I'm in Konoha, and I started with Ashura Chakra.

Chapter 100: Stones Containing Natural Energy – A Shortcut to Rapidly Achieving Immortal Physique

"Luckily we're not too late. This time it's our turn to help you."

Yagyu casually tossed aside the werewolf corpse that had been instantly killed by the cutting technique, smiled at Temari whose face was flushed and who was staring at him with a dazed look, and then looked at Camilla and Rank, who had transformed into bat and ape, and quickly formed a hand seal with one hand.

"Wood Release: Thorn Killing Technique!"

Green, vine-like branches sprouted from the arid desert, binding the shocked-looking Rank like a python. They rapidly drained her physical and mental energy, or so-called vital energy, leaving her instantly unable to fight.

Whether it was due to her quick reflexes or the ability to sense ultrasound after entering bat form, Camilla flapped her wings and soared into the sky, escaping the branches binding her.

However, the tree branch seemed to have a tracking function, extending infinitely towards binding Camilla.

However, the branches could not extend as quickly as Camilla, who could fly.

Seeing this, Yagyu once again formed a hand seal with one hand.

At the tip of the extended branch, other colors immediately appeared, quickly transforming into a figure with only an upper body, while the lower body seemed to be fused with the branch—this was clearly a wood clone.

As soon as the wooden clone appeared, it formed hand seals and spat out a water arrow, attacking Camilla.

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The water rocket transformed into a straight jet of water under ultra-high pressure, like the sharpest blade in the world, cleaving Camilla, who was less agile and faster than the straight jet of water, in half.

Two pieces of the body fell onto the sandy ground.

In less than a minute, one of Hyde's three female knights was captured and two were killed by Yagyu.

"There's another one alive. Judging from her appearance, she seems to be of cadre rank. She should be able to help you gather important intelligence," Yagyu said to Temari with a smile.

Kankuro walked over, looking grateful, and said, "Thank you for your help, Yagyu."

He wasn't thanking Yagyu for his support, but rather for Yagyu saving Temari.

If Yagyu hadn't intervened in time, he and Gaara might have lost their sister.

Upon hearing Kankuro's voice, Temari finally snapped out of her daze and quickly bowed, saying, "Thank you for saving me, Yagyu-kun."

"Just call me Yagyu."

Yagyu smiled and said, "It's only fair to reciprocate. Last time, I was also very grateful for your help."

"I'm sorry, Temari..."

At that moment, Gaara arrived in front of the three of them, looking apologetic. "It's all my fault for being so careless just now."

"It's alright. For the sake of the country, you made the right choice to capture them alive."

Temari shook her head, regaining her heroic demeanor, and laughed, "As long as we bring that woman back to the village, we can obtain intelligence on the enemy and then launch a full-scale counterattack."

"Um."

Gaara nodded, then bowed slightly to Yagyu and said, "Thank you for your support, Yagyu."

"You've really changed a lot, Gaara."

Yagyu smiled and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, you should be the Fifth Kazekage of Sunagakure. I hope to be able to attend your inauguration ceremony."

"The Wind Shadow?"

Gaara was slightly taken aback, and then the image of the person who had changed him reappeared in his mind.

The other person seemed to be constantly chanting that they wanted to become Hokage.

Thinking of this, Gaara, who had already removed his Sand Armor, couldn't help but smile and murmured, "Becoming the Kazekage seems like a pretty good goal."

Seeing Gaara, who was completely different from his murderous self a few months ago and had become a reliable young man, Temari and Kankuro smiled.

In the distance, three figures were rapidly flying towards the desert; it was Class 8.

After some pleasantries, Team 8 and Gaara, along with a prisoner and two corpses, headed towards Sunagakure.

At the same time, Timothy also seized upon his target for this infiltration into the Land of Wind: the head of a caravan that travels the world, an old man with a ferret perched on his shoulder.

Upon seeing Timothy, the old man, who already knew what had happened in the Land of Wind and the origins of these enemies, had an extremely complex expression.

It wasn't that his identity had been discovered by the enemy, but rather that the Timothy standing before him had features almost identical to his own when he was young. He was either a descendant of his own family or a descendant of another branch.

So, under Timothy's coercion, the old man agreed to take him to the underground ruins.

