The Age of Heroic Spirits in the Eyes of the Reincarnated.

Chapter 216: Nagato replaced by the Maintainer
The one who appeared in Sand Village, one of the five major ninja villages, was Uzumaki Nagato.

However, unlike the original work, Nagato this time replaced his legs with a pair of intact legs.

Looking at the color of the legs, they are exactly the same as Bai Zetsu's legs.

In addition, his mental state has improved a lot. Compared to the haggard and thin state when the Outer Path Demon Statue drained a large amount of chakra from him at the beginning, his current state can be described as healthy and rosy.

"Scorpion, you know I was very restrained earlier. It was not my intention to destroy Sunagakure like this."

Nagato looked at another red-haired boy among the four figures around him and spoke.

"It's okay. The pain of the Sand Village is no longer my pain."

The red-haired boy smiled in response.

The boy's name is Scorpion, and he is known as the "Scorpion of the Red Sand".

He was the culprit who provoked the Third Ninja World War.

The trigger of the Third Ninja World War was undoubtedly the disappearance of the Third Kazekage. This caused the Sand Village to fall into chaos and weakness, and fell into an embarrassing situation of being leaderless. After the surrounding countries learned of the intelligence, they took advantage of the situation and opened the prelude to the Third World War.

Of course, the factors that led to the outbreak of the Third Ninja World War, in addition to the disappearance of the Third Kazekage, the actual reason for the war was that the major countries had rested for several years and had recovered from the shadow of World War II.

The purpose of every Ninja World War is essentially for the five major countries to divide up the resources of the surrounding small countries and snatch the Fire Country's cake.

As for why Scorpion attacked the Third Kazekage?
Sasori's parents were killed by Kakashi's father, Hatake Sakumo, during World War II.

But before Scorpion could avenge his parents, Sakumo committed suicide for some reason.

This made it impossible for Sasori to seek revenge on Sakumo, so he turned his anger on the Third Kazekage. Sasori believed that the Third Kazekage was the village chief of the Sand Village, and that it was the village chief's negligence and incompetence that led to the attack on Konoha, which forced the death of his parents.

As a result, the Third Kazekage was in bad luck.

Backstabbed by the grandson of Chiyo, the advisor of Sand Village.

"From the moment I killed the Third Kazekage, I severed my ties with the Sand Village. No matter what the village becomes, my heart will not be disturbed in any way."

The young man said calmly.

Who could have thought that Scorpion, who had a good family background and would sooner or later become a high-ranking village figure, would do such a crazy and unreasonable thing as attacking and killing his own village chief?

"Scorpio, I know you haven't let it go completely, and you still miss your grandma. But Scorpio, you have to look forward; your art is endless, and art can make you immortal, and even find a way to resurrect your parents.

The old man's life is coming to an end.

Once you stop, you may end up not being able to do anything.”

Nagato smiled.

"Resurrect your parents?"

Does such a method really exist in this world?
The boy frowned.

He has not yet completely transformed himself into a human puppet, nor has he created the Fei Liu Amber to hide in it. At this moment, he is still operating outside with his main body. Because of this, many weaknesses of the puppeteer still exist.

"It would be the best if I can revive my parents, but it doesn't matter if I can't. Next, I will continue to pursue the ultimate art that you mentioned. In addition, there are indeed some things I can learn from the leader's hell puppet. Before I met the leader and Sister Xiaonan, my vision was still too shallow."

To be honest, he still didn't understand how the leader in front of him had tracked his whereabouts.

He was completely confused as to how he was defeated by this leader and joined Akatsuki.

I can only say that this guy is too strong!

So strong that it is beyond human capabilities!
If this young leader had been present in the previous Ninja World War, the final winner would definitely not have been the Five Great Nations.

"Chief, is the second tail next?"

The one who spoke this time was a pitcher plant-like figure among the four.

Its name is Jue.

It is actually the product of the combination of White Zetsu and Black Zetsu.

"Well, the next target is the two-tail. But before that, let's gather more like-minded and powerful partners.

Our ultimate goal is to collect the nine tailed beasts, and the tailed beasts are important assets of the major ninja villages, and they are definitely unwilling to give them up. It is possible that all countries will join hands to deal with us for their own Jinchūriki.

The five great nations have ruled this land for too long, and their roots are deep. It's easy to deal with a single family, such as the Sand Village; but if the five great nations join forces, it will be a threat to the survival of our Akatsuki organization."

Nagato grinned.

He was very disdainful of Jue, the product of Uchiha Madara's will.

Uchiha Madara's original body was dead, so how could he think that leaving behind a product of his will could still control the situation? His original body had already managed to break free from control, so how could he, as the protector, be led by a product of his will?
What is the biggest advantage of being a maintainer?
One is the memory of the trial of the original body.

The other is the experience accumulated from performing maintenance tasks many times, which allows one to have foresight.

He knew that during the most prosperous period of Akatsuki, it could almost influence the war between major powers. His original body, at its peak, almost razed the strongest ninja village, Konoha Village, to the ground. It was a pity that he was persuaded by the son of luck, otherwise the world would have been destroyed by nuclear war.

If every big ninja village launches a Super Shinra Tensei, it will be hard not to have peace.

Besides, Uchiha Obito, a mere 14-year-old aboriginal kid, actually wanted to control him like Zetsu?
Humph, naive.

