identity!”
Before Yuanzang could get close, a guard quickly approached and stared at him, wanting to question his identity.
“I am an archaeologist from the Rain Country. I want to come here to survey some ancient artifacts. This is my identity proof.” Yuanzang took out the document that he had forged in advance.
“The Rain Country? You came all the way here to do archaeological research?” The guard stared at Yuan Zang with some suspicion.
“That’s what archaeology is all about. Go wherever there are ruins. I spent a long time investigating before I discovered the ancient ruins here. Please give me some help.”
Without giving it too much thought, the guards knew that the other party was most likely eyeing the dragon vein ruins here. The ancient kingdom of Loulan was extremely poor, and there was really nothing else that could attract outsiders.
“I’m sorry, there have been a lot of wandering ninjas and bandits here recently. The queen is worried sick now and has no time to take care of your affairs. You’d better leave here!” The guard issued an expulsion order without any hesitation. He was too lazy to waste time confronting Yuanzo about his true identity.
Yuan Zang remained calm, took out a gold bar from his arms, and quietly put it into the guard’s hand without waiting for the other party to react.
“It just so happens that I am also a ninja in my spare time from archaeology. Let me go in and meet your queen. Maybe I can help you solve the threat of bandits.”
The guard looked Yuanzo up and down again. Anyone who could take out a gold bar so generously must be no simple person. The other party also said that he was a ninja, so he must have come here on some mission.
If it is a ninja with a ninja village background, such a small place cannot afford to offend him.
After weighing the pros and cons, the guards decided to let Yuanzo in to meet the queen, and also returned the gold bars to Yuanzo.
The guard knew his own limitations. In this place where all kinds of people mixed together, gold bars could not bring a good life, but only disasters. This was not something that a small guard like him could bear.
“Dear guest who has come from afar, the Queen is currently negotiating with a group of uninvited guests inside. It may not be appropriate for you to go in now. Why don’t you wait a moment?” the guard reminded.
“It’s okay, it’s the same if I go in and wait first. I have always been good at reading the atmosphere and I won’t cause any trouble for your queen.” Yuanzo was too lazy to wait outside.
“Okay then! Please be careful, sir!” The guard had subconsciously regarded Yuanzo as a ninja from the ninja village who came here to carry out a secret mission. Perhaps he was here to capture the group of people inside.
The guards made way and Enzo walked in slowly.
Walking into the interior of the tower, it was spacious and quiet. The rooms were beautifully decorated and the sound of footsteps echoing on the floor could be heard.
Not far away, the sound of a man and a woman arguing could be faintly heard.
“Your Majesty, where is the tribute we agreed upon? Why has it disappeared this month?”
“We don’t have any extra. If I give you more, my people won’t have enough to eat.”
“Asshole! You are asking for your own death! If you offend us, you will not only lose your food, but you may not even see the sun tomorrow.”
“Don’t push your luck. I’m not afraid of you! If you want to turn hostile, we Loulan will fight you to the end. At worst, we will both die!”
Inside the room, a woman in luxurious clothes was arguing about something with red ears. Her eyes were wide open due to her high emotions, and her chest was rising and falling rapidly due to her excitement, which made her look quite charming.
The other group of men in the confrontation looked exhausted, all wearing shawls and riding boots, with sabers on their waists. The scoundrel look on their faces showed that they were not good people. Some of them were staring at the queen’s plump breasts with ill intentions, and I don’t know what they were thinking…
There was a little girl behind the queen, also staring at the robbers with an angry look on her face. Unfortunately, she was too young and powerless, and could do nothing to them.
Yuan Zang approached slowly, looked at the people in the hall, and casually looked at a red-haired boy in the bandit gang. Most of these people were ordinary ronin, and only a few could reach the level of Genin. Only this red-haired boy was different.
This was the first time that Yuan Zang used the word “beautiful” to describe a man. He was very handsome and stunning. Moreover, the amount of chakra in the body of this man was very strong, even exceeding that of an average jonin.
But even though he was so powerful, he just hid in a corner and watched the performance of both sides quietly.
The boy’s face was expressionless, as if he was looking at a group of dead people.
“Wait, this person…” Yuan Zang inherited the original owner’s memory, so he had some impressions in his mind.
“He seems to be Scorpion of the Sand Village, a genius puppeteer. How come he is here?” Yuanzo recalled this person’s identity and was secretly puzzled.
With such distinctive features, plus an amount of chakra that far exceeds that of an ordinary person, this person is most likely Scorpion of the Red Sand.
“Why would the ninjas from the Sand Village come to this place? Could it be that they also have ideas about the dragon vein? What a coincidence.” Enzo boldly guessed Scorpion’s intentions in his heart.
Scorpion also noticed Yuan Zang’s presence, but he couldn’t see through Yuan Zang’s depth, so he just glanced at him lightly and didn’t pay too much attention to him. He just thought Yuan Zang was an unknown person who came out of nowhere.
At this time, the people who were arguing in the room also noticed the stranger’s entry, but both sides just glanced at him and continued arguing. Because there was nothing special about Yuanzang, both sides thought he was just an ordinary traveler.
“Ahem, everyone, please listen to what I have to say.”
An old minister of the queen came out to smooth things over at the right time: “We are all people who survive in this cruel desert. We are all trying to make a living. There is no need to fight to the death. Since we are all trying to survive, then wouldn’t it be putting the cart before the horse to start a war now?”
The old minister’s words temporarily calmed the gang of robbers.
“Loulan does not have any extra resources right now. You can verify this by going around the area. So please give us a few days to think of a solution. We will give you a satisfactory answer in three days.”
Seeing these soft words, the robbers didn’t want to make things too awkward. If a fight really broke out, they might not be able to return with a complete victory. So since the other party gave them a way out, they would give them face first and not push them too much.
“You said it! Your Majesty, please remember what you said!” The leading robber greeted and then led his men out of the room one after another.
Before leaving, the bandit leader threatened: “We will be back in three days! By then, you’d better have everything ready, otherwise things will be difficult!”
When leaving the room, a lecherous bandit pig squinted at the queen again and made an obscene gesture. However, the queen did not look away and was unmoved. As a superior, she was not disturbed by these boring actions.
“Mom…” The little girl next to her looked at her mother worriedly, and their hands were tightly clasped together while they spoke.
“It’s okay! Sarah, everything will be fine.” The Queen’s words were both to comfort her daughter and to comfort herself.
As the bandits left, the queen’s attention turned to Enzo.
“Well! Sir, what can I do for you?” The queen’s tone was a little unfriendly, and it was obvious that she was not in a good mood.
During the conversation, the queen even made fun of herself: “I really made a fool of myself just now. As the queen of a country, I was actually threatened by a group of bandits.”
“That’s not the case.” Yuanzang shook his head and denied it.
At this time, Yuan Zang chose to speak the truth: “After all, strictly speaking, as a queen of a country, your territory is too shabby. It is natural for you to be bullied by bandits. And the bandits on the other side are not ordinary bandits.”
Yuan Zang mercilessly exposed the queen’s last dignity and stripped off her pitiful last fig leaf. However, the queen was not angry because as a superior, she still had some ability to judge people.
Although the queen did not know ninjutsu and could not see through Enzo’s strength, she could see the confidence and calmness in Enzo. This was not the look that ordinary travelers would have when they saw a superior. The other party was so casual and bold, so he must have some tricks.
“Indeed, with my ugly appearance now, I am probably no longer a real queen. How can a queen be so miserable?” The Queen of Loulan did not choose to refute Yuan Zang’s words. Instead, she took a step back and actively agreed with the other party.
“Then may I ask, sir, why have you come here to see me, the down-and-out queen?” The queen’s tone was a bit sarcastic, and she was trying to find out Yuan Zang’s intentions.
Chapter 22 Loulan Transaction (Old Version)
“Dragon Vein, I am very interested in this relic.” Without hiding anything, Yuanzang chose to go straight to the point.
To be honest, with his strength, no one here combined can beat him. As long as he wants, he can choose to use brutal means to get a quick and clean victory.
But as a great sage who was once virtuous and complete, Yuanzang had his own pride, and he didn’t want to do something so low-class. As his strength gradually recovered and he had more room, he slowly became more polite and well-mannered.
This may be the hypocritical behavior unique to the strong.
“You are here for the powerful force contained in the dragon veins, right?” The queen showed an expression of “as expected”.
Then, the queen ignored everything and began to narrate the past of this place: “In fact, over the past few decades, people from the Sand Village have come here again and again, all in order to master this powerful energy. However, no matter how powerful the people from the Sand Village were, they always returned empty-handed.”
No one in the Sand Village can crack the mystery of the dragon vein. They even believe that the power of the dragon vein is a special energy independently nurtured by nature and cannot be mastered by humans at all.
At this moment, Yuanzo sensed the queen saying this, and his heart beat faster.
It seems that she is holding back.
“You said that people from the Sand Village came here again and again, so what about that ninja from the Sand Village just now? Did he also come here to investigate the dragon vein?” Yuanzo asked curiously.
“What! Ninjas from the Sand Village? Who!” The queen suddenly lost her composure. She originally thought that they were just a group of simple and vulgar thugs, but she didn’t expect that such a huge monster was involved behind them.
The queen began to speculate in her heart, “Strange! What’s going on? If it was for the dragon vein, we would have generously cooperated with them in their research and would not dare to stop them. There is no need for them to do it in such a sneaky way. Could it be that they discovered the secret that only our royal bloodline can utilize the energy of the dragon vein?”
“This is strange. As a small country, we will not stop the Sand Village from investigating the dragon veins. Why do they have to disguise themselves as bandits to blackmail us?” As the queen spoke, she looked at Yuanzo, thinking that he could give a reasonable explanation behind this.
“This is my problem!” Yuanzo didn’t expect that the queen didn’t know about this situation.
The old minister at the side suddenly thought of something and quickly said, “Your Majesty! Recently, I have heard some secrets. It is rumored that the Third Kazekage of the Sand Village has mysteriously disappeared recently. The top leaders of the Sand Village are busy blocking the news. I wonder if it is related to this.”
The old minister said as he glanced at Yuan Zang, wanting to see how he would react so as to speculate on his reaction.
The queen was also surprised, and quickly tried to make up for it, “Where did you hear that? Don’t talk nonsense about such a big thing, outsiders are still here!”
The Queen of Loulan was puzzled as to where her ministers had obtained such confidential information, and why they had to reveal it in front of outsiders. However, this secret only involved the interests of the Sand Village and had nothing to do with the Kingdom of Loulan, so the Queen was able to keep her composure.
Combining the information from the old minister, Yuan Zang expressed his own thoughts: “If this is the case, then the purpose of the Sand Village ninja coming here may not be to seek the dragon vein. They may be tracking down and investigating the missing Third Kazekage.”
At present, Yuan Zang is unwilling to be involved in such a political struggle between major powers. His top priority now is to find the dragon vein. Anyway, when he is strong enough in the future, these major powers will be unified by him, so everything now can be put on hold for a while.
After listening to Yuan Zang’s analysis, the queen’s face changed.
If this is true, then Loulan will be in trouble. Once this place becomes a battlefield for ninjas, there will be no grass left. How strong would a ninja be who could make the Third Kazekage disappear? The pursuers from the Sand Village will definitely not be weak, and there will definitely be a big battle!
When she thought of this, the Queen of Loulan felt weak all over.
Looking at the rich expression on the queen’s face, Yuanzo felt that the time had come.
“Let’s make a deal, Her Majesty the Queen of Loulan!” He put forward the proposal at the right time.
Yuan Zang said slowly: “If I help you investigate the intentions of the Sand Village and solve this crisis at the same time, then you will tell me all the secrets about the dragon veins!”
“Alas!” The queen sighed softly, as if she was crushed by the heavy pressure.
At this time, the queen seemed to be ready to tell the truth: “In fact, the only secret of the dragon vein is the royal bloodline. It’s okay to tell you this now, because only the power of our royal family can open the seal of the dragon vein, so outsiders cannot touch the dragon vein.”
“And this is also the reason why the Sand Village has been unable to utilize the dragon veins.”
The queen had her own selfish motives. After all, the dragon vein was passed down from her ancestors, proving the royal family’s noble bloodline. It was one of the few important treasures of Loulan and the only legacy of the royal family. The queen didn’t want to give it up, but now Loulan was in danger, so for the sake of the people, she had to give up the dragon vein.
The people of Loulan are the real wealth of Loulan, and the queen has a deep understanding of this. As long as people are still alive, everything is possible. If everyone is dead, what is the point of guarding a pile of treasures?
After hearing this answer, Yuanzang felt bored and even a little regretful.
I thought that this country had guarded the dragon vein for so many years, so it should be able to provide some useful information, but I didn’t expect that there was only this little information. Obviously, this so-called Loulan royal family had never understood what the dragon vein was.
They were simply guarding.
What they say is that only the noble blood of the royal family can unleash the power of the dragon vein?
Yuan Zang was dismissive of this. Based on his experience, there should be a soul-binding formation in the dragon vein ruins to seal the spirit, so as to delay the time for the spirit to dissipate in the human world, and this royal bloodline should be just one of the keys to this formation.
It is very likely that a long time ago, the immortal encountered a human who accidentally passed into the ruins of the magic circle, and entrusted the key to unlock the magic circle to this human, wanting this trustworthy human to inherit his knowledge after his death and pass down the immortal’s power.
Moreover, this magic circle should be two-way, immortals can open it from the inside, and humans can also open it from the outside. Otherwise, the big toad immortal has no bloodline and cannot open the sealing magic circle, so he cannot see this immortal.
“Besides the royal bloodline, is there anything else needed? Like a spell or something?” Yuanzang judged that in addition to the biological key, the soul-binding formation should also have a verbal key as a double insurance.
Seeing the queen’s slightly surprised reaction, he knew he had guessed correctly.
“I order you in the name of the Queen. You must cut off the dragon vein and suppress your power. Do it immediately as ordered.” The Queen hesitated for a moment, but chose to be frank. Since she chose to cooperate, she had to show her sincerity. Anyway, the dragon vein spell needed to be used by the royal family to be effective, so it was okay to tell him.
“You guessed correctly. The spell just now is the spell to lift the seal of the dragon vein, but it will only be effective if I use it personally.” The queen inadvertently pointed out the key point and reminded Yuanzang.
Suddenly, Yuan Zang laughed secretly.
I’m afraid the queen didn’t expect that he only needed this spell. Yuan Zang was very familiar with the soul-binding array and was fully capable of breaking it on his own, without any need for royal blood.
However, he was still a little concerned about the purpose of the ninja from the Sand Village coming here, so it would not hurt to go and take a look.
