Naruto: I became a super shadow in the Anbu.

Chapter 286 Boosting Performance (Part 2)

With one slash, the young miner cut his fellow miner's rope, then organized a group to seize the samurai's long and short swords and cut the ropes of the others.

The Deer Squad cleared out the Cloud Ninja Company, and most of the samurai had also fled.

The samurai were mercenaries, there to earn money, not to risk their lives. A samurai sword slashing at a miner was a noble act of Bushido, but slashing at a ninja… well, forget it, it'd easily dull.

The miners fled towards the coastline.

The boy ran up the hillside, towards the moonlight.

"Thank you for saving me!" said the young miner. "My name is Da Kong!"

Daisaku noticed that the ninja wearing the fox mask had feelings for him, so he mustered up his courage and started talking to the ninja.

Ye Guang said, "You're quite good. Have you studied samurai swordsmanship?"

"When I was a servant in a noble mansion, I secretly watched the warriors train."

Ye Guang nodded. No wonder Da Kong's movements weren't standard; he hadn't learned them completely. He asked, "Where are you trying to escape to?"

Oozora said, "We need to escape to the Land of Iron across the bay. The Land of Iron is a neutral country. Once we get there, even the great noble Chikayama Shin won't be able to hunt us down."

Iron Country's neutral status turned out to be surprisingly useful.

Among the small countries, the Iron Country is the most unique.

This country has a large number of samurai, who also use chakra and study chakra swordsmanship.

This country is located on a peninsula with complex terrain and is not wealthy.

After declaring neutrality, the five great nations did not object, acknowledging the strength and status of the Iron Nation.

Like the neutral country of Switzerland in its previous life, the Land of Iron has always been a place that military strategists have never contested.

There's no need for the five major powers to attack the Iron Country, since the Iron Country is a neutral country. If it were necessary, the neutral country would be a joke.

Ye Guang saw that Da Kong was carrying a long sword, his coarse linen clothes were tattered, but his eyes were very stubborn.

His ankles were bruised and cut from the rope, and his hands were blisters from the hoe and dates.

Ye Guang said, "You're full of rebellious spirit, which suits my taste perfectly."

Keep up this reckless spirit, and perhaps you will change your destiny.

Ye Guang took out a scroll.

This scroll is a basic chakra scroll that he prepared for Qiaoyi's child, including chakra refinement, basic taijutsu, swordsmanship, etc.

Yamanaka Riko's children don't need much attention from Yamaguchi, as the Yamanaka clan will take care of them. However, Yamaguchi's children require more attention from Yamaguchi.

He threw the scroll to Oozora, who caught it in a panic.

“My name is Copper Fox. If you don’t die in the next few years, you will hear my name again.”

Ye Guang and the others vanished in an instant.

Da Kong held the scroll in both hands, wanting to express his gratitude in person.

but!

But he can't read!
He wasn't a nobleman, nor a ninja, so he had no opportunity to learn to read.

Open the scroll, and Da Kong will see a picture on it.

Forget it, let's just follow the diagram. It shows the human body and some things that look like meridians.

Whether it's right or wrong, having something is better than having nothing.

It took Ye Guang about ten days to return to Konoha Village.

The round trip took more than twenty days; doing tasks for the village was a real waste of time.

Back at the base, Ye Guang found the yellow dog.

"Minister, I have killed the A-level target in the assassination manual, the Cloud Ninja Jonin Takami."

The yellow dog received the mission report.

"Not bad, not bad. Danzo's assassination manual allows us to quantify the results of our secret service missions."

"By the end of the year, the Anbu can submit a clear report to the Hokage detailing how many enemies we assassinated and how much we weakened enemy villages for the sake of the village," said Yellow Dog.

"I will have Butterfly inform the Anbu and Root to update the assassination manuals in the hands of the other squad leaders as soon as possible, and eliminate the name of the Cloud Ninja Jonin Takami."

Ye Guang thought to himself, "I'm afraid that Danzo will set a KPI for the Anbu in the future, requiring them to assassinate a certain number of people each quarter and meet performance targets at the end of the year."

Each quarter, we'll set a mandatory growth target for you—five this quarter, seven next quarter—emphasizing steady growth.

By then, you won't even have time to cry, Yellow Dog.

Nightlight took the assassination manual handed back by the yellow dog, flipped through it casually, and came across a picture of a Jonin from Iwagakure, Yamashige Toru.

Yamashige's signature ninjutsu is Earth Release: Flying Gravel, a mid-to-long-range impact Earth Release ninjutsu.

Ye Guang learned this technique from the ANBU ninjutsu scroll and can use this Iwa ninja Jonin to upgrade it to the mastery level.

Once he has collected all the master-level Five Elements Ninjutsu, Ye Guang will train the smaller version of White Demon into a rogue ninja of the Sarutobi clan.