"Nagato, are you really not considering the plan Madara proposed earlier?"

Xiaonan, one of the four, asked softly at this time.

"No, money is just a form of currency. It's a sheer waste of our energy to spend a lot of time accumulating money."

When Nagato thought of the woman's wasteful behavior in similar dungeons, he became furious.

The initial plan of Akatsuki was:
The first step is to accumulate a large amount of money to prepare for the future.

The second step is to establish a neutral mercenary organization that does not belong to any country, provoke some small wars, first monopolize the war commissions of small countries at low prices, then increase the scale of the war, then break the ninja system of big countries (destroy the economy), and finally monopolize all wars. This is actually similar to the way the five major ninja villages divide the cake.

The third step is to use the tailed beast weapons to conquer the world. Look, what a good plan.

You could have gone directly to the third step, but you had to go through the first two steps.

The key point is that all the money was taken by this spendthrift woman to build the Rain Village and buy detonating tags.

The infrastructure of Rain Village is well built, and the various pipe networks are dozens of blocks ahead of the five major ninja villages, and even the daimyo of the five major countries can't catch up. But what's the matter with buying hundreds of billions of detonating talismans? I've never seen such a waste of money.

The head of Asuma Sarutobi is only worth 3500 million. Do you know how many Asuma Sarutobi the members of the organization have to hunt down to raise the funds to buy hundreds of billions of detonating tags?

With so many detonating tags, if we throw them randomly over the major ninja villages, we can blow up the five major villages several times.

The results of it?
I only heard the noise for ten minutes.

All wasted on Uchiha Obito.

The annoying thing is that no one has been killed by the explosion.

How could he dare to let Xiaonan be the accountant when he was so wasteful? He just had to be his secretary.

As for Akatsuki's initial plan to collect money?

Ah.

joke.

This was clearly a trick used by the 14-year-old Uchiha Obito to buy himself time to grow!
At this time, Obito was only 14 and a half years old, and he did not have the strength to sweep away everything like Uchiha Madara.

Therefore, the Akatsuki organization proposed this seemingly reasonable but actually quite ridiculous "Ten-Year Plan".

How strong can Obito be at the age of 14?
But for the 24-year-old Obito, it’s really a bit hard to understand.

Therefore, why did he wait for Obito to grow up after many years before taking action? Why did he still follow the script of that brat? He is not the brainless person like his original self.

With the Outer Statue and the Eye of Samsara in my hands, I'm not going to play an economic war with you!

Isn't horizontal push good?
Activating the Rinnegan and the Outer Path Demon Statue does consume a lot of chakra and vitality, but he has the White Zetsu.

White Zetsu can absorb the life force and chakra of others and pass it on to him.

When the two are combined, it becomes a perpetual motion machine.

The power of the Animal Path summoned various ferocious beasts to create chaos, while the main body used Shinra Tensei to repel all scattered attacks, and Wanxiang Tianyin captured one ninja after another. The White Zetsu spores quickly extracted the chakra of these captured Sand Ninjas and transferred it to him.

The Sand Village was easily conquered in this way.

War feeds war.

The more you fight, the stronger you become.

If the power of the Rinnegan had not been fully developed by him, he would have wanted to go to Konoha right now in such excellent condition to launch a Super Shinra Tensei and tell the world that the true God of Ninja had arrived.

The mission target is a new trialist?
Just a bunch of small shrimps.

Just wait for death.

aside.

Although Konan and Black Zetsu didn't know why Nagato's temperament changed drastically, they subconsciously thought of Yahiko's death.

"Yahiko's death has really changed Nagato a lot."

Xiaonan thinks so.

If Nagato had undergone such a drastic change a few years later, she would definitely have noticed something was wrong.

But it's different now.

She was still feeling deeply guilty at the moment, blaming herself for Yahiko's death. How could she suspect that Nagato had been replaced by someone else?

"There is definitely something wrong with this Nagato."

The cunning Black Zetsu realized this long ago.

But he pretended he knew nothing.

Originally, he was working with Obito. When Obito went to Konoha to cause trouble, he left him behind to monitor Nagato and Konan. Unexpectedly, as soon as Obito left and went to Konoha, Nagato immediately became a different person.

He was caught immediately using the Rinnegan.

Then he chopped off the legs of this White Zetsu carrier.

Then he changed it himself very skillfully.

Since then, Uzumaki Nagato has gotten rid of the limitations of his crippled legs, and has also gained the abilities of the White Zetsu body strengthened by Hashirama's cells. Now, relying on the White Zetsu's body's repairing ability, he has pulled out the chakra black rods on his back that had originally pierced his internal organs.

The current Nagato, except for not having the Uchiha bloodline, has also mastered the physical and eye-jutsu abilities of the Rinnegan, Thousand Hands, and Uzumaki.

Black Zetsu was both surprised and delighted by this weird operation.

It feels like all the spokespeople Uchiha Madara finds are talented.

I feel like Uchiha Madara will never survive in this life.

It feels like the guy who thought he could control other people's lives and do whatever he wants, everything he left behind during his lifetime will become a wedding dress for others.

He couldn't imagine how high Nagato could reach after obtaining Hashirama's cells and White Zetsu's abilities.

Nagato was only 19 years old at that time.

(End of this chapter)