Chapter 23: Entering the Dragon Vein (Old Version)
A dozen miles away from Loulan, the bandits were either cursing or swearing. The red-haired boy followed them slowly, but he seemed to be somewhat disdainful of his accomplices.
At a certain point, Scorpion suddenly stopped and looked at the sand under his feet. There was nothing unusual. But he did not let his guard down. As a ninja who had lived in the desert for many years, he was very sensitive to the slightest movement of the sand.
The Sand Village has a large amount of ninjutsu and experience using sand to fight, and Sasori has also learned a lot of it.
Hiding in the sand and launching sneak attacks is a common tactic used by the Sand Village. Similarly, there are corresponding perception methods and response tactics for how to guard against enemies hiding in the sand.
Just now, Scorpion slightly noticed irregular vibrations in the sand under his feet, as if something was moving quickly underground.
“What a fast speed, and still approaching us, it must be an enemy attack!” Scorpion put his hand on the ground to confirm again, he understood that they were being targeted.
At this time, Scorpion touched the scroll on his waist and a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
“I just happened to have a sparring partner. Let me try out the power of this new toy!”
Up ahead, the ordinary bandits still knew nothing. They rode on camels, drank wine leisurely, and slowly prepared to return to the camp.
At this time, on the surface of the sand dunes, sand whirlpools formed in the center of the team. By the time the robbers reacted, they were trapped in them and unable to escape.
“Ah! What’s going on?”
“Is it a ninjutsu? Hey! You red-haired kid over there, come and help us! We didn’t pay for nothing!”
The crowd and camels were all thrown to the ground, screaming in panic. The merciless vortex of the sand sea swallowed their bodies bit by bit, sinking them into the desert ground, slowly but steadily.
“This is a ninjutsu I’ve never seen before. It seems that the opponent is not from the Sand Village.” Scorpion looked calm. He ignored the shouts of the robbers and squatted on the ground analyzing the principles of these whirlpools.
“Hey! Kid! Why are you still standing there like an idiot? Can’t you see the enemies coming? Come and help!” The robbers, with half of their bodies buried in the ground, were filled with shock and anger, and could only pin their hopes on this wandering ninja.
“You bunch of trash! So annoying! If you’re dying, just say less and don’t disturb me from thinking!” Scorpion watched the direction of the sand flowing, completely unmoved.
“What! You! If we hadn’t taken you in, you would have died in the desert! Now you’re repaying kindness with hatred!”
“Shut up! Idiots are idiots! If you keep moving, you will sink faster. Your only value now is to use your life to find out the effect of the opponent’s ninjutsu for me!”
“Damn it! We won’t let you go! Wuuuuuu…” Before they could finish their threats, the group of robbers were drowned in the sea of ??sand.
At this time, a figure slowly emerged from the ground.
Scorpion slowly stood up and looked at the man in front of him. He glanced at Yuanzang with his big watery eyes with a little bit of defiantness, then reached out and took out a scroll. He turned it and unfolded it, and there was a black ink word “three” in the middle.
After a burst of white smoke, a blue-haired humanoid puppet appeared. He was wearing a thick gray-black hooded coat, with messy long hair hanging down, making him as fascinating as a ghost.
In such a hot environment, only puppets can wear such thick and tight clothes in the desert.
“Oh! This should be the Third Kazekage of the Sand Village! I didn’t expect that you have such strength at such a young age!” Yuanzo was a little surprised. He didn’t expect that the Kazekage of the Sand Village would die, and died at the hands of such a young and handsome boy.
In this regard, Scorpion was not worried that the other party would reveal that he was the murderer who killed the Sandaime Kazekage, because the dead cannot speak. In this deserted desert, Enzo was destined to die here, and his body would disappear forever in the desert and no one would find it.
“Magnetic Style: Sand Iron Rain.”
After the Wind Shadow Puppet formed the [Not] seal with both hands, it summoned sand iron like waves out of thin air in an instant. Then, the sand iron formed countless fine needles and shot out at a high speed. This technique has a large attack range, a long duration, is very difficult to dodge, and has extremely strong lethality.
“It seems that they are not the type with whom we can communicate well.” Looking at the rain of black needles all over the sky, Yuanzo activated the Rock and Earth Sage mode and disappeared into the desert.
“Haha, are you scared of my invincible human puppet? You want to run away now.” Scorpion smiled evilly. He was very satisfied with this new toy. “Not enough, try this trick again!”
“Magnetic Style: Sand Iron Attack.”
The Wind Shadow Puppet compressed a large amount of iron sand at a high density, forming a giant steel weapon that was both strong and high quality. In a flash, a high-speed rotating conical drill took shape.
The cones were digging through the sand at high speed, and for a moment the sky was filled with yellow sand. Under such violence, the scene became a mess. A large amount of sand and soil was drilled out of the ground, and large holes and deep pits forced Yuanzo to emerge from the ground.
It seems that Scorpion is not fighting seriously, he is just testing the performance of his new toy.
However, just as the cone was dancing wildly, a huge rock hand emerged from the ground and grasped the iron sand cone. The friction between the high-speed rotating iron sand and the hard rock produced bright sparks.
The crackling sound was sharp and piercing.
Soon, under the powerful grip of the giant rock hand, the sand iron that lost its kinetic energy began to stop rotating.
The cone temporarily lost speed and was forced to lie on the desert.
“It seems that he is not here for the dragon vein. He who killed the Third Kazekage should be simply fleeing. It is impossible for him to have the leisure time to wander around the territory of the Wind Country.”
Yuanzo emerged from the ground, flew in the air, looked at Scorpion, turned around and fled into the desert in the distance, disappearing without a trace.
The scorpion was left standing there, quietly looking at the iron sand cone lying on the sand, wondering what he was thinking…
After returning to Loulan, Yuanzo did not tell the queen that Scorpion was the murderer of the Third Kazekage. For a small country, it is safer not to know about this.
He simply told the queen a few words, telling her to relax and that Loulan had not become the target of the Sand Village.
However, the Queen still couldn’t believe that the matter had been resolved. She didn’t believe that the ninjas from the Sand Village were just passing by. Before obtaining definite confirmation, the Queen said she had no intention of continuing to cooperate with Enzo.
However, Yuan Zang thought he had completed the agreement, so he naturally did not intend to continue the stalemate with the Queen of Loulan. Anyway, he had obtained the Word Spirit Key, and Yuan Zang could handle the rest by himself.
Therefore, when it was late at night and everyone was asleep.
Yuan Zang secretly went to the Dragon Vein Ruins alone without telling the Loulan leaders…
The so-called dragon vein is located in a huge underground ruin, surrounded by solid walls made of bricks and stones.
Endless years have passed between the bricks and tiles, leaving ancient marks. The quiet air echoes here, as if time has frozen at this moment.
Ignoring those fancy architectural arts, Yuanzang used the earth escape technique to directly cross numerous obstacles and finally stopped on the tall pillar in the center. There were huge holes on the sides, and the connection between the tall pillar and the outside world was just a simple stone bridge.
Standing in front of the central sealing formation, Yuanzang sat on the ground and carefully observed the type of this formation.
Just as he guessed, this was indeed a soul-binding formation, a special technique that was used to allow souls that had lost their bodies to remain in this world rather than being scattered.
Due to the influence of the Otsutsuki magic, the spirits of the immortals who died in Enzo’s era would not ascend to the underworld, but would be bound by the powerful cause and effect of the magic. After that, the spirits would gradually disintegrate because they lost the support of the physical body, leaving only the ethereal souls, which slowly dissipated in this world.
However, even with the influence of divine magic, it is not easy for immortals who have lost their physical bodies to die in a short period of time. Those immortals can survive in the world only by their spiritual bodies. The more powerful the immortals are, the longer they can survive.
In addition to this, through various means, such as the soul-binding formation in front of him, or Yuan Zang’s spiritual weapon Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram, he could even prolong his dying time longer.
“With just a mere soul-binding array, it is able to resist the erosion of tens of thousands of years of time. The guy in this array is not simple!” Yuanzang couldn’t help but sigh in his heart.
Originally, as an immortal who has reached the state of great perfection, even if he has lost his physical body, he can use the natural energy that is everywhere in the universe to quickly reshape his body. This is not a big deal.
However, due to the curse of the Otsutsuki super magic, the sages fell into a cause and effect of inevitable death, and their bodies could not be reshaped, which made them die so easily.
Yuanzang relied on a small world in the Tai Chi diagram, which had a different flow of time from this world, and used a tricky method to get rid of the influence of the super magic, because in the Tai Chi diagram, Yuanzang actually only stayed for a few thousand years.
However, the being in the magic circle has indeed lived for tens of thousands of years under the curse of divine power.
Yuan Zang couldn’t help but sigh, “What a pity! If such a powerful person could hold on a little longer, after the influence of the magic has dissipated, he might be able to rely on his physical body to go back and come back to life.”
He placed his hand on the center of the array and sensed it briefly, and found a faint soul consciousness inside.
But the fluctuation of this soul was too small, so empty and fragmented that it seemed as if a breeze could blow it away. Although the residual soul was still there, the consciousness inside had become muddled and lost its vitality, almost like a walking corpse.
This powerful man still could not survive the erosion of endless years.
Chapter 24: Incarnation (Old Version)
The soul in the magic circle is already a candle in the wind, and it is no longer possible to impart knowledge of magic. Even if Yuanzang completely opens the soul-binding magic circle, the soul will collapse because it cannot withstand the fluctuations.
However, after standing in front of the formation and thinking about it, Yuanzang finally decided to open the eye of the formation so that the remaining soul of the immortal could return to this world.
The strength of this ancient soul in the formation has weakened to the same level as an insect or fly. What is the difference between this situation and a dead person? Even if the formation is reinforced again, it can only prolong its life for a few more days.
After finishing his thought, Yuan Zang extended his perception and carefully entered the magic circle.
After tens of thousands of years, this magic circle has become dilapidated, and many of its functions have almost failed, even the basic defense and rejection effect has been lost. Now it is easy for Yuanzang to explore this magic circle.
Using the secret key of words handed down by the royal family as a breakthrough, Yuan Zang gained access to the management authority of this formation, and a pure mental power carefully probed into it.
Inside the formation is an illusory world of ice and snow.
Yuanzo’s spirit stood in this world made up of consciousness. Looking up, he saw a sky of ice, crystal clear and sparkling. Under his feet was a white ground made of ice and snow, an endless expanse of white that reached the horizon.
There is no sun in this icy world, only cold light shines through the crystal-like ice, refracting and illuminating the world. The source of all this light is a giant white dragon sleeping in the center of this icy world.
The white dragon’s body is as endless as a mountain, stretching into the distance. Its huge head is sleeping peacefully in the ice and snow. The pure white scales on its body emit a bright light, full of divinity and spirituality.
The ten thousand meter long white ice dragon, the ice in the sky and the snow on the ground form a holy picture.
As if it sensed that an outsider had suddenly broken into the world of consciousness that had not changed for tens of thousands of years, the white dragon’s giant eyes slowly opened, and it sensed the breath of an ancient fellow immortal.
When Bai Long saw Yuan Zang’s figure, his crystal eyes revealed a bit of sadness and hesitation. After thousands of years of loneliness, he finally saw his fellow countrymen from the same era. His eyes flickered and echoed for a few times, like joy and expectation, but in the end, thousands of words merged into a sigh…
It was dying, and it didn’t have any time to do anything. It could only pin its hopes on this fellow from the distant past.
The next second, the white dragon’s huge body flashed with dazzling light, and its body turned into points of light and dissipated between heaven and earth. A few points of white light turned into elves and flew to Yuanzo.
“I’ll leave this world to you to protect, my fellow countryman from the past…”
The light source in the ice and snow world began to dim, and the refracted light of the ice also dimmed. This beautiful ice and snow world gradually returned to darkness, leaving Yuanzo standing alone in the boundless nothingness.
At this moment, Yuanzang felt a rare sense of loneliness and desolation.
Perhaps it was because he finally met someone from the same era, and thought he was not the only survivor and had a companion, but he did not expect that the other party would disappear in a flash. In the end, he still had to face it all alone.
Before this world of consciousness completely disappeared, Yuanzang withdrew his consciousness from the formation space.
At this moment, the rune texture at the center of the formation began to flicker and shake violently, causing the entire ruins to shake as well. Gravel and dust fell from the solid brick wall in pieces.
He looked at the center of the formation again, and it had lost its luster and turned dim and gray. Then the dragon vein formation began to collapse, and without the blessing of the formation, everything began to fall apart.
Yuan Zang stood there, his eyes fixed on a piece of white dragon scale in the array, on which was attached a drop of blood full of majestic immortal power. This was the last gift of the white dragon, it left behind its own life secrets and passed on the genes of its own powerful body.
Ancient immortals are good at refining clones and puppets. As long as they have good materials and a body, they can immediately get a powerful helper. The blood gene left by this white dragon is very precious. With this gene, Yuan Zang can refine a powerful dragon body.
Turning on the Mu Yi Immortal Mode, Yuan Zang’s palm was wrapped with rich life energy. The soft green light grabbed the white dragon scale, slowly lifted it up and placed it into the Tai Chi diagram.
If one wants to refine a dragon clone, this dragon scale is not very useful. The key is this drop of pure dragon blood that is highly condensed with immortal power and contains genetic code.
Then, Yuan Zang observed it carefully and found that this dragon scale was not simple either, and it had a certain function of preserving blood essence. Unexpectedly, there was a small amount of time power attached to the dragon scale, which could freeze the time in the scale!
After analyzing the nature of this piece of dragon scale, Yuan Zang couldn’t help but marvel that this dead black and white ice dragon might be a space-time dragon that controls the power of time.
It is not just a single power of ice and snow, in addition, this white dragon can also freeze time and slow down the flow of time. This also explains why the white dragon can live for so long, it hides in the formation and uses the power of time to delay the passage of life.
Because of this, its dragon scales carry a small amount of time power, which can be used to preserve some things.
At this moment, Yuan Zang’s calm state of mind rarely showed a trace of joy and excitement, and his heart was fluctuating. Because the power of time is more mysterious than the power of space.
If you don’t have the talent to use the power of space, you can still rely on massive amounts of energy to forcibly break through the boundaries and travel through.
The shackles of time cannot be simply used by relying on energy. Without the permission of the laws, forcibly traveling through time will only result in backlash from the timeline, and you won’t even know how you died.
“Sure enough, only such a powerful person who has mastered the power of time can live to this day!” Feeling the mysterious dragon scales in the Tai Chi diagram, Yuanzang sighed again.
Originally, he just treated this white dragon as an ordinary ice dragon. So at first he just wanted to use this blood essence to refine a puppet or clone, but now he changed his mind. Doing so is simply a waste of natural resources.