Calm waters cannot nurture exceptional sailors; there are too few conflicts within Konoha, and the place is lifeless.

The windmill of Konoha is spinning too slowly; someone needs to bring a strong wind to make Konoha spin.

I wonder when Root will be able to send over the information about the Iwa ninja Jonin.

Yellow Dog said, "By the way, Fox, go to Orochimaru's lab at Root today and check on the progress."

Upon entering the root base, Ye Guang first passed by the training hall.

The roof of the training hall has been repaired, and a row of pillars has been added to the hall since Tsunade visited.

On the training field, newcomers and children are still training.

Five Root ninja, including Gui, died in the Land of Rain, and Danzo finally behaved himself.

Instead of immediately adding official members to the Root organization, he allowed the newcomers to continue training and strengthen their abilities.

At this point, granting newcomers official root codes is acceptable, but the key issue is that the root mission will fail.

When Ye Guang saw Danzo's figure, his heart tightened.

Wait a minute, the bad things you did haven't been exposed, so why should you be afraid of Danzo?
Danzo was actually personally instructing new recruits in ninjutsu.

After a series of blows, Danzo became much more rational and amiable, and even showed some patience in instructing others on ninjutsu.

To the new recruits of Root, Danzo will consider your lives and teach you ninjutsu, not because Danzo has become a good person, but because... I was here.

On the other side of the training field, 20 children are engaged in physical combat.

They were holding sharpened kunai. Within seconds of Ye Guang watching, one of them had his arm slashed open, and blood was gushing out.

These children are the same age as Kakashi. While Kakashi is laying a solid foundation as a ninja under the tutelage of Sakumo Hatake, these children are already facing life-or-death struggles, a case of forcing growth.

Of the 20 children, 7 came from Yakushi Nonou's orphanage.

Nightlight continued deeper into the root base.

Upon entering Orochimaru's laboratory, Yagami looked around in confusion.

The entire laboratory was empty; the nutrient tanks were gone, the corpses were gone, and the specimens were gone.

Last time I came, there were more than a dozen wood-transformation specimens on my palms, but now there are none left.

There were originally 6 people in the experiment, but today there are only 2.

The two people were still huddled in the corner, clearly pretending to be busy.

This is so fake, even more fake than when I was slacking off at work in my past life.

There was a person holding a scalpel, cutting something, I don't know.

They kept cutting, almost turning the test subject into minced meat. Another person, who was lying there taking notes, wrote even faster as the moonlight swept over them.

Orochimaru, with his back to the light, calmly dissected the left foot of a White Zetsu corpse, seemingly studying something.

Orochimaru didn't turn around, and said, "Fox, is that you?"

"it's me."

"Thanks to your Wood Release creation corpse, otherwise, I don't know what the point of my laboratory would be," Orochimaru murmured.

"How can maggots, which are too weak, withstand the genes of the God of Ninjas?"

Your White Zetsu corpse is very useful; it has completely changed the direction of my research.

The previous direction was wrong; we cannot make gradual changes step by step.

Interstitial cells emphasize vitality and require modification of every cell in the body.

Orochimaru lost interest in these ordinary test subjects and disposed of the useless materials.

The lab assistant, who was holding a pen, saw Orochimaru and the fox squad leader finish their conversation, and quickly picked up a scroll from the scroll rack and walked towards Nightlight.

"Captain Fox, these are the recent experimental records."

Ye Guang was curious about what had happened in the laboratory, so he opened the scroll.

Two weeks ago, on his way to the Land of the Moon, Orochimaru performed a transplant on 50 people.

However, the transplantation was extremely unsuccessful, and all 50 test subjects died within two days.

Orochimaru angrily increased the dosage and intensity of all the tests.

Many specimens in the laboratory were destroyed during the high-intensity experiments.

Orochimaru believed that although the test subjects all possessed both earth and water chakra, they were fundamentally incapable of containing the Wood Release organization.

The experiment requires more talented and suitable test subjects to undergo Wood Release modifications at the essential level of life.

Orochimaru didn't say what the more suitable test subject was, but Yagami guessed that Orochimaru wanted to bring in a test subject with the Senju bloodline limit of the Forest.

No wonder Yellow Dog sent Night Light to get the experiment progress scroll. If it had been someone else, who knows what Orochimaru would have done in his rage.

The fox is different; it can withstand even a furious attack from Orochimaru.

Ye Guang took the scroll and left.

He possesses crucial information about the Book of Seals, and he will only offer this information to Orochimaru in exchange for it once Orochimaru is close to completing the Hashirama cell transplant.

The study of Wood Release is extremely difficult. Hashirama Senju was the reincarnation of Ashura and the god of ninjas. Orochimaru is using mortal methods to study a god.

Orochimaru's experiments are progressing so poorly that now is not the time to seize the Hashirama cells.