The two men and the sable quickly broke away from the group.

Little did they know that beneath the earth beneath their feet, an undetectable aura was silently following them.

A few days later, the two left the Land of Wind and entered a mountainous region whose territory they did not know belonged to.

After another two days of trekking through mountains and valleys, the old man led Timothy to a cliff.

Below the cliff, shrouded in mist, lies an ancient ruin shaped like the pyramid from Yagyu's previous life.

Upon seeing this ancient ruin, Timothy immediately drew his knight's sword from his waist, intending to use the technology within the sword to release a green signal beam to contact the mobile fortress, which was some distance away, and to tell Lord Hyde the good news.

Just then, he and the old man suddenly found themselves unable to move.

The vine-like branches had somehow become entwined around their bodies.

Instead of draining their energy, the tree branches shimmered with blue chakra, transforming into black runes that spread throughout their bodies, seizing control of their bodies and sealing their consciousness.

In the blink of an eye, both of them fell into a coma while standing.

The ferret perched on the old man's shoulder immediately squeaked, trying to wake him up.

But the next second, its expression also became blank.

A figure emerged from the cliff face as if riding an elevator.

It wasn't the wooden clone that had been following them all along, but rather the main body of Yagyu, who had switched places with the wooden clone over the past few days.

Looking at the ruins below, a red light flashed in Liu Sheng's eyes.

Under the red-eyed perspective, the scenes inside the ruins, as well as the mineral veins buried beneath them, all came into Yagyu's view.

The next second, Yagyu's expression changed drastically, and he exclaimed in a rare, uncharacteristic voice, "What is this thing?!"

Immediately, Yagyu turned around and placed his hands on Timothy and the old man's heads, channeling Yin Release chakra into their brains, quickly completing the hypnosis.

Then Yagyu asked Timothy, "What are you looking for here, having taken this old man hostage?"

"The Grell Stone vein."

Upon hearing this, Yagyu finally remembered the name of the stone that contained special energy, and then asked the old man, "Do you know the Grell Stone?"

"I...I know."

"What power does this stone possess?"

"These... these stones contain immense life energy. After our ancestors discovered them, they refined them using technology, named them Grell, and... used Grell stones to build a vast empire, creating wells that never run dry, livestock that grow overnight, crops that bear fruit continuously, research on preventing aging, and ecological integration..."

After listening to the old man's story, Liu Sheng's face grew increasingly joyful.

He finally knew what that energy below was.

Natural energy!

Like the earth chakra of the dragon vein, these stones are special minerals that absorb natural energy and then transform into "Yang Release".

Even without ever touching it, Yagyu felt an incredible sense of familiarity with this energy.

That was the same life energy as his own Yang Release chakra, or more precisely, Ashura chakra.

In addition, there is a special kind of energy that ordinary people cannot directly absorb, otherwise it will cause mutations.

Although Yagyu hasn't mastered Sage Mode yet, he's 100% certain that this is natural energy.

At this moment, Yagyu finally understood why those female knights were able to transform into beasts.

It turns out that this ancient kingdom refined these ores and used technology to allow them to absorb the natural energy within them, just like Orochimaru diluted the natural energy from Jugo, turning Sage Mode into Cursed Seal Mode.

"I've struck gold..."

Suddenly, Liu Sheng murmured something, his body trembling slightly with excitement.

These ores are poison to others.

Even if one possesses the technology to absorb the energy from these mineral veins, the body will immediately collapse if it cannot withstand the energy.

But for Yagyu, the energy from this mine was like the best of the best.

By absorbing this energy, Yagyu's Sage Body will grow faster, not only will his Yang Release chakra become stronger, but his life energy will also become more abundant.

Once his life energy breaks through a certain limit, his Sage Body will have a built-in healing ability without seals, allowing him to freely absorb natural energy, enter Sage Mode outside of the three major holy lands, and have such strong endurance that his chakra will be exhausted.

Even if consciousness dies in the future, the body will still live. The cells, like the energy from these mineral veins, are full of aggression. Anyone who dares to transplant Yagyu's cells will either explode and die or experience a significant increase in strength.

Hashirama Senju possessed all of these abilities.

Even Hashirama Senju only reached the pinnacle of his Sage Mode at a young age.

But now, Yagyu has found a shortcut to quickly achieve the physique of an immortal.