If such precious dragon blood of time and space is only cultivated into a soulless clone, which has no consciousness and can only mindlessly obey orders, then the exquisite time and space talent will inevitably be lost. The power of time needs to be controlled by intelligence, and low-intelligence puppets and clones cannot use it.
Therefore, Yuanzang made a plan. He wanted to use the immortal method – the art of incarnation, to create a high-level clone with one soul and two bodies.
The human soul is malleable and extensible, and the soul of an immortal can ignore the limitations of space and distance to a certain extent. For this reason, some immortals who are good at spiritual and soul magic in ancient times developed a new clone technique.
This is a more advanced clone technique, which is improved on the basis of the original immortal technique – fission clone, and upgraded to the immortal technique – the technique of external incarnation.
Dolphins’ brains have a unique ability that allows half of their brain to rest while the other half remains awake during sleep.
In this state, the dolphin’s cerebral hemispheres alternate between sleep and wakefulness. When one hemisphere is in a deep sleep state, the other hemisphere maintains a certain degree of wakefulness in order to respond quickly to changes in the external environment.
Inspired by this, the soul-master analyzed the human soul.
It was discovered that there is one soul with three sides, namely the main soul, the soul of good thoughts, the soul of evil thoughts, and the soul of obsession. These four souls rely on the main soul and can operate independently without interfering with each other, just like four brains.
Based on this principle, some daring soul masters tried to separate the main soul from its three sub-souls.
Then, three pre-prepared powerful bodies were put in respectively, and the results were unexpectedly good. The soul has the ability to ignore space delays and communicate information instantly, so the operation is like one person playing with four toys at the same time.
But the difference is that controlling four bodies at the same time does not confuse the mind, as they can divide the work and operate independently.
In addition, there is no need to worry about the risk of the split souls betraying the main soul, because the four souls are still one in essence, they are just separated in space. The split souls are still part of the main soul, and the internal and external information between them is shared instantly.
So what are the benefits of doing this?
Theoretically, as long as there is enough time, even if a body is cloned using the genes of the original owner, because the same soul is used, the clone’s upper limit of strength will eventually reach the level of the original owner, which is equivalent to increasing its own combat power by 3 out of thin air.
Moreover, this is a normal combat power that can be maintained all the time. There is no need to consume a lot of energy in battle as in the past to summon a short-term clone to assist in the battle.
Chapter 25 Gold Gold (Old Version)
In order to perfectly inherit the power of the white dragon, Yuanzou thought carefully and took great pains.
Only a body full of intelligence can utilize the power of time, and for this it is necessary to use the technique of incarnation.
However, he never liked this magic from the beginning. Because of this, although this magic is very useful and powerful, he did not explore it too much.
Because any technique carries rewards as well as certain risks, although the split souls are not separated from the main soul, each soul is a radical individual lacking integrity.
The evil clone is darker, extremely aggressive and has a strong desire to conquer.
The kind-hearted clone is gentler, kind, introverted and not good at fighting.
The obsession clone does not have too many shortcomings. It is both civil and military, rational and capable of fighting and resisting, and its goals are often consistent with the main soul. The only shortcoming is the obsession contained in the clone itself. In daily actions, it will also produce many persistent thoughts and ideas. These large amounts of information flow will constantly impact the thinking ability of the other three souls.
The thoughts of the obsessive clone are like a source of harassing phone calls every day, which is very annoying.
After thinking it over and over, Yuan Zang decided to use his own clone of kindness to carry Bai Long’s cultivated body.
Because he had no experience in using the technique of incarnation before, he didn’t know how obedient the clone would be and whether it would get out of control. So for the sake of caution, he decided to use the best-controlled clone of kindness to test the waters.
After all, the power of time is too mysterious and strange. Even Yuan Zang in his prime has difficulty dealing with opponents of the time system. For safety reasons, it is better to be safe.
After receiving Haku’s inheritance, Yuanzo decided to return to the Hidden Rain Village to find a suitable place to start his training plan.
After escaping from the ruins, Yuan Zang did not leave, but decided to go and say hello to the queen and explain some matters. After all, things should be done from beginning to end. Since he had reached an agreement with these people, he should at least tell them so that they would not panic.
At this time, the residents of Loulan all felt the vibrations coming from underground.
One by one, they walked out of their rooms and looked around curiously, trying to figure out what was going on. These ordinary residents could not hide their panic and fear of the unknown phenomenon on their faces.
The queen and a group of ministers sat anxiously in the meeting room, waiting for news from Enzo. As an ordinary person, you are powerless in this ninja world. You have no other choice but to wait passively.
“Have you already attacked the dragon vein? What happened down there?”
Seeing Yuanzo’s figure suddenly appear in the room, the queen hurriedly stood up and asked. She knew that Yuanzo must have gone to the dragon vein first, and the vibration just now must have been caused by him.
She didn’t expect that Yuanzang could bypass her and open the dragon vein seal on his own.
“Only the royal bloodline can use the power of dragon veins. How did you do it?”
“This is not something you need to know. I am here to tell you that the previous Sand Village ninja did not come for the dragon vein. It has nothing to do with you. As for what he came for, it will not be good for you to know too much.”
The queen frowned somewhat dissatisfiedly. In the end, the other party did not explain anything clearly and only told a bunch of riddles. Moreover, the other party rudely trespassed into the dragon vein without considering the views of the Loulan side at all.
“What about the dragon vein? What did you do to it? What was the earthquake just now?”
What the queen is most concerned about right now is whether the dragon vein is intact.
Having said this, Yuanzang also thought for a while.
Because the white dragon has been lurking here for tens of thousands of years, a large amount of natural energy has accumulated here, forming a huge energy source, so the natural environment here can be so rich and superior. I believe that Loulan Kingdom also prospered on this basis.
However, as the core white dragon soul became weaker and weaker, the natural energy here began to dissipate, and the ecological environment began to deteriorate, which eventually led to the decline of Loulan Kingdom.
Now, the most important white dragon soul has dissipated, the dragon vein has lost its support, and the natural energy contained within it will sooner or later overflow and disappear.
However, Bailong was already about to die, and now it was just accelerating the process.
As for the Kingdom of Loulan, although only the shell of the dragon vein remains, it will not dissipate in a short time.
After all, it was formed over thousands of years and had a deep foundation. It was estimated that it would be no problem to maintain it until the end of the Queen’s generation, as long as they did not abuse the energy of the dragon vein.
As if thinking of something, Yuan Zang took out a scroll and slapped it casually. A puff of white smoke flashed by. The gold bars flowed along with the sound. Soon, the dazzling golden light filled the room, blinding everyone’s eyes.
Looking at the pile of gold bars lying on the ground, emitting golden light, even the knowledgeable queen couldn’t help but reveal an expression of surprise.
Many ministers behind the queen’s eyes suddenly lit up, and they couldn’t help but think that while they were in their own territory, they might as well rob the money and kill the people to silence them.
You what are you doing?
“This is for you. I borrowed something from the dragon vein. Consider it a little compensation for you!”
This amount of gold is not something that the poor Hidden Rain Village can afford. It is the precious metal collected by Enzo in ancient times.
Because gold is a mineral with very unique and rare properties, it is a relatively precious thing even in the universe, so Yuanzo has collected a lot of it since a long time ago.
Even after tens of thousands of years, gold is still one of the common currencies in human society, which gives us a glimpse into the unique value of gold.
A minister nearby couldn’t contain his excitement and couldn’t help but step forward, pick up a gold bar and take a bite of it. The next second, his old face was filled with smiles.
The old minister said in a silly voice, “My Queen, the quality of this gold is very good! It’s real! It’s great! With this gold, the people of Loulan will no longer have to starve! Not only that! We can use it to build many things!”
The atmosphere among the ministers suddenly became heated. With such a huge fortune suddenly in hand, they all turned into wise ministers and put forward various suggestions for large-scale construction, and volunteered to act as supervisors.
Only the queen still retained a trace of rationality. She knew that so much gold was both a wealth and a hidden danger. If she squandered it in a fit of passion, it would only bring all kinds of troubles and even lead to disaster.
At least, the gold cannot be known to the outside world now, otherwise it will be an unexpected disaster!
“Calm down, all of you! Don’t behave so ugly in front of our distinguished guests! You’ll make a fool of yourself!”
The sound of the gentle rebuke was not loud, but it immediately calmed down the noisy sound. This shows that the queen still has some means.
Yuanzang didn’t care about such a scene. He had seen countless times the various reactions of mortals when they saw large amounts of gold: ugliness, greed, disdain, rationality, which represented the richness and diversity of the human species.
Yuan Zang said calmly: “How to use this gold is up to you to worry about. I’ll take my leave now!”
Not wanting to waste any more time here, Yuan Zang left in one step, leaving behind a group of fanatical people, envisioning their bright future.
Chapter 26: Battle with Scorpion (Old Version)
Outside the tower, as soon as Yuanzang walked out of the gate, he saw the guards who were once so majestic lying on the ground.
Not far away, a red-haired young man stood indifferently. Beside him stood a dozen tall red-robed human puppets, holding sharp weapons in their hands. They were solemn and silent. It seemed that they were here with ill intentions.
“It seems that my bet was right. You will come back here!” Scorpion found his target.
Yuan Zang asked casually, “Why don’t you leave the Wind Country’s sphere of influence quickly? Are you waiting for me?”
At this moment, Yuanzang could roughly guess that the other party wanted to kill him to silence him, so he spoke out to test the waters.
“You have seen my Third Generation Wind Shadow Puppet, so I can’t let you go! You must die here today!” Scorpion had a delicate little face, but spoke cruel and ruthless words.
Although Scorpion looks like a beautiful boy, he is actually a bloody executioner.
Yuan Zang was instantly amused: “Haha, I just took a tour of Loulan. Even if you kill me, it may not prevent the secret from being leaked. How do you know that I haven’t told anyone? There are so many people here!”
Hearing this, Scorpion did not panic at all. Instead, he said calmly: “It’s easy! Just kill everyone here. I will make sure no one here survives!”
After saying that, Scorpion used the chakra lines on his fingertips to control a dozen red-robed puppets, quickly approaching Yuanzo and surrounding him to prevent him from escaping again.
Faced with this scene, Yuanzang could have just run away without any unnecessary fighting.
If this is the case, the people of Loulan will probably suffer. The other party is really capable of leaving no grass alive. So Yuanzang plans to subdue Xie here. After all, this is the cause and effect of his own actions, so he still needs to deal with it properly.
However, fighting here would make too much noise and easily cause accidental injuries, so a suitable and efficient way must be found to deal with Scorpion. Yuanzang took this opportunity to test the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan.
The power of the Sharingan can release various powerful illusions to disrupt the flow of chakra in the enemy’s brain, which is a special attack for ninjas who use chakra.
Since illusions can interfere with the enemy’s chakra, with Enzo’s current eye power, it should not be a problem for him to seize the opportunity and take down Scorpion in one go.
At this time, the red-clothed puppets that were quietly spread all around had already occupied advantageous positions and blocked all of Yuan Zang’s retreat routes. The expressionless human puppets held cold weapons in their hands, silently ready to attack.
The next second, Scorpion’s fingers moved slightly, and all the puppets rushed forward almost at the same time as if they had received the order, with their sharp swords pointing directly at the vital points of the human body.
There was no room to hide on the ground, so Yuan Zang dived into the ground again.
Seeing this, Scorpion sneered, the same trick would not work twice.
Rumbling sounds were heard underground, and a huge flat oval slowly emerged from the sand. The structure composed of black iron sand was extremely hard.
With the help of the Third Kazekage’s magnetic escape ability, Scorpion had gathered a large amount of iron sand in the underground of this town early on to prevent Enzo’s elusive underground ninjutsu.
While the two were talking, Scorpion had already condensed the iron sand underground to form a circular shield, and placed it secretly underground, waiting to be hit on the head by Yuanzang when he drilled into the ground.
Where Yuan Zang had originally stood, a black round shield slowly rose into the air, and the gravel covering the top scattered down. In the center of the round shield, there was a man lying in it.
“Haha, I caught you!” Scorpion had a look of joy. The Third Generation Wind Shadow Puppet in the distance formed seals with his hands, and the black iron sand began to change and vibrate, quickly gathering into a sphere, and the man in the center was trapped inside it.
The iron sand is tightened and compacted by magnetism, first from a huge sphere, slowly becoming smaller, and finally becoming a tight sphere. As the size of the sphere becomes smaller, the irregular undulations on the surface of the sphere also begin to become smooth.
Then, blood overflowed from the gaps between the black iron sand, dripping down under the force of gravity, dyeing the land red.
In addition, the sound of bones crunching and twisting could be faintly heard from the black sphere.
I don t know how much time passed.
Feeling that the situation was almost over, Scorpion couldn’t wait to cancel his ninjutsu. He wanted to see what kind of miserable condition this man who had made him so unhappy was in.
“untie!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the iron sand that lost the control of chakra returned to its original properties, and the sealed black sphere immediately collapsed.
A corpse fell along with the sliding iron sand.
Then, there was no sound on the ground…
Seeing this, Scorpion approached Yuanzang cautiously step by step. Based on his past experience, he felt that it was too easy to win this time.
It is very likely that the Yuanzo just now was just a clone, and all of this was just the opponent’s bait. The enemy’s real body might still be hiding in a corner somewhere, waiting for an opportunity for a surprise attack.
Yuan Zang, who was lying on the ground at this time, seemed to still have a breath left. However, his limbs were twisted and broken, revealing his white bones, and he was spitting blood. One of his eyes had fallen to the ground, and he looked seriously injured.
Turning around and seeing Scorpion approaching, Yuanzo’s face suddenly became filled with fear. His only remaining bloodshot eye stared at the red-haired boy, and he began to beg for mercy.
“No…no…don’t kill me. I can give you all the secret ninjutsu I have! The earth escape ninjutsu I just used was amazing! As long as you spare my life, all my ninjutsu will be yours!”
Hearing this, Scorpion, who was still on guard, looked disappointed. He thought he had met a rare master with whom he could learn from, but he didn’t expect that he was only at this level. It was really disappointing!
“What an ugly sight! Is this really the extent to which fragile humans can be?” Scorpion looked at the dying man’s begging with disdain.
The young man looked at Yuan Zang with disdain, his mouth full of sarcasm: “You seem to be quite capable, so don’t embarrass yourself before you die, just die peacefully! Your death is valuable!”
As a puppeteer pursuing the art of eternal life, Scorpion has little interest in other ninjutsu. If he can get it, it’s fine, but if he can’t, he won’t force it.
Because he was about to get a new powerful body, Scorpion was in a good mood, so he couldn’t help but say a few more words: “Don’t worry, your secret ninjutsu will not be lost. When I make you into a human puppet, all your secrets will be mine!”
