Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 181 Rope Tree Robbed
"This puppet spell has great potential."

Sasuke Umino not only gained a lot of scientific ninjutsu knowledge from Hiruko, but also two very good ninjutsu techniques.

The Ghost Sprout Technique is currently incomplete, still in the stage of deciphering the ancient stele. However, the Puppet Curse has already proven its practical value.

However, this puppet curse, though seemingly powerful, has two major problems.

First, the puppet curse requires the host to be unable to resist in order to cast this spell.

Secondly, when the Puppet Curse is activated, the host has no thoughts and can only act according to very simple commands, making its combat effectiveness even less than that of the Sunagakure chakra threads.

"For deep control ninjutsu, you still have to rely on my Fungus Release."

Currently, the Spore Technique is only used for stealth, but its potential for development is limitless.

In the ninja world, there are quite a few fungi that can be used to control ninjas. If we could develop Fungus Release, we might be able to develop another version of human puppets.

Moreover, chakra possesses various mystical properties, and a ninja controlled by the Fungus Release technique may not necessarily be a zombie; they might even retain the life force they had in life.

"If I were to infiltrate Sunagakure in the future, I'd see if I could steal the technique of mind-manipulation of sand."

Sasori's Mind Control Sand Technique can use fine needles to pierce through the memory center of a person's brain and seal away memories. This ninjutsu would definitely be very beneficial for controlling the host using the Fungus Release technique.

However, the development of the Mycelium Escape technique is not urgent. On the contrary, the summoning beast fusion ability in the Oni-Garra technique is surprisingly similar to Samehada's fusion technique.

"If Umibozu's clones could also merge with the Umino clan's ninjas like Samehada, the Umino clan could very well develop into a powerful Konoha clan."

Upon realizing this, Sasuke Umino's eyes lit up, and he was deeply shocked.

Although the Umino clan is large, the ninja talent of its members is really limited. Apart from a few children who have the aptitude of Jonin, the rest of the clan members are basically ordinary Chunin with insufficient chakra. This is under the condition of sufficient resources. If there are no resources, they may only be Genin for life.

However, if a Umino clan ninja could merge with Umibozu's clone, the amount of water-attribute chakra would increase significantly, which would just make up for the lack of chakra.

Once the water-attribute chakra is sufficient, coupled with the special power of the Water Candy Secret Technique, the combat strength of the Umino clan ninjas will inevitably increase greatly.

Moreover, combining with Umibozu not only comprehensively enhances the three attributes, but can also be used to cultivate Water Release techniques.

Furthermore, through the efforts of several generations and the continuous assimilation by Umibozu, there is even a possibility that they could develop the Hozuki clan's secret water-based techniques.

After all, Umibozu is born with the ability to transform into water, which is in no way inferior to the water transformation secret technique of the Hozuki clan.

Now, Umibozu has received a large amount of chakra from Ibuki of the Salamander through Samehada's chakra transfer, and has finally grown up. If he were in a river, lake, or sea, he could possess terrifying combat power that surpasses even Jonin level.

Of course, because Umibozu's attack power is singular and his escape ability only reaches the level of a near-Kage, he is clearly lacking in other aspects. His overall strength is only at the level of an elite Jonin.

In desert areas, its combat power will be greatly reduced, while in water-rich environments, it will be greatly enhanced. Overall, as a family-inherited summoning beast, even some ancient ninja clans may not have such a powerful summoning beast.

The development of Umibozu's Fusion Technique is progressing well; the only thing missing is the ability to share chakra. Given the special nature of chakra, fusion has already been achieved, so sharing chakra is only a matter of time.

After the Umino couple formed a contract with Umibozu, their strength increased significantly. Umino Koharu, in particular, with the assistance of Umibozu's summoning beast, combined with the Mizugae sealing technique, has gained some ability to fight against beasts of higher levels, especially against giant summoning beasts.

As for Umino Ikkaku, after forming a contract with Umibozu, his strength doesn't seem to have increased much, but he has more potential.

Previously, Ikkaku Umino served in the Sarutobi Fire Release Squad, primarily training in Fire Release techniques. He didn't practice Water Release ninjutsu much, and his innate Water Release chakra was essentially wasted. Now, having formed a contract with Umibozu, he's gradually starting to make up for his shortcomings in Water Release. If one day he can truly master both Fire Release and Water Release, he might even be able to fuse them into the Boil Release Kekkei Genkai.

Even if they cannot fuse the Boiling Release bloodline limit, the combined power of fire and water ninjutsu when used with Umibozu is multiplied.

The days spent training and developing ninjutsu passed quickly.

For the past few months, Sasuke Umino has been using Shadow Clone Jutsu in conjunction with the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel between the Land of Rain and the Land of Waves every day, living a very comfortable life.

During the time that the Unno troops were stationed in the Land of Rain, Hanzo did not make any unusual moves. The Grass Country front finally faced a shortage of troops, so with a transfer order, the Unno troops were restored to their function as a front-line mobile support force and rushed to the Grass Country front.

Iwagakure is much stronger than Amegakure, not only having many powerful ninjas with bloodline limits, but also the largest ninja army in the ninja world.

To be honest, the last thing Umino Sasuke wanted to face was Iwagakure. In a ninja army battle, Umino's forces might not have much of an advantage.

Moreover, the Hidden Stone Village is mostly populated by Earth Release ninjas, which are extremely effective against his Water Release. His Wind Release is also not very advantageous against Earth Release ninjutsu.

Their only advantage is the mecha puppet equipped with Thor's Sword.

"Looks like I need to find a chance to get more White Zetsu corpses to boost my Earth Release chakra."

Using the transformation into a White Zetsu sapling to capture unknown mysterious factors on the tree and increase the speed of water and earth attribute chakra is far too slow, even slower than the speed of improving one's wind breathing technique.

Over the past few months, after numerous experiments, his White Zetsu cells were depleted. He then seized an opportunity to obtain another White Zetsu corpse from Nagato Uzumaki.

Following the principle of not wasting chakra, Samehada discovered that after absorbing White Zetsu's chakra and transferring it to him, unlike other foreign chakra, it could permanently enhance his water and earth attribute chakra.

Obviously.

When he was assimilated by White Zetsu last time, he not only mastered the Spore Technique, but also gained some of White Zetsu's abilities.

However, faced with the threats from Black Zetsu and Madara Uchiha, even knowing that White Zetsu could permanently enhance the water and earth chakra in his body, he was hesitant to continue hunting White Zetsu corpses.

A wise person avoids standing under a dangerous wall; it's best to be cautious.

Not to mention Madara Uchiha, even Black Zetsu could easily crush him.

He had originally given up on capturing White Zetsu, but after entering the Land of Grass and joining up with the Konoha Ninja Army, he discovered traces of White Zetsu again.

These two White Zetsu were actually tracking Tsunade.

Just as we managed to capture these two White Zetsu, bad news came from the front-line patrol area.

Senju Nawaki was unable to escape his fate and accidentally fell into an explosive tag trap; his current fate is unknown.

"Tsunade, let me take you there."

Seeing that Tsunade wanted to rush to the front line, Sasuke Umino released six shadow clones and used the Flying Thunder God Technique in conjunction with the shadow clones to teleport Tsunade to the front-line patrol area.

(End of this chapter)