This was an incredible surprise for Yagyu, whose Shippuden series would begin in three years.

Upon realizing this, Liu Sheng immediately abandoned his original idea.

Originally, Yagyu wanted Timsi to trigger the special summoning array within the ancient ruins, summoning the Time-Space Hole of the Endless Void, and then use the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to have the shadow clones jump into the Time-Space Hole to feel the power of time and space, and see if he could find the secret to cultivating the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Now that the true nature of the mineral vein has been discovered, Yagyu only wants to monopolize it.

So, Yagyu formed a hand seal with one hand, and two tree branches extended from his body, transforming into two wooden clones.

One of the wooden clones carried the old man's body and fled quickly with him and the ferret.

The other wood clone used Wood Release to bind Timsey into a dumpling, then carried him away.

Yagyu did not kill the two, but sealed one away and kept the other under surveillance.

They are all descendants of that ancient kingdom, and their blood can trigger the spacetime portal.

Once Yagyu has absorbed all the energy from the mine, and if he hasn't yet mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, then the two of them can trigger the Time-Space Cave.

With their wood clones capable of regenerating their chakra on their own, Yagyu felt completely at ease.

"Wood Release: Multiple Wood Clone Technique"

Yagyu continued to form hand seals with one hand, creating a large number of wooden clones.

Immediately, these wood clones sank into the ground, using the Mayfly Technique to infiltrate the ancient ruins, and using Wood Release and Earth Release to protect the mineral vein layer by layer.

Even if someone finds this ancient site, they simply cannot get in.

Even if they destroyed the ancient ruins, their ninjutsu couldn't destroy the tree barrier below.

Furthermore, Yagyu would have his wood clones patrol this mountain range, and if they discovered anyone approaching, he would use genjutsu or wood release to control them.

If the wooden clones cannot defeat a powerful opponent, then Yagyu will personally take action.

After leaving behind multiple layers of protection, Yagyu used the Mayfly Technique to flee to the Land of Returning Winds.

At the same time, Yagyu also gave instructions to his wooden clones who were in charge of monitoring the mobile fortress, instructing them to create various accidents to help the Sand Ninja who were searching for Hyde's whereabouts find the location of the mobile fortress.

At the same time, we began to wrap up this incident.

After several days of interrogation, Sunagakure has learned of Hyde's existence.

A ninja's battle is a battle of intelligence.

After learning the enemy's location and abilities, Sunagakure let Hyde and his army experience the power of ninjas.

Under Gaara's leadership, and with the assistance of Yagyu and Hinata, Hyde's hidden fleet was completely dismantled into scrap metal by the Sand Ninja using Wind Release and other ninjutsu.

The mobile fortress hidden in the mountains between the Land of Wind and the Land of Rivers was quickly found by Yagyu and Hinata.

"Water Release: Water Severing Wave!"

Yagyu didn't even need to use Wood Release; he simply spat out a straight jet of water, which sliced ​​a huge crack in the mobile fortress that was trying to escape.

With just a few casual swipes of straight water jets, the massive mobile fortress was dismembered into several pieces.

Immediately, Gaara and his two siblings, along with a large number of Sand Ninja, swarmed forward.

However, after they dealt with all the armored men blocking their way, as well as some elites who could also use a bit of the power of the Grell Stone, they still couldn't find Hyde.

When they found Hyde's photo and asked Hinata to help them use her senses to find him, Hinata exclaimed in surprise, "I did see this person before, but he's not here now, no... there's no trace of him within a kilometer radius."

"Did they run away?"

Temari's face darkened. "Another unknown technology?"

Liu Sheng didn't speak, but he smiled inwardly.

Hyde's disappearance was, of course, his doing.

The only people who knew the true power of the Grell Stone were that old caravan man and this Hyde.

The others only had a superficial understanding and had no idea where the true power of the Grell Stone lay.

Long before the Wood Clone helped Sunagakure find the mobile fortress, they had already killed Hyde and recovered the remaining Grell Stones.

The Hyde that Hinata saw was just Yagyu's wooden clone disguised using a disguise technique.

After Hinata closed her Byakugan and the mobile fortress collapsed, the wood clone immediately used the Mayfly Technique to escape.

(End of this chapter)