Hahahahahaha!!!
Scorpion holds his forehead with his right hand handsomely, pretending to laugh with his head tilted back.
The yellow sand blows by, charming the mind…
On the streets of the ancient kingdom of Loulan.
The battle just now seemed to have never happened, everything was just like an illusion, Yuanzo and Sasori were still standing there in a daze.
Apart from a few curious spectators whispering in the distance, the two men in confrontation did not take any further action.
At the same time, a blood-red hexagram shone brightly in Yuanzo’s pupils, his line of sight met Scorpion’s eyes, and a stream of blood flowed from his eye sockets.
When the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan is used for the first time, the human body is unable to adapt and the meridians will inevitably suffer backlash.
The ultimate Yin-Tsuku chakra gathered in his eyes, but it was still a bit difficult for this body to fully bear it. Moreover, Enzo had no experience in using high-end chakra techniques in the past. This was his first time to truly come into contact with the power of the Otsutsuki clan.
At this time, the few strands of immortal power in the body began to move randomly, and the pure natural energy came to the ruptured meridians. Within a few breaths, Yuanzang’s eyes stopped bleeding, and the hidden injuries around his eye sockets began to repair.
What an interesting power!
Yuanzo was very satisfied that he had subdued the enemy the first time he used the Sharingan. It seemed that his understanding had not become dulled by thousands of years of wear and tear.
Feeling somewhat complacent, he once again turned his Sharingan towards the spectators outside the venue.
This time, Yuanzo only used the power of the Three-magatama Sharingan, and the curious residents of Loulan were instantly bewitched by the illusion, and their eyes became dull and they were stunned.
Like to watch! ?
Regarding this battle, Enzo left a hint to all the witnesses that those who were captured by the Sharingan would never remember this battle again, including the powerful Scorpion.
After using illusion, Yuanzo used fairy magic to spy on Scorpion’s brain and steal his memory.
The information contained in the mind of such a powerful high-ranking ninja of the Sand Village must be very valuable. It would be a waste not to take it. It can be used to supplement Yuanzo’s current poor database.
Afterwards, after using both illusion and magic to double-brainwash, Yuan Zang, who had taken double insurance, left the ancient kingdom of Loulan first, leaving the red-haired boy standing there stupidly.
After half an hour, Scorpion’s dilated pupils gradually gathered and he regained consciousness.
With a confused look on his face, he looked at the passers-by who were pointing and talking around him. His mind was still blank and his drowsy brain was unable to react to the scene in front of him.
Scorpio feels that there is a profound voice in his mind reminding him repeatedly.
“Leave here, leave here, leave here…”
This voice was as gentle and lovely as his deceased mother’s, and as serious and earnest as his deceased father’s. This mixture of majesty and confusion controlled Scorpion’s brain.
His body was already moving forward uncontrollably, and before Scorpion could react, he had already reached the outside of the town.
With a puzzled look on his face, Scorpion tilted his head, glanced at the Kingdom of Loulan behind him, and continued to follow the voice in his mind and walked towards the vast desert in the distance…
Chapter 27: The Greatness of Enzo (Old Version)
“Nagato, Konan, come and try the buns here!”
Yahiko stood in front of a steamed bun shop run by an old lady with an excited look on his face. It was rumored that the most delicious steamed buns in the Hidden Rain Village were served here, so Yahiko brought his friends here early to try them.
“Big sister, give me six meat buns first!” Yahiko, who was the first to take the basket of steaming hot buns, couldn’t wait to bring it to the two of them.
“It’s so hot! It’s so hot! Help me!” Yahiko suddenly shouted.
Nagato looked at Yahiko who was like an ant on the hot pan, and hurried forward to take the cage, but Nagato could not withstand the scorching heat after holding on for a few seconds, and put it back in Yahiko’s hands.
“Ah! You kid!” Yahiko, who had just recovered for a few minutes, suddenly screamed again.
Xiaonan on the side looked at the two of them speechlessly. She stretched out her little hand and six paper butterflies appeared in her palm. They flew slowly to the buns, wrapped around them, and hung in the air.
Thanks to Konan’s help, Yahiko was finally freed from the hot prison and hurriedly returned the cage to the store owner.
On the other hand, because the weather in the Hidden Rain Village is always cold and humid, the hot buns quickly lost their temperature under the cold wind. So, curious Xiaonan looked at the cooled meat buns and took a bite first.
However, she still had some ladylike burden in front of the two boys, so she only took a small bite and didn’t swallow it all at once. As a result, she only ate the skin and didn’t touch the meat at all.
The meat filling inside was steaming in the air.
Nagato, who was starving, smelled the fragrance and his stomach growled.
“It smells so good!” Nagato exclaimed.
Yahiko was very proud when he heard this, “Well, I’m well-informed, right? I’ve already found out about the best restaurants in the Hidden Rain Village these days.”
While Yahiko was feeling very proud, the other two had already started to eat voraciously. Delicious food always stimulates the appetite. It was rare for them to eat hot food after living in the open air.
“Hey! Stop eating secretly! Leave some for me first!” Yahiko looked at the two people’s reckless behavior and quickly reached out to grab the remaining meat buns.
“Oh, by the way, Yahiko, you’ve been taking us out for big meals these days, do you have enough money?” Konan, who is good at planning ahead, couldn’t help but ask Yahiko a few questions. Although they are now ninjas with allowances, they can’t be so extravagant.
“It’s okay! Thanks to Master Yuanzang, he left us a lot of money, which is more than enough for us to spend! You can eat without worrying about it. We haven’t had delicious food for such a long time, so of course we should treat ourselves.”
“Come to think of it, I haven’t seen Lord Enzo in the past few days. Is he doing something confidential?” The careful Nagato recalled these days and found that Enzo seemed to have disappeared.
At this moment, the ninjutsu instructor of Yahiko and the other two walked over from a distance.
“Hello, is this Nagato?”
“Ah, it’s the instructor! Oh no! He’s not here to catch me slacking off in training!” When Yahiko saw the instructor in the distance, he immediately looked nervous, as if he had a premonition that something bad was going to happen.
“Is there anything wrong, instructor?” Nagato looked confused. It was obvious that the other party was coming for him, and he didn’t even look at the other two.
“Master Enzo called you and it seems that he has something to tell you.”
“Instructor, did you only call Nagato?” Yahiko was keenly aware that Nagato seemed to be leaving alone, and he felt a little uneasy.
In the past, the three of them had always acted together, and suddenly they separated. Yahiko couldn’t help feeling a little empty and fearful, and he was a little worried about whether the introverted Nagato could handle things well.
“Well, Nagato, go quickly first. Yahiko and Konan, you just go back to the dormitory and wait. And Yahiko, don’t be lazy and pay more attention to training!” The instructor nodded and said seriously.
After explaining everything, the instructor took Nagato away, leaving only Yahiko and Konan.
Watching Nagato’s receding back, Yahiko and Konan were a little worried. After all, they couldn’t fully trust the ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village.
In a woodland not far from Yuyin Village, there is a small mansion.
This is a relatively remote place with few pedestrians. Because of its quietness and seclusion, Yuanzang made it his base.
With the help of the dense trees and thick fog around, Yuan Zang set up a phantom formation, which resulted in ordinary people only being able to wander around the outskirts of the woods and unable to enter the hinterland.
Not to mention civilians, even ordinary ninjas cannot set foot in this mansion without strong resistance to illusions.
Meanwhile, the instructor led Nagato to the outskirts of the forest and returned. Recently, word of the strange phenomena in this forest has spread, and passers-by will get lost in the forest, so no one dares to approach.
Nagato had also heard about this, so he looked at the instructor with confusion, not understanding why he brought him here.
“Nagato, go in by yourself! Master Enzo said that you are special and will not get lost in this forest, so I can’t go in with you. You have to walk the rest of the way by yourself.”
When the word “special” was mentioned, Nagato thought of his strange eyes. Since the day his parents were murdered, he had never used these ominous eyes again.
That brutal and cold power still makes Nagato tremble with fear whenever he thinks about it. If possible, he never wants to touch this power again.
Without giving Nagato much time to think, the instructor had already left, leaving Nagato alone outside the quiet forest.
After hesitating for a moment, Nagato resolutely set off. He knew that all the stability they had now was given by Enzo, the shadow of the Hidden Rain Village. If he could not satisfy Enzo, his current life would disappear again.
Nagato himself didn’t care, but when he thought of Yahiko and Konan, the kind-hearted Nagato couldn’t bear to see his friends being displaced again, so he had to move forward no matter what.
Take a deep breath and step into the deep, dark green forest path.
The imagined bizarre scene did not appear, and everything was very quiet.
The occasional bird calls came from far away, and the breeze blew the green leaves, making a rustling sound.
Apart from that, there was no danger, which made Nagato, who had been walking for a while, breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed that this place was safe for the time being.
This forest is actually not very big, but Yuan Zang’s phantom magic circle confuses people’s sense of direction and visual perception, making this forest feel unfathomable.
Since Nagato’s eyes are the Rinnegan, even if they are not opened, the powerful Yin-Tun Chakra contained in them is enough to defend against the erosion of spiritual formations.
Therefore, there was no need for Yuanzo to go to the outskirts of the forest to receive Nagato; he could just walk in along the forest path.
At this time, Yuanzang was already standing at the door with his hands behind his back.
He knew Nagato was approaching.
The house behind him was built according to the spiritual veins of mountains, rivers, forests and trees, and it is close to mountains and rivers. After further processing by Yuanzang by building mountains, stacking stones and managing water, this place is now full of natural energy.
It is no exaggeration to say that the vitality here is so vigorous that it is no longer suitable for human habitation.
With the poor life energy in ordinary people’s bodies, once they are exposed to such high concentration of vital natural energy for a long time, the coordination of the five elements in the body will be disrupted, and even the low concentration of vital energy in the body will penetrate into the high concentration of vital energy outside the body.
In mild cases, the patient may become insane and violent, while in severe cases, the patient may be assimilated into nature and become a part of it.
A few days ago.
As soon as Enzo returned from Loulan, the instructor in charge of guiding Yahiko and others in their training reported Nagato’s situation.
During the training, the huge amount of chakra displayed in Nagato’s body surprised a group of teaching ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village. It was rare to see a ninja with such a large amount of chakra in their small village.
To this end, the excited instructors were busy investigating Nagato’s physical condition and life experience.
They didn’t know until they checked. They didn’t expect that Nagato was actually a descendant of the disappeared Uzumaki clan. No wonder he had such a horrible physique.
This made the Rain Village ninjas, who had initially been quite critical of Enzo, suddenly feel relieved.
Originally, they were very resentful of these three homeless children, suspecting that they were three little beggars picked up by Yuanzang from outside, and were allowed to stay in the village because of Yuanzang’s kindness. They would only waste the food of the Hidden Rain Village.
Now it seems that they were too superficial! They couldn’t understand the good intentions of the village chief! This was simply Enzo’s foresight in preparing a powerful fighting force for the future of the Hidden Rain Village!
As expected, Lord Yuanzang has his considerations for everything he does, and every step is not something that ordinary people can guess.
Now, all the ninjas in the Hidden Rain Village are in awe of this mysterious newcomer from the Salamander Family who has been keeping a low profile. If he doesn’t come out, then nothing will happen. But if he comes out, then he will make a big splash. With just one move, Enzo has created a new world for the Hidden Rain Village!
In addition to praise and admiration.
People are also very curious about this mysterious new village chief who has been patient for many years and possesses powerful strength. They want to know how such a powerful person hides from the world and what kind of story is behind him?
However, because ninjas have always attached great importance to hiding information, no one would take the initiative to inquire about Yuanzo’s past. In this era, intelligence is combat power, and no one dares to violate this taboo.
At this time, Nagato was close to his destination.
Relying on the huge amount of Yang-tun Chakra in the body, one can overcome the erosion caused by the rich natural energy around.
The boy walked in the dark woods where the branches and leaves blocked the sunlight. He kept walking until he suddenly came to an open and bright area, and suddenly he felt like he had finally found a way out.
For some reason, Nagato could sense that this place was filled with an unknown energy aura. It was not the chakra he had been practicing these days, but something completely new.
Chapter 28: Opening the Samsara Eye (Old Version)
“We’re here Nagato. You must have had a hard time on the journey.”
Yuanzang has been waiting for a long time and has accepted the legacy of the ancient white dragon from Loulan. He will need to spend a lot of time to cultivate a new body, so he has to arrange everything in advance.
Enzo had already learned information about Nagato from his subordinates.
Nagato, who possessed the body of a member of the Uzumaki clan and the Rinnegan, completed the Genin assessment with ease, and even mastered many ninjutsu that only Chunin could master in just a few months. It can be said that he is gifted.
As a special ninja who can use paper escape, Konan is not only intelligent and thoughtful, but also has a high amount of chakra, so it is easy for her to complete the Genin assessment.
Only Yahiko is ordinary and ends up being the last one…
His talent was not bad, but it was much inferior to the other two. Even the instructors did not think highly of him. For this reason, they gave Yahiko extra training every day, making him exhausted and complaining bitterly.
“Master Enzo, thank you for your care these days.”
As soon as Nagato saw Enzo, he quickly bowed. For some reason, Nagato felt that after not seeing him for many days, Enzo’s aura became more ethereal and mysterious, making it increasingly difficult for him to see through him, leaving Nagato with only awe in his heart.
Yuan Zang casually said: “I heard that you have performed well these days. In addition to Yahiko becoming the well-known loser in the village, you and Konan have both become Genin.”
Hearing this, Nagato couldn’t help but get nervous. He thought that Enzo felt that Yahiko’s performance was average and did not meet his expectations, and wanted to expel Yahiko from the village.
“Lord Enzo! Yahiko has been training very hard these days, but… he just has bad luck. Please, Lord Enzo, give him another chance!” Nagato pleaded for Yahiko in a panic.
Enzo shook his head when he heard this: “I didn’t come to you today because of Yahiko. Since I asked you to come, it must be for your business.”
“Your eyes, after these days of chakra training, I believe you can already feel the peculiarity of your eyes. Have you ever had any unusual symptoms before?”
As expected, Nagato realized that the other party must have noticed that his eyes were unusual.
“Master Enzo, there is an uncontrollable evil power hidden in my eyes. I am very afraid of this power. I am afraid that this evil power will hurt Yahiko, Konan and others. Because I don’t want to hurt anyone, so if possible, I hope not to use the power of these eyes in the future.”
Yuan Zang was slightly surprised. He couldn’t help but praise: “Nagato, you are really a kind child.”
In fact, Yuanzo’s heart was still somewhat touched. He did not expect that this young man with such great potential would not want to hurt others for the first time.
Nagato did not get lost in the sense of superiority brought by powerful strength, which shows that he is a kind person with a pure heart, and he deserves these eyes.
At this point, Yuanzang began to explain: “Your eyes are called the Samsara Eye. They are the eyes of the legendary Six Paths Sage. They are not evil. The reason you feel scared is because you cannot control them. The Samsara Eye has a large amount of intense Yin-Tun Chakra. It is a collection of high-quality Yin-Tun Chakra.”
“Yin-ton Chakra is the embodiment of human spiritual power, which will affect emotions. Because you are still young, your weak body will not adapt to the strong spiritual power, and you will instinctively feel resistance and fear. When you grow up, you will find that these eyes are not as scary as they are now.”
As he spoke, Enzo walked over and touched Nagato’s head.
A trace of pure immortal power penetrated into Nagato’s meridians, circulated around the sky and finally gathered at the Samsara Eye. As the developer of the Liangyi Sage Mode, Yuanzang was best at the balance of yin and yang.
Now he has to use the positive side of his immortal power to balance the negative side of the Eye of Samsara.
This will allow the young Nagato to maintain the harmony of yin and yang in his body. If the balance is well controlled, it will not only eliminate the impact of the violent and cold aura of the Samsara Eye on his mind, but also allow Nagato to open the Samsara Eye in advance and master the secrets of the Samsara Eye earlier.
At this moment, with the collision of the Yang attribute fairy power and the high-quality Yin escape chakra.
Nagato, who was the first to be affected, immediately felt something strange. In the past, Nagato’s feelings about his body were like lighting a pile of matches in the snow, with warm wind blowing.
This represents the attribute layout ratio of Yin Release Chakra, Yang Release Chakra and Wind Release Chakra in Nagato’s body.
The weak wind-style chakra is the smallest and has almost no presence.
Only the blazing Yang-style chakra could help Nagato resist the bone-chilling Yin-style chakra from the Rinnegan. According to Enzo’s speculation, this was also due to the fact that Nagato was a remnant of the Uzumaki clan, who was born with huge chakra and strong vitality. If it were an ordinary person, he would have collapsed long ago.
Even so, the quality of Nagato’s Yang Release Chakra was still not enough to withstand the impact of the Rinnegan Chakra.
But this time it was different.
Nagato clearly felt that the warm energy coming from Enzo’s palm could compete with the Samsara Eye’s chakra. The fire in his body, which was like a candle burning in the cold wind, seemed to be fueled by boiling fuel.
Instantly, flames shot up into the sky. The light from the flames illuminated Nagato’s heart. The spiritual world that had been frozen by the Samsara Eye chakra for many years was warming up. Affected by this, even Nagato’s body felt a little warm.
Nagato’s eyes began to change at this moment. The normal whites of the eyes and pupils began to distort, and strange and mysterious ripples began to spread from the center of the eyeballs, and the entire eyes were dyed with a strange light purple.
Due to the fusion of two forces of the same level, the power of the universe generated by the intersection of yin and yang was gathering around Nagato’s eyes. This made the boy, who originally looked weak and pale, change his temperament instantly, and the whole person was filled with a mysterious aura.
Yuanzo, who had dealt with the Rinnegan for many years, immediately knew that this would be the reappearance of the Rinnegan.
The mysterious power of all things has been captured in a concrete way in Yuanzang’s eyes.
However, Yuanzo’s emotions did not fluctuate too much. This pair of Samsara eyes was still the most ordinary one, which was still far inferior to those of the top Otsutsuki. This level of power was not something he was interested in.
In addition, although Nagato has Otsutsuki’s eyes, he does not have Otsutsuki’s body.
It was like an old car with a powerful engine. It would fall apart if it ran randomly, and it could not bring out the true power of the Samsara Eye. He still needed some more time to grow.
Looking at the boy in front of him, Yuan Zang thought for a while before deciding to speak slowly:
“Listen carefully, Nagato. Power is power. There is no absolute distinction between good and evil. The key lies in the person who uses it. Even evil power can be used for good. Being a hero in the dark is also a cool thing. Whether your eyes are evil or not depends on your own behavior and will.”
Nagato was stunned, not knowing how to respond, so he could only look at Enzo and nod silently.
“Yes, I understand, Master Enzo…”
Nagato is still too young, his personality is paranoid and simple, and he tends to go to extremes. Therefore, in addition to focusing on developing his Samsara Eye, Enzo also has to pay attention to his psychological condition to prevent Nagato from accidentally going astray.
To be on the safe side, the cautious Yuan Zang had deliberately left a backup ban when he used his immortal power to flow into Nagato’s meridians…
After all, as an old fox who has lived for a thousand years, Enzo always prepares for the worst. If Nagato unfortunately cannot be used by him, he can only activate the insurance measures. He hopes that moment will never come.
During the remaining time, Enzo reminded Nagato to keep the secret of the Rinnegan and not tell anyone else, and then sent Nagato away.
Yuan Zang now cares more about the domineering time power of the White Dragon than this pair of ordinary Samsara eyes. How to use the White Dragon’s blood to refine a powerful body is the top priority for Yuan Zang to think about.
Therefore, the research on the Rinnegan will have to be put on hold for a while.
When Yuanzang uses the technique of incarnation to master the secret of time and obtains a dragon-born clone with the attributes of a white dragon, he will be able to instantly gain combat power that is no less than that of his past at the moment of success.
So he had to take it seriously and put it at the top of his agenda.
Chapter 29 Cultivation Plan (Old Version)
Konoha Village, the Hokage office building, a huge cylindrical building.
The Sandaime Hokage was reading the latest battle reports with a frown on his face, and it was clear from his sad expression that the situation was not optimistic.
Although Konoha is the largest village in the ninja world, years of war have left it like a spent force.
Sitting next to them were the Hokage’s senior advisors, elders Utane Koharu, Mito Kado En, and Shimura Danzo, who was in charge of the Root. The brutal results of the battle filled the meeting room with a serious atmosphere.
At this time, Danzo was looking at the copy in his hand, while resting his chin on his hand, analyzing:
“Although it’s a great thing that Jiraiya and his team succeeded in killing the ninja demigod, the Salamander Hanzo, and it won us a huge advantage, but I didn’t expect that this small Rain Village actually has such a trump card! How abominable!”
Sarutobi Hiruzen took the brunt of the responsibility and said, “I thought that without the village chief, the Hidden Rain Village ninjas would be leaderless and be overwhelmed by our momentum. In the end, we were too careless. As the Hokage, I am to blame for this.”
However, as if he had long been accustomed to the character of his old friend, Danzo just glanced at Sarutobi Hiruzen and said no more, continuing to look down and silently examining the documents.
However, Utane Koharu and Mito Kado En quickly tried to make amends, “You can’t be blamed entirely for this, Hiruzen! We originally planned to concentrate our forces and attack the enemy’s base in one fell swoop. This decision was agreed upon by all of us. It’s not your fault alone. Besides, the current situation is too unexpected and doesn’t make sense at all!”
At this time, Danzo spoke again with some impatience: “It is meaningless to discuss this now, let’s quickly plan our next move!”
Now Danzo only wants a plan on how to counter the Hidden Rain Village. He wants to inflict a heavy blow to the Hidden Rain Village to make up for the heavy losses suffered by Konoha Village this time.
The Sandaime Hokage took a deep breath of cigarette, exhaled slowly, and said:
“As for the specific situation, let’s wait until Jiraiya and the others come back to discuss it. After all, only they, as eyewitnesses, can know how strong the opponent is. If we ask them clearly first, it will be easier for us to formulate specific tactics to counter the opponent.”
“but……”
Sarutobi Hiruzen changed the subject and said with some relief:
“Fortunately, no one from the young elite team that served as the vanguard was injured or killed. We had only wanted them to fight a favorable battle as a training exercise, but we didn’t expect this to happen.”
“Oh, the kid from the Uchiha family and the two brothers from the Hyuga family are also unharmed? Their eyes weren’t taken away?” Danzo was a little surprised, and even there was a hint of regret in his tone, which was barely noticeable.
Sarutobi Hiruzen relaxed his tense expression a little: “Yes! According to Minato and the others, the other party could have taken down their team, but they seemed to want to make peace with Konoha, so they showed goodwill and did not harm them. Even though they knew there was a Jinchuriki, they did not touch the tailed beast.”
The Sandaime Hokage looked at his old friends and said, “If the other party really wants to reconcile, perhaps we can consider accepting their proposal. After all, peace is rare and precious, and Konoha can no longer bear more wars…”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Too naive! Hiruzen!”
Danzo slammed the table in dissatisfaction and said in a low voice: “How can we pin our hopes on the enemy’s mercy! You’ve made the same mistake again! The most urgent task is to collect intelligence on the enemy as soon as possible and develop a strategy to restrain the enemy! This is what we should do!”
At this time, Utane Koharu spoke.
“Alas, Danzo, of course we also want to avenge our fellow Konoha compatriots who died. But reality is reality. As the supreme commander, we are responsible for the overall situation of Konoha. The reality does not allow us to continue fighting. As the chief of logistics, I know better than you how shaky Konoha is now.”
After weighing the pros and cons, she decided to stand on Sarutobi Hiruzen’s side and speak for him. Mito Kado En on the side also agreed with this view.
Seeing that the situation was settled, Yuan Zang hesitated to speak, and then gave up and said nothing. In fact, he also knew the current situation of Konoha. Konoha was in a state of war and needed a period of recuperation.
In Yuyin Village, in a deep woodland.
After the initial briefing, Yuanzang, who had some free time, began the biological cultivation project.
It is a simple matter to clone the genetic material in a drop of blood and cultivate it into an adult. Even the current ninja world can barely do this.
But the white dragon’s genes are not ordinary.
First of all, the white dragon is a dragon species.
The dragon’s powerful body is not compatible with the human soul. Even an immortal like Yuanzang cannot control the dragon’s body. Forcibly placing the soul into the body of a newborn white dragon will cause the soul to be eroded by dragon energy, causing endless troubles.
Therefore, Yuanzang could only settle for the next best option.
The goal of cultivating a white dragon was changed to creating a dragon-man with white dragon blood, a dragon descendant who inherited the power of the white dragon. Only in this way could the power be barely controlled.
However, to transform a dragon into a human, it is necessary to appropriately modify the genetic material in its blood and essence. Modifying the genetic code of such a higher organism is destined to be a complex and tedious project.
In addition, to cultivate a white dragon with huge vitality, you definitely cannot use an ordinary culture dish, otherwise the energy supply will inevitably not be able to keep up with the physical development of the white dragon, and will eventually lead to its death from starvation and exhaustion.
Therefore, finding a sturdy and reliable container is also important.
After thinking for a while in his mind, Yuanzo decided to use a kind of life tree technique in the wood-type fairy technique. This technique is a peculiar technique borrowed from the Otsutsuki sacred tree.
Using a big tree rooted in the vibrant earth as a tool to cultivate life is a very novel idea.
The wood element fairy power required for this technology has a natural affinity with life, and the tree of life as a plant has an outstanding performance in transporting and absorbing energy.
The Tree of Life can not only transport a large amount of natural energy, but also keep the process smooth and slow, without generating excessive energy vortexes, thus avoiding impact damage to the young.
Although the chakra system and the fairy power system are two different paths, they ultimately lead to the same goal.
In essence, they are all applications of natural elements, means based on basic substances and laws, and their rules and underlying logic are the same.
So in terms of external manifestations, both ninjutsu and senjutsu have five special attributes and two basic attributes of yin and yang.
Because the laws of nature and energy matter are unified, the cultivation system developed on this basis must also have similarities.
Ninjutsu and Senjutsu have a certain degree of universality.
The Tree of Life technology before us is a typical example of learning from the enemy in order to defeat the enemy.
During the Great War of Sages that year, Enzo and a few friends happened to seize a Otsutsuki sacred tree. They conducted in-depth research on it, and based on this, they developed a tree of life sage technique that was more suitable for the life in the ninja world.
And now it comes in handy.
Everything is ready, but Yuan Zang is not in a hurry to cultivate the white dragon body. First, he needs to experiment with the art of incarnation. As a more advanced fairy art than fairy art, more magical effects often contain more risks, so he must test it first.
To be on the safe side, he decided to use a weaker body as the carrier of his soul.
The key to the experiment is that the mice must be easy to control, and they cannot go berserk and easily devour their masters. Since this is the first incarnation used in the experiment, its strength cannot be too high.
However, correspondingly, Yuanzo can use a more violent evil clone as a carrier. After all, as long as the strength is not strong, no matter how evil it is, it can’t cause any trouble.
Chapter 30: Evil Spirit Clone (Old Version)
Yuan Zang opened his palms, light flashed in his palms, and a Tai Chi diagram of yin and yang appeared.
With a thought, the space on the picture twisted slightly, and a corpse appeared.
This was the body of the Uchiha clan member who died at the beginning. Enzo took away his eyes but did not destroy the body. He always thought that it would come in handy in the future, but he did not expect that it would be useful so soon.
The pale corpse, with only empty eye sockets left after losing both eyes, looked a little scary, but was well preserved overall. Except for the small hole on the forehead pierced by the sword energy, other parts were intact.
This is a suitable container at the moment. This body is neither strong nor weak and is within the controllable range. The flowing Otsutsuki bloodline and the Sharingan can provide Enzo with an opportunity to study the power of the Otsutsuki in the future.
Entering the Yin-Yang Immortal Mode, Yuan Zang sat on the ground in meditation. As he formed seals with his hands, a huge Yin-Yang magic circle emerged. The agile Yin-Yang fish kept spinning and intersecting, their speed kept slowing down, and finally the black eye of the white fish stopped under Yuan Zang’s body, while the white eye of the black fish stopped under the corpse.
When the formation started, Yuan Zang’s mental power was amplified under the blessing of the formation, his consciousness became sharper and clearer, and his spirit body became tougher and more transparent. He gained the supplement of “black”, the eye of the formation.
Correspondingly, the corpse received a constant supply of vitality from the center of the formation “White”. A large amount of Yang energy spread throughout the Uchiha clan member’s body. His pale face became rosy, the corrupt corpse spots on his body began to fade, and even the fatal wound on his forehead was repaired.
But even if the body was restored, the soul of this Uchiha member had already passed away, and this living body was still just a walking corpse.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Yuanzo reached out to his eyes. He wanted to return the Sharingan to its original owner.
Chakra would interfere with his refinement of spiritual power, so Yuanzo had been weakening the power of chakra these days, trying to extract a certain amount of spiritual power first, and then study the power of chakra.
Because of this, these two Sharingans became an obstacle for Enzo, and he was worried about where to put them.