After giving the scroll to the yellow dog, he left the Dark Division and returned to the izakaya.

Everything was normal inside the izakaya. Yuka, the staff member, was helping out, and Qiaoyi was resting and recovering.
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The full moon was like a silver plate.

Another full moon night has arrived.

Lucky Ye Guang encountered an unexpected surprise.

Instead of receiving information about Earth Release: Flying Gravel, they received information about Water Release.

A Jonin from the Mist Village infiltrates the Land of Whirlpools on a mission. He is skilled in Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet and has a unique understanding of it.

Following the information from Root, Yagami ambushed the Kirigakure Jonin in the Land of Whirlpools and obtained the Master-level Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet using the system.
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Soon, the third full moon night of Konoha year 41 arrived.

Every day, Ye Guang went to Butterfly's place to check for the latest information from Root, but he still hadn't received any news from the Iwa ninja, Yamashiro.

However, another piece of news caught Ye Guang's attention.

Two children have gone missing in Konoha Village.

After investigating, the Konoha Police Department said they could not find any clues and that the two children may have been kidnapped by spies.

Kumogakure is notorious for this.

They kidnapped a child from Sunagakure who had awakened the Magnet Release bloodline, reverse-engineered Magnet Release, and created Troy, a Magnet Release ninja from Kumogakure.

They kidnapped a Lava Release bloodline child from Iwagakure and reverse-engineered the Lava Release technique mastered by Tsuchida.

The Hidden Cloud Village had also long coveted Konoha's bloodline limit.

They were plotting to kidnap either Kushina or Hinata Hyuga.

Regardless of whether it was the Hidden Cloud Village or not, the Hidden Cloud Village has been unfairly blamed for the disappearance of Konoha children.

The reason why Ye Guang noticed the anomaly was because one of the children's surnames was Kazamatsuri.

Kazamatsuri Moegi, Konohamaru's teammate, also possesses Wood Release.

The surname Kazamatsuri may have been adopted by a woman from the Senju clan.

Ye Guang put on a mask, left the Dark Side base, and began to investigate the matter in secret.

His investigation quickly yielded results.

Kazamatsuri Yuzu, originally named Senju Yuzu, changed her surname to Kazamatsuri after marrying a ninja surnamed Kazamatsuri.

In the ninja world, it is customary for women to change their surname upon marriage.

Kazamatsuri Yuzu's husband died in the Land of Whirlpools. She has a son who is just over one year old.

Yoru sat on the balcony of Kazamatsuri Yuzu's house, listening to the crying inside.

The Uchiha ninja from the security department was explaining to Kazamatsuri Yuzu that they had investigated with all their might, but they really couldn't find any clues.

After ruling out all possibilities, it could only have been done by spies from Kumogakure.

Previously, the Security Department had discovered cases of spies kidnapping children from Konoha. In some cases, the perpetrators were caught, while in others, they disappeared without a trace.

Kazamatsuri Yuzu said that she was pushing a stroller to buy groceries when someone was arguing with a vendor at the market. After a small disturbance, her son disappeared.

The Uchiha clan now has a good relationship with Tsunade, and they have done their best to investigate, but they are truly powerless to do anything about it.

After the Uchiha ninja from the Security Department finished explaining and left, Kazamatsuri Yuzu cried alone for a long time.

She packed her things and headed to the Thousand Hands Clan's territory with red eyes.

At this point, her only remaining support was her former family, the Senju clan, and she hoped to try her luck there.

The Konoha Police Department is responsible for village affairs. However, since it involves Kumogakure, the department has no jurisdiction and can only hope that the clan will step in and help investigate Kumogakure.

Even knowing that one of her sons is still alive is a comfort.

Upon arriving outside the Thousand Hands Clan's territory, Nightlight did not rush in.

He saw Jiraiya from afar, and then saw him being punched and sent flying as Tsunade took Kazamatsuri Yuzu deep into the clan's territory.

Jiraiya, having been humiliated by Tsunade, wasn't angry. He wiped the blood from his nose, and after the dizziness subsided and he regained his bearings, he leisurely strolled towards the Konoha bathhouse.

After saying goodbye to Tsunade, he had no more worries and could leave the village.

Before leaving the village, let's go to the women's bathhouse one last time to gather some material.

Tsunade won't let me collect materials, does that mean the beautiful women in the women's bathhouse won't allow it either?

Jiraiya's gaze swept over a large tree, where an ANBU was hiding.

That was the Anbu monitoring the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Jiraiya didn't say anything and continued walking forward.

Ye Guang used the Mayfly Technique to hide in the tree canopy above Jiraiya's head, and Jiraiya was completely unaware of it.

Looking towards the Senju clan's territory, Ye Guang wondered if Orochimaru was about to make his move, and wondered which child was Yamato.

With Yamato emerging, how far away can mature interstitial cell transplantation technology be?
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