What immortals pursue is the natural perfection of the body.
The body rejection caused by possession is already a constant problem, and adding these eyes that are condensed with ultimate Yintun Chakra makes things even worse.
The chakra contained in this pair of Sharingan has been interfering with Enzo’s use of the power of the sage.
Therefore, taking advantage of the current opportunity, Yuanzang just returned the eyes to their original owner, which would not only increase his combat power but also improve his own cultivation, which was really killing two birds with one stone.
The moment he took off his Sharingan, Enzo waved his other hand.
A small amount of yang energy that the White Fish Formation Eye was transmitting to the corpse flew into his eye sockets. In an instant, the eyes that shared the same genome as the original body and belonged to Yuanzang himself were reconstructed and restored.
On the other side, the Uchiha clan members’ bodies also became completely complete.
After being baptized by the yang-attributed immortal power and the Mangekyo Sharingan developed by Enzo.
This body has already acquired preliminary power of the universe, and its strength is far greater than when the original owner was alive. Both the quantity and quality of chakra have been greatly improved.
“Then comes the main show.”
Yuanzang formed seals with his hands again, and this time a rare solemnity appeared on his face.
The soul is the foundation of a person’s existence in the world. All changes in the soul must be treated with caution. Just the slightest mistake may lead to a drastic change in a person’s temperament.
Yuanzang did not have much experience in using the method of incarnation, so he had to be in perfect condition when performing this magic and could not be careless at all.
The art of incarnation is an extremely difficult magic technique, which combines the ideas and wisdom of countless immortals. To use this magic technique, the operator needs to have extensive knowledge and subtle control.
One of the difficult principles of this magic is quantum entanglement.
When particles interact with each other in a system composed of two or more particles, the behavior of one particle will affect the state of another, even if they are several galaxies away. When one particle is manipulated and its state changes, the other particle will also immediately undergo a corresponding state change.
Quantum entanglement is a property of the quantum state, and is also used in the transmission of information between souls.
Another difficult principle is the multi-brain coordination and division of labor technology similar to that of the dolphin brain, except that it is more thorough and involves collaboration among several aspects of the soul.
In addition, there is also the key technique of differentiating souls.
In order to control four bodies at the same time without confusion, the soul needs to be processed and polished so that a complete soul has four sides at the same time: the main soul, the evil soul, the good soul, and the obsession soul.
This process is a test of one’s willpower, and any negligence will lead to hidden dangers.
Because of this, even in ancient times, few immortals dared to dabble in this magical technique.
Only some crazy soul magic immortals would enjoy studying this kind of magic. Soul magic is a high-risk, high-reward category. If you succeed, your combat power will be greatly increased. If you fail, you will become insane or even lose your life.
Of course, for an immortal, becoming a madman and losing one’s life are the same concept. Without one’s own consciousness, what is the difference between that and being dead?
This time, Yuanzang didn’t need to split out three souls at once. He only needed one evil soul. In order to ensure safety, he chose to take small steps slowly instead of going all at once.
The spiritual world.
Yuan Zang’s soul was sitting upright on the Yin-Yang magic circle, his face relaxed and his expression contented.
The next moment, his expression turned into anger, then evil, then greed, jealousy, madness, and bloodthirstiness. He finally froze in a ruthless and cold-blooded state.
The soul body that was exactly the same as Yuanzang began to change after being tempered by the immortal method. Another head appeared next to the soul’s head, with a hideous and distorted face, quietly floating next to the soul.
In the real world, Yuan Zang pointed from a distance.
The evil spirit head seemed to resonate with the Uchiha corpse on the ground.
However, the evil spirit does not simply occupy someone else’s body. Instead, it is still in Enzo’s body, or in other words, the evil spirit exists in the bodies of both Enzo and the Uchiha clan members.
Not only that, the evil spirits existing in two bodies at the same time can communicate instantly regardless of distance, and a kind of connection beyond space is established between them.
It was the first time that Yuanzang used the technique of incarnation, and he completed the technique without any danger.
At this moment, the dead body is no longer a corpse, it once again gains a soul and becomes a complete person once again.
The black-haired Uchiha clan member opened his eyes again after a long absence. The blood-red hexagram pattern in his eye sockets was shining brightly, and he looked very energetic.
The new body slowly stood up, twisted its neck to stretch its stiff body, then the evil spirit body looked at Yuanzo and spoke.
“So what should I call myself? It seems more convenient to have a code name.”
Upon hearing this, Yuan Zang thought for a while before speaking: “According to the memories of the Uchiha clan inherited from the evil spirit, you can call me by my original name, Uchiha Tanzo.”
“What a coincidence! This name, haha.”
The dead are reborn at this moment through new souls.
Taking this opportunity, Yuanzang sensed his current wonderful state. There was no sense of separation as he had imagined. Although they were two bodies, he could control them as flexibly as his left and right hands.
From now on, in the future, as long as the strength of this evil spirit body is improved, Yuanzo will be able to naturally gain two combat powers.
The immortal methods involving the soul are indeed so dangerous and fascinating. No wonder those soul-type immortals are so eager to try them. The benefits are really huge.
Chapter 31: Konoha Mission (Old Version)
Planting the Tree of Life requires a large amount of natural energy. And the higher the aptitude of the adult being nurtured, the greater the amount of energy required.
Therefore the sapling of the tree of life is very important.
Originally, Yuanzo wanted to directly catch a tailed beast to use as a sapling. After all, this fairy technique is to imitate the technology of the sacred tree. Using the tailed beast for planting has the same effect. Especially the Nine-Tailed Fox, which has the largest amount of chakra, is most suitable for use as a nursery.
However, now the nine tailed beasts are basically controlled by the five major ninja villages. If you try to snatch them, it will cause a lot of trouble. For the sake of the overall situation in the future, you cannot make enemies with the five major ninja villages so quickly.
Besides, Enzo had a better option.
Using the tailed beast as a sapling may be affected by the chakra, so it is better to use itself as a primer to form a better solution. Yuanzang wants to cultivate a clone body that fits his soul, so adding his own factors to the mother body is more conducive to the combination of soul and flesh.
Although feeding trees with one’s body will consume a lot of spiritual energy, the rewards are also huge.
However, what is relatively troublesome is that during the period of cultivating the saplings, Yuanzo must stay where he is and cannot move. Once anything happens in the outside world, he will not know, which poses a certain danger.
He couldn’t guarantee whether Konoha would send out a large army of ninjas for revenge again, and Nagato, who had just activated the Rinnegan, wandering around outside was another big risk.
At present, Yuanzo has to take care of the overall situation of the Hidden Rain Village, but the project of cultivating saplings requires a lot of effort, and he is a little overwhelmed at the moment.
However, at this time, the role of the evil soul split became apparent.
The person you can trust most in the world is yourself. It is perfect for the clone to serve as Yuanzo’s second pair of eyes to alert against possible enemy situations.
Yuan Zang did not need to speak, the evil spirit clone shared the same thoughts with him, and the two had different bodies but the same mind. Yuan Zang was still sitting there, and the evil spirit clone had changed into his appearance and went to the central tower of the Hidden Rain Village.
“Master Enzo, this is the list of ninjas that have returned to the Hidden Rain Village. Except for the dozens of elite ninjas that Master Kanda took away, most of the ninjas have returned to the team.”
A manager was holding a booklet and reporting the latest situation to Yuanzang.
After several months of summoning, most of the ninjas who could return have returned, and the remaining ninjas who were unwilling to return probably had other intentions.
Due to years of war and casualties, the number of ninjas in the Hidden Rain Village has been greatly reduced.
Originally, there were about three hundred Genin left in the village, and the front-line combat force had about a thousand people. However, due to the casualties in the war and the elite team taken away by Kamida, there were only eight hundred ninjas left.
According to the personnel list, only 700 ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village have returned so far, and most of them are mediocre mid-level and low-level ninjas. On the contrary, among the more than 100 ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village whose whereabouts are unknown, there are many mid-level and high-level ninjas.
Perhaps it is because they are so skilled and courageous, most of the ninjas who have not returned yet have a skill to save their lives and can survive anywhere, so they don’t need the protection of the Hidden Rain Village.
Instead, those weak ninjas chose to return to the village in search of a safe place.
The country is in chaos and war right now, and anyone who can travel around the world alone is quite capable.
The ninja who reported the incident said with a hint of worry, “Master Enzo, the total combat power of the Hidden Rain Village is only a thousand people, and most of them are middle and lower ninjas. Our situation is not optimistic.”
This person had never seen Enzo perform magic, but only knew some information from rumors. So he subconsciously regarded the number of ninjas as a guarantee for the survival of the Hidden Rain Village.
In the eyes of these civil servants who have never been on the battlefield, no matter how strong a person’s martial arts is, he cannot match the might of thousands of soldiers. Fighting a war still depends on strategic layout rather than individual courage.
However, times have changed. The importance of individual power is far greater than that of a group of rabble. Enzo alone can form an army to protect the country.
However, Yuanzou does not care too much about the current bleak situation of the Hidden Rain Village, nor will he put more energy into it.
After all, he didn’t care about this village in the first place, he just used it as a temporary place to stay. If it weren’t for the agreement with the original owner, he wouldn’t even save this village.
“Master Enzo, the Hidden Rain Village is now surrounded by enemies. The Land of Iron, the Hidden Sand Village, and the Hidden Leaf Village are all constantly clashing with us. Should we use diplomatic means to reach a reconciliation with some of them? The troops led by Master Kamada are also an important force for us. After all, you and Master Kamada are relatives. If we don’t consider it…”
“That’s not necessary.” Yuan Zang shook his head and interrupted the conversation of the civil servants nearby.
Yuan Zang said, “If it’s about the military strength of the Hidden Rain Village, you don’t need to worry. I have made arrangements and the safety of the village is guaranteed. In addition, I have already discussed the reconciliation with the Leaf Village, and a delegation will be coming over in the next few days.”
As for the combat capability of the Hidden Rain Village, in Enzo’s opinion, it would be enough to train up one Nagato.
With a pair of Samsara eyes and his huge amount of chakra, it is not a problem to intimidate a ninja village. As for Yuanzang, his target has never been these ninjas, but the Otsutsuki clan in the starry sky.
At this time, a liaison officer ran into the meeting room.
“Master Enzo! A delegation has arrived from Konoha, saying they are here to discuss a specific peace treaty between the two countries! Do you have any instructions?”
It really comes true as soon as it is said!
“How many of them came? Who are they?” the civil servant asked quickly.
“The ones we can recognize are Konoha’s high-ranking official Danzo Shimura and the Third Hokage’s disciple Orochimaru. There is insufficient information on the others, so we can’t find out for the time being.” The liaison officer replied hurriedly.
“They are all big shots. It seems that the people in Konoha are serious. Maybe…” the civil servant said to himself.
Then, Yuan Zang ordered: “You all go out, let them select one or two representatives to come in for discussion. I will discuss the general direction with them, and the rest will be left to you to study in detail.”
For big things, small meetings are held; for small things, big meetings are held. Yuanzang only intended to discuss his intentions with their leader. As for the remaining details, he was unwilling to spend more energy to study them in detail.
After dismissing his subordinates, Yuan Zang crossed his legs and sat comfortably on the high chair.
His fingers tapped the table regularly, waiting for the other party to come in. This body was transformed by Uchiha Tianzang, and the one controlling him was Yuanzang’s evil spirit, so his style of behavior was much more flamboyant and perverse.
The evil soul clone is the dark and unruly side of Yuanzo’s heart. Once it is split into an independent soul, his suppressed malice will be released.
Reason lost some of its restraint, causing Yuanzo’s sinister character to temporarily lose restraint, which then manifested itself in his daily behavior.
“I am the only great immortal left in this world. My power is unrivaled in the world. This world is like a blank sheet of paper that I can alter at will! These ants from the so-called five great ninja villages, as long as I want…”
Obsessed with his own power, Yuanzang the evil spirit looks at the world today with the eyes of a god. Now he is the strongest person in the world. He can do whatever he wants and no one can stop him!
“The so-called five great ninja villages still exist only because of my kindness, hehehe!”
With high spirits, Enzo’s eyes glowed red, and a hexagram pattern emerged. Using his Mangekyo Sharingan, he had seen the chakra fluctuations emitted by the representatives of Konoha Village under the tower.
A moment later, the Konoha Village delegation pushed the door open and walked in.
The leader was an unknown old man in his fifties with a serious expression, brown hair, neatly combed sideburns, and a slender eye that was cunning and deep. His head and right eye were wrapped in white gauze, and there was a strange cross-shaped scar on his chin.
His face was slightly gloomy and his wrinkles were deep, giving people an impression of being sinister and scheming.
He was wearing a black and grey raincoat with his hands hidden underneath. Although he was thin, he had strong muscles and a vigorous pace. Although he looked ordinary, his every move revealed traces of a killer.
Just now when Enzo was observing the other party with his Sharingan, he discovered that Danzo’s covered eye was not blind, but a complete Sharingan!
This man is not a member of the Uchiha clan, but he also has a Sharingan?
However, compared with Enzo, the other party’s eyes are just a three-magatama Sharingan, with limited pupil power, and he is unable to perceive that Enzo also has a pair of Sharingan.
Moreover, Danzo seemed unable to close his Sharingan. His eyes remained open all the time, continuously consuming his chakra.
Not only that, he seemed to not want others to know that he had a Sharingan, so he wrapped it with white gauze.
As for another person, Yuanzang had met him once before.
Orochimaru, one of the three disciples of the Konoha Hokage, is a man who looks a bit cold and delicate.
Chapter 32 Meeting Negotiations (Old Version)
At this moment, both parties stopped and looked at each other.
Danzo didn’t feel anything when they first met, but Orochimaru, who was always sensitive to emotions, immediately noticed that Enzo seemed a little different.
Before, on the battlefield, Yuanzang was killing everyone.
But he gave people the impression of being at ease and relaxed. However, the temperament of this man in front of him made Orochimaru feel that he was no different from the leader of the Root next to him.
“He seems to have changed a lot.” This was Orochimaru’s inner thought.
At this time, Danzo spoke first.
“Mr. Yuying, how are you these days?” Unlike Danzo’s stern appearance, he greeted you politely when he met you.
Although the two were enemies who killed each other fiercely not long ago, the situation has changed. Not letting emotions control the brain and starting from reality is an essential quality for a superior.
Nodding politely, Yuanzang solemnly stood up from his chair and waved his hand to signal both parties to take a seat.
Sitting on the chair, Danzo said calmly: “Mr. Yuying is really a hidden talent. Everyone thought that Hanzo was the ninja demigod of the time, with unrivaled skills. I didn’t expect that he was just a puppet on the stage. You are the real person in power. I admire you deeply!”
Obviously, Danzo was using his inherent power struggle mentality to speculate on the whole matter, and subconsciously believed that everything that happened was secretly planned and manipulated by the new Rain Shadow.
Salamander Hanzo is only the village chief in name only, the man in front of him is the “root” who protects the Hidden Rain Village in secret!
“This guy is a bit like me, both of us are people hiding in the dark!”
In Danzo’s heart, he was self-righteously measuring the logic of Enzo’s behavior.
In response, Yuan Zang smiled and said, “I was just ordered to do this in times of crisis. If I hadn’t taken action, I’m afraid this small country that lost the protection of the demigod would have been devastated long ago. It’s not easy for a small country to be caught between the wars of big countries.”
Orochimaru on the side immediately echoed, “No matter whether it is a big country or a small country, they are helpless in troubled times. The life of a ninja is so fragile that they may die at any time. Even as a hunter, they may be devoured by the powerful ninjutsu of their prey in an instant.”
Orochimaru showed no fear but hinted at something meaningful. He had long been greedy for Enzo’s ninjutsu.
In fact, it’s not just Orochimaru, Danzo also wants to find an opportunity to obtain that terrifying earth-style ninjutsu.
However, Danzo is older and more cunning. He knows that the more he wants something, the less he should show it, otherwise he will be controlled by the other party.
Seeing the unfriendly expressions of the two people from Konoha, Yuanzo sat back in his chair with his hands on his shoulders and crossed his legs again. His eyes were full of teasing towards the two people and he didn’t take their words to heart at all.
The scene was a little cold for a moment.
Seeing this, Danzo got to the point: “Sir, let’s talk business first. As far as the current situation is concerned, a ceasefire between the two countries is undoubtedly beneficial to both sides. We can no longer afford a war of attrition, so we, Konoha, accept your proposal!”
Seeing that Enzo was still calm and unmoved, Danzo didn’t care and continued:
“In addition to the armistice agreement, in order to express our sincerity, we in Konoha can also take the initiative to assist the Hidden Rain Village in its post-war reconstruction. Although we in Konoha have also lost a lot of ninjas, as the first ninja village under the richest Land of Fire, we still have the energy to help our allies.”
“Oh, I only proposed an armistice treaty, but I didn’t agree to an alliance treaty. Aren’t you a little too generous?” Yuanzang was a little curious about the other party’s plan and couldn’t help asking.
Danzo continued to answer: “To be honest, Konoha also needs allies now, and the Hidden Rain Village is a suitable ally. Both Konoha Village and the Hidden Rain Village are facing the problem of fighting on multiple fronts, and the alliance can greatly improve our military disadvantages. This is a proposal that has the best of both worlds.”
At this time, Orochimaru on the side added Danzo’s point of view in a timely manner:
“As long as the Hidden Rain Village becomes our ally, Konoha and the Land of Fire will provide sufficient funds to help the Hidden Rain Village restore its economy and develop people’s livelihood. I believe that the Hidden Rain Village, which is at the center of the war, must have been shaky. Now it can be said that except Konoha Village, no other village can help the Hidden Rain Village.”
Yuan Zang’s face remained calm. “It is true that your proposal makes sense on the surface, but Konoha is a little too generous. Considering that Konoha does not seem to be short of money at the moment, don’t you have other intentions? If so, why not speak out directly?”
Yuanzang knew that this was just the bait released by the other party, and these two people were definitely not the kind of people who were willing to do good deeds.
Seeing that the time was right, Danzo revealed his true intention: “Of course, our Konoha’s financial support is not given for free. When necessary, we hope to use these resources to exchange for the combat support of Lord Rain Shadow.”
At this moment, Yuanzo suddenly kept silent. It was obvious that he would not work for Konoha just for a few dollars.
After all, even if there is a flood in the Hidden Rain Village, it has nothing to do with Yuanzo. He doesn’t really care about the life and death of the Hidden Rain Village, and it is impossible for him to dedicate himself to that extent for the Hidden Rain Village. Everything he does now is just to keep his promise.
At this time, Orochimaru also put forward his own transaction proposal: “If possible, we in Konoha would like to use a large sum of money to purchase the miraculous earth escape ninjutsu that Lord Yukage performed on the battlefield that day. In addition, we will also provide various secret ninjutsu as compensation, which will definitely make the Hidden Rain Village worth the money.”
You are really asking for more!
Yuan Zang secretly sneered in his heart, actually wanting to use money to exchange for the Earth-walking Immortal Art.
In fact, Yuanzou did not have the idea of ??keeping his knowledge to himself. On the contrary, he was happy to share. When necessary, he would even spread the magic to the current ninja world to allow the immortal civilization to flourish again.
But the key is that all of this is premised on delivering it to the right person at the right time.
Otherwise there will be endless troubles.
Obviously, the two people in front of him were definitely not suitable candidates. If he taught them the magic, it would definitely backfire and put him in endless trouble.
Moreover, Enzo knew that the two still did not put both sides on an equal footing, and felt that Konoha Village, as a big country, still held the initiative and could take whatever it wanted from the small country.
Yuan Zang sneered: “Ha! It seems that you still don’t understand your situation!”
“First of all, you must understand that my power is superior to yours. You are not qualified to negotiate with me. We are equal interlocutors. If you don’t even understand this, then there is nothing for us to discuss. I can send you away!”
Yuan Zang wanted to order them to leave.
Seeing this, a trace of anger appeared on Danzo’s face.
He had never been to the battlefield and did not know the enemy’s terrifying qualities, so he still had the usual arrogance of a big country. He felt that Yuan Zang was too presumptuous, and the Hidden Rain Village was, after all, just a poor and weak small country.
Orochimaru, on the other hand, was much more honest. He had seen the powerful ninjutsu displayed by Enzo on the battlefield, so he naturally restrained his temper and was more willing to be more tactful.
Orochimaru took a step back to advance, not wanting to completely ruin the meeting: “Don’t be angry, Lord Yuying. This is just a small suggestion from us. It is not included in the contract we are negotiating. We also know the importance of secret ninjutsu to a ninja. If you don’t want to, just pretend we never mentioned it.”
At this point, the knocking was completed and Yuanzang returned to his nonchalant look.
Enzo spoke again: “Regarding the ceasefire agreement, I think we should have no objection. As for the issue of concluding an alliance, I can actually agree to it, but in return, we, the Hidden Rain Village, will only provide support when Konoha is attacked in a critical moment, and if Konoha takes the initiative to provoke a war, we will not participate.”
Danzo frowned after hearing this. The other party’s words were actually a vague concept.
A critical moment? What is a critical moment? As for whether to initiate a war or to passively fight it, it is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong in a fight between countries.
But even so, would Konoha Village still provide resources to help the Hidden Rain Village with its post-war construction? Would this really buy them a reliable ally? Orochimaru and Danzo were a little unsure.
Yuanzang actually wrote a blank check, and whether it will be cashed depends entirely on his integrity.
Chapter 33: The Magic Pill (Old Version)
After some intense and friendly interactions, the two villages temporarily reached an agreement on a ceasefire treaty.
As for the alliance treaty, Danzo was still a little stingy. He was reluctant to use real money to exchange for the military alliance of the Hidden Rain Village. In the end, he only agreed to a to-be-determined agreement. There was still a long way to go and he would study it in detail later.
After deciding on the main direction, Yuanzang was no longer interested in the remaining trivial clauses, so he left it to the village civil servants to write in detail.
Afterwards, watching the two people leave, Enzo planned to train Nagato again with the remaining time.
The threat from Konoha has come to an end for the time being, allowing the Hidden Rain Village to breathe a sigh of relief.
Back in the Sand Village, Enzo knew that the Third Kazekage had been killed by Scorpion. The Sand Village was probably busy covering up the news and searching everywhere for the missing Kazekage. It was unlikely that they had the energy to harass the Rain Village.
The only threat is the warriors of the Iron Kingdom, but they suffered heavy casualties at the hands of Hanzo Salamander before, and now they can’t cause any trouble, and they dare not launch a counterattack on the Hidden Rain Village.
The only thing that needs attention now is Nagato’s Samsara Eye. Although it has been opened, without the guidance of others, such an ignorant child still cannot exert the true power of the Samsara Eye, so Enzo’s help is needed.
As for the subsequent plan, Enzo was going to use this Uchiha Tanzo’s body to sneak into Konoha to have a look. After all, Konoha Village was the first holy place in the ninja world, and it was incomparable to a small village like the Hidden Rain Village.
If you want to understand the most advanced and powerful ninjutsu in the world today, you still need to go to Konoha Village.
It just so happens that Yuanzo has obtained a body of the Uchiha family of Konoha, so it is easy for him to blend in and investigate the situation. With this identity, he should be able to do a lot of things.
However, before setting off, he had to train Nagato for a while, at least to give him some ability to protect himself, so that his Rinnegan wouldn’t be stolen or he wouldn’t lose his life.
It is a wilderness far away from the Hidden Rain Village, surrounded by bare rocks and strange slopes. The terrain is open, the view is wide, and few people come here. It is a very suitable training ground for practice.
Especially for testing powerful ninjutsu, the huge rocks here serve as natural targets.
Two people, one big and one small, stood in the wilderness, and Nagato stood in front of Enzo, somewhat timidly. For some reason, Enzo now gave people a gloomy feeling. It was only a few days later, but his temperament had changed a lot.
Especially Nagato, who had awakened his Samsara Eye, could clearly feel that the dangerous aura emanating from Enzo in front of him was much stronger than in the past few days. Nagato was a little more confused about this.
However, Nagato did not dare to ask. Enzo had always been mysterious and powerful. He could help him awaken the eyes of the legendary Sage of Six Paths, proving that his strength had long surpassed that of ordinary ninjas and that he was close to being a god. So Nagato thought that he only needed to obey, and since he was powerless to resist anyway, he might as well just let it go.
“Lord Enzo, is there something you asked me to come over for? Is it about the Rinnegan again?” Nagato was very sensitive. He knew that apart from these eyes, there should be nothing else that required Enzo to come over in person.
“Well, I will be away for a while. Your Rinnegan is a very rare thing. In order to ensure your safety, I will train your eyes so that you can protect yourself.” Yuanzo nodded.
Nagato showed a trace of embarrassment. Although he had awakened the Rinnegan, every time he tried to use this power he would suffer backlash, and his body was not yet ready.
Every time Nagato opened the Rinnegan, he would feel very painful, but since Lord Enzo had given the order, he had no choice but to obey.
“My lord, I’m sorry, but I’m currently unable to master the power of the Rinnegan. I’m afraid I’ll disappoint you.”
Seeing this, Enzo did not show a disappointed expression. He was proficient in the power of yin and yang, and he could see through Nagato’s physical condition at a glance. Enzo already knew whether Nagato could use the Samsara Eye.
Different from the five elements, the Yin-Yang force is a very special energy. Generally, one can master only one of the five elements, and then just focus on improving the quantity and quality of this attribute. But the Yin-Yang force is different, and what it needs most is balance.
Yin alone cannot produce life, and Yang alone cannot grow. If you cannot grasp both Yin and Yang at the same time, your body and mind will be out of balance. This is fine in the short term, but in the long term, the Yin and Yang will be out of balance, causing hidden diseases in the body and extreme mental development.
Because of this, there have been very few immortals or ninjas throughout history who can master the power of yin and yang. Few people can achieve the unity of body and spirit to achieve the state of yin and yang balance.
To master the power of yin and yang, one needs to have a high talent for energy control. Yuan Zang is such a person. With his unique talent, he successfully integrated the power of yin and yang and created a unique Liang Yi Sage Mode.
Generally speaking, people with more Yang than Yin tend to be simple-minded, strong-limbed, and do things without thinking, and are always hot-blooded. On the other hand, people with more Yin than Yang tend to be cold-hearted, prone to radicalism, and often behave in a dark and extreme style.
The Uchiha clan of Konoha Village is a typical case of yin being greater than yang. Through Uchiha Tanzo’s body, Enzo has discovered this secret. While strong mental power brings a sharp mind, it also makes people sensitive and suspicious of the things around them.
The Sharingan exacerbated the situation.
The Sharingan is the eye of insight, with the ability to observe and record. Therefore, most owners of the Sharingan are delicate and sensitive. Every detail in daily life will be deeply imprinted by these eyes and will be difficult to forget. Even the impact of various strong stimuli in real life will be magnified by the Sharingan and fed back to the mind.
Therefore, the Uchiha clan members are very sensitive, sensitive to the point of being a little neurotic. With such a pair of eyes, if they encounter too many dark and cruel things, their hearts will bear far more pressure than ordinary people.
Now Nagato is facing the same situation. The high-quality Yintun Chakra has destroyed the energy balance of the body, making his emotions sensitive and introverted, and his body also shows some feminine temperament.
At this time, external intervention is needed. If the internal imbalance cannot be changed, start from the outside.
At this time, Yuanzang took out a magic pill that he had prepared.
Pills are divided into inner and outer pills. Outer pills are mostly disposable items, mainly used to heal wounds, restore strength, and temporarily replenish the body’s missing attribute energy. Inner pills are very rare and have magical effects. They have the function of improving a person’s natural physique. In the ancient immortal era, they were also rare and hard to find.
The origin of elixir was originally developed to allow mortals to sense natural energy.
Because even in the Age of Immortals, there were only a few people who could sense natural energy and comprehend the Immortal Mode. Therefore, many immortals tried a lot of methods to increase the chances of mortals comprehending natural energy, and the immortal pill was born for this purpose.
The elixir can give beginners who are unable to sense natural energy the opportunity to gain access to the power of immortals in advance.
By taking the elixir, a large amount of processed natural energy can be accumulated in the body at one time, which can greatly increase the chances of ordinary people sensing natural energy and make the number of immortals no longer limited by personal talent.
The invention of the elixir lowered the threshold for mortals to enter the ranks of immortals, which led to a huge increase in the number of immortals in ancient times, and the entire immortal civilization flourished as a result.
And what Enzo gave Nagato now was just one of the external elixirs, which was a skill of using a furnace to refine gold stones, herbs and mix them with natural elements and then prepare them into medicine. Its main function was to harmonize the imbalance in the body.
This elixir is called the Fiery Sun Elixir. It is made from volcanic crystals and the essence of the sun. It is rich in fire and yang energy and is most suitable for nourishing people with yin deficiency. As long as Nagato takes this elixir, he can temporarily overcome the effects of the imbalance of yin and yang and continue to develop the power of the Samsara Eye.
Of course, external elixirs are disposable energy consumables, and if Nagato wants to truly master the Rinnegan, he needs to rely on his own efforts.
Chapter 34: The Effects of External Elixir (Old Version)
Looking at the red pill in Yuanzo’s hand, Nagato took it with a little hesitation. When he took it, he could still feel the slight heat coming from the pill.
At this time, Nagato looked at Enzo’s face again, and the latter had no expression. Then, Nagato pinched his nose and swallowed it doubtfully. However, unexpectedly, the flaming red pill was not as spicy as he imagined, but tasted very ordinary.
As the pill entered his stomach, a warm current began to flow from Nagato’s stomach to his entire body. The warm feeling dispelled the years of coldness in his body, making him feel safe and relaxed for the first time in a long time.
At this moment, Nagato felt that his body was full of strength, and his blood began to boil. He felt the hot blood in his body for the first time in a long time, and an impulse to try it out suddenly came out. The Samsara Eye was passively opened under the stimulation of the strong Yang energy to resist the rolling Yang energy.
“Very good, it seems that my medicine is still effective. There are indeed certain commonalities between chakra and natural energy.” Staring at Nagato’s eyes, Enzo carefully observed the situation of the Rinnegan.
Since the sacred tree can extract chakra by plundering the vitality of the planet, it means that the basic composition of chakra must contain basic elements such as natural energy. It is very likely that chakra, like immortal power, is an advanced application of natural energy. All of this requires Yuanzang to continue to study in depth.
“Nagato, how do you feel now? Do you still feel cold?”
“No, I feel very comfortable now, and even the Samsara Eye doesn’t seem so scary anymore.” Nagato shook his head and asked, “Master Enzo, what is this pill? It’s so magical.”
In Nagato’s opinion, the pills that can neutralize the negative effects of the Six Paths Sage’s Eyes must not be ordinary items. Perhaps they are the legendary elixirs in folk tales.
“Hehe, don’t be too happy too soon. This pill is not given to you for free. With the blessing of this medicine, you will be able to use the power of the Rinnegan without any side effects in the next few months. During this time, you should learn to control the Rinnegan well.” Yuanzang urged.
“As long as you can have a certain degree of control over the Samsara Eye, then its backlash will be much smaller and won’t be as scary as it is now.”
Nagato, who understood the meaning, did not dare to neglect it and immediately became serious. He knew that this opportunity was hard-won and he must seize it. Even for Yahiko and Konan, he had to prove that he was a useful person and could not waste Enzo’s cultivation and let him down!
“So, Master Enzo, what should I do?”
“Since it’s training, it would definitely be more appropriate to hone the exclusive skills of the Rinnegan. The eye techniques and bloodline limits are quite special. Once awakened, they will carry genetic information that allows the host to understand how to use the eye techniques without a teacher.”
Enzo recalled the various features of the Rinnegan and thought about how to guide Nagato.
“Nagato, close your eyes first, empty your mind, and use your mental strength to carefully experience the highly condensed Yin-Tun Chakra of the Samsara Eye. The most basic ability of the Samsara Eye is to control gravity and repulsion. Their names are Shinra Tensei and Wanxiang Tianyin. You should be able to dig them out.”
There is no need for hands-on teaching, just appropriate reminders. The Rinnegan, as a symbol of spiritual power, can carry a large amount of genetic knowledge itself. Nagato only needs to read and learn.
Moreover, with the blessing of the external elixir, the process will not be so difficult and painful. With Nagato’s current perfect hardware conditions, it is a natural thing for him to master the most basic ability of the Samsara Eye.
After that, the two stood motionless for several hours, while a strong wind blew in the wilderness, making their clothes flutter.
After an unknown period of time, the wind suddenly stopped, and an invisible force suppressed the dancing wind.
Nagato’s tightly closed eyes slowly opened, and from his expression it was clear that he had understood!
“Shinra Tensei!!!”
The red-haired boy placed his hands in front of him and shouted out the name of the move. Because of the influence of the Fiery Sun Elixir, Nagato was rarely excited. Aiming at an empty space with no one around, he couldn’t wait to unleash the true power of the Rinnegan.
As the powerful repulsive force was activated, his hair was blown into ruffles by the wind, his clothes fluttered without wind, and Nagato looked majestic.
At this moment, Nagato was like a god!
The colorless and invisible repulsive force distorted the air horribly and forcefully. Under the sunlight, an inexplicable and strange halo edge line was reflected from the surging air waves.
Afterwards, this force overwhelmed the wind, the rocks, and the hillside with an overwhelming force. The area in front of Nagato was in a mess. It was like plowing a yard and sweeping a hole, destroying everything in its way with a devastating force.
The hard rock surface was forced out by the powerful repulsive force, creating a deep ditch!
Yuan Zang watched everything calmly, and estimated the power of this attack in his heart. Compared with the ninjas he had met, there should not be many who could withstand this move. If Nagato could use this move skillfully, he should have no problem protecting himself.
After delivering this powerful attack, Nagato immediately felt a surge of fatigue all over his body. He suddenly felt as if he was dying of exhaustion. If it weren’t for the supplementary power of the external elixir, he would have probably fainted.
The reason why Nagato could still stand was all thanks to the continuous heat from the medicine, which kept his body active.
But the benefits of doing so are also obvious. Nagato can feel that the Rinnegan has become more compatible with him invisibly and is no longer as repulsive to him as before. This seems to be a recognition of Nagato’s ability to unleash the power of the Rinnegan and silently affirms Nagato’s qualifications.
If Yuanzo knew about this situation, he would inevitably have doubts. Why would the Rinnegan reject its own owner so much? How could organs that are connected by flesh and blood have a rejection reaction?
Now Enzo still believes that Nagato is unable to unleash the power of the Rinnegan simply because he is too young and his body cannot withstand the power of the Rinnegan, so the eyes automatically protect his body and try not to let Nagato overuse this power.
But if he could clearly understand Nagato’s physical feelings, he would definitely notice the Rinnegan’s rejection of Nagato. Something was abnormal, and these eyes might not belong to Nagato!
Unfortunately, Nagato’s reserved and shy personality prevented him from expressing this situation. The naive Nagato thought that if he told this situation, Enzo would only think that he was cowardly and incompetent, afraid of pain, and unable to overcome the backlash brought by the Samsara Eye.
Nagato didn’t want Enzo to think that he was weak, which caused the Rinnegan to reject him.
“As your first actual combat, Nagato, you performed quite well!” Looking at the destructive effect caused by Shinra Tensei in front of him, Enzo made a timely evaluation.
Enzo had seen this kind of scene caused by repulsive squeezing and pushing many times before. Compared with the overwhelming power caused by the Otsutsuki clan, Nagato was still too immature.
However, in this era of general regression of human civilization, even such an ordinary pair of Rinnegan is enough to look down upon the ninja world.
Thinking of this, Yuan Zang pondered the future of human civilization. Facing the Otsutsuki clan, he alone would not be able to do it. He needed to improve the civilization level of the current ninja world. It would be best to select suitable candidates from among them and cultivate an elite team that is at least loyal to the overall interests of mankind.
The power of an individual is ultimately limited. When facing a strong enemy, the best strategy is to work together.
After all, one more person means more strength.
Therefore, Yuanzo also put on the agenda to discover those young people with good character and extraordinary talents and cultivate more young geniuses in order to enhance the overall combat effectiveness of mankind.
Chapter 35: The Bond of Three (Old Version)
Over the next few months, Enzo would instruct Nagato from time to time while listening to reports from the intelligence department on the general movements of various forces.
The Second Ninja World War had actually come to an end long ago. Before Hanzo’s death, the overall situation of the war had already been determined. All parties had a general grasp of each other’s situation, and all the cards had been laid out.
It can be said that each ninja village has already figured out the price in mind, and each ninja village has drawn a red line for how much benefit it can get. Previously, Hanzo’s offensive was not so much to win the battlefield as to gain more bargaining chips for future negotiations.
The Ninja World War was ultimately fought for interests and resources. Due to the development of the times, there was a mismatch between the strength and territory of each party, which inevitably became the fuse of the war.
First of all, Konoha, as the core ninja village in the ninja world, has been declining since the First Ninja World War.
The strength of Konoha Village seems to be unable to protect their overly rich territory. As a rising star, the Hidden Cloud Village is the first to challenge the status of Konoha’s number one ninja village, because the growth of power is inevitably accompanied by the growth of ambition.
The barren and desolate Sand Village naturally coveted Konoha’s territory. The ninjas of the Sand Village were trained in the harsh environment of the desert, and their overall combat power was always at the forefront of the five major ninja villages. Unfortunately, due to the scarce environmental resources, it gradually declined to become a bottom-tier ninja village over time.
It can be said that invading the territory of Konoha Village has always been the basic policy of Sand Village, and this was also one of the fuses of the Second Ninja World War. The Sand Village is always looking for opportunities to try to bite off a piece of fat from Konoha Village.
On the other hand, the Iwagakure Village, which has the geographical advantage, is also a troublemaker that adds fuel to the fire.
The terrain of the Iwagakure Village is good for both attack and defense. It is not as desolate and hopeless as the Sand Village, nor is it like the Cloud Village and the Leaf Village, which are surrounded by enemies and are vulnerable to attack.
Therefore, taking advantage of the isolated situation and the wisdom brought by the rich experience of the Third Tsuchikage Ohnoki, the Iwagakure Village acted as the balancer of the five major ninja villages, often taking advantage of the chaotic situation to fish in troubled waters and reap benefits.
In contrast, the purpose of Hanzo’s war is very pure, mainly for peace…
Since the Rain Country is short of resources and has a weak military, Hanzo wants to increase the power of the Rain Country through war expansion, so that small countries and big countries can achieve power equality and realize peace through true equal status.
But from Enzo’s perspective, it is impossible to achieve this goal. The so-called “demigods” do not have enough intelligence and power to realize this ideal.
In the end, Hanzo’s radical approach only led to frequent wars, which made the already poor Rain Country even worse in terms of population and resources, and even cost him his own life.
However, Hanzo’s pursuit of peace and his attempt to balance the five major countries and integrate the ninja world is still commendable. It’s a pity that the hero died young and had bad luck.
But by now, the various ninja villages have long lost the motivation to continue the war. The fuel of the war machine has been exhausted, and it will take some time to recover. Peace will come again.
However, Yuan Zang knew that this was just a halftime break. Like the calm before the storm, the various ninja villages were just returning to their nests to lick their wounds after being injured, and their eyes were still fixed on the prey.
It can be said that as long as the contradiction between the territorial resources and the strength of the parties still exists, peace can never be truly achieved, but who will take the initiative to give up their own interests?
In the tide of change, if you don t advance, you will retreat!
Once you take a step back, you will retreat step by step. The weaker you are, the more likely you will be eaten. In such a cruel environment, no one dares to show weakness first, for fear of becoming the first target to be eaten.
Now, the time left for Enzo may not be sufficient. He must unify the ninja world before the five major ninja villages destroy each other, or at least prevent them from killing each other again.
“Perhaps I can consider creating a powerful external enemy to attract the attention of the five major ninja villages so that they won’t go crazy.” Yuanzang tried to find a temporary solution to stabilize the situation. “As long as there is a common enemy, the ninjas in the ninja world may calm down a little.”
Not far away, Nagato’s Wanxiangtian caused a loud noise, which interrupted Yuanzang’s thoughts. Countless boulders and rocks were torn apart by the terrifying gravity, and the surface of the earth was devastated for a while.
Nagato was unable to control the power of the Rinnegan for long. The floating rock had just flown into the air when it lost its support due to insufficient chakra. A large amount of rocks then rained down, and the heavy weight made a dull noise when it landed on the ground.
On the surface of the earth, large round pits bloomed like flowers under the hammering of huge rocks.
At this time, Nagato was already sitting on the ground panting. He had tried a little too hard today.
As for why Nagato worked so hard today, it was due to the two friends in the distance.
Yahiko and Konan, who have been working together for a long time, are very curious about Nagato’s recent behavior of going out with Enzo, so they take the initiative to ask for permission to go along and take a look.
In response, Yuanzang did not refuse the two people’s observation.
After spending these days together, he already knew the relationship between the three of them thoroughly.
Yahiko, Nagato and Konan have a deep bond. Their relationship is both that of friends and family. Enzo believes that Yahiko and Konan will not betray Nagato.
However, for fear that they might be accidentally injured by Nagato, Yahiko and Konan were warned by Enzo early on to stand at a distance and watch Nagato train, and not to get close.
At this moment, Yahiko, who was standing in the distance, was admiring Nagato’s display of power with an envious look.
Yahiko has great ideals, and because of this he longs for a strong power like Nagato, because only power can ensure that his ideals can be realized. Yahiko hates his own weakness, and without power he can’t change anything, and can only watch the pain continue to come to him.
So Yahiko understands that force is necessary. For peace and ideals, he needs enough strength!
In fact, the force required to create peace is far greater than the force required to destroy. To destroy an enemy, you only need to be stronger than the enemy, but if you want enemies to understand each other and let go of their hatred, the force required must be overwhelming.
Yahiko learned this from Enzo. It was Enzo’s absolute strength that prevented the long-lasting war between Konoha Village and the Hidden Rain Village.
Since learning about Enzo’s deeds, Yahiko has admired him more and more. Because what Enzo is doing now is what Yahiko wants to do in his heart. Yahiko wants to be a person like Enzo, and he wants to bring peace to the world!
“Ah! Nagato is so powerful!” Konan on the side couldn’t help but sigh as she looked at the miracle in the distance.
This sigh brought Yahiko back to reality from his fantasy. He looked at the ninjutsu performed by Nagato and couldn’t help feeling a little lost. Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel.
Yahiko knew that his talent was mediocre. He was not like Konan who possessed the special paper escape technique, nor did he have a pair of terrifying eye techniques and blood limits like Nagato. The absolute gap in bloodlines made it impossible for him to catch up with Nagato, and he might even be unable to catch up with Konan.
“Ah…” Yahiko sighed softly, as if to vent the frustration and unwillingness in his heart. He clenched his fists. It would be too insincere to say that he was not jealous of Nagato’s talent at all.
It s just that Yahiko cherishes their friendship very much, and he still sincerely hopes that Nagato can become stronger. Maybe in the future, Nagato can realize the dream that he cannot realize on his behalf. If that is the case, he will be satisfied.
At this time, Konan’s cold little hand placed on Yahiko’s fist. The sudden action made the hot-blooded young man blush.
“Xiao, Xiaonan, what are you doing?” Yahiko asked Xiaonan stutteringly.
The beautiful purple-haired girl looked at the boy and just smiled at him gently.
“You look like you envy Nagato, right? It’s okay, Yahiko! I will always be with you. I believe that as long as you work hard, you will catch up with Nagato one day!”
Yahiko’s cheeks